My Halloween Costume – Idea Girl

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I didn’t have much time to prepare for the Halloween this year. The day before the Halloween, I got back from school and later that evening we decided to put a costume together.

My dad and I came up with an idea of being an “Idea girl”, with a bulb on the head that would light up when I had an idea.

We looked for things in the house and found a bicycle helmet – that will be the hat that I use. Then we looked for a bulb, there were plenty of those, but how about having “the bulb that lit up” part? And then we found a flash light! My dad took the flash light part and used some wires to connect the batteries to the bottom part of the bulb and hot glued the bulb to the helmet. We even found a tiny switch that we added to turn the light on and off.

So actually I had three bulbs on my head – the big one, which was just for show, a small one that came from a flash light and an LED that my dad tried to add, which didn’t work too well. You can see a little speck of a red on the hat. I am holding on to the switch in this picture.

The wires were supposed to go in the back and then I had a waist bag which held the two large batteries. So when I turned the switch on, the middle bulb lit up and illuminated the big bulb, it was cool.

My mom and I painted the shirt with “Ideas 5 cents” and I was ready. I even had a big questionmark on the back of my t-shirt.

Everybody liked my costume at the school, except at about noon, the big bulb broke!

In the evening time, we replaced the broken bulb and my friend Christina and I went for trick or treating around the neighborhood. A few places where I showed them my light and how it lit up, I got double the candy! So the costume was a success.

A few people at my school offered to pay me 5 cents for my ideas, but I have not collected that money yet!