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With Halloween coming soon, I'm wondering if your DC have come up with really cool Halloween costume ideas. I just love Halloween and love hearing about fun costume ideas. I guess it's not really gifted-related, but I bet there are some pretty creative ideas in this bunch!

My DS4 has Halloween in mind all year, and so he regularly reports what he's going to be. Of course, his idea changes regularly too. Now that we're at crunch time, I told him he had to pick an idea and stick with it. He wants to be a pine tree. I have no idea why. He just says he thinks it would be funny because nobody else will be a pine tree. (Not a christmas tree either - he doesn't want to decorated.) So now I have to figure out how to make a pine tree costume!

A(6) wanted to be Word Girl and use our small dog to dress up like Captain Huggy Face. Well, that was just too much for me to put together (and pay for- the red leotard alone was $30) so we used our backup plan. She is going to use her dance recital costumes and be Cher for Halloween night and a Marionette for school. She is thrilled about Halloween and this morning announced that there are "only seven more days until Halloween!!"

GS9 has fang teeth from the dentist's toy box. He could use a button up white shirt & black dress pants, so I'm stopping at the resale shops for them. I'll spring for some temporary black hair color & a piece of black material for a cape -- voila! We will have Count Dracula!

Mine refused to wear a costume from age 3 to age 6. Then, last year, he and daddy went to the Halloween store and he fell in love with a costume: A Whoopie Cushion. Of course DH bought it. So, that's what he'll be again this year. BOYS!

Hahaha, good thing my GS9 hasn't seen that! Right now he thinks noises made by bodily functions are extremely funny.

I rue the day that my DS7 learned how to make noises with a hand in his armpit...

My kiddo is just 26 months, but for her b-day she got dress up clothes for her present from mommy and daddy and we thought she would just use one of those for Halloween, but then I found this cute Asian pants set so that is what she is going to be this year and when done we will add it to her dress up collection. Last year she was a UT cheerleader because we had the outfit, including the pom-poms and it was adorable but my DH makes it clear that she better enjoy that young b/c she will not be a cheerleader for real! She is the biggest fan of the longhorns and even knows how to do the hook-em sign which she figured out by herself. She was in her carseat and I heard her saying up, down, down, up, down... hookem. Look mommy I did it!

Nothing special DS6 wants to be Pika-chu. However he wants dad to be Ash. Not sure how to do this one.

Ds6 is going to be Mario from Super Mario Bros -- denim overalls, red shirt and a great hat I found online. Not too hard this year -- last year I handmade a wicked-cool Link costume for him (from "The Legend of Zelda"). It was really a great costume, if I do say so myself, but it did take a fair bit of time! I love doing that stuff, though, so it was fun.

(See a costume theme here? )

We now have what GS9 needs for Count Dracula, but last year, and earlier this month when trick or treating he went as a ventriloquist! He has a big, fat, red, hairy monster puppet that he used. He had the puppet say 'trick or treat', he had so much fun with it last year that he chose it again for the trick or treating the scouts did a couple weeks ago. I don't want him to take it to school, that's why we did a Dracula costume, too.