Since frugality seems to be the way we live, there is no reason why it doesn’t play an important part at holiday time. Halloween is no exception and I still have loads of great ideas for handmade Halloween costumes. Today’s articles require sweat suits in various colors to complete the costume. Sweat suits are extremely inexpensive at discount clothing chains and come in a wide variety of colors making it easy to create these costumes.
For a Skunk
You will need a black sweat suit. Create a white stripe out of felt, or purchase some of that specialty fuzzy fabric in white. Glue it down the middle of the back of the sweat shirt leaving some hanging over the sweat pants. Create a bushy tail by either using a feather boa from a craft store in black, or purchasing more of the fuzzy fabric in black. Secure the rest of the white stripe to the tail on Halloween night. If you do it before that, it’s hard to take off without ruining the entire costume.
For a bunny
A white sweat suit is ideal, but pink or brown could work too. My daughter had a tan sweat suit a few years ago and we created a bunny costume out of it. You can create a tail by purchasing a large pom-pom from the craft store or gluing several large puffy ones together and gluing on the seat of the sweat pants. You can create ears from poster board and secure to a plastic headband or you can purchase a cheap set from the dollar store.
For a snowman
Snowman don’t have to come out only at Christmas, you can have some fun with a costume for Halloween. You need a white sweat suit, white socks and tennis shoes. In fact, the base of the costume should be as white as white can get. Find a black felt hat, which often the dollar store has in the party section. Embellish the hat with Christmas items – a small sprig of holly can be glued on the hat and is perfect. You can glue long sticks to the arms of the sweat shirt to be the arms. You can glue pieces of charcoal or cut out felt jagged circles from felt and glue to the front of the sweat suit for the buttons. If you can find cheap fake snow you can add it to the hat in clumps to look like snow fell on the hat. Use a large red scarf to wrap around the neck. Make the nose orange with a little make up and rim the eyes in black. You’ll have the cutest snowman on the block.
For a Cereal Killer
I honestly hesitated with sharing it, but it was such a cute idea. A child at our costume party last year was dressed as a cereal killer. They had him in a sweat suit that had the miniature cereal boxes glued all over it. They had poked plastic knives through the boxes and added drips of red paint all around the hole created from the cereal box. He won a prize and it was so cute!
Please visit yesterday’s article, Great Cheap Halloween Costumes for the Truly Frugal Mom, for more great ideas for inexpensive costumes! Also be sure to visit the Frugal Blog for more upcoming articles for inexpensive costumes and other Halloween ideas as well as the Kid Crafts Blog for more terrific Halloween projects to try!
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