Halloween costumes

I will start out with a picture of all my kids in their costumes. My oldest is the only one that is not wearing something that I made so she will not be in any other pictures.



This is my oldest son. He is wearing part of his costume from last year actually. This year I do not know what he is trying to be in it. That was all he ware for our churches trick or treat party. Last year though he was an old fashion mobster. He had a bowler hat and Nerf gun. He would have had a trench coat to go with it but I forgot it.



This is another costume from last year but a different kids is wearing it this year. We call it the Teddy Bear Cowboy. It has a large teddy bear centered on the back of the vest. He got to wear his Dad's hat for the pictures only. We had a kids cowboy hat last year but the kids played with it and it ended up getting eaten by one of our dogs over the summer. He didn't seem to mind not having a hat anyways.



This is one of the costumes that I did this year. When I got the fabric from my husband's grandma I thought of this costume for my daughter. I made the dress and a skinny tail that we pin on under the bow in the back. The ears came out nice, I was not sure they would turn out right when they started curling up when I was making them. The curl actually helped when it came to putting the ears on the headband.



I made the flannel shirt for my son's scarecrow costume. The hat was an old one of my daughters and use to have a purple ribbon on it. It had lost part of the ribbon, been colored on and lost its shape. So I stuffed it with a sheet when I painted it in hopes that it would hold a shape, luckily it did. I added shredded newspaper to the hat and put some on elastic for the arms. Then the shirt can be worn other times. His overalls we had in a box of clothes for him to grow into. We had recently gone through boxes getting rid of and passing down clothes that are to small for all the kids and getting out ones they now fit in from the older kids. When I saw the overalls I thought of a scarecrow.



My youngest was Batman which I had completely remake. The costume was originally a size eight that my oldest son wore about two years ago. When we got the Halloween box out to look at costumes to figure out what everyone could be, they started dressing up in them over and over again. One time the costume didn't get put away when we left and one of my dogs ate a hole out of the middle and damaged the sleeves of the Batman costume. After looking at it for a little while I measured my youngest and found that I could save it enough for him to still be Batman. Since he was the one playing with it and probably left it out, he didn't mind. The only problem is the sleeves are a little tight at the wrists for his hand to fit through with out tugging. I ended up having to take the costume completely apart to cut out the shredded area and size down the rest. If it wasn't for the fact that my son liked the costume so much I would have just tossed it because of the hole.