How to Be a Special Agent as a Child

Although it is impossible for a child to be an actual special agent, he can pretend to be one for fun or for special events like Halloween.

Being a special agent for Halloween involves acting and looking the part. Be sure to prepare yourself, or your child, thoroughly for this adventure --- with tinted sunglasses, go-go gadgets, trench coats and suaveness. For this top secret assignment, you can either take the lazy man route and buy a costume, or you can dig into old closets in search of the perfect fedora hat, as you load up your Netflix queue with classic James Bond flicks.

Instructions

1. Search the term "Special Agents" under Google Images. You might see photographs of the TV show "NCIS" or Daniel Craig from "Casino Royale," or even a few FBI agents taking down white collar criminals in the seemingly safe streets of America's suburbanite towns. Whatever you see, take notes as to which type of special agent you want to look like.

2. Look in your parents' and grandparents' closets for clothes that will match the special agent look. Vests, trench coats, slacks, sunglasses and pressed suits can easily --- and cheaply --- be tailored to a child's proportions and made into a costume for Halloween.

3. Make or find gadgets to complete your costume. Borrow a tape recorder, use a plastic cell phone, wear multiple military watches, ask to use your older sibling's Bluetooth, and bug Grandpa for his mini Mag flashlight.

4. Practice in front of the bathroom mirror your special agent walk and talk. Sean Connery made special agents famous for being smart, charming, flirtatious and adventurous. Watch a few of his 007 movies on a Friday night with a bag of popcorn, and you will surely have the talk, as well as dark and mysterious act, down pat.

References

• Last Minute Costume Ideas: James Bond
• Costumzee: Secret Agent Costumes
• Top Fancy Dress Ideas: James Bond Fancy Dress