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Life-Sized Puppet Halloween Costume

Be Geppetto to your kid's Pinocchio.
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With this cute (and super-simple) puppet costume, your kid may get to hold the candy, but you get to pull the strings.
A pair of jeans (or brown or black pants)
A white T-shirt
Construction paper
Double-sided tape
Suspenders, a scarf or a vest
String
A popsicle stick
1 Dress your kid in a pair of jeans and a white T-shirt.

2 Cut some paper buttons (whatever color you want) out of construction paper and tape them on the front of your kid's shirt.

3 Add suspenders, a scarf or a vest. Use your kid's copy of Pinocchio for inspiration!

4 Cut four pieces of string, each approximately 5 feet long.

5 Tie a string to each of your kid's wrists and ankles.

6 Tie the other ends of all four of the strings to the popsicle stick, for the puppeteer—that's you!—to hold.

7 Finally, head out trick-or-treating with your kid! (Added bonus: Nobody will give you dirty looks for having your kid attached to a "leash" while you're trick-or-treating!)

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