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Sometimes you don’t want to buy a costume for your kids for Halloween. Maybe it’s not in the budget, maybe you enjoy indulging your creative side.
Coming up with ideas can be pretty difficult. Here I will present some ideas, both that I have done personally or simply thought about as options.
My daughter’s first Halloween costume was a scarecrow costume. That’s jeans, a flannel shirt, patches sewn on, a straw hat and “straw” made out of two shades of yellow yarn attached to the shirt sleeves and pant legs.
Next came the racoon costume. Brown shirt and pants, cat ears, and a tail stitched of fake brown fur with black stripes drawn on with a Sharpie pen.
The next one was really tough. A butterfly costume. The black clothes were the easy part, but homemade wings take some work. We took black cloth and glued it to wires bent into the shape of wings. Yes, different from the usual ones you see in the stores. I painted the wings to look like green and purple butterfly wings with a black background and white spots. Those remained a favorite dress up item for a long time. We attached elastic to go around her arms.
My daughter’s Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz costume is taking actual sewing on a sewing machine. Target sells glittery red shoes that make perfect ruby slippers.
One of my favorites, however, has to be my son’s garden gnome costume. We took a red shirt a few sizes too big for him, blue sweatpants, cloth booties and made a pointed hat out of blue felt., as well as a strip of felt to make a belt.
Homemade costumes can be simple. A black dress, pointy hat and leggings to make a witch costume. Cowboy hat, boots, jeans and shirt for a cowboy costume. Dressing up as a favorite color - I call this one a pigment of the imagination.
It can be amazingly easy to make a Halloween costume at home. It takes some thought and planning but the results can be wonderful.
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