Train Costume

This Halloween I wanted to make my kids costumes. I have said this for years but just haven't been able to do all of them because they don't think of what they want to be until a few weeks prior. Every year my family has a tradition of doing a family party at my Aunt and Uncles home. It's been going on for years and one of my favorite things to go too. This year the party was sooner in the month which made me more determined to get the costumes made on time

My son who is almost 4 kept telling me he wanted to be a ghost train for Halloween.  I kept asking him what kind of costume he wanted and he told me just a train. So I hit the web and started looking for ideas. I found a few pictures on Pinterest and showed them to my son. He then saw one that was a black train and told me that was it. My mom brain started to do some thinking of how I was going to put this together. Luckily my mom has a bunch of boxes in her basement and I found one that worked.

I took a paper box along with a shoe box and a toilet paper roll.

I cut a hole in the top and made sure I had room for the toilet paper roll and for the shoe box. I then cut the lid in half and put it on the back. I hot glued the shoe box and the lid. I used duct tap to make sure It wasn't going to fall off. I then took the other half of the lid and marked a curve on the side and glued that to the front.

After I made sure everything was glued or tapped on good. I duct tapped the entire box. I tried to find black construction paper but I couldn't find any by me. It was insane how many stores I went to in search for black paper.  But the duct tap worked great and it was cheap.

After I tapped it all up I added straps to the train. I ended up using some scrap black ribbon that I had lying around.  I glued them on and then tapped them.  I then duct taped the toilet paper roll to make it black and glued it on.

For the wheels I cut out extra cardboard and used white paper to make the spokes.  For the front I used a paper bowl and made it look like Thomas who turned into a Ghost.  That's what my son wanted. I used one of my sons trains to get an idea of how to do the trim around the train. I used red card stock and tapped that on.

This costume cost me a total of $8 dollars.

Melanie