On most days, Oia K. is a 5-year-old girl in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
She goes to kindergarten, plays chess and takes swimming classes.<\/p>\n
On Halloween<\/a>, however, Oia is a space alien \u2014 at least with some help from a pair of massive pink sunglasses, two ping-pong balls attached to springs, and her favorite Walmart boots<\/a>.<\/p>\n She said her favorite Halloween candy<\/a> is \u201canything chocolate,\u201d and she plans to get tons of it by winning over her neighborhood sugar dispensers \u2014 aka the Flatbush adults \u2014 in her homemade alien costume, which also includes a shiny hot pink top and leggings, a neon plastic ray-gun and a gray wig.<\/p>\n Oia, 5, in front of her home.<\/p>\n Astoria brothers August B., 11, and Devyn B., 14, in homemade \u201cMatrix\u201d costumes. Kim Max for NYPost<\/p>\n Why the hair?<\/p>\n Alyona B., 10, in Hoboken. Tamara Beckwith\/NY Post<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s obvious!\u201d Oia told The Post. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to wear a wig!\u201d<\/p>\n The 5-year-old is one of dozens of New York City kids who spoke with The Post about their Halloween costumes this year, along with children from across the five boroughs, Connecticut and New Jersey.<\/p>\n Brooklyn Heights brothers Oscar L., 10, and Mathis L., 8, in homemade dragon costumes. Emmy Park for NY Post<\/p>\n Siblings Artie V., 6, Skylar V., 4, and Stella V., 8, in City Hall Park. Kim Max for NYPost<\/p>\n Dylan H., 2, as a dragon on the Upper East Side. Emmy Park for NY Post<\/p>\n The children were of various ages, economic backgrounds, cultural origins and candy preferences. (Who knew Sour Patch Kids could be so divisive?) <\/p>\n But one thing remained true about these young New Yorkers: They couldn\u2019t give a Twix about the nation\u2019s trendiest costumes.<\/p>\n Despite a Google Trends report <\/a>listing Dolly Parton as the number one kids\u2019 Halloween getup of 2026, The Post saw zero kids dressed up as the legendary \u201cJolene\u201d crooner \u2014 or any of the other \u201ctop\u201d disguises, including Hannah Montana, Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s Ash Ketchum and smiley-faced soup dumplings.<\/p>\n Queens toddler Andrew P., 3, in a homemade hot dog vendor costume, with his mom and little brother. Kim Max for NYPost<\/p>\n Siblings Ariel, 2 and Royce, 10, as the goddess Aprhodite and an astronaut. They live in Queens. Kim Max for NYPost<\/p>\n Estela D., 7, as Aphrodite in Park Slope. Emmy Park for NY Post<\/p>\n Instead, New York kids like Oscar L. from Brooklyn Heights decided to wear a homemade dragon costume. \u201cI want to be the dragon because I read a lot of dragon books,\u201d the 10-year-old told The Post, mentioning the \u201cWings of Fire<\/a>\u201d series by Tui T. Sutherland as one of his favorites.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s really cool how the dragons are drawn.\u201d <\/p>\n Oscar and his younger brother Mathis, 8, made their own costumes by cutting fabric into the shape of huge dragon wings, then sewing them onto the backs of their favorite hoodies so they could \u201cfly\u201d around their neighborhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n Scale-print sweatpants and dragon armor cut from iridescent paper made the costume roar to life.<\/p>\n Peter Parker \u2014 sorry, Jack H., 4 \u2014 on the Upper East Side Emmy Park for NY Post<\/p>\n Noori H., 2, in her homemade Catbus costume in Astoria. Kim Max for NYPost<\/p>\n In Tribeca, 5-year-old Artie V. convinced his two siblings \u2014 Stella, 9, and Skyler, 3 \u2014 to dress as a pack of dinosaurs, which they helped create together with their parents.<\/p>\n \u201cWe like how they can be different colors and different kinds of dinosaurs,\u201d explained Artie, \u201cbut we can still dress as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n His sister Stella added that the dinosaur costumes were as warm as her winter coat \u2014 and that there was real fun to be had by swinging a Tyrannosaurus Rex<\/a>\u2018s \u201cbig, long tail\u201d down Franklin Street.<\/p>\n Even kids too young to speak had some DIY joy (with a side of Almond Joys).<\/p>\n Noah, 5, Miles, 8, and Chance, 8, at the Astoria Halloween parade. Kim Max for NYPost<\/p>\n Catalina T., 10, and Victoria M., 9, on Ditmars Boulevard Kim Max for NYPost<\/p>\n