Halloween Costumes

I have a free afternoon and I think I will try to catch up on October, lol.  Now that I learned how to schedule posts, maybe I can break the month down and have shorter posts more often?  We shall see!

My youngest daughter's two kids asked me to make costumes again. They don't want to make it easy on me.  My granddaughter wanted to be an iphone.  I did some googling and she settled for an oversized black t-shirt with app.  I printed the apps on my computer and glued them to the puffy foam sheet and used velcro to attach them to the shirt.  

I thought it would work out great, but I did not take into account the Halloween birthday party she would attend where they trick or treated at a campground for four hours. She lost one app and I had to re-velcro the others.  That used up my supplies and she just told people she deleted one app (It actually was spotify - so if you know, you know - kismet). 

My grandson wanted to be a fruit basket. No one knows where he got this idea but he refused to be dissuaded.  He fell for a brown sweatshirt with fruit and an apple hat from Amazon. 

I used the same method to make his "basket". Again, I was thwarted. His soccer team had a season end party and played soccer in their costumes. He lost half of the fruit. This photo is "before". He requested the fruit split on the zipper. 

His mother and I decided to do "iron-on" fruit for stability.  I reprinted all the fruit on iron-on something and half of it did not show because it turns out there is iron-on for light fabric and iron-on for dark fabric. Several dollars later we achieved a fruit basket. By the end of trick or treat, some fruit was peeling off.  

My 3 out of 7 grandson sent me a picture of a cartoon character and asked me to create this one. I don't know her name.  I did all but the implants- his mother added those. 

It was a group costume. I am too old to know what they are doing. I am guessing a movie? 

It was in the 40's for trick or treat with an icy drizzle and medium wind.  My middle son and his wife moved to a neighborhood whose residents told him they plan on 150 trick or treaters. They got 44.  I told them that now they know how many kids are in the neighborhood vs those who come in from the country or another town and chose to wait until a different event.  They were disappointed.  A grandchild I didn't have to dress is on their porch. 

The second to the last of the grandsons has a birthday during Halloween week.  You can see how much more pleasant the weather was a few days before trick or treat.  These are the guests at the party, six of them are my grandchildren. 

I told him I would make a macaroni salad that was spooky.  I was very disappointed that I did not have enough food coloring for spooky and it looks more healthy. More on the macaroni salad in another post. 

And we will leave the festivities with a police detective sergeant who was giving television interviews on the apprehension of a paroled murderer who abducted a motel worker. The worker managed to escape his clutches on Halloween Eve and the officers were able to capture him. The next night he patrolled the streets to slow down nonexistent traffic during the trick or treat.  He won best costume at our driveway and received candy from his sister (they are my youngest children).