I needed Halloween themed cupcakes quickly.
With no decorations in sight, I found a few marshmallows and some leftover black gel icing.
The marshamllows were cut into four slices. Sliced from the top down the slices start out round but pull together since they’re sticky and form these little ghostly shapes.
Enjoy!
So they put me in yellow sweatshirt with a big ‘S’ on the front and tied a shiny pink cape around my neck (it was very pretty, and flowing, I liked the cape) and they started calling me Super Baby. Now granted, I am pretty super, but I was wondering what was with the get-up.
Turns out it was Halloween and the ‘S’ was a take on some guy called Superman. OK, like I said, the cape was cool, in fact, I need to know where mommy stashed that thing so I can wear it tomorrow, but I guess I understand the super baby reference since I am fighting unhappiness and bringing adorableness wherever I go.
And brother and sister’s costumes were ok too. I liked brother’s hat, and Makenna had really sparkly wings, and sparkly is always good.
But enough about costumes. How great is trick or treating? You just go up to houses and hold out a basket and people put candy in it and tell you how cute you are. Well, I don’t think they tell everyone how cute they are. In fact I didn’t hear anyone tell my brother or sister or cousins they were cute…only me.
I just need to know how often is this trick or treat thing? I could get pretty used to it.
Oh boy, it’s almost Halloween and you know what that means….time for the yearly ‘what can I be for Halloween?’ dilemma. For all the angst we go through deciding on, and making a costume each year I ought to make them wear their costumes every day for a week instead of just one night for an hour or two. And just to get a bunch of candy that we mostly give away since they don’t ever get more than one piece a day….and usually not even that much. Sugar is not their friend….and therefore not mine.
So, needless to say we don’t believe in spending a lot of money on costumes, and we try to use stuff that we can use afterwards like sweatpants and sweatshirts. In fact three out of the last four years their costumes were a base of sweats with embellishments.
Our inexpensive but adorable puppies. The costumes are inexpensive...not the kids.
Four years ago they were puppies. We bought sweatpants and sweatshirts then cut white spots out of an old sheet and used an iron-on adhesive paper to put them on the shirts and pants. Then we cut out felt ears and pinned them on knit hats (it is usually chilly here in Pennsylvania for trick or treat). We painted noses and whiskers on them and tied a bone with some yarn and strung it around their necks. Everyone lovec them and they got to wear the clothes (minus the spots) the rest of the winter.
The next year we all needed to dress up as the same thing since we were in a parade together. We chose painters, and the kids had a blast painting their inexpensive white button down shirts. They simply wore jeans for pants, had a paintbrush in their pocket, and used empty, cleaned out paint cans for their treat bags. The dogs even got into the act. Tasha wore a shirt, and Nipper, since she was already white with spots just had a few colored spots added with food coloring. The white painted shirts were big enough that they used them as smocks for our messy craft projects for the next two years
Painters costumes for all including the not so happy dogs. Tasha refused to be on the picture citing doggie humiliation.
The kids haven’t even chosen what they’d like to be yet this year, but Makenna is leaning toward a butterfly again, since that was her birthday theme. They were butterflies two years ago and it was a popular costume because they loved painting the wings.
Black Sweatpants and sweatshirts teamed with poster board made for pretty and uh, handsome butterfly costumes
We used black sweatpants and a black hooded, zipper sweatshirt. Poster board in the color of their choice was used for the wings which they decorated with paint and glitter. Then we cut two vertical holes about 1 inche wide by 4 inches long in the center of the wings (about 4 inches apart) and strung through two 2 inch wide pieces of black fabric that we cut from an old shirt. We wrapped the one set of ties over their shoulders and the other around their chests and then knotted them together in front. This kept the wings on securely and the tie wasn’t noticeable since they were all black. We found feelers for their heads at the dollar store, and their costumes were complete. Again they had the clothes to wear all winter.
Maybe you have been inspired by one of our thrifty costumes, or if you have any great inexpensive costume ideas you have done in the past please let us know….we are still pretty undecided on this year yet.
Now I’m not a prude or anything, but I’m not sure that the Halloween groom and headless bride should be up at the front of the store right next to the only check out line that is open.
I might point out they were a good deal on sale, and very real looking, so if I didn’t have 7 year olds that may have had nightmares for weeks had they been along, I may have liked them.
However, since there was only one register open, I found my cart, with my 16 month old in it parked directly next to a life size, very real looking bride figurine that was holding its head in it’s hands. Alex just kinda stared at it, no doubt wondering why this woman had her head in the wrong place. Luckily they weren’t talking or moving at the time, or I may have been freaked out.
So I’m just saying, I really like Michaels Crafts stores, and shop there often, but could we please keep these things in their own separate aisle so I can avoid them with my little darlings. Thanks.