Halloween Costumes and Recipes

I just got my Parents magazine and they had a bunch of ideas for costumes and treats...

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When my kids were little, around that age, one was a pumpkin (a custume from Old Navy) and the other was Bob the Builder.  Another year, one of my kids was a spider. .. another costume purchased at Old Navy.

Now, this year, my kindergartener wants to be a vampire and my 2nd grader is going to be a ninja.  Luckily he was a ninja last year and he fits into the same costume!

ETA:  here are Old Navy customes:

http://www.oldnavy.com/browse/category.do?cid=37292

*** the great thing about those ones are many of them are thick and warm so you child won't require a coat if you live in a cold region.

I forgot to mention, if you have goodwill stores (or the like) you can find GREAT deals on costumes. I''ve come across a few in the under $10 range that are the really thick and warm ones.

What about making haystacks for your halloween snack? They aren''t "halloween" per say, but they ARE fall/autumn and a lot of people use hay as props with halloween. Another idea would be pumpkin cookies! You can get a pumpkin shaped cookie cutter, with sugar cookies and do orange icing!

As to costumes.... he could be a mummy, a super hero, a cowboy, a ninja, for some reason (dunno if you could find a costume) a caterpillar keeps popping into my head, how old is he?

I bought my daughter''s costume from buycostumes. They have a huge selection & I like that customers can review items.     I''m not creative with food so I checked parenting.com & they have a bunch of ideas.

thanks all  my son is going to be a train engineer...cute costume....parenting has some cute recipes i may try.....what kind of snack are haystacks?