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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Sugar & Spice: Age-Appropriate Costumes for Your Tween
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When children are age 10 and under,
Halloween is always a fun holiday. The very young children may
dress up as a cuddly animal or a ball player and they are content
to walk around their neighborhood with their parents to ensure
safety. However, during the pre-teen years, children want
independence. Additionally, they no longer want to wear costumes
that are considered "babyish." They want to push the
envelope with their costumes.
"High School Musical"
Your pre-teen
daughter may want to show that she is not a baby on Halloween. She
may want to dress up in provocative clothing and heavy makeup. You
understand her feelings yet you don't approve of anything that
pushes the envelope away from the bounds of decency. One compromise
is to dress up like one of the characters in "High School
Musical." The popular film series features characters who are
recognizable and clean-cut, including Sharpay and Gabriella. These
costumes should be good for parents and tweens.
Transformers
The Transformers movies have
proved to be popular with teens and tweens. Autobot is one of the
more popular dress-up characters and so is Deception. You can use
makeup to accentuate this costume.
"Harry Potter"
The popular book and
film series has a plethora of non-babyish characters and costumes
for tweens. Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley are just
a few of the characters that can be captured with Halloween
costumes. Hogworts teachers can also be used for costume ideas.
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Posted by Jacklyn Tue Oct 6, 2009 12:58am PDT
Transformers? On a tween? The author is joking right? I'm assuming this article is directed at the parents of girls, since clearly "provocative" clothing and heavy makeup are not really a concern with tween boys. Transformers? On a tween girl! This is a poorly written article. My 9 and 11 year olds are out of the "baby" costume phase, and here are some better ideas:
1) "glam" versions of "baby" costumes. For example, A witch can be cool (and modest) with the addition of jewelry, glitter makeup, and spiderweb decoration strewn onto the dress and hat. Check out this one: http://www.cheaphalloweencostumes.us/WITCH_Costume_p/r881011.htm
2) Pirates are very trendy this year as well, and don't have to be "wench-y" In fact a boy's pirate costume on a girl can really look nice. Like this one: http://www.buycostumes.com/Pirate-Mate-Child-Costume/62690/ProductDetail.aspx
3) My daughters are both in love with this Greek Goddess costume: http://www.costumeexpress.com/Greek-Goddess-Child-Costume/62787/ProductDetail.aspx , and you can even call it a "300 queen costume" if you like. many historical costumes are more grown-up, but not revealing.
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Posted by shaken00 Tue Oct 6, 2009 6:09pm PDT
My son was Harry Potter when he was 4. This year he is 9, and has chosen to be the grim reaper. I don't really have a problem with it. He knows it isn't real.
I don't understand the point of this article (except wanting modest choices for young girls).
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