# Doper Parents: What's your kid gonna be for Halloween? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628 "2009-10-29T16:58:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628/61 "2009-10-30T19:51:39Z")
> [@belladonna](#): > > 8yo boy–a scary mummy > > 6yo boy–a vampire > > 2yo boy–Lightning McQueen (his dad wanted him to be Stewie from Family Guy, and I wanted him to be a zombie to round out our classic monster theme. However, his complete and total obsession with Cars won out when a family friend gave us the hand-me-down Lightning costume and he fell in love.) Yeah. Kids are hard-headed sometimes, huh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628/62 "2009-10-30T22:14:35Z")
My son is going to go as either a mad scientist or Dr. Phil. I’m not sure how he’d pull off Dr Phil, but I like the idea. He’s 11. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628/63 "2009-10-31T15:59:02Z")
My little girl is going to be a fairy princess. She wanted to be Tinkerbell but I wasn’t about to pay forty dollars for a costume. The oldest is going as some goth-ish maiden with a bullwhip. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628/64 "2009-10-31T16:13:24Z")
Our 3 1/2yro is going to be a racecar driver–he has an outfit complete with the sponsor stickers, baseball cap, and the like. He will be “driving” his push-pedal car around the neighborhood. FWIW, Son 2.0 (currently in his 31st week in utero) and I were bakers at work yesterday. I borrowed a chef outfit from someone, complete with neckerchief and big white puffy hat. I printed some cartoony clip art of a bun in the oven and affixed it to the belly, neckerchief, and hat of the outfit. That’s right, I was a baker with Bun in the Oven Bakery. 🙂 I (we) won 3rd place at the costume contest at work. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628/65 "2009-10-31T22:20:00Z")
Here are [some photos](http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=167882&id=617030976&l=e59c1f07c8) - enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628/66 "2009-11-01T04:48:00Z")
My little one had an allergy to her fairy costume so I threw a cowgirl costume together on the fly. I think she liked it better anyway: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/2537/4062926242_d3db936378_b.jpg "Trick-or-Treat") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/bellabrigido/4062926242/in/photostream/) ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628/67 "2009-11-01T15:58:01Z")
This year, our costumes were super easy: S is for Spencer C is for Colin M is for Mama D is for Dada The 3 1/2 year old asked. One sheet of foam core, cut up with an x-acto knife, big old markers, and some butcher’s twine … done in ten minutes! ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628/68 "2009-11-02T01:30:18Z")
Trick-or-treat was Friday night, and my 14-year-old son, for the first time, didn’t go out. However, tonight, the high school youth group at our church was doing a Halloween thing. For the past few years, he has chosen some obscure (to me, at least!) anime character from a video game. This year, he is Roxas from Kingdom Hearts. As an added bonus, I suggested we make monster finger cookies for him to take to youth group. He was in charge of the shaping, and I was in charge of fingernail placement. He made them a little on the large side, so they really look more like bloated corpse fingers. We had a blast making them, and they are quite yummy! ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628/69 "2009-11-02T23:39:10Z")
I’m not sure the last link to a FaceBook photo album worked if you didn’t happen to be me. Let me try that one more time… My son as [Beetlejuice](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4374349&id=617030976#/photo.php?pid=4374351&id=617030976). My daughter as [Mother Earth](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4374349&id=617030976#/photo.php?pid=4374349&id=617030976). Our front yard with the excavation disguised as a [Hallowe’en diorama.](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4374349&id=617030976#/photo.php?pid=4374345&id=617030976) I’ll see if that works any better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-parents-whats-your-kid-gonna-be-for-halloween/515628.md?page=3)