Skeleton Zombie
Secrets to Fantastic Children's Halloween Costumes
Homemade children's Halloween costumes can be fun to make if your children help, but you have to consider the cost and time you put into it if the children are not participating and learning how to do it with you. Sometimes it can be more economical to save your time and buy a ready made costume at the prices now available in the shops.
One way to ensure you do not spend excessive time on making a costume from the raw material on up, is to start with old clothes from the family closet or a thrift shop. That way, most of your effort goes into the fun part your children enjoy being part of - making the accessories and getting made up for the part.
Take for example a scarecrow outfit. Somewhere in your family closets there is likely to be a well worn, torn and frayed pair of jeans, and an old shirt. You may even be able to find an old straw hat. From that foundation costume, glue some straw under the hat and around the cuffs of the shirt and pants. You might find a bird you can sit on the hat from your Christmas tree decorations. From there most of your effort will go into face painting and finishing off the overall look.
A basic pirate costume could be made from little more than an old shirt and cut down old jeans, with a bandana around the head. Your main effort would go into setting up the accessories such as a broad belt and sword, an eye patch, face painting and artificial tattoos.
A basic low cost outfit of stretch pants and a long sleeved turtle top is another way to get the starting foundation for a costume. A black outfit like this needs only a black cape and a witch's hat and you have the beginnings of a witch's costume.
Other colors could become animal costumes with the addition of a tail, ears, mittens and some face paint. Some costume shops have partial costumes such as faces, noses, tails and ears available to add these features to your basic costume. For a tiger, for example, some black fabric paint on a yellow outfit could be used to create stripes. A little stuffing under a yellow outfit and you have the beginnings of a plump Winnie The Pooh.
Use luminous paint on a black outfit like this to draw a skeleton front and back and you have a very scary Zombie costume. Just add some white fabric around the head and some face paint for a skull.
The Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz could be represented by spray painting this basic outfit with a metallic paint. Gloves, old shoes and a hat could also be painted to complete the costume.
By using this approach, instead of spending a lot of time cutting out and sewing fabric, most of your effort in making the costume will go into the fun part that your children will be more likely to enjoy helping you with.
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Wilton Dimensions Nonstick 3D Skull Pan $34.99 Dimensions Bakeware: 3-D Skull Pan. This pan features heavy- duty construction and a non-stick surface for even heat distribution and easy release. The creepy skull design is sure to delight any Halloween party-goer no matter their age. Cake is baked in two halves, each with their own cavity, and when put together makes (1) 3-D skull measuring approximately 7-1/2" x 5-1/2" x 7" cake. Pan measures ... |
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Day of the Dead Wedding Bride and Groom For the bride and groom who wish to have a memorable celebration of their love. This stands W: 3.75" x H: 5.25" (inches) and can be used as a wedding cake topper (stand not provided).... |
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Halloween Mummy-stein Ceramic Mug $12.99 A must have for your Halloween party! Collect them all! Also a great Mummy's Day gift for any mom who loves Halloween. This oversized ceramic monster mummy mug measures approximately 6 inches tall, 5 inches wide.... |
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Leatherman 830846 Skeletool Multitool $72.00 Leatherman packs the full-size Skeletool with the tools you're likely to use most often. Introducing the Brand New Skeletool from Leatherman Now you're ready to lighten your load and boost your survival skills -- with Leatherman's Skeletool. At a mere 5 ounces the new, full-sized multitool keeps weight and volume to a minimum without sacrificing quality and true functionality, and that's wh... |
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Ka-Bar ZK-Acheron Skeleton Knife $7.05 Knife features single piece costruction out of 5cr13 stainless steel with a 3 1/8 in. blade and skeleton handle. The knife has an overall length of 6 3/8 in. and includes a hard plastic handle.... |
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Ka-Bar ZK-Famine Tanto Knife $45.38 Zombie Famine features a black 7 5/8 in. tanto blade made from SK5 steel with a nuclear green GFN-PA 66 handle and an overall length of 13 1/8 in. Knife includes black nylon sheath with front stuff sack and an extra set of black interchangeable handles.... |
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Widescreen Edition) $3.07 Set in a 19th century European village, this stop-motion, animated feature follows the story of Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious "Corpse Bride," while his real bride, Victoria, waits bereft in the land of the living.Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colorful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Vict... |
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