There's more images and closeups of some of the detail at the Costume site link above.
Legolas ... go for Robin Hood, but substitute neutral tights, and lose the feather in the cap!
Good morning, ladies! Share some of your favorite Halloween memories from when you were growing up, as well.
We have our Tom's birthday on the 31st (very appropriate), so usually we don't do much with Halloween. This year we're planning to go to a Civil War Ghosts program on the 30th.
Good morning, gentlemen! Coffee's on!
Or try for Davy Crockett, but lose the raccoon tail.
'Orange' will remain a popular Halloween color.
There's more images and closeups of some of the detail at the Costume site link above.
Now, on to Halloween. Because we live in the middle of no where, with no neighbors, so last year we took her to friends in another town and let her trick or treat on that street.
School has a big Halloween Party, and all the kids get to bring their costumes and going trick or treating from classroom to classroom.
We are Christians but we don't over-emphasize Halloween's negativity with our children. We just make it a simple time of having fun and getting and giving treats. We also participate in the church's 'fall festival' and 'Reformation Day' activities.
We don't decorate except with fun fall things like pumpkins and flowers. We like to carve a Jack-O-Lantern and eat roasted pumpkin seeds.
Our girls are 4 and 3 and desperately like going trick-or-treating. We have a nice neighborhood now and it's a lot of fun to go door to door. Last year both girls dressed up like mice - Reepicheep and Peepicheep with the addition of swords. They had black knit tops with gray fur around the collar and cuffs, black tights, black shoes, mice noses and ears and long black tails.
This year they want to be princesses.(Costumes seem relatively easy at this age).
For this year I've already got the kids costumes. Robbie's gonna be Spiderman and JJ's gonna be Buzz Lightyear. I'll take them trick or treating on a few courts (base housing rocks!) then we'll come home and hand out candy (at least that's the plan anyway *s*) I'm looking at getting a half angel/half devil costume for myself that I found in a catalog *S* It'll be fun!
Do your kids get dressed up and go trick or treating? Do YOU get dressed up and go trick or treating?
Yes for them, no for me, although I'd love to put together one of those old-fashioned dresses when I have the time!
How is the day handled at your child's school? Do they have a Halloween party or is the mere mention of a holiday with Christian roots absolutely forbidden?
Daughter goes to a small Lutheran school. They don't forbid it, but they don't celebrate it either. Just any other day.
Do you decorate your home for the occasion?
YES! I love this time of year starting from the fall to after Christmas. I usually start putting out fall decorations(leaves on the mantel, a fall wreath on the front door) in september and step it up to Halloween fun during October with the final blow out decorations going up for trick or treat night.
Can anyone give me a few tips on how to dress my 7 year old as Legolas??? Why is it that some kids refuse to be something normal, like Dracula or a Viking?
I hear you. My children wanted to be a "My Little Pony". She settled for one of those unicorn things they wear like they are riding a horse type of costumes.
Well, I'm going to a scrapbooking retreat for the whole weekend starting at noon! No children, no husbands. I don't even think I'm going to actually scrapbook--LOL. I brought along Unfit for Command and Shut Up and Sing which should ruffle a few of the lefty females and I'll be on my way.
Have a great day
Now we will not be going to the "Trunk or Treat". We do not have kids in our neighborhood so I will find one where we can go door to door.
This will be my girls this halloween...
Yep.
New Line is selling LOTR costumes; I'd guess they have Legolas.
We have never "celebrated" Hallowe'en, due to our Biblical convictions. But we do celebrate on October 31 — we celebrate the start of the Reformation.
So each October 31, the family (well, except me; I never seem to be around at this moment) gathers in the front room, lights dimmed, fire in the fireplace. And then Dr. Martin Luther invariably comes to visit! With a rather thick German accent, he tells the "klein kinder" about his life, how he was struck to the ground in terror of a flash of lightning, and promised St. Anne that he would become a monk if he lived.
He tells how he gave himself to his monkery with all his heart, but could find no peace, because he was never convinced that he had confessed all his sins, or done well enough. At the same time, as he began lecturing on the Bible, he struggled fiercely with Paul's words in Romans 1:17, that in the Gospel "the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, 'The righteous shall live by faith.'" Then he tells how he finally came to see that that phrase did not refer to God's righteousness by which He damns sinners, but by which He is righteous, and bestows His own righteous standing on the one who has faith in Jesus.
He tells them how this set him free and filled him with joy and love for Jesus, and changed his life.
Then he tells about the scrape he got into when he found that the church he served all his life was perverting the Gospel, sending out a man to sell made-up spiritual favors for money. He tells about nailing up his arguing-points on the church door on October 31, 1517, and of what came of it.
Then he gives honor and praise and glory to God, and urges the "klein kinder" to love Jesus and welcome God's Good News. And because that Good News is so sweet, he gives them some chocolate to make them think of the sweetness of God's love in Christ's Gospel. He usually leads them in singing one of his songs, "Ein Feste Burg" ("A Mighty Fortess").
Then he leaves.
And doggone it, I always seem to come back right after he leaves! Every year!
Dan
Farmer (3 y.o.), Daniel Boone (4 y.o.), and the 8 y.o. will want to be something gross and scary, with fake blood, no specifics necessary.
Our children's school hosts a Halloween party. this year it is the evening of Oct. 28. It is a family event and the parents dress in costume too. The school is a very traditional Lutheran school and we have only 13 families with children in attendance.
My daughters (age 5 and 8)are going as princesses. My son wants to be a snowboarder. We have to work on that costume. I want to be a queen. My husband doesn't like to dress up, so he will just be himself.
This year we have a wedding to attend the weekend of Halloween, so we are having my sister and her husband watch the kids Saturday and Sunday. They will take them trick or treating in their neighborhood.
My 10 year old son wants to be Legolas also. You have to admit, Legolas is very cool.
I screwed up and forgot to ask for a vacation day for Halloween.
From my perspective it is second only to Christmas for fun.
My sweetie will not sit on the porch and give candy to the kiddies.
I have a skein of very fine black yarn (which lasts for years). I tie a small length of the black yarn around the point, squeeze and tie once. Then two or three more, moving your tie a little. When done, the yarn looks like black legs coming out from a spider. Snip a little if the legs need it.
I do a lot of these and save them from year to year if I don't give them all out. Last year I had enough from the year before, so I didn't have to do a thing.
Each kid gets a spider and I tell him/her or the mommy there's money in it in case some dopey little cruncher tries to eat the nickels.
Be as generous or as stingy as you want with the nickels. A lot depends how many kids generally come to your door.
I have found, and will testify to the fact that the nickels make the rug rats happier than getting a crummy peanut butter cup.
This also is actually cheaper than buying overpriced Halloween packaged goodies. The best part is that I never get stuck with all that crappola candy that I end up throwing out at Christmas time.
Leni