Halloween costume ideas

[pink gal]

I like to make my kid's Halloween costumes so they are unique and not commercial.

So far my favorite was a bubble bath...you cut the bottom out of a round laundry tub and make suspender type straps so the child can wear it. Fill with balloons to be the bubbles. DD carried a back brush and towel and wore a shower cap. It was a huge hit.

What are your favorite creative halloween costume ideas?

[ASusan]

Heh - along those lines, I was a sponge in 2nd grade. Mom made it out of a box, covered with squishy foam. Stuck on cotton balls for soap suds. I wore an old bathing cap with cotton balls stuck on them. I also loved the fact that she had to drop it off at school for me; I couldn't take it on the bus. So, I got picked up from school that day, too. What we remember for over 30 years!

I recycled the box idea 2 years later into a Christmas present.

Someone in our neighborhood was a tube of toothpaste, but I have no idea how they did the costume. It looked SOOO real (but I was younger than 10, so who knows?).

My grandmother dressed my grandfather as a transvestite one year. Those are some pretty good pictures. She was Mother Hubbard that year. The juxtaposition was great.

[Storm Bride]

I've also seen the bubble bath as a bath robe decorated with balloons, with a rubber duck on the shoulder. The woman also wore a shower cap and carried a scrub brush.

A gumball machine. Black pants. Bunch of multi-coloured balloons. Cut head and armholes from a clear, large garbage bag. Put over the kids head and stuff with balloons. I also continue the design on the face with make-up sticks. Finishing touches are a red cap, with a foil-wrapped button on top and foil-covered cardboard draped at the front, with the spout and turning handled (piled up cardboard, with a paper fastener through the bottom layer).

[pink gal]

The gumball machine sounds really cute.

I just saw another one I really liked and may try with older DD this year. It's that old time candy that I think may be called buttons. The candy comes on long rolls of paper and is just a dot of hard sugar candy usually in rows of three in pink yellow and blue.

The costume was a sandwich board type made out of poster board with styrofoam balls cut in half, spray painted to the colors of the candy and glued to the board. they even did the fading of the colors just like the original candy. It looked SO cool.

[ancoda]

When I was about 4 or 5 I was a camera. My mom took a big diaper box cut holes so it would fit me. Put some aluminum foil on to look like the lens, put a little scooper cup for the button on top.

There was a kid a few years ago that I saw that went as a toliet. It was really well designed. Not sure how he made it, but you threw the candy into the bowl.

[SarahMommy]

My BIL made his two daughters halloween costumes. Thing one and Thing two. He took two matching red feetie pajamas and bought white felt and wrote with black marker thing one and thing two and attached them to the pajamas using snappy buttons so they could come off after halloween. He made blue wigs out of mop tops. Very cute!

[amberskyfire]

I wish I had a photo with me because I don't have a tutorial.

I majored in art in college and my history professor asked me if I could make a costume for his four year old son for Halloween. He wanted to be the Titanic.

I used cardboard from an old box to make just the nose of the ship at a 40 degree angle with waves painted along the bottom so it looked like it was sinking. I took little plastic army men and cut off their guns and painted their vests white to look like life vests. Then I glued them to the deck of the ship like they were sliding off into the water. There was a hole in the middle to stand in and straps to go over his shoulders. I made a little smokestack hat with cotton fluff coming out of the top like steam.

I was paid for it, but the coolest part was when they went and entered the town's children's costume contest. All of the other kids had store-bought costumes and most of them were Pikachu (sp?) so he won the grand prize which was $100. The kid was so happy to win and the dad was thrilled, so he gave me the prize money

[pink gal]

The Titanic costume sounds SO cool!

My older DD came up with one for herself for this year. She is going to be cotton candy. She will wear white sweat pants and loosly wrap herself in pink tool in the shape of cotton candy. I think it will look really cool, and should be pretty easy to pull off.

[jeanine123]

I dressed up my oldest as a calculator one year. He loved it as did the kids we met while trick or treating. This year my youngest wants to be a garbage truck. Though yesterday he told me he wanted to be a dump truck. Really need to get this nailed down since I need to start making it soon.

[littleboo]

Great ideas and so creative.

Any suggestions for the smaller crowd? I've got a 19 month old daughter and I'm at a loss for ideas.

[aprons_and_acorns]

Originally Posted by Storm Bride

I've also seen the bubble bath as a bath robe decorated with balloons, with a rubber duck on the shoulder. The woman also wore a shower cap and carried a scrub brush.

That's cute!

[Avarie]

Here's a website I saw on another board. www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com. Some very cute stuff!

[amberskyfire]

Originally Posted by littleboo

Great ideas and so creative.

Any suggestions for the smaller crowd? I've got a 19 month old daughter and I'm at a loss for ideas.

I also have a 19 month old daughter. I don't have money to buy anything for a costume this year, but I do have a bolt of white cotton cloth. I plan on cutting a tiny little poncho out of it with a hole cut in the middle. I can take scissors and make ragged edges. Then I'll powder her face and hair with some corn starch baby powder and darken around her eyes with a little of my gray eyeshadow. She'll be a ghost!

[leighi123]

So far, Levi has been corn on the cob and the very hungry catipilar this year. I made both with no pattern and it took me forever!

He is supposed to wear costumes tones of times, so I still might make him another one! I get a little carried away.

The very hungry one won 1st place in a contest yesterday.

[AllisonR]

My 5 yo son asked to be a rainbow. So far I have sewn the white silk shawl, which I will paint in rainbow colors. And then I'll put white foam on his head to make the cloud, also at his request. DH will be a rain cloud, and I will be a sun. DD will be a pre bought outfit, as she has several already and does not care about our "theme."

[pink gal]

Avarie that is the coolest web site. I could spend hours on it!

I'd love to see pics of the costumes described here. Anyone?

[ASusan]

Originally Posted by pink gal

Avarie that is the coolest web site. I could spend hours on it!

I DID just spend (2) hours on it!

[terrordactyl]

these are interesting but super cute http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1...fbshare.me_DLK

[oceanbaby]

For years I have been begging my kids to let me make them costumes like this, and have suggested so many different things. Nope. They want the typical, store bought stuff: pirate, Batman, cowboy, etc. It's very frustrating!

Ds1 is really into aliens right now, and I tried to talk him into doing this one

http://www.coolest-homemade-costumes...-ideas.html#c1

but no go.

[oceanbaby]

Originally Posted by Shaina

these are interesting but super cute http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1...fbshare.me_DLK

OMG, the nacho libre is the best!