Remember how when you sorta grew out of Halloween, there were still times when you were able to throw together a costume with items you had on hand? This can work for a baby or toddler costume, too.
Here are a few examples:
1- Tourist - hawaiian shirt, shorts, socks with sandals. Print a picture of a camera from the Web, paste it onto some cardboard, and make it a necklace for baby to wear.
2- 50s guy - black fake leather jacket (buy used at baby resale store or ebay), white onesie, jeans. Slick back hair for maximum effect. If hair is available.
3- Fried Egg - white one piece outfit or separates. Cut yellow circle from felt and sew or safety pin onto belly.
4- Ballet dancer - Pink onesie, pink tights, pink Robeez. Done.
5- Farmer - Plaid button down shirt, denim overalls, sunhat. Carry a stuffed animal that belongs on a farm, such as a pig.
6- Bumble Bee - Black onesie, black sweats, yellow electrical tape. Pipe cleaner headband for anntenae. (Contributed by veteran mom Jen R.)
What else could you do for a last-minute DIY baby halloween costume idea?
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A witch would be easy - black onesie and black pants with a witch’s hat. Carry a stuffed black cat and/or little broom. (Green wig optional if you’re feeling ambitious.)
Sailor - white shirt, navy pants, sailor hat, draw a little anchor tattoo on baby’s arm with marker or eyeliner.
Doctor - I know you can get baby scrubs places, otherwise a green onesie or t-shirt with green pants and a toy stethoscope. Maybe one of those toy doctor bags you can usually get any time of year.
Artist - White onesie and pants 9or even jeans) splatter them with fabric paint and let baby carry a paint brush. (A beret would be great, too, if you can find one.)
Lion tamer - all khaki outfit, stuffed lion (or tiger, or bear, etc.) I was going to say Steve Irwin, where you could wear all khaki and carry a stuffed alligator, but that may be in bad taste, all things considered. Heck, actually if the baby is big enough, you could be a zoo keeper in all khaki and pull a wagon of stuffed animals.
Mini Me - We are putting our little one in a matching outfit as mama, jeans and the same colored shirt / onesie. We might even get a stuffed animal for mama and a matching beanie baby for the baby.
Wizard - Last year we put Holden in his sleep sack with a wizard hat we had lying around. Maybe not everyone has a wizard hat though…
oh my!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you for these ideas. i NEVER thought to do any of these.
my son will be a construction worker.
hard hat
reflector vest
white tshirt
jeans
boots
thank you the my local thrift shop
These are GREAT Idea’s. My 6yo will be a foodpall player. He has a football jersey and I will stuff stuff up in the shoulders to make it look like FootBall pads and then add some of my Black eyeliner under his eyes and he will wear a pair of pants and carry his Football.
Easy peasy!
A Dice. Use a Cardboard box (white or brown is kind of irrelevant, but if you can make it white it works a little nicer) Cut holes in the box for arms and legs, and head, of course. Cut out circles from black construction paper or color the dots onto the box. It can be a fun project and a great costume!
LOVE the fried egg suggestion — hilarious!
We got a “gift” of a dragon costume for the Little Man. Guess we’re going with that….
every single one of these is genius.
and don’t involve a toddler dressing up like a tart … LOVE IT!
My favorite costume of all time was when I had a (hawt) guy friend who wore a box with wrapping paper on it with a tag that said To: women From: God.
(and he was RIGHT!)
I think I might do a billion dollar baby–put him in a sleep sack (white or really whatever is handy), and on the front of it, use felt or construction paper to make a black $ sign. Maybe pin a couple of dollar bills around his neck or if feeling energetic, use matching solid color to make a collar and attach the dollar bills to that.
A different kind of baby einstein
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