Or:
how to put together 5 costumes (with a surprise 6th 2 weeks early)
on a budget
And now . . . the girls’ costumes!
Raspberry had a very
particular character outfit (one of several in said character’s movie), also
cosplay level. Peach actually decided to re-wear one of her costumes from a
previous year and
Strawberry picked a character with an iconic (and set) look.
Raspberry:
This year Raspberry
decided that she wanted to be Mulan. Specifically, Mulan from the rooftop fight
scene
in the 1st movie.
Ok, lots of layering,
some pretty specific colors,
but overall very do-able.
The bottom layer is a
white, greek goddess costume dress. The blue v-neck originally had puff sleeves
(I made the trim out of the same remnant fabric as the waist piece and some
blue ribbon), and the pink sash is actually blanket binding (I could not find
ribbon in the right color that was wide enough or the right type of fabric). I
bought the shoes at a discount store and took a plastic dollar store fan
and
used yellow satin from my craft supplies to
make it match the one she uses to
disarm Shan Yu.
White dress, blue
v-neck blouse, fan: $1 each
Light blue long
sleeve shirt: $2.50
Shoes: $3 Remnant fabric:
$1.50
blanket binding: $3 after coupon
Blue ribbon: $3 after
coupon
Satin and thread from craft
supplies: $0
Total: $16
Peach:
Normally, I don’t let
the kids reuse costumes
(the birthday pictures get hard to identify if the kid
is dressed the same every year) but due to my parents moving (my dad had been our
photographer since the girls turned 2) we missed a year of pictures.
Peach had
found that year’s costumes hanging in the closet and insisted on being Hello
Kitty again on the basis that they didn’t do birthday pictures that year, so
there wouldn’t be a problem with her re-wearing the costume.
After this
argument, I just decided to go with it.
Her costume dress had
lost a few crystals and she needed new shoes and tights as well as a long sleeve
shirt for under her dress, but the main part of the costume was done.
I had
originally used part of a set of Hello Kitty crystal decals to decorate the
pink dress I found, and still had enough of the set left to replace the missing
crystals and
add some more sparkle to the dress.
Unfortunately, Peach and
Strawberry refused to hold still long enough for good pictures of their
costumes.
I’ll try to remember to switch them out for the nice ones when we do
pictures this year . . . but no promises.
Pink shoes: $4 white tights: $3 for 3 pairs
long sleeve shirt:$1
Dress, crystal decals,
face paint
and hat we had from before: $0
Total: $8
And
last but not least . . .
Strawberry:
Strawberry has a
thing for nice vampires lately.
Last year she was Draculaura (from Monster
High)
and this year she decided to be
Mavis from the Hotel Transylvania movies.
Luckily, Mavis has a fairly easy to re-create outfit
(that stays pretty
consistent).
I never did find the sheer fingerless glove/ sleeves that she has
(and I wasn’t paying $14 for a spider web pair from a costume shop), so I may
need to look for a sheer top for her pictures. I also had to spray paint her
high tops red (the only place I found any that would fit her only had grey) but
I think it came together overall
(I couldn’t find any kid size fangs in time,
so I painted them on her bottom lip for the parade).
Black and red striped
tights: $3
High top shoes: $3 Black sweater dress:
$1
Spider drop earrings: $3 for 6 pair
set
Red spray paint and
face paint we already had: $0
Total: $10
So, for those keeping
score . . .
Halloween 2017 kid
costume total cost: $84
(for reference, that’s
about the cost of
2 ‘deluxe’ costumes at Target or Wal-Mart)
or an average of $14 per costume!
Not too shabby (and nobody was covered in paper mache,
cardboard or tinfoil *gives own mother the side eye*).
Anybody else go this
in on Halloween costumes? And any ideas what I can do with 5 decent size pumpkins
that
didn’t get cut into jack-o-lanterns?
Before they rot in my back yard?
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