Halloween costume ideas

Pickler, I've seen pics of robots - cardboard boxes covered with tin foil or spray painted silver for head & body. Use pipe cleaners or something similar for antennas. Dryer hose to cover the arms and could do the same for legs.

Girls - gypsy - funky clothes and lots of jewelry and a head scarf or do-rag.

vampire- black cape, white makeup & cheap set of plastic fangs, black pants, white shirt, and a red ribbon for a tie. Slick the hair back.

canade beat me to gypsy, always cheap, but looks fantastic

Those are some great ideas, thanks!!

Pirate! Bandana on the head, one gold hoop earring, Baggy white shirt with a wide black belt. Black sweatpants work well if you use black knee socks on the outside (makes them blouse out) with black shoes. That makes it look like you have tall boots on. You can put on a moustache and eyepatch with black eyeliner. And now for the best part - a rubber chicken tied to your shoulder! You can tell people that's your parrot, but he sure has been quiet lately!

The best part is, even if you have to buy the blouse or socks or whatever, all of it can be used in real life when Halloween is over. Well, except maybe the chicken.

hahaha Thanks, O No I love the chicken idea

i'll show up dressed as The Bumble!


Oooooooh, scary, children!


bjbg

BJBG, I hear that's a hard to find costume this year

60s hippy might be good. Tie dye clothes are everywhere or just some funky clothes. There's cheap costume jewelry with peace symbols everywhere.

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Originally posted by Billy Joe Bob Gene:
i'll show up dressed as The Bumble!


Oooooooh, scary, children!


bjbg

Ah Shucks I wanted to be the Bumble

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Originally posted by Pickler:
Or, if you just know of somewhere I can purchase some that won't cost me nearly $60 for a few hours of fun I'm fine with that as well.

What size?

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Originally posted by lcbell:

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Originally posted by Billy Joe Bob Gene:
i'll show up dressed as The Bumble!


Oooooooh, scary, children!


bjbg

Ah Shucks I wanted to be the Bumble

that seems to be the theme around here!!!

I like Bumble.

Maybe we could ALL go as Bumble, Now THAT would be a scary sight.

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Originally posted by lcbell:
Maybe we could ALL go as Bumble, Now THAT would be a scary sight.

i'm down with that!

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Originally posted by semiannualchick:

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Originally posted by Pickler:
Or, if you just know of somewhere I can purchase some that won't cost me nearly $60 for a few hours of fun I'm fine with that as well.

What size?

Girl child size M or L (8 or 10)
Boys S to M (6 or 8)

I plan on making a "Fandango" costume...you know like the big paper bag puppets. Self inspired BTW.....

te, that's actually a pretty cool idea. I don't know that my oldest would go for it (she's 9)but the boys would get a kick out of creating their own costume out of a large paper bag.

What i wear everyday will be my costume.

I will be a barbecue judge.

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Originally posted by unclegus:
I will be a barbecue judge.

ooooh, I want to dress up as a member of the taste testing panel!!!

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Originally posted by Pickler:

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Originally posted by unclegus:
I will be a barbecue judge.

ooooh, I want to dress up as a member of the taste testing panel!!!

I meant that in a literal state, as I will be judging bbq, of all places.....Talladega! HaHa!
I have a room for Friday night, I only widh I had went ahead and reserved it for Saturday night as well, so I could enjoy more of the fun.

LOL, Yeah, I figured that, but it doesn't mean you can't bring back some samples of the winning bbq for me taste test!!!

I will make fresh for you and all my friends! Someday.

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Originally posted by unclegus:

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Originally posted by Pickler:

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Originally posted by unclegus:
I will be a barbecue judge.

ooooh, I want to dress up as a member of the taste testing panel!!!

I meant that in a literal state, as I will be judging bbq, of all places.....Talladega! HaHa!
I have a room for Friday night, I only widh I had went ahead and reserved it for Saturday night as well, so I could enjoy more of the fun.

Have you done Talledega before? ...a very nice honor to apply and be accepted...?

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Originally posted by unclegus:
I will make fresh for you and all my friends! Someday.

and with one little phrase the sun comes peeking out from behind the clouds

Congratulations on getting the Talledega gig! Very cool!!!

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Originally posted by unclegus:

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Originally posted by Pickler:

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Originally posted by unclegus:
I will be a barbecue judge.

ooooh, I want to dress up as a member of the taste testing panel!!!

I have not judged there before. This is only their second year to have a cook off, so I am hoping I will be a regular from now on.
I meant that in a literal state, as I will be judging bbq, of all places.....Talladega! HaHa!
I have a room for Friday night, I only widh I had went ahead and reserved it for Saturday night as well, so I could enjoy more of the fun.

Have you done Talledega before? ...a very nice honor to apply and be accepted...?

Pickler, I've been in the same boat with you for years as I also have 3 kids. A couple fun things I've done in the past has allowed me to re-use the clothes on into the winter time. One time I bought three different colored sweat suits and painted their faces the same color and they were crayons, another time two of them were dressed as thing 1 and thing 2 and the other one was the cat in the hat.

Ahhh, those are great ideas WO!! I especially love the crayon one <-----just for you

again, Pickler, another great emote! I would have been great to corral them into a crayon "box!"

no doubt!! I've often said trying to get the wild indians all moving in the same direction is like trying to herd cats!!

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Originally posted by WesternOne:
Pickler, I've been in the same boat with you for years as I also have 3 kids. A couple fun things I've done in the past has allowed me to re-use the clothes on into the winter time. One time I bought three different colored sweat suits and painted their faces the same color and they were crayons, another time two of them were dressed as thing 1 and thing 2 and the other one was the cat in the hat.

Sweat suits are great for reusable costumes. One year i sewed a white stripe down the back of a black sweat shirt, pinned a homemdae tail on the black sweat pants, painted on whiskers, and turned my son into a skunk. Another year i cut out white felt letters, basted them on a black sweat suit, and hung an eraser around my daughter's neck....she was a blackboard.
Do kids now even know what a blackboard is?

You know, KindaKinky, they probably don't. They are missing out on the fun of being the one picked to stay after class to clean the board and knock the chalk out of the erasers. Usually all over the back of whomever you could find!

It was such an honor to be chosen to do menial labor for the teacher.

1)Use a large clear garbage bag, make two cuts for leg holes, and two for arm holes (a good idea to reinforce holes tape or otherwise) fill with small, blown-up, multi-colored balloons, secure at neck area (safely so no choking hazzard) with ribbon to look like a bag of Jelly beans.
2)Follow same bag modifications except, buy cheap yellow feather dusters/feather boas, pull feathers out and glue loose feathers onto bag, make head band with a few sticking up, wear red tights, use newspaper, quilt filler etc to fill out bag---Big Bird.
3)For two kids, get two boxes that can be adapted and worn by kids,(head and arm holes, cut bottom off for walking safety) cover with white paper/poster board, cut black "dots" glue on like dice.