Make-Your-Own Halloween Costumes for Kids
Don’t spend a ton of money or a ton of time trying to track down the perfect costume for your kids. You can make something original easily with mostly things that are lying around the house. Here are some ideas to get the ball rolling on Halloween.
Paper Bag Princess
Use paper bags and glue to fashion a dress and crown. Tousle your little one’s hair so that he/she looks slightly disheveled and add some brown make-up to their face to make them look a little dirty. Make this over a long sleeve shirt and pants if you’re worried it will be chilly.
Twister
So simple! Dress them in an all white outfit and either sew on different coloured felt circles or glue on construction paper cutouts. They’ll look exactly like the iconic board game that ties everybody up in knots.
Bumble Bee
Dress your child all in black, and either buy or make a black tutu (for tutu instructions see below). Tape bright yellow duct tape around their black top to make the bee strips. Buy a cheap black headband and attach black pipe cleaner antennas. You can make a stinger out of a straightened wire hanger or black pipe cleaners secured with a black belt.
For the tutu – get a cheap black skirt and super-glue layers of tissue paper to it until it’s full and fluffy!
Caesar/Greek Goddess
Use a bed sheet and wrap it around to make a toga. For the Caesar costume, buy fake leaves from a craft or dollar store, and secure them to a head band. For the Greek goddess costume, French braid her hair around her head and then attach the leaf headband.
A Deviled Egg
This is a little play on the typical devil costume but a cute pun when people get it. Dress your child all in white, and secure a yellow circle on their tummy with felt or construction paper – this is the ‘yolk’. Then add devil ears and a read pitch fork and you’ve got a deviled egg!
Cat burglar
Dress them all in black, add a black toque and black gloves (great costume for chilly Halloween trick or treating) make a ‘money sack’ out of a pillow case and secure dollar signs to it with construction paper and safety pins or sewn on fabric. You can buy a black eye mask at any dollar store to complete the suspicious look.
Add cat ears, whiskers and a black nose if you want to take the ‘cat’ burglar theme to the next level.
Clark Kent
Buy a cheap superman t-shirt and have your child wear it under a plain white dress shirt and regular slacks. Dollar-store glasses and a slick hair do will complete the ensemble. Make sure to unbutton the shirt just enough so the superman symbol is visible.
Phantom of the Opera
Paint half of their face white like the phantom, have them dress all in black, add a cape and a wide-brimmed hat and you’re done!
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