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Halloween is a holiday that lets your children express their own fashion sense. Children love to dress up, put on makeup, and look crazy. Halloween is the perfect time to let them go wild, and express what they feel in their costumes. Letting your child make fashion decisions now will help children express themselves better in the future. If you have decided to design your child's costume, or to let your child help you make his costume, there are a few fun things that you can pick up while you are shopping.

When Halloween finally rolls around, your children and teens usually have changed their minds about their Halloween costumes about fifty different times. Just when you are about to finish shopping for one costume, your child will want to be something different. The best idea is to wait until the week before Halloween, and then do your Halloween shopping. If your child decides to be something different after you have everything bought, tell your child that you are not changing your mind, and they can be something different next year. However, make sure you listen to your child's input, and get them the kind of costume that they want to begin with.

If you decide to design your child's costume on your own, there are a few things you can buy to help you along your way. A few things you may need are glitter, paint, string, felt, yards of cloth, scissors, hair dye or colored hair spray, fun hats and shoes, reflective tape, makeup, nail polish, trick or treating pails, and socks. If your child's costume is not very warm, make sure they wear warm clothing underneath. You do not want your child coming home sick or with a fever because they froze while trick or treating. Also, make sure that your child wears reflective tape in more than one place on their costume. This will alert oncoming traffic of your child. Many children die or get seriously hurt every year trick or treating after dark because motorists have a hard time seeing the children crossing the street.

When designing a costume, let your children help you out, and listen to their input. Children have very good imaginations, and can come up with great ideas that most adults cannot. If your child decides to be something that requires a wig, you might want to buy bobby pins to keep the wig from falling over your child's face, and into your child's eyes. Make sure you have the wig securely on your child's head. If you decide to sew your own shirts or pants for your costumes, use your child's clothes as an idea of how big to make them. Make sure you make the costume a bit bigger than your child's regular clothes, because you want to be able to fit extra clothes underneath for warmth. If you use glitter, string, and other embellishments, it is best if it is glued down and tied securely. If you use hair dye or colored hair spray, keep the spray and dye out of your child's eyes. You can even change the color of your child's costume with hair dye and colored spray.

When you pick out shoes for your child to wear on Halloween, there are a few things to look for. First, if you are buying shoes for a girl, it is best that they have low, sturdy heels. Your young child will have a hard time walking in high heels, and may injure herself. Next, make sure the shoes fit well, and are not too big or too small. If the shoes do not fit correctly, your child will come home with sore feet, and maybe even with blisters on them.


If you decide to buy a pre-made costume from a store, let your child come with to try it on. You do not want a costume that is to long, or your children may trip on it and hurt themselves. You also want to make sure that the fabric it is made from is durable, and will not rip or fall apart half way through the night. You might also want to try to avoid buying a costume that twenty other children will also have. It is nice to be able to pick your child out of a crowd. You might also want to try to buy a costume that your child can fit into the next year, if they really like their costume.

Have fun picking out and making your Halloween costumes, and have a fun and safe night!