DIY Halloween Costumes-for under $10!

I know this is way late but I still wanted to get it out there to show you what you can create for under $10 a costume.

Yep , that is my max per kid per year! This year we needed to create a Greek goddess, Daryl Dixon from the Walking Dead, and a  sweet Periwinkle fairy (she's Tinker Belles sister). Sorry about the grainy pics, we have no light in our foyer on a good day and Halloween this year was beyond dreary and rained the entire night,  so even less light to take photos.

First up: Daryl Dixon- we had to match this:

Since we shaved Jake's hair we had to get a wig. The only one I could find was an orange haired "teen dream/Justin Beiber" one for 75% off at Joann's, which meant it was $5. We put it on, gave it a hair cut and then spray painted it black. 

 Win!

The shirt cost me $3.00 at the thrift store. We used a towel cape I had made for Jake years ago when he was a Jedi for Halloween and just cut a hole for his head. We added a coat hanger to the end of a wooden gun and voila! a cross bow.

Total cost: $8

Now for the Greek goddess:

That is a fancy sheer curtain right there folks! For $3.95 and the shoes were $4.00. We wrapped and pinned the curtain around Izzy like a goddess and then added a borrowed gold belt.  

I spray painted a paper bag gold and then cut out leaves and hot glued them to a ribbon for the leaf crown.

Total cost: $8.95

 Last but not least little Periwinkle: 

We looked through the dress up for something to match Periwinkle's dress but nothing was in good enough shape to make it through the night so I did get this dress at the Good will for $5. We did have wings though so that was a plus. The wig was also 75% off, so $5, and the shoes cost $2.00. So we went a bit over for Tess. But she will wear that wig again.  JK, she will wear the shoes though for sure. We hot glued some feathers onto the skirt and pompoms onto the shoes. Then added our wings and pixie dust.

Total cost: $12

I know this is blurry bit I just love those cheeks!

Ideal family photo.....

(dad was caught in traffic so we photo-shopped him in as a ghost. Can you find him? )

actual family photo!

Always being renewed,

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Better Late than Never Halloween!

Well, I think if there was an award for the latest post on Halloween, I'd win hands down! I was having some blogger problems so this wouldn't post when I wanted it to. Ce la Vie!

So here is either a really, reeeeally late Halloween post or it will give you really, reeeeeeally early ideas for 2013!

This one is too funny! Clearly Izzy (left)  is going to be the next Texas Chainsaw Massacre villain and Tessa (right) is NOT going to aspire to be a surgeon. Andrew is the headless pumpkin carver as is his desire in life.

Jake's pumpkin He was Hawkeye for Halloween so his pumpkin was in keeping with the theme of the Avengers

Three faces of Izzy and Andrew's toothy, dentist's nightmare pumpkin

Now onto the Handmade Costume Halloween Fashion Show. We make costumes in this house because frankly I don't have $35 per kid to spend and I look it as a personal challenge to keep it under $10 per kiddo. Of course now they all think I can make almost anything out of nothing. Not sure if that is good or bad or AWESOME! 

Hawkeye for $3.00

 Women's vest that I cut off the sleeves and used one of them to make the arm protector thingy (very technical name I know, I don't want you to know how smart I really am) that goes with bows and arrows. Spray painted knee pads and boots we already had.

Olympic Gymnast

$2.50 for the jumpsuit from a thrift store. Used paints we already had to for the USA and we had the medal from swimming, no one looked that close thank goodness

Princess

Free! Just raided the dress-up box. Maybe we should call her a modern princess since she obviously understands the value of a good pair of shoes instead of glass slippers

Too cutie pies all glittered up and ready to go get some serious candy. You can now see all of the carved pumping. Tessa's is the one with the big eyes, just like her! Mine is the chrysanthemum although it kinda looks like a scorpion now that I study it in this photo. Yeah I meant tot do that! 

Right.

Ellie May Clampett

Free! It you are under 40 you may need to YouTube the Beverly Hillbillies to get this. Aging myself! When I showed the girls one of the episodes, they were totally hooked on the Clampetts. Couldn't convince Andrew to go as Jethro though....

Now onto some goodies that were super easy to do. Cake pops! One of the women I work with gave me a recipe book on cake pops. They have so many ideas but Izzy and I decided the mummies would be good to make for her classroom party.

My first attempt at the wrappings looked a little like they were coming unwrapped!

The fun part about cake pops is that you can also just use edible ink markers to decorate the candy coated pops. Abstract modern cake pop by Tessa Uccellini

Ghost pop

Finished product. These are delicious, I tell you. You could easily eat an entire mummified Egyptian village in under 10 minutes.

Happy Belated Halloween!

Always being renewed,

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