More Costumes

If anyone is like me.
Who waits until the last minute to come up with costumes.
Here's a few ideas that I've used over the years.

Brookelynn's first halloween.
I always try to have the basket match the costume.

Jake's first halloween.
He's a Royal's baseball player.
Jakie screamed most of the night.
His little face is all red from crying so much.

Brookie was a flower.
Her hat and skirt were made out of crepe paper.

Brookie is a Care Bear.
Just sweats and felt.
I glued felt ears to a headband.
Ryan drew the moon on felt.
Which I then glued to the sweats.

Jakie was a ghost.
Poor guy.
It kept shifting.
He couldn't see.
We finally made it to my parents.
It was dark.
And cold.
I wimped out and didn't want to go out anymore.
My brother took his kids and my kids
around our parents' neighborhood.
Jakie ran into a mailbox at one point.

Brookie the chef.
She already had the apron.
Made by Ryan's very creative aunt.
The chef's hat I made out of poster board
and white fabric and fabric spray glue.
I told you I don't sew.

Jakie the robot.
He looked so cute.
But he was very uncomfortable.
Poor guy.
Again.
Yes.
There's a pattern here.
Jakie and halloween are not the best combo.

And here's Ezzie as a scarecrow.
He liked it a lot better than Brookie did.
My very favorite costume?
I cannot find a picture of.
I have looked thru ALL our pictures.
It was before the days of our digital camera.
As all of these others are.
Hoping my mom has a good one.
That post might have to wait until next year, though.

Lady Liberty

I don't sew.
But I also don't like to spend much on halloween costumes.
I don't have a problem borrowing costumes from people.
Who have clearly spent money.
I just don't want to spend the money myself.
I'm cheap that way.

Three years ago Brookie wanted to be the Statue of Liberty.
Here's what we came up with.

It was super easy.

I found the flat sheet at a discount store.

Just wrapped it around her

and safety pinned it in a few places.

The torch is a paper towel tube,

and a paper bowl with a hole cut thru the bottom

and some orange and yellow tissue paper stuffed in the tube.

The crown was a paper plate cut out big enough

to fit her head like a headband.

And spikes cut out of posterboard and stapled to the paper plate.

The tablet was a big hunk of styrofoam.

I etched the date July IV MDCCLXXVI on it.

The torch, crown and tablet were spray painted to match the sheet.

Warning: the spray paint does eat the styrofoam a little.

We found some witchy/monster face paint.

It was the perfect color to paint her face.

By the way, we don't do scary, gory, evil costumes.

Yucky, I say.

And there you have it.

A cheap, fun, cute, easy costume.

She LOVED it.