Celts

Paint the kids blue with laundry bluing. It’s cheap and available in your local supermarket. It comes off...in a couple of days. You can get little plaid skirts at the local used clothing stores to use for kilts. Use longer plaid skirts for the girls. Cut them up to make the shoulder scarves. Find complicated branches for headdresses. They are lighter and more humane than antlers. Add some scraps of fake fur for whiskers and a knobby stick, and you have a wild little Celt!

If you want to put out the money or effort, the local Renaissance Faire has tons of stuff; patterns, costumes, and dyed fabrics. I prefer to find my materials garage sales and swap meets. People are constantly getting rid of old costumes. You can get hats, masks, wigs and robes for practically nothing. I keep a closet full of costumes just in case someone needs something, sometime, for some event.

Just in case...

Sorceress/Sorcerer

Start with an old choir robe. You can find them at church rummage sales and used clothing shops. If it’s white, use a stencil and some melted wax and paint stars and moons all over it and dye it. You can use stick on stars. There is a kind that glows in the dark, which would be very effective. Paint it with fabric paint.

Stick a fake beard on face for a boy. Costume on the left: Underneath, wear a long sleeve, turtleneck jersey or leotard. Hat is a cardboard cone with a scarf pinned to the tip. Costume on the right: Belt choir robe with drapery tie-back. Staff is a broom or mop handle with a decorated, styrofoam ball stuck on the end. Hat is a cardboard cylinder.