Pirate Costume Ideas

A pirate costume is one of the easiest home made Halloween costumes.

You need just a few materials found around the home for a real seaworthy little buccaneer.

If you can't find what you need in your own used clothes, try children's second hand and resale stores for inexpensive clothing and accessories you can transform into a proper pirate costume.

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Boy's Pirate Costume

Materials:

Black pants or sweats
White, gold or striped long sleeved shirt
Strip of red fabric for a belt
Cardboard and aluminum foil or plastic sword
Red bandanna
Accessories such as eyepatch and pirate hook
Stuffed parrot
Face make-up

First, cut the black pants legs to about 3/4 length below the knee leaving a jagged bottom. Tuck an oversized white or gold shirt into the pants. A striped shirt would look great too, particularly a red and white one. A strip of red fabric makes a suitable belt or sash.

Tie a red bandanna around the child's head and add some gold costume jewelry and a large clip-on gold earring. A plastic sword can be found where costumes are sold, or make your own from a piece of cardboard covered with aluminum foil.

Add accessories such as an eyepatch, pirate's hook, telescope, and parrot perched on the shoulder. Simply attach a small stuffed toy parrot with velcro to add a jaunty look. This pirate kit contains you need to accessorize your costume...

Apply a thin layer of vaseline to the child's face and sprinkle a little tobacco on for stubble. You can also make stubble with the point of an eyeliner pencil or tiny dots of facepaint. Black out a tooth with make-up and add a mustache, bushy eyebrows and a red scar to complete the effect.

Check out this pirate facepaint kit kit with easy photo to follow.

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