Costume Ideas for Your Pet

Even pets can be part of Halloween. Costumes for pets are big business but you can make your own. Depending on the size of your pet, his ability to co operate and whether or not you're going to include him in a theme you can make some really easy yet prize winning costues without much effort.

Great Dane: You can take fabric and create what would look like a saddle using screening lined with a soft towel or baby blanket. You attach web belts that are adjustable to go under his chest and mid section. Attached to the saddle you take a child's umbrella. Spray paint this in mottled grey. You are going to create an octopus. Hang strips of grey cotton material sewn into tube shapes and stuffed with fiber fill. These will hang from the umbrella. This is your Octopus. With several yards of gold felt and medium gauge wire shape a fish the length of the dogs body. This is Nemo. You can sequin this , use buttons for eyes. It's as fancy or simple as you want. Fins can be sheer material or more cotton. Glue gun the cotton fish shape to the wire fish shape and hang this on either side of the dog from the saddle base. You can add more fish here and there . If you have shells lying around glue these to the umbrella and fish shape. YOucan also be part of this by carrying the Octopus umbrella and just having the dog be Nemo. If you carry the umbrella then you should be dressed in something gauzy with shells glues to it. Think ghost but make this out of sheer fabric. Glue shells, dollar store plastic fish, and lots of blue green glitter on the sheer material so you look like ocean.

Doberman. Get several yards of yellow felt. Using a dog coat in his size make a pattern to fit his/her body. Buy a bag of yellow feathers at any crafat store and glue these all over. Cut a "snood", just a dog hat shape with ear holes and glue feathers to this. You have a Chicken. It's a cute contrast of breed and bird. My Dobie entered a contest dressed like this.He was spectacular until the judges came around and that's when he decided he needed to shake. All the feathers went flying.