What the Teacher Wore…For Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! I love linking up with Chandra from Teaching with Crayons and Curls for her “What the Teacher Wore” linky! And I LOVE Halloween! We have a neighborhood (adult) Halloween party and this year was a Cartoon Theme. (So, this costume is not what I wore to school for Halloween…no shorts at school!)

Dressing up in costumes is one of my favorite things, but I am a bit picky about the percentage of a costume that can be purchased. I love homemade (or at least home put-together) costumes. I am not a big fan of buying the commercial store-bought full costumes. The store-bought ones just seem like there wasn’t a lot of effort put into it. I will purchase necessary accessories, but even with my lack of sewing skills, I prefer to make them. So, when we found out the theme for this year’s party, I racked my brain for cute, but original, difficult, but not impossible partner costumes.

The list of potentials:

Charlie Brown and Lucy (I’m glad we didn’t go with this as their were two couples dressed as them.)
Waldo and Carmen San Diego
She-ra and He-man
Carl and Ellie
Wiley Coyote and Roadrunner (This was almost the winner.)
South Park characters
Cruella and a Dalmatian
Tom and Jerry

But, in the end, we settled on Pinocchio and Geppetto.

Here we are:

Notice the knee joints and Jiminy Cricket sitting on my hat. You will get a closer look at him in a second! (It’s all about the details!)

And we were to bring a ghoulish treat. Since I don’t cook, there are not many things I can whip up, but I did learn how to make easy and delicious salsa once. So, the only way I knew to make chips and salsa Halloweeny was to make tortilla chips using a pumpkin, ghost, and bat cookie cutter. They turned out great!

Here is a close up of my hat. I found a little plastic cricket (or maybe a grasshopper) at Party City and made him a tiny top hat from the fabric I cut off Derek’s pants and viola…Jiminy Cricket!