Cheap Halloween Costume Ideas

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Halloween Costume Ideas

Traditional Ghost
Get a white sheet and position over body. Mark where eyes need to be cut out and sheet needs to be hemmed. Take off and hem with tape (or staples) and cut out eyes. Cut slits for arms to go through. With a felt pen you can make a ghost face. Tie a loose bow around neck to help the costume stay in place, but not so tight that it won't come undone if you fall down. Make sure the sheet fits so that it doesn't tangle with busy legs. This is a very visible costume in the dark!

Lady
Mother's old dress gathered at waist with a big ribbon or fancy belt. Temporarily hem bottom or sleeves with tape. Use a big hat with flowers or feathers that doesn't obstruct vision. Use lots of costume jewelry and adult makeup. You can also use fancy gloves, nail polish, a shawl, and a purse. Don't choose shoes that are awkward to walk in. A splash of perfume finishes the job.

Garbage Bag
Cut holes in the bottom of a large plastic garbage bag and slip on child. Cut holes for the arms. Fill up the bag with loosely crumpled newspaper. Tape bag around neck.

Bunch of Grapes
Dress the child in clothes that match the color of the balloons. Blow up the balloons and with small safety pins attach them all over the body. Make sure you don't restrict either movement or visibility.

Mummy
Wear white, tight fitting (yet warm) clothing under the wrappings. Take a 5 yard role of 3 inch gauze and dip it in weak tea the day before and hang it out to dry. This will be your head wrapping. You will need a 60 yard roll of 1 1/2 inch wide masking tape for your body wrapping. Start with your ankles and work up. Overlap the tape slightly and stop at the knee. Continue right above the knee and go to the top of your thigh. Do both legs. Then start in the middle of your stomach and run it down between your legs,
crisscrossing over your hips and between your legs in a diaper fashion. Break off the tape. Just below your hipbones wrap around your body until you get to your underarms. Crisscross over your shoulders to cover your upper chest and back. Start at your shoulder and move down your arm. Stop at the elbow and start again on the other side of your elbow. Do both arms. Now switch to gauze for your head. Tape down the end of the gauze under your collarbone and move upwards to do your neck and your head. Make sure it's not too tight around your neck! Keep your eyes and mouth free. Tape down when you're finished. Rub some dirt on the tape so that you look sufficiently old and moldy. With a black or brown eye pencil circle each eye and smudge
out for that hollowed out eye look. Whiten the rest of your face so that it matches your wrappings. This is a very visible costume!

Pirate
Jeans or dark pants rolled up to your knees. Tights or knee socks Boots or shoes. Cut our a homemade buckle out of gold colored cardboard. Large blouse shirt. Long sleeved, looses and brightly colored or white. Sash or belt. You can use a gaudy necktie or a brightly colored scarf. If you have a belt with a big metal buckle all the better. Eye patch. Use thin black or
painted black cardboard. Tie it on your head with around 2 /12 feet of string. Bandana. Any old red or blue or multi colored bandana will work. Fold it diagonally to form a triangle. Place on your head so the triangle covers thetop of your head, and tie in back. Vest. Any color, any design. Earring. Pirates often wear one hoop earring. If the clip on kind hurt your ears, then tie a loop of string through the earring and put it over your ear.

Makeup ideas: Heavy eyebrows, mustache, scar, skull & crossbones tattoo.

Props: Cardboard dagger stuck in your sash. (Never use a real knife.) Cardboard hook. If you are wearing a long-sleeved shirt you can pull the sleeve over your hand and just hold the end of the hook with your hand. If you are holding a hook you need an easily accessible trick or treat bag. Try using a paper bag with a string handle that you can put over your head and one arm. Parrot. What's a Pirate without a parrot? If you have a light weight stuffed parrot you can either sew or pin the parrot to your shoulder. Now you're ready!

A Present
Take a big box, TV box or large shipping box works best. Cut out a hole for the head of the box and then tape the open flaps. Also place tape around the hole in order not to cut into the child. The put the box on the child, and have them put their elbows out to the side. Make a circle around the elbows with a pencil on each side. Remove child from the box.. Cut out those circles were the elbows where. The line with tape as to not hurt the child. Wrap the box in her/his favorite wrapping paper. Make a paper hat out of a sturdy paper plate. String will need to
be strung from one side of the plate to the other side. On the paper plate, place a ton of bows (the ones with the sticky tape) There you go, a perfect present!!

Garbage Bag
Cut holes in the bottom of a large plastic garbage bag and slip on child. Cut holes for the arms. Fill up the bag with loosely crumpled newspaper. Tape bag around neck.

Tube of toothpaste
A lamp shade for a cap, wrap a sheet around yourself for the tube.

Sports Guy
Handme down or past year sports uniforms, dance costumes, karate clothing, etc

Mime
Dress all in black and put white makeup on face

Skeleton
Paint bones on a black sweatsuit with glow in the dark or white paint, or aplique bones cut out of white fabric.

Bunny
A white, brown or grey sweatsuit, headband with bunny ears (can cut from paper and glue onto a plain headband), face paint, and a pom pom sewed on the behind of the pants.

Cat The same thing, but cat ears and tail. ( you may sew your own)

Mouse Grey or white sweatsuit, face paint, yarn mouse tail

[sunshine]

Robot- like Amy D did it-- box with head and arm cut outs, milk jug mask, various knobs and dials from old electronics.

Dice- box with head and arm cut outs. . . cover with white contact paper, add black construction paper dots.

Playing card-- use two large posterboards- attach at neck and waist with yarn or cord. Draw and color front and back of a playing card. (I did the Ace of hearts, as I'm artistically challenged)