I ♥ Faces – Halloween Dress-up Fun

It’s time for a bit of dress-up fun over at I ♥ Faces.  This photo is from a couple years ago when the kids asked me to make their costumes.  No sweat, I thought.  You can do a lot with a hooded sweatshirt and some felt.  I just basted everything on, and then when trick-or-treating was over, took off the ears and wings and tails.  They had fun, and I didn’t feel like I had wasted money on a costume they wouldn’t wear again.  (Ethan’s spider costume was a bit more involved, and he didn’t want me to take it apart to just have the shirt.  He still dresses up sometimes, so that was ok.  In fact, that’s what he wanted to wear last Halloween, too.)

It’s a good thing my kids aren’t too picky about their costumes, because they definitely are not as fancy as store-bought costumes.  This year Halloween snuck up on me and I wasn’t sure how to quickly create Boba Fett and Jango Fett out of hoodies.  It just about killed me to spend money on the costumes, but they are so excited to dress up this weekend.  I’m looking forward to seeing all the neighborhood kids dressed up.