Suggested Family Activity • Clever 🎃 Costumes
Suggested Family Activity • Clever 🎃 Costumes
If you like to make your children’s Halloween costumes, your local library has books available to give you inspiration. Clever Costume Creating for Halloween: An A to Z Guide of 200 Costume Ideas by Suzanne Singleton and A Ghostly Good Time: The Family Halloween Handbook are good choices for ideas to fit any budget and skill level, from beginner on up. For any experienced knitters out there, Monster Knits for Little Monsters by Nuriya Khegay contains twenty designs for animal themed hats, mittens, bootie sets and more to knit to give your little ones a costumed look for every day. Costumes are not just for children either, Halloween: A Grown-up’s Guide to Creative Costumes, Devilish Decor & Fabulous Festivities by Joanne O’Sullivan and The Halloween Handbook: 447 Costumes by Bridie Clark has ideas for adults and older teens too.
To start getting kids into the Halloween spirit, check out some of these picture books featuring classic characters that they know and love: Clifford’s Halloween by Norman Bridwell, Curious George Goes to a Costume Party and Happy Halloween, Curious George by H. A. Rey, Froggy’s Halloween by Jonathan London, The Halloween Parade by Rosemary Wells, Minerva Louise on Halloween by Janet Morgan Stoeke, Pug & Pig Trick-or-Treat by Sue Lowell Gallion, and Scaredy-Cat, Splat! by Rob Scotton.
