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Fun Costumes and Party Ideas for Little Kids & Toddlers

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Great Costume Ideas for Tremendous Fun!

Maybe this is your little one's first real Halloween, without a stroller. On her own two feet, she feels a sense of adventure, but things can also be scary.

I'm looking for ways to make this Halloween fun for my little one, and not scary. Here are some great ideas and resources I've run across. 

1. Prepare ahead of time.

Anything that's exciting can be scary for a little one. Having it suddenly become Halloween can be really disconcerting. All of a sudden people are wearing costumes, it's dark and people leave the lights off, there's fire (!), and everyone seems excited. What a stresser!

Ways to work up to Halloween:

  • Take some night-time walks in your neighborhood.
  • Light a few candles the week before halloween
  • Try costumes on and play in them.
  • Try to keep your own composure.

2. Pick a costume the little one likes.

There are all kinds of costumes that adults think are cute, but don't interest babies at all. You gotta think like a two or three year old.

Pick a comfortable costume the baby likes, and it will be dress-up clothes for a long while after Halloween.
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3. Make a family of pumpkins

What could be more fun (and non-scary) than making a set of pumpkins, one for each member of the family? Include the people your baby is close to, and he or she will think it's really fun, I bet.

Carve them, paint them, stick colored toothpicks in them, glue wads of yarn to them... Have lots of fun, and leave the scary stuff for later years.

"Look! A Mama-Punken!" That's my little one talking. He points, "Mama Punken, Papa Punken, Brubber Punken, Grammudr Punken!"

4. Bake some special cookies!

My older kids tell me that some of their best memories are making things with me in the kitchen. I don't know if it's the attention they get, or the yummy cookies, and frosting spoons to lick.
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5. Make some happy, friendly decorations

  • Tissue Ghosts
    Make ghosts out of white tissue. Wad up a few tissues, then use that to stuff another tissue, creating a ghost head. secure the "neck" with string, tape, or a rubber band.
  • Magic Appearing Ghosts
    A grownup can color some ghosts on white paper with white crayon, and they can be discovered by painting over them with watercolors. The paint doesn't stick to the crayon, so the ghost becomes visible.
  • Shiny Ghosts and Creative Pumpkins
    Ghosts that a parent cuts out of posterboard can be covered with glue and sprinkled with white glitter for a fun, messy project.
    A pumpkin shape cut from construction paper can be a base for gluing on the basics, eyes, nose and mouth, or you can gather buttons, yarn, scraps of paper, and whatever else you can find, to make some truly creative pumpkins.

6. Curl up with sweet Halloween books and movies.

Sweet means not-scary.

I never understood how Disney succeeded so well. Their stuff is so scary! But these aren't scary. They're fun and sweet.
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  • searsha Mar 29, 2011 @ 4:50 pm | delete
    it didn`t have what i need
  • fashionone Aug 8, 2008 @ 3:20 am | delete
    Check out Children's Costumes
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This page was made for the Halloween season, but since that time it is clear that costumes can be needed all year, and not-so-scary ones at that! more »

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