Halloween 2020
Little Red Riding Hood & Company
Costume Number one of THREE!
Little Red Riding Hood & Company
This costume was a simple DIY.
My daughter Avery stole the show as the poor old grandma who gets eaten by the big bad wolf. She was waving her DIY cane around at the “young’ns” lol. For her costume, I glued a large piece of white fluffy fabric onto an old winter hat and twirled the back into a bun. I also glued white cotton balls all over the front to mimic tight white curls. For her glasses we punched out the lenses of an old pair of sunglasses, threw on the polka dot bathrobe and VOILA! Little old grandma!
Avery lovingggg her role as the little ol’ grandma
DIY list: Wig, glasses, cane
These goddamn youths… :-)
Little Red Riding Hood
Miss Red already had a red cape and a red tutu, so she was set from the get go. No DIY’s needed here :-)
The BIG, BAD, Wolf
DIY List:
Furry gloves
Furry chest
Wolf hat
Wolf tail
My littlest one loved being the BIG and BAD wolf, as you can see! He got to work on his roarrrr. For his costume I DIY’d a few things.
His furry little chest. I bought a cheap remnant of furry fabric from the store and glued it onto an old white undershirt and threw on a flannel PJ shirt over it.
His furry paws. Those were gloves that I cut the fingers off and glued the matching fur onto the tops and palms. A hot glue gun really is the Halloween DIYer’s best friend.
His wolfie hat. That was a tan winter hat that already had dog hears on it! I hot glued (again) the matching fur on to the hat. Once the fur was on it you couldn’t see the existing dog ears because the fur was so fluffy. I added longer ears I cut out of brown cardstock so they would show up a little better.
As you can see they had a blast with this one!
Everyone really getting into character!
Halloweeeeeeen - Circus family costume
Big big BIG Halloween family over here. We always dress up in a family themed costume.. and usually multiple times. These are some of our family costumes from last year (2019).
First up: The family circus!
Our circus costume had: the strongesttt man in the worlddddd, the popcorn concession man, the Ringmaster with her ringof fire, the lion who jumps through the flames, the redhead clown, and the fortune teller!
My little clown did not want to keep her wig on, and the strongest man broke his weights… family photos are hard
already dipping into their snacks :-)
This costume was really fun to make! I DIY’d pretty much all of it, with the exception of the lion costume and the muscles on my strong man (I am NOT a sewer).
For the clown, I used my oldest daughter’s dress up clothes-> a red tutu dress from iloveplum, that she still wears, an old yellow tulle skirt and polka dot tights (that you can’t really see) but it gets coldddd around here on Halloween. #newenglandproblems. Speaking of cold- I had to make sure the clown would be warm enough to trick or treat all night, so I made sure she had multiple layers. I used an old white onesie that I painted bright colored polka dots with puffy paint and found a pair of hot pink gloves we had on hand.
For the Ringmaster: I bought a cheap red coat off amazon and added the long coattails with red fabric I found at Joann’s fabric. I added gold ribbon trim to the coat to give it some extra circus pizazz, threw on a apair of my black leggings (I have about 5 billion pairs) and topped it off with a cheapy hat I found at party city. My ring of fire was just orange and yellow felt peices hot glued to a hoola hoop.
The lion was a costume I found off amazon, but I did make her a little fluffy headband with ears out of an extra peice of faux fur fabric we had lying around.
Popcorn concession man: I used an old amazon box, wrapped in white paper and glued, paper pocorn boxes to the inside so they would stay up right while we trick or treated. The strap around his neck and waist is just a yellow ribbon I attched to the box. His red flat brim hat is also homemade from an old amazon box. Gotta do something with all those extra boxers we have lying around. I found a tutorial here: and spray painted it red to go with the theme. His outfit was navy blue dress pants and a striped button down that he already owned.
For the strongest man: I bought his muscle shirt off amazon. My daughter had a red and white striped tank top that I thought was the right look, but was very girly. I cut off the ruffles around the neck and made a deeeep circle neck, so his “muscles” could pop out. Red pants, and old newsboy hat were items already in his closet. His 250 pound dumb bells were another DIY. I got a dowel and 2 foam circles from a craft store, spray painted them black and glued them togerher. I wrote the weight on the balls with a white sharpie.
The fortune teller was a completely last minute addition, since my mom was in town during Halloween. It was made completely of items out of my closet, a flowy maxi skirt, a boho sweater, a scarf tied around her head and one around her wasit, tonssss of necklaces and a red bouncy ball from our yard.
The whole costume was one of my favorites!!!
NEXT UP:
Toy Story!!