Halloween is still five weeks away, but supermarket shelves have been stocked with miniature-sized candy for over a month. Pinterest is bursting at the seams with candy corn crafts and pumpkin-inspired decor. And my Facebook feed is filling up with questions about children’s costumes — where to buy them and whether they should be cute or creepy.
Levi wore an adorable yellow duck costume from Carter’s last year, and this year he’s going to wear a bug costume I purchased at Pottery Barn Kids last November when all of their Halloween costumes were on clearance. It doesn’t appear as if they’re selling it again this year, so you’ll have to wait a month to see photos of what it looks like! If you can swallow their $60 price tags, PB Kids has some equally endearing baby and toddler costumes like this bumblebee costume and this giraffe costume.
But if you’re bored-to-death of zoo animals and cartoon characters, why not take a page out of photographer Jaime Moore’s book? When Jaime’s daughter, Emma, turned five, she dressed her up as a variety of influential woman from history — including Coco Chanel, Amelia Earhart, and Susan B. Anthony — to take creative birthday portraits. Jaime wrote on her blog that she wanted Emma to know about real women worthy of her admiration, not just fictional Disney princesses.
Have you planned your child’s Halloween costume yet? What do you think about transforming him or her into a historical figure for Halloween? Would you do it?
Adrienne
I already posted on the FB area but I am just so excited. We picked Indiana Jones for my 18 month old’s costume. I pieced it together myself so it was really inexpensive. I know my son won’t wear the costumes that are puffy or go over the head or fuzzy so I needed something more like “clothes.” He loves digging for rocks so this suits him. While it is not history worthy as your post talks about, at least it is different and all his friends are being things like lions, pooh bear, etc.
Last year my daughter was a Cabbage Patch Kid. I got the idea from Pinterest and thought it was adorable. Since she was something from my childhood last year, this year she’ll be Link from Zelda, something from my husband’s childhood. Next year I assume she’ll be old enough to have her own ideas.
Making costumes, or at least piecing them together from thrift store items, has always been half the fun of Halloween for me.
Joy
I love these! Halloween isn’t my favorite thing in the world, but I think if people dressed up as more interesting things (as in fewer sexy red riding hoods and more Coco Chanels) I’d be more into it. Last year, my sister and brother-in-law dressed up my niece as Frida Kahlo. She already had the unibrow for it! 🙂 She wore a floral headband and a little white embroidered peasant dress. Adorable.