kids costumes

I’ve always been a fan of all the different holidays, and Halloween is a special favourite. I love creating fun homemade decorations, dressing up and handing out candy to the neighbourhood kids. And my boys love the fun of trick-or-treating and dressing up in fun costumes just as much! Last year, we took our costume inspiration from Avengers Assemble on Netflix Canada for our costumes and dressed as Iron Man, Captain America and Black Widow.

This year, both my boys have taken their costume inspiration from video games rather than television but personally, I’m thinking dressing up as Eleven from Stranger Things would be a fun and easy DIY costume choice! A pink dress, an oversized jean jacket, a white-blonde wig and sports socks would be all I needed to showcase this character from my new favourite Netflix exclusive series. Looking for a little inspiration for your own child’s look? Check out these three fun and easy DIY Netflix-inspired costume ideas! [Read more…]

My youngest son Benjamin has always been a little more shy than his outgoing older brother. And with some upheaval at the beginning of the school year, including a sudden switch to a new class in early October, he really didn’t have a list of friends to invite to a party when his birthday arrived on October 5. As a result, he missed out on having a friend-attended birthday party, though we did have a family celebration at home.

But since he hadn’t been able to have the fun of playing party games and eating cake with his classmates, I told Benjamin that I would throw him an end-of-school belated birthday party so that he could still invite his friends over for some fun and games. And with the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie recently released in theatres, we decided to give the party a Marvel Avengers theme. [Read more…]

Show Off Your Love of Your Favourite Show with Netflix-Inspired DIY Halloween Costumes #StreamTeam

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