Now that you have your very own baby, your Halloween costume options have really expanded. If your baby is pretty new, she can be carted around with you, with no regard to bedtime. Enjoy it while it lasts.
A few ways use your baby as a fun prop or sidekick to your own costume. Some of these are very easy on the degree of dificulty scale and some require some more effort, so you can decide.
I would love to hear from someone who incorporates some sort of gear - a backpack or stroller - into their costume.
- Mom is princess, baby is frog (Optional: daddy is prince).
- Parents are the Wonder Twins. Baby is blue space monkey, Gleek. Heather has wanted to do this for years but her husband thinks its creepy to be siblings.
- Adults are characters from the Wizard of Oz. Baby is Toto.
- Mini Me as suggested by a RookieMoms.com reader, Sean
- Celebrity baby. If you have even the vaguest resemblance to Britney, Gwen Stefani, Angelina, put on your rock star clothes, wear baby in a sling, and carry a Starbucks cup. Alternative to the sling for lesbian moms: one mom is the celebrity, and the other partner dresses as the nanny and carries the baby.
We have some other Halloween costume ideas and tips for babies and toddlers:
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I bought baby a lobster costume and I’m going to dress up as a “house wife” a la June Cleaver to carry him around. A chef would have been better, but I’m just using clothes I already have.
When our son was 4 weeks old, we went to a Halloween party. My husband dressed up as Treebeard (from Lord of the Rings) and Fuller, our son, was in the camouflaged baby Bjorn dressed as a Hobbit. The party was at a bowling alley and my husband even bowled while wearing Fuller. It was sweet.
This year my husband will be the Man in the Yellow Hat and Fuller will be Curious George.
My friend’s hubby was the Statue of Liberty and their baby daughter was King Kong. I wish I had a picture because it was prurdy darn cute….
Last year we had a lion costume for my son Nick who was 6 months old - my husband and I deparately wanted to come up with coordinating costumes but never came up with anything. So we ended up, at the last minute, going to our party as new parents - I went in the sweats and shirt I’d been wearing all day, messed up my hair, and put a brag book on a ribbon around my neck. My husband put on mismatched shoes and took an old white shirt and stained it with carrots, prunes and peas. I don’t think anyone realized that we were even dressed up!
How about a spider lady and fly? If you’ve got your figure back, you can dress up sexy. Baby can be in sleep sack, attach a couple of wings to his back and maybe a give him antennae.
Or for parents & baby–Adam & Eve and dress baby as the apple.
On a variation of the sidekick theme, we’ll be dressing my baby son up as a green parrot (using the green base outfit from One Step Ahead that Heather & Whitney show in their Costume Guide) and my Golden Retriever as a pirate (red and white striped doggy tee with edges cut to make fringe and a little black Halloween makeup for an eye patch)
My 6 week old baby and I are going as kangaroos. I spent $6 in a yard and a half of grey fleece….I made a tail for each of us (stuffed with fiberfill) and ears. I pinned both of these on a grey hoodie/grey pj pants I already owned, and spent $6 for a grey sweat suit for little bit. It is adorable!!! PS) I have a grey baby carrier to use as my ‘pouch’
Last weekend I saw a lady dressed in a bee keeper suit and her two tiny kids were dressed like bees! Super cute!
I’m going to dress my daughter as a cat and carry her in my Moby Wrap. The rest of me will be in a bathrobe and covered in stuffed cats to go as the crazy cat lady in the Simpsons.
I dressed up as a pirate and 6 month old DD was a parrot. I sewed eyes and a beak onto a lime green hoodie. She wore that and yellow pants. I cut wings out of felt and glued a rainbow feather boa on it as a tail. I pinned that onto my beco baby carrier (it covered the whole thing). I wore her like that to a Halloween party and got great compliments!
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