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I feel that Halloween is truly a favorite holiday for just about everyone, regardless of age. There is no age at which dressing up in a costume, whether it is cute or scary, funny or ingenious, isn’t a thrill anymore. Young toddlers, however, tend to get especially excited about dressing up at Halloween.

There are, though, some special considerations that must be made when it comes to the topic of toddler Halloween costumes. Here are some helpful tips for finding really great toddler costumes – with none of the headaches…

To start, toddler Halloween costumes are obviously different for their intended wearers than other Halloween costumes. Just the term ‘toddler’, implies that they are still working on some mobility issues. Toddlers grow up at different phases – Some are great walkers, others are still crawling, and then there are some can run down the block in a flash!

For this reason, you must consider how a costume can impact your toddler’s mobility. Toddler Halloween costumes that impede movement can be a disappointing to a toddler that has just learned how to walk. They would be frustrated not being able to move around and explore as they have been.

Toddler Halloween costumes definitely need to have easy access! Some toddlers aren’t potty trained yet. Even those that may have moved on from diapers, they are still probably not experts at zippers yet. Finding costumes that can allow for easy access for a quick bathroom break or a needed diaper change is nearly worth the money alone. I don’t think there is no quicker path to a miserable Halloween than a toddler costume with a complicated and time-intensive process needed to take it on and off.

When it comes to what the toddler Halloween costumes should actually look like, that’s entirely up to your personal choice. All toddlers are, by nature, exceedingly cute so whatever costume you decide to put them in will, almost certainly, look really great.

Just remember, though, that this may be one of very few golden opportunities you might have to dress up your child in an outfit that is not of their choosing! As they get older, they develop a definite opinion of what they think is a cool costume.

However you choose, take the appropriate practical steps to have a very happy Halloween and have fun choosing your toddler Halloween costumes, and enjoy this precious age.

When you start looking, you will realize that you are spoilt for choice – you might find it hard to choose out of all the cute cowboy and cowgirl, pirates and pirate girl costumes and then then don’t forget all the different Disney character outfits and the cute animal ones!

Oh, and don’t forget to take lots of photos for your family album, they’re only toddlers for such a short time and you want to be able to remember how adorable and cute they looked in their toddler costume!

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Easy DIY Halloween Costumes for Toddlers

Are you DIY-ing a fun Halloween costume for your Toddler? What’d you come up with? Here are some ideas.

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Halloween is probably, without a doubt, one of the most favorite of kid’s holidays, and the reason is pretty obvious – the candy! Not only do they get to dress up in their favorite character costume, or one of this year’s trendy popular boy or girl Halloween costumes, or a scary kids costume, but they have the added bonus of going out in the evening trick-or-treating. They get the thrill of checking out all the lights and Halloween decorations, and knocking at every door to collect treats. Most kids do like candy (no surprise there!) and this is one day of the year that they get to indulge in these Halloween treats.

When you host a Halloween party for kids, it is a lot of fun for them and certainly heightens their excitement. They can’t wait for the sun to go down so they can get down to the serious business of trick-or-treating. The Halloween party food doesn’t have to be complicated, it can be simple. For example, for a group of 8 kids, a couple of different types of pizzas will be enough to get some ‘proper’ food into their stomachs before they start on the candy. Another suggestion would be to broil a bunch of hot dogs and lay out warm buns, along with green relish, mustard and ketchup. If you want to give them something a little different, you could also serve them a hearty bowl of chili, with grated cheese, and some buttered buns.

As soon as they have all eaten then they’re good to go! There’s only one thing left to complete the festivities (besides collecting their treats), and that’s the Halloween party favors!

I’ve got some great ideas that make easy and inexpensive Halloween party favors…

You’ll need a package of white paper lunch bags and some markers. Then draw a simple design on the lower two-thirds of the bag. Examples could be a Jack o’ Lantern, a witch flying on a broomstick, or some creepy spiders (you leave the top third of the bag undecorated to allow for folding the bag closed). Then write each kid’s name below
the design. If you don’t like drawing you, you could decorate the bags with Halloween stickers.

Now you need to decide what to put in the bags. Some things I came up with are…

• Some rubbery creepy-crawlies are a great idea. Girls will shriek and boys will put them on their sister’s pillow – universally enjoyed!
• Most kids love stickers. Putting a package of Halloween stickers is a good start.
• Your local dollar store probably has some seasonal figurines, cheap and cute, that you could add to the bag. For example, pumpkins, ghosts, witches etc these little figurines will earn a treasured spot on a bookshelf or dresser.
• Halloween coloring books.
• Halloween pencils and erasers.
• Halloween themed sunglasses and socks are other good choices.
• Vampire teeth could be another idea.
• Teen girls love some of the extreme Halloween cosmetics black, orange and red nail polish, for example.

When you have finished filling the bags, then shut the bag and secure with a bow tie of ribbon. When the kids get home, flush with a big bag of candy, you can end the evening with personalized Halloween treat bags, handed out to each child as they head for home. Your Halloween party favors will surely be the icing on the cake, so to speak.

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Trick or Treat! Halloween Party Favors – Gift Ideas, and Decorations

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If you are planning on having a pirate party this Halloween, then to make it even more memorable you will need to decorate your home with some authentic pirate decor to make it an awesome swashbuckling soiree!

With all the amazing Halloween stores that are now available online, you are going to be spoilt for choice when it comes to pirate props and decorations. What I have done is to research some of the biggest online costume and accessory stores and came up with a list of what I thought were the coolest pirate theme party decor, and which were
quality items at an affordable price…

A Peel’ n place pirate wall decoration is a great start. These can be used year after year if you are careful how you take it off the wall. The one I found, that I thought was authentic, had a rustic look of real weather-beaten wood and measured approximately 20″ wide x 11.5″ high, and said “Beware Of Pirates”. This decoration is made of plastic and will cling to just about any flat surfaces, for example, you can easily put it on walls, windows or doors.

What about a pirate flag? All pirates used flags as a symbol as to which piracy group they sailed under. There’s always the typical Jolly Roger that everyone knows about, but the one I really liked was a little more unique and definitely more colorful! It is a pirate skull with crossed pirate swords are displayed in the center with the words, “Pirates Only – No Trespassing! – All Others Will Walk The Plank” written on it. It has eye-catching brilliant colors. After your pirate theme party it doesn’t have to be folded up and put away, as it would be great for a bedroom or game room too!

You know that pirates are infamous for drinking rum, and lots of it! A pirate’s life can be tough, so it didn’t hurt to have a little something to take the edge off – a pirate’s bottle of rum! This is a great pirate prop. The one I found is a brown bottle with a red label, white skull and crossbones. It also has a blue ribbon style label featuring a red skull on the bottles neck, and a cork top. This plastic bottle adds a nice touch for pirate-y effect, either tucked into a cloth belt or used as simple decoration. It has a nice weathered look, and is really quite unique.

Then finally there’s the huge life-size pirate decoration, he is perfect for your pirate party. This jointed pirate skeleton cut-out will tower over your most of your guests at a whopping 6′ high with his skeletal parrot on his shoulder. This wall hanging is one-sided and made of cardboard. Just imagine this freaky chappy hanging on your hallway wall to greet your guests as they arrived!

Then, if you liked making crafts, you could go to your local craft store and buy a few items and then you could make some of the following homemade pirate decor…

• A treasure chest – you could make one out of a shoebox or cardboard box, or if you were extra ambitious you could make a proper life-size one out of wood!
• Make some gold coins – cover large round cut-outs of cardboard with gold foil. Make them different sizes, coins come in all different sizes. You could add these to the treasure chest, if you made one.
• You could bake a pirate cake or a pirate ship cake and put in the center of your table.
• You could make some Jolly Roger flags – just draw the skull and crossbones shape onto black construction paper and then paint the drawing with white paint. You could make a few of these and then put them all over the walls around your house.

For your pirate theme party, not only could you decorate your home with the pirate decor I’ve mentioned above, but another great idea would be to have a real treasure hunt! You could make your own realistic looking pirate treasure map and think up your own treasure hunt, or you can actually buy online some already prepared treasure hunt games for all different age groups, they can be purchased for ages 5-9 years (easy), ages 10-teen (medium) and teen-adult (hard). All you then need to do is for you and all your guest to dress up in pirate costumes and female pirate costumes and you will have the best pirate party ever! Don’t forget to take lots of photos, you’ll want to remember this one!

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If you are having a pirate theme party at your home this Halloween and you are looking for instructions on how to make an authentic looking pirate map to decorate your wall with, then you have come to the right place! This is such an easy project to do, and really adds to the atmosphere of your party.

Here are the items you will need…

• White construction paper
• Tea bags
• Colored markers
• Lighter (to char the edges of the map a little)
• Large cookie sheet (or bathtub, if you are making an extra large pirate map)
• Blow Dryer
• Cooking Oil
• Paper Towels

First of all, you are going to “age” the paper. If you are making a small size map then you will need a large cookie sheet filled with cold tea solution. If you are making an extra large size you will need to fill the bottom of a bathtub with some cold tea.

Dip the paper in the tea for about 5 minutes. Then flip and leave it in there for about 1 more minute. At this time, when the paper is wet and pliable, carefully tear and fray the edges a little, this helps to make it look more like an authentic pirate map.

Then remove the paper from the tea and gently crumple it up a little and then lay it out more or less flat and allow it to dry.

If you are in a hurry, then you can speed up this process by using a blow dryer.

Blow dry on high for about 5 minutes (leave it lying flat to prevent it from tearing or breaking). When it’s mostly dry (and starts to lift up a bit) then switch the blow dryer to low setting to finish it off (about another 2 minutes).

When it is completely dry. then lightly char the edges with a lighter. This adds a really authentic touch. If you don’t feel comfortable using a lighter, then as an alternative you can use cinnamon powder. Just sprinkle a little over the torn edges and rub it in a bit. It will colour the wrinkles and torn edges more than the actual surface of the paper, and will also give it an old an authentic appearance.

Now it’s time to draw your map. Take some markers and just get creative. I have included on this page some pictures of finished pirate treasure maps to help give you some inspiration. Some suggestions to add are…landmarks like mountains, ponds, beaches, lakes, forests, palm trees. You could also add shark fins in the water, waterfalls, large rocks, jungles, caves, trees, rivers, and of course a compass rose and a big X to mark where the treasure is!

Now wipe both sides with a small amount of cooking oil. Finally, blot off the excess with paper towels – this will make it will look and feel like genuine parchment!

That’s it, that’s all it takes to make a really authentic treasure map that you can be proud to display at your pirate party!

All you need to do now is decorate the rest of your home with other pirate decor like a Jolly Roger flag, gold coins, a treasure chest, etc and dress up as a pirate!

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You’ve probably seen those homes on your neighborhood that have some really great Halloween decorations that they put up each year. Well why not join them, this year, and really dress up your home and yard – you don’t have to buy them from a store, you can make your own!

It can even be a fun activity for your whole family to get involved in, your children would probably love to help you out with making the decorations as Halloween approaches, and it will help to put you all in the Halloween mood.

There are a few basic supplies that are a must-have when you want to make your own Halloween decorations. You can easily get these things at your local craft store. The most important ones are…

• Construction paper
• Glue and/or glue sticks
• Newspaper to help protect your work surfaces
• Tape
• Markers
• Crayons
• Pencils
• Stickers of all types
• Scissors
• Styrofoam (if you want to make tombstones)
• Paints and paintbrushes
• Lettering materials whether they be stencils, stickers, or plastic.

You can add anything else you think you may want to this list or you can see what your children come up with when they look at what is available.

Some people choose a specific theme for Halloween and stick with that and decorate their homes accordingly and choose their costumes to match. For example, if your theme was vampires and you dress up as Dracula or female vampires, then your decorations you should make would be bats, coffins, stakes, fangs etc. However,if you decided your theme this year was to be pirates and you are dressing up as a pirate lass or Captain Hook, then your decorations would include such things as skull and crossbones, ships, cutlasses, parrots, eye patches, jolly roger flags, treasure chest, gold coins etc.

If you want to make a decoration a bit more adult, then you can go for things like wood and glass, and the correct type of paints you would need to cover them. Sometimes, some paints can come off the glass or wood when exposed to the weather or if they are handled too much. You can also get some type of top coat that you can use to keep your items looking nice and lasting longer so you will have them for many more years to come.

It may also be a good idea to consider getting some waterproofing material to apply to your decorations if you know something is going to be used outside and will have to endure weather conditions like rain, snow, and wind. You can ask at your local hardware store as to which product would be the best to use.

For interior Halloween decorations just think about what Halloween means to you. Some of the best types of decorations are ones that will be spooky but don’t actually outright freak someone out. You can get all types of spider webs very cheaply and they will look great, and really add to the Halloween atmosphere. You can stretch out and drape the spider webs wherever you want in your home and then make or buy spiders to add to the webs. Nowadays, you can even find web that works outside and is resistant to all kinds of weather conditions.

If you find that you are having trouble coming up with ideas to make your own Halloween decorations, or you are running short on time and you have only got some of the ones you had planned to make, completed, then you can always go out and buy what else you need. Look at online Halloween stores for great ideas, values, and fast shipping times. Things like orange outdoor lights are great, and you can even now get purple ones as well. Sometimes you may find that you can get things cheaper if you buy more than one item, so buy try to buy something in groups if you can use all of the items they offer. Another source for great ideas for making your own Halloween decorations is to visit your local craft store a month or so before Halloween.

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If you are planning an adult pirate themed party this Halloween, then here are some great suggestions for food and drinks to serve your buccaneers and lady pirates. There’s a certain image that a pirate brings to mind… they are portrayed as strong, sexy, and have a “don’t mess with me” kind of attitude – even pirate wenches exude that same toughness, there’s that “I’m not taking any of your nonsense” atmosphere about them. To go along with these pirate images, you should choose your food and drinks accordingly…

Buccaneers Jerk Chicken:

• 2 tsps ground allspice
• 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp ginger
• 2 tsps thyme
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tblsp brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tsps ground black pepper
• 2 tblsps vegetable oil
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 2 cups of chopped onions
• 1 cup of lime juice
• 2 habanero peppers
• 1 large chicken (approx 5lbs), skin on, cut into 10 pieces…..

Combine everything except the chicken and the lime juice in a food processor and puree until it is smooth. Put the chicken and the lime juice into a mixing bowl and pour about 1/2 of the pureed jerk sauce over it, making sure to toss the chicken around to ensure that it is well coated in the sauce. Transfer it to a container and pour the rest of the jerk sauce on top of chicken. Then cover and put in the fridge for at least 4 hours. Then preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Remove the pieces of chicken out of the jerk marinade sauce and place them, skin side up, in an oven-proof casserole dish. Bake in the oven for about 45 to 55 minutes or until cooked through and the juices run clear when the chicken is pierced with a fork.

Cutlass Codfish Fritters:

• 1 lb of cooked codfish, shredded and washed in water and lime
• 1 tbsp cooking oil
• 1 tbsp of chopped onions
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1 lb flour
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 litre milk
• 1 tbsp creole hot pepper sauce…

Combine all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Then slowly add the eggs, hot pepper sauce and milk. Add the cooked codfish. Now form the dough into 1 inch balls. Heat up the cooking oil in a frying pan and then spoon the balls into the frying pan and cook until golden brown – then remove and drain off well. You can serve with extra hot pepper sauce for dipping them into.

No pirate party would be complete without rum! So here are 2 recipes that include rum and would be great for your themed party. The pirate is someone who takes what they want from whoever they wish and does whatever they feel, and you can imagine that being very true with recipes like these!…

Planter’s Punch By The Pitcher:

• 1 cup of rum
• 1/4 cup of Southern Comfort
• 1/4 cup almond liqueur
• 1 cup pineapple juice
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup of grenadine Juice of 3 limes…

Mix all together in a pitcher and add some ice cubes. Garnish with lime slices and cherries if you wish.

Anchors Away!:

• 1 oz spiced rum
• 1 oz white rum
• 1 oz coconut rum
• 1/2 ripe banana
• 3 oz pineapple juice
• Frozen strawberries (about 5 or 6 large ones)
• 1 slice of pineapple….

Combine everything in a blender with some ice and continue blending until smooth.

For dessert, I found 2 Youtube videos that you might be interested in checking out – one is about how to make a pirate cake and the other one is about how to make a treasure chest cake.  Both of these would look great on the table at your pirate party…

Try these recipes out for your pirate party, I think you will find that they are sure to be a hit. Along with some pirate props and decorations around your house, and your guests dressing up in pirate and pirate girl costumes you’re sure to have a great Halloween party this year!

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This is soooooooo easy to make and is a great finishing touch to your pirate girl costume. All you need is some black felt that you can get at your local fabric store or your local craft store and then a couple of shoe laces or a piece of elastic (black would be best).

First of all you need to draw on a piece of paper a shape that is your basic eye patch shape, you just have to approximate this, but it’s better to make it too big than too small, as you can easily make it smaller one once you have cut out the basic shape.

Use this piece of paper as your pattern and pin it onto a piece of black felt and cut out the patch.

Now you have your patch and all you have to do it to attach the shoelaces so you can tie it round your head. Just push one end of each of the shoelaces through the felt patch at each side of the patch and make a knot in it so that it won’t pull back through the felt when you try to put it on.

All you have to do now is to tie the ends snugly behind your head.

If you have chosen to use elastic, then just do the same as you would for the shoelaces to attach each of the ends of the elastic to the patch.

There you have it, an easy great finishing touch to your piratess Halloween costume!

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If you are going to dress up as a pirate girl this Halloween, finish off the whole effect with some piratey lingo to go along with it!

I did some research and this is what I came up with .

Ahoy – Hello there!

Matey - Generally friendly thing to call a person.

Hearty - More friendly than matey .

Avast Ye! – Get a load of this!

Grog - Watered-down rum.

Bilge - The unwanted water collecting in the bottom of your ship!

Belay - Stop it ( belay that ___ translates to cut that ____ out ).

Hempen halter – The noose!

Dance the Hempen Jig – To hang, (the noose was often made of hemp fibers)

Pieces of eight -silver coins.

Doubloon - gold coins.

All Hands Hoay! – All Hands on Deck! When everyone on the ship was called to the deck – usually for action.

Hornswaggle – To cheat or defraud someone.

Dungbie – rear end.

Freebooter Another name for a pirate.

Landlubber – ‘Lubber’ is an old English word for a big, slow, clumsy person, and this term was aimed at those persons onboard who were not very skilled or at ease with life at sea.

Picaroon This one s from the Spanish word for rascal, it was applied to pirates that was satirical or humorous.

Powder Monkey – A gunner’s assistant.

Be in Davy’s Grip: To be close to death, or frightened.

Have the Davies or the Joneseys: To be frightened.

See you to Davy Jones: To threaten to kill some one.

And then finally, the old favorite .….

Shiver me timbers! – Akin to “Blow me down!”, an expression of shock or disbelief, believed to come from the sound the ship made when ‘shocked’ by running aground or hit by a cannon blast.

Add some of these pirate sayings to your conversation this Halloween and just watch your friends faces – you ll be the most original pirate girl at the party!

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The Jolly Roger is the flag most popularly attributed to the notorious 18^th century pirate Calico Jack Rackham who is allegedly suspected to have been romantically involved with history s most famous female pirate, Anne Bonny. They allegedly had 2 children together. The flag was also known as Captain Death amongst pirates.

Historically, the flag was flown aboard the ships to frighten the pirates’ intended victims into surrendering without a battle, since the message it conveyed was that these attackers were ruthless outlaws who did not regard themselves bound by the usual rules of maritime law and therefore might have no qualms about slaughtering those they defeated.

If you do a quick search in the Oxford English Dictionary, it reveals that as early as 1724, the term Old Roger was what the British called the Devil and going further back, as early as 1540, a roger was a beggar or vagabond. Roger is also a derivative of rogue. So it s possible it might be that it was just slang for the sea-faring vagrants or a jolly roger.

The most common version of the Jolly Roger is the skull and crossbones symbol, usually with the bones placed crossing under the skull, but sometimes it can be with the skull super-imposed on top of the crossbones.

Pirates who did not belong to any particular nation would often make up their own personal flag so as they could spread their own infamy. Many pirates had custom flags that were quite different from the standard skull and cross bones on a background of black.

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Anne Bonny is without a doubt, history’s most infamous woman pirate, she was a plunderer, a cut-throat, a sailor, a ransomer, a raider, and all in all a general menace to maritime commerce in the Caribbean. Most pirates probably would have considered her to be a great asset to their trade!

Anne was born in a the small town of Kinsale, Ireland in the late 1690′s. She was the daughter of a penniless maid and her well-to-do lawyer boss, who was already married. When their affair was discovered, the two of them ran off to America and established themselves there as respected plantation owners in the state of South Carolina.

However, for the young Anne, the rural comforts of plantation life were far less exciting and alluring than the stories being passed around in the nearby port of Charleston, which was a well-known pirate haunt at that time. There, she met and married a small-time pirate named James Bonny, and the two moved to New Providence in the
Caribbean (which is now known as Nassau).

Charleston had been bad enough, a virtual pirate’s den, but in comparison, New Providence was literally the capital of pirates. Pirates more or less ruled the city at that time. Surrounded by many legendary figures such as Calico Jack Rackham (the man who is thought to be the person who invented the skull and crossbones symbol) and Charles Vane – Anne’s husband ,James, had a really difficult time keeping his wife’s attention.

After a short time there, Anne left James for Rackham, joining the latter on his pirate ship. Due to the fact that the pirate code explicitly forbade females on board, she secretly disguised herself as a man and fought valiantly alongside the rest of the ship’s crew.

However, needless to say, it was only a matter of time before she was discovered and confronted. According to legend, the first fellow shipmate who was the first to express anger at having a woman aboard ship, paid for it with his life. She, reportedly, stabbed him through the heart, right there and then.

As it turns out, however, Anne was not the only female on board. Also disguised as a male crew member was a woman named Mary Read, and the two of them became best friends. They shared their secret with Rackham, and the trio happily spent the next year wreaking havoc throughout the Caribbean until Anne became pregnant. She gave birth to
her child in Cuba then returned to the ship, apparently abandoning her child.

Ironically, it would be another unwanted pregnancy that would later save her life.

In 1720, Rackham’s pirate ship was captured by some pirate-hunters. During the battle, Rackham had apparently cowered in the hold of the ship along with most of the crew, while the two women stayed on deck and tried hard to fight off the attackers. After their capture, Rackham and the other men were dutifully hanged.

Anne and Mary were both pregnant at the time, and they escaped instant execution by pleading for their childrens’ lives. Read was sentenced to hang after giving birth, but as it turns out, before she could do so, she died of a fever in jail.

For some unknown reason Anne was granted a reprieve, and what happened to her afterwards is uncertain. Some accounts say she went back to her father or her husband, and others say she resumed the pirate’s life.

Whatever she did, and wherever she ended up her memorable words that she is supposed to have said to Calico Jack Rackham just before his execution have been passed down through history. She said she was sorry to see him in jail, but if he had fought like a man then he wouldn’t be now hanging like a dog.

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