Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas For Children
You can find a small group of Halloween costumes in a store around your house. When you start to look through the costumes your not able to find what it is your kid wants to be and the prices are outrageous in the long run homemade costumes are more cost friendly and you get to be creative. You can get your kids to help out with there homemade Halloween costumes , the outcome will be something they remember for the rest of their lives and way better than a store costume.
Here’s some cheap homemade Halloween costume ideas that are easy on the wallet and have lots of imagination.
A Scarecrow is a good idea a big flannel shirt with faded blue jeans with patches, stuff with straw or paper and a bucket hat and make up. You can stuff the inside with grocery bags or news paper and glue some straw to all the opening of the clothes the neck ,arms, legs and ect. And a little make up will complete your scarecrow.
Ghost are easy and a costume that never dies. Just use a an old sheet cut holes for eyes and for the treat bag you can piece together scraps or you can use a pillow case. You can dress up your ghost to if you wanted with make up on the sheet instead on your kid. And if you have a boy beards and mustaches would be the better way to go. You may want to create a colorful ghost by using a sheet covered with polka dots or one that is brightly colored.
Creating a clown Halloween costume is easy and fun all you need is sweat clothes and fabric pain or markers if you don’t want the clothes . You can so a few patches get a stick and a handkerchief for your candy bag and be a bum clown get creative .
Hippy: You can become a hippy from the 1960s with a tie-dye shirt and faded jeans with holes in the knees. You can even add a vest with fringe they’d be a real hippy costume that will make you soar into the past.
Being a nerd for Halloween would be fun Halloween is a time to have lots of clean fun a do stuff that’s out of the normal. You or your child could dress as a typical nerd like the ones they portray on TV. you know the ones white button up shirt high water pants that are to small and pulled past the belly button suspenders and the white socks that go clear past your knees . Don’t forget the tape in the middle of the glasses. Make sure you use plenty of hair gel to slick back the hair and a few overly large fake teeth will be a great addition.
Soda Can: Find an inexpensive plastic barrel and cut a hole in the bottom. Paint the entire barrel the colors and design of your favorite brand of soda in a can. {With holes for arms and your head, a simple barrel can transform your child into a soda can.}
Your child can be the hit of your block or at the neighborhood Halloween party if you use a little imagination and create special homemade costumes out of inexpensive, household items.
That’s something your kids will remember forever I know I did when my mom made my lady bug costume and I was only five it’s a good memory to have.