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Quick and Easy Kids Costumes
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by:
Patricia B. Jensen
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What happened to the " good ol' days" when a
Halloween costume was your Dad's old shirt and cap, and a burnt cork
beard? Kids costumes don't have to complicated to be cute!
Each of these quick and easy costumes starts with a few simple
materials like hooded sweatshirts, sweat pants, posterboard, craft
foam, felt, face paint, and a little imagination.
Pirate
Black sweats, white shirt, red sash and bandanna, cardboard sword
covered in foil, parrot beanie baby, stubbly face made with burnt cork
or tobacco sprinkled on vaseline covered cheeks
Kid Hit By Lightning
Gray sweats with large yellow felt zigzag pinned to the front,
blackened zigzag tears in here and there on suit, hair gelled to stand
straight up, burnt cork "burns" on cheeks
Wrapped Present
Cover a large box with colorful wrapping paper. Make a hole in the
bottom and invert over child's head. Add lots of matching ribbons in
child's hair.
Pair of Dice
Paint two large boxes white and add black dots on each side to
represent a pair of dice. Cut hole in bottom and invert over children's
heads. You need a friend for this one!
Box of Popcorn
Cover a large box with white butcher paper. Add wide red stripes with
markers or colored paper. Make a hole for child's head. Hot glue some
popcorn to the top of the box. Wear red or white tights or sweat pants.
Placard Costumes
Another quick and easy idea for kid costumes is a "placard costume" in
which the child wears a hooded sweatshirt and pulls front and back
cardboard panels (the placard) on over it. Shape the placard (poster
board works fine) as needed for the costume desired, and design it with
markers or felt pieces. This type of costume can be adapted to many
different themes, such as:
Ladybug
M & M (two kids of different
heights can be "plain" and "peanut"!)
Soccerball, Basketball, Baseball
Apple or Pumpkin
Deck of Cards
Favorite Book
Sunflower
Yellow sweat suit. Staple craft foam flower petals end to end onto a
wide ribbon and tie around child's face to make the flower. Paint the
face reddish brown with black spots. Make a couple of bright green
leaves from craft foam and pin side by side onto front of sweat suit.
Bunch of Grapes
Start with a purple sweat suit. Blow up several purple balloons to the
same size and attach to the sweat suit with small safety pins. Complete
the look with a green knit cap
with a couple of large green felt leaves attached.
Bag of Trash
Make two leg holes is a large sized trash bag. Have child step into the
bag, then add balls of crumpled newspaper to hold a round shape. Make
two armholes in each side and secure around the neck .
Little Old Lady
An old house dress with torn stockings and slippers. Curlers in the
hair or white wig. Glasses, blacked out tooth, old fashioned
pocketbook.
Tourist
Hawaiian shirt or other loud clothes, camera, hat with pins all over
it, maps sticking out of pockets, sunglasses.
Crayon
Sweat suit in the chosen color of your crayon. Design the crayon
wrapper from poster board, felt pieces or craft foam and baste or pin
onto the sweat suit. Add a like-colored plant pot for a hat, or use a
large round of poster board, cut from edge to center and make into a
pointy hat. Secure under child's chin with a wide strip of elastic
stapled to the hat.
Static Cling
Start with sweat suit of your choice, pin on small clothing items such
as socks, hats, mittens, and underwear along with a few dryer sheets.
Cow, Pig, Kitty, Doggy
Hooded sweat suit in the appropriate color ( white cow, pink pig, brown
dog). Embellish with felt scraps to make spots, ears, tail, etc.
Backwards Kid
Put clothes and hat on backwards, sunglasses on back of head, say
"Treat or Trick!"
Mummy
Tear a white sheet into strips. Paint face white and spray hair with
white paint. Smear black under the eyes. Wrap child dressed in white
long underwear with sheet strips, securing with clear medical tape,
leaving eyes and mouth open.
Angel
White sweat suit with wings of tulle stretched over shaped coat
hangers. Glittery headband made from wire circle covered with foil and
colorful curling ribbon. Wand made from thin dowel with cardboard star
attached to one end, painted silver or gold with glitter and curling
ribbon added.
Clown
Sweat suit with colorful felt or fabric paint polka dots.. Clown collar
made from felt triangles attached together in a circle to go around
child's neck. Colorful clown wig, nose, and oversized glasses.
Facepaint simple blue crosses over eyes, red cheeks, and large red
mouth.
Cook
White sweat suit, chef's hat, large wooden spoon, cookbook under the
arm, curly
mustache drawn in face paint.
Nerd
Too small pants, shirt buttoned up wrong, pocket protector, hair
slicked back, old pair of glasses with tape, white socks, large
textbook to carry under the arm.
About the author:
Patricia B. Jensen is a mother of three and kids party enthusiast. She
is the webmaster and owner of Kids-Party-Paradise.com
- a comprehensive resource for kids party ideas and complete party
plans for many popular themes, including invitations, cakes,
decorations, games, costumes, favors, and food.
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related theme, you may reproduce this article on your site, provided it
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