Making a Halloween Costume

If you decide to make a costume yourself, be sure to take into account your budget, sewing ability, artistic talent, and overall creativity level. There are a number of great costumes that are very inexpensive and easy to create:

Scarecrow - Start with old jeans or denim overalls and a flannel shirt. Using sticky tape, attach straw, raffia, or cut up old sacks to the inside of the cuffs and bottom hems of pants so the material sticks out. Add a straw hat and a bit of simple face paint, or face putty warts.
Bunch of Grapes - Buy a cheap track suit in either green or purple and a bunch of balloons in the same colour. Blow up the balloons and attach then to the fabric using small safety pins. This is a great costume for trick or treating, but it doesn't allow the wearer to sit down, so keep that in mind. Also, men will always want to pop your balloons – it’s a boy thing.
Dalmatian - Begin with a white hooded track suit or a white track suit and a cheap white beanie hat. Cut black felt into different sized spots and iron them onto the sweats using fusible backing material (available at fabric and craft stores) or stitch them on with black thread. Paint your face with white topped with a black nose, a few whiskers, and a few black spots. Make black or white fabric ears to sew onto the hood or hat.
Skeleton - Again, begin with a black sweat suit. Fashion bones from strips of white felt and iron on or stick on. Buy a skeleton mask to wear.

Making a Halloween Costume

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