How to Dress Like a Vampire for Kids
Halloween is an exciting time for kids of all ages with a multitude of fun activities such as trick-or-treating, spook houses, fall festivals and costume parties. The vampire is a popular costume for Halloween, and can be accomplished with a few simple items. Whether your child favors the look of the old-fashioned vampires or the more modern appearance of the vampires from the "Twilight" series, the ensemble is simple to create and is sure to be a hit for the spooky season.
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Things You'll Need
- White, red and black face paint
- Small make-up sponge
- Black sheet
- Safety pin
- Black shirt
- Black pants
- Vampire fangs
Instructions
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How to Dress Like a Vampire for Kids
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Dress in black from head to toe. This creates the "dark" look that all vampires have. The old-fashioned vampire characters tended to dress more formally in black dress shirts, black vests and black dress pants under a black cape. You can create your own cape with a simple black sheet pinned at the throat. The vampires in "Twilight" also wore black but in more casual attire such as black jeans and a black T-shirt.
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Using a make-up sponge, cover the entire face and neck with white paint. Use black paint to create dark circles under the eyes for a haunted appearance. You can also use black eyeliner to darken the area around the eyes, and black mascara to darken the eyelashes.
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Use red face paint or lipstick to color the lips. You can also paint some small drops of blood at the corners of the mouth so it appears to be dripping from the fangs.
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Insert a pair of plastic vampire fangs to complete the look.
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Tips & Warnings
Other embellishments include long, fake fingernails or a fake spider web that can be draped across clothes or in hair.
References
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