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Halloween is coming. Got your costume yet?
Halloween is On! Its! Way! and I have no idea what Niko will dress up as. His current suggestions include:
- Shaun The Sheep
- Bitzer the Dog, from Shaun The Sheep
- A cat
- The Brown Line – no, the Red Line. No! The purple line!
- A crossing gate
- A steam engine!
- A dinosaur
- A conductor
- A dump truck
- a ghost
- A snail with a big shell
- A penguin
Oh, these ideas? They are all from one day.
Other things he wants to dress up as include various imaginary friends of his, and a character from a short story (by Betsy Byars) he read that is a tiny cat (Finley Nox) who dressed up as a watermelon but really it was a cucumber because watermelons don’t come that small. So he wants to dress up as a cat dressed up as a watermelon but really it’s a cucumber. OF COURSE. That will be a SNAP to do!
I was actually pretty jazzed about the sheep idea because I can make a sheep costume. Just sew a bunch of cotton balls to a white shirt! So we went to Target where… they did not have white t-shirts in the appropriate size. A size smaller? A size larger? Oh hell yeah! Overflowing! The size that would fit over his black sweater? All gone. Well then. We perused the costume aisle and he flirted with the idea of being a butterfly, a fairy princess, a pink sparkly cat with wings, a ninja, or just plain buying a be-ribboned sparkly star-topped wand so he’d have a new “hitting stick” (that is my hitting stick! I use it to hit things! I mean no, that is my waving stick. I use it to wave good bye to people.”). I lingered over a $30 dinosaur costume but can’t really justify spending $30 on a costume. Then I saw a papier-mâché cat mask for like $2 or some cheap price and asked him if he wanted to be a cat. He said yes. I’m going to pick up some (more, we’re running out) tempera paint and he can paint the mask himself and we’ll get a sweat suit or track suit or something in similar colors and a feather boa for his tail and TADA, cat.
And maybe I’ll get a big oblong balloon and make a papier-mâché cucumber and he can be Finley Nox after all. Or we’ll toss a sheet over him and he can be a ghost cat.
What are you/your kids going as?
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Anyway, I am kind of magic with felt and some Walmart/Target clothes of the appropriate color. I was a *bird* a few weeks ago. I had Awesome felt wings and a hat that made the beak/face.
If there's something I can do to help, holler. :)
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Which lead his dad to want to go as a Jedi. We're almost done with the robe.
I was going to go as a fairy-I have the poofy sparkly dress and the wings and a silly pink plastic tiara. But given the other two, I'm cobbling together a Han Solo, as I haven't time to make anything else. :P
For daycare L may go as a dinosaur. He got a dinosaur cape for this birthday for dress-up and we have green PJ's. It just may be easier for him to wear that all day (probably sans cape most of the time) than to wear the one piece kinda heavyweight with attached cape and hat Vader.
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Obviously you have to cut the sleeves off because watermelons don't have arms. Obviously.
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