Homemade Halloween Costumes

Dress up your little devil this spooky season with some do-it-yourself Halloween duds!  If your kitty doesn’t mind, add a bandanna cape or a purple or green cat body suit to your cat  homemade Halloween costumes. Sew hippie look craft store patches onto the Halloween costume jacket and slip onto the cat. You will also need a green infant craft store t-shirt to make a leaf collar from. To make the leaf collar simply draw leaf outlines outward from the neck of the t-shirt and cut them out. When making homemade Halloween costumes for cats, always think of their safety first. For parents that creates the annual question of homemade or store bought costumes. It is fairly easy to build in a pair of sweats or some gloves to any costume that you are making.

You can make a simple ghost costume that takes 5 minutes to put together, or you can make a full costume that will involve sewing, decorating, and time to put together. Choosing a homemade costume is often an economical decision, however that is not the only reason people choose this route. While there may be three ghosts on your street, it is doubtful any of them will look exactly like your homemade costume. Observe your favorite superhero and see how you can make the look with resale clothes finds.

A homemade Kim Kardashian costume starts with a tight sexy dress, the sexier the better for this Halloween diva. When it’s time to put yourself together in you Kim Kardashian Halloween costume, use over exaggerated make-up, like the fake eyelashes, heavy eyeliner, bright lipstick and red check coloring. Remember, the trick to the caricature Halloween costume is to over-do, almost to the point that you look like a clown, but not quite that far. Party supply and Halloween giant Party City is out with its list of hottest costume trends for 2012 , including Angry Birds”, superheroes, fairies and princesses, and Monster High” characters. Twin Dragonfly Designs has a fab tutorial on how make Angry Birds costumes from fabric and felt.

Or make an Angry Bird mask out of paper mache: Paint and decorate with foam craft pieces to recreate the face, and wear with a matching color t-shirt. Make a cape from a rectangle of fabric, and stick on a superhero decal or letter crafted from duct tape onto a t-shirt. Pick up a Halloween makeup kit, crazy wig and maybe the red nose at the costume or party store, but search resale store or your own closet to create your own creative clown costume.

Make a classic kids’ robot costume from a cardboard box and get other futuristic costume ideas from E-how. For an adult, try this Monster High Costume how-to from Squidoo, complete character pictures, and makeup and costume tips. Students at Sayler Park School are getting two books to read this summer as part of a partnership between WCPO and 4C for Children. Stefanie Irwin:Nearly 3 year old lifts a record 100LBS the night before Halloween.

I see the hours of sleep lost by mom trying to make it look just right and the kids screaming at each other because the tail they spent fourteen hours attaching to their butt was detached immediately the first time someone stepped on it. Homemade costumes are such a pain in the neck, sometimes literally. Here’s one of my favorite homemade Halloween costumes for kids that you can make in a matter of minutes; static cling! Everyone has come across a few ‘spacey’ people in their lives and now you can become one for Halloween. The good news is that you don’t have to be a Pinterest fanatic to find homemade costumes regular parents can make.