Every Halloween I hear some parent or child complaining about how all of the costumes look exactly the same. Cheap material, same ideas, or just boring.
Here are three ideas sure to get your creative side all fired up this Halloween:
- Dress up as a Penny – That’s right the Treasury department has created the perfect source of costume genius. Using cardboard cut out a large circle that can cover your profile from below the chest to directly above the head. Paint it bronze with spray paint. Then add a fake beard with spirit gum, and paint yourself bronze with a nice summer bronzing spray. Bonus points for finding a brown suit.
- A Gazelle – Whether you make your own horns or twist your hair up. This outfit is stunning. If you do end up fastening your hair into horn-like spirals, make sure to use colored hair spray to make them look darker than usual. Then paint your face to look like a deer. If you wear soft leather you will look even more convincing.
- A Unicorn – While most girls under the age of 3 want to be unicorns, the costume tends to die out among trick or treaters older than that. But I have seen some really cute unicorn costumes out there. So, if you want to try something unique, go rainbow! All that you really have to have is a horn, other than that you are free to play it up.