Children's Halloween Costume Ideas

Halloween is a great time of year for your little angels to dress up like imps - or maybe it's the other way around? At any rate, no child should be without a terrific costume! Suitable for infants and toddlers.
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Halloween Costume Ideas for Children

• Air Force, Army, Navy or Marine
• Bunch of Grapes
• Cat
• Dalmation Puppy
• Firefighter
• Frog
• Harry Potter
• Knight
• Scarecrow
• Sheep
• Spider

Air Force, Army, Navy or Marine

You will need a uniform (purchase from a store or borrow from a family member), camouflage, belt, and hiking boots. To form the air force, army, navy or marine costume, combine the unifrom, hat, belt, and boots. Also, try to find an extra hat or paint a bucket in a camouflage pattern.
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Bunch of Grapes

You'll need another sweatsuit in either green or purple, depending on what kind of grapes your child plans to be. You'll also need balloons in that same colour and some small safety pins. Simply blow up the balloons (try to blow up enough to cover the entire sweatsuit), pin them through the knotted end along the suit, and you're finished before you even knew you were started!
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Cat

For the cat costume you will need cardboard, construction paper, headband, pencil, scissors, glue, socks, safety pins, face paint, markers, and a dark turtleneck and leggings. First, draw cat ears on the cardboard and cut them out. Then attach the ears to the headband. Make a tail out of stuffed long socks and color the socks the same color as the outfit with markers. Then draw cat whiskers on the child's face and color the nose dark.
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Dalmation Puppy

You'll need white sweatpants, a white sweatshirt, black felt, craft fur, scissors, sewing machine, white ball cap, and white and black face paint. Cut out a pattern in the felt and sew onto the sweats. Then cut the fur in a wide strip for the tail. Put spots on the white ball cap. Lastly, use the black and white face paint on the child's face and try to put a spot around their eye.
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Firefighter

This costume is simple. Get a firefighter plastic hat, solid color raincoat, and galoshes. The child can wear any color shirt under the jacket. Put on the jacket, hat and galoshes and the costume is done.
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Frog

For this costume you will need a solid green outfit or sweat suit, headband, green felt, scissors, glue, and large wiggly eyes. First, cut a piece of felt to cover the headband. Then cut 4 ovals out of felt and glue 2 together to give strength to the felt. Glue the wiggly eyes on one end of the oval, and then glue the oval's opposite side to the underside of the headband. Repeat with the other oval.
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Harry Potter

You'll need a black robe, broomstick, black permanent marker, cauldron with handle, black witches hat, face paint, and glasses. Purchase a black robe abd witches hat. Write 'Firebolt' on a broomstik with the marker. Use the cauldron for trick-or-treating. Use the face paint to draw Harry Potter's scar on the child's forehead. Then put on some glasses!
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Knight

This one can be tricky! You'll need about 40 frozen juice can lids, silver tights, gray or black sweatshirt, black or gray gloves, knight helmet, cardboard, silver spray paint, plastic sword, craft paint, wire cutters, wire, hammer, and a roofing nail. First, punch small holes in juice can lids with the roofing nail for the wires. Thread the wires through the holes to create a suit of armour that will drape over your child's shoulders. Cut a shield out of the cardboard and spray paint it silver.
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Scarecrow

Get a pair of ratty old overalls, as much raffia as you can find (to emulate straw), a flannel shirt and any type of floppy old hat. Depending on the age of the child, you may want to use face paint as well. Just stuff the overalls and shirt full of as much raffia as you can fit.
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Sheep

For this easy-to-make costume you'll need a white hooded sweatsuit, some cotton batting (easily stolen from inside a pillow!), black or white felt cut into triangles, some double-sided tape and two pairs of black or white socks. Use the tape to stick clumps of the batting to the sweatsuit and the felt triangle "ears" to the hood (or sew them on). Put one pair of socks on their hands and the other on their feet, and you're done!
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Spider

All you need for this cute and creepy costume is a black hooded sweatsuit, two pairs of regular black socks and two pairs of black tube socks or nylons, cotton batting and a needle and thread. Stuff the tube socks with the batting and then sew your new "spider legs" to the sweatsuit, under the arms. Put the regular socks and baby's hands and feet as in the sheep costume above, and that's all there is to it!
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