Halloween Costumes For Infants: When It Comes To Costumes Infants Can Wear, Simple is Best

You can generally find Halloween costumes for infants at your local costume store or toy store, but you will usually find a much larger selection online.

The Web is also a great place to get creative costume ideas, or you could just be spontaneous and come up with something for your baby by yourself.

One way to come up with Halloween costumes for infants is to consider whether or not to use your infant as an accessory. By this I don't mean to literally attach your baby to you, but to make your costumes compliment one another.

Back several years ago, my then five year old niece, wanted to dress up as Alice in Wonderland for Haloween. So, my cousin decided to go as a giant mushroom and it was a pretty strange and funny looking costume.

This made a perfectly complimentary outfit for her Alice in Wonderland costume, except they had to come up with an idea for his baby girl, who was then about 4 months old.

Since they had an Alice in Wonderland theme already, they decided to make the youngest daughter the Hooka-Smoking-Caterpillar of the story with an infant costume like this one.

Which brings us to a point: when it comes to Halloween costumes for infants, simple is better.

I saw this creative costume idea put to good use a few years back at a party when a friend of mine showed up with her newborn in costume. She was a martini glass, and her son was an olive. It worked perfectly and while it may not have been the best costume of the night it was certainly up there.

Of course halloween costumes for infants don't have to be group costume theme, but considering that your infant will likely not remember what you dress them as, I say it's best to come up with a theme the whole family can enjoy.

Plus, later in life, you can show them Halloween pictures of when you dressed them as an olive. Photos of these Halloween costumes for infants are priceless! Have a happy Halloween.