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Easy Halloween Costumes

By editor ⋅ August 15, 2006 ⋅ Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s a ton of ideas to help you make your own Halloween costumes, beginning with Six Halloween Costumes for Kids, including Robin Hood, medieval lady, skeleton, scarecrow, clown and cat. 

If quick and easy ideas fit the bill, then try 30 Quick and Easy Halloween Costume Ideas including a pair of dice (great idea if you have a friend to go along with you), bag of trash, static cling and a bunch of grapes (you’ll need lots of purple balloons), plus many more.

New to the site is Cardboard Box Costumes, with ideas for making your child into a computer monitor, a wrapped gift, or a robot. 

I’ll never forget coming home from trick or treating one year with several apples among the candy.  My dad cut open the apples before he would let me eat one, and good thing he did, too.  He found razor blades buried inside by someone.  If I had bitten into it, the razor blade would have carved my mouth and face to pieces! 

Please think safety first at Halloween.  We have an article on Halloween Costume Safety Tips to help you out, which includes face paint and makeup recipes.

Finally, here’s a short article with three ideas for dressing your toddler for Halloween.

Halloween Costume Ideas For Toddlers

Dressing up your toddler for Halloween is a lot of fun. Enjoy it while you can. Before you know it your sweet little toddler will be in kindergarten or first grade and will have developed a much stronger opinion on his or her costume choices and you’ll no longer be able to dress him in the costume of your choice. Here are a few ideas for toddler Halloween costumes to get you started. Of course there are plenty of other options out there as well. With a little creativity, the possibilities are endless.

Pumpkin

Start with a large orange sweatshirt. Cut eyes and a mouth shape out of black or yellow felt and glue them on the front of the shirt. Put the shirt on your child, fold up the sleeves, then stuff the belly and back area with newspapers or quilt batting to make it look nice and round like a pumpkin. Top it all of with a green cap. You can even cut some leaf shapes out of green felt and glue them to the top of the cap.

Dwarf

Start with earth tone pants and shirt. Brown and dark greens work well. Put your child in some boots as well. Make a simple hat out of felt, similar to a witch’s hat but with a smaller brim. Finish the outfit with some gardening tools. Your little dwarf right out of “Snow White” is ready to go trick or treating.

Sunflower

Dress your child in a green shirt and pants. For smaller children, especially those in colder climates, a one piece pajama-type outfit with feet works well. For the flower part, start with a brown hat or cap. Cut flower petal shapes out of yellow felt and glue them all around the hat. If you’d like you can cut two large leaf shapes out of green felt and glue them at the back of each of the shirt’s sleeves. A little plastic watering can makes a cute pail to carry candy in.

Submitted by Susanne Myers
Would you like to quickly make creative Halloween costumes that you and your children will be proud of — for a fraction of the price of store-bought? Susanne Myers has co-authored a book to show you how — no sewing involved.  Visit http://www.ilovehalloweencostumes.com/ to learn more.