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Have the children dress up in their homemade Thanksgiving Pilgrim costumes and read a Thanksgiving poem to family and friends between the Thanksgiving Feast and the delicious Thanksgiving desserts.

Homemade Pilgrim Boy’s Costume
What you need:

short black pants or sweat pants. (Buy a pair at a consignment shop if you don’t have old ones.)

What to do:

Cut the legs to look like knickers, just below the knee.
Add any type of long-sleeved black jersey.
Complete the costume with white tights or high white socks and …

Thanksgiving is a great holiday in which you can involve children in the preparations and celebration.  A great activity our children entertained our guests with was acting out a Thanksgiving story. Their grandmother would read the story while the children acted out the story dressed in Thanksgiving costumes.
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This is a perfect way to complete your Pilgrim family, for the party. The Pilgrim girl costume features a poly/cotton dress with attached apron, tie back bib collar, and headpiece. The Pilgrim boy costume features a poly/cotton top, pants, hat and belt.

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It is past nine o’clock, the grandchildren are on their way home…probably sound asleep. Halloween is over for children who live on the East Coast of the USA. Trick or Treaters came early. The weather was pleasant, not too warm for those heavy costumes and not too cold for the costumes requiring less clothing. Kids stay warm running from house to house to get their next treat…before it is time to go home and the thrill of it is over until next year.
I am a high school teacher and am amazed …

The following homemade Halloween costumes are very easy to put together and will bring laughs from all those that you meet on Halloween!
Chest of Drawers
What you need:

Safety pin a pair of Boxer shorts to your on your chest.
Safety pin another pair on the back of your shirt.
Pin a random sock here and underwear there.

And what are you? You’re a chest of drawers.
Person Stuck in Rain
What you need:

a rain coat
rain boots

Put on the out fit if you can put lots of gel in your hair or hair spray and make your …

You can recycle cardboard for fun-to-make homemade Halloween costumes. Combine cardboard, some inexpensive trimmings, and imagination for the makings of clever, unique, and easy homemade Halloween costumes, such as a cheese sandwich, popcorn box, Hershey candy bar, tooth, restaurant table, and more…

Cheese Sandwich

Popcorn Box

Hershey Candy Bar

Restaurant Table

Gift Box

Tooth

Button

Refrigerator

Juicy Fruit Gum

Box

Mirror

Spilled Spaghetti

Candy Buttons

Credit Cards

Laptop Computer

Dishwasher

Post-It

Spirit of Halloween

Cheese Sandwich
A Yummy Homemade Halloween Costume

Take two pieces of white cardboard and cut them to look like Sandwich bread–paint or color about 1-inch along the edges brown for the crust.
Pick other colors of poster board to …

When you think of a gypsy costume, what is the first thing that comes to mind? For me, it is bright colors, a long skirt, apron, peasant blouse with a sash around the waist, sandals, large hoop earrings, lots of bangle bracelets and long beads, and a long scarf tied just behind one ear under long hair or a bandana tied to one side ontop of the hair. Carry a crystal ball or the Magic 8 ball and a pack of Tarot cards. You can have a great time getting into character and predicting …

Halloween is approaching quickly and you still don’t have your children’s, grandchildren’s, or your Halloween costume? If you purchase costumes from a Halloween store online or near your home, they can be very expensive! Putting together a homemade Halloween costume from things you have around the house can be a lesson in creativity and fun, too, for both you and your children or grandchildren.
Here are a few homemade Halloween costume ideas that might help you…
Scarecrow 
What you need:

flannel shirt
old jeans or overalls
floppy straw hat or baseball cap
stuffed bird(s)
boots, old shoes or sneakers
Halloween makeup
scraps …