Quick Halloween Costume Ideas

With Halloween literally like two days away, options may be slim with delayed shipping times, out of stock notices, or an indecisive child 🤪! I was inspired to create an easy to make, less than $10 costumes for quick dress up for trick or treating or pretend play.

The items you need to create these easy peasy costumes are very inexpensive and can be found at your local craft store.

I created two costumes, an Artist and Magician.

The Artist

I found a very easy template and tutorial from partywithunicorns for a beret. You can download the template here for free with subscribing to her page to get their newsletter filled with awesome activities for kids. Any activity that keeps my kids from staring at a screen is a go!

To create will need:

Scissors
tape
A hot glue gun with extra glue sticks
Felt in your color of choice about a 1/2 a yard is enough for this project

Cut out the template

Use your cutouts to trace on your felt. A step I missed, that

you will see, is taping the brim pieces together and then tracing.

Once all traced, cut out the pieces.

So here, is when I realized I missed a step, be sure to tape the brim of the hat

pieces together and then cut! 😀

Here is a video of gluing the pieces together.

To add to the artist costume, I wanted to add a paint pallet. For this you will need a Foam board, markers (I didn’t choose a particular colors, just randomly grabbed colors) & an exacto knife, I got this one I used from Dollar Tree.

First, trace the foam board with your template, if

you don’t happen to have a paint pallet hanging

around, here is the template for you to use

Once traced it should look like this.

Then cut with scissors, or an exacto knife, I

prefer using an exacto knife in that it’s easier and

gives cleaner lines when cutting foam board.

Once done, you should have the below

Using small bottle, I used my

essential oil bottle, trace small

circles.

Measure about an half of inch

between circles and go up the side.

Then fill in the circles with the colors

And your done!

I tied to left over prices to make

a bow to add to the costume, this can be

added to a shirt with a safety pin.

Here is the final product. Kingston had a ball modeling this for me, I think if he didn’t have his transformers costume, he wouldn’t mind wearing this!