Budget Friendly Halloween Costumes for Toddlers

Everyone wants their toddler to look cute for Halloween but not everyone can afford the high cost of a store bought costume especially for this age group who will probably fall asleep early and miss most of the festivities anyway.

Store bought costumes can also be itchy, uncomfortable and hard to change a diaper in.

But not to fear your toddler can still look cute in one of these inexpensive, no sew, semi homemade costumes.

Flower Princess

What little girl doesn't want to be a princess? This is a pretty and inexpensive costume that you can make out of an old party dress, some ribbon and a few fake flowers.

Materials Needed

• Old solid color frilly party dress
• Fake flowers
• Hot Glue Gun and glue sticks
• Old Dress shoes
• Silver Spray Paint
• Tights

Flower Wreath Supplies

• Floral Wire
• Wire Cutters
• Glue Gun, Glue Sticks
• One Large Spray Silk Ivy Cut Into Individual Sprigs
• Two Sprays of Flowers
• One Spool Wide Ribbon
• One Spool Small Ribbon
• Embellishments
• Directions for making a Flower Wreath http://www.fairyday.com/fairyfashionsII.html

Directions

1. Following the directions on how to make a flower wreath on the Fairy Day website form the wreath.
2. Spray paint the shoes silver and allow to dry
3. Cut the flowers from their stems
4. Hot glue several flowers around the waist of the dress
5. Hot glue flowers to the top of the shoes

Putting It All Together

Put your little girls tights, dress, and shoes on. Place the flower wreath in her hair and shes ready to be the belle of the ball.

Tip

Thrift stores are a good source for dresses and shoes. The dress will look cuter if you get one that is about mid calf length.

Flower

A perfect costume for a toddler girl to wear. Cute and inexpensive to make. This is also a great last minute costume as it doesn't take very long to make. Instead of a Halloween bucket for candy use a plastic watering can.

Materials Needed

• Green Sweat shirt
• Green Sweat Pants
• Your Choice of bright colored knit cap
• Stiff felt in a bright color that matches the knit hat
• Green Stiff Felt
• Hot Glue Gun
• Scissors

Directions

1. Cut several flower petals from the stiff bright colored felt
2. Cut two large leaves out of the green felt
3. Hot glue the flower petals to the rim of the ski hat
4. Hot glue the leaves to either side of the stomach area of the sweatshirt.

Putting it all Together

Dress your child in the green sweatshirt and pants. Then place the flower petal hat on your toddlers head. Add a watering can for treats and you're ready to go.

Tip

Add a felt butterfly to the top of the ski hat for an added touch

Skeleton

This is a really easy inexpensive costume to make and very comfortable to wear.

Materials Needed

• Black Sweat shirt and pants
• White Glow in the dark fabric paint
• Picture of a Skeleton for reference
• White water based face make up
• Thin cardboard

1. Insert cardboard into the pants and sweat shirt to keep the fabric stiff.
2. Using the picture of the skeleton as a reference draw outlines of bones on the arms legs and chest area of the black sweatshirt and hoodie with the fabric paint.
3. Using the fabric paint completely fill in each outline with paint.
4. Allow to completely dry.
5. Once the outlines have dried flip the sweat shirt over and draw the same bone outlines on the other side and then fill the outline in with the fabric paint.
6. Allow to dry completely

Putting It All Together

Dress your toddler in the skeleton costume. Add a light application of white face paint to your child's face if they will tolerate it. Your little skeleton is ready to scare up some Halloween fun.

Tip

The glow in the dark fabric paint can be purchased at your local craft store or on line at

www.dharmatrading.com

Bat

This a super inexpensive costume to make out of a black hoodie jacket. After Halloween you can reuse the jacket to keep your child warm all winter long.

Materials Needed

• Black Hoodie Jacket
• Black pants
• Black Felt 1 yard ( Buy on the roll not squares)
• Tailor chalk or fabric marking pencil
• Scissors
• Black felt
• White felt
• Yellow felt
• Two Black Pipe Cleaners
• Fabric Tape

Directions

. To Make Bat Ears

1. Trace 2 large 2" by 2" triangles on the black felt and cut out.

To Make Bat Eyes

1. Trace two almond shaped eyes out of black felt and cut out
2. Trace two small nickel sized circles out of the black felt and cut out
3. Trace two quarter sized circles on the white felt and cut out.
4. Trace two 1/2 dime sized triangles on the yellow felt and cut out
5. To put together hot glue the white circle to the almond shaped felt. Then hot glue the black circle in the middle of the white circle and finish by gluing the yellow triangle in the center of the black circle.
6. Repeat with other eye

To Make a Bat Nose and Mouth

1. Trace and cut out a guitar pick shape out of the black felt for the nose
2. Trace and cut out two small tear drop shapes for the bats nostrils.
3. Hot glue the nostrils to the nose
4. Cut a mouth of upper jagged teeth out of white felt.

To Make Bat Wings

1. Measure the arm and side length of the hoodie.
2. Using these measurements make a large triangle. The base of the triangle should be the two measurements combined
3. Cut the largest side ( base) of the triangle in wave pattern to simulate bat wings.

Putting it all Together

Hot glue the bat ears to the top of the black hoodie. Hot glue the bat eyes below the ears and the nose in the center below the two eyes. Hot glue the teeth to the inside edge of the black hoodie. Finish off by hot gluing the straight edges of the triangle bat wings to along the side and bottom arm seam of the hoodie on both sides.

Dress your child in a pair of black jeans , throw on the hoodie and your little bats ready to take flight.

Spider

For a little boy who likes creepy crawlies this is a perfect costume, comfortable and inexpensive to make.

Materials Needed

• Black sweat shirt
• Black sweat pants
• 4 long black mens stockings
• Safety pins
• Poly Fil
• Black Ski cap
• Black mittens or gloves
• Yellow felt

Directions

1. Stuff the black socks with Poly fil
2. Se curly Safety pin the black socks in two rows on the back of the black sweatshirt
3. Cut out 8 quarter size black circles from the felt
4. Hot glue the green circles in a group to the front of the ski cap. These will be the spiders eyes

Putting It All Together

Dress your toddler in the black sweat pants and shirt. Put the gloves on and the ski hat. Your little spider is ready for Halloween.

Cute costumes for your Toddler don't have to be expensive and store bought. Your little one will look great in anyone of these inexpensive semi homemade costumes and be comfortable too. Most of them can be reused after Halloween by just removing the items you added on, saving you money on clothes during the coming months.