Halloween Costumes

My past attempts at the kids’ Halloween Costumes

Halloween Costumes- The Spider

June 14, 2011
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Halloween Costumes- The Spider

I get a lot of inspiration for costumes just by seeing great material (see fuzzy dice). The material I used for the spider was much more dramatic in person than in a photo. It moved and was itchy and the perfect color. The key...

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Halloween costumes- The tooth and the toothpaste

June 6, 2011
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Halloween costumes- The tooth and the toothpaste

Megi was about 3 or 4 for this year. The toothpaste costume is really easy, the shape is forgiving and I didn’t obsess on making the words match the style and detail exactly like a tube of toothpaste. The block word “crest” says it...

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Halloween- Banning store bought costumes!

May 27, 2011
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Ok, I really don’t know what my extreme aversion is to purchasing store bought costumes.  I can say as the daughter of an eccentric art teacher and growing up in the ahem 70’s when the only options for store bought costumes were a formed...

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Halloween Costumes– CUPCAKES!

May 19, 2011
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Halloween Costumes–  CUPCAKES!

Ok, this one of those costumes, I really didn’t think through. Totally winged it! So the idea I’ll give myself a 9, the execution I’ll give myself a 5. The costume was a little annoying for the girls to wear and personally not my...

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Halloween Costume- Chick breaking out of an egg and a chicken.

May 17, 2011
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Halloween Costume- Chick breaking out of an egg and a chicken.

My all time most creative costumes. I love love these costumes for a couple reasons. 1. It was my 1st year for many years to come making the kids costumes. 2. I completely winged it 2. They still make me smile when I look...

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Halloween Costumes- Mummy

May 9, 2011
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Another super easy costume. You cant really go wrong with this. Boxes of band-aid gauze and some white clothes underneath. Not too much to this one, but AJ really liked the black eyes and white face as a special touch. More past costumes

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Halloween Costume- Penguins

May 6, 2011
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Halloween Costumes- Fuzzy Dice. Yep Fuzzy Dice.

May 6, 2011
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Halloween Costumes- Fuzzy Dice.  Yep Fuzzy Dice.

I am pretty sure the other parents thought I lost my mind on this one. The inspiration came when I saw this material in the fabric store. Yes, others might have thought cute stuffed animal but for some reason I was thinking fuzzy dice...

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Halloween Costumes- Frankenstein

May 2, 2011
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Halloween Costumes- Frankenstein

Super easy costume. But looking back I wish I had put more time in to two details. On the easy scale, this is easy. When I was researching Frankenstein, there were all sorts of variation of cloth styles, so I went simple. The key...

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Halloween- Banning store bought costumes!

May 1, 2011
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Halloween- Banning store bought costumes!

Ok, I really don’t know what my extreme aversion is to purchasing store bought costumes. I can say as the daughter of an eccentric art teacher and growing up in the ahem 70’s when the only options for store bought costumes were a formed...

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