This year I had a cute idea for a costume, except my kids had already picked out whom they wanted to dress up as so I offered the idea to my friend for her little boy.
A quick trip to the store is where I acquired a large white cardboard that the store was throwing away. My friend and I were able to utilize the cardboard for the main part of the costume. We outlined a house onto the cardboard, painted it using tempera paints, then cut it out. Russell (the boy scout from Pixar’s movie Up) and Carl (the old grumpy man from Pixar’s movie Up) were the two characters that I printed up from my home printer. I used packing Tape as a makeshift laminate to cover the printouts so they would be protected from the ink running. Russell was positioned in the window of the house and Carl was at the front porch. Once the house was cut out, two strings were strung through the roof part like overall straps so that my friends’ son could wear it. For the finishing touch, we filled two dozen helium balloons and attached them to her sons’ belt loop.
The costume was a B-I-G hit! Everyone was commenting what a cute costume. Every house we went trick-r-treating to had something great to say in reference to this costume idea, not to mention a few extra pieces of candy tossed in the candy bucket for our efforts.
Wow, what a cool costume idea!
Posted by: Julie | December 27, 2009 at 04:12 PM
what an awesome costume, I love it, very original
Posted by: Ruth | January 08, 2010 at 07:31 AM
Nice concept..
It's really a unique one. :)
Posted by: Kids Birthday Party | March 04, 2010 at 02:25 PM