I hate Halloween!

[EllenFrasier]

It's not the candy, that part I like. It's the costumes. When my kids were little, it was really easy and kind of fun. I would go and pick out a Winnie the Pooh or Strawberry Shortcake costume and they would look cute. Now they are 11 and it's not so much fun anymore. Since they have started to get involved in the process, it has gotten to be a nightmare. The last few years are a battle of tears trying to find "something to be for Halloween"....my daughter is not so bad. She usually can find something to be. My son, on the other hand is a "challenge" let's call it.
This year the school is having a Halloween event. My other kids went to this and they didn't wear a costume, which is optional. They have a haunted house, games, food, etc. There is no costume contest or parade or anything like that. He came home today and announced that he wants to wear a costume. So I begged my dd22 to take him to the store after dinner. I don't feel well and after working all day, I was exhausted. I also know how he is about shopping - never can find anything, nothing is good, etc.
Sure enough, they went to 3 stores - Walmart, Target and Kmart and he came home empty handed. He said all the costumes he wanted were in adult sizes and the rest were little kids costumes. My dd22 tried to guide him to help him find something, but nothing was right.
I feel bad because I know it is partial peer pressure that is leading him to feel that he has to wear a costume because "everybody" will be wearing one. But I refuse to go to a costume store and pay $30+ for something he will wear once. When they were in grade school I bought them costumes which they wore in their parade and then TOTing. They cost about $15 or so and they usually wore them more than one year. I wish he could just go to the school tomorrow and have a good time with his friends. I'm sure that not all of them will be wearing a costume.

 

[southern_redhead]

I'm sorry. I know how you feel. My kids are 6, 8, and 11. The 11 year old kind of secretly wants to TOT but then again he doesn't and he's decided to not dress up this year. I have to admit it is a relief. DD talked her Daddy into an EXPENSIVE costume for a school play (she had a solo and she DID look adorable) and "said" she'd wear it for Halloween but lately she's kind of been hinting at wanting to be something else. Guess what? I hear $60 saying "No" DS 6 is still pretty easy. I talked him into Buzz Lightyear. He really didn't care one way or the other and this is one that can go in the dress up box for playdates so he was happy.

What really steamed me this year is that my MIL took the kids to get costumes without asking me. We won't be wearing them. I don't "do" gory/creepy stuff. I like fun and cute Halloween. They can be witches or zombies but they need to be cute witches or zombies Well, she knows this I'm pretty sure (I've been her DIL more than a decade) and she goes and gets the kids some sort of "black bride of death" and a ghoul costume. Seriously? She thinks it is fun to be grossed out and scared. It makes me a little but I just said "OH MY! Look at that." and promptly lost them LOL So...yeah....I "hate" Halloween, too!

 

[Mom_Rides]

Oh we've been there. DD14 was the biggest pain in the rump with Halloween costumes. Can you possibly put something together for him? My DSS9 wanted to be a zombie last year. You know...because that's an easy costume to find...

So we took him to Savers (like Goodwill) and got a pair of pants, a dress shirt and a tie. Total was about $8. Then we bought a thing of zombie make-up that cost me about $5. We ripped the pants at the bottom and even shredded one pant leg and a pocket. We tore the pocket on the shirt and part of the collar. DH put splotchy bleach on the pants to fade them out in various spots and he colored parts of the shirt with red marker to look like blood and dropped bleach on the shirt as well. The tie was shredded at the bottom and had "blood" as well.

I took and wet the one side of his hair and put fake blood in it and sprayed it flat to his head with hairspray so it looked like he had a head wound. Then I messed up the rest of his hair and sprayed the heck out of it with hairspray and dusted his hair with baby powder so it looked grayish and dusty. DH painted his face a grayish color and put some fake blood and tattos of skin wounds on his face and hands.

He got a ton of comments on his costume and he looked AWESOME!

 

[kaytieeldr]

Okay, you wrote this yesterday, so the party's today. See if any of these work (they're from http://www.halloween.com/halloween-costume-quick-ideas.php; I edited out inappropriate suggestions and anything that involved accessories he wouldn't be allowed to have in school )

* Dress in pink and carry a feather. What are you? Tickled pink.
* Dress all in black, tie a shot glass around your neck. What are you? A shot in the dark!
* Wear all black and put a postage stamp (enlarged if possible) on your chest. What are you? Black mail.
* Attach suger-cubes (or candy) all over yourself. What are you? Sugar-Daddy or Sugar-Momma.
* Draw the letter C seven times on face and arms (use safe ink!). What is it? The Seven Seas.
* Get a small weight (e.g. dumbbell) and stare at it intently. What are you? Watching your weight.
* Draw the letter P around the child's eyes. What are you? "Black-Eyed-Peas". Be careful to use safe ink!!!!
* Quarter (or preferably enlarged photocopy of one) taped to your back. What are you? A quarter-back.
* Black clothes and white face paint? A mime (you can even skip the paint if it is not available).
* Wrap yourself in some (or all) aluminum foil. What are you? A baked potato!
* Make a large colorful name tag. Say things like "I'd like to buy a vowel" or "Oceans of the world for 500". Game show contestant.
* Got an old black leather jacket? Hair Gel? Jeans? 50s guy.
* Mix black, white, red/orange, blue face paint and paint bugs and dots on your face. Put a few plastic bugs in your hair. What are you? Bug bites!
* Put a piece of styrofoam beneath an old t-shirt. Stab a fork through it (careful!!!!). You are 'done'.
* Affix one couch cushion to the front of you and one to the back. What are you? The lost TV remote.
* Wear all white. Attach (or paint) yellow circle to your stomach. You are an egg. Add horns and a pitchfork and you are a deviled egg.
* Paint a shoebox black and attach it to your back. What are you? A refrigerator magnet.
* Cowboy hat, boots, corduroy? Instant cowboy.
* Paint one finger gold. What are you? Gold finger.
* Dress normally. Pin some socks, dryer sheets, hand towels to your shirt. Static cling.
* Carry around some paper. If someone askes what you are tear one up. What are you? A paper shredder.
* Catcher's glove, loaf of rye bread. Attach the bread to you, wear the glove. Catcher in the rye.
* Wear a t-shirt with a large ? (question mark) on it. Tape popcorn to it. What are you? A pop quiz.
* Get some cat and dog stuffed animals. Use double sided tape or string to attach to an umbrella. Its raining cats and dogs.
* Wear normal clothes. Attach a dollar to each ear. What are you? A Bucaneer. (Buck-an-ear).
* Take a stuffed dog and attach it to your a long sleeve shirt. Use safety pins (or if you can, sew it). Instant attack dog trainer.
* Dress in a nice suit. Attach legal documents to yourself. What are you? A law suit.
* Black jacket and black pants. (a) Add a beard and top hat and copy of the Gettysburg Address and you are Abraham Lincoln. (b) Add dark glasses and slick back your hair and you are "Men in Black." (helps to have a friend to dress with!). (c) Add a hat and you are a "Blues Brother." (d) If you have a white color, you can be a priest.
* Find a toy airplane. When asked what you are, hold it in your hand. An aircraft carrier.
* Put a pillow on your back under your shirt. What are you? Quasimodo!
* Put a pillow case on your upper body. What are you? A Chicklet!
* Put a sign that says "Go Ceilings!!!!" on your shirt. What are you? A Ceiling Fan! Cheer to help the effect.
* Attach a muffin to your hat. What are you? The Muffin-Man
* Construction Worker Costume: Old shirt, work boots, tool belt, hand tools, work gloves, hard hat, walkie-talkie or some combination
* For those times you don't want to go: say you're going as a cable-guy - since they never show up; or the invisible man.
* Wear red, white, and blue. Instant American Flag.

Family Crafts has a lot of suggestions, too, but not as readily-accessible as the above site http://familycrafts.about.com/od/costumeideas/tp/fastcostume.htm (i.e. you need to click on each link for the instructions, and there are multiple pages)

Here's http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/109542/9_lastminute_kids_halloween_costumes another site for last minute kid costumes - if you do the 'road' one (yellow or white electricians tape is even better than masking tape) and can attach some cars to the clothes as well, even better.

 

[starwood]

When DS was little he wasn't into trick or treating too much. We went to a few houses but he really liked handing out the candy at our house. Everything was going fine until the doorbell rang and went running and opened the door and there was a kid standing their in one of those hideously scarry masks. I could tell by the look on his face this was not a good thing. He wouldn't go near the door for the rest of the day.

 

[mjkacmom]

Last year, ds12 was a dead golfer. He wore plaid shorts and a polo (which he had in the drawer), and we glued 1/2 of a plastic practice golfball to his head, fake blood, face powder, and blackened under his eyes.

 

[LoveBWVVBR]

At this point, I'm right there with you. In our town, Halloween is a month-long event. We have had at least 1-2 Halloween-related activities a weekend since the beginning of Oct. This weekend coming up is actually worse than Halloween weekend. Yikes! I even shot down DH's idea that he take our 4.5 y.o. to MNSSHP this year because we literally have NO time in Oct. that he could do that. Since when did Halloween become busier than XMas?!

I have to go buy a costume for DD's "International Parade" by next Fri. It has to be a costume from a country, so here's hoping that the Halloween Superstore has something that will work. She goes to Montessori school, and of course they have to be "different". I joked to DD that Disney Princesses are from Neverland so she should be able to wear a princess costume Can't wait to spend $30+ on something that she'll wear for 10 minutes

 

[Dunkeress]

Wish I had seen this yesterday! By any chance do you have a costume rental place in town? When all else fails we go there! Ours has all sizes and since we have two rental places there are lots and lots to choose from. I hope all goes well today!

 

[luvsJack]

One I read somewhere and thought was funny. cut out a snowflake, tape a piece of string to it and other piece to a hat you are wearing so that it hangs in your face. When someone asks what you are ---blow! (snowblower) I don't know why but that just strikes me as so funny!

Or carry a hammer (could be a toy) and a quarter. Someone asks what you are, put down the quarter and hit it with the hammer. "a quarter pounder"


Put a sign that says "Go Ceilings!!!!" on your shirt. What are you? A Ceiling Fan! Cheer to help the effect quoted from kaytieeldr I like this idea--funny.

 

[figment3258]

Okay, you wrote this yesterday, so the party's today. See if any of these work (they're from http://www.halloween.com/halloween-costume-quick-ideas.php; I edited out inappropriate suggestions and anything that involved accessories he wouldn't be allowed to have in school )

* Dress in pink and carry a feather. What are you? Tickled pink.
* Dress all in black, tie a shot glass around your neck. What are you? A shot in the dark!
* Wear all black and put a postage stamp (enlarged if possible) on your chest. What are you? Black mail.
* Attach suger-cubes (or candy) all over yourself. What are you? Sugar-Daddy or Sugar-Momma.
* Draw the letter C seven times on face and arms (use safe ink!). What is it? The Seven Seas.
* Get a small weight (e.g. dumbbell) and stare at it intently. What are you? Watching your weight.
* Draw the letter P around the child's eyes. What are you? "Black-Eyed-Peas". Be careful to use safe ink!!!!
* Quarter (or preferably enlarged photocopy of one) taped to your back. What are you? A quarter-back.
* Black clothes and white face paint? A mime (you can even skip the paint if it is not available).
* Wrap yourself in some (or all) aluminum foil. What are you? A baked potato!
* Make a large colorful name tag. Say things like "I'd like to buy a vowel" or "Oceans of the world for 500". Game show contestant.
* Got an old black leather jacket? Hair Gel? Jeans? 50s guy.
* Mix black, white, red/orange, blue face paint and paint bugs and dots on your face. Put a few plastic bugs in your hair. What are you? Bug bites!
* Put a piece of styrofoam beneath an old t-shirt. Stab a fork through it (careful!!!!). You are 'done'.
* Affix one couch cushion to the front of you and one to the back. What are you? The lost TV remote.
* Wear all white. Attach (or paint) yellow circle to your stomach. You are an egg. Add horns and a pitchfork and you are a deviled egg.
* Paint a shoebox black and attach it to your back. What are you? A refrigerator magnet.
* Cowboy hat, boots, corduroy? Instant cowboy.
* Paint one finger gold. What are you? Gold finger.
* Dress normally. Pin some socks, dryer sheets, hand towels to your shirt. Static cling.
* Carry around some paper. If someone askes what you are tear one up. What are you? A paper shredder.
* Catcher's glove, loaf of rye bread. Attach the bread to you, wear the glove. Catcher in the rye.
* Wear a t-shirt with a large ? (question mark) on it. Tape popcorn to it. What are you? A pop quiz.
* Get some cat and dog stuffed animals. Use double sided tape or string to attach to an umbrella. Its raining cats and dogs.
* Wear normal clothes. Attach a dollar to each ear. What are you? A Bucaneer. (Buck-an-ear).
* Take a stuffed dog and attach it to your a long sleeve shirt. Use safety pins (or if you can, sew it). Instant attack dog trainer.
* Dress in a nice suit. Attach legal documents to yourself. What are you? A law suit.
* Black jacket and black pants. (a) Add a beard and top hat and copy of the Gettysburg Address and you are Abraham Lincoln. (b) Add dark glasses and slick back your hair and you are "Men in Black." (helps to have a friend to dress with!). (c) Add a hat and you are a "Blues Brother." (d) If you have a white color, you can be a priest.
* Find a toy airplane. When asked what you are, hold it in your hand. An aircraft carrier.
* Put a pillow on your back under your shirt. What are you? Quasimodo!
* Put a pillow case on your upper body. What are you? A Chicklet!
* Put a sign that says "Go Ceilings!!!!" on your shirt. What are you? A Ceiling Fan! Cheer to help the effect.
* Attach a muffin to your hat. What are you? The Muffin-Man
* Construction Worker Costume: Old shirt, work boots, tool belt, hand tools, work gloves, hard hat, walkie-talkie or some combination
* For those times you don't want to go: say you're going as a cable-guy - since they never show up; or the invisible man.
* Wear red, white, and blue. Instant American Flag.

Family Crafts has a lot of suggestions, too, but not as readily-accessible as the above site http://familycrafts.about.com/od/costumeideas/tp/fastcostume.htm (i.e. you need to click on each link for the instructions, and there are multiple pages)

Here's http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/109542/9_lastminute_kids_halloween_costumes another site for last minute kid costumes - if you do the 'road' one (yellow or white electricians tape is even better than masking tape) and can attach some cars to the clothes as well, even better.

Those are too cute! I am lucky so far that my youngest dd has worn my oldest dd costumes every year and she really like them and so I am only buying one costume and this year my oldest dd is being a princess and has a play and that will be her costume for her play.

 

[Marionnette]

It's not the candy, that part I like. It's the costumes. When my kids were little, it was really easy and kind of fun. I would go and pick out a Winnie the Pooh or Strawberry Shortcake costume and they would look cute. Now they are 11 and it's not so much fun anymore. Since they have started to get involved in the process, it has gotten to be a nightmare. The last few years are a battle of tears trying to find "something to be for Halloween"....my daughter is not so bad. She usually can find something to be. My son, on the other hand is a "challenge" let's call it.
This year the school is having a Halloween event. My other kids went to this and they didn't wear a costume, which is optional. They have a haunted house, games, food, etc. There is no costume contest or parade or anything like that. He came home today and announced that he wants to wear a costume. So I begged my dd22 to take him to the store after dinner. I don't feel well and after working all day, I was exhausted. I also know how he is about shopping - never can find anything, nothing is good, etc.
Sure enough, they went to 3 stores - Walmart, Target and Kmart and he came home empty handed. He said all the costumes he wanted were in adult sizes and the rest were little kids costumes. My dd22 tried to guide him to help him find something, but nothing was right.
I feel bad because I know it is partial peer pressure that is leading him to feel that he has to wear a costume because "everybody" will be wearing one. But I refuse to go to a costume store and pay $30+ for something he will wear once. When they were in grade school I bought them costumes which they wore in their parade and then TOTing. They cost about $15 or so and they usually wore them more than one year. I wish he could just go to the school tomorrow and have a good time with his friends. I'm sure that not all of them will be wearing a costume.

Sorry you feel this way. Holidays should not be a reason to be unhappy. My kids always loved halloween. I made there costumes when they were young. When they got older and got into the gory costumes I stepped aside and let them do there thing. I would take them to the costume stores and give them a budget but ultimately it was up to them. More often than not they ended up putting there own thing together with a little help from me with the sewing machine or a paint brush. The halloween fun will end all too soon when they outgrow trick or treating. Try to find the joy in it for today.

 

[StephMK]

LOL, love those ideas!! Along those lines, print BOOK on your forehead & go as Facebook like Jim did on the Office.

DS wants to be scary but the school has several guidelines so it's close to impossible to figure out what he will wear that meets the rules but is approved by his friends. Everything I suggest is too babyish or not scary enough. Funny though, he's actually too scared of the scary masks to wear one!


I'd rather just buy a bag of candy my kids will eat than spend $20 on candy to hand out & then end up throwing over 1/2 of what they get away because it's too much.

 

[3boymthr]

They dress up for Halloween at oldest DS' High School (he's 14) - it's a contest. He's going as Mountain Dew Man (or Capt Dew - he's not sure what he's going to call himself yet). A red cape, red pants, mask and a green Mt. Dew t-shirt from target ($9). I'm going to use some old curtains that I made from red sheets to make the cape this weekend. The pants well, not sure about those. He may have to make do with some athletic pants - which won't go to waste as they'll be good for gym.

I got off easy for the other two kids - Middle DS (10) is wearing his army dress up gear (for like the 4th year in a row). He said he's going to be a Nerf Ranger?? Youngest DS is going as a colonial soldier - a costume which cost me a fortune for a school play a couple of years ago; the kids had to "make" their own costumes, but they had to be put together from clothes that you find around the house not bought - of course I had nothing appropriate and neither did good will. As we only had 1 week to put this together so I had to hit e-bay and buy a tricorn hat, vest, pants and shirt - total $100. So glad it's getting used again.

 

[Coach81]

I'm sure the fun is just beginning... just wait until he's 17 and KNOWS EVERYTHING...

 

[hereyago]

I can relate. This year DD12 is her final "legal" year of TOT in our city. So, we are going to WDW in a few days, then come home early Halloween so she can do her final TOT with her friends in our neighborhood.

I swear this year she drove me crazy, she kept changing her mind. She had a outift picked out, then she saw a shirt that had a bee design on it from Kmart that came with bee antennas, 15.00 i think, and she has a canvas bag for TOT and made her own design on it with glow in the dark paint, it came out very well.

But I wanted her to put some Smarties candies on her pants so she can be a smarty pants, because she think she is all ready We are doing MNSSHP next friday and I am going to be Ms. Twister and have a twister game section on me like a beauty queen sash. I was going to make a dress, but it is going to be too hot to be in that.

 

[kkwis2]

I can totally relate! I don't like dresing up in costumes myself and have always had a hard time coming up with clever ideas for my kids (ie not store bought). My son LOVES dogs, so a couple of years ago he asked my mom to make him a dog costume. The next year she made another for him as he loved the costume (wears it to be the pet dog when he and DD play house all the time!) but had outgrown the first one.

My kids' school uses the day to encourage reading, calling it the Harvest of Literature rather than Halloween. They encourage kids to dress up as a character from their favorite book. This year my DS is going as Jack from the Magic Tree House series. Nice for me as Jack always wears jeans and T-shirt! Carry a backpack and notebook and he's all set!

Good luck to you! Halloween is not my favorite holiday either.

 

[EllenFrasier]

Thank you so much for this list of ideas!!! He did calm down around 10pm last night and went into the attic to get the bag of Halloween costumes and parts of costumes that we have in there. Most of the costumes were for girls, but he did find a black cape, so he's going to be a vampire after all. I am saving this list for next year though - or maybe he can use one of the ideas for actual TOTing!
When I was a kid, I was Mickey Mouse for about 3 years because the costume still fit. You know the kind - plastic mask, jumpsuit kind of costume part that tied in the back. We usually wore our winter coat underneath too, for some reason it was colder back then! Then when I was in fifth grade, I graduated to a dog costume that had a light up nose - I thought that was great. After that, I made up my own costumes. One year I was Wee Willy Winky, another year a bum, and another year a farmer. I only did it to get the candy.
As with everything else, I think manufacturers have commercialized Halloween to the point that it is blown way out of proportion. Lawn decorations, lights, expensive costumes - kind of takes the fun out of it if you ask me.
I'm ready for the Thanksgiving turkey and then let the Christmas shopping begin!

Okay, you wrote this yesterday, so the party's today. See if any of these work (they're from http://www.halloween.com/halloween-costume-quick-ideas.php; I edited out inappropriate suggestions and anything that involved accessories he wouldn't be allowed to have in school )

* Dress in pink and carry a feather. What are you? Tickled pink.
* Dress all in black, tie a shot glass around your neck. What are you? A shot in the dark!
* Wear all black and put a postage stamp (enlarged if possible) on your chest. What are you? Black mail.
* Attach suger-cubes (or candy) all over yourself. What are you? Sugar-Daddy or Sugar-Momma.
* Draw the letter C seven times on face and arms (use safe ink!). What is it? The Seven Seas.
* Get a small weight (e.g. dumbbell) and stare at it intently. What are you? Watching your weight.
* Draw the letter P around the child's eyes. What are you? "Black-Eyed-Peas". Be careful to use safe ink!!!!
* Quarter (or preferably enlarged photocopy of one) taped to your back. What are you? A quarter-back.
* Black clothes and white face paint? A mime (you can even skip the paint if it is not available).
* Wrap yourself in some (or all) aluminum foil. What are you? A baked potato!
* Make a large colorful name tag. Say things like "I'd like to buy a vowel" or "Oceans of the world for 500". Game show contestant.
* Got an old black leather jacket? Hair Gel? Jeans? 50s guy.
* Mix black, white, red/orange, blue face paint and paint bugs and dots on your face. Put a few plastic bugs in your hair. What are you? Bug bites!
* Put a piece of styrofoam beneath an old t-shirt. Stab a fork through it (careful!!!!). You are 'done'.
* Affix one couch cushion to the front of you and one to the back. What are you? The lost TV remote.
* Wear all white. Attach (or paint) yellow circle to your stomach. You are an egg. Add horns and a pitchfork and you are a deviled egg.
* Paint a shoebox black and attach it to your back. What are you? A refrigerator magnet.
* Cowboy hat, boots, corduroy? Instant cowboy.
* Paint one finger gold. What are you? Gold finger.
* Dress normally. Pin some socks, dryer sheets, hand towels to your shirt. Static cling.
* Carry around some paper. If someone askes what you are tear one up. What are you? A paper shredder.
* Catcher's glove, loaf of rye bread. Attach the bread to you, wear the glove. Catcher in the rye.
* Wear a t-shirt with a large ? (question mark) on it. Tape popcorn to it. What are you? A pop quiz.
* Get some cat and dog stuffed animals. Use double sided tape or string to attach to an umbrella. Its raining cats and dogs.
* Wear normal clothes. Attach a dollar to each ear. What are you? A Bucaneer. (Buck-an-ear).
* Take a stuffed dog and attach it to your a long sleeve shirt. Use safety pins (or if you can, sew it). Instant attack dog trainer.
* Dress in a nice suit. Attach legal documents to yourself. What are you? A law suit.
* Black jacket and black pants. (a) Add a beard and top hat and copy of the Gettysburg Address and you are Abraham Lincoln. (b) Add dark glasses and slick back your hair and you are "Men in Black." (helps to have a friend to dress with!). (c) Add a hat and you are a "Blues Brother." (d) If you have a white color, you can be a priest.
* Find a toy airplane. When asked what you are, hold it in your hand. An aircraft carrier.
* Put a pillow on your back under your shirt. What are you? Quasimodo!
* Put a pillow case on your upper body. What are you? A Chicklet!
* Put a sign that says "Go Ceilings!!!!" on your shirt. What are you? A Ceiling Fan! Cheer to help the effect.
* Attach a muffin to your hat. What are you? The Muffin-Man
* Construction Worker Costume: Old shirt, work boots, tool belt, hand tools, work gloves, hard hat, walkie-talkie or some combination
* For those times you don't want to go: say you're going as a cable-guy - since they never show up; or the invisible man.
* Wear red, white, and blue. Instant American Flag.

Family Crafts has a lot of suggestions, too, but not as readily-accessible as the above site http://familycrafts.about.com/od/costumeideas/tp/fastcostume.htm (i.e. you need to click on each link for the instructions, and there are multiple pages)

Here's http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/109542/9_lastminute_kids_halloween_costumes another site for last minute kid costumes - if you do the 'road' one (yellow or white electricians tape is even better than masking tape) and can attach some cars to the clothes as well, even better.

 

[MomToOne]

I'm sure the fun is just beginning... just wait until he's 17 and KNOWS EVERYTHING...

Gee, guess my daughter is "gifted" then - she's only 10 and ALREADY knows everything

 

[polkadotminnie]

I have challenged my kids to come up with a creative costume using only things that we have at the house. I am giving a prize to the best costume. I had rather give a small prize than buy a $30-$50 pre-made costume.

 

[LisaNJ25]

I am so glad he found something to wear. Nothing like last minute. Are kids are enough to drive us crazy some days.


Here is my 11yo daughter this year