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Little Dead Riding Hood:

Wear the usual Little Red Riding Hood costume and then use fake scars, wounds and blood to make it look like the Big Bad Wolf got you. Don’t forget your basket!

Gold Digger:

Put on a gold dress. Sprinkle gold glitter in your lip gloss. Paint your nails gold. Paint a toy shovel gold, and carry it with a bag of gold rocks

Make Your Own Make-up
You will need:
2 tablespoons of soft shortening
4 tablespoons of cornstarch
Food coloring

Mix ingredients shortening and cornstarch. Separate the recipe into different cups, add food coloring.

Wash your face and any area that you will be applying makeup to and than dry thoroughly.

Apply a thin coat of cold cream to the entire face.

Using a cotton ball, gently pat cornstarch over cold cream. Keep your eyes closed.

Apply make-up with fingers tips.

Skunk
Black with white strip down the pack.. be careful everyone may run

Bunny
Pink, brown, or white, add a powder puff or large pom-pom to the backside, and a set of ears make from constriction paper and a plastic headband. Now just hop on out and enjoy

Turtle
Green with a piece of poster board attached to the back. Simple cut the poster board into a large oval, make random marks like a turtle shell, and paint.

Puppy

Brown, tan or white, either paint, or pin paper spots on. Make floppy ears and bobby pin to hair over your ears. The tale can be most anything, depending on what type of doggie you wish to be. Add a little make-up.

Kitten
Gold, brown, tan, white. Make ears from construction paper, attach to head band or bobby pin in to hair. Sew a simple round tale, and pin on.

Spider
Black, For the legs grab some cheap black hose, stuff with any thing dark and light weight. Either sew, or staple to keep stuffing from falling out. Pin to clothing, add a little make-up

From our guests:

Lady Bug
Use a pair of black sweats and black sweat shirt (and a pair of black shoes). Use a large piece of poster board or cardboard and cut out a large oval. Paint it red with black dots. Staple black elastic pieces (in a loop) onto the board to make arm holes. For the antenna atatch craft pipe cleaners with black pom poms on the ends to a headband. From: Shaundi Gopp

Snowman
Last year my 3 year old was a snowman. It was the easiest costume so far! I bought white sweats, christmas socks, white keds tennis shoes, a cheap black hat, fake snow, mittens, scarf and black pom poms for the coal!
I sprayed the hat to look like snow and added a cheap red bird from the craft store. I bought a white mask and bought a cheap carrot from the craft store and glued it onto the nose part of the mask. I glued the pompoms on his sweatshirt and that was it. Cheap, simple and he was adorable. Besides he was the only frosty we saw! He also had to have white face makeup on!! From: Andee Heneghan

Cereal Killer
Attach little cereal boxes to a shirt, cut a slit in the boxes, glue in plastic knives into the holes, drip red paint running down from the knife hole in the box. From:Gail McNitt

A Bunch of Grapes
Using green or pruple sweets, attach balloons of the same color with safety pins. Ppaint face and hands same color. From: Barbara Brown

Grapes appear to be popular! Here is one from Jo:
My fav was purple tights, purple (long sleeves) body suit (I can’t think of what it’s really called), 12 purple balloons and a green felt hat. Balloons are pinned (by the tied off end to the fabric in a triangle shape, 3 on top, 2 in middle and 1 at bottom (on front and back). I was a bunch of grapes and the hit of the party!

Bag of Jelly Beans
- lots of different colored balloons
- large clear plastic bag (I got mine from the grocery store – the BIG bags that they put all the recycled cans in)
– colorful ribbon
- two safety pins
- two pieces of white cardboard

Blow up all the balloons. Cut two leg holes in the bottom of the bag and two arm holes near the middle. Have your child stand in the bag and fill with blown up balloons. Write on each piece of cardboard "JELLY BEANS 2 CENTS EACH". Safety pins signs to front and back of bag. LOOSELY tie around shoulders with a colorful ribbon. Cut off excess bag around face From: Dee
OR
If your prefer to be a little high class Jelly Bean… Natalie suggested…put an enlagred Jelly Belly sign on the front of the bag.

Black Eye Pea
When I was younger, a teacher from my elementary school dressed up as a "black eyed pea" and it was so cute, my mother dressed me up the same way the next year. It is simple and cheap. Wearing all white, with black tennis shoes, I cut out the letter ‘P’ from black construction paper and pinned the P’s all over the white outfit. I painted a black spot over one eye ("black eye" … get it? hee hee) and I was a "black-eyed ‘P’ " From: Angela

Black Bat
Using a black umbrella and tights, Rip the umbrella in half. Discard the center and innards of the umbrella. If you are fancy you can sew the edges of the umbrella to the back of the body. If you don’t have the time or patients to sew the umbrella you can always safety pin it. From: Sydhen

Butterfly
Put on black sweats and black shoes. Use a piece of poster board and paint wanted color cut them out in an appropriate wing shape. punch two holes toward the edges of the wings. put black ribbon through them and tie around waist. attach pipe cleaners and pompoms to a plastic head band. From: Bekjg

Blooming Idiot!
Get a green body suit and some green tights and on your head wear a beanie hat. Glue fake flowers to the beanie hat and maybe pin a few on your body suit. Also it’s fun if you paint some flowers on your face and arms. I found some cheap, fake Ivy and wrapped it around my neck and arms and presto! Your a
blooming idiot! From: Kym Tucker

Spider to Bat
You need an oversized black sweatshirt, black sweat pants, black open faced ski mask, two HUGE googly eyes, black yarn or fishing line, pipe insulation (for legs!), three pairs of gloves (very small) and black opaque tights.
Attached the ski mask to the neck of the sweatshirt. Hot glue googly eyes over the opening in the ski mask, The foam pipe insulation is placed into tights. So that the "leg" could bend, I cut the length of pipe insulation in half. Attach all legs together for coordinated movement with black yarn or (fishing line), Attach toddlers gloves on the ends of the "legs" and have your child wear one pair. For safety, I bought some reflective tape and created a "design" on the back and front so that he could be seen. Obviously, wear black sweat pants and dark shoes. Two years later, we took the legs off, added a huge set of black felt wings hot glued from wrist to neckline to wrist and used craft foam to make big black bat ears!! From: Amy

Darcy Prairiedog (Little Dogs on the Prairie)
Items needed: Light and dark pink felt , an old hooded pink sweatcoat, pink gloves, pink slacks, pink slippers.
Cut out light pink felt into what looks like prairiedog ears. Place the dark pink felt inside in in the same shape except smaller. Glue onto the sides of the hood on the sweatcoat. With the remaining felt,cut out a piece of "headfur". From the light pink felt. Put on and paint your face pink with a black nose. From: Patricia

Ragdoll
One year for my girls I had them dress up as ragdolls and I didnt have to spend a penny!
I took an old sleeper and cut out the feet then I sewed patches in various places over the sleeper. I also sewed wide cuffs at wrist and ankles. (because the sleepers were to small). It looked so cute. For the head I used an old stocking cap and sewed strips of fabric from old clothes to the stocking cap. Then gave them red cheeks and freckles. It was a great costume and completely free. From: Evelyn

the rest is in the second link and the first link helps you with makeup ideas

well, maybe if you are interested in tinkerbell.. you could use a dress that you already own and attach home made wings and style your hair in a creative way.

A cute thing I’ve seen is to wear a large garbage sack full of balloons. If the balloons are purple, you can be grapes, if they are lots of different colors you can be a jar of jelly beans.

Blue Jay: Dress up in all white and make a large blue J out of cardboard or other material and either sew or some how put it on to the clothing. Pretty cute instead of dressing up instead of a bird.

If you have access to an old wedding dress and tux, you can cut each one in half and sew them together right down the middle and dress up in that.

The grapes is another idea: blow up a bunch of purple or green ballons and put them onto a pair of sweats.

Sorry that’s all I can think of right now.