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How better to encourage the little ones to eat healthy than by dressing them up like a vegetable? In this case of the broccoli look, Better Homes & Gardens offers directions for this do-it-yourself costume.
FamilyFun.com offers tons of advice for making your child’s Halloween costume as well as crafts and more. There’s even a video to show you how to turn your kid into a walking bubble bath.
Ah, remember when Britney Spears was a cute little member of the Mickey Mouse Club? That doesn’t mean your bubblegum girl’s bubble has to burst. Let her roam the neighborhood like a “mega star” from Rubies.com.
Superheroes are big for the boys on your Halloween list, and among the most popular are the Fantastic Four characters. Better Homes and Gardens says you can find them online, or make some of them yourself.
Little girls love the popular Disney Channel character Hannah Montana so much, costumes for her are becoming hard to find. We found a Hannah costume similar to this one on BuyCostumes.com for $49.99. If you want to get some perfect Hannah Montana looks, go to the Disney Store, where you can buy clothes, accessories, microphones and even a wig.
For every Harry Potter on the streets on Halloween night, rest assured there will be representatives of the dark forces afoot: they may be clad in one of these dark Dementor costumes (for teens) from Rubies.com
Rest assured that despite ghouls and ghosts roaming your neighborhood, there should be plenty of Harry Potters to bring order to the streets with a well-cast spell or two. Here, a Quidditch robe at $27.99 for a child is from BuyCostumes.com.
Superheroes will abound on Halloween to beat back the forces of evil – or at least the kids getting more candy at the neighbor’s house. Here is a black-suited Spiderman, to bring out the dark side of your child, for $17.99.
High School Musical is a hit, and if your girl wants to jump into character and cheer on her schoolmates at East High, you can make this outfit yourself or buy it online. Better Homes & Gardens has the details.
Don’t want to be a good guy any more? Then don this creepy Davey Jones, the “Devil of the Seas,” regalia and chase down those souls to haul to your locker down below. This one is $79.99 from CostumeSuperCenter.com.
Ladies needn’t be left out of the pirate craze, and if you want to be a tarty wench, click on over to Trashy.com, which has an assortment of fetching female pirate gear, as well as lots of other rather risqué outfits. They say Nicole Kidman purchased one of their pirate dresses.
Heck, who needs to be a pirate when you can dress up as the ghost ship itself? This spooky ship at Rubies.com comes complete with a hat and boots. Look on Rubies for websites where you can buy this garb.
Enough with the pirates, princesses and superheroes. Take a cue from the tabloids and try this wanna-be-a-star Kevin Federline look, recommended by the folks at Snarky.com. This getup is $40 from BuyCostumes.com, and you might dress it up a bit by carrying around two baby dolls and have some dollar bills hanging out of your pants. If your girlfriend wants to get in on the act, all she needs to do is buy a bald wig, start swinging an umbrella at would-be paparazzi, wear a mini-dress and, well, she probably should still wear underwear.
OK, you knew it was coming. There are plenty of prison-stripes costumes for women on the web to turn you into an instant Paris Hilton. Add a blonde wig, a Chihuahua-like stuffed toy and say a lot of inane things. If you want to take a different route, add a baby bump, leave the party after 45 minutes and you’ll be Nicole Richie. This outfit is only $15.99
If you just want to go for the outright laughs, try on this wacky costume from BuyCostumes.com. Seems grandma has lost her sweet puppy, last seen lounging on the couch. The outfit comes with a nude stuffed body suit along with the dog-attached dress. It’s $44.99.
So you say just plain foolish is your goal for this Halloween? Look no further than this adult penguin costume from MoonCostumes.com. You can get your waddle on for $66.85.
Taking a lead from the folks at AOL, here is a politically incorrect costume idea: Don a black wig, get some old-school oversized glasses and put a little paunch into a gray shirt and pants and you’ll be the portly North Korean dictator Kim Jung-Il.
Another pop-culture reference that is sure to grow obscure after this year is the ill-fated, odd-haired American Idol loser Sanjaya. If you can’t sing, all the better. Just find a wig that you can fashion into a Mohawk-like ponytail and grab a microphone. You’ll have to beat the little girls away.
A normally staid website, Forbes.com, decided to get funny and created a selection of names in the news cut-out faces you can hold. Here’s one of Donald Rumsfeld, but they’ve also got Katie Couric, Borat and more.
Did we mention that people are dressing up the dogs and cats? So what if Scruffy doesn’t want to look like Scooby Doo? He just needs to get in the Halloween spirit in this dog-in-a-dog costume from SpoiledRottenDoggies.com, for $15.95. (You have to scroll down the page to find this one, which means you may run across another costume that strikes your fancy, such as a Snow White costume that comes large enough to fit your Lab.)
It’s football season, and certainly that’s reason enough to let your dog don this Football Fever Dog Costume from Wiggle-n-Waggle.com. Not good enough for your pooch? Peruse their collection here.
Enough with the costumes. Let’s decorate the yard. If you’ve got money to burn, spring for this “Rocking Granny” from Frightcatalog.com. This thing is great: She rocks back and forth until you flip a switch, then she leaps from her seat to cackle and scream at the little Trick-or-Treaters. Sure, it costs about $6,500, but what a statement you’ll make.
Want a little cheaper scare for the kiddies? Try this Freddy Krueger wall breaker prop, also from FrightCatalog for $249.
Go a more traditional decoration route with a plastic boiling witches cauldron complete with stand from BuyCostumes.com for $39.99.
If hanging something from the trees is your idea of a scary good time, try this hanging skull man decorative item from BuyCostumes.com.
OK, enough with the ghoulish tacky stuff. Martha Stewart can do Halloween too, you know, and among her suggestions is this “shocking silhouettes” for candles that would be perfect for the window.
When the little ghosts and goblins start howling for food, Martha offers these scary petits fours for trick or treaters of all sizes.
Dress up your dining room table with this glowing ghost house that will add the perfect finishing touch for this year’s Halloween. From Frontgate, for $119.
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