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costumes

SCARECROW

Wear worn-in jeans - patch the holes with an old bandana, flannel shirt or overalls with patches, a worn-in hat and gardening gloves. Stick some straw in various places to add to the effect. Use makeup to paint your face yellow and add short lines around your eyes to look like a sewn on patch. Use green make-up to paint an upside down triangle on your nose again adding short lines around it to look like a sewn on patch. Use red for the mouth and (with short lines again). Perhaps adding a small patch of color to your cheek for a repair.

MUMMY

Tear some sheets up and wrap them around your body (but never around the neck). Paint your face white instead of wrapping sheet strips for safety. Paint black rings around your eyes for empty eye sockets. Use a white swimming cap or stocking cap over your hair and attach sheet strips to it. If you have some sheet strips dangling from your body, make sure it isn't long enough to trip you.

NERD

High-water pants, white button-down shirt, bow tie, white socks, black dress shoes, a pocket protector, and dark frame glasses with masking tape around the nose piece are all you need for this classic costume. For chilly nights add a cardigan sweater with ratty sleeves.

VAMPIRE

Black pants, white button-down shirt, black shoes, cape (dye a sheet black), plastic teeth, and slick hair back with some gel. Use white make-up for the face and highlight with red blush on the cheeks and red lipstick on the lips. Red lipstick applied carefully with a lip brush down the side of your mouth can look like blood dripping down.

CAT/DOG/PIG

Cat: Black leggings or pants, black shirt, cover stretched-out wire hanger with a black sock or stuff a black sock with material for the tail, black headband with ears made of cardboard and painted black, black mittens or gloves for paws, and black socks and shoes. This idea can be used for any animal by switching colors and the type of ears and tail.

Dog: Add spots with construction paper and tape or washable glue use a barrette to attach long felt ears to the sides of your head.

Pig: Pink or white sweat suit with a pipe cleaner tail.

OLD WOMAN

Past-the-knee dress, wig, handbag, umbrella, nude colored knee-highs that don't stay up and old shoes. Use gray eyeliner to draw light lines from your eyes (crows feet) around your mouth (looks like no teeth). Add vertical lines around the cheek bones for additional wrinkles. Experiment until you reach the desired look. Blend this all lightly so the lines are just shadows in add a layer of white powder, two pink spots of blush and pink lip stick. For a chilly night, add a cardigan sweater buttoned at the top or a long fuzzy overcoat and flowered hat.

GENIE

Bikini top and bottom, a pair of flimsy pajama bottoms with a hem that you can put a string through to tighten around ankles, matching midriff vest, and to make a hat cut a hole in the middle of a small plastic container for ponytail, cover with fabric and fasten a scarf to each side of the hat so that it hangs loosely in front of your mouth.

This is a great costume for an indoor party, but very cold for trick-or-treating door to door.

PRINCESS

Fancy dress, jewelry, poster board rolled into cone shape covered with a scarf, and a matching scarf to hang from hat. Use watered down school glue to paint lines down the scarf. Add silver or gold glitter for sparkle. (School glue washes out...but be sure to wash this on it's own as the glitter will cling to other clothes.)

HIPPIE

Peasant dress or flowing light material skirt or bell-bottom pants, tie dye shirt or flimsy top, love beads, long hair parted down the middle (may need a wig), peace button and pink-tinted glasses. Using makeup paint peace signs on your face.

PAPER BAG GRASS SKIRT

Materials o Roll of brown wrapping paper o Glue o Self-adhesive Velcro fastener o Stapler o Scissors
Step 1:
Cut off two sheets of paper that measure six inches longer than your child's waist size, and lay one sheet on top of the other. Staple them together along the short side (to form the waist) about 1/2 inch from the edge.
Step 2:
For a waistband, use a four-inch-wide paper strip with the same circumference as the skirt waist. Glue the lower half of the waistband to the stapled edge of the skirt front.
Fold over the waistband top, and glue it to the inside of the skirt. For a decorative waistband, twist together two long paper strips and glue them on.
Step 3:
Use scissors to fringe the skirt from the hemline to just below the waistband.
Step 4:
Finally, stick one part of the Velcro fastener to the front of one waistband end and the matching part to the back of the band's opposite end. Wrap the skirt around your child's waist, and fasten.

WITCH

Black dress or skirt and top, black tights, cape (dye a sheet black), witch's hat, and of course a broom. Use the tips that I provided for the "Old Woman" only make the face green and use a black eye pencil to make darker lines. I piece of oatmeal colored black stuck to the make-up paint on your nose, chin and/or cheek makes a good wart. Pin a stuffed black cat to your shoulder or tie it to your broom and you are ready to fly.

Teeny Bopper

Untucked, solid-color button-down short-sleeved shirt, jeans rolled up to mid-calf, or a poodle skirt, white socks and penny loafers or saddle shoes. Girls wear ponytail and guys slick-back ducktail with gel.

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