Hey moms!! I am hitting a wall when trying to think of a Halloween costume for my 11-year-old son. He is going to a Halloween party next weekend with a costume contest and wants to wear something original. Any funny or original ideas? Last year he made a "road kill" costume and it was super easy. We used an old white tshirt and a pair of denim shorts, painted one of our car tires black, laid out the clothes under the tire, and ran over the clothes down the center. Then we spiked his hair out and drew black marks on his face to simulate tire tread. It was a nice compromise...not too disgusting, and not too babyish either! Any other ideas? Thanks!
I was JUST going to ask this question for my 11 year old boy and 12 year old girl - I think it's even harder for girls, because everything directed at girls is so sexualized.
I know the Percy Jackson series is big with that age, at least here in Chicago: what if he went as one of the Greek Gods? Zeus, Achilles, Poseidon, Hermes?
I'm going to post the question for my girl and boy and let you know if I get any other ideas....Last year we got costumes literally at the last minute and it was an expensive and chaotic nightmare!
Wear a clown costume top and paint your face. Get a large box and paint it a bright color. Make a hole for your waist and put it on as if the bottom of a skirt. Go as a jack-in-the-box.
Get a bunch of small, single-serving sized cereal boxes. Glue them all over some old clothes and bring a big, rubber knife. Go as a cereal killer.
Tape a bunch of white colored balloons to a a skin-colored body suit. Wear a shower cap and carry a scrub brush.
Get a bag of moss from the craft store's floral isle. Glue it all over some old clothes and hat and go as a chia pet.
This year my senior is going to be Static cling...a sweat suit, with socks and dryer sheets pinned to her, and her hair sticking out (we may try rubbin a balloon on her hair to get it full of static, and then spraying it into place,) She is going to carry a bottle of fabric softener and a laundry basket.
A few years ago, we got out the glue gun, and saved all kinds of cereal boxes for a few weeks. Took a large box, and cut it so that it resembeled a ceral box on her body, with her arms sticking out the side, and put on "tabs" at the top that looked like the resealable ones on a cereal box. Took the empty waxed paper bags from inside the cereal box, and cut them and attached them to to inside of the top of the box, so that it looked like one giant bag opened at the top. We cut up the cereal boxes and plastered them all over the box. Then, we took plastic knives and hatchets, and "stuck" them into the box (cut them in half) and had the end of the knife coming out the back, like the box had been stabbed. We took cereal of all kinds, and hot glued pieces like blood dripping from the plastic knives. We got a large oatmeal round box, and made a top hat out of it, and she had an axe stuck in the top. She carried a spear, with a noose on it that held an empty gallon of milk, and we wrote "got milk" on it. She was a "Cereal killer" She won first place in her school contest! It was alot of work, but fun, and she walked her little sister around to trick or treat, and had a blast getting laughs.
She wanted to do a "pop star" and glue pop cans onto a giant star to wear, but we never figured out how to do that.
Martha
We once had my soon put on a soccer uniform and a football helmet and had a sign around his neck that said football around the world???? with a confused smily.(Since soccer is "Football" in other countries). It was something that all age groups thought was funny.
I have seen a "fork" big cardboard headpiece taped to kids back , painted grey and the kid wears grey sweats. He was "the fork in the road"
very cute.
When one of my kids was that age, he went as a nerd. Found some cheap glass, put tape on the nose...he had fun picking out mismatched clothes & hiking / rolling his jeans up to make high waters....
good luck.
What about "mad scientist," kind of an Einstein look? A cheap lab coat, a wild hairdo, and some sort of test tube/beaker and you're all set...
Get Doctor Scrubs and pin red chilie pepper lights all over and then get him a name tag saying Dr.Pepper....