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Sky Is Limit with Halloween Costumes

September 24, 2008 | By Kristen | In Cool Finds 

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Children dressed up in Halloween costumes.

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Halloween costumer, New Orleans.

Halloween costumes started flying in my house at the beginning of September as the back to school supplies where replaced with Halloween costumes and decorations.

With four kids, I have a full trunk of past Halloween kids costumes but none of them will satisfy the trends and desires of this years imagination.

I have to admit, my husband and I often ask “what happened to the creativity of handmade costumes of painted sweatpants and turtlenecks?”

Yes, these questions are because I hate paying $25.00 at Walmart for a costume that is shoddy and cheap plastic and will fall apart the week before Halloween so I decided this year I would be better and better prepared for Halloweeen.

Then finding a toddler costume that ms. muffet can walk and be warm in will be a challenge in itself. Costumes that FIT the right kid so we don’t end up with the skinned knee on the other side of the neighborhood and they have costumes that can be used again and again for dress up time unlike some of the cheap “costumes” found in the general stores.

It’s been years since we went to a “Big People” costume party. In fact, the last one I went to I wore my horseback riding chaps and boots and was booed out of the party of “lack of effort”… hey, I washed the manure off the boots!

My personal bet is that the “Igor” costume will be popular this Halloween with the release of the new Igor movie! But the most important part is kids being safe so don’t forget to check out the safety tips for Halloween!

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One Response to “Sky Is Limit with Halloween Costumes”

  1. Sandie on September 29th, 2008 3:49 pm

    I decided to boycott store bought costumes last year. My son wanted to be a zombie punk rocker. Although I found a costume online somewhere (I know, it surprised me too), I couldn’t bring myself to buy it knowing it was a shoddy costume. So I made his costume. Sorta. See, I don’t sew. I don’t even own a sewing machine. And I’m cheap. So here’s what I did:

    Purchased a plain white t-shirt (pack of three for some ridiculously low price), a skinny black tie (on sale at Hot Topic), chains that hook onto his pants (also on sale at Hot Topic), and face paint.

    He already had a mohawk. We just let it grow out a bit so it was about 2 inches long. Then I spiked it up and sprayed it with colored hairspray. We had that too…you can’t have a mohawk without owning colored hairspray, right?

    He wore regular jeans with the chains attached, the t-shirt with the tie over top, and his Converse shoes.

    I painted his face white and then used a big sponge and black face paint to create hollows around his eyes. I painted his lips black and smudged a lot, then added “blood” dripping from the corners of his mouth.

    Viola. Super easy, super cheap, and very unique. Granted…his attitude made the costume amazing. Check it out.

    http://www.rpgcentric.com/coppermine/albums/halloween_2007/normal_halloween07_30.jpg

    This year…he wants to be a goblin wizard. We found a wizard’s hat and an old brown shirt at Goodwill that we’ll use as the robe. Some creative snipping and a run in the laundry and we’ll have a faded, very authentic looking wizard’s robe. I found a cheap half mask at Wal-Mart that looks like a goblin.

    Because accessories make the costume, we picked up a curtain rod (staff) and a journal (spellbook) at the local hobby store. Fortunately, we’ve got a lot of crafty stuff that we’ll use to decorate them. A piece of rope for the belt and a stick for a wand will complete the look. I’m going to let him use my old canvas purse to carry candy.

    I doubt I can top the zombie punk rocker outfit, but we’re having fun being creative with the process. :)

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