Have you started to think about Halloween at your house? JDaniel announced early in September that he wanted to be Fetch the dog from the Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman show on PBS.  I hadn’t been thinking about Halloween at that point in time, but apparently, it was on his mind.  Knowing I wouldn’t find a Fetch costume at the store. I knew I would have to put together a homemade Halloween costume.
Then he announced that he wanted to be Chet the mouse from the same show. I decided that I could pull together a mostly homemade Halloween costume that would look like Chet.  I told him I would start putting together the costume when it got closer to October.

Here is what we have for the homemade Halloween costume so far:

 

I bought JDaniel a fuzzy gray sweatsuit and a gray turtleneck as the base of his costume.  When he tried it on, the pants looked a little short. I will have to exchange them at Walmart for the next size up. I also found a really cute mask on Amazon that has a squeaker in the nose.

The base of the costume isn’t homemade, but the rest of the costume will be. I need to make JDaniel a tail, some mice hands, and a trick or treat bag.

I am thinking of trying to make a bag that looks like Swiss cheese. Gray mittens with pipe cleaners woven through them to create fingers would be great too. The tail is something I still have to figure out how to do. I am not sure if it should be like a bathrobe belt soft and easy to sit on or wiry and has a bend in it.Are you putting together a homemade Halloween costume this year? Sun Scholars, All Done Monkey, Crayons Freckles, Red Ted Art, B-Inspired Mama,  The Educator’s Spin on It, Mamas Like Me, Kitchen Counter Chronicles and I are!