Cowgirl - get a cheap cowboy-style hat, checked shirt and cap gun at Walmart -total cost around $15

Alternatively, Target is selling a very cool hot dog costume for around $40 that the kids will get a big laugh out of.
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Be a bee!

Use a large plastic garbage bag. Turn it upside down and cut the head and arm holes. Do the head hole first. Then have someone mark where the arms should be cut while it is on you.

Then fill the bag with crunched up newspaper or magazine pages to give it body.

Buy a roll of caution tape and glue it to the outside of the plastic bag in stripes.

Get a cheap headband or use one you have and attach foil to the top for the two antennae or buy one of those inexpensive headbands with two bobble balls on the antennae.

You can add a fresh or fake flower for a special touch.

Or be a clown.

Use baggy pajamas or flannel pajamas if you have them and buy an inexpensive red nose. They do not cost much.

Use makeup that you already have to make your clown face.

Wear a hat, even a simple baseball cap worn backwards would work or an old floppy hat and wear some wild earrings.

You can easily make clown hair with yarn to attach in the inside of the hat. make sure it hangs out all over the bottom of the hat. Tie your own hair back or out it up under the hat.

If you have gloves, wear those too.

Carry a bag of cut up paper or get some cheap confetti for fun or fill your pockets with it and sprinkle it on the kids to make them laugh.

Or be a black kitty cat

Make the ears with a headband and two triangles of stiffer fabric like felt and make the ears on top of the headband by gluing them in place with white craft glue or school glue, Aleene's or Elmer's for example, or use a hot glue gun if you have one.

Use black eyeliner and mascara to make exotic eyes and to draw the cat's whiskers on your cheeks.

Wear a black shirt if you have it or a black-tshirt turned inside out if it has a logo on it and dark pants or jeans.

Make the tail with long black yarn braided or a piece of fake black fur from the fabric store.(Buy a piece a couple inches wide but long enough for a tail. They can cut a thin piece for you.) You can safety pin it on the back of your pants.

For a funny touch get a rubber rat or mouse or a cute small stuffed one to carry with you, ask the kids if they would like to meet your pet and tell the kids, "This is Cheeser", or whatever name you pick.
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Fairy wings are cheap and easily available at just about any costume shop. Wear a cute dress and dot on some glitter, and you're good to go.

Raggedy Ann is also an easy costume, though many kids nowadays may not get it, so you might as well go as any rag doll. Use some yarn to make a wig, or just tie some yarn into your hair, sew some old clothes together in random patterns to make a ragdoll body, and paint on some exaggerated eyelashes and rosy cheeks.

A friend of mine also went as a headache, which I thought was cute. She took a black dress, covered in it squares of different colors fabric to create a chaotic pattern, and added some lightening bolts painted on her face. It took some explanation, but it was funny.

You could also go as yourself as a kid. The kids might get a kick of how you would have dressed at their age :)
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Gypsy. All you need is a long skirt, some dangling earring and other jewelry, maybe a mans shirt tied a the waste and a bandana in your hair.
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