Last Minute Halloween Costume Alterations

The Uncool Dad — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:29:09 +0000

K1 has been planning on being a werewolf for Halloween since May. He’s had his heart set on being the scariest kid out trick-or-treating. We found a really cool costume that I thought could use minimal embellishment to make it super awesome.

It is the costume pictured here which included the head, hands, and ripped shirt.

About a week before Halloween we got a letter home from K1’s principal. He asked that for the Halloween parade at school, all costumes be kept “tasteful” with no blood, gore, or weapons of any sort. Many districts around here have canceled Halloween at school altogether so we figured this was a fair compromise to keep it in our school.

So the question of the week – was this costume tasteful? There is no blood. No gore. No weapons except for the awesome looking teeth.

We debated whether the werewolf would be the “real Halloween costume” and we needed a second costume to wear to school. A mummy? A ninja (with no nun-chucks or throwing stars)? A super hero?

No decisions yet.

On Wednesday, we decided to do a dress rehearsal as I was very concerned that he wouldn’t be able to see very well though the mask. He tried everything on and surprisingly he could see very well. But went he looked at himself in the mirror he shrieked! “Too scary!” he yelled.

By super-brave kindergartner was scared by his own costume. So now what?

I grabbed my scissors and went to work on the mask. My wife sat him down with some makeup. And this was the result. Kind of scary. Extremely cute. Tasteful. And the best werewolf in town!

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