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Angel - Again use a white sweatsuit
or long white dress for the body. Make wings out of heavy white
poster board and paint the edges gold. Attach tie straps to them
that go around the shoulders. You can also shape a metal clothes
hanger into a wing. Make two wings, hot glue fabric around them
and add straps.
Pea Pod - Cut 2 small foam balls
in half with an electric knife or a knife with a serrated blade.
(Note: Do this BEFORE attaching them to the child!) Wrap in green
fabric and pin them to the front of a green sweatsuit. Make a
hat out of 2 shades of green felt and a little brown felt for
a stem.
Lion - Buy a yellow hat or dye
a white hat yellow. Buy long brown fake fur, yellow fake fur
and a yellow sweatsuit. You can get fake fur at your favorite
fabric store. Add brown fur to the top of the hat (for a mane),
hot-glue yellow fur into a long tail, adding a poof of brown
for the end. Pin the tail on the back of the costume. Make an
oval of the fur for the child's tummy and use eyeliner for whiskers.
Dalmatian - Pin black felt dots
onto a pair of white sweats. Paint blackpolka dots on the child's
face. Add more polka dots to a white hat, make some black felt
ears and add black shoes to finish it.
I Paint, Therefor I Am - Glue
a copy of a painting with a face on it on apiece of cardboard.
(Ex. Mona Lisa). Cut out the face and then put their face in
instead.
Race Car Stroller - Decorate
a stroller as a race car by adding fabric or paper racing stripes
and a number. Add two flashlights for headlights, plus some reflector
tape. If you want to get really creative, add a wind foil, a
foil covered paper towel roller for an exhaust pipe or whatever
else your clever mind conjures up. Cut a steering wheel out of
cardboard for the child to hold. Your child can wear whatever
clothes he wants. Just add an old helmet or baseball cap worn
backwards.
Think of themes for all of the
kids in the family.
It can be fun for all the kids
to dress up in costumes that complement each other. Some sample
themes are - super-heros, vegetables, candy bars, rabbit family
(or other animals) or cartoon characters (i.e. Mickey Mouse,
Minnie and Donald Duck). They could also dress in pairs like
a mouse and cheese, a plant and a watering can or doctor and
patient. The sky's the limit.
Christmas theme:
One child could go as a present,
another a Christmas tree, another Rudolph and the 4th as Santa.
Ideas for how to make the costumes:
Rudolph - Dye an old pair of
sweats brown. Put a light brown felt tummy on the shirt, make
a set of cardboard antlers and paint the child's nose red.
Present - Wrap an old box that
is big enough for the child to wear. Cut out the bottom of the
box and make holes for the arms and head. The child can wear
a turtleneck and stretch pants underneath it.
Christmas Tree - Cut two pieces
of cardboard into the shape of a tree, one for the front and
one for the back. Hook them together with a piece of string over
each shoulder. Paint the pieces green with latex paint and attach
old tinsel and ornaments with hot glue. Make a star head piece
by gluing glitter to a cardboard cutout or use a Christmas tree
angel as a head piece.
Santa - Trim a pair of red sweats
with white fake fur and a large black felt belt. Make a beard
with more fake fur, top off with a Santa hat and add a little
"Ho, Ho, Ho" for good measure.
Of course if all else fails
you could wrap the child head to toe in aluminum foil and send
him as a frozen burrito... |
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