I just have to share Angeline’s homemade costume from last night! She made her own The Walking Dead zombie costume!
We live pretty close to Miami Metro Zoo Zoo Miami and they do a Boo at the Zoo trick or treating event there every year. During the day, kids can come dressed in costume to get candy but at night?
It’s a whole different story. Local high school students get decked out in costume – this year the theme was zombies – and hide throughout the park and jump out to scare the kids as they trick or treat.
Angeline and her friend Emily spent two hours ripping their shirts, painting their faces, rolling around in the dirt outside (no, seriously, they wanted to look “real”) and gluing fake blood and moss to their foreheads to recreate the zombies from our favorite television show, The Walking Dead.
Should I let my daughter watch AMC’s The Walking Dead? I don’t know, it seems okay to me – she’s 15 after all.
There’s gore, sure, but not any more than she sees in video games. There’s not much cursing, there’s no drug use, and there’s hardly any sex. Plus, she’s learning serious survival skills should a zombie apocalypse actually occur.
Shoot, she’s learning survival skills for any kind of national disaster, if you think about it…finding shelter, getting together with others because there is strength in numbers, rationing food, finding clean water – these are all things that work just as well on a deserted island, right?
Angeline worked really hard making her The Walking Dead zombie costume and I think they both did an awesome job!
She started with ripping an old PE shirt from middle school and putting on a bandeau top underneath. She left her jeans normal. She started blackening her eyes – you know, because all zombies have those dead eyes!
Angeline and her friend started painting their faces with earth-tone eye shadows, mostly green and browns, then really laid on the black eye shadow and eye liner.
Then they took their white shirts outside and rolled them around in the dirt, brought them back inside and rubbed fake blood all over them and rubbed it on various parts of their bodies to really get that un-dead look.
I think they did a pretty good job, Angeline was creeping me out!
LOL! Did she scare the dog?
I think she looks great! I wish I was half that creative!
Love it, and BTW your daughter has beautiful eyes, that last photo is just as pretty as it is scary LOL
It came out awesome! She looks great!
They did do a great job!
mighty creepy!!
They did a great job!!
She did a great job! Freaky!
She looks WAY too natural doing that. LOL
Prettiest zombie EVER! Beautiful eyes!
Awesome! So quick and easy and a great costume. She has gorgeous eyes by the way!
Great costume! I let my 16 year old daughter watch Walking Dead, but she hated it!
wow you have one gorgeous girl on your hands even with Zombie make-up on her.
They look a little scary!
Wow, they did a great job! They look awesome.
They both look awesome!
I LOVE it! They did an amazing job. &She has GORGEOUS eyes!
She looks HORRIBLE, which in this case is a good thing!
Whoa, they could totally be in the show!
Cool, creepy and frugal- That’s just my style! Good Job!
She’s such a pretty zombie!
I love The Walking Dead so you are an awesome mom. And she looks great. She is even pretty with fake blood all over her face.
Much more creative than I am!
I’m a HUGE Walking Dead fan… love this! They look awesome!
Awesome costume and she’s so pretty! (We have the same couch!)
Oh that came out fabulous, totally love it. Maybe I’ll have to do this love The Walking Dead!
Ha that’s so simple and probably didn’t cost a thing she looks great
great idea! Love it!
I love it! Such a great looking costume for FREE! And she’s 15, let her watch The Walking Dead. It’s such a great show with (like you pointed out) so many great lessons!
Awesome! I love The Walking Dead. 🙂
They really did do a great job! It’s really great that they got so into making their costumes! My daughter has that same One Direction poster 🙂
Is that Zombie Hunter behind in 2nd photo.?