You might think that a Halloween costume for a baby is ridiculous. They cannot eat candy, they don't know what Halloween is and they are probably going to poop in their costume anyway.
Here is some great advice for getting a costume for a baby if you want to get in on the fun:
Go to the stores that sell baby costumes the day before Halloween or the morning of Halloween and get a costume at half price. This is the one time in your life as a parent that your kids will not care what costume they are in. Well, maybe it will be for a couple more years, but enjoy it while it lasts. It won't be long before they have an opinion and an opinion that will change multiple times between Labor Day and Halloween.
My daughter was a cow for her first Halloween because the costumes at The Right Start were 50% off on the day of Halloween. Good thing I took a mental health day from work that day or I never would have discovered that. We had our two other children wear the same costume for their first Halloween and now the costume is jammed into my nightstand because I cannot part with it. Someday, I will get a hope chest and then I will have a nice place for it along with a few other favorite baby outfits.
And, you can dress your baby up and go trick or treating even if you live in an apartment and all of your neighbors are college students or retired old ladies. We put our baby in the car and drove to 3-4 friends' houses or apartments where we knew we'd find some candy. We had a little metal pail, so at one apartment we just plopped our baby down in her cow costume with her bucket, rang the bell and hid. This is a treasured memory for us and our friends.
You can also use hooded sweatshirts or solid colored bodysuits and black pants to make your own costumes. We added fur ears and a fur tail with wire in it to a black hooded sweatshirt to make a black cat. Our son did not want to dress up for Halloween when he was 16 months old, so we just got him dressed in black pants and the sweatshirt that just happened to have a tail and ears. He was pretty happy following the older kids around in the stroller until he discovered the tail sticking out of the side of his stroller. We had plenty of chocolate at that point to keep him happy.
Sharing Halloween with babies is definitely more about fun for the parents than fun for the baby, but that same baby will love to see pictures of them dressed up for their first Halloween costume later on.
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