Ideas for a Halloween Cosume needed

Ninja? Pirate (though I read that's this year's most popular, at least in the US) Evil Robot? Dr. Evil with Mini me? Orc? (Lord of the Rings) Gollum, for that matter... Hell's Angel? (motorcycle man with moustache and "tatoos") Creature from the black lagoon?

Hope some of these ideas spark more!

-Charlotte

claire.owen wrote:

A road.

Black jeans, black sweatshirt. Add a meandering dotted line of yellow tape running from one shoulder down to the opposite leg. Pin a flattened beany baby anyplace near the yellow line (roadkill).

Kathleen

Kathleen wrote: || A road. || || Black jeans, black sweatshirt. Add a meandering dotted line of || yellow tape running from one shoulder down to the opposite leg. Pin || a flattened beany baby anyplace near the yellow line (roadkill). || || Kathleen

I like it, I will run it past him when he gets home if you will pardon the pun!! Claire

Charlotte Henson wrote: || Ninja? || Pirate (though I read that's this year's most popular, at least in || the US) Evil Robot? || Dr. Evil with Mini me? || Orc? (Lord of the Rings) Gollum, for that matter... || Hell's Angel? (motorcycle man with moustache and "tatoos") || Creature from the black lagoon? || || Hope some of these ideas spark more! || -Charlotte

I like the creature from the black lagoon He's due home at 6pm so will force him to rethink the space monster. Although road kill as suggested by kathleen has a certain apeal to me also, BUT I'm not a fussy 12 year old! Claire || claire.owen wrote: ||| My 12 year old son wants a costume for the Halloween party on the ||| 25th but doesn't want "any thing that anyone else has or anything ||| babyish!" I am quoting here. ||| So I am begging all you clever people out there ideas please, he ||| has said no to; a vamire, witch/warlock, ghost, Harry Potter( last ||| years costume), mummy, devil and headless man(costume 2 years ago). ||| ||| His brother aged 9 is quite happy to go as death, but 12 years old ||| is quite a difficult age it seems, he hasn't rejected the idea of ||| a space monster yet, but please keep in mind the rules for the ||| party competion say it must be a halloween costume so hence the ||| horror/ monster dilema ||| ||| Help would be much apreciated ||| ||| Claire with the dried out brain

My mother did that costume in college. She described in detail all the various fins she created for herself out of crepe paper. Lots of glitter for her too, though I imagine a 12 year old boy would prefer slime. The most appealing part of the costume to my childish self was getting to wear black diving fins on my feet!

Road kill is pretty funny though.

-Charlotte

Love it - may suggest it for my 9yo grandson. Sharon

Sharon & Jack scrawled in bright red lipstick:

lots of good ideas, very funny and easy, grownups and kids...

Where else could you get an idea for a Lorena/John Bobbitt costume ( for adults)

Penny S

I have a "meanie baby" that is supposed to look like roadkill. Name is "Flat Kat" and it has a tire track down its formery furry little back.

--Karen M. nope, not selling it!

When my older son was about 10, he and his best friend dressed in 3-piece suits (handed down from a boy who attended many events that required dressing up), and got brief cases, and said they were the scariest thing they could think of -- IRS agents.

during the anthrax scare here (in the US) the then 10 year old went as a paranoid US postal worker. Blue jumpsuit w/ USPS patches on it, goggles, dust mask and gloves. He thought it was pretty funny, even though no one really got it. Some people found it in questionable taste, but the kid defended it by reminding us that halloween costumes are supposed to be scary...

liz young in cool, breezy california

Doctor? my 3yo is getting s set of scrubs, even though we don't "celebrate" Halloween. It is more because he is trying really hard to adjust to the new house rules with Rebekah home, and the fact that he wants "pajamas" like I wore in the hospital.

Larisa

claire.owen wrote:

Zorro? Musketeer? not really scarry, but doubtful anyone else will be those...(except maybe my son who has a cape and really wants a sword....)

btw, besides the above and a wizard/magician.... what *could* a young boy be with a black cape?

Kellie gonna have 2 "flappers" dancin "the Charleston" and a 6yo something or other!

One of my son's favorite costumes was the one we made together two years ago. Dead simple: A black sweatsuit, with large eyes all over it (cartoony eyes, in pairs, like you see in cartoons when there are critters peering out of the bushes). The eyes were made of white felt which I spray-painted with glow in the dark paint, then used a thick black marker to paint pupils. These eyes were then hot-glued all over the sweatsuit.

We both had different names for the costume: I called it "All eyes are on me". He called it "The See-er"

--Welmoed

I had the same problem with my daughter at that age, but for a different reason. She has long red hair and everyone always knew it was her, no matter what she wore. That year we went to a thrift store and purchased some white cotton sheets, ripped them lengthwise into 5 inch strips and "dusted" them here and there with grey spray paint. We wrapped her up and stiched the ends in place (she wore a grey sweat suit underneath). She was completely covered, except for her eyes. For this we put black makeup around the eyes and left them peeking out of the cloth strips.

The result was a pretty awsome mummy! And ever her teacher didn't know who she was.

My son will be twelve in december but I faced the same undecisiveness for his costume. Finally we decided on a Cowboy.

Some other ideas (not really scary, though they might be able to be adapted to be) Austin Powers Pirate Hippy Western Lawman (not sure why I like that idea lol) Matrix (NEO)

my 13 year old son is wearing a monks robe, and he is putting potatoe chip bags all over it. He will be a chipmonk.

Sandy

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! You needed a spew warning on this one!!

Larisa

Corasande wrote:

Sandy, this is very clever.

Still cracking up, Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

This is a great pun but it doesn't work in England. He'd be a crisp monk!

:) Trish