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• DIY Costume Idea: Roll In the Hay - Dress up like a farmer girl and boy. The girl can have braided pigtails, tight short-shorts, white t-shirt, etc. The boy can sport dungarees, old straw hat, etc. Take hay and stick it in your hair, make it so it?s coming out of your pant pockets, and so little bits are stuck all over yourself, etc.
• DIY Costume Idea: Head above the Clouds - Use cardboard, blue paint and white cotton to create clouds that will hang over your shoulders on straps. (Beware that using cotton can create a flammable costume--be sure to use flame retardant spray on it before wearing.)
• DIY Costume Idea: Catholic School Girl - slip on a plaid skirt, whitened button-down cut-off shirt, knee stockings or thigh-high white-colored stockings, black Maryjane shoes, and pig tails with bows.
• Costume Making: Velcro is a remarkably utilized product. You could glue, sew or even pla
• Halloween Trivia: The essential components of Halloween, such as costuming, trick-or-treating, lighting bonfires, sharing scary stories, going to community parties can be traced back 2000 years ago to the historic Celtic festival called Samhain (SOW-in or SOW-an), which means ÒsummerÕs finish.
• DIY Costume Idea: American Gothic - dress like the dour farmer and his wife on the widley known Grant real woodpainting. He dresses up in a white colored shirt, overalls, darkish coat, eyeglasses, and bears a pitchfork. The woman has on charcoal dress with pure white collar and cameo, an apron and hair in a bun.
• DIY Costume Idea: Cow - don a white colored sweatsuit. Chop pieces of dark colored felt and stick them to the suit (to make "spots"). Make a tail out of braided wool. Have on jet black gloves and black shoes. Make ears out of white felt and attach those to the hood of the sweatsuit or a headband. Make a belt out of mock leather or rope, and add on a cowbell. Affix an inflated pure white or pink colored glove to your midsection for an udder. Carry a metal bucket saying "MILK" as your candy basket.
• DIY Costume Idea: Exterminator - wear some outdated work items, and stick a name tag which says "Orkin" or some other exterminator company. Paste artificial bugs, rats, etc. All over your body. Carry a flyswatter.
• DIY Costume Idea: Cardiac Arrest - She dresses up as an enormous crimson heart (chop out of cardboard or cloth) and dresses up in handcuffs. He dresses like a cop.