hsmom3tn Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 He wants to go as something scary, but I won't let him. I'm a MEAN mommy!!! I have had to go through the same thing every year with my son. We would finally settle on something at the last possible minute when there's hardly anything left. :glare: This year he's decided that he's too old for Halloween. I'm not sure which is worse. :( My girls picked out generic witch and cheerleader costumes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom to 3 boys & 1 girl Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 My boys all want to dress up as knights. I was already planning on making Katie a princess. The boys are very excited that they will have someone to protect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevergrace Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 My dd is going to be a Monarch Butterfly. My dh and I have a Halloween party to go, and he's gonna be a pirate and I'm his pirate wench! Forevergrace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5wolfcubs Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 My children are elves from Lord of the Rings, all 5 of them. We don't even "do" halloween but they have the opportunity to go to Cub Scout & Karate costume parties...so elves it is. I bought them all real (latex?) elf ears this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyrooch Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Our costumes are working hard too. We are going to go to a friends and have dinner and play games so the kids can dress up - but not trick or treat. DD is a Renaissance girl or Juliet as she likes to say, and DS as a Knight. The week before Halloween we are going to the Renaissance Festival close by, and a couple of weeks after our library is doing a Fable Fest celebrating medieval lit, so our costumes will do triple duty!! Yep, I love it when I can get a bigger bang for my buck. ;) I was going to have to come up with something for the geography fair anyway so my dd's costume is at least going to do double duty. Don't you love when things work out like that? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojomojo Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 My kids are going to be dogs. They love dogs, so I'm going to put felt spots on sweats and make them ears and tails. I'm planning to put the spots on with safety pins, so the sweats will be reusable this winter. What about sticky-backed felt? That's what I planned on using for DD2's cow costume, but I couldn't find white sweats anywhere. We almost had Princess Peach and Mario & Luigi, but my oldest daughter decided to be Juliet instead. DS is going to be Luigi. And dd2 wants to be a "stunk" :lol: A stinky "stunk" (skunk, in case that wasn't obvious lol). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikeBookBread Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Oldest DD is going as the ghost costume Charlie Brown wore in The Great Pumpkin cartoon (with all of the eye holes cut out everywhere) THAT IS AWESOME! How fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Naruto is an anime series about ninjas in training. Ds has made his own costume. Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 dd ninja ds Aragorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 We go to our church's harvest festival. My kids wanted to go as Harry Potter and Hermione Granger but with the controversy surrounding those books, I decided to ask the church first. While they didn't say no, they are recommending against it. So, they both want to go as cats from the Warriors books. My daughter wants to go as a tan/sand colored cat and my son wants to go as an orange tabby/tom cat. Now, how am I going to pull those off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fivetails Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 At the moment, it looks like dd12 is being a Hawaiian Prom Queen and ds10 is being a Hawaiian Owl.... This is what happens when you get costumes and *then* discover that the church harvest party has a *theme*. You get prom queens and owls wearing leis. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Right now, I have King Arthur and the Black Knight from The Holy Grail 9yes, my family is entirely inappropriate in our entertainment and I giggle hysterically when I hear one of the 5 y.o.s saying "Your arm is off!" to the other) and some sort of affair that involves a cloak which, as yet, only exists in the 8 y.o.'s mind. (Except it has just been announced that the 5 y.o.s want to go as "Charlie", our UPS guy, again. :001_huh:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 (edited) 8yo boy-zombie, 12 yo boy and his friend-the blues brothers. Me-70's house wife with elegant evening gown, pearls and vacuum (remember those ads?). Dh and 16 yo-we'll know on the 31st. Nephew-wicked queen from Sleeping Beauty. Edited October 18, 2009 by Catherine Add more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Speaking of double duty-now I remember how we planned to reuse the "Mount Rushmore" costume ds made to wear in our July 4th parade. So maybe no zombie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Jedi. We made robes with hoods. I hate sewing, but convinced a friend to teach me how to make these robes. They started out as monk robes (as recommended in SOTW volume 2) but now they're Jedi robes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest janainaz Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 My ds4 is going as Jack Sparrow and my ds9 is going to be a Clone from Clone Wars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 A repeat of last year for the twins (18 now) - Beetlejuice and the Joker. DD 15 is a black fairy thing and dd 13 is Goth Girl. I'd add photos but have never figured out how to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 Andrew will be Ben 10 and Luke will be a Clone Trooper thing (Star Wars, the guys in white plastic, lol). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 This year we have: a hippie a witch Snake Eyes (from GI Joe) a ghost a ghostbuster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunnyFarmMom Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 We tend to get a little over-involved in our history studies. Last year the boys were Civil War soldiers (1 blue/1 gray) and the girls were pioneer girls. This year oldest is too old and cool to really plan something out but will probably get sucked into the excitement. That means he will have to pull something from the archives so probably along the gladiator/Roman soldier lines. Ds2 takes his dressing up seriously and is making his own Richard the Lionheart costume complete with (fake) chainmail. Oldest dd will be one of his knights (sigh, where did my little princess go?) Little one fell in love with a doll at Jamestown settlement and wants to dress just like her. That should be fun to explain at every house. :tongue_smilie: I told her just to tell everyone she is a pilgrim - if they're not homeschoolers they probably won't know the difference anyway. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacy in NJ Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SapphireStitch Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 My son keeps saying he wants to go as a hunter, which is fine with me. But his idea of dressing up as a hunter seems to include wearing orange from head to toe and carrying a toy pistol. Can you tell his daddy doesn't hunt? :lol: I'm thinking he might end up going as a dog because this is probably the last year he'll be young enough to agree to do that. His sister went as a cat several years in a row...I like costumes that involve not much more than sweats and purchased ears. :) Last year, my daughter took charge of costumes and they went out together as Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. I tried to insert the photo here from her blog, but it's not working...so this is the link instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraGB Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Oh, thank you for posting this thread! I just let the dc go through it so I could try to talk ds out of going as something gruesome (which I won't allow and he has been arguing for). He has now been insprired to go as Weird Al (Amish Paradise version of W.A.). Dd and her friends had long ago decided to go as 'Twilight Obsessed Fans', which, I agree w/dd, are kind of scary. She and her friend have taken fabric markers to baseball hats, t-shirts, bags and old shoes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 I have one Dr. Horrible and one Ninja. Oh, I wanna be Dr. Horrible! What a great costume! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlockOfSillies Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Wow! My son won't be the only one going as a Bakugan warrior/competitor/whatever. I'll have to tell him. DD10 bought an Ariel costume from a friend with $7 of her own money and is now trying to figure out how to stay warm on Halloween. DD6 wants to be Tinkerbell or a fairy princess. Still need to get her costume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cindie2dds Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 (edited) My youngest is going to be a Fairy ~ with wings was her only criteria.... My oldest wants to be SilverMist Fairy.... HELP! I can do Tinkerbell, but SilverMist (she's the water fairy who can throw dew drops at a spider web without the dew drop bursting or the spider web breaking ~ my daughter thinks she's way cool.) We are going to be in Houston that weekend, anyone know of anything going on there? ETA: Found SilverMist on google, but I don't like any of the costumes.... need to dust off my sewing machine. Edited October 21, 2009 by Cindie2dds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat19 Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 My older kids will be helping out at the church fall harvest. The little kids play games and get candy. The one year old is going as a monkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamturner Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 one boy will be a nerd, the other boy will be Captain Rex from Clone Wars (I have to sew something...:confused:) The girls are butterfly fairies (can you tell we recently watched Barbie's Mariposa?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 I think we finally decided on Alice in Wonderland this year. We have Alice, the white rabbit, the mad hatter, a cheshire cat and of course I will be the Queen of Hearts. That leaves my hubby to pick another character, probably the King. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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