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Halloween Costume Wanted, So She Creates a New Superhero

October 28, 2015 by Jeff Bogle

Rainbow-Warrior Halloween Costume
Rainbow Warrior Costume in the making. (Photo: Jeff Bogle)

The Mouse, age 7, invented a superhero named Rainbow Warrior late last month. Her mind is a wheel that never stops spinning, even when it veers off into a ditch. Round and round and round it goes.

She and I created her hero’s logo in Adobe Illustrator and then she quickly went to work writing a brief but enchanting back story and sketching RW’s ensemble as she imagined it from — poof — thin air. For the past week, the Mrs., the lovely & amazing Mrs., worked her ass off for three or four hours each night after getting home from her day job to make this dream costume a very real reality.

This is a bit of a tradition, for the Mrs. to make from scratch out a Halloween costume or two for the girls but this year’s invention of Rainbow Warrior takes the multi-colored cake as the most detailed and labor intensive project to date. But, when your daughter invents a superhero and writes her tale and sketches her ‘look’, what choice does a loving parent have but to make a Rainbow Warrior come to life? Exactly.

Have you ever created a Halloween costume from scratch for one of your children? What was your inspiration or was it your child’s? Was it a one-time project or did it started a holiday dress-up tradition in your family? Let us know in the comments.

Rainbow-Warrior-Cape-Trim

A version of this Halloween costume post first appeared on the blog Out with the Kids.

Have you ever created a Halloween costume from scratch for one of your children? What was your inspiration or was it your child’s? Was it a one-time project or did it started a holiday dress-up tradition in your family? Let us know in the comments.

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Filed Under: holidays Tagged With: costumes, Halloween

About Jeff Bogle

Jeff Bogle is a father of two who writes about travel, parenting and all things childhood on his site Out with the Kids. His work has appeared on The Huffington Post and The Good Men Project, among other print and online outlets.

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