# Doper Parents: What are your kids going to be for halloween? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 27, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121 "2005-10-27T04:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/21 "2005-10-27T20:33:54Z")
sculpture. sculpture. :smack: (I dunno what sculputer is) ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/22 "2005-10-27T20:42:43Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > My baby will be a fetus this Halloween. He/she has no choice in the matter. You know, I think it says a good deal about the types of folks who hang out around here that I unhesitatingly first interpreted this as meaning a fetus _constume_ . You know, little flesh-colored onsie, fake umbilical cord attached to a red satin placenta. That sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/23 "2005-10-27T20:43:48Z")
errr…costume. I certainly wish you all the best, but I have to confess to being a teeny bit disappointed by the reality. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/24 "2005-10-27T20:54:23Z")
I think my son’s going to be a [devil](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/colinblackthorn/detail?.dir=266f&.dnm=5076.jpg&.src=ph) again. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/25 "2005-10-27T20:58:54Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > You know, I think it says a good deal about the types of folks who hang out around here that I unhesitatingly first interpreted this as meaning a fetus _constume_ . You know, little flesh-colored onsie, fake umbilical cord attached to a red satin placenta. That sort of thing. Oh that’s hilarious. I just might use that next year, in your honor. Then when my child is posting on a similar message board sometime in the future and the question is “What was your first Halloween costume?”, he/she can say “I was a fetus. Yeah, my parents were twisted.”. Yes, I like that. :rubbing chin thoughtfully: ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/26 "2005-10-27T21:21:15Z")
My youngest son’s first Halloween costume was [Eeyore](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/faeriebeth/detail?.dir=9d2d&.dnm=f5b4.jpg&.src=ph) . Then the next year was [Pooh](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/faeriebeth/detail?.dir=9d2d&.dnm=2eb4.jpg&.src=ph) . Last year, I spent a week in the hospital before Halloween, so no fancy costumes were to be had. I think he wound up wearing a store bought fireman’s costume, since **Stonebow** was abruptly put in charge of it. This year, though, is going to be weird. Stonebow and I are dressing up as a well known couple from the ancient Greek pantheon, and our son has decreed that he will be…a chicken. I tried so hard to talk him into some little fur pants and a set of horns. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/27 "2005-10-27T21:41:53Z")
> [@Adoptamom\_II](#): > > Well, we’re not kids, but all of my coworkers are dressed as Dalmations today, with out Exec Dir dressed up as Cruella - we look GOOD 😃 and the kids who come here for therapy are having a blast trick or treating each of our offices. One of the departments in my office did the exact same costume last year, down to the manager dressing up as Cruella. I had to check the date of your post to make sure I wasn’t in an old thread. ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/28 "2005-10-28T03:26:22Z")
My daughter is going as a flesh eating zombie. She’s four… we actually did test run on her makeup tonight… her exact words “I look sooo coool. I need more blood though!” :\> So I have to tatter up and dirty a nice white dress it’s getting too cold for and will have outgrown by next summer anyway, buy some dead flowers and do her makeup and use some of mom’s “Graveyard Earth” perfume from Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs on her. She’ll be the cutest little brain eater ever. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/29 "2005-10-28T14:57:05Z")
THIS just in!! the 13 year old has DECIDED what to be on Halloween (nothing like advance notice, no?) He is going as, ahem: Gregorio, the Dancing Fairy. He wants a wand, he already owns a fairy crown (party favor from a Bat Mitzvah) and is going to draw a tutu onto a shirt using pink fabric paint (his idea). He should look quite a sight! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/30 "2005-10-28T15:59:07Z")
My son (12) still hasn’t decided between Malcom Reynolds (_Firefly_) and Neo (_Matrix_) Mal is cooler, apparently, but I told him he could hairspray his blond hair black for Neo, which is tempting. He’s also afraid if he does Mal, everyone will think he’s Han Solo. He has a point. The baby (9 months, no 5 months…at least, she \*looks \*like 5 months. Preemies are a pain with the age thing!) is going to be a little honeybee with a crown, 'cause she’s the Queen Bee! Mommy will also be a bee - a Worker Bee. (I think with a hammer and putty knife, perhaps.) On my head will be the [beehive!](http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel190545&page=2&edfParentCat=&subStyleType=&layout=&catid=cat20552&navLevel=&site=&dp=false) ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/31 "2005-10-28T16:26:30Z")
LilMiss has a lovely Ren dress that finally fits her just perfectly… So she’s going to “The Dance” (5th - 7th grade, girls n’ guys, giggling, blushing, bad music) as a punker. What kind of punk? “ugh, Ma, there’s only PUNK punk, geez!” “No, there’s 70’s punk, 80’s punk, anarchist punk, glam rock/punk, modern, IWannaBeGothButAllIGotWasThisStupidTShirt punk…” So far she’s wearing her fuchia/black Converse, black/fuchia striped knee hi socks over two pair of artfully torn black and fuchia fishnets, black miniskirt, black long sleeved T Shirt under a (you got it) sliced up fuchia tank top. She has the studded collar and bracelets, but I put the kibosh on the studded dog collar complete with chain. Fingernails are the requisite black. I offered to go buy a tattered jean jacket and stud it up/button it to hell, but she passed. All that’s left is hair and make up. For some reason she still wants me to do her hair like I said I would when she was going ren - tiny ponytails laced together. I suggested obnoxious pigtails with tipped ends or a fauxhawk. I really think she’d look cool with a 'hawk. Tip the ends black. But she’s not sure. I also agreed to do her make up, but again she can’t decide how she wants it. Ahhh for the days when she dressed up as Sylvester the Cat or a monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bag_of_mostly_water/32/1029_2.png) [@Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bag_of_Mostly_Water)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/32 "2005-10-28T17:37:58Z")
This summer we took our kids to see “Wicked” which they loved. We then rented the “Wizard of Oz” which the younger one (nine years old) loved. So, she has decided to go as Dorthy. She borrowed a blue gingham dress from a friend, made a white apron from an old sheet, bought a wicker basket, and bought bright red slippers. One of her stuffed dogs will play the part of Toto. I have to say she looks great – but no one her age has any idea who is dressing as. The older one is still deciding. ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/33 "2005-10-28T17:50:58Z")
Daughter is going to be a giraffe, which based on the growth charts just makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/34 "2005-10-28T18:12:51Z")
The missus found a costume on EBay that consists of orange sweatpants and an orange hooded sweatshirt with black eyes/nose/mouth. In other words, my three-year-old son is going as a jack-o-lantern. With the added bonus of being VERY visible in traffic. The six-month-old daughter is getting dressed up in an Anne Geddes-styled peapod costume. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/35 "2005-10-28T18:46:54Z")
> [@Ex\_Chemist](#): > > I have to say she looks great – but no one her age has any idea who is dressing as. The older one is still deciding. Nine year olds don’t know Dorothy anymore? What’s the world coming to? ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/36 "2005-10-28T18:58:24Z")
Do chickens have lips? [Why, yes, they do.](http://www.geocities.com/thanegalena/zoo3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/37 "2005-10-28T18:59:30Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > Nine year olds don’t know Dorothy anymore? What’s the world coming to? I saw two Dorothies under age 12 at a costume contest last weekend. So there is hope. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/38 "2005-10-28T18:59:58Z")
My daughter is going as a pretty witch and my son is Batman[sup]TM[/sup] My daughter was Dorothy about 4 years ago. Most of the other 4 years olds knew who she was supposed to be. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/39 "2005-10-28T19:31:44Z")
MilliCal is going as **The Tornado from the Wizard of Oz**. She thought this one up herself – she’s a grey funnel-shaped windstorm, with little pipe-cleaner versions of Miss Gulch, the Wicked Witch of the West, the guys in the Rowboat, the Chicken Coop, Toto, and a House with Dorothy in it, all stuck on at various points. Pepper Mill and I designed it, Pepper Made the bulk of it, and MilliCal made some pipecleaner things. She wore it for the first time today to the school Halloween party. I’m anxious to see how it went over. Last year she was a **Rock Star** – A big person-sized five pointed star made out of fabric treated to look like rock. Again, her idea, although Pepper Mill got stuck making it. Pepper’s sewing machine has been down for years. We’re gonna have to get her a new one if this keeps up. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121/40 "2005-10-28T20:10:12Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > Nine year olds don’t know Dorothy anymore? What’s the world coming to? There were several Dorothies at our elementary school Halloween carnival, so I guess there’s hope. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-what-are-your-kids-going-to-be-for-halloween/328121.md?page=3)