Halloween 2011

Usually on Halloween we dawn the store bought Halloween costumes and go to the Fall Festival at church dressed just like all the other kids. Them once we get there don't know who is who cause let's face it there are at least 20 other kids wearing the same exact costume. So needless to say I was relieved when each of my three girls decided to think out of the "box" and not have store bought costumes. We also skipped out on the super crowded Fall Festival that the church has every year to go to the Halloween party at taekwondo. I handled this one democratically and let the kids vote on which event to attend (all the time hoping they would go for the party)!

So a few days before Halloween I pulled out the hot glue gun and began to create the girls' costumes. Isabela decided she wanted to be a Florida panther. Well that I could handle super easy right. Brown shirt and pants then some ears and a tail. The tail I created out of a quarter yard of burlap rolled and hot glued into a tail which I then pinned to the back of her pants. The ears were made out of a couple of squares of burlap folded into a ear shape and then hot glued onto a head band. Crayola marker for the nose and whiskers and there it is, one Florida panther.



The finished product but I took the pic before I drew
 on her face, but you get the point

Next was Gabriella who wanted to be a butterfly. Her costume did change a little upon the purchasing of  materials for the butterfly suit. It was just a little to plain for her so she decided to be a butterfly sitting on a flower bush and then she wanted dual color wings. This costume was a bit more tedious than Isabela's and I must say did quite the number on my fingers. For the butterfly portion of the costume we hit the dollar tree and got two sets of wings which I took apart and rearranged to be one set of wings. Then put a fuzzy pink shirt under the wings for the body. The flower bush was a bit more labor intensive. It reguired the purchase of a tutu and two types of flowers from the dollar tree and lots of hot glue (ouch). Then I had to glue the flowers onto the very thin tutu material ( you guessed it this was the painful part) pinned the tutu to a pair of green capris and then on to the antenae for the butterfly. Yes this meant even more hot glue two pieces ot fake flower stem glued to a fake hair head band, It looked a but plain so we added a flower on the end of each antenae.


Gabriella in the finished product and in case
you are wondering the fake hair is yellow!!

The baby girl of the bunch decided she wanted to be a flower. This costume took much thought and was by far the most fun simply because I did not burn myself making it. This costume consisted of not one but two fake hair pieces. She just had to have pink and since she was a flower green. Some fake flowers and lots of leaves( didnt tell her that she picked ivy leaves). So here we go with the hot glue. First to glue the two head bands to gether in a way that didnt mess up the fake hair that was attached to them. Then was to glue numerous flowers to the headband in a way that looked like one big flower. Sounds simple right?! NOT!!! This part took some major planning. The final part was to pin leaves all over sone green pants and a green shirt(didnt want to glue it, couldnt see throwing away a perfectly good outfit).  She did win "Most Creative " costume at the Halloween party with this one.


She says "flower" I say "Poison Ivey"
What do you think?

 Now to the boys. They all three flat out refused to have their costumes Home made. So we did the store bought thing for them this year.


Alejandro decided to be the"Green Lantern"







Little Pedro picked "Red Ninja"





Marco decided to be "Batman"

Got to love the originality of Boys!!!



Here they are dressed and ready to go!!

Was going to post even more pics but lets face it nobody wants to look at tons of blurry pics..... To be brutally honest not even I look at every pic and they are my kids, so I will spare the bazillion pics from the Halloween party and just state that whether it was the pirates with rope tricks or dodge ball the kids had a blast. And this is my favorite part... The kids did not end up with 10 lbs of candy, they got just enough to eat for that night.