Does anyone have plans to dress up for Halloween with your horses this year? My barn does a spooky obstacle course (tarps, hula hoops, pool noodles etc) and I have never dressed up but so many people do and I want to join the fun this year!
Share your ideas, inspiration, and photos from previous years!
Thanks in advance!
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I made this suggestion to a friend who dresses up, and she thought it might be politically incorrect?
Dress the horse up as a seeing eye dog, and you ride in with sunglasses and a long white cane?
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Iām doing an event on the big gray horse I take lessons on-- my plan is to go as Rainbow Brite. Iām just going to wear regular breeches and a navy shirt and I ordered some rainbow socks Iāll cut up to put on my upper arms/boot tops and made a rainbow decal to put on my stomach below my number. His mane is roached and I canāt dye his tail so Iāll just braid some rainbow yarn into it.
Iām pretty low effort. Previous years I have been a witch (black shirt and black witch hat crammed onto my helmet) Ravens cheerleader (purple shirt and tutu and cut up some paper plates with Ravens logos and pinned them to my helmet cover and saddle pad) princess (dollar store tiaras on my helmet and browband, cutout of crown on my saddle pad, re-purposed purple tutu), a ballerina (pink tutu and shirt and made xxxx with pink tape of the front of horseās boots and covered his front feet like toe shoes), and ladybug (dollar store wings/antannae and black spots on chestnut.)
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Iām terrible with costumes, but Iām going to a schooling show next weekend, so Iām going to see if the dollar store has some plastic spiders to braid into my mareās mane. She has a browband with skull beads, and I just ordered a shirt with skulls on it. Iām actually surprising myself even getting into it this much!
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I went as Lady Godiva once, wearing a red union suit and a homemade wig of long yellow yarn.
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I can see how this might go badly. While Iām not visually impaired and therefore would welcome the opinion of someone who is, in the absence of such an opinion I feel that it would be similar to dressing up for Halloween as someone in a wheelchair. I canāt speak for anyone else, but I wouldnāt expect that to go over well.
I could see it if you were dressing up as a character who happens to be in a wheelchair, or who happens to be blind, but to have your costume just be a disability? It feels wrong.
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doing an event on the big gray horse I take lessons on-- my plan is to go as Rainbow Brite. Iām just going to wear regular breeches and a navy shirt and I ordered some rainbow socks Iāll cut up to put on my upper arms/boot tops and made a rainbow decal to put on my stomach below my number. His mane is roached and I canāt dye his tail so Iāll just braid some rainbow yarn into it.
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Is Rainbow Brite even a thing anymore? Or will people thinking youāre holding your own Pride Parade?
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Yes Rainbow Brite is still a thing, and also Pride Parades are amazing so who cares if thatās what they think?
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I need to see pictures of this!
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Yeah, thatās what she thought. Iām always on the hunt for costumes that include the horse in some way, but youāre no doubt right (I donāt always have the best of taste. Iāve gone to non-horse halloween as a life-size-wife-size blow-up plastic doll before, and I canāt tell you what my DH was ā oops.)
My grand daughterās costume one year. The Black Queen on the chess board.
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A few years ago I was leasing a horse named Torch, so I dressed him up as a fire truck, complete with a blinking āsirenā on his head 
He was a trooper, for sure!
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I am working on a Harry Potter quidditch costume since I consider my horse my āNimbus 2000.ā I know HP has been done a lot, but needed something I could switch into and out of quickly since the costume class next week is between two regular classes for me.
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That is very cool!
Thanks for all the suggestions and keep them coming!
Currently I am thinking of taking her maroon fleece cooler and adding pink spots so she can be a āgirl cowā and I would wear a plaid shirt and neck kerchief and would be a ācowgirlā (she is leery of cows when she sees them unexpectedlyā¦ even though she has lived over the fence with them for a year and sometimes the babies scramble through the fence to share her hay!)
Alternatively, I might make a sign for her saddle pad to be āginā and I would be ātonicā (her name is Ginni).
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I lead the horse dressed as a butcher, the horse had the cuts of meat drawn on as if he was a cow.
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So, my lease horseās owner and I make jokes about him head banging - he tends to shake his head when he trips, or when we get long spots, or when he just wants to be done.
And that lead into me joking about dressing him and me up as a metal band (or even just an 80s hairband) for Halloween. At this point, itās unlikely to happen this year, but if anyone has suggestions as to how to pull that off, Iām willing to listen. I figure a cheap long haired wig attached to my helmet (my guy already has a long mane), another friend suggested a Ziggy Stardust-esque lightning bolt in horse safe paint on my guyās head.
I suppose I should start looking for some metal-esque saddle pads before next yearā¦
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