Halloween Ideas for Kids

Good Journalism: The Story of a Transgender Youth and Her Family (ourbodiesourblog)

Earlier this month, The Boston Globe published a story that deserves special
mention before we resuming our holiday break. The story starts by comparing
identical twins, two boys who grew up with distinctly different personalities
and interests. As Bella English writes: Jonas was all boy. He loved Spiderman,
action figures, pirates, and swords. Wyatt favored [...]

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Easy Halloween Costume Ideas~How to Make Easy Halloween Costumes~Save On Halloween Costumes for Kids

Halloween costumes can be expensive. If you have multiple children, you can end up paying a small fortune. Childrenwear them for a day and then hang them in the closet. Especially if they can't play in them easily. Popular Movie characters, or other dress-up purchased Halloween Costumescan actually add hours of fun time to any child play day for many days to come after Halloween. Savvy shoppers buy costumes on clearance for the following year. Some costumes can be given to another child, swapped with friends or family, or as mentioned above used for dress-up games.

But you can make special and quick homemade costumes, too. It'll cost much less than you'll pay in retail stores. Sweat suits make a great foundation for a variety of fun costumes, so you don't have to resort to a white-sheet ghost costume. However don't forget the online stores that offer usually the excellent value on great Halloween Costumes for all ages.

If your really don't have any money to spend you can make your kid's costumes. Here are a few ideas.

1. A simple bunny costume: pink sweats with bought bunny ears. Paint whiskers on the face, and attach a cotton puff for the tail.
2. A sheep costume: black or white sweats with cotton balls attached.
3. A Frog: use a green sweat suit as the base for the costume. Use a set that has a hooded sweatshirt. Buy white and lime-green felt and peel-and-stick Velcro.
4. A bunch of Grapes: Use a purple sweat suit with hood. Attach purple balloons with safety pins to sweat suit. Cut a couple of grape-leaf shapes from green felt, and glue a couple of green pipe cleaners coiled to look like grapevine to the underside of the leaves. You can use small pieces of brown felt rolled to form a stem, too.

Most children want to dress in something more exciting like their favorite super hero for instance Transformersor others want to be Princess Fiona and to have the added joy of hours of dress up after Halloween is long over. As a parent you will enjoy Halloween costumes that add so much more pleasure to your child's memories of when they were young!