Everyone likes getting out their ghoulies, spectres and ghosts, especially for Halloween, but rather than going on a shocking spending spree, here are some fancy, and not so fancy, dress tips that won’t have anyone turning in their grave.
With news that last year’s spend on Halloween costumes and accoutrements coming to a cool £140 million, Devon County Council and the Don’t Let Devon Go to Waste team have come up with some spooky money-saving ideas.
• Rather than buying a special swag bag from the shop to keep treats safe, make one out of an old pillow case. Cut out scary shapes from felt and glue onto the pillow case
• A Halloween costume can cost anything from £3.99 upwards and horror of horrors – someone else could be wearing the same one! Go through the wardrobe and encourage and make your own individual creations for pennies.
• Dad’s old brown leather jacket he can’t squeeze into anymore and an old cowboy or fedora type hat could be the basis for an Indiana Jones costume. A whip could be fashioned by painting a small pringles tube brown and attaching tinsel or string. For a really up-to-date affair, make a ‘crystal skull’ from small carved pumpkin to collect treats.
• For a cheap and easy zombie, start with some old tights. If they haven’t already got rips in them, add some. Combine with black shorts or cut off trousers and an old black t-shirt, adding rips and some mud to make them look suitably old and put dark make-up under the eyes. Orange peel can be cut into a good pair of false zombie teeth and old drinking straws can be cut up and taped to fingers to make long finger nails.
• Make a headless ghost by using an old dress and simply doing it up over the head and adding some eye holes further down. Or for a mummy, take an old light coloured tracksuit and cut up long strips of an unwanted sheet, wrap them around and tuck in the ends.
• Create a face white with black eyes and wrinkles with face paint and make hair suitably ancient by sprinkling it with baby powder.
• Go bats with that broken black umbrella sitting by the door. Rip the circle of material away from the handle and metal and cut in two to make wings. Sew or safety pin one end of the wing to your all black costume and hold or tie the other end to wrists.
• Rubik’s cubes are tipped as one of the top 10 must have Christmas toys this year. Make a rubik’s cube from painting different coloured squares on an old cardboard box. Cut a hole in to top for the head and add black trousers and shoes.
Tips on making scary masks can be found all over the internet.
Tomorrow: everyone’s favourite, pumpkin soup (we have a recipe!).
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