Halloween is right around the corner! If you are looking for an easy, cheap costume for a little girl, then look no further! It's exciting for the little girl because she also gets to carry around her doll!
Chances are you may have an old baby costume (or you could probably easily borrow one) from years ago when your children were tiny tots.
If you have one of these costumes and a doll that will fit inside of it, then great! Take, for example, this doll in a baby pumpkin costume.
Then, depending on what the doll's costume is, match the child's costume to fit.
We found ourselves in need of a quick, last minute pumpkin costume. So we had the above "pumpkin baby" and then made the child's costume into the rest of the pumpkin patch. Green and brown clothes clothes (we also used a white tutu for sparkle) worked perfectly.
Then we made this pumpkin vine "apron" by painting strips of cardboard in different shades of green and adding painted construction paper leaves and tissue paper yellow flowers. We then threaded the cardboard onto a shoe string to tie around the child's waist.
It worked pretty well, except that we lost a few vines in the couple hours it was worn. Plus, keep the apron to the front of the child or else it is hard to sit down. If you didn't make this, just wearing something green would work.
For a final touch we put this cloth pumpkin that we already had on a couple of hairbands that we already had.
It was a fun costume, primarily because a doll was involved. And our pumpkin theme was aced!
If you have a baby ladybug costume, consider making a cardboard leaf for the child to wear. Or if the baby costume is an animal, have the child be a zoo-keeper, vet, or dog-walker. You get the idea. The possibilities are endless!
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