This year the boys wanted to take a different approach to their Halloween costumes so we took the homemade route. Inspired by his jack-o’-lantern style front teeth, Ezra wanted to be a pumpkin. Finn, originally slated to be a pirate, called a last minute audible on Saturday and decided he wanted to be a ghost.
I’ll start with Ezra’s costume. First, dismantle Finn’s old Apple Sale booth and cut it into strips.
First fitting.
Bruce pulls out all the stops — the glue gun and the clamps!
Second fitting.
Cardboard strips finished; time for the papier mache.
Ready for the spray paint. Safety first.
Second round of spray paint after first one didn’t cover.
And finally, voila!
Ezra then drew a jack-o’-lantern face.
Here’s the finished product — complete with a green cap so his head can be the stem.
And now, the ghost (a much simpler process).
First attempt just didn’t work so well.
He couldn’t keep the eye holes in the right place and didn’t like the weight of the sheet over him. We decided to go with a hood for the second try.
Much better. And even more comfortable once we added arm holes.
These boys can’t wait for trick-or-treating!
I hope they had a good haul. Some of my most fun memories are associated with Halloween and trick or treating. There were some other times that were also fun, but they bordered on illegal activities, such as Tpeeing houses, oatmeal under the sprinklers and probably going along when eggs were used, but I don’t remember ever personally being that bad. To this day, love, love, love Halloween candy. I don’t think that there were store costumes that long ago, so always had fun digging through things trying to decide what would be the best one. Hope you had many kids at your house and not too many gobelins or zombies.