Car Costumes for Christmas, Easter and Halloween
Car Get-Ups transform your car for holidays. You can turn your car into a reindeer for Christmas, a bunny for Easter, or a bat for Halloween. Each get-up consists of three pieces: a 6-inch nose to put on the grill of the car, and two matching 16-inch pieces for the driver and passenger side windows. The reindeer has a red nose and brown antlers with jingle bells; the Easter bunny has a pink nose and long white and pink ears; and the bat has a black nose and black wings.
I decided to dress up our new family mini-van as a reindeer for Christmas this year. We hadn't had a new vehicle in close to ten years, and I had been pining for a mini-van since the birth of our first son five years ago. It was a landmark year as my husband and I both turned forty--time to become full-fledged grown-up parents with a "family car". Although I knew the kids would love a Rudolph-mobile, I have to admit that I was the one who was excited by the fun accessories for my new toy. (Okay, maybe I'm not such a full-fledged grown-up after all!)
The costume was simple to install, and no tools are necessary. You simply hook a brown, plush antler to each front window, and attach a plush red nose to the grill with twisty-wires. The pieces stay firmly in place, but highway driving is not recommended. I once forgot about my antlers at a drive-thru restaurant, but when I opened the window the antler fell inside the car, not outside. If I had remembered to put the window just halfway down it would have stayed in place. All of the pieces are weather-resistant. My costume has weathered both snow and rain.
Car Get-Ups are available at www.cargetups.com for $20.95. You can also find them at a variety of specialty stores and web sites, usually for $15-20.
With Car Get-Ups, I can easily find my vehicle in the sea of mini-vans here in suburbia. I can't wait to dress it up as a bunny for Easter and a batmobile for Halloween. I love the cheery jingle my reindeer antlers make as I get in my car to drive during the Christmas season. Sure, it's silly, but my car costume makes me and my kids smile.
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Post a CommentNeed to finish. They have every holiday you could think of and some more just one.
It is www.cargetups.com.
Enjoy and make some people smile!!
I had a set of Reindeer ones that I put on every year. They after two years my husband was driving and he rolled down the back window and one flew out. We where in a area of no traffic so we did a u-turn and saw the antler on the side of the road. We pulled over my husband got out and picked it up and gave it to me.Then we realized it was not our set. :)
So we drove a little more and found mine but it was broke. Sad Day!!
I bought another set and this time our daughter was behind us and we where going to visit family. Well he let the one window down again and out goes my new set. My daughter who was behind us saw this and told her husband "Oh My dad is in big trouble.HAHA. So I gave up.
But for Easter I found a web site that had rabbit ears. So I bought them and when my husband drivers my truck we lock the windows and it helps him to remember not to put the window now. He has to get use to this due to the fact the web site I found has 5 different Christmas ones,
4th of July
Did you know that there are also car get ups for valentines day, and st. pattys day? you can get them at www.weecanshop.com
I have all five car get ups, and they are great!
hahaha This article had me laughing out loud. Very creative!
What fun and funny ideas. I love them!
What a great idea! Sounds like loads of fun.
I had the antlers and nose on my CX-7 this Christmas. I'd planned to get it from one of the catalogs that offered the set then found them at Walgreens for $10. My neighbor loved it so much she asked if I minded if she did it too. As far as we could tell we were the only ones in town with the set. I had a lot of thumbs up, smiles and "oh how cute!" I had no trouble with them on the freeway, but we had some high winds and I took them off then. Rain didn't hurt them and by putting the antlers on the rear windows, I didn't have to worry about drive throughs.
I've got the bunny ears ready for Easter and same with the bat wings.
Linda
The reindeer cars have been quite popular around here. Many folks do decorate their car roof racks with greens or place wreaths on the front grills. We haven't, but it is quite prevalent. ;-)
I had a great photo of my Rudolph-mobile, but it didn't publish for some reason. Oh well . . . it was really cute!
This sounds like alot of fun!