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All just about Baby30 Quick and Easy Kids Costumes
by:
Patricia B. Jensen
What happened to the " nice ol' days" once
a Hallowe'en
costume was your Dad's old shirt and cap, and a burnt cork beard? Kids costumes don't have to complex
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 brand covered in foil, parrot beany baby, unshaved face ready-made with burnt cork or tobacco besprent on petroleum jelly
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. Do 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. Do a hole for child's head. Hot glue several 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 pullover and pulls front and back cardboard panels (the placard) on over it. Shape the placard (poster board works fine) as required for the costume desired, and design it with markers or felt pieces. This type of costume can be altered to many an several themes, such as:
Ladybug
M & M (two kids of several 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 about child's face to do the flower. Paint the face carmine brown with black spots. Do 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 security 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 ninepenny trash bag. Have child step into the bag, then add balls of crumpled newspaper to hold a round shape. Do two armholes in each side and secure about the neck .
Little Old Lady
An old home dress with torn stockings and slippers. Curlers in the hair or white wig. Glasses, blacked out tooth, old designed pocketbook.
Tourist
Hawaiian shirt or else loud clothes, camera, hat with pins all over it, maps projecting 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 do into a pointy hat. Secure under child's chin with a wide strip of elastic pinned to the hat.
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