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All just about BabyBudget Friendly Day Costumes
by:
Cheryl Johnson
By Cheryl Johnson
...by perceptive
you, children discover how to create and they discover craft. These powerful memories imprint a more important message. They move to understand the superiority of the creative miser
method. - Amy Dacyczyn, a.k.a. The Scotch Zealot
Halloween costumes are so several today. Super heroes, wizards, and cartoon characters rule the trick or treat. It was not too long ago.....ok it was mayhap a patch ago......when I was a small trick or communicator that costumes were more much original.
You were not likely to bump into three or four different characters that looked exactly like you. Oh, you power run into a costume of the same theme, but it would-be be all unique by comparison. Of course my mom created our Day costumes. You can create unique Day costumes and save money by employment items.
Create your own unique costumes. Remember that Day costumes exaggerate to be most effective. So the more accessories, the better. Several easy to do costumes mistreatment items about the house, borrowed from friends and/or relatives, or purchased for next to nothing at your local thrift store include:
The little old lady or man - dress consequently
in an older man's (a suit is great) or woman's clothing. A hat is a good touch. If you don't have a real walking cane you can substitute an appropriate size stick. Add several creative face painting with lots of wrinkles of course. Be sure to add the cracking voice and a prominent limp.
The Bum - Recycle several unwanted clothing. Paint on or put on patches, rip several areas (especially about the bottoms of pants, ends of sleeves, elbows and knees, since these areas show wear first). Use black or brown makeup to smudge the face a little to look un-kept. Blush the nose to look a little reddish. (hobos get cold outside) Sport the oldest pair of worn looking shoes you can find (or even as better, two several shoes) and a tattered hat and you're good to go!
Princess - This is a unaltered costume. I think every little girl wants to be a blue blood at least once. But don't rush out and buy the frilliest costume you see. The blue blood is but an expression of elegance. As long as your little girl feels elegant she is a princess. If you don't already have a full length fancy party dress, check the thrift store for a low cost floor length party dress. Simply pick one that looks "princessy." Even as better, borrow one if possible.
A blue blood wand can be easily ready-made with a fastener or stick and a cardboard star covered with foil. Add frills with duster feathers or ribbons if desired. Do a crown. You can easily do one mistreatment a band
and craft materials. Here's a great tip: Recycle a Burger King Crown. You cognize the crowns they give out to all the little kiddies at Burger King. You can cover with foil or paint and add beads or gemstones to decorate. They as well do a great pattern for a crown if you want to create it out of several different material you have.
Animals: For toddlers: Use one piece pajamas as a starting point. An extra bonus: the pajamas are warm consumer goods for what is typically a cool weather night in many a areas. For example.. a fuzzy white, brown, black, or even as pink pedate pajama can easily become a kitten, rabbit, or dog. Add a home ready-made tail mistreatment scrap fabrics (attach with security pin), a band
with the appropriate ears attached, or if you use a hooded outfit attach ears directly to hood), several creative face painting mistreatment home ready-made face paint (below), and you've got a cute little costume that can be used as a cosy outfit after trick or treat!
For older children use tights or stretch pants, and turtleneck shirts, sweaters, hooded sweatshirts all in the desired color instead of the pajamas. Use desired color of mittens or gloves for paws. Bats, lions, tigers, even as a skunk can be created in more the same way as the above animals!
Halloween Costume Employment Tip: Move out the stuffing from an unwanted large stuffed animal (through a cut slit down back), launder, and use sections of fabic for costume. Or, cut a hole for the face and your bambino may be small enough to fit right in and use for hooded costume.
The Big Baby: This is an amusing costume for an older child. Return to the diaper zone! A bottle or pacifier, a bib, a homemade artefact diaper (over tights or pants of course), and a rattle. Add several rosy cheeks and your fry wish be available to laugh (or cry) his/her way through trick or treat.
The Graduate - Have an old graduation cap and gown? If it doesn't hold too more sentimental value, you can use it to create a really simple, easy, costume. Create a fake certificate and drape it from the waist tied by a string or yarn of same color or wear like a necklace. You don't want the trick or communicator to have to carry it. I've discovered these types of accessories commonly end up in Mom's or Dad's hands to carry after a short time.
Halloween Costume Employment Tip: Any discarded or unwanted activity uniform (nursing, military, fireman, policeman) can be used as a Day costume.
The Witch - A long black dress or all over black pants with black top can be combined with a witch hat and black cape(make your own if you're crafty). Add black boots and do up face to suit.
Bird-scarer - cut up several old jeans and a flannel shirt in bird-scarer fashion. Cut sleeve ends and pants leg ends in strips to look tattered. Use straw or an old straw broom's bristles and glue or tape on
inside edges of sleeves, pants legs, on
bottom of shirt to appear as if exploding out of the scarecrow. Add a straw hat.
These are all good day costume ideas and I'm sure you get the image by now. The idea is to use as many a items as you have on hand to create these unaltered Day costumes. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
Don't let that little girl cry because you can't find her the purrrrrrrrrrr-fect cat costume. You can create a more nicer one from everyday items and a few craft materials. Chances are it wish look more realistic than that store bought costume. As a bonus, many a of the costume pieces (i.e. shirts, pants, tights, gloves/mittens) are reusable after Halloween!
A few different Day tips:
1. Use spray paints or craft paints. fabric dye, fabric paints and/or pens, to color recycled items to desired color. One year I used silver spray paint to color and entire outfit for my son's tin man costume. We recycled aluminum foil to use in fashioning the hat and the axe. Several silver body glitter on the hands and face put the finishing touches on this costume!
2. Use regular consumer goods to create an all-over color effect as with the animal costumes.
3. Consider mittens or gloves once
you need hand color
4. A gallon ice cream bucket w/handle does a perfect trick or treat bucket. I save these throughout the year and recycle for hundreds of different uses. Use argonon paint or stickers to add bright decorations. This is a good security technique to do kids more visible patch trick or treating
5. Do your own face paint: You wish need Corn starch, Water, Cold cream, and Food coloring.
Use several some cups (custard cups, recycled single serve yogurt or Jell-O containers, a foam egg carton) Prepare 1 tsp cornstarch, 1/2 teaspoon each of cold cream and water. Mix several color food coloring in each cup for desired colors
Make your own cream do up:
2 tsp white shortening
5 tsp corn starch
1 tsp white all intention flour
glycerin (get at drug store)
Food coloring as desired
To do enough for one child's face - Use a rubber spatula, blend the 1st three ingredients until a smooth paste forms. Add 3/4 drops alcohol for a creamier consistency. Add coloring if desired one drop at a time blending after each drop until you have the desired shade. For easy removal use shortening, cold cream or baby oil.
Remember your Day safety. Here are a few, but for certain not all inclusive, reminders of safe trick or treat rules.
1. Small children should always be attended
by an adult.
2. Use flashlights, bright costumes or decorations to do trick or treaters more visible.
3. Try to frequent the same limited area each year or limit visits to friends and families.
4. Cue children not to eat candy until they get home and have moms and dads check and approve.
5. A safe costume should not block or restrict a child's vision or interfere with mobility. Do sure costumes are of a safe length so as not to trip the child.
Have a safe and Happy Halloween!
Simply just about the author:
Cheryl Johnson is a parent of four serving herself and others become and remain financial obligation free. Publisher of Simple Financial obligation Free Living at http://www.simpledebtfreeliving.com- a self-help plan, ideas, and resources for a simple established financial obligation elimination strategy, home budget planning, scotch living, and practical home business ideas. Money saving tips for monthly bills, home decorating, gifts, holidays, weddings, groceries, consumer goods and more much save money every day.
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