It is October 14 and I have not had a spare thought for Halloween costumes. I usually have a costume plan hammered out by this point. The costume plan is important so that I know how much time I’m going to have to spend. I may not have been thinking about costumes, but the kids have.
Kiki has designed her own costume. She wants to be an anime style girl. Not from any show she’s seen, or book she has read, but one of her own creation. I’m hoping that we can find things at the thrift store to alter which will be close enough. I don’t want to make it from scratch which was what Kiki intended.
Link wants to be the Master Chief from Halo. I’m not sure where he fixated on this because we don’t play Halo. I tried to see if maybe he wanted to be a Naruto ninja instead. No. He wants body armor and a big gun he can stick on his back. Eep. Hopefully I’ll find some child sized shoulder pads and a dirtbike helmet that I can spray paint green. I am NOT going to try to bid on the ebay Master Chief costume. It is going for over $200.
Gleek seems inclined to select clothes from her dress-up box. Last I heard she wants to be a ninja fairy princess. I have been corrected. She is not a princess. She is just a ninja who wears a dress. The only accesory she is lacking is the ninja head band.
Patches wants to be a spider. This one is easy because all I have to do is pull the spider costume out of storage in the garage.
So it looks like I have two easy costumes and two tricky ones. Hopefully I can pull it all together in the next two weeks.
I haven’t even thought about a costume this year! Yikes!
Wen the Eternally Surprised has declared that she wants to be a Dalek for Halloween this year. I already have a plan for how to make this happen. 🙂
I imagine a helmet for Master Chief could be made out of poster board and some kind of flexible plastic. When I was in SCA, we’d mock up armor pieces from poster board before making them out of steel or leather.
For the rest, black pants and shirt, with foam pieces (am thinking pipe insulation from Home Depot) painted green over top might work.