Toddler Halloween Costumes

With a variety of Halloween themed activities we ended up having to war a variety of costumes. Elsa picked out her halloween costume early this year, while shopping she decided she wanted to be a dragon, not any dragon but this dragon.

It's awesome for tick-or-treating but not so great for social activities. The wings are lined with wire so you can shape them, but I'm worried she take some kids eye out. 

For dance class she whipped this classic out of her dress up box, starting off the week with Monday night dance as a pink prince.

 I think she looks like she popped off the stage, this kid knows how to strike a pose.

 Wednesday was our halloween party and she got to rock her dragon, in typical toddler fashion she wore it for 30minutes and took it off herself exclaiming that it was for "Halloween trick or treating"

 Thursday we popped back into princess mode for dance, with her options between blue and pink princesses she decided to mix it up and go blue, declaring that she was 'princess belle' in this dress and insisting on wearing her crown to go with it.

Impressively she kept the crown on through dance class.

We did sone dress up Friday while mulling over ideas of what she should wear to a Saturday night halloween party that is outside (in Minnesota) with an inflatable slide. I didn't think the dragon would be practical and was convinced she'd freeze in a princess dress. Luckily she likes wearing a Spirit Hood I grabbed cheap last year on 6pm.com and thanks to some ipsy liquid eyeliner I got I didn't have to spend money on makeup.

Interior Halloween Decorating

I love Halloween 👻 🎃🕸🕷
My oldest is 2 and complete obsessed with Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' so we got to start decorating early. I treat Halloween like Christmas substituting costumes and candy for cards and cookies. This year I let Elsa pick her own costume, and she decided she wanted to be a Dragon that we found very reasonably priced ($15) at TJmaxx. She had also mentioned wanting to be a stormtrooper for Halloween but I knew there was no way she was going to wear the mask and those costumes are hella expensive. However, I did find a stormtrooper mask in the Target dollar bin for $3 that she wears for 3minute increments.

My husband doesn't want me getting anymore stuff since we're moving in the spring, but I couldn't resist Edgar, my daughter loves him and he's become like a family member to us.

This year marks my 10th Halloween with my husband. I found this lovely couple last year.

I love spiders for decor they're classic and cheap

 We also found a skeleton rat, that she's now in love with

Lastly I tidied up the kids bookcase pulling out halloween titles front and center

Halloween 2014

Halloween 2014 Peg + Cat

This is a DIY costume. 

Not wanting to sew everything from scratch I started with a cat costume from eBay and some iPoly dye 

Instead of using the iPoly dye on the stove as directed I boiled a pasta pot full of water and used that to fill one of my husbands 5 gallon work buckets (outside), I covered it with a piece of cardboard to keep the temperature up and went out to stir occasionally. 

For the yarn wig I bought two variations of yellow, I made a large circle with the yarn, that when halved was about the length of my fart and went down alternating coloring making slipknots to create a wig, I made it a little long so that I could trim it to my desired length. 

The pants I made by bleaching some old leggings and them placing elastic bands down the length of each leg prior to dying my desired color. 

I sewed this jacket, but I would highly recommend just trying to find one you can dye.