Different Hats

I LOVE Halloween. It’s my favorite holiday right next to Christmas. The costumes, lawn decorations, pumpkins, hay rides, leaves, the crisp air, and the free candy – it’s a wonderful time of the year! The first week of September is spent unboxing all of my Halloween stuff and spreading it around inside and outside of my house. I like to decorate early.

I’ll start with the inside part – little pumpkins on the windowsills with fake leaves, spider webs dangling from the ceiling, candles in each room with scents like candy corn or apple cider donuts, and filling a giant bowl with all sorts of candies.

On the outside of the house I like to put pumpkins all over the place, by the front door or on the concrete steps. There’s a farm stand down the street from my house where I go to purchase dried-up cornstalks, I tie them up against the post of my front door and swirl around orange and yellow colored lights. Sometimes I’ll put decorations in the yard like headstone graves or random props. One year I made a cauldron out of an old dryer drum and filled it with green lights and cotton to make it look like it was boiling.

But I have to admit the one thing I care about the most is the costumes! I’m 32 years old and I still enjoy dressing up each year, and now that I have children it’s make the holiday even more exciting. Together we get to walk around wearing fun stuff and knock on doors for candy, and the best part is watching your kids run back to show off the loot.

One year I asked my son what he was wanted to be Halloween that year and he said to me two things: a Nintendo Switch and the Creeper from Minecraft. I thought to myself well there’s no chance on finding something like those at the store, and if I did it probably wouldn’t be the best quality. So I decided to make a DIY Minecraft Creeper Halloween costume.

I started with searching for the right box and then I painted the entire box with green acrylic paint. Cut out some eyes and a mouth with a craft knife, and I also cut out two arm holes on each side. The next thing I did was gathered some construction paper and cut them up into squares each the same size, and taped them onto the box. I used a small mesh screen and hot glued it inside the box behind the face. I also cut off the flaps off the end of the box.

That was it! pretty simple and basic supplies. After it was finished I gave it to my son to try it on and unfortunately, it didn’t fit so it became my costume. Here it is with the other costumes that I have also created.

Supplies that I used to make this DIY Minecraft Creeper Halloween Costume:

• Large box
• Construction paper
• Tape
• Mesh screen
• Scissors
• Hot glue gun
• X-acto knife