Halloween costume for a blue-haired 8 year old
October 23, 2016 12:16 PM Subscribe
My 8 year old son cannot decide what he wants to be for Halloween. He has turquoise blue hair, which doesn't have to be part of his costume, but I mean, if you're going to have blue hair, you may as well make the most of it at Halloween, eh?
I suggested rock star (punk or whatever) but he isn't interested.
He doesn't want to be a character. He doesn't want to be anything scary. Looking up halloween costumes for kids hasn't inspired him, so I thought I'd ask here.
Fun fact: I asked a question nine years ago about Halloween costumes when he and his two brothers were in utero. (The other two are going to be Ash from Pokemon and a ninja.)
I suggested rock star (punk or whatever) but he isn't interested.
He doesn't want to be a character. He doesn't want to be anything scary. Looking up halloween costumes for kids hasn't inspired him, so I thought I'd ask here.
Fun fact: I asked a question nine years ago about Halloween costumes when he and his two brothers were in utero. (The other two are going to be Ash from Pokemon and a ninja.)
Blue lobster!
posted by notquitemaryann at 12:40 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by notquitemaryann at 12:40 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Blue crayon/marker/highlighter?
posted by timestep at 12:41 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by timestep at 12:41 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Or if he's into wordplay, he could be "the blues" by wearing various shades of blue clothing and carrying around a Bluetooth* speaker playing famous blues songs?
*Or he could be Bluetooth...
posted by timestep at 12:45 PM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
*Or he could be Bluetooth...
posted by timestep at 12:45 PM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
A Smurf or a Troll?
posted by easily confused at 12:46 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by easily confused at 12:46 PM on October 23, 2016
Riffing off timestep's Bluetooth idea, what about these blue teeth?
posted by tomboko at 12:53 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by tomboko at 12:53 PM on October 23, 2016
Paint brush and palette.
posted by cecic at 1:00 PM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by cecic at 1:00 PM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
Does he watch/like anime? Because the list of anime characters with blue hair will far outweigh the list of any other characters with blue hair
posted by FirstMateKate at 1:09 PM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by FirstMateKate at 1:09 PM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
Thing One or Thing Two. Why is this even a question
posted by tel3path at 1:12 PM on October 23, 2016 [17 favorites]
posted by tel3path at 1:12 PM on October 23, 2016 [17 favorites]
I take it back tel3path is right thing 1 or thing 2
posted by FirstMateKate at 1:14 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by FirstMateKate at 1:14 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
- a blue dwarf star (or blue giant or blue supergiant)
- Van Gogh's Starry Night
- Picasso's Blue Period
- a Blaupunkt car stereo
- a blue-haired blue-collar worker
- The Kelley Blue Book which you look up the value of used cars in
- edging on character territory but there were the Blue Meanies from The Yellow Submarine (already old when I was a kid and my parents tried to convince me, but maybe your kid's a historian)
posted by XMLicious at 1:19 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
This but with an ocean theme. Fish, shells, starfish, boat, etc.
posted by BoscosMom at 1:47 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by BoscosMom at 1:47 PM on October 23, 2016
A bluejay, or bluebird?
posted by The otter lady at 2:02 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by The otter lady at 2:02 PM on October 23, 2016
The ocean. Make a headband with tiny seagulls + clouds on wires, spike his hair into "waves" then blue clothes with various ocean animals glued/pinned on. Get really nerdy by making the blue get darker towards his feet, put the tropical fish up at the top, maybe a giant squid + whale in the middle & some little LED light up creatures in the darker parts. Maybe even sculpt a deep-ocean volcanic vent with some weird worm things on one foot. Educational!
posted by 100kb at 2:04 PM on October 23, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by 100kb at 2:04 PM on October 23, 2016 [8 favorites]
If you don't want to teach him a lot of cuss words and send him as a blue streak, how about making him a photographic negative?
posted by mattamatic at 2:31 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by mattamatic at 2:31 PM on October 23, 2016
Have him wear a blue shirt and blue pants, and paste on a giant version of the Metafilter logo so he can be "The Blue". Have him ask, "Are you from the internet?" instead of saying, "Trick or Treat!" He could give out little thank you cards to every house he visits that say, "1 trick or treater marked this house as a favorite".
posted by Hermione Granger at 2:32 PM on October 23, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by Hermione Granger at 2:32 PM on October 23, 2016 [5 favorites]
Mad scientist!
posted by msbubbaclees at 2:58 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by msbubbaclees at 2:58 PM on October 23, 2016
If you're American, you could put white stars in his hair and he could wear red and white stripes, as the flag.
He could wear descending ombré shades of yellow, orange, red, and black, and spike his hair, and be a flame.
posted by pseudostrabismus at 3:28 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
He could wear descending ombré shades of yellow, orange, red, and black, and spike his hair, and be a flame.
posted by pseudostrabismus at 3:28 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
I have no idea if Sonic the hedgehog is popular with the kids these days, but blue hair lends itself to that. It's a character, but it sort of ties in with the Pokemon costume.
posted by Candleman at 4:27 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by Candleman at 4:27 PM on October 23, 2016
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub! Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty.
posted by Rob Rockets at 4:27 PM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Rob Rockets at 4:27 PM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians? His hair is maybe ice blue rather than turquoise blue but I don't think most folks will care.
posted by beaning at 4:38 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by beaning at 4:38 PM on October 23, 2016
Hades, as he appears in Disney's Hercules movie?
posted by Narrative Priorities at 6:10 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by Narrative Priorities at 6:10 PM on October 23, 2016
If he's a (huge) fan of Harry Potter (and changes his mind about the character vs concept debate) consider that Remus Lupin's son Teddy had blue hair.
Or how about an alien? Light blue face paint, eyestalk headband or use face putty to make ridges. If not Jedi robes or a Star Trek uniform then build an alien-like outfit from whatever you've got handy.
posted by aimedwander at 7:45 PM on October 23, 2016
Or how about an alien? Light blue face paint, eyestalk headband or use face putty to make ridges. If not Jedi robes or a Star Trek uniform then build an alien-like outfit from whatever you've got handy.
posted by aimedwander at 7:45 PM on October 23, 2016
He has a brother going as Ash and he's not going to do James from Team Rocket?!
posted by obiwanwasabi at 9:30 PM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by obiwanwasabi at 9:30 PM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
A tube of toothpaste?
posted by Mister Moofoo at 11:27 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by Mister Moofoo at 11:27 PM on October 23, 2016
I like the suggestion of Rick Sanchez, but since this is a child we're talking about, I think the better suggestion is Tiny Rick.
posted by crLLC at 7:00 AM on October 24, 2016
posted by crLLC at 7:00 AM on October 24, 2016
Follow up suggestion: Twitter
Additional follow up suggestion, if he wants to be something scary: Twitter, accompanied by a screenshot of that DNS error we all got a few days ago when the site was down for like 6+ hours
posted by Hermione Granger at 7:19 PM on October 24, 2016
Additional follow up suggestion, if he wants to be something scary: Twitter, accompanied by a screenshot of that DNS error we all got a few days ago when the site was down for like 6+ hours
posted by Hermione Granger at 7:19 PM on October 24, 2016
Response by poster: Thanks for all the suggestions! In the end, he decided to be a ninja. And then his brothers decided they wanted to be ninjas too. Sigh. On the bright side, for the first time in years, they're in coordinating costumes, and I didn't even have to push for it!
posted by pyjammy at 12:18 PM on October 27, 2016
posted by pyjammy at 12:18 PM on October 27, 2016
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posted by dilettante at 12:21 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]