Hobo : Large men's pants, large dark sports coat, shirt with patches and a stick with a bandanna. Adults can burn a cork and when charred blow out the cork and then use this charred area for a scruffy look.

Mummy : Wear white, tight fitting clothing under the wrappings. Take a 5 yard role of 3 inch guaze and dip it in weak tea the day before and hang it out to dry. This will be your head wrapping. You will need a 60 yard roll of 1 1/2 inch wide masking tape for your body wrapping. Start with your ankles and work up. Overlap the tape slightly and stop at the knee. Continue right above the knee and go to the top of your thigh. Do both legs. Then start in the middle of your stomach and run it down between your legs, crisscrossing over your hips and between your legs in a diaper fashion. Break off the tape. Just below your hipbones wrap around your body until you get to your underarms. Crisscross over your shoulders to cover your upper chest and back. Start at your shoulder and move down your arm. Stop at the elbow and start again on the other side of your elbow. Do both arms. Now switch to guaze for your head. Tape down the end of the gauze under your collarbone and move upwards to do your neck and your head. Make sure it's not too tight around your neck! Keep your eyes and mouth free. Tape down when you're finished. Rub some dirt on the tape so that you look sufficiently old and moldy. With a black or brown eye pencil circle each eye and smudge out for that hollowed out eye look. Whiten the rest of your face so that it matches your wrappings. This is a very visible costume!

Football Player : Those who have an older brother or father who played football in high school or college can use their uniform. Use foam inside the helmet to make it fit properly, use the teams sweatshirt underneath. Use black tape under the eyes for that touch of the real game.

Nerd : High-water pants, white shirt, bow tie, white socks, black shoes and dark-frame glasses with masking tape around the nose piece. For that extra touch, use a pocket protector.

Grape Vine : Use a brown body suit and shoes. Cover your body with double sided sticky tape. Then fill up purple balloons and attach the balloons to the double sided tape. You may use a garbage bag tie to attach the balloon to the double sided tape. This is preferred if you are going outside in the wind.

Bunch of Grapes : Dress the child in clothes that match the color of the balloons. Blow up the balloons and with small safety pins attach them all over the body. Make sure you don't restrict either movement or visibility.

Angel : Wear a white blazer, white pants and white shirt with a black tie. To get the angel effect attach a small portable flashlight to a bent wire hanger that will attach to your back with the wire side out using duct tape and a piece of card board. Aim the light on to the top of your hair. (your an angel).

Traditional Ghost : Get a white sheet and position over body. Mark where eyes need to be cut out and sheet needs to be hemmed. Take off and hem with tape (or staples) and cut out eyes. Cut slits for arms to go through. With a felt pen you can make a ghost face. Tie a loose bow around neck to help the costume stay in place, but not so tight that it won't come undone if you fall down. Make sure the sheet fits so that it
doesn't tangle with busy legs. This is a very visible costume in the dark!

Pirate : Jeans or dark pants rolled up to your knees. Tights or knee socks Boots or shoes. Cut our a homemade buckle out of gold colored cardboard. Large blousy shirt. Long sleeved, looses and brightly colored or white. Sash or belt. You can use a gaudy necktie or a brightly colored scarf. If you have a belt with a big metal buckle all the better. Eye patch. Use thin black or painted black cardboard. Tie it on your head with around 2 /12 feet of string. Bandana. Any old red or blue or multi colored banada will work. Fold it diagonally to form a triangle. Place on your head so the triangle covers the top of your head, and tie in back. Vest. Any color, any design. Earing. Pirates often wear one hoop earing. If the clip on kind hurt your ears, then tie a loop of string through the earing and put it over your ear. Makeup ideas: Heavy eyebrows, mustache, scar, skull & crossbones tattoo.

DEVIL : Use red clothes or red tights and leotard or robe. Use red body paint.

REMOVING MAKEUP : Always use Vegetable Oils Cooking Oil to remove make-up. Mineral oils may remove Vitamin D and
cause skin damage.