Crafters UNITE!

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Originally Posted by stone4play

My biggest crafting fun is making Halloween costumes. I use to do them all the time for my kids. Anything from a Juicy Juice box w/ a straw headpiece, to Raggedy Ann, A computer monitor and keyboard, One of my kids was once a Hershey Kiss w/ the paper coming out of the top, another was a Jack n' The Box. It started the first Halloween my son was born. I made him an Alien Baby. The Helmet was from a milk jug and the antennas were pencils covered in foil, etc. He was only 6months old. That kid got so much candy. It just snowballed from there. Nothing is every premade store-bought. The best one I ever made was a Valentine Box of Chocolates for my youngest. The front was an open box and the candies had all been individually wrapped in reds, gold, and silver foil. Her headpiece was the top of a Valentine box of chocolate made from cardboard and covered with red wrapping paper, and decorated with fake roses and paper doillies for the lace fringes. A flourist shop asked for it when we finished with it. They wanted to pay for it, I just gave it to them. I was planning to trash it anyway.

This year I will be a scarecrow and I need to get busy with the "stuffing" part of it. The hay that will be coming out of the shirt, pants and around the neckline.

I don't sew... but I am a wiz with a hot glue gun and I use most scrap materials and items from around the house. Some things I will buy but I usually won't spend over 20.00. Except for the scarecrow hat I just bought but I am debating on returning it and making my own for a lot cheaper.

We'll see...

I used to make costumes for my kids too. Sweat suits from Goodwill were a good base. and here in Canada they have to fit over a snow suit.

I've made puppies, skeletons (painted white bones on a black sweat suit), mummies (that was a lot of wrapping gauze and pinning with a glue gun) scarecrows, kittens, zombies, bubble gum machine and so much more.

I wouldn't let me kids trick or treat after 12, so we had parties and they started making their own costumes. Now they are both much more into Halloween then I am.