Halloween Costume Ideas: Creativity is Key

Halloween is fast approaching. Soon the streets will be filled with ghosts and goblins, not to mention more than a few Harry Potters. Halloween can be a fun time for both child and parent. Halloween can also be very stressful. The search for the perfect Halloween costume is akin to the search for the Holy Grail. Here are a few ideas and hints to help this year’s Halloween costume become one to remember.

The first Halloween costume idea is to remember that the cost of the costume is never as important as the creativeness. The Halloween costumes I remember most often are the ones that cost the least. Finding Halloween costume supplies that had previously been perfectly normal articles of clothing was an annual event. Growing up in a family with four other children, store bought Halloween costumes were seldom seen. I remember the energetic glee of older siblings outfitting the younger ones for a night of decadent candy collecting. The only store-bought costume I remember from my youth was a Chewbacca, the wookie costume. I remember this Halloween costume only because of its cheap nature and the teasing it brought. Halloween is a child’s yearly opportunity to be truly creative with their appearance. Let them make their own costumes and offer suggestions only when asked. The idea is to let them exercise their creative instincts. An older sister’s fancy, dress shirt becomes the start of a pirate outfit. Mom’s classic black skirt becomes a vampire’s cape. You may need to purchase a few small accessories, but you probably have everything you need for hundreds of different costume ideas.