Trick-Or-Treat! Now, Hand Over the Candy

Mother Nature cancels Halloween and keeps us from our trick-or-treating rounds?

Not on my watch!

After our town cancelled Halloween in the wake of the terrific snow storm and power outages, we had to wonder if we’d get to beg for candy at all this year.  But since going door-to-door asking for food and threatening reprisals is an important life-skill, we found a way to make it happen.

I might have mentioned before that my daughter’s idea for a costume this year is a rainbow.  But I do not think I mentioned that she had ideas for my own costume and my wife’s too.  Being a rainbow, she decided my wife had to be the sun.  And me?  Why, I’m a little black raincloud, of course.

And what kind of self-respecting homebrewer and general DIYer would I be if I didn’t make my own Halloween costume?

I didn’t help with the rainbow, because that required sewing and I’m not the best in the house when it comes to needle and thread, but when it comes to metal wire and hot glue guns, I’m all over that!  If you want to ever make your own little black raincloud costume, I recommend getting

Game on!

good quality fabric, something fleecy, or with some kind of visible texture to it.  Fold it in half and cut a cloud shape out of it, giving you two identical pieces of cloud.  Get some kind of bendable wire and bend it to match the outline of the cloud pieces, and glue the wire to one piece of cloth.  Glue the other piece over it, with a small amount of filling to puff the cloud out a little.  Use some piece of doweling or metal wire across the back to help keep the shape, then just attach a piece of heavy-duty elastic band to go around your neck.  As a finishing touch, I cut small pieces of ribbonand glued them to the bottom to simulate falling rain.

Wouldn't you like to know what house was giving out the
treats on the right?

All done.  Now, give me candy!

I know this has nothing to do with beer, but it has a lot to do with being a dad.  And rest assured, after trick-or-treating was done, and our exhausted daughter was tucked into bed, I kicked back with a bottle of homebrew and enjoy the rest of Not-Halloween.