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Onesie-of-a-kind Costumes

Adorable Halloween Costumes for Baby Using Onesies

By Kelly Burgess

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The only thing cuter than a baby is a baby framed in an adorable costume. Whitney Moss and Heather Flett of Rookie Moms (www.rookiemoms.com) know that, which is why activity number 312 on their site is to plan a newborn Halloween costume. Simple and cute, it involves nothing but a plain, white onesie, an iron on transfer sheet, minimal artistic skill and a baby.

Flett and Moss, authors of The Rookie Mom's Handbook (Quirk Books, 2008), are all about getting the maximum use out of onesies. In fact, Moss, the crafty one, threw a baby shower for Flett where guests decorated onesies to give the expectant mother – "onesies-of-a-kind" as Flett calls them. Now the two women have four children between them. With all that artistic talent and all that cuteness to show it off, it's a shame Halloween only comes once a year.

Onesie Ideas

But back to activity number 312, which is a baby dressed up to look like an iPod. It was an idea passed along to the Rookie Moms by one of their readers. But, "anything with electronics is funny," Moss says.

To make the iPod costume, just find a picture of a click wheel online, enlarge it if necessary, print it on iron on transfer paper and then follow directions for ironing the picture on to a plain, white onesie. You can use the same idea, but different pictures, to turn your little iBaby into a digital camera, R2D2 or a computer (just print out a picture of a computer monitor with any text or picture you like on the screen).

"We love onesies because everyone already has a lot of them, they're inexpensive, they come in a lot of colors and when you use them for costumes that's one more use you get out of them," Flett says. "Babies don't care what they wear, they don't really even know what's going on, so make them something that makes you laugh."


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Re: Onesie-of-a-kind Costumes by tina on 10/22/2008 03:16AM

Absolutely love the iPod costume idea! I have an 8-month-old and wanted to do something simple, but different, and CHEAP. This covers it all. Thanks so much.

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