Halloween is considered the biggest carnival in the West. This is also a holiday that all kids look forward to. They will dress up in different characters they love. Therefore, unique and spooky Halloween costumes are indispensable. Every year, parents often spend money to buy expensive Halloween costumes for kids and as a result, they break the bank after the holiday is over. So making DIY Halloween costumes is a great saving solution. But how to make Halloween costumes for kids? The article below is for you!
Here are some tips to make DIY Halloween costumes for kids. Ready? Let's discover!
1. When is Halloween 2023?
Halloween 2023 is on Tuesday, October 31. On these days, everyone dresses up in spooky Halloween costumes and masks, goes out to the street, plays games, gives Halloween gifts, and more.
Halloween is held on the night of October 31 every year with mystical and magical spiritual meanings. In the West, Halloween is most popular in the US, followed by many other countries such as the UK, Canada, Northern Ireland, Puerto Rico, New Zealand...The holiday is famous as the holiday of evil.
2. How to make DIY Halloween costumes for kids?
When preparing Halloween costumes for children, mothers should sew a little wide so that the baby can still wear warm clothes inside to avoid the cold. Do not let your baby wear clothes that are too fancy at the bottom of the skirt to avoid tripping their legs when moving.
Children's shoes should not be too picky, so they should be neat and simple shoes that are familiar to the baby every day.
You can choose from the following cute and funny DIY Halloween costumes for kids:
White Rabbit costumes
Preparation:
Long sleeve sweatshirt, white color
Glue
A little fur
Basic steps to make a DIY White Rabbit costumes
Use scissors to cut both sleeves of a white, long-sleeved sweatshirt, then glue the hem inside.
Use a little fur attached to the front of the shirt and the back of the shirt to make the rabbit's tail, a little bit of hair to cover the top of the hat to make the rabbit's head.
Cut from the sleeve into two long isosceles triangles to make rabbit ears. Using a pink cloth, cut a little smaller than the two ears just cut and glue it over the ears.
Rabbit nose, you just need to sew two hooks into a small cotton ball and bring it over your ears.
Piglet costumes
Prepare:
Pink long sleeve sweatshirt
Glue
Flexible plastic pipe
How to make DIY Piglet costumes:
Use scissors to cut two long-sleeved, pink sweatshirts. For the hem of the shirt, you roll it up and use glue to stick it.
Use a flexible plastic tube to roll into a pig's tail and stick it on the shirt. Cut two triangles to make pig ears and stick them on a beanie of the same color.
Use the excess fabric from the sleeve to roll the outside of the paper core to make the pig's muzzle. Then glue more ribbons of the same color to wear over the ears. To make it more vivid, stick two buttons to make the piglet's nostrils.
Use zinc wire to roll pink fabric to stick on the tail of the shirt to make pigtails.
3. Other DIY Halloween costumes for girls and boys
There are many unique, fun, and impressive Halloween costumes for kids. Clown, witch, princess, and hero, are some examples.
Clown costumes
A clown is a character that often appears in magic games, specializing in making funny jokes, so it is very popular with children. Therefore, this is a great character for moms to dress up their baby in the Halloween festival contest at school.
Kids clown costume is also very simple, and not too fussy. Just a wig, a red nose with a round ball, a children's vest, and a few more details on the face to complete. With a humorous, playful image, the little clown will stir up the atmosphere at the ceremony.
Superman costumes
Most boys between the ages of 5 and 10 love to transform into superheroes in movies. So, on this Halloween, parents please pamper your children and buy them a suit of spiderman, batman, ironman, captain American... or other super-powered characters. Surely, your baby will be extremely pleased with the look that he has always dreamed of.
Princess costumes
If boys want to be superheroes, girls want to transform into beautiful princesses wearing gorgeous and lavish dresses. So, what are you waiting for, let's choose for your beloved daughter a famous princess like Cinderella, Snow White, Elsa, Mermaid... to dress up.
In addition, to save money, you just need to choose for your baby a lovely flowing dress, wear a crown and hold a flowering branch to become a shining baby princess.
Witch costumes
Because children are easy to panic, it is somewhat inappropriate to dress up characters with ghostly and evil directions like demons and monsters. Therefore, when looking for Halloween costumes for kids, parents should keep this in mind.
Among the villains, the witch is considered a familiar face because it often appears in fairy tales. The witch character has a way of dressing that is not too scary, so you can dress up your baby.
The witch has a broom, wearing a black cloak and mysterious black shoes.
Lovely animals costumes
Superheroes, princesses, witches... are characters that are too common and easy to duplicate, so parents are also afraid to dress up their children. If you are afraid of this happening, you can think of dressing up your children as lovely animals such as rabbits, pigs, dogs, elephants, giraffes, etc. These images both mean environmental protection and cute and funny animals.
Cartoon character costumes
Halloween costumes for children to become cartoon characters are also a good suggestion for preschool children. Since children love cartoons so much, you can ask them which character they like best to dress up as they want.
Conclusion
The above are some DIY Halloween costume ideas as well as a detailed guide to making them. If you don't have time to make DIY Halloween costumes, you can buy them from Halloween costume stores near you. But remember to get some deals, and discounts on Halloween Sale to save money when shopping for costumes!
