What age did you start dressing your child up for Halloween?

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What age did you start dressing your child up for things like Halloween and World Book Day? Assuming they are at nursery and have the option to dress up.

I am personally not too fussed about these sort of traditions and hate wasting money on some polyester costume that will only be worn once and am not creative enough to come up with a DIY costume. I know it can be fun for kids though so was just wondering what age they start to be interested in dressing up? My child is 2 and probably still too young to understand the idea of Halloween.

Book day for nursery and school only Halloween never

Not age 2!

If you do buy things for Halloween buy a size or 2 up and it will last 2 or 3 years. And/or buy from charity shops. Similarly for Christmas jumpers.

I didn't buy for world book day. I thought what was easy from books they liked and went with that, sourcing from charity shops. Eg a long white shirt plus red ribbons makes a Millt Molly Mandy.

My twins had cute cat onesies for Halloween at age 9 weeks. Lots of trick or treaters used to come to our door in that house so we’d opened and give out sweets holding a baby. They wore them all through October. Never got a picture of them both where one wasn’t crying 😂

My little boy is 9 months this Halloween and I found a skeleton babygrow a few months back in the bigger size for £1.50 at a second hand market. We're planning on dressing up but not spending big on it. It's more about the fun than the cost.

(And now he is crawling the all in one could not be better).

That sounds so cute. Little baby cats!

I definitely wasn’t planning to start yet!

I was actually surprised at how many of the nursery kids were dressed up for both of those occasions. We did send her in a costume for Halloween last year just because DH had already brought her a baby yoda costume.

I work and don’t have much time to be trawling charity shops but could buy something on Vinted easily enough.

Far cuter than the zombie cheerleaders they were last year with blood and gore - amazing makeup they did themselves on each other 🙈😂 (they’re now teens)

World book day when nursery started - I didn't even really know it was a thing!
Halloween - the first Halloween after they were born :)

Ours had pumpkin onesies before they were 1! Bought by a friend.
Did’t do book day until they went to school I don’t think but they did have little Halloween things from birth basically. Just things like a skeleton t-shirt and some stripy tights. My DH likes Halloween.

Actually a cat costume, ears and tail works for Halloween and world book day. Bound to be books with cats, or make a stripey hat and you have the cat in the hat. Plus you don't grow out of ears and tails.

World Book Day we only did when primary school required it and it was a total PITA.

Halloween, never. Occasionally they cut head and arm holes in black bin bags and went out wearing those, but that was it.

I absolutely LOVE halloweeen so have dressed my son up every year since he was born🤣 he wants to go as Harry Potter this year so his little brother(9 months) will be dobby😂

Ah I had Halloween onesies and Xmas onesies for both as babies (the same ones so they got reused!) plus DD2 (2) is now enjoying dressing up in DD1's old stuff. The pink tutu is a particular favourite! We have dressing up stuff just for play so we tend to just bodge that together for nursery or school dressing up things.

Have always dressed up our DD for Halloween since she was a toddler then at nursery, now she is nearly 13 and still loves getting a costume for trick or treating

5 and a half months old for Halloween.
A orange onesie with a pumpkin on and matching hat. Worn several times over the winter. The hat became her permanent hat for months.
Also did a Christmas onesie/t-shirt/hat combo 3 months later.
Easter bunny hat the following spring.
Then pretty much t-shirts for Halloween/Christmas/Easter on repeat for several years (all t-shirts worn many many times).
1st world book day was at almost 4 in nursery.
No Halloween for several years as she didn't like it. Now she's a teen Halloween is her "most important season".

We've not really done costumes for Halloween yet, but I guess themed clothing is what it it. DS had a skeleton onesie he wore most of October at around 6m old. Last year I got the same one but sized up, so it's did last October and he's also been wearing it as PJs already this year. He's got a couple of cute jumpers - one that says 'Baby Boo' one that says 'Little Pumpkin' and I got him a hoody in Sainos the other day with a cute ghost motif on. So it's stuff he can wear day to day without looking specifically dressed up.

A bit like Christmas, he has Christmas jumpers and Pjs but not a costume as such.

We did world book day for the first time this year, totally home made, bits of cardboard stuck on his jumper, probably lasted about 3 minutes at nursery, and I think that's what we'll do for the foreseeable!

We've never done Halloween. WBD I would go with something we already had e.g. t-shirt with a character on.