Do You Dress Up With Your Kids for Halloween? (What’s Your Mom Halloween Costume?)
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Here’s a question for you: do you dress up with your kids for Halloween, either for trick or treating or for handing out candy? If you do, what’s your mom Halloween costume?
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For my $.02, I’ve had some years where I tried to get dressed up with the kids — the year J was Kylo Ren and H was Yoda I tried to do the Princess Leia buns, but decided to attempted to go with what I said was a General Organa costume instead (black moto leggings and a black camp shirt with combat boots)… so… mixed metaphors and nothing turned out great.
(Pro tip: if you’re trying for the Princess Leia buns, use one of those foam donuts or a rolled sock — I normally avoid because I’ve got enough hair that using a bun helper like that looks ridiculous on me, but I definitely needed more volume!)
I’ve also donned a witch hat for opening the door sometimes.
BUT: this year I’m not planning on dressing up at all because I’ve noticed that most moms I know don’t — so it’s one less thing for me to worry about.
How about you guys — have you ever or would you dress up with your kids for Halloween? What does your Halloween night look like?
Do you decorate your home for Halloween with talking eyeballs and things like that? Do you have Halloween parties to go to with coworkers, parents, friends over the next few weekends?
Pictured: stock image via Stencil.
Psst: If you like participating in the Teal Pumpkin Project (offering non-candy treats to kids with allergies), but don’t feel like spray painting a pumpkin teal every year, do note that Target has faux teal pumpkins that are apparently carvable.
Halloween is my favorite holiday. I host a party every year and decorate inside and out. Trick-or-treating is a huge deal in my neighborhood. Some years my costume matches my son’s, but this year it doesn’t. He’s Black Panther and I’m Sansa Stark. Can’t wait!
So my family cosplays at Comic-cons, and we usually do a theme. When our daughter was a baby, we did Ghostbusters II (DH was Vigo, I was the ghost-nanny, and DD was baby Oscar). This year we’re doing Lord of the Rings – DH is the Witch King, I am Eowyn, and DD will be a hobbit. At least I am hoping she will wear her hobbit costume to the Con rather than her Halloween princess costume.
Some years we dress up with her for Halloween, some we don’t. Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays, but sometimes I don’t have time for a real costume for me. As a toddler she was a bumblebee, so I just wore my beekeeping suit while trick-or-treating. Last year she was a dinosaur, and I copied a suggestion from the main page on business-appropriate Wonder Woman.
I typically throw something together to be a support to my daughter’s costumes (my son has been too young until now) and she usually is some kind of Superhero. First year of trick or treating she wanted to be Superman. I luckily had a 40’s style dress and an old hat from my grandmother. I slapped on a piece of paper that said, “Press” and red lipstick to be Lois Lane. Last year, she was Wonder Woman and I went as Wonder Woman in disguise. Again, an old style dress, one of grandma’s hats and glasses. Done. This year, she wants to be Violet from The Incredibles. I plan on grabbing a black wig and glasses to wear with a black dress of mine to go as Edna Mode. She now asks that I dress up with her (she wanted me to be Elastigirl but um…no spandex) so I think this will still be fun. She likes doing it together and I realize that one day, she won’t think it’s very cool anymore so I try and do it while it lasts :)
I love Halloween and have not been able to celebrate it properly for years (e.g. no friends in the area that dress up to party or volunteer, and no kid so no kid stuff). First Halloween with DS. Of course it’s a minimal affair – a small “party” at his daycare. But he is dressing up! He’s Han Solo, Dog will be Chewbacca, I am wearing a C3P0 Tshirt (and lots of gold highlight/jewelry because…excuse), and DH who is usually hopeless about this is wearing a Darth Vader tshirt! :)
When my son was 6 months, we dressed him in a red-striped onesie as “Toby” and my husband went as Jareth the Goblin King from Labyrinth. It was hilarious and very fun.
This is the first year my husband and I get my 4-year-old stepdaughter for Halloween. I’m choosing to dress up with her because, first of all, I still love dressing up (having a child now gives me more of an excuse to do it too!), and she would think that’s just awesome. We have already developed a deep bond through play, so this will be like an extra treat for her this Halloween. :)