10.31.07
Kids Halloween Costume Ideas
Its Halloween again. We’ll have lots of kids tonight trick or treating. Use to be, kids stuck to their own neighborhoods. They’d go around to their neighbors dressed in homemade costumes. Then, the neighbors handing out candy would try and guess who were the hobgoblins. that was a long time ago, when I was a kid. That ended about the time my kids came along. Now, the idea is to get as much candy as possible. Costumes from specialty stores and Walmart replaced homemade. That eliminated a lot of work and a lot of fun. I dressed my kids up as cats one year when they were small. It was a very simple costume. I put them in black tights, made a tail out of black construction paper, then cut two triangles for ears from that constuction paper and attached them to a hairband with tape. Then I used makeup to draw some whiskers on their faces. They were so so cute. It was better than any store bought costume and it was cheap. Another year, I dressed them as lumber jacks. I put them in a Flannel shirt, then used makeup to paint a beard on their faces. So, you see you can make simple and very inexpensive costumes for Halloween. I
Anyway, there are several locations around town that are giving out candy tonight.