Halloween, like many holidays, is full of tradition. The carving of the pumpkins, decorating the yard with tombstones and jack o lantern leaf bags, watching scary movies, handing out candy, and dressing in costume. If you have a baby, making your baby even more precious and adorable than they are now by dressing them up in, well, just about any costume is one of the best traditions. “Awwww, look honey, it’s a pirate. How cute.”

Check out these neat toddler costumes – be a baby pirate!


What good is a baby if you can’t dress them up in hilarious outfits and take pictures to show them when they are old enough to feel embarrassment? Dressing your baby for Halloween is like dressing up your pet. They both don’t know why they are wearing such strange items. They don’t even know that what they are wearing is considered strange. All they could possibly know is that they are getting a bunch of attention from weird looking strangers for some reason. What is it about baby Elvis, baby butterfly, or baby Superman that is so darn cute?

Well obviously it is because babies are already cute, so just to see them in another skin makes them even more lovable than before. This is why the best baby costumes are villain costumes. The light up devil horns and pitchfork rattle may be a step too far. (Or the perfect amount of evil for some people) But one type of villain that history has turned into a hero is the pirate. Pirate is the perfect amount of good and evil, just like babies.

The baby pirate costume is an absolute classic. Shirt and bottoms made of a soft material, a sash, pirate hat, and a prop such as a plastic baby sword or stuffed parrot is all you need. For toddlers there are also adorable pirate costumes for a relatively low price that will have everyone “ooohing” and “ahhhing.”

Let’s face it. We dress up our babies because we want people to see them. We want the attention put on our little bundle of scurvy. Also, the baby pirate costume is a delightful way to promote violence, theft, and kidnapping in the 2 and under age group.

“Yar!”