A creative Halloween

I always struggle with what I am going to be for Halloween. Each year I end up coming up with some costume within a day or the day of. This year was going to be different.
Liz, Paris and I went to the Green to find costumes each having somewhat of an idea as to what we were going to be. Once we got there we realized how unnecessarily expensive Halloween costume stores are. I was not about to pay fifty dollars when I could easily make my costume. I decided to be a Native American and we went to Wal-Mart to get some feathers and a pillowcase.
Once we got back to the dorm I pulled out the biggest pillowcase I’ve ever seen. First I cut out a neck hole. Then I cut up the side seams so I could try it on to see what I was really dealing with. After I figured out what I needed to do, I began fringing the sides. Liz helped me turn the bottom of my costume into one of straight out of Disney channel. We cut the bottom of the soon to be native dress into a diamond shape then fringed it.
After we finished cutting and making my costume look decent I realized that it needed something else. It was boring because the fabric was just plain and beige. I decided I wanted to be like Pocahontas and have a bear claw on my costume. I was afraid to free hand one on the fabric so I decided to use some of what I learn in my 2D design class to good use. I printed off a picture of a bear claw and I traced the claw on tracing paper. Then traced the opposite side of the tracing paper and traced that on the pillowcase. It was perfect. I painted it red and then added a belt to bring it all together.
On Halloween I received many compliments about my costume. I had colorful feathers in my hair and a tomahawk on my hip and the best part about it was that I only spent 7 $ on what some paid $50.
Halloween is a great time to express your creativity. There is no reason that you cant be whoever or whatever you want on this special day. And there is no reason that you can’t be creative while doing it. I saw a million Indians out there and none of them looked like me.