My five year old wanted to be Luigi for Halloween this year and my two year old conveniently doesn't know what Halloween even is yet, so I took the opportunity to cast him as Mario to match his brother. Sure, I could have gone the easy route and bought the pre-made costumes from Wal*Mart for $20, but it's been my experience that those costumes fall apart at the seams and get runs and snags all over them within a week, and kids love to dress up in their costumes all the time once Halloween is over. So I decided to do right by my boys and make them Super Mario Bros. costumes that will last until they outgrow them. I found most of the actual clothing on Amazon.com and the rest of the supplies at Michaels, which consisted of some felt, wooden discs (for the buttons, I spraypainted them yellow), a little bit of hot glue, and some industrial strength velcro to attach the buttons. There's no way these costumes are going to fall apart, and I think they look so much better than the store-bought ones anyway!
