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<\/a> Just because I am committed to homemade Halloween costumes, though, doesn’t mean I slave away for weeks beforehand, pulling all nighters to get everything just right. \u00a0While some go for the full-on, true to life, extravagant,\u00a0over the top costume (like my own\u00a0amazing mommy who created glorious Halloween costumes year after year for my sister and me), I prefer to go more “abstract”. \u00a0I like to get the essence of the costume without consuming my children in fluff and fur.<\/p>\nNot only has my method created some super, super cute holiday creations but it’s a lot easier and takes a lot less time. \u00a0I focus on one main piece and then fill around with regular clothes and\/or accessories.<\/p>\n
Honeybun’s first Halloween I took her to a costume party at the dance studio where I was teaching. \u00a0I decided to make her a bumble bee and myself a flower. \u00a0My mommy helped make a little yellow bubble dress which we adorned with black rick-rack trim. \u00a0I made wings out of a circle of net that I scrunched in the middle and a headband out of elastic and black pipecleaners.<\/p>\n
Sugarplum’s first Halloween, Honeybun wore the bunny costume my mommy had made for my sister that I wore as well as all my cousins. \u00a0I decided to go with a theme and make Sugarplum a flower. \u00a0I constructed a sort of upside down tutu with green tulle and leaves underneath a purple bubble top. \u00a0I put her in matching leggings and onesie and made a flower for her tiny bit of hair.<\/p>\n Doodle’s first Halloween (last year) we went with a bug theme and he was the spider. \u00a0I got him a brown and white striped sleep-n-play and also bought the matching receiving blanket. \u00a0I cut the blanket and made tubes for the extra legs and attached all 8 legs together with ribbon so when he flailed all the legs danced around.<\/p>\n Honeybun’s second Halloween she was only 15 months old and being a late talker only had a few words which included “mum-mum,” “daaaad,” and “mooooo!” \u00a0So naturally, she was a cow. \u00a0I made her a jumper out of cow print and my sister (of JJ’s Custom Crochet Critters<\/a>) made the hat for her. \u00a0Sugarplum also wore the cow for her second Halloween though she required a white shirt layered underneath (the Dublin climate versus Florida!)<\/p>\n Our first Halloween back in Florida, Honeybun decided she wanted to be a ballerina. \u00a0I had made her a tutu (tutu instructions here) the year before when she was a funny dancing bunny (using the same bunny costume she wore when Sugarplum was a flower). \u00a0So I used the same tutu, and embellished her a cheap-o leotard, then added\u00a0her ballet tights and a play tiara.<\/p>\n That same year, Sugarplum was an “escargot!” since she had latched onto the French word while Honeybun was in French school in Dublin and we all thought it was just tooooo cute! \u00a0For the shell, I made a tube out of the fabric which I stuffed with fluff then rolled up and attached to a simple vest. \u00a0Paired with a coordinating shirt\u00a0\u00a0and leggings plus a few pigtails and she was the sweetest little snail ever!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n