5 Ingredients or Less: Costumes
Author: Dawn - Internet Sales Coordinator October 2007
I've always seen cooking as a chore. It's NEVER as easy as Rachel Ray makes it out to be. Besides, I lack the ability, time (30 Minute Meals end up taking me well over an hour), and money to create anything edible without using a microwave. I finally threw in the kitchen towel and began looking for an answer to my cooking woes.
My saving grace came in the form of a website I stumbled upon advertising, "400 Recipes with 5 Ingredients or Less." What a truly brilliant concept! Not only did the recipes reform my thoughts and feelings about cooking dinner, I became inspired to think of other ways I could apply the "5 ingredients or less" rule.
For instance, I knew I wanted to write an article including a top 10 list of the best costumes I'd ever seen, but how could I connect one idea to the other? As I began to make my list of memorable Halloween characters, it came to me. All my favorites had one thing in common: they were all perfectly simple, but yet so completely clever it made me like them that much more.
So here they are, my top 10 list of Halloween costumes, 5 ingredients or less:
1. Dry cleaning
Ingredients: 1 plastic dry cleaning bag, 1 wire hanger, 1 dry cleaning ticket
Cooking instructions: Cut a hole at the top of the bag large enough to fit your head through. Carefully staple or pin your ticket to the front. Bend the hanger to create a sort of headband (can secure with bobby pins).
2. Black-eyed Pea
Ingredients: 1 piece black construction paper, 1 piece of yarn, twine, or string at lest 30" in length, black face paint or shoe polish
Cooking instructions: Use the black face paint/shoe polish to cover one of your eyes. Next, cut the construction paper in the shape of the letter "P" (can draw it on in pencil first). Carefully poke two holes in the top of the "P" and attach the yarn on both sides. Hang the "P" around your neck.
3. Paparazzi
Ingredients: 1 camera (must have flash), 1 person to follow around all night, 1 "press pass" (you can easily make this out of an old photo of you, cardboard, and something to secure it around your neck with), somewhat grubby clothing
Cooking instructions: Sport your press pass and somewhat grubby clothing and walk around taking pictures all night. This will be much more believable if you are really in your "celebrity's" personal space.
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