History of Halloween
We’ve been asking Emily for about a month what she wants to be for Halloween. Finally, this week she settled on a costume.
For a few years, she wanted to be a pig. I got pink leggings and a pink turtleneck, sewed a piece of velcro to a pink pipe cleaner for a tail, and cut out and glued pink foam ears to a headband. I also made a snout with a piece of elastic. I have pics, but I can’t dig them up. She was too sick to go trick-or-treating that year.
The next year, she wanted to be a cat. I got black leggings and a shirt and used fusible interfacing to adhere white felt to the front. I took a piece of cording and encased it in black T-shirt material and sewed it to the seat of her pants for a tail. Unfortunately, she was too sick to trick-or-treat again. Talk about bad luck.
One year she wanted to be Jo Jo the clown. That required a trip to the Disney store.
One year, she wanted to be a princess, a decision she made on Halloween evening, requiring me to McGyver together various pink and purple bits of fluff into a costume.
This year? Well, this year she is fascinated with ghosts and vampires and such, and she remembered watching Charlie Brown.
Find a worn-out white sheet in the closet. Cut out the elastic, since it’s a fitted sheet. Snip out two eye holes.
Easiest. Costume. Ever.
Thank you, parenting gods, for smiling upon me this year!