Dressing Up For
Halloween?
The above stores
have the largest listings of costumes for just about
every occasion. With the above stores you will
be able to dress like your favorite movie or cartoon
characters, the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, Elves and
more.
Picking a
Costume:
When in doubt,
movie it out! You can't go wrong with a great
costume that is like one of the most popular movies of
the year. Take a pirate costume for Pirates of
the Caribbean, a Harry Potter school outfit for his
fun movies, or even Elmo for those who just love that
fuzzy little guy.
No matter what you
pick to be this year for Halloween, we have some fun
ideas including great new characters, fun classic
costumes and much much more.
What's Most Popular
Among Costumes?
Kids Costumes:
Harry Potter
- Legend of Zorro - Star Wars
- Disney Princess - princess Barbie
Super Heroes
including Spiderman - Cheerleader -
Pirates
Adult Costumes:
50s - 60s -
Vampires - Classic Ladies of the
past - Pirates
Making Costumes
We know
what it is like to have to make your own
costumes. Remember, many of today's
styles can be created with items you have at
home as well as patterns ready for purchase at
your local craft material stores. Here
are some homemade ideas:
1)
Cheerleader - wear an old costume you already
own from your cheer days and/or make one with
an old pleased skirt, sleeveless shirt and
clothing paint. Paint the inside of the
pleats a different color and make a great big
letter on the chest of the shirt.
Pompoms can be made from old newspapers as
well as yarn. For yarn pompoms, just
wrap the yarn around your hand about 20+ plus
times (not too tight) and pull off to tie the
center together. Then cut the loops down
the center and you have a small fluffy pompom
which is the perfect size to carry for trick
or treating.
2) Pirate -
take old jeans and slice the bottoms to make a
ragged look. Take a puffy sleeve shirt
(if have one) or take an old t-shirt and slice
the sleeves the same as the pants.
Purchase a cheap eye patch at the local party
store and/or a hat and sword.
3) Ghosts -
older kids can take white garbage bags and
draw eyes on the front then make a whole on
the bottom of the bag for head and one on each
side of the bag for the arms. Baby
ghosts can be made from pillow cases.
Some also choose to wear sheets for this
costume, please remember to find ways to "not"
cover your head when trickortreating as it can
block your vision.
4) Washing
Machine and/or Dice - think of a million and
one ways to use an old box. Cut
holes out the sides for arms and pain the box
to look like anything from a washing machine
to a dice.
