How to make Halloween costumes for kids for free

WHY pay more than you need to for scare wear?

With a little creepy creativity, you can fashion a fang-tastic costume for free. Here’s how.

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If your kid wants to be a ghost on the night, it is the easiest costume to make at home[/caption]

SKELETON: Clad the kids in all-black and paint on white bones. You can use chalk if you want to keep the clothes for everyday wear.

Make a matching mask by drawing a skull with eye holes on some cardboard.

Cut it out and add a piece of elastic or strip of cardboard on the back to keep it on little ones’ faces.

PUMPKIN: Get your tot to wear a black T-shirt or vest underneath an orange top. Next, cut the eyes, nose and mouth out of the orange top so the black shows through.

Finish with face paint to complete the look. See netmums.com’s free “how to” face paint guide at bit.ly/3VTI5wb.

DRACULA: Dress your little one in a white shirt and black trousers – old school uniform pieces will do.

Add a bin bag as a cape and vamp up the look with some white face paint. No fake teeth? Paint white triangles on your child’s bottom lip.

MUMMY: Simply wrap loo roll, gauze or bandage fabric around your child and secure in place safely with sticky tape.

Complete the look with dark facepaint circles around the eyes.

FRANKENSTEIN: Use face paints to colour your child’s entire face green.

Add grey or black around the eyes, and to create the stitching on the head.

Then attach fake bolts from a toy tool set on to an old hair band and drape it around the neck.

GHOST: The easiest costume to make.

Simply grab an old white sheet, cut eye holes into it, and throw it over your little one.