Baker + Cupcake Store Bought Halloween Costumes

INSIDE : Learn how to take a store bought Baker Costume and a Cupcake Costume and add some simple DIY ideas for your children this Halloween season.  It is also perfect for playing dress-up imaginative play after the holiday is over!

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This post has been updated since it’s original October 2015 publish date.

This year I finally wised up for Halloween!  I’ve been making my kiddos coordinating homemade Halloween costumes since they started dressing up (owls, Scuba Divers and Planets).  

It’s been fun and something I really enjoy doing, but we have a lot of crazy going on in our lives this year so I wanted to go the LOW STRESS Halloween Costume route.  Today I am sharing  how to customize easy store bought Baker Costume ideas and Cupcake Costume ideas for children!  

Also I am a sucker for making sibling Halloween costumes for my little sister, brother duo!

We do a lot of dress-up at our house, so I wanted my kids to be something fun that they can enjoy throughout the year and easy!  I still had some creative fun but went 90% store bought and 10% homemade.  And you WON’T believe how inexpensive these costumes were, read to the very bottom to see!!

Baker and Cupcake Costume Supplies needed

Supplies for a Baker Halloween Costume

• Baker/Chef Hat + Apron (I was surprised on the quality of these.)
• Wooden Spoon 
• Pink, Yellow, Red Acrylic Paint + small craft paint brush
• White Plastic Colander 
• Various plastic + wooden toy cooking supplies/Cupcakes
• Black Mascara for mustache

Supplies for a Cupcake Halloween Costume

• Cupcake Costume
• White Plastic Colander 
• Clear Plastic Cup with STRAW + Lid 
• Pink, Red, Purple, Yellow construction paper
• Fringe Scissors

NOTE : I photoshopped all the supplies onto the image below for easier viewing (those are not my kids).

How to make a DIY Halloween Baker Costume

For my son’s baker costume, I went with minimal effort.  

Paint a wooden spoon

We already had a big wooden spoon so I painted the top portion of it with pink acrylic paint to match the frosting of my daughter’s cupcake costume.  I added a few brightly colored sprinkles as well, because yummy sprinkles!

Add a few small Baker costume details

We added a cute mascara mustache and a tied on some plastic food, like donuts or cupcakes and cooking utensils.  

What a handsome little baker!

How to make a Cupcake Halloween Costume

No adorable Cupcake little girl’s costume would be complete without a wand?!! So I decided to make her a cupcake sprinkle wand!  

DIY Cupcake Sprinkle Wand

I found a clear plastic cup with straw at Target on sale.  The straw had a small lip at the end and I used that to my advantage.  

I pulled the straw out as far as the lip would allow and then used hot glue to secure it, so it would stay.  I ended up adding a lot of glue to make it nice and secure.

For the sprinkles, I was so happy to find a good use for my fringe scissors!   These scissors honestly cut my time in third.  

After most of the cup was full of brightly colored sprinkle paper, I added some ribbon embellishments to the outside of the wand for “extra sprinkle power”.

Add a few small Cupcake costume details

I then added some bright lipstick on my daughter’s cheeks and my little cupcake with a cherry on top was ready!  

She’s so precious, I can’t even take it.

Chef and Dessert Halloween Costume

Now that both of your costumes are done, have your kiddos put them on and watch their smiles spread! My little chef and dessert cuties are ready for trick or treating now.

Adding the mustache to my three year old son is just the MOST adorable thing ever, haha. He looks like he’s ready to bake up special fall treats right this minute.

And my cupcake treat daughter FEELS her sprinkles! She’s ready to add sprinkles every where she goes.

Ready for the kicker?  For these two adorable Halloween costumes I spent a total of $30!!!  I shopped Amazon for the main costumes, Dollar Store for the odds and ends and the rest we already had.  Boom, halloween, I’m taking back expensive store bought costumes!

If you liked this post, you might also like my Scuba Diver Costumes and my DIY Planet Costumes… both were huge hits!