Unique Halloween Baby and Toddler Costumes

So you've taken your child out for trick or treating for Halloween, and discovered that there are ten other children wearing exactly the same costume. What's a parent to do? Here are some unique homemade Halloween costumes which will make your baby or toddler stand out from the crowd.

Food Baby and Toddler Costumes

Homemade Baby Burrito Halloween Costume

Decorate a dark brown shirt with fabric paint. Use red for hot sauce, yellow for cheese, green for lettuce and white for sour cream. Put the shirt on, then wrap a light tan or white blanket around the body of your baby or toddler. Pin at the front with safety pins. Finish off the costume by placing a little bit of green yarn or shredded tissue paper on his head to indicate extra lettuce.

Homemade Macaroni and Cheese Halloween Costume

Get a bright yellow shirt for your baby or toddler. Put a little orange fabric paint on the shirt at random. Then take some styrofoam packing peanuts into a well ventilated area and spray-paint them yellow. Add dabs of orange with craft paint. Attach them to the shirt with hot glue. Hot glue some of these to an old hat or cap. Also consider putting some on a pair of old shoes.

Homemade Hot Dog Halloween Costume

Start with a hooded brown sweatshirt or jacket. Then get a large piece of orange felt or foam. Use red and yellow felt or foam strips, or red and yellow craft paint to create mustard and ketchup strips on the orange foam. Apply this with tape or glue. Finish the costume off by dressing your baby or toddler in brown pants and shoes.

Homemade Pez Dispenser Costume

For this costume, you'll need a long, slender cardboard box. Cut holes in the box where your toddler's arms should be. Paint the box any color you like, and mark the side with the Pez logo. The head can be just about anything you want. You could create a mask which looks like Spiderman, a dog or a cat, a monkey, Mickey or Minnie mouse, Darth Vader, Snoopy, Kermit the Frog or Daffy Duck. Get creative; the sky's the limit!

Other Unique Baby and Toddler Halloween Costumes

Homemade Pink Ninja Halloween Costume

Pick up a pink bathrobe at your local Goodwill or Salvation army store in the right size for your toddler. Alternately, you could get a black bathrobe and attach shiny pink fabric to the closure and sleeves. Use fabric paint to create a dragon on the front of this "kimono." Use this pink ninja costume image as a guide. You can also purchase an iron-on decal. Dress your baby or toddler some black pants and black slippers.

Homemade Baby Cloud Halloween Costume

Find a blue sweat suit which fits your baby or toddler. Then pin or glue on cotton balls or white acrylic stuffing. Glue some more cotton or acrylic to a little beanie and put it on top of your baby or toddler's head. Finish your baby cloud Halloween costume off with blue shoes.

Homemade Spelling Bee Halloween Costume

Find a yellow and black striped sweatshirt for your baby or toddler. Cut letters out felt and hot glue them to the shirt. Find or make a small headband with antennae made from spring and foam. Finish the Halloween costume with black pants and shoes.

Race Car Driver Halloween Costume

Create a race car out of cardboard. Leave a hole in the middle so that your toddler can wear the car. Paint the car to make it look as authentic as possible. Dress your child up in racer-style gear, complete with helmet on Halloween night. Use this article as a guide for creating your race car Halloween costume.