Halloween is not only a time to dress up as witches and ghosts. It's a time for kids to dress up as their favorite animals, go house to house trick or treating and collect candy! Animal costumes are very popular with the younger kids. Your little darling girl would love to purr sweetly in a cat costume, or flutter around in a butterfly costume. Little boys in gorilla costumes will enjoy scaring grown-ups or perhaps your boy may feel more comfortable in a bunny costume! Adults are required to chaperone their kids, and they too can join the fun and dress up in circus costumes or even monkey costumes on Halloween night!
Traditionally, Halloween is celebrated as the night when ghosts and goblins come out to play and dead people walk out of their graves! But along with wicked witches and other ghoulish creatures, superheroes have joined the gang along with Indiana Jones and the Jedi! And to add more fun to the adventure, we also need the animal kingdom to come out on this spooky Halloween night! Your little ones will especially enjoy dressing up as one of their favorite animals. Some of the animal costumes are listed below:
Werwolf Costumes
Butterfly Costumes
Ladybug Costumes
Bumble bee Costumes
Dinosaur Costumes
Dragon Costumes
Cow Costumes
Jungle Costumes
Godzilla Costumes
Bear Costumes
Lion Costumes
Lady bug Costumes
Shark Costumes
Insect Costumes
Frog Costume
Dalmatian Costume
Gorilla Costume
Peacock Costumes
Bee Costumes
Wherever possible be creative and include a nursery rhyme or fairy tale theme for the animal your child chooses. For instance, The Cow Jumped Over the Moon can be depicted with a cow costume and a crescent-shaped moon as an accessory. Help your child to get into character too so that they know they are supposed to roar like a lion or growl like a bear! They can learn to moo like a cow or dance like a peacock!
Children of all ages enjoy Halloween and want to take part in the fun. If your child is small you may not want to take him or her too far from home. The sight of other children dressed up as witches or ghosts may frighten your little one. Parents with younger children can join together and make a little animal kingdom of their own with their kids dressed up in different animal costumes. Parents can take turns chaperoning their kids to each other's homes for Trick or Treating.
If you have older kids make sure there is an adult chaperone while your kids visit from house to house in your neighborhood.
