Homemade Halloween Costumes????

[lukenick1]

Any cool ideas for a 7yr old boy?? Can't fathom spending all that money on a costume they use once. Like to be creative and make one. Any cool suggestions?????


Things we have already done....
Karate kid (Old tae kwon do gi)
Monkey (old navy clearance)
Clown (went to salvation army for the clothing)
Hippie (salvation army clothes)
Indian (store bought)
robber (black sweat suit with hat and mask)

 

[robinb]

What does your son want to be? I dressed my DD for the first 3 years but after that she told me what she wanted to be and I made it work. I only bought a costume once and that was when she wanted to be Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.

Let him lead the way and then come back for ideas on how to make it yourself.

 

[lukenick1]

He doesn't know yet that's why I came here....looking for ideas.

 

[XYSRUS]

I don't buy anything for Halloween-except makeup. So far we've been all the monsters-werewolf, Dracula, zombies, Frankenstein, ghosts, mummies, plus a nutty professor (real cute and got lots of comments), a ninja, a mad surgeon, a corpse bride, a skeleton, and the Cat in the Hat! I have convinced my kids not to spend a dime on Halloween and rake in the candy for one night!

 

[Bren's Mom]

http://familyfun.go.com/sitesearch/results/q=costumes/

 

[rynosmom]

We have done a Pizza Chef, Bowl of Mac and Cheese, Speed Bump, the old man from the Great Adventure commercial, the King from Burger King, a Jack n the Box, A Tea Bag...........all real easy with the exception of the Jack n the Box...that one was a lot of work!

 

[ilovejack02]

DS8 is a crazy WHO DAT fan this year. I bought a mask from the NFL store for $11 but the rest of it is stuff we own .

We have a jersey, Saints crocs, my mom making him Saints sleep pants , wont cost much as we already have the pattern for sleep pants . I will spray paint his hair Gold and spike it up all crazy . He has a Saints back pack for his candy bag. And he will carry one of those crazy foam #1 fingers we already have.

Hubby and I are wearing our "I own WHO DAT " tee shirt. ( from a recent issue with NFL trying to say they own our phrase WHO DAT ) and I am carrrying black and gold pompoms . I might make myself a black and gold tu tu and wear it over leggings ,but we shall see lol.

Done, total spent about 18.00 but part of that is pants that he will sleep in this winter , so really 11.00 .


GEAUX SAINTS !!!

 

[Deffenm]

This year my dd is Creulla D'ville (someone gave me a bunch of free fabric that looks like dalmation), DS11 is going to be a knight (bought shield, chest protector, and sword from Dollar Tree for $3 total). He will wear Gray sweatshirt and sweat pants. DS9 is a SW Stormtrooper. This is the only one I purchased the whole thing and I got it last year for 90% off. In the past we have been Harry Potter (DS9 has glasses so it worked out well for him), Dracula, ghost, construction worker, hunter, ninja, soccer player, football player. My kids actually enjoy coming up with their own costume. Most of the time we only have to buy a few accessories as we already have the rest.

 

[MamaJessie]

Last year my son (who was 7 last year) was a pirate. We bought a white turtleneck from the goodwill, and cut it (down the center to the begininng of his chest and then jagged endings at the arm and jagged around the bottom). We bought a woman's scarf to use as a belt (also at goodwill) He had some old black pants, we cut the bottoms all jagged. I bought an eye patch at the dollar store. It came with a hook. He had a POC sword from WDW. Oh and a bandana on his head that we already owned.

Have fun!

I highly recommend familyfun for awesome ideas.

 

[SaveTheSeaTurtles]

A fun robot costume can be made with a box covered in aluminum foil & "control panel" made up for the front of it, arms could be "duct material"...

 

[MamaJessie]

Oh and this year I think we are going to make the viking costume from familyfun. It looks cute adn easy. That or a ninja, he has his sisters old karate uniform.

 

[java]

Last year the day before halloween my kids decided they wanted to go as the characters from MarioKart.
Did you see THE DAY BEFORE HALLOWEEN!!

So I did King Boo (he was the hit), Toad and Toadette.

 

[snickerboo]

My ds(7) is being Harry Potter this year. We already had the robes from when dd loved HP. Dh bough thim the Gryffindor scarf when he was at FAO Schwarz in NYC. I can't decide whether to make him a wand to go with it or, I was thinking of making him a broomstick and then making a golden snitch out of a styrofoam ball and having it "float" over his shoulder using some wire.

We have done:
*A penguin (probably my most challenging but I did make it myself)
*Luke Skywalker (this is really easy! You need: a gi top, khaki pants, rain boots, an old, wide belt, a toy lighsabre & brown felt. Cover the belt with the brown felt. Make boot covers for the boots using brown felt which you can sew or just hot glue.)
*Dale Earnhardt Senior (found a black jacket at Salvation Army. Printed out the sponsors onto some paper, cut them out and just stuck them on the jacket. Got a bike helmet that looked a little more like a racing helmet and printed out Dale E's #3. the key to the costume were the mirrored sunglasses and the mustached I put on him using a brown eyeliner pencil). People loved that costume.
*Dash Incredible (got the Incredibles pj pals from the Disney store and a black mask. It was so simple and he got lots of wear out of the jammies. They were about $10 and the Dash costume at Walmart was about $25).

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

We have done a Pizza Chef, Bowl of Mac and Cheese, Speed Bump, the old man from the Great Adventure commercial, the King from Burger King, a Jack n the Box, A Tea Bag...........all real easy with the exception of the Jack n the Box...that one was a lot of work!

Okay, I'd love to know what the bowl of mac n'cheese and the speed bump look like!

 

[Minnie M6]

I think DS is going to be a minion- yellow sweatshirt and sweatpants, suspenders, safety goggles.....

DD wants to be a baby- pair of footed pajamas and slippers + accessories.

Good luck!

 

[monorailsilver]

Do a search for 'the coolest costumes'. It has really great ideas.

 

[StephMK]

DS is 8 & they have several limitations about scary costumes, which is what he wants. DH told him to be a gangster, he already owns a suit, so he said he's going as Al Capone. We are on the hunt for a DS approved fedora hat and I got him a white dress shirt (he didn't want black) at Goodwill for 1.50 -plus he can wear it for the holidays.

He would have liked to be a zombie doctor. I wanted him to be a mad scientist - lab coat, crazy hair, use neon paints to splatter the coat - but he wouldn't go for it.

 

[Mom_Rides]

Last year we made my DSS 9 zombie costume for around $10. We went to Savers and got pants and a shirt that was one size too big (I think they were $2 a piece) then went to the mens dept and got a tie. We bought a makeup kit that had "blood" in it. DH painted his face white with some black mixed in so he looked grey with white in some spots. He also had "blood" dripping off of his mouth and around his ears. I then hairsprayed his hair all messy and shook a bit of baby powder onto his hair and had him shake it in. Then we smoothed one side of the hair down and put the fake blood stuff in it to look like a head wound.

He loved his costume and got so many compliments on how good it looked. It was relatively easy and so much fun to do together. DH made DSS 14 a scarecrow costume when he was 4 that was sooooo cute. He just got a flannel shirt, overalls and bought a small thing of straw and stuffed it in his overalls. He made his cheeks rosey and put a little straw hat on him.

 

[Mellie2162]

we havent bought costumes for a few years now...DS did the homemade robot thing once, that was a pain. Last year he was a pirate..took some old clothes and shredded the bottoms, he had a hat, so just bought a patch..he looked pretty cool. The best one was about 2 years ago...he wanted to be a ghost..just a white ghost...so we took a white sheet and cut slits around the neck area and big round holes for eyes. I took a piece of rope and weaved it through the slits in the neck and just did a real loose tie in the front. Everyone who saw him said he looked exactly like the ghost from the Charlie Brown special, they loved it! That was the easiest and cheapest one we ever did. I still have it and im gonna see if he wants to use it again this year.

 

[MEM]

I think DS is going to be a minion- yellow sweatshirt and sweatpants, suspenders, safety goggles.....

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That sounds adorable!

Another idea is "spaghetti and meatballs" - red sweatshirt and sweatpants - pin to the shirt and pants random strands of "spaghetti" - made from a new mop from the Dollar Store -and brown pom-pom "meatballs". Attach a colander to a red baseball cap. Cute and cheap and you can wear the sweatsuit again.