Many families like to dress-up for Halloween as a unit. Family costumes that revolve around a particular theme are a fun, creative way to show your family spirit and unity. Here are some ideas for family Halloween costumes.

Star Wars Halloween Costumes

Star Wars Halloween costumes are popular year after year. To go beyond the usual Darth Vader and Obi Wan Kenobi costumes, consider dressing family members from a particular scene from your favorite Star Wars movie.

For example, the Dagoba training scene in The Empire Strikes Back has three characters, Luke, Yoda and R2D2. Three children could easily dress as these three characters. Alternatively, a father could dress as Luke Skywalker and carry his infant, dressed as Yoda, in a back carrier.

A newlywed couple could dress as Padme and Anakin from the wedding scene at the extinguish of Attack of the Clones. Or, a large family or group of friends could dress as the main characters from the original Star Wars movies. This could include Han Solo, Chewbaca, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia.

The Wizard of Oz Halloween Costumes

Families have been dressing as Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man for years, but The Wizard of Oz has many other options for family Halloween costumes. A mother could dress as the Wicked Witch of the West and her young children could be her flying monkeys. A couple could dress as The Wizard and Glinda the Good Witch. Two sisters could be the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the First-rate Witch.

Popular Cartoons Inspire Halloween Costumes

Many families have done The Flintstones theme for Halloween costumes. But, there are many other family oriented cartoon characters to choose from. The Jetsons are often under-represented in Halloween costume attire. George, Janie, Judy and Elroy costumes would make a cute ensemble for a family of four.

For a more new twist, consider the characters from Pokemon. Ashe, Misty and Brock are interesting costumes for three young Pokemon fans. Alternatively, a couple could dress as the bumbling villains of the Pokemon world, Jessie and James.

Classic Television Shows Inspire Halloween Costumes

Many of the old favorite television shows are filled with complete ideas for family-ensemble Halloween costumes. The Ingalls family from Little House on the Prairie would be perfect for a family with three daughters. Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura and Carrie could all dress in prairie inspired clothing.

Likewise, Happy Days is filled with costume ideas. A family could dress as the Cunningham family, which consists of the mother, the father, Richie and Joanie. The mysterious older brother named Chuck could be added for extra fun. A group of four boys could dress as the Fonz, Richie, Potsie and Ralph Malph. This would be particularly cute if there are red heads to play the parts of Richie and Ralph in the group.

Family Halloween costume ideas can come from any number of movies, television programs or books. Gaze to the current movies like Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz for easily recognizable ideas. Likewise, cartoons and classic television shows can provide a wealth of family Halloween costume inspiration.

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Tired of scouring the stores for the perfect costume? Don’t want to spend big money on a costume that only gets passe once? Got a trick-or-treater who wants to be someone or something you can find a costume for? Or are you just feeling creative this year and want to try your hand at making a costume? Here is a guide to making your own costume, inexpensively on your sewing machine. This costume is made to size and can handle endless adaptations depending upon your color and pattern choice. This costume is a breeze, fun to make and can be very warm.

Choose a color or pattern which suits the character or inspect of the costume. For example, brilliant green fabric can become a dinosaur, frog, snake, turtle, caterpillar, elf, flower stem (with head peeking out of flower made from another color) costume, etc. Red material can become a ladybug, a heart, a strawberry, M & M, etc. Brown can be made into all sorts of animals: dog, hamster, horse, cow, bear, wolf. Gray can be a donkey, elephant or spider, Brown or gray can be a simple bible costume or peasant if you don’t make legs. Blue can be a butterfly, fish, wizard and more. Use striped or spotted for cows, leopards, tigers, zebra, cats, etc.

Purchase supplies: Check the bargain bins at Field’s Fabrics, Jo-Anne’s, Wal–Mart, Hobby Lobby or any local fabric store. The most versatile fabric is polar fleece. It is warm, easy to work with, does not snag, is inexpensive and comes in endless colors and patterns. You don’t have to hem polar fleece either. You will develop a basic single color or pattern pajama like outfit that will cover the body and legs. I will explain how to acquire an optional hood. The details are added and removed with Velcro. You will need
one yard for a child under size 4 and 1& 1/2 yards for sizes up to about 10. You’ll need two yards for small adult costumes. Fabric will be doubled.
one yard of self-stick Velcro
one yard or elastic
scrap fleece fabric pieces for costume accessories

Lay out the doubled fabric on a table or floor.

Fold the fabric in half along the fold so the fabric is in fourths.

Cut a quarter circle at the folded corner through all layers where the fabric meets. This will be the head hole. Be sure not to cut it too large. You can increase the hole size but you can’t decrease it.

Slip it over the child’s head for size.

Refold fabric back to fourths.

Estimate child’s arm length. If you belief to add some stuffing or padding, make arms wider.

Cut through all layers of fabric from edges (not folded, cut edges) toward fold about the length from the wrist to the chest.

Cut from armpit perpendicularly but rounded down to the end of the fabric. At the arm pit, don’t nick a right angle, but round the cut to allow the child comfort and movement when wearing the costume. The armpits will be less likely to lumber out this way also. When fabric is opened to a single fold, this will from a basic T-shape with the top part forming arms. If the costume will be a dress or open at the bottom you are done cutting. If you are making legs, continue.

Cut up the fold to what will be the approximate crotch of the garment. Don’t cut the legs too close to the neckline or the costume will be too short from neck to crotch. Leave enough room for movement.

Sew along the lower arm edges and down the outside of the legs. Use a medium zigzag stitch or locking stitch to create heavy-duty seams.

Sew up both inner leg seams. Round the crotch for comfort and movement.

Make elastic or tied arm and leg openings.
Sew a casing at the end of each arm and leg.
Fold up the edge about one inch or so.
Sew along the upper edge as though you are hemming it.
Leave an inch opening unsewn.
Measure elastic to child’s wrist so that it will be snug but not tight.
Attach a safety pin to the elastic
Insert into casing opening and pull through until both ends of elastic meet at opening.
Knot elastic.
Sew up the opening to enclose elastic.
Optional: insert a piece of ribbon into opening. Leave ends out and tie each time costume is worn.

(optional) Make a Mask or hood: If you want a hood or head fragment, Using a rectangle of fleece about the size of a dishtowel, fold it in half width-wise. Sew it closed along the top of the folded piece. Sew the bottom edge to the neck opening so that the fold is in the back, the sewn edge is on the top and the two edges meet in the middle of the front of the costume; gather if necessary. Sew part plan down the front to make face opening smaller if desired.

Turn entire costume right-side out. All stitching is now on the inside.

Make a cut down from the neckline down the front. Only make it as long as child will need to get into garment. Try costume on and adjust to child’s needs. )

Attach adhesive Velcro to both sides of the opening. Use these to fasten costume shut. Cloak opening with pom-poms or parts of costume that you can Velcro on.

Make accessories : Using other fabric scraps, cut shapes and attach to costume with Velcro.

For stand up pieces (dinosaur spikes, long tail, butterfly wings, fish fins, spider or insect legs, rhino horn, elephant tusk or ears)
Cut two matching fabric pieces.
Sew together, leaving an opening.
Stuff with cotton baton and sew opening shut.
Attach with Velcro.

For any animal: Attach ears, tail, wings, antennae, scales, mane, etc.

Put a piece of wire in tails, wings, antennae or insect legs and then stuff them. You can bend to shape this way.

Add wings with two pieces of elastic that children put arms into like straps.

You will have an easy, warm and cute costume for most any age child when you are done.

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Dressing an infant for Halloween can be a challenge. Making your own costume instead of purchasing a pre-made Halloween costume can really add meaning to the holiday, particularly if this is your first Halloween with a child. Another bonus to creating your infant’s costume is that the size will be exactly right – no need to guess based on size suggestions on the encourage of a package. You’ll also have bragging rights on how cute the costume looks! An adorable and simple Halloween costume for your infant is a mouse. This mini costume is easy to put together, and is guaranteed to get lots of oohs and ahhs on Halloween, whether attending a party or simply greeting Halloween visitors at your front door. Here’s a list of what you’ll need:

Black pants or tight

Black T-shirt or Sweatshirt

black socks

A Walt Disney World “Mouse Ears” Hat or a black knit cap, some pink and dim felt, an iron, and a glue gun or a needle and thread

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First, in the event you don’t find or have a Mouse Ears hat for your mini mouse (and ask your friends or family – it is more than likely that someone is bound to have one you can borrow), let’s launch by constructing the hat.

Chop your shaded felt into circles into mouse ears in proportion to your infant’s size.

Cut the pink felt into circles an inch or two smaller in diameter.

If you have a glue gun, glue the pink circles to the black circles – if you don’t have a glue gun, you can sew them on.

Fold back half an walk on one end of the circles, so that a straight line forms across the bottom. Using a warm iron, iron it in spot that that it acts a bit like a stand for the entire circle. Recount with the other felt circle.

Attach the ‘stand’ on the circles to the knit cap using a glue gun or needle and thread. Ta-da! Your mini mouse ears are complete!

Now it’s time to dress your baby in the costume.

Dress your infant in the black pants or tights and the top.

Using the Halloween makeup, blacken the slay of your infant’s nose, and draw three lines out from the nose at an angle. These are your little mouse’s whiskers! (It should go without saying, but make positive whatever makeup you choose is hypoallergenic and safe for use on children!)

Pop on the cap, and your fantastic little mouse Halloween costume is complete. If your infant has an older sibling, some companion costumes might be a cat, a lion, or even an elephant! (Or mom or dad could dress up and be the companion costume for their sweet little mini mouse!)

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Your party skills are really put to the test if you decide to throw a St. Patrick’s Day party. It’s the most drunken holiday; the holiday that shows up to family reunions and pukes on the couch before angrily cursing and storming out of the house during dinner. And why not? We Irish love drinking, and we love a good party. If you’re planning on throwing a St. Patrick’s day party, and if you’ve really got what it takes, here are a few things you’re going to need:

An angry drunken Irish dwarf
It’s as close to a leprechaun as reality will allow. Bonus points if he gets into a fight with somewhat at your party and assumes a Fightin’ Irish stance. There’s nothing like a great angry party dwarf who doesn’t take crap from anybody.

Green Beer
It is absolutely unacceptable in this age of food coloring to not have green beer at a St. Patrick’s day party. It doesn’t matter if the beer tastes worse as a result. If you were really Irish, you wouldn’t care, anyway.

A guy dressed up as the Blarney Stone

Not as much because it’s funny to survey at as that it’s humorous to think that the guy actually thinks he’ll get some action by dressing up like a rock. Plus, if you need someone to pee on later when you’re drunk past the point of recognizing shapes, the guy in the Blarney stone costume will be around there somewhere.

Green Food
But no vegetables. This should provide you with somewhat of a challenge. Trust me, you’ll be in the supermarket at 2:00 in the morning trying frantically to get something green that’s made of meat and not disgusting.

Here’s an even better challenge, if you really consider your St. Patrick’s Day powers to be perfect; try to make sure that all of the food is fried. People will either talk about it for years or die on the way to the hospital from their intestines exploding.

A bear on a tricycle. I’ve said it before, and I’m clear I’ll say it again: No party is complete without at least some produce of a absorb on a tricycle, be it polar, grizzly, or black bear. Maybe you can have him hold a shamrock, or paint him green. Just preserve the muzzle on. Those bears can get vicious when exploited for entertainment purposes, but God it’s worth it.

Finally, whatever you do, please uphold the one rule of Irish parties, and for the care for of God uphold it well; don’t play any U2. Those guys suck.

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