Quick.......Blue Peter style idea's required ASAP!

[Jemma7]

A looking after my neice and 2 nephews this weekend - completely forgot about it being Halloween.

I usually take them trick or treating every year but completely forgot about it this year as i knew i would be looking after them - needless to say, haven't got any costumes or anything.

How can i make funky costumes by this evening for a 4 year old, 8 year old and 9 year old bearing in mind i am at work until 4.45

All ideas appreciated - Thanks!

jemma I used to dress my kids up in the days before costumes
get a roll of black bin bags.
make an opening for arms and head (in the seam)in one and place over.
At the bottom cut zig zags out of the bin liner to give it a raggedy effect.
Then cut another bag open lengthways and make a cape, attach with sticky tape onto the first one at the back of the neck.

If you have no face paint, use foundation mixed with talc on the face to give it a pasty look.
Also black eyeliner and mascara rubbed under the eyes to give them black (panda) eyes. Use eyeliner to make fake scars aswell on forehead or cheeks.Colour lips again in eyeliner or a dark lipstick.

HTH

Jemma - thought you'd have had enough of ghoulies!!! seriously though - a quick idea for halloween tea (I know you want dressing up but I'm better at cookery!)is to fill a surgical glove (not talced)with green jelly - tie and set then put red food colouring around the end when you remove the glove and put some food colouring blue or green in bun mixture - kids love it!!

If you have no hats just tip hair down and scrunch with mousse to make it look messy.

I've just made a very quick (and daft) spider hat - four pairs of black tights stuffed under a black woolly hat, with eyes and fangs stuck on. The only trouble is, I've got to wear it... the shame!

Can you pick up some plastic witch/wizard's hats on the way home to go with Doormat's brilliant binbag confection? I think most newsagents have them at the mo. If the youngest has a black sweater and tights or trousers she can be a cat with a little face paint (or lipstick nose and eyeliner pencil whiskers) and be the witches' cat - a broomstick would be amazing too, if you are anywhere within reach of a hardware store. A sheet over the head with eyeholes cut out makes a great ghost, of course. Cut out armholes or they can't carry anything! Have fun.

DD (aged 2) had my lurid green duster (claen and hardly used!) as her broomstick - just the right size for a mini-witch.