Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. Maybe it's because for one day, you can choose to be anything you want. This year my daughter's school did something a little different to celebrate Halloween. They wanted to incorporate literature into their Halloween parade. So, she had to dress as her favorite book character. Right now, she's really into the Non-fiction animal books and we always end up checking out 20 books about animals each time we visit the library. Naturally, she wanted to be a cheetah. Unfortunately for her, she was sick the last part of the week and missed her parade. She did get to trick or treat and made a 'fierce' princess cheetah. I made her costume with some cheetah print material, a black turtleneck and some black faux fur. It was pretty easy, the skirt was an a-line skirt with an elastic waist and I just stitch witched the fur to her turtleneck. The faux fur was the messiest material I've ever worked with, but that was just stitched to the top of the skirt hem and cuffs of the turtleneck. She was sick while I was putting her costume together and she requested I make a stuffed cheetah friend for her. I had never made a toy before, but I gave it my best shot and she loved it. Total cost of her costume: <$10.
My son love PBS' "Super Why?" show and for his birthday one of our friends made him a cape. Every time he wears that cape he tells us he's 'Super Why.' So I knew that he would love to be Super Wyatt for Halloween. His costume was much easier to make and less time consuming. Total cost of materials: <$10. Shirt was $4 and shorts were $2 both from Target, leggings were $2 from Crazy 8's. I painted the logo on the shirt and then hemmed the shorts to make them look like super hero bloomers. We didn't do the eye mask because he hates to have anything around his face like that. He totally loved it.
I decided that I was going to be Super Wyatt's sidekick, Wonder Red for my costume. My costume cost about $6 all from the Goodwill store. My cape was from an over sized shirt I all ready had. I made a shirt to go around the top of the red shorts using leftovers from the red t-shirt. I had to dig through my daughter's toy box to find my red wig and then it took about 20 minutes to comb out all the tangles and knots.
Here are a few shots from making costumes to trick or treating. I didn't do any step by step tutorials on the costumes, I was just trying to finish them in time. Hope you enjoy them!
