My favorite that Emmy chose was when she had J. turned 4 she decided to be Michael Jackson. She is such a girly girl and previous years she had been princesses which seemed like every day attire so it was fun for M. to see her dress up and she was definitely the only 4 year old girl as MJ around our town. She was very serious about being MJ. Last year she was spiderman in school and a vampire at home.
She's quite obsessed with the beatles now at 6 so I'm interested to see if she'll go back to a music theme
There was this moment where my kids put mom can sew together with Halloween and things went down hill. Some of the most amazing costumes but lord!
My favorite was when Andy wanted to go as his grandma's dog.
Last year my grandson was a robot and his sister a peacock. This year she wants to be Rapunzel. A couple of years ago she was a candy fairy.
So cute. I J. love Halloween and seeing the kids dressed up. My adult daughter still gets dressed up every year.
My son LOVES sports. When he was four, he was a baseball. SO CUTE! He wore a black turtle neck and black pants and he had this BIG white felt costume with the red marks down it. It was stuffed to keep it round. That was my favorite so far.
When my son was four, he wanted to be a garbage man. I covered his wagon with a box and made it look like a garbage truck, it even had working head lights. He was emptying his candy bag in the hopper all night.
The favorite one we purchased was a cow costume. It was adorable. A fleece pants and jacket set made to look like a Holstein cow. She wore it all the time! Now her nephew is wearing it.
Since then, she's made her own costumes, sometimes with my help, but all her own ideas. We made a really cool mummy costume by dying a white sheet with tea, then tearing into strips and fabric gluing onto a pair of pants and sweater. Last year she made a robot out of cardboard boxes and dryer venting, and metallic paint. It is fabulous! This year's project is a clown on stilts (she made her own stilts this summer and learned to walk on them).
Both my boys wore a little peapod costume when they were infants. They progressed through the cute plush dinosaur costumes, then Superheroes (Batman, Robin, Spiderman, Black Spiderman and Superman) and now they like the scary ones (Grim Reapers, skeletons). My boys each wear two costumes each Halloween, one for indoors and another for outdoors. It is usually snowing on H'ween, so they need to fit winter jackets under the outdoor costumes.
Not sure this year's costume will make it until Halloween since Aubrey wants to wear it every day. My little astronaut sports her new costume to the store, out to play... So precious!
Hmm.. my son chose Ghost Rider one year. We got him a leather jacket (from Jillian's online--it was like $30, and he was able to wear it in the winter and then handed it down to his sister who wore it also), went to home depot and got length of big chain, bought skull gloves, a rubber skull mask (the kind that goes over the entire head, not J. plastic strapped on the front with a rubber band), with hair, (which we used red and orange colored hairspray to make it look like flames) and he rode his bicycle. LOL
It was great! He was worn out after an hour or so, because the chains he wrapped around his shoulder/chest got heavy...
Inuyasha
Master Chief (halo)
Dr Who (david tennant)
Ezzio (assassins creed)
My son was Ash Ketchum (pokemon) 2 years ago and it was a lot of fun to make. I always make my own costumes so we decide early on what they want to be. My daughter was a witch last year and I had fun making her costume too. This year it will be Link(from Zelda) for my son and my daughter will be a cat.
Joseph: when he was 11 days old, he was a pumpkin in a little suit the volunteers at the hospital made for the wee babies, but we didn't go out. We J. dressed him in it and took some pictures; I don't think he even woke up for it. When he was 12 months old, he walked like a zombie, stiff legged and arms out for balance, so I made his hair messy and gelled it a little so it was all over the place, put a little face makeup on him to make him look a little dirty, slightly green, and we tore up and cut up one of my husband's undershirts, made some holes in it, rubbed some make up on it to look like dirt. He was a cute and happy "zombie". For a church festival that same year, he was a cowboy sheriff and scored his first kiss---a little Tinkerbell broke free from her mother and ran across a parking lot aisle to give him a kiss and then run back to her mom. That was funny. He's also been a puppy dog, Bob the builder, dinosaur, and a marine. This year, a ninja.
For Victor's first Halloween he was a silly monkey, and then Bam-Bam from the Flintstones. It went well with his personality. I didn't know how to sew so I J. cut a head hole out of some leopard material, shaped it and cut it to fit like I wanted it, and STAPLED it together (haha). He ran around with a scruffy beard (eye liner pencil), messed up hair, and a big club (plastic of course). This year, he'll be Batman......the old style Batman since the only Batman he's ever watched was the 60s show and 1 cartoon, not the new all Black one. He's got his mask and cape, his gray shirt, blue underwear to wear over tight gray pants, and his blue "boots" (actually, blue converse but that will do). He J. needs a utility belt and he'll be good to go.
My favorite costumes when I was a kid: Cleopatra (I won a trophy for that), and one year I was Sonny and my highschool boyfriend was Cher (he was tall, I was short, it fit better....he wore my Cleopatra wig). Once I was a gypsy. And when I was in 5th grade my brother and I both went as clowns and we had fun with that.
Cowgirl was may favorite - we found a pearl snap shirt in pink, and it was too big, so she wore it untucked with blue jeans, and carried a stick horse, and had a little pink cowgirl hat. That shirt did well for us - now she's a little bigger, it's a more tailored fit, and she wears it tucked in to school!
One year my oldest daughter was a bunch of grapes with green sweats and purple balloons. She won a prize for that! Another year I had to dress up at work so I got creative and made all eight of us into a penguin family. We won a prize at our church party that year for all of us. Two years ago my grandson was in the NICU for Halloween. I had predicted he would be home by then. It wasn't to be. I got creative and made him a frog cocoon with matching hat. Then my daughter wanted a robot one. He took the nursery by storm! The nurses and some parents went nuts. They were cute!It may happen again this year. I hope not. That will be WAY too soon for the next baby!
Last year she was Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon. She look exactly like her so it was pretty great!
This year she is Asoka from the Star Wars cartoon. It's pretty cool.
Thing 1 and Thing 2. We got the shirts at Universal Studios - easy and cute!
Is it bad, that I'm not creative, and don't sew, so I shop Target! Ladybug, witch, etc. Whatever I can find in a bag. I wish I could do good costumes for my girls, I J. don't have it in M..
