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Easy Halloween Costumes for Kids
30 last-minute Halloween costumes made at home for kids.
In brief
30 last-minute Halloween costumes made at home for kids. Parents can create affordable Halloween costumes using household items without sewing or buying new ones. Originally reported by MadeForMums.
Easy Halloween Costumes
Halloween is getting scarily close with 31st October falling on a Saturday at the end of half term.
Last-Minute Costume Ideas
These easy costumes use clothes and props you already have at home without needing to be crafty.
Witch Costume
Black dress or top + skirt/trousers, witch's hat, broomstick, optional green/black face paint.
Vampire Costume
White shirt, black trousers/skirt, black cape, face paint for fangs around the mouth.
Skeleton Costume
Existing skeleton outfit or black clothes with white card/tape made into bones.
Ghost Costume
Old white sheet or white clothes, scissors to cut eye holes, black pen for eyes and mouth.
Zombie Costume
Old clothes like school uniform, face paint, hair spray/gel, fake blood.
Witch's Cat Costume
Black clothes, black eyeliner/face paint for nose and whiskers, homemade ears, tail from tights/scarf.
Scarecrow Costume
Jeans/dungarees, checked shirt, straw hat, face paint, hay/straw optional.
Devil Costume
Red clothes, devil horns, red face paint optional, black cape and red trident optional.
Pumpkin Costume
Orange top and black trousers/skirt, black card for pumpkin face, green headband/hat.
Bat Costume
All-black clothes, black card/felt bat wings, homemade bat ears, black face paint.
Wednesday Addams Costume
Black dress, white collar, two plaits, pale face, black lipstick/face paint.
Harry Potter Costume
Black cape, white shirt, school trousers/skirt, stripey tie/scarf, wand, round glasses.
The short version
Parents can create affordable Halloween costumes using household items without sewing or buying new ones.
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