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Like many other children, my granddaughters have been thinking about Halloween costumes lately. Costumes are important to the holiday:
“What are you going to be?”
“I don’t know. What are you going to be?”
Although Halloween isn’t my favorite holiday, it’s fun for the children.

I asked friends and family about their Halloween costume memories: “If you trick-or-treated as a child, what was your favorite costume? Was it homemade or purchased? Their responses are below:
•    The devil: red and store-bought with a tail which my mother made.
•    I had no costumes.
•    I had homemade costumes, but can't really remember a favorite. I had a witch hat I loved.
•    I love this topic! My favorite was homemade with a wand and a skirt/tutu.
•    My costumes were homemade.
•    Cleopatra. I wanted to be her every year. I dressed up as her one year and purchased the outfit!
•    I was sleeping beauty when I was five, and my grandma made my dress. I thought it was beautiful with all the sparkles. I felt like a real princess!
•    Homemade clown costume that won best costume in 1979. Some more of mom's finest handiwork!
•    Never liked Halloween as a child, although I did occasionally trick-or-treat. It was just never really any fun, maybe because I was usually by myself. So, no memorable costume.
•    Anything cool and comfortable. Most costumes were so hot since they were plastic that they made me sick. I think I puked several years in a row from getting too hot when I was small. Good times!
•    A witch – partly homemade and partly store bought.
•    A ninja!
•    My all-time favorite costume was a rubber, store-bought Frankenstein mask. My favorite treat was a homemade popcorn ball that Mrs. Abbott from Beechmont made every year. That was the highlight of my night: Mom taking me up there to get that popcorn ball!
•    I don’t remember a costume. (I received this response a few times.)
•    We didn't get to buy costumes, at best a mask.
•    Dorothy, and it was homemade.
•    A homemade hobo costume.
•    A homemade Cleopatra outfit.
•    My favorites were being Aunt Jemima and a ghost.
•    I liked being Annie.
•    Most memorable was a scary mask bought at the Dollar Store.
•    I liked being a biker. The costume was homemade.
•    I loved being a cowgirl.

“Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble” (The three witches chanted in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.).
Witches, ghosts and goblins will be out on the streets soon. Some of these children may be wearing the costume that will become their most memorable. So, let’s notice their costumes as we help to ensure that they have a safe and happy Halloween.