Halloween Costumes

This Halloween was a lot of fun trying to put together costumes for the kids. Cooper changed his mind a lot, until he settled on being Iron Man. Jaxton was dead set on being a spider. And Kaylee, I thought she would make an adorable black kitty.

There are not very many spider costumes out there to purchase, so I set about to make one at home. It really was pretty simple. We found black sweat pants, a black turtleneck, and a black beanie hat. We got 2 pairs of tall black socks, and stuffed them with newspaper. We got them sewed onto the sides of the turtleneck, then we attached each spider leg together using fishing wire up to Jaxton's wrist. He wore an elastic bracelet on his wrist that had the fishing wire attached to it. Then, when he lifted his arms, it looks as if the spider's legs are all walking together!! Jaxton painted some styrofoam balls that we glued onto his beanie with some antennas made from pipe cleaners. Of course he made sure that he was a black widow with the red hourglass shape on his belly. He was very very proud of that costume!! And it was a lot of fun for mommy to create it!! :-)

Cooper chose Iron Man. I would have loved to have made his costume, but I figured that my inexpensive creation of the Iron Man costume probably would not even come close to looking like the real Iron Man. So I gave up on that and took Cooper to Target to find an Iron Man costume. I did hem it for him on the arms and legs since it was a bit big for his little body. His costume was complete with the Iron Man mask, glove, and shooter. And another perk, his costume glows in the dark!! He was pretty excited about that!!

Kaylee was a little black kitty cat! She already has a costume for next Halloween when she is 1, thanks to Grandma Hutchinson, and when she is 2 almost 3 I figure she will have an idea of what she wants to be by then. So I decided that this may be the only time I can pick out what she should be for Halloween before she wants to decide for herself. So I found this darling kitty tutu outfit online and I recreated it, making a tutu for the first time in my life!! It was definitely a fun project! She has some boa feather ribbon around her waist that continues out to be her tail, and I found the cute kitty ears at Target. After lots of attempts to get her to hold still for her first ever experience with cosmetics, her costume was complete with her kitten nose and whiskers! What a fun Halloween!