30 Quick and Easy Kids Costumes

Executive Summary on Toddler Costumes By Patricia B. Jensen

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Kids costumes don’t have to complicated to be cute!

Pirate - Black sweats, white shirt, red sash and bandanna, cardboard sword covered in foil, parrot beanie baby, stubbly face made with burnt cork or tobacco sprinkled on vaseline covered cheeks.

Kid Hit by Lightning - Gray sweats with large yellow felt zigzag pinned to the back, blackened zigzag tears in here and there on suit, hair gelled to stand straight up, burns on cheeks.

Wrapped Present - Cover a large box with colorful wrapping paper. Make a hole in the bottom and invert over child’s head. Add lots of matching ribbons in child’s hair.

Placard Costumes - Child wears a hooded sweatshirt and pulls front and back cardboard panels (the placard) on over it. This type of costume can be adapted to many different themes, such as:

Ladybug; M & M (two kids of different heights can be “plain” and “peanut”!); Soccerball, Basketball, or Baseball; Apple or Pumpkin; Deck of Cards; Favorite Book; Sunflower.

Bag of Trash - Make two leg holes is a large sized trash bag. Have child step into the bag, then add balls of crumpled newspaper to hold a round shape. Make two armholes in each side and secure around the neck.

Little Old Lady - An old house dress with torn stockings and slippers. Curlers in the hair or white wig. Glasses, blacked out tooth, old fashioned pocketbook.

Tourist - Hawaiian shirt or other loud clothes, camera, hat with pins all over it, maps sticking out of pockets, sunglasses.

Cow, Pig, Kitty, Doggy - Hooded sweat suit in the appropriate color ( white cow, pink pig, brown dog).

Backwards Costume - Put clothes and hat on backwards, sunglasses on back of head, say “Treat or Trick!”

Mummy - Tear a white sheet into strips. Paint face white and spray hair with white paint. Smear black under the eyes. Wrap child dressed in white long underwear with sheet strips, securing with clear medical tape, leaving eyes and mouth open.

Angel - White sweat suit with wings of tulle stretched over shaped coat hangers.

Clown - Sweat suit with colorful felt or fabric paint polka dots.. Colorful clown wig, nose, and oversized glasses. Facepaint simple blue crosses over eyes, red cheeks, and large red mouth.

Nerd - Too small pants, shirt buttoned up wrong, pocket protector, hair slicked back, old pair of glasses with tape, white socks, large textbook to carry under the arm.

See other techniques and tips on Baby Bed and Toddler Kids.

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