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Cheap Scares
Halloween Costumes on a Dime
By Tawra Kellam
Cut two small foam balls in half with an electric knife or a knife with a serrated blade. (Note: Do this BEFORE attaching them to the child!) Wrap in green fabric and pin them to the front of a green sweat suit. Make a hat out of two shades of green felt and a little brown felt for a stem.
Buy a yellow hat or dye a white hat yellow. Buy long brown fake fur, yellow fake fur and a yellow sweat suit. You can get fake fur at your favorite fabric store. Add brown fur to the top of the hat (for a mane), hot glue yellow fur into a long tail, adding a poof of brown for the end. Pin the tail on the back of the costume. Make an oval of the fur for the child's tummy and use eyeliner for whiskers.
Pin black felt dots onto a pair of white sweats. Paint black polka dots on the child's face. Add more polka dots to a white hat, make some black felt ears and add black shoes to finish it.
Glue a copy of a painting with a face on it on a piece of cardboard (i.e. Mona Lisa). Cut out the face and then put their face in instead.
Decorate a stroller as a racecar by adding fabric or paper racing stripes and a number. Add two flashlights for headlights, plus some reflector tape. If you want to get really creative, add a wind foil, a foil-covered paper towel roller for an exhaust pipe or whatever else your clever mind conjures up. Cut a steering wheel out of cardboard for the child to hold. Your child can wear whatever clothes he wants. Just add an old helmet or baseball cap worn backwards.
Think of themes for all of the kids in the amily. It can be fun for all the kids to dress up in costumes that complement each other. Some sample themes are superheros, vegetables, candy bars, rabbit family (or other animals) or cartoon characters (i.e. Mickey Mouse, Minnie and Donald Duck). They could also dress in pairs like a mouse and cheese, a plant and a watering can or doctor and patient. The sky's the limit.
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