Halloween is the time to make a party and get creative with fancy dress costumes

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Looking for some ideas for your children’s fancy dress party? This article is a step by step guide helping you choose a costume for your child.

1.Deciding on a theme

This one might have already been decided for you, given that many fancy dress parties are themed in some fashion (especially at Halloween!). Let’s assume however that your child has been invited to, say, a birthday party, and no theme has been specified.

For children, choosing a fancy dress theme is quite straightforward, and is largely dependant on whether you are catering for a boy or a girl.

Boys

For boys (and men), the best fancy dress themes are surrounding their favourite TV, film and comic book characters. Other good themes are westerns and pirates.

Girls

For girls, there tends to be less demand for comic book characters than for fairytale characters – wanting much more to look pretty than fearsome. Themes for girls generally feature dresses, wings and all manners of decidedly sparkly outfits!

2. Choosing an outfit

Once you have picked a theme for your fancy dress costume, you will have narrowed down your search to a much smaller selection. In the case of superhero and TV & film costumes however you might find that there are still a great deal to choose from, given their high popularity.

Fancy Dress Costume Ideas

The best bet is to either find out if your child has any preferences, or if not then simply take a look around and see what jumps out at you.

There are many fancy dress shops distributed across the UK and other countries, several of which may be local to you to visit. If you can’t find a fancy dress shop, or they don’t supply what you are looking for, there is a wide range of online stores which supply a vast selection of costumes.

Some Ideas

If after looking around you are still stumped, I have listed out a few ideas for boys and girls below:

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Boys Costume Ideas

• Batman
• Spiderman
• Superman
• Robin Hood
• Peter Pan / Hook
• Cowboy

Girls Costume Ideas

• Princess
• Bumble Bee
• Rumba Girl
• Medieval Girl
• Cowgirl

3. To buy or to hire?

If you are looking to hire a costume, you are likely to only get this service from a physical store; however you may still be able to view the product range available online.

Costume hire is quite cheap but for the biggest benefit you will need to hire an expensive outfit – for cheap costumes you may pay a decent percentage of the purchase price to hire it, so why not go all the way and re-use it in the future?

For buying costumes the internet is a fantastic resource for finding and comparing different fancy dress outfits. You may understandably have some reservations about buying online as you don’t know if the costume will fit, but most children’s fancy dress costumes only tend to come in one size for a certain age group so buying from a store wouldn’t be any different to online.

4. Completing your costume with accessories

After you have chosen your costume, there may be some finishing touches that need to be made in order to make the outfit look complete. Not to fret, there is a plethora of fancy dress accessories available both in stores and online. These accessories range from swords and wands to halos and horns, and you should be able to find just about anything you are looking for by doing a search on your favourite search engine.

Author: Stephen Richardson

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The choices for halloween fancy dress are almost endless these days, with more coming on the scene as new movies and favorite characters emerge, as well as the old classic halloween costumes and outfits

An eerie skeleton costume, a Ninja outfit or a bloody Rocky Horror costume make excellent choices for a Halloween fancy dress

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They’re dark, sinister and will frighten the life out of unsuspecting neighbours.

And it’s great to wear a costume that people can recognize easily It can be really embarrassing if you’ve made a grand entrance at the Halloween party dressed in your costume and everyone wants to know who or what you are. Costumes are plentiful and you can take your pick of all the nasties and gruesome characters that make pretty unforgettable Halloween costumes.

Skeleton Halloween fancy dress

A quick look round at the choice in skeleton outfits and you’ll soon find yourself drawn to the grave groom skeleton zombie.

It’s similar to the James Bond Voodoo skeletons in Live and Let Die and it’s a frighteningly authentic Halloween fancy dress costume. It’s great quality and includes loads of detail.

A long black shirt with bone print and tattered vest and jacket. The tattered gauzy pants are worn over your own trousers to create the zombie style. The gloves, wide brimmed hat and red tie are all included.

Buy some black and white make-up for your face and treat yourself to the long walking cane and you have a fabulously scary zombie outfit.

If you fancy a less detailed Halloween fancy dress go for a plain black jumpsuit with bones imprinted on it, or find one with raised bones you can spray with a glow in the dark spray. Skeleton suits come with face masks and black hoods that cover your whole head. Your feet turn into skeleton bones by attaching shoe covers to your shoes.

Good old plain skeleton zombies make terrific Halloween costumes. These are dark, tattered costumes with skeleton faces and plenty of decay! They show exposed bones, protruding knee bones, full skeletal masks and have hoods that cover your face and head. Hands are covered by gloves with exposed finger bones. Can you smell the rot?

Invest in a spooky voice changer to disguise your voice

It comes with an ear piece and attached microphone. The box simply fits to your belt, so there’s no need to use your hands. The ghost sound will change your voice so no-one will know it’s you. If you wear the full skeleton costume with face mask you will have a full disguise.

Skeletons and zombies make fabulous group Halloween fancy dress costumes. Find some friends who are willing to dress up in a similar style and you have a walking graveyard of skeletons and zombies. Definitely a worthy prize winner on the night!

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