I want to be a... I changed my mind, I want to be a...

[eepster]

DS is having a hard time settling on what he wants to be for halloween. At first he seemed pretty firm about being a faerie, so I started working on designing that (those of you with really good memories may remember I posted for good boy faerie pictures.) I felt like things were fine, and I had plenty of time.

Then I'm driving my sister somewhere, and the subject of halloween costumes comes up. I say to DS, who is sitting in the back, "Do you want to tell aunt D what you are going to dress up as for halloween?"

DS replies "A ghost!"

Me

He has since switched back and forth between ghost and faerie several times, plus he has added angel. To top it all off, he wants me to make the wings (either faerie or angel depending on the moment) out of spider webs!

[stormborn]

That's cute but crazymaking, huh? Dd1 did that until she was 5 or 6; we'd make these elaborate plans only to have her dress at dusk in random stuff out of the dressup box. At least the ghost would be a simple one....maybe.

[claras_mom]

Maybe a ghost faerie? Like something out of a Victorian-themed production of Midsummer Night's Dream..?

[AutumnW]

I feel your pain. My ds says frog, no pirate, no moose, no moose pirate and mama is the frog, no mama is a kitty, no mama is a kitty pirate and papa is a silly kitty pirate

[mouso]

Over here it was a "little mousie" for 6 months. Suddenly it became a mousie, no, a fairy, wait, a dinosaur! How about an OLD LADY!!!
Yes, an old lady! Nope, a tiger. Hmmm, how about a witch? Not a bad witch, a good witch! Back & forth and back again...

The only constant was a boob. Yes, she wanted to be a boob. I am a lactivist and all, but I'd rather not get CPS involved this Hallowe'en.

The other day I had her make a final decision. No mind changes after this, I said: she went with fairy.

[Super~Single~Mama]

lol...this brought back many childhood memories for me! My little brother at a young age started making his own costumes for this very reason!! He would want to be one thing, and then a week later change his mind - he would often go through 10-15 different costumes every year!! So, my mom told him that he should design his own costumes - and he LOVED the opportunity to be creative. He was also less inclined to change his mind.

[CarrieMF]

My rule is once I start a costume they can't change their minds.

[WC_hapamama]

Originally Posted by CarrieMF

My rule is once I start a costume they can't change their minds.

Same rule here, but starting a costume includes buying the fabric for it.

[WC_hapamama]

Originally Posted by mouso

The only constant was a boob. Yes, she wanted to be a boob. I am a lactivist and all, but I'd rather not get CPS involved this Hallowe'en.

LMAO... now that is just too funny.

[meemee]

since my dd was two she has had v. elabourate plans for halloween, starting around may.

after my first lesson i dont really pay attention till a week before.

yeah after i spent hours researching how to get toothpaste to pop out of her head when she said so (she wanted to be toothpaste and wanted tinsel to jump out when she said trick or treat) i no make that same mistake again. she went as tinkerbell that year because her bf was tink :

she has always had these wierd plans - v. labor intensive plans that somehow has not worked out. one time a nipple, a piece of turd, cyclone, abraham lincoln, a many branched tree with her favourite bug in every branch, buddha, kali, a bride, a seahorse.....

so far this year she wants to be dorothy. we'll see.

[Bluegoat]

A family we know avoids all this by using stuff they have around the house to make the costumes the day they need them. THe kids go to the dress-up basket, and get whatever appeals, or their mom helps them with anything they have around like boxes or craft stuff. THere don't make a big deal of the whole build-up to Halloween.

[Momily]

My rule is that I only spend money on one costume. If you change your mind you either use your own money or your own imagination.

The summer before Kindergarten we went to the Canadian Rockies and stayed on a ranch. He wanted cowboy boots and a cowboy hat so badly, but I told him had to pick just one. He then suggested that I could use the money I spend on him for Halloween for the other. Alright I said.

By the middle of October he had figured out that cowboy boots hurt. I told him he could be whatever he wanted to be that didn't cost me a cent. He went to work and interviewed all the other teachers about what costumes they had left over from their kids, and found someone with a Peter Pan outfit. He fooled around with it, added a stick and a string and voila -- Robin Hood. I was pretty darn proud of him.

We now have the opposite issue -- he's going to be a vampire for the 4th year running this year. I'm bored with it, but I think he's going to stick with it until he's too old to ToT.

[meemee]

Originally Posted by Bluegoat

THere don't make a big deal of the whole build-up to Halloween.

oh let me tell you we dont either.

however DD LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVES halloween. it is her favourite holiday. better even than birthday parties.

she loves dress up and pantomime. she does all the planning all on her own.

she feels there should be halloween every single month - not just once a year. and even though she loves candy - halloween is so not about candy for her.

she lives for the theatrical aspect of halloween.

[newbymom05]

My 4 y/o loves to dress up and so has a lot of costumes. I don't stress about it. Last year he came home to change his costume 3x. We've already got all the costumes, although I did buy him a new hook hand this year.

[daytripper75]

I find that when they are presented with their costume they become very enthusiastic about whatever it is they are going to be. All three costumes sound great, make or buy whatever works for you.

[eepster]

So my current plan is to get him a white sweat suit. Then make a wire frame for wings, mix up corn starch stiffener and add glitter to it, and stretch cheese cloth soaked in the stiffener over the frame. I figure that will look enough like spider webs to please him. I'll do the same for a crown/halo.

That way he can be the angelic ghost of a faerie, with spider web wings.