You’d be hard pressed to find a costume theme that kids are more excited about this year than GI Joe costumes. Children everywhere are using their wild imaginations to become the onscreen military team that fights Cobra to save the world.

Your oldest child would be a good fit to become the first sergeant Duke, who is loyal and always looking out for the rest of his team. From there, finding characters for your younger children is easy. They all want to imitate the hand-to-hand combat mastery of the rest of the GI Joe team.

Ninjas Attack

For your little ninja warrior, a GI Joe costume he’ll love wearing is the classic kiddie black jumpsuit and mask. There’s an array to choose from online. Just add the right footwear to complete the fun outfit – black boots.

Another kid can don an all-white ninja outfit with paired with a pair of white pants with belt and become Cobra’s Storm Shadow. A plastic sword and sheath would complete the look.

Reading something about GI Joe characters will let you in on the characters’ alliances and mysterious background. For instance, one of the ninjas in GI Joe’s squad, Snake Eyes, heavily protects his eyes to hide the serious scars he sustained in the past.

The Girls of GI Joe

Got a little girl that wants to be a part of the action? No problem! She can easily become Scarlett from GI Joe with a toy cross bow, or the Baroness with a snug fitting black jumpsuit and black wig.

Finishing Touches

It’s easy to add little finishing touches to your child’s GI Joe Halloween costume with realistic helmets, swords, and high quality gloves. The next level would be to go with one of the deluxe muscle armor kits available with most of the costumes.

Don’t forget to save the memories. Preserve the moment and shoot away with your digital camera so they can enjoy looking at their ninja warrior photos which may also be shared with friends and family.

For instance, it’s easy to imagine a tall or lanky child to dress as Spock by donning a blue shirt with the embroidered insignia. You can finish off the costume Spock’s trademark ears, a toy pistol, and the proper wig and eye makeup.

You can let your kid’s friends in on the plan to create some excitement about arriving at the party as the entire crew of the star ship Enterprise. Arriving all together will certainly produce some startled expressions from the other party attendees.

An authentic Star Trek costume would really help in making it possible to create homemade Star Trek costumes for the rest of the party-goers.

A V-necked shirt and skinny pants, or a body-hugging jumpsuit are your options for the boys. Remember that boys’ Star Trek uniforms are almost always long-sleeve shirts coupled with black pants and black shoes.

So as long as the long sleeve shirt is a single color, it should look just like a Star Fleet uniform with a simple communicator badge on the chest.

On the girls’ side of things, try a V-neck one color mini-dress and a black mock turtle-neck underneath. Then you can just sew on a simple patch of fabric in the shape and color of a Star Trek costume communicator badge. Complete the outfit using some black boots and black stockings.

If you don’t exactly have the kind of time to put together such homemade creations, then browse the newest selections of Star Trek costumes from Halloween costume stores. Every year manufacturers put create new product lines to meet such high customer demand.

Regardless of where you get them, you and your children will definitely have fun showing off their high quality Star Fleet ensembles.