This year it was unanimous that we wanted to dress as the X-men for Storm! I found most of the costumes at used clothing stores and made most of the other props.
X-Men Sign
Materials:
Cardboard
Scissors
Brown Spray Paint
Gold Sharpie
Cricut to cut letters
Directions:
Cut a large oval and small circle from the cardboard.
Paint both brown.
Cut out letters with the Cricut and attach to the sign.
Use the Sharpie to make a gold ring around the oval and circle. Make a gold X in the circle.
Mutant Pumpkins
I took the kids to the pumpkin patch to find pumpkins. They choose “mutant pumpkins” which were perfect for our Trunk-or-Treat theme of X-Men.
X-Men Trunk
I decorated the trunk to look like the gate/wall outside of Professor X’s school. Stone wall, vines, sign with address for the school, and some “mutant pumpkins”. We dressed as the characters in the 80’s Animated X-Men Series.
X-Men Costumes
Storm
I made Storm’s costume from an old white onesie and some yellow ribbon. I also made the red circular “X” badges out of some buttons. She is the reason that we chose to dress as the X-men this year!
Professor X
My 15 year old son dressed as Professor Xavier. We barrowed my mother-in-law’s wheel chair and I found a green suit and blue tie at Goodwill. It was a perfect find!
Jubilee
My son’s girlfriend dressed as Jubilee. We found all of her pieces to her outfit at Goodwill as well. The gloves are just yellow, rubber dish gloves. I made her glasses with paint pens and an old pair of sunglasses that I found. I made the earring from the red buttons that I used from Storm’s costume. People who watched the cartoon as kids knew exactly who she was!
Gambit
My younger son wanted to be Gambit, so I found a Gambit T-Shirt on Amazon. Then he used a large brown and a ski mask. The wig was from Goodwill sold brand new!
Phoenix
My step daughter wanted to be Phoenix, so I found a Phoenix T-Shirt on Amazon. Then she used a green tights and boots with yellow dish gloves. The wig was from Goodwill sold brand new!
Rogue
I dressed as Rogue and found Rogue T Shirt on Amazon. I wore green tights, an olive colored jacket, black headband, gold boots, and yellow dish gloves. I made the X’Men coms with red foam and a black sharpie, then we pinned the to our outfits!
Wolverine
My husband dressed as Wolverine. I found his Wolverine shirt on Amazon too. The boys also had some claws in their play stuff, but we lost one, so he just had 1 claw in this photo!
We have been dressing up for Halloween as a family for the past few years. Since the kids are getting older, this year we decided to participate in the Trunk-or-Treat event rather than attending it. We volunteered our trunk at each of the boys schools and also at our church. So we could use our Star Wars decorations more than once! Two of our event were moved in doors due to an early snowfall this year.
Star Wars Sign
Materials:
Black Poster Board
White Paint and Paint Brush
Print out a Star Wars logo
Glue
Pencil
Directions:
Glue the Star Wars logo to the top of the black board.
I used a pencil to free hand the words on the sign “May the Faith be with You”.
Then I covered the pencil with the white paint.
R2D2 Pumpkin
Materials:
Oval orange or white Pumpkin
White and Grey Spray Paint
Blue, Black, and Red Sharpies
Directions:
I spray painted the bottom half of the pumpkin white and the top half of the pumpkin grey.
Let it dry VERY well, or the paint will come off with the Sharpies.
Then I used the Sharpies to decorate the pumpkin to look like R2D2.
BB8 Pumpkin
Materials:
Large Round orange or white Pumpkin
Tiny Flat orange or white Pumpkin
White Spray Paint
Orange, Black, and Silver Sharpies
Directions:
Spray paint the pumpkins white.
Let it dry VERY well, or the paint will come off with the Sharpies.
Then I used the Sharpies to decorate the pumpkin to look like BB8.
Star Wars Trunk
We decorated the trunk with a black table cloth hanging in the background. Then we hung white Christmas lights all around. We added some Star Wars Light Sabers with our sign and pumpkins. We passed out glow sticks instead of candy.
Star Wars Costumes
Chewbacca (My older son had a Chewbacca onsie costume that he wore).
Luke Skywalker (My younger son wore his Martial Arts top with a belt, some khaki pants, and wrapped some old white socks around this ankles. He also took one of his toy Light Sabers.)
Princess Leia (I braided my hair on the side and wrapped it over my head. I also wore a white button shirt with khaki pants and boots. I had a tan jacket that I wore too. My son gave me a toy gun as well).
I tried to make the boys special lunches for Halloween since it’s on a school day this year! I cut a crooked mouth in the sandwich and added candy eyes to make a monster. Drew Jack-o-Lantern face on the oranges, and ghost faces on the cheese sticks. AND Candy Corn is always a favorite with my boys!
I made a Monster birthday cake for my friends 1 year old. I also made some cupcakes to match. I bake two box cakes and then decorated with my homemade buttercream icing recipe. I decorated the monsters with M&M’s, Candy Eyes, Candy Corn, and other small candies.
Buttercream Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 cup Crisco
4 cups powdered sugar (2 lbs)
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 tablespoon milk (if thick)
Directions:
Cream together the butter and Crisco with a mixer.
Slowly add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time.
Add the vanilla, if it seems too thick you can add a bit of milk.
Our family has the same Halloween tradition as many other families. We love to carve pumpkins together and try new ways for carving. We always start by going to the pumpkin patch to choose our pumpkins!
My boys are not a fan of getting sticky or gooey. Gutting the pumpkin is always the most unpleasant thing for them, but I keep encouraging them to try it!
This year I placed nails in the pumpkin and let T hammer them in to create the holes. He loved using the hammer.
J and I tried a more difficult pumpkin carving of the Dragon! The boys were very happy with how they turned out.
Carmel apples is one of the favorite fall treats in our house. T just LOVES “dunk”, his way of saying “junk food”. We also tried sweet roasted pumpkin seeds.
Batman and Spiderman this year! These 2 absolutely love to dress up in costumes. We have so many costumes for them to play with all year long. We never buy new Halloween costumes, they just choose from their large stash of costumes. Then after Halloween I buy clearance costumes to use as Christmas and birthday gifts.
We had a Halloween Bonfire again this year. This time we set up a table outside with all the pumpkin carving tools and told people to bring their own pumpkins to carve. The boys actually helped us gut the pumpkins this year… in the past they have said it was too slimy for them. T really like looking at the candles in them. It was fun making jack-o-lanterns together!
We roasted hot dogs and smores too. This was the biggest bonfire that we have ever had, was a fun time!
I bought caramel apples this year instead of making them… they were much better! J just LOVES caramel apples!
We decided to have a bonfire for Halloween this year. First we went to a nearby pick-your-own pumpkin patch to choose two big pumpkins. We rode in a wagon pulled by a tractor to the pumpkin patch. After choosing our two pumpkins we placed them in the wagon with T and pulled them to the car so we could take them home and carve them.
My husband and I decided to try more difficult designs this year. We each choose our design and dug in, the carving defiantly took longer than our usual triangle eyes and toothy smile jack-o-lanterns. In the end we were very pleased with our work.
We roasted hot dogs for dinner, and had soda for drinks.
We roasted smores for dessert and had homemade caramel apples and candy corn too.
