You parents of newborns: Well, it’s likely you’ll do nothing on Halloween. But you’re missing your last chance to have an adult-style Halloween. If your baby has no dramatic bedtime ritual, beyond you swaddling him up and shushing until you pass out, then why not do what YOU like to do.
Of course you want your baby to be adorable in a witty costume, but who has the mental energy right now? (I don’t.) Use one of my three newborn Halloween costume suggestions:
1- An iPod. Wear this onesie. Done.
2- An organic vegetable. These soft cotton baby bags are not the 3D polyester costumes you see in the catalogs for babies. They are actually really cozy pjs from GreenBabies. We have the carrot version. If you’re ambitions, use a brown sharpie to draw some horizontal lines to indicate further that it’s a carrot. Matching hat optional.
3- A grown up. Dress baby in any ridiculously adult clothes you have. (We had a sports coat in size 3-6). Accessorize baby with a mustache, cell phone, car keys, or laptop computer made out of cardboard.
For those who are not in so much of a newborn haze, read our Halloween suggestions from last year:
- Activity #447: Keep Halloween costume for baby low-key
- Activity #448: Use baby as a prop in your Halloween costume
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Cute : ) We have a sweatsuit with a skeleton on it that we got on sale last year.
I just bought a costume… twelve bucks at Target and we will have a baby tiger for Halloween.
For my babies first Halloween, my Mom’s group got together for a party and we proped all the babies up on the couch and took pictures of them in their costumes. It’s hilarious to see them leaning against each other looking confused as they are dressed in their costumes.
That iPod onesie is hysterical! And the model is adorable.
The iPod outfit made me do a snort/chuckle as I try not to wake my slumbering beast.
Way more inventive than the too-tight-by-the-time-she-actually-wore-it chickie costume from Old Navy that I got for my girl for her first Halloween!
we’re making a zebra- black and white striped babylegs (which we had anyway) and a sharpied long sleeve onsie. someone bought him a zebra winter hat from the etsy shop babyrocksmohawk which was the inspiration
for rainbow stripes- rainbow brite, raggedy anne/andy, let’s get physical workout (pair with headband and tighter onesie), the pot of gold at the end of rainbow (draw a pot of gold onto onsie) a sprite (colored onesie and bobble head band)
for red and white stripes- candycane (with red/white onesie) wicked witch of the east- turn the carrier or stroller into the house that fell on her
i could go on for hours! i’ve never bought a costume and don’t plan on starting anytime soon!
An iPod!! What a great idea! We dressed my baby boy up as a chili pepper for his first Halloween. Way cute. Now he’s 7 and wants to be a Jawa (Star Wars ‘Droid trader)…I miss the days when I could dress him as vegetables.
Super cute. Love the iPod picture!
The ipod idea was sooo clever
Cute ideas. I found a lot of inexpensive costumes here. http://www.newborncostumeideas.com/ This site has a lot of coupon codes too.
I like the costumes for year round picture taking as well. There are a lot of baby photo contests to enter.