Any advice for a 13 year old boy's Halloween costume?

[eyeontheprize]

With a G to PG rating for the school dance?

He'd really like to get some kind of prize, but we don't have any good ideas.

[alisongiggles1960]

1. I've been hunting for ideas too and found a ton on the web

a quick search will bring more ideas than you could use in a 20 lifetimes. Loads are terrible or wickedly corny, but there are a few gems among them.


The hard part is choosing only one.

[Asteroid]

2. You could dress him up like Cheney

And sew one of those fake gag hearts to his chest and that would be both humorous and scary at the same time.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Roadkill!

My best friend - some years ago - took a big white T-shirt and drove over it with muddy tirees, splashed on some red paint, and pinned on bits of fur. Her son loved it.

[jdots]

4. ELVIS CHENEY !!!!!!

different smirck.but they enjoy the same drugs. Go with something a-political 13 is a tuff age, be different but remember a 13 year old doesn't want to feel like an outsider or a baby.

[Asteroid]

5. Are most of his friends repugs or libs

If so then a political costume would probably be a bad idea, especially at 13. If he was a little older then it would probably be cool. Hey I might go as Cheney I dont care who I piss off.

[eyeontheprize]

9. Sadly, Republicans.

It is a function of where we live.

[Logansquare]

6. Halloween costume ideas for teens

http://parentingteens.about.com/cs/holidaycrafts/a/costume_index.htm

[pbg]

7. A few

(concentrating on the non-elaborate:)

political/funny: go as George Bush with a cigar-box underneath his jacket and a line of drool from the corner of his mouth.

moderately clever: Agent Smith from the Matrix. (I know a bunch of kids who got together and did that as a group--it was impressive.)

Edward Scissorhands (not as elaborate as you might think.)

Tony Clifton.

And at two opposite ends of the spectrum: if you have some clothes ready to get tossed, burn them halfway and go as a crash victim--

--or spend a little money and rent some really good evening dress: white tie if you can find it. No need to go for top hat or tails--you'd be amazed how startling something a step up from a tux can be on a young man.

(At 13, it's tough to do a costume that doesn't wreck one's protoadolescent dignity. I know.)

[barackmyworld]

8. I was a barrel of toxic waste once

it's from calvin and hobbes, I put straps on a giant gatorade cooler, spray painted it, and put on some of that foamy expanding insulation stuff

[deadparrot]

10. These might not be G or PG...

but they're pretty damn scary.

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1001/masks.html

[TNDemo]

11. I had a friend who went as a toilet.

His head was sticking out of the middle of the tank. He had little bottles of stuff on his shoulders (on the tank top). The bowl was in front of his stomach and he would lift the lid for people to put the candy in. Of course it was all cardboard and light stuff - that porcelain stuff gets a little heavy.

I had another friend (a grown man whose law firm dressed up every year) who went as a roach. Forget how he made the costume but I know he had eight legs sticking out on the sides and antennae on his head. I wondered how appropriate his clients thought that was when walking in his office that day. Of course one year the guy dressed as a turd (corn stuck to the costume) for a Halloween party at his house and that may have been more appropriate for a lawyer.

[alisongiggles1960]

13. LOL Gotta love a guy who can laugh at his profession.

Especially lawyers, although doctors could stand to lighten up a bit too, IMHO.

[Longhorn]

12. My daughter won a contest one year in middle school

dressing up like a table set for dinner. Don't know if your son would go for it but maybe an idea for someone else.

The "table" was a square piece of corrugated cardboard covered with a checkered table cloth. It sat on her shoulders and we decorated her head poking through to look like a vase of flowers. Stapled some paper plates, forks and napkins to the table and she was done.

[hyphenate]

14. Pirate!

Hobo
Train conductor
Ice Cream Man
Grocery bagger
A cigarette
A Tootsie Roll
A waiter
A bartender
A rapper
Lone Ranger
Flash
Green Arrow
Green Lantern
Wizard of Id
A Union or Confederate soldier
A gladiator

[ismnotwasm]

15. Pre-Columbine

My son dressed up in a long black trench coat with goth-type makeup, and "Die Yuppie Scum" spray painted in large sliver letters on the back of his coat. I don't know what he was, exactly. But very amusing considering the neighborhood. Homeland security would no doubt arrest him these days.

[GodHelpUsAll2]

16. The funniest

most original costume I have seen was on a woman I work with one year dressed up in a formal dress, pantyhose torn and tattered, her hair all a mess, one of her teeth blacked out, fake bruises on her arms and face, smeared lipstick, a rhinestone tiara crooked on her head and a sash that she wore that read "Miss-Treated". It was hysterical. But I guess that doesn't help a boy does it.

[Unperson 309]

17. Several quick and easy...

Dress in a black robe and carry a plastic axe. Keep saying "I have to find my mare! I am late for the execution!" Keep searching for the mare (you could even have a bridle over one arm) and go as the Horseless Headsman (headless horseman)

Dress in a very flashy suit (plaid jacket, striped shirt, checked pants, polkadot bow tie) and carry two or three decks of old playing cards. Make certain the boxes are tattered, the cards are stained and creased. Tell everyone "Look this wonderful deck of playing cards was only used by a little old lady gambler on sundays in the casino!" and try to get people to buy them. You are a "Used Card Dealer" (Used car dealer)

Carry a large fishing net (the kind you use to boat a fish with) and wear khakis (like the Crocodile Hunter) and go around asking "Say, do you have any young doctors you want me to catch? I'll grab any MD for you for a fee!" You are an Intern Net Service Provider!

Wear a nun's habit. Carry binoculars and keep staring at the ceiling. As you look up, keep saying "I wonder why I can't get back home up there." You are, of course... (wait for it)... Nun of the Above!

HTH

309

[DrWeird]

18. 13? G or PG? You know, they can't stay home forever.

[ghostsofgiants]

19. Ninja?

Pirate?

I dunno.

[MisterP]

20. Max Headroom: quite suitable for our corporatized world:

teach him to stutter correctly

[Sabriel]

21. Here, they're discussing this one over on GD

Gitcher orange beheading jumpsuit costume now!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2500241