Have a Fun Halloween for Your Foster Children

Halloween can be a time of horror and misery for young foster children. Creating the right atmosphere for your foster kids may be harder during the Halloween season than any of the other holidays. Remember that a foster child may have been abused, abandoned, or traumatized in ways you cannot really understand. A sense of maintaining control and being in a loving safe atmosphere is important....Halloween by definition throws these two important things right out the window. You can re-establish that sense of safety and being in control by doing some relatively simple things. You will know the ages and personalities of your children and these ideas can be adapted to fit your situation.

First consider a costume that says "I am tough, invincible, and in control", popular costumes like Spiderman, Superman, or Wonder Woman are probably better choices than costumes with death themes such as skeletons, mummies or faces with bloody scars. Your youngster will feel more in control if they can assume the superhero identity for the night. You can find super hero costumes online at here. If your young foster children will be trick or treating be sure they are within your sight at all times and be ready to comfort and soothe them if the costumes of other children or the adults who answer the door scares them.

Quick Costumes for unexpected additions to your foster family can be whipped up in an hour with themed pajamas (Spiderman, or Wonder Woman for instance) and face paint. An oversize T-shirt with glow in the dark acrylic paint designs can be customized to your child's favorite look. A glow in the dark dimensional paint pen works well to outline shapes and establish the superhero's identity. Traditional Halloween icons can resemble a horror show, but you can find more benign, iron on transfers, in the Halloween theme section at Ducancrafts by following this link here.