Halloween costumes can be costly. If you have more than one child, you can end up paying a a lot of money. Kidswear 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 handed-down to another child, swapped with friends or family, or as mentioned above used for dress-up games.
But you can make original and simple 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 super value on stellar 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 kids want to dress in something more exciting like their favorite super hero for instance Spidermanor others want to be Barbie 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!
