Halloween. - Uniontown,PA

When my daughter was a baby I was a tree and she was a monkey! It was the cutest!! This year the kids will be farm animals and my boyfriend and I will be farmers!!

Last year my 3 year old son was a lego. Found the costume directions online. Blue sweats, and found a box his size - glued margarine containers on it and painted it blue. He liked it and the people loved it.

YAY! I'm so glad someone else is already thinking about this! :)

Last year was a bust, the girls were sick and the baby was too young to care (he was Charlie Brown, LOL!!)

This year, my 7 year old daughter wants to be a ninja.

5 year old daughter wants to be a cop.

The baby... I might make him a sumo wrestler :)

As for me, I have no idea! Last year I went as a man... I make a BAD man! My husband went as a woman, THAT was freaking hilarious!! I think this year I might wear the costume I made when I was super pregnant... black spandex pants and a tight black long sleeve shirt, and with white fabric paint I painted on my skeleton, and the babies skeleton on my belly. I'm not pregnant anymore, but why waste a cool, original costume?!

Google "Grateful Dead Dancing Bear Costume"

I cannot handle it!!

Hi L.-

I LOVE making costumes...So sad my kids are 'older' now...

The 'best' costume I made was really the simplest...and it wasn't originally for halloween...it was for a class presentation on 'sharks'...

I got a few yards of foam (like for cushions) and some special glue. I cut the shark shape and glued it so the 'shark' went over son's back...and his head was in sharks mouth...and made 'slits' so his arms came out where the flippers were glued on. I spray painted the whole thing. It went on to be used as a soccer team 'mascot'...and there were FIGHTS over who would get to wear it for halloween...I still have the 'tattered' shark...lol...

Wish I had a picture to post!

Best Luck!
Michele/cat

Michael Phelps - Hilarious ! LOL

I think we have had some good ones. I make our costumes too. One year my son was Buzz Lightyear. I made it from an old sweat suit and foam. His dad went to radio shack and added lights to the wings and a working "laser". The next year he was a garbage man. The costume was simple...khaki pants, long sleeved shirt, ball cap and a vest. He used a trash bag to collect candy. THe coolesst part was that I used a large box and covered his wagon. I made it look like a garbage truck complete with working head lights. He emptied his trash into the hopper. And last year the entire family went as Ghostbusters. That was a fun one. I love this website for costume ideas and suggestions. http://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/

I always love making my kids halloween costumes. Last year for us was a Super Mario year, my oldest was Mario, daughter was Princess Peach, my younger son was Bowser. My baby didn't fit the theme, but wore our traditional first year costume that all 4 of my kids have been -- a baby duck/chick carried in a Baby Bijorn covered in white felt made to look like a chick hatching from an egg. My oldest has had our most original costumes, my favorite was when he was 3 or 4 he was the solar system. He wore a black sweatsuit and using string I suspended a black painted hula hoop around his waist. We bought a set of styrofoam balls of varying sizes, the largest I cut in half and painted yellow, stuck one side to his stomach and the other to his back (that was of course the sun), the rest were painted to look like each planet and hung from the hula hoop by thread. It took some people awhile to figure out what he was, but he was a hit!
Hope you have a blast planning this year's costume! Now you have my wheels turning!

This is the first Halloween for our son, and I have been thinking about costumes since last Halloween, when I was 8 months pregnant. Every year I take my niece shopping and we pick out the perfect costume for her, and last year, we looked for baby costumes for ideas. At the time, we didn't know if I was having a girl or a boy, so we looked at both, and saw lots of cute ideas.

My husband and I have been talking about costumes for our little boy and have decided on a baby Yoda. We will be buying this from the store, just because I don't feel like making something detailed and so small.

We also have our idea for next year when our son will be almost 2. My husband has decided that our baby will be Rocky Balboa. This is a costume that we will have to create ourselves, and we have already purchased little American flag swim trunks that should fit him!

My son who is 9 will be a young Harry Potter - I'm reusing my brother's black graduation gown and just need to pick up some round glasses and maybe the scarf. I bought my daughter (7)a really awesome witch costume on clearance last year - it's purple and black with a poofy skirt and matching gloves, so I'm covered there. I'll probably just throw together a witch costume also from our "costume bin". I love Halloween!!!

I have no idea what my kids are going to be this year, their father wants them to be darth vader & princess leaha but I cant say Im too excited by that idea. One of the cutest costumes I have seen was one that my husbands sister made for his brothers twins for their first halloween. They were thing1 & thing2 from cat & the hat, and his brother dressed up as the cat in the hat they were sooo cute! I do like the michael phelps idea...very creative & unique.

I'm not the least bit crafty, but one year my mom made me an Aim toothpaste tube costume out of an old white sheet that she painted the name onto (perfectly, I might add) and a small lightshade that she also covered in fabric for my hat (the toothpaste cap).

As for my kids, we buy costumes though I have been known to just buy fancy Halloween make-up & fairy wings & then use clothes or whatever that we've already got to make my daughter a fairy princess.

My husband is Chinese and lately my son has been talking a lot about how he wants to be a pig for Halloween b/c he was born in the year of the pig. If he does that, I think I'll have my daughter be a tiger, since that's when she was born.

My 3 yr old is now obsessed with with he's going to be for Halloween! We've narrowed it down to a dinosaur, fireman or Spiderman. I'm sure it will change again!

The best costume I've seen recently was Johnny Cash... black jeans, black long-sleeved button-down, black hat, boots and a guitar. Very easy and very cute. My neighbor is a chef and for his daughter's first Halloween he wore his complete outfit and carried her on a white platter dressed in a lobster costem with a "wedge of lemon" on her head with a bed of "lettuce" underneath. Too cute!

We dress up as a family :) The kids love it that mom and dad dress up with them... mom and dad like being able to be a kid again for a day lol

We have done: The flintstones, wizard of oz ( one son was the witch that the house fell on. We built a house and had his feet sticking out on top of a wagon) The Addams family, super heros, Scooby doo gang. Pac man ( pac man, mrs pac man the ghosts and a dot), simpsons

We love halloween. Have fun!

Yes! Someone else is already thinking about this. Typically something happens in September or October for a current event tie-in.

Last year my daughter was obsessed with Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl, so I made her costume. My husband went as Woody, complete with snake in boot and I, amazingly enough, had a dinosaur costume tucked away, so I was Rex.

When she was one and a half, she was a devil, and with vines and apples, we were Adam and Eve.

Family themes are the best!

I'm not sure yet.

My fave costume for my son was a chili pepper - it goes along with him being born on Cinco de Mayo and loving Mexican food. He was a taco the next year, but it wasn't as obvious and confused folks more than anything. Last year he was a penguin because of his obsession with Happy Feet. This year he'll be a T-Rex because of his dino obsession. Good luck!

This year, my oldest son is going to be a pirate (he's 5) and the baby is going to be his pet lobster (he will be 2 months old). I am so excited to be able to finally have coordinating kids! :)

Last year my son was Ash Ketchum (Pokemon trainer). I just modified a shirt to look like his, used some stretchy green gloves and cut off the fingers, sewed the logo on some cloth and put it on a baseball cap. He also wore a pokewalker (from a DS game), and carried around his stuffed pikachu. My daughter was a witch. I got her dress at a garage sale, the witch hat I bought the previous year. Then I made her a fleece cloak to keep her warm. My son also has a cloak & tunic I made from previous years. It's cold her in MN so it's hard to find a costume they can show off and still be warm. This year my daughter wants to be Rapunzel (from Tangled) and she has the dress already. My son has not decided yet, although I've been asking. He thought maybe a dog. So I might do sweatpants, hooded sweatshirt I can add ears to and make a tail. Paint his face.

I think homemade costumes are so much fun to do.

My kids usually wanted to dress up as whatever they were into at the time (Harry Potter, Pokemon, etc.) Though my youngest (now 12) was a witch for like five years in a row which I thought was so funny!
This year I am trying to convince her to be Kate Middleton. She's got the perfect hair for it and I think she would look so cute in a proper little dress suit, heels and hat. But so far she's saying no, she's going to be "goth" <sigh>

My son wants to go as angry birds! He wants to be the yellow bird my hubby will be the black bird and as suggested by my husband I will be the blue birds...he said I can tape 2 birds on the girls and paint one on my belly cause i will be 7.5 months preggo come halloween lol

i was going to suggest the shark as well. We went a little more low key and it was just a hoodie with teeth and a fin. The Martha stewart website has photos of some super cute costumes and familyfun.com has a bunch archieved too.

DD says she wants to be Super Girl this year. I'm thinking i would like to make her a cape and maybe a mask.

Halloween is more important to me than xmas! I looove it. October/fall is my favorite month so it all works out. My teen is too old but my daughter was dorthy from wizard of oz last yr. She was gorgeous and every door we went to fussed over her. She was complete with the dog in the basket and the ruby red slippers. Not too sure this yr but she's kinda obsessed with spiderman so maybe I can dream up something girly spidermanish??

Per my suggestion (I know, I know), my 2 1/2 yr daughter wants to be a fairy (using a fairy dress-up costume we already have, plus a wand she already has and I just need to get her wings). My son wants to be a train (again). So, he'll wear the same costume from last year. But, I LOVE the Michael Phelps costume (I'm a former swimmer and current coach, so I have to love it)!