Halloween Costume Headdresses

We live in a small town with a very charming Halloween Parade. Every year children work hard to make their own prize-winning entry. The kids do an amazing amount of work on their costumes to win them, even though the prizes are just tiny 2” trophies. However, in my opinion, these costumes are all winners!

One year, a local group of Scouts, with little more than $2.00 per child to spend on making a costume, asked for some ideas to secure one of those cute little trophies from the Judges.

Here is one idea that came from a designer and was simply made from 2 pieces of poster board, construction paper, Elmer’s glue and trash bags. The poster board headpieces added an extra 23" of height to each child and created an illusion that the kids were extremely tall. All heads turned when they came marching down the street.

One note of warning though - this kind of costume is great for competitions, but not on days where the wind is blowing.

-Michell.