Halloween Costume Adventure!

I could have also used the title 'A trip to Home Depot and Two Trips to Michael's Later'!

It is Halloween week and we are just coming off a weekend of Halloween costume creation. Alia is a s'more this year and Kyra is a coal miner.

Our Halloween costume adventure began last week, when we went to Home Depot to buy a paint coverall for Kyra's costume. I thought I would dye it orange for her miner's coveralls. First trip to Michaels'  Saturday morning to buy dye and foam pieces for a living s'more! At home, I prepared the dye as directed on package and starting the soaking process for the coveralls.

While the coveralls were soaking, Alia created her s'more costume, with a little help from mom and a math lesson from papa called "How to best calculate where to put 9 points equally spaced on a square".

I checked in on the soaking cover all during the day and was started to fear my plan was not working. When I took the coverall out of the dye and followed the instructions to rince and hand wash item, I discovered that the coveralls remained white!!!!

Sunday morning saw me back at Michaels to purchase 3 XL t-shirts that were on sale. I cut the sleeves off 1 shirt and sewed them onto another shirt to make 'long sleeves'. Next, I took the rest of the now sleeveless shirt plus a bit of the third t-shirt and sewed a pair of pants. We used silver duck tape to cover the seams and voilà! Luckily we had Wayne, our Big Pit - Pwll Mawr bear to help us out.

Both costumes were a success and the girls had a fabulous time trick-or-treating with their friends from school. They braved the rain and came home with a bag full of treats.