To not solve 13 year olds Halloween fancy dress

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DS needs a costume for tomorrow.

Nothing I have suggested is suitable.

I can't do anything about Amazon delivery times

We are skint.

I can't sew.

DS is upset but I've said he needs to be creative.

However - if you have any great free ideas I'll take 'em.

A guy at my university died after doing this and accidentally getting set alight.

This 100%!

My 16yo (going as Cupid btw) is partying but definitely not trick or treating. She’d do it for a Malibu though 🤣

Blimey this has got quite the replies.

He has just emerged from his room. I'll report back.

Think she means for going around the doors.

I stopped wearing a costume for this purpose around age 10 (this was Halloween in 1990), although I still went round the houses (wearing a mask) with my younger sister for a few years after.

A party you can be any age.

Why not? He's 13. A child. Why shouldn't he still be having age appropriate fun?

Oh that's clever.
But he can't tell anyone...

Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. DH is Jack and DS is zero

Paint a skeleton on a black sack with white emulsion paint, Cut arm and head holes

Thanks! You too!

Make him a tinfoil hat and send him as an flat earther/anti vaxer/etc.

pair of specs and say he’s Jeffrey Dahmer.

raid the first aid kid, wrap him in bandages and he’s a mummy.

Or write on a tshirt like the pic

One year for one of my DC, I cut out bones (thighs, shins, humerus, radius, pelvis, basic rib cage, a bit of spine) from an old white sheet, and safety pinned them on to a pair of black jeans and a long sleeved black t-shirt, voila - a skeleton!

A bullet hole in the forehead made with red and black food dye ( in the little tubes)- put a drip of red coming out of a nostril.

Zombie. Easiest thing to do.

Tell him to dress like a cartoon character. They always wear the same clothes, usually normal clothes just in particular colours, and do his hair like them.

The cartoon character idea is a good one, perhaps the slightly scruffy Shaggy Rogers or the more neat and clean cut preppy Fred Jones from Scooby Doo?
All depending on what clothes you have available.

Just bought DS a plain white shirt in Tesco which he's chucking some fake blood on to out. Hes nearly 18

Ohhh I love fancy dress!

Brilliant practice for university - no money, elaborate themes (or at least that was my experience!)

no new suggestions, I just want to know what he’s going as!

Just throwing it out there....has anyone suggested cereal killer? 🤣

I do like the minecraft idea though

Google ‘pun on words’ costumes

you could do cereal killer? Normal clothes, cereal
box and a knife?

Why should a 13 year old not need a costume? That’s weirdly judgmental

Old shirt.

Staple the little cardboard boxes from a multipack of cereal onto it

Splash with red paint.

'Cereal' killer.....

@TheOtherBoleynGirls Or you could just use your DD's guide's hat over a worn sheet.

A Ghoul Guide.

Ooh I know...
Cereal Killer

It's the new cancel the cheque

The only thing that’s funny about “cereal killer” is how few adults here seem to realise that 13yo’s would find that totally lame 😉

I am definitely saving all of these for next year.

In the end he went with vampire, using an old cloak I found in the wardrobe. He refused to look like he'd made too much effort.

The adults had definitely put more into the occasion.

I was aiming for Bellatrix Lestrange but end up erring towards chubby goth.