Have you ever made or invented your own Halloween costume?  

Good morning Becca

I don't know of any places that give ideas, mine always come from my own imagination. I've seen those ones on Ebay and my daughter has bought several! Those ones with the changed name like Sinderalla
I have made my own! I once went as a bag lady, with a huge dress made up from plastic carrier bags and a hat to match. I made sure that each square was a different shop too to make it interesting.
I also made a witch costume which was pretty easy and laughed so hard when I was making up the curled-toe attachments for my shoes.
I hope your wee sis enjoys whatever you decide to make, it doesn't have to be a scary costume, although I do prefer it as it fits in with the event. My sis dressed up as Marge Simpson! lol she made that herself too.

Alice

I guess you could say that I have made my own costume before. I wanted to be a ghost so I cut up a sheet and made me two eyeballs in it LOL. It was kind of generic but it worked LOL.

Halloween isn't an occasion that's celebrated in my country, so I've never really had the opportunity to experience it before. When I was a child, some friends and I tried to trick or treat one year, but all we ended up getting was a bag of oranges! No one was expecting trick or treaters, so there was nothing to offer us. Oh well, at least I got to throw a few eggs at doors and things like that! I can't remember if I tried to dress up or not though? I don't think so.

I'm not big on the crafty sewing or creating from a scrap of fabric stuff, so I can't offer you any advice on where to find a design to make it yourself, sorry.

Last year I did make costumes instead of buy them as we were short on cash. My littlest used a hand me down batman outfit. For my daughter we bought her wings and a skirt, and I used some tops she already owned to create a fairy type outfit. My 3 year old son, I bought him a black tank top, red pants, sewed buttons on them, and borrowed a Disney hat from the neighbors and he was Mickey Mouse. My 6 year old was the costume we purchased, Speed Racer.

For my oldest, I shopped at the Salvation Army for most of his outfit, but of course got the Wig at Walmart. He went dressed as Hannah Montana. Now my daughter wants to be Hannah this year, I already have the wig, so just have to find an outfit that will fit her.

You can try looking at your Salvation Army or other thrift stores for like a prom dress type of thing that perhaps you can hem until it's short enough for her.

No, in my country we dont celebare halloween ( Well most of us actually, because there are few peole who did celebrate halloween ). And the funny part of it, in my country, thought they know a day such Halloween is exist, they dont know the date of when is halloween day happen.

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Good morning!!! How sweet of you to help your sister!!! I'm not a fan of Halloween & haven't created a costume since I was 12. However, I do have a suggestion. My Chiropractor had a daughter having a Sweet 16 theme party. She is very protective of her little girl & refuses to let her dress as provocatively as some of her friends. Her daughter wanted to be a princess & her budget was tight at the time & had limited sewing skills. So, she went to a consignment shop & found a evening dress that had a neckline she approved of. The sleeves were from the 60s being bell shaped. Her daughter threw a tantrum when she saw what Mom had bought. Well Mom bought some contrasting lace, bought some elastic, took out her sewing machine, & went to work.

She put some elastic in the sleeves at the upper arms & then in the appropriate places down the arms. She also added elastic at the wrist. She ruffled some of the lace & attached it to the areas she had added the elastic. She put some of the ruffled lace around the neck & bodice. She took a piece of heavy construction paper & made a pointed hat. gluing on some tabs so it could be secured with bobbie pins or however her daughter found necessary. She attached some of the lace from the point of the hat she had made. I don't know that I'm doing this justice in my description, but it was a beautiful dress. Even better, she said she only spent $20. Her daughter wore a pair of white walking shoes under the dress so her feet would be comfortable. I wish I had a picture I could show you, but I don't. Maybe it will awaken a new idea in your head. Since you can sew, the possibilities are endless. Good luck!!! You sister is lucky to have such a caring big sister!!!

My son had broke his arm, was wearing a weight cast and a sling and couldn't take the sling off. We went and bought him an old hat and took an old flannel shirt and buttoned it crooked, took a little face paint and made it look like his face was filthy dirty, then we took his halloween bag and tied it to the end of a stick to carry over his other shoulder. He went as a hobo and people loved it and thought the sling on his arm was part of the costume.
Another year for my other son, we took a box and wrapped it up in birthday wrapping paper and put a big bow on it, he went as a birthday present!
My daughter wanted to be sailor moon one year, earlier in the year for a girl scout dance I had made her a poodle skirt, I took off the poodle and shortened the skirt,finished making it into a sailor moon outfit.
My brother wrapped my nephew in tin foil one year and he went as.......a leftover!
With a little imagination and a few odds and ends around the house, you probably could make a costume out of a dress you could buy at a thrift store,goodwill or something and make it really cheap. I never really bought the kids a whole lot of costumes, seems that they use them one year and the next year they don't want it again.

when my daughter was younger, she was a cat and the costume was entirely made by me. she wore black pants and a black turtle neck. we bought her one of those plastic head bands, i made ears out of foam for her and a tail out of a leg of a black nylon (stuffed of course!)

Let's see I did a couple

Once I painted my face greenish, put gold in my hair and died a greenish sheet for a smock. On my butt I put a bumper sticker that said, "Just Visiting This Planet!"

And then one year I made a big M & M's bag out of a brown trashbag. I made the white letters out of construction paper and made some colored M & M's for the top of the bag. It got alot of compliments.

Yea.I know...not too creative...but it worked!

I have seven children with 8.5 years between the oldest and the youngest. One year, when they were little, I took them trick or treating at a local mall.
They insisted I wear a costume so I put a sign on my back that said, "All seven of these children are mine! How's that for scary?"

One year my girls wanted to be princesses, so I went to Goodwill and bought prom dresses and then took them up and had enough material letft over to make them little shaws and bows for their hair.

They were adorable!