Fall is my favorite season, and Halloween is my favorite holiday.   I really love the creative challenge of making costumes, and over the years my family has participated in many costume contests.  This is the final post in a three part series.

Past Posts:  Part 1:  Costumes For Kids                   Part 2:  Think Out Of The Box

 If you are looking for costume ideas this year, I hope these posts will inspire you!

Part 3:  Costumes For Groups

Addicted To Love Girls

This was pretty easy...clothes, makeup, and hair had to be identical. 

The hardest part was making the guitars using foam board and black electrical tape.

If you have a male to be Robert Palmer, even better.

 Want to check out the original?

The Easter Basket 

This was a lot of fun, but we had to move as a unit and we had to support the basket.  It wasn't always easy.

It was created by sewing felt fabric around a hoop made from pvc pipe and then weaving strips of brown felt through slits to create the basket appearance.

Green netting was attached in bunches to the inside rim, and giant eggs were carefully placed on top.

This was a First Place winner!

A word of caution:  You gotta really like someone to walk around in a basket with them all night long!  Choose your basket mates wisely.

Box Of Popcorn

Probably the most confining of all the costumes I've worn.  There were four of us.

We wore white hoodies, and we had white paper bags with yellow balloons inside them attached all over us.  The bags were covering our ears so we couldn't hear well.  Our vision was very restricted.

Our plastic face masks only had eye holes, no mouth opening, so not only was it hard to breath,  we couldn't read each other's lips.    It was very difficult to communicate. 

We were positioned back to back, each holding a side of the box.  Only one of us could walk straight ahead, one person had to walk backwards and the other two had to move to their side. 

It was a physical and mental nightmare.  Once we got laughing, there was no stopping.

It was a very long night.

The yellow arrow points to one of our masks.

You really need to be crazy to attempt this!

American Idol Fans

This one is just silly.  We were American Idol fans being carried piggy back by Simon, Paula, and Randy.

A lot of work went into this and most people didn't know who or what we were.

There was a lot of dirty comments going on though about the "Paula" head.  I'll leave that to your imagination.

The Hand

This has to be our most ambitious, original costume.  Credit for the idea goes to my cousin Kathi, who God bless her, was our thumb and spent most of the time on the floor. 

Our vision was restricted and we had no use of our arms. 

We got really good at moving into formation and had some hand gestures choreographed very well.  I was the middle finger and had a starring role.

This was another First Place winner, probably because the hand gestures were a real crowd pleaser!