I’m a sucker for a family themed Halloween costumes.
One year when my son was 16 months old we were a Honeybear and MamaBee! (Husband was deployed)
Last year we were all skeletons – Even Baby D got in on the costume fun! (approx 36 weeks pregnant here)
This year my 4 year old son picked everyone’s Halloween Costumes. He decided he was going to be a firefighter, I was going to be a mommy firefighter, Baby D was going to be a Dalmatian, and the Hubs needed to be a fire hydrant.
Playing off my son’s creativity I decided not only would Hubs be a hydrant, but he would be babywearing the Dalmatian! It seemed too good to pass up – after all every dog loves a hydrant!
Our Costumes:
- I got lucky and still had a credit so I purchased my Adult Firefighter Costume
from amazon.com.
- For my son’s costume we splurged on the chasing fireflies brand. It was pricey, but I know my son will wear it until he outgrows it and then his brother will wear it and any future children we have. We picked up the police officer costume from them last year and he is still wearing it a year later!
- My husband’s costume was super simple. I spent $7 on a red long sleeved shirt from target, $4 on his hat, and $5 on some iron on letters.
- Baby D had the most “complicated” costume, but even his was easy. I used some black fabric paint to do spots on a onesie and some white tights. I had a friend hand crochet his hat. For the tail I used the same fabric I did for the babycarrier. The fabric was a dog paw fleece I found in the remnants pile at Joann’s Fabrics. All in all his costume cost me $32. I used my lillebaby Airflow baby carrier and duct taped the fleece to the inside of the carrier. I sewed on an additional tail for the baby carrier.
As long as my children let me I will continue to do family themed Halloween Costumes!
If K let’s me I’d love to do a Toy Story theme next year – or maybe a Peter Pan theme…
What is your family going as for Halloween?
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I love all of your costumes! I wish I could convince my husband to dress up!
I WAS JUST THINKING LAST NIGHT WEVE NEVER DONE THE FAMILY THING!!
next year.
family costumes!!
Where we you when my babies were little? LOL Love these ideas! I wish my husband would play along and dress up with us!
Thank you Ashley!! 🙂 My husband only agreed bc it was basically a t-shirt!
Ya’ll look FANTASTIC! We have been doing family themed costumes as well. We’ve done Wizard of Oz, Super heros, and this year we are doing cowboys and indians!
Oh I love it!! A family after my own heart!!
I love the baby wearing dalmation idea, that is too cute! Baby and I are going to be bees this year, but the rest of the family has their own costumes.
Oh that will be so cute!!
Those are seriously adorable! I have teens and one isn’t even going out this year which I find very sad! my 11 year old had very definite ideas of what she was going out as!
That is adorable, love the fire hydrant/dalmation combo. When I was pregnant in 2011, we went as a family of pirates.
Happy Halloween!
Oh My Gosh. The fire hydrant with attached dalmatian is TOO adorable. Love it! I had that same shirt when I was pregnant last year!
What a cute fun idea! My boys decided to be Batman, Robin, and a 20s Gangster (the bad guy). I wish I had time to still do an outfit for myself too 🙂
Those are super cute costumes! I love the fire hydrant/dalmation combo.
Oh my gosh, this is so SUPER CUTE! Love the creativity and it’s so cool that you let your soon choose.
This is so cute! I love the family theme. I need to get my hubby involved and wearing costumes.
How SWEET! I always love to get costumes for the kiddos but I’m not really one for dressing up… This makes me want to do a family theme! maybe next year.. 🙂
I can’t stop laughing about the fire hydrant! That is just hilarious!
Love the costumes, especially this year’s!
Oh what a cute idea!! Love the costumes!!!