10 ideas for Kid Halloween Costumes

Life is too short to fret about Halloween costumes. Thats why weve compiled a list of easy children costumes you can toss together with easy clothes, some face-paint and basic craft supplies. Weve also covered where to source Halloween costume supplies in Kitsilano. Get all the details after the jump.
10 Quick and Easy Kids Halloween Costumes

1) A bunch of grapes: Pin some green or purple balloons on to a brown sweater and tights and complete the see with a green toque and some green felt leaves.

2) A pirate: A enormous white shirt, black bandana, red sash and cardboard eye-patch make a fun and easy pirate costume.

3) A cow: Sew or paste some black felt spots on white leggings and a sweater and add a frayed black rope for the tail.

4) A Despicable Me minion: Make the minion Goggles by cutting two rings from a paper towel tube, painting them silver and stapling them together, and then to some black elastic. Put on a yellow hat, yellow sweater and a pair of overalls to complete the see.
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5) A bat: Sew two black felt ears to a black hoodie and paste or stitch a pair of trash sack wings to the sleeves.

6) Rocket Man: Wrap two Pringles cans and party hats in aluminum foil or duct tape. Add some streamers to create a impressive rocket that can be strapped upon with ribbon.

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7) Elmo: Dress in a red sweater and pants and pop upon a red toque with two small red felt ears and two Styrofoam eyeballs glued upon the summit for a costume that takes about 10 minutes to toss together.

8) Strongman: Make a barbell from two black balloons glued to a cardboard tube. Dress in some cute shorts and a stripped t-shirt and draw upon a cute curly moustache with some face-paints or an eye-liner pencil.

9) Sunflower: Sew yellow craft foam petals onto a ribbon to tie around your childs face and dress them every in green for the stem.

10) A spider: Stuff two pairs of black tights with paper to make the legs, dress in black and throw upon a black toque for a classic spider costume.