Choose from the cutest Baby Bunting Halloween costumes around. There will be plenty of pride floating around tonight when all the relatives get a look at the adorable baby bunting costume you have chosen. From Grandma right down to the aunts and uncles, they will be pushing the button on the camera all night long to capture this sweet little Halloween baby.
Monday, December 26, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Halloween Party Decorations - 5 Cheap Ways to Decorate Your House
Halloween is less than a month away, the nights are drawing in and out in the fields the pumpkins are growing bigger and bigger... if you've got a Halloween party planned, there's no need to spend your hard-earned money on a lot of tacky orange and black plastic accessories that aren't even going to last until next October. There are several quick, cheap and easy ways to dress your home in a suitably spooky fashion - and the kids might want to give you a hand too.
Scary Bunting
You can make this by hand but it'll be much, much quicker with a sewing machine. Buy yourself some suitably patterned material and a long reel of black cotton tape, cut triangles out with pinking shears (this saves you having to hem the edges to prevent the material from fraying) and sew the triangles onto the tape. It's really that easy. eBay has a great selection of material (all sorts of spooky patterns and fabrics for very little money) and tape, plus any of the sewing equipment that you'd need. If you're being really thrifty, you can cut up old black shirts, lace curtains, perhaps even outgrown Halloween costumes.
Papier Mache Pumpkins
Make up a batch of papier mache (basically ripped up newspaper and glue - search online for more detailed instructions) and assemble some small, round objects that you can use as moulds (vary them in size - try oranges and apples for small pumpkins, footballs for large ones. A spacehopper for a giant pumpkin!). Squeeze the papier mache around the mould until you have covered it (except for a gap at the top where you can extract the mould when the mache is dry). Leave to dry, then paint orange and draw on scary faces with black paint. If you're careful, you could try cutting out eyes and mouths with a sharp knife.
Pom-Pom Spiders
These are a little too cute to be really scary. You'll need thin cardboard, scissors, black wool, black elastic and black pipe cleaners, plus some stick on eyes if you want to get really detailed. Cut two 'doughnuts' of cardboard (circles with a hole cut out of the centre) of about 10cm diameter. Put together and wrap the wool round and round the cardboard until it's thickly covered. Cut through the edges of the cardboard and all the wool and tie a piece of black elastic around the middle, feeding it between the two pieces of cardboard. Tie tightly and remove the cardboard. Fluff up the wool to make your pom pom. Feed the pipe cleaners through the elastic and twist to make legs. You can add eyes and a string to dangle them from if you like.
A 'Real' Ghost
Buy a helium balloon and tie to the top of a thin wire coat-hanger. Drape a thin white sheet over the balloon and coat-hanger and draw on a scary face with a black marker. You might need to fix the sheet in place with a few stitches. If the coat hanger is too heavy for the helium balloon, you could just use the sheet over the balloon. You could also try painting the sheet with luminous fabric paint for extra spookiness. Watch it bob about with admiration (NB. If you have any neighbours with heart conditions, it might be wise to warn them that this is your handiwork before they die of fright when the 'ghost' floats out into the street....)
Make a Halloween Mural
Buy a sheet of brown wrapping paper (cheap as chips and available from pretty much everywhere). Roll out onto a hard surface (use the floor if necessary) and weigh down the corners. Let the kids go wild with paint, crayons and felt tip pens. You could try and draw all sorts of spooky locations: a graveyard, a mad scientist's laboratory, a far-away planet with space monsters... the possibilities are endless. When your masterpiece is finished, you can fix it on the wall and admire your work.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
How to Train Your Dragon Costume Ideas For Halloween 2010
When bright and earnest young Hiccup, the only son of a Viking tribe known to be adept at slaying dragons, forms a rare bond with one of the kind he had originally wanted to kill, the new friendship threatens long-established family ties and traditions.
This one-of-a-kind animated film has certainly captivated the hearts of many children and you can bet on it that at least one of the kids in your neighborhood will definitely be dressed as Hiccup or Astrid, or perhaps even Toothless. There are no How to Train Your Dragon costumes officially licensed and released, for now, but you can certainly make use of creative ingenuity and some patience in looking for materials that will resemble an authentic Viking dragon-slayer costume.
Creating a Hiccup How to Train Your Dragon Costume Yourself
Hiccup is not so easy to portray. To start off, you can buy or borrow a greenish-grey long-sleeved tunic that will be your top. Next, look for brown, tight-fitting pants that are reminiscent of the Middle Ages. If you can't find any of these items, you can always sew them yourself or have somebody else do it for you. Of course, the Viking helmet is an essential part of the Hiccup costume and should never be missed. There are several Viking helmets available from online and brick-and-mortar costume stores, but you can also make a papier-mache helmet yourself.
Other Licensed How to Train Merchandise
Official How to Train Your Dragon costumes are not available yet, but this doesn't mean you cannot take advantage of existing How to Train Your Dragon merchandise to spice up a kids' Halloween party or a birthday bash. Your children and their friends will definitely go nuts over colorful paper cone hats and deluxe party favor kits adorned with Hiccup and Astrid's dragon adventures.
Dressing Up as a Night Fury Dragon
Hiccup's massive friend, Toothless, is a Night Fury Dragon, a type of dragon that is very rare but is very intelligent. Night Furies are black in color, so it will be very easy for you if you are planning to look for your own fabric and create your child's costume yourself. Unlike other dragons in the movie, a Night Fury has a flat back so you don't have to worry about creating a lot of bunting. However, make sure to keep the wing largely spread out like two large kits in opposite directions.
Other Kinds of Dragon
There are other kinds of dragons in the movie and your kid might want to be one of them instead of a Night Fury. It pays to get to know these dragons better before attempting to purchase or make a costume for your kid. Gronckles are dragons with tiny wings while Monstrous Nightmares are known to be very large and spiny. Deadly Nadders have blue crests, Terrible Terrors are the size of dogs, and Hideous Zipplebacks are dragons with two heads. And, of course, the Red Death, a huge dragon and the main enemy in the movie, is not to be missed-not in the movie or this Halloween!
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Baby Halloween Bunting Costumes
www.squidoo.com That's my 8-month old, Noah. He enjoys his pea-in-a-pod costume for Halloween.Get your baby all dolled-up this Halloween from the wide selection now available here - just like Noah.
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