Halloween Fun

For a look back at our Halloween costumes over the last few years, click HERE!

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This year my girls wanted to be...guess who...

Well, hopefully you guessed characters from Star Wars.  They love to watch the Clone Wars on Cartoon Network, so that was where we started! 

Kaylee chose Ahsoka Tano

Brianna choose Shaak Ti - I'd never even heard of her until we watched the first episode of Season 3 back in September and as soon as Brianna saw her she knew that's who she wanted to be.  As I started researching the character, I was surprised at how much I found on her.  I started the face make-up for Bree but she changed her mind, so we don't have the full effect.

Brailee at first wanted to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast and I was a little bummed that they weren't all going to coordinate this year but then as her sisters were picking their characters, she got into the Star Wars spirit as well and decided to be Padme.

Since Trysten is still too young to pick his own costume, I got to pick for him, and decided he would be cute as Yoda.

And here are some various pics from our Halloween Fun this year!

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Brianna helped me color in her headpiece for her costume - it took a LOT of permanent markers to get that whole thing colored ;-P  But that and the stuffing were the only things I had to buy for her costume, the rest I had just around the house.  Her robe was made from some old curtains that were left with the house when we bought it.  The headpiece I drew out on some old white curtains that I had, sewed them together, stuffed, colored, and attached them to a headband.

Brailee thought she'd try the Haunted House at the Trunk-or-Treat activity at the church - she freaked out the moment they shut the door ;-)  It took her a while to recover after that!  Look at that face - tears, pouty lips - poor thing!

That Yoda can move fast!  It was hard for me to get a picture of that kid this Halloween ;-P  For his robe, I used an old sling hamper that I had saved for some reason - the frame to it broke years ago but the fabric hamper was still good, and it was the perfect color and perfec size for Trysten's robe, with a few adjustments.  Sometimes I'm glad I'm a hoarder ;-)

I was in charge of Mommy Preschool last week, so the kids came in their costumes and I even got a little dressed up - just grabbed some cat ears from the dress-up box, put on a little eyeliner for whiskers, and I was good to go!  Brailee took this picture...

We were making sugar cookies and were going to make skeletons using gingerbread men cookie cutters.  One of the heads fell off one of the gingerbread men, so Kaylee turned him into the Headless Horseman - which is also what she carved on her pumpkin!

Trick or Treat!

We made a new favorite treat this year - Monster Eyes!  Just a package of Oreos, a package of cream cheese, some Almond Bark, M&M's and red gel and we made lots of these - yum, yum!

Making the costumes this year I realize what few options I have here in my new little town.  I used to be able to run to WalMart and find just about anything I needed to make costumes.  Well, this year I ran to one of our only shopping options, Pamida, to find some white pants for Brailee's costume since I didn't have any white fabric and no fabric stores here either.  Well, I found nothing that would work for Brailee until I browsed the women's clearance section and found a large pair of white pants for $4 - I was able to cut them down like this and they actually turned out perfect, the easiest pair of pants I've ever had to sew, I was even able to use the original elastic waistband and pockets!  What was left of the pants, I used to make Kaylee's headpiece - not bad for $4!  For her shirt I just used an old white turtleneck and added fabric paint and silver cuffs (which were recycled from Kaylee's costume last year).

If I had bought costumes this year I could have easily spent over $100 and not even found one for Brianna, but by making them and using what I had around the house (felt, fleece, fabric paint,  I only spent $4 on pants, $5 on stuffing (which I still have a lot left of), and about $5 on permanent markers.  But next year I will NOT wait until the week before to make costumes - I will get started well in advance!

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Thanks for visiting!  I hope you had a safe and Happy Halloween!