Easy Halloween Costumes for Moms | SLACKER MOM’s Guide to Halloween
Step away from Pinterest. Don’t even look at your Instagram. Slacker Mom is here, ready to save your ass again, with easy Halloween costumes for moms and kids.
In this episode of our Slacker Mom’s Guide, the MomCave moms throw together some funny, simple and cheap Halloween costumes from items they found around the house. If you’re as much as a slacker ( or procrastinator?) as we are, we’ve got you covered!
Easy Halloween Costumes for Moms and Kids| Slacker Mom’s Guide to Halloween
The key to creating a simple, last minute Halloween ensemble is to embrace your inner slacker. Halloween is all about having fun. If costumes are stressing you, you’re missing the point. If KIDS are stressing you ABOUT costumes… Well, we feel your pain.
Besides the very specific easy costume ideas in the video, here are some guidelines for you to come up with some of your own.
Work with what you have. Look at every day objects strewn about your home and see what their appearance suggests. A kitchen funnel turned upside down is a great Tin Man hat! Add a gray shirt and gray sweats and you’ve got Slacker Mom’s version of a classic Wizard of Oz character.
Play around with words. Look at the objects in your home and see if their names sound like anything else. A great example is a bunch of empty cereal boxes stapled to an old T-shirt makes a great “serial” killer.
Embrace your natural state. Instead of concealing the bags under your eyes, dry-shampooing your dirty mom hair and changing into cleaner yoga pants, just go as you are. Tell everyone you’re a “Mombie.”
Or the opposite. Dig out that old cocktail dress, actually style your hair and get all made up. Your kids will wonder where you are going. Tell them you are a woman without children to take care of.
Steal your kid’s costume from last year. My child was a lion last year. I squeezed his lion outfit over my yoga clothes and said I was a radioactive mutant growing lion. The second-graders totally bought it.
Obviously, the easiest solution is a store-bought costume. Heck, my kids have been sporting those for years. With Amazon Prime, I can have thousands of different costumes to choose from that arrive in my mailbox in two days. Here are a few of our past favorites. (The links to buy are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, we make a few pennies.)
Peter Pan and Tinkerbell… thanks to Amazon!
Witch and Dorothy, courtesy Amazon.
Stay tuned for more episodes of Slacker Mom. Have an idea you’d like us to cover? Tweet us @MomCaveTV. We’re also accepting YOUR Slacker Mom videos for future episodes.
This video was made by possible by a grant from the town of Dover, VT and the Independent TV & Film Festival.
BONUS IDEAS, courtesy of our friends at Perfection Pending and Mommy Owl:
Smushed Bubble-gum: Dress your kid all in pink and then tie a shoe to the top of her head to make her a piece of gum someone stepped on.
Tornado: Tie na bunch of your kid’s plastic toys (toy animals, trucks, houses) on strings and then attach those strings to your child. When you child turns in circles, he looks like a tornado.
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I will never forget the year my mom made me a gypsy for Halloween. I was not happy. I wanted a store bought.costume, and she was compelled to piece one together for me. I appreciate it now, but I’m still traumatized from being the weird kid.