Current political news often makes for the best Halloween costumes. Due to the scandal surrounding Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, women (and men) will dress up as the accuser / victim, Christine Blasey Ford. Create your own homemade Christine Blasey Ford Halloween costume by following these simple steps:
No
sewing is required for this unique, eye-catching bubble bath costume. Guys, gals and children alike can go as this
bubbly favorite. To make the tulle skirt, follow these simple instructions, or watch this video:
Using hot glue, add cotton balls throughout the tulle to make it
appear as suds or bubbles. Then, glue the rubber ducks around the skirt as
well. Add a body puff sponge anywhere on the skirt or tank top. Supplies needed
to create this fun and easy do-it-yourself costume include:
Dress
in the tank top, tights and shorts. Pull the tutu skirt on over the shorts.
Place the shower cap on your head and carry a towel to “dry off”. As a trick or
treat box, one can carry a large size spa basket.
New parents (especially Moms) will have fun choosing a Halloween
costume for
their bundle of joy. Instead of purchasing the typical pumpkin costume
available in any retail store, why not create a unique outfit of your own? Easy
and inexpensive costume ideas for infants and toddlers include:
-
Charlie Brown. Simply dress the baby in jeans, yellow shirt with a zig zag
across the front and then draw a squiggly on his forehead. Add a stuffed plush Snoopy animal.
Popular Halloweencostumes for children and adults alike include
those from the popular educational PBS television program, Sesame Street. Sesame Street characters include: Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch. To make a unique
homemade costume of one of these television favorites, you
will need the following supplies:
To
create the Cookie Monster costume, dress in black tights, black shirt, black
gloves and black shoes. Add a Cookie Monster headband. Then, wrap the character t-shirt under the arms, tucking the sleeves and collar in. Pin the
“shirt” discretely in the back to hold it in place. To make the shirt more
secure, one can pin or hot glue fleece straps on each side of the shirt and
then tie these straps together.
To
make the big cookie accessory, cut a large piece of foam board into a circle.
Wrap the tan fleece around the large foam circle, stuff with polyfill. Then,
pin or hot glue the fleece material closed. Cut oddly unique circles from the
dark brown fleece and hot glue these circles to the tan circular foam cookie.
To
make the trick or treat bag, cut oddly shaped circles from the dark brown
paper. Then, hot glue these circles to a paper bag.
History
has proven that popular Halloweencostumes throughout the years have been those
outfits related to current events. In 2014, how can one forget the Ice Bucket
Challenge or the deadly outbreak of the ebola virus? Do-it-yourself
Ice Bucket Challenge
costumes, mad scientists and ebola healthcare
workers were extremely popular last year.
Look for Halloween costumes related to “Deflategate” – the
controversy in the National Football League stemming from accusations that
the New
England Patriots, specifically,
quarterback Tom
Brady, tampered with
footballs used in the AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts.
Supplies needed to create a Deflategate Halloween costume include:
Dress
in New England Patriots uniform. Gather the inflatable toy footballs (or purchase online) and tie to the jersey with fishing line. Then, select which type
of hat: football helmet, football party hat and / or the Tom Brady face mask.
As an accessory, one can carry a cell phone to reflect Tom Brady's cell phone
which was key in the investigation.
The
Walt Disney Company is referred to as "The House
the Mouse built." Mickey Mouse is one of the most popular and
recognizable cartoon characters in the world and a ye
arly favorite at Halloweencostume contests and parties. To make your own
mouse costume, the following supplies are needed:
Red soffe gym shorts
Black unitard or black long sleeve shirt and black leggings
Black & White felt
Polyfil
Black headband
Black face paint
Yellow shoes or footies / socks
Can of soup
Scissors
Hot glue gun
White gloves
To
make the Mickey Mouse ears, start with a plastic black headband. Then, trace
the end of the soup can on to the black felt. Fold the felt just beneath the
traced circle leaving about half an inch of felt to slip the head band in. Fold
the two circles over the headband and glue in place with hot glue. Repeat this
step for the second ear. Using the same soup can, or one slightly smaller,
trace two circles on to the white felt. Cut out the white circles and hot glue
them to the front of the waistband on the red shorts.
To
make Mickey’s tail, cut approximately a 6” strips of 3’ long felt or fleece
material. Roll the material and hot glue the roll. Stuff one end of the roll
with polyfil (or newspaper) and then hot glue each end shut.
Dress
in the long sleeve black shirt, black pants / leggings, red shorts. Pin the
mouse tail to the back of the shorts. Ladies, create a tulle skirt to add a girly
look. Visit How to Make a Tulle Skirt for
details or watch:
Wear yellow shoes or footies and white gloves or mittens. Place mouse
ear headband on head. Using black face paint, paint a black circle on the tip
of nose. If desired, paint black whiskers across your cheeks.
One
of the most popular Halloween costumes this year will be the Robertson family clan from the hit television
series,Duck Dynasty.
Duck Dynasty is an American reality television series on A&E that portrays
the lives of the Robertson family, who became wealthy from their
family-operated business, Duck Commander. Less crafty folks can shop their own
closet for camouflage pants, shirt and boots or purchase the inexpensive
complete costume online at Amazon.com. Sign up for Amazon Prime to receive free 2-day shipping on any size
order!
Whether
you want to resemble the patriarchs: Phil or Si, or
the sons: Jase, Willie, or Jep, this homemade costume is simple and inexpensive to
craft. To complete this homemade do-it-yourself costume, supplies needed
include:
To
create the signature Duck Dynasty beard and side burns, start with the designer
fur swatch available in local craft stores or online at amazon.com. Cut the sheet of fur 1.75” from the bottom and then 1.75” from
the side. These two pieces are the side burns. Then, with the remaining center
piece, trim the edges to form a trapezoid figure in the shape of a beard. Roll
the bandana as if to tie it around head, then hot glue the side burns to each
side of bandana. Attach elastic to the beard shaped piece so it fits snug
around head. Spray the fur with hairspray and shape it into an unkempt beard.
Then,
tie the bandana around head and place the beard around the face using the
elastic. To complete the costume, carry a duck call, duck decoy or stuffed plush mallard duck. As additional accessories, carry a bow and
arrow or binoculars. Gals, make this a couples costume by dressing up as Miss Kay.
With the 2016 Presidential election in full swing, popularHalloweencostumeideas will include those of
the democrat and republican presidential candidates as well as those of former
(and current) US Presidents. Men, women and children can dress as their
favoritepresidentor presidential hopeful fairly inexpensively by browsing their
local thrift stores and closets. For detailed extras includingcampaign buttonsandbumper stickers, shop online at Amazon.com
In addition to the current presidential candidates other
possibilities include the presidents and hopefuls from years past: Sarah Palin,
Bill Clinton, Abe Lincoln:
A Halloween costume idea for couples is the current US President
and his wife: Barak & Michelle Obama. One can make this a group costume by
dressing as the Bo, the presidential dog, or the girls: Sasha and Malia.
My boy was fascinated with law enforcement,
traffic lights and crossing signals.
Instead of dressing up as a typical police officer, we created a unique Halloweencostume: a traffic light
with working lights!
Supplies needed for this one-of-kind costume include:
-
Large cardboard box in a rectangular shape. The box should fit over the
shoulders and sit just above the knees. If the box is longer than the child’s
knees, walking and climbing stairs will be difficult.
- Scissors
- Hot glue sticks and glue gun
- Golden yellow felt or fleece
- Black, green and white foam pieces
- 3 tap lights with batteries
- Red, yellow and green acrylic paint
- Paintbrush
- Yellow or black baseball cap
- Black sweatsuit
To
create the stop light:
1.
Measure the child’s head circumference and cut a circle in the top of the box.
2. About 3-4” down on each side of the box, cut a circle for the child’s arms
to fit through
3. Trace the tap light circle base on to the front of the box. Cut out each
circle so the tap light will fit snuggly inside each hole.
4. Cover the box completely in yellow fleece / felt by gluing the fabric to the
box.
5. Disassemble the tap lights. Paint each white covering separately: green,
yellow, red. Allow paint to dry and reassemble. Add batteries, if needed.
6. Cut a semi-circle out of black foam and fit on the top of each tap light,
making an arch covering over each light.
7. Cut large black foam piece into a rectangle shape for the front of the
light. Hot glue to fabric on front.
8. Center the yellow light on to the black foam rectangular piece on the front
of the box. Add the red light just above the yellow one. Glue the green light
just below the yellow light.
9. Dress in black sweatsuit and place completed street light box design over.
To
create the street sign:
1. Cut a large rectangle shape out of green foam.
2. Cut a slightly larger rectangle shape out of white foam.
3. Glue the green foam on to the white foam.
4. Cut the child’s name and the word, “Avenue”, out of paper or white foam and
glue the letters to the green foam.
5. Hot glue the completed sign to the top of black knit cap. Place the cap on
top of the head.
To
make a do-it-yourself Superman (Clark Kent style) costume for school plays, book character
day, Halloween and dance parties, supplies needed include
the following:
1. Superman Tee Shirt
2. Long sleeve button front shirt, solid color is best
3. Denim jeans
4. Glasses (3D glasses from a movie theater work perfectly!)
5. Hairspray
To
complete the Man of Steel costume, dress in the pieces of clothing mentioned
above, buttoning the long sleeve shirt only a few buttons up from the bottom.
Next, slick hair back with water and spray with hairspray to hold in place.
Remove the lenses from the 3D glasses (simply pop them out), leaving just the
frames and place on head. These black framed glasses work well and resemble
the superhero seen in the TV series, Smallville.
Sure,
one can purchase the standard Superman costume at a local retail shop or
on Amazon.com, but isn’t it more fun to create your own outfit? Isn’t it also
less expensive to build your own Halloween costume or character dress?! To save
money, shop local thrift stores and garage sales for comic book t-shirts before
heading to the retail stores (Wal-mart or Target, for example). Check your
family closets for a pair of blue denim jeans, dress slacks and a long sleeve
button front shirt.
Creative
folks can make money putting together costumes unlike any other listed available on Amazon.com. For example, characters Mario & Luigi from the Super Mario Bros
video game series. Sure, store purchased Mario Halloween costumes might be readily available (and
expensive), but handmade costumes are more desirable because they are
one-of-kind and perfect for boys, girls and adults.
Follow
the steps below to make a Mario dress up character costume for Halloween, school parties, character days or school
spirit week:
Purchase
a Mario Luigi cap online at Amazon.com. Or, make the Mario baseball cap:
1. Trace the bottom of a soup can onto the white felt to make it perfectly
round. Cut out the circle
2. Download the “M” in Mario from www.zankat.com. Zoom and print to fit on the white circle
3. Assemble the “M” circle and hot glue to hat
To
make the mustache:
1. Trace the mustache pattern here
2. Cut out
3. Use Heavy Duty Scotch shipping tape to hold the mustache in place just above
the lip
Child
can complete the costume with hiking boots or heavy shoes. I have yet to think
of a creative trick-or-treat bag to complete this outfit. Feel free to leave
your suggestion in the comments section below!
