Take a long pink piece of either felt or fabric, cut it as long as you want the tail to be, fold it in half, stitch it – I hand-stitched, turn it inside out so the stitch side is in. Draw black lines to make it look more rat-like. Fill it with newspapers. The newspapers makes the tail crunchy and “rat” like. Attach to child’s pants with a safety pen.

Make this DIY rat race costume for a group of kids who love to run around!

Learn how to make fun costumes for rats for all kinds of occasions as well as how to make a rat costume for a person. It’s simpler than you may think and inexpensive to do both if you'd like to match.

I’m going to go out there and say that Halloween is better than Christmas because it involves my two favourite things: dressing my kids in inappropriate costumes and eating junk food. “But it’s so American!” I hear people say. They are seriously missing out because traipsing around your neighbourhood, begging for...

Ten years ago, on my super-fun parenting blog "The Poop," we started a DIY kids costume...