Cheap, easy, homemade costume ideas?

my small kids wore yellow blanket sleepers with black stripes of electrical tape, black hats with yarn antennae and went as bumble bees

My kids (ages 2 and 6 months) went once as french fries and ketchup.

We took red posterboard and used a yellow paint pen to make the ol' double golden arches. Take another one, the same size, and cut it so it's rounded at the top. Then take a yellow posterboard and glue to the top of the rounded edge your "french fries" (draw them or cut them out, or both). The french fries will be sticking up behind the chiild's head (think vampire or Snow White). You can either connect the two or do it like a sandwich board. Or, to make the fries, you can make the whole thing on the front, and have an opening for the child's face, but he might not care for that. Or you can make a hat (he wears the red "carton" costume, but fries of different lengths are cut in a row, and encircled and stapled, so that he has a "crown" of "french fries".) We found that the fries coming out the back had the best effect, and was most comfortable. Assuming you can find a piece large enough, the foam stuff that's everywhere for crafts would work pretty well for this project.

Then I took a red onesie and some white fabric and Sharpees, and a bottle of Heinz ketchup. I copied as closely as possible the label onto the white fabric, drawing it in and then cutting it out to the right shape, large enough to cover the baby's belly. Use some strategically placed safety pins, or patch glue or stitch it on, and you have your little "ketchup pouch".

They won a prize. :-D

Also, similar to the bubbles idea, one year my sisters and I all went as fruit. I wore a red tunic kind of thing (may have just been an adult t-shirt) with sequins glued here and there, and a little round hat with a "stem" coming off it, making me a strawberry. One sister wore a felt triangle sandwich board that was pink, with green along the bottom and black "seeds", and she was a watermelon. My youngest sister (and this is the one I would recommend) was a bunch of grapes. She had a purple tunic kind of like mine (once again, it may have been a great big adult's t-shirt) with little purple balloons blown up and attached, and a "stem" hat like mine. At the end of the night, though, my cousins (banana, apple, kiwi, orange slice and peach), my other sister and I were teasing my youngest sister about how she'd turned into a bunch of raisins (the balloons, every one of them, popped or deflated significantly). She still looked cute, though....

If your son has jeans or overalls you are set. Dress him in the jeans or overalls and make him a farmer, scarecrow, construction worker (Bob the Builder) or a cowboy. For the farmer and cowboy, let him wear jeans/overalls, boots (or brown shoes), and get a cheap cowboy hat from the $ store. For the scarecrow, do the same as the farmer only tie a rope belt on him and stick some hay/pinestraw in his sleeves and pants legs (If you do that you may want to tape the straw into the inside of his clothes with duct tape so it stays in and doesn't scratch him). For Bob the Builder, overalls a plaid shirt and a hard hat. Find a cheap tool set at walmart/$ store, or even use Dad's tools. Lowe's has kid's tool belts for about $10.

Also try website like Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Parents for other easy ideas. Good luck and happy halloween!

For something cute, that you could dress up easily with stuff you have in your closet. Walmart has these Kits, there is, devils, cats, bunnies and tigers. They are just a headband with the ears/horns on them, the tail and a sparkly bow. Now you can just find a short skirt, or tutu, something along those lines to match. Red or black for the devil. White or black for the cat and rabbit and Black or brown for the tiger. A tight tee shirt, high heels or high heeled boots or even flats. Whatever you prefer. Then you can do your makeup accordingly. Whiskers for the animals, black nose, cat eyes with liquid eyeliner for the cat. For the devil, bright red lipstick and smoky eyes. Your hair can be curled for an extra. Hope that helped, it's easy and cheap and so adorable but can be done sexy. (:

I am make my kids Boy 2 and girl 1 pebbles and bamm bamm both costumes together cost less than 10 dollars canadian lepord print material from walmart and some small dog bones from the dollar store and there I have it two costumes $10 and supper cute to boot

Dress him up as daddy.. Put him in his good clothes ( a button up shirt and dads tie). Then draw a mustache and beard with eyeliner. Look around the house you will find all kinds of things to make a costume with. Cardboard and aluminum make a a sword or a sheriffs badge. mismatched colorful clothes and moms makeup make a clown. With a couple of accessories your options are limit less.

When my son was two, I bought a cheap white sweatsuit and used fabric paint to add leopard spots. (Can't remember what I did for the tail, an old sock maybe?) He was a snow leopard and looked really cute. Aren't homemade costumes the best?

Done years ago......grey sweat pants with a grey hoodie shirt. Buy white balloons. Blow about to the size of a large orange. Carefully safety pin the ends to the suit, including hood. Your son becomes....Bubbles! My son even carried around an old tin washpail. Or, you could carry a laundry detergent bucket to hold candy etc.

Have him be a farmer. Put him in some overalls, a plaid shirt, some boots. Get him a straw hat and give him some fake veggies to carry around.

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