'Headless Boy' Costume Wins Patch Contest

Jack Hagan, an 11-year-old from New Jersey, parlayed a trench coat, some ski gloves and a huge jar into a winning–and certainly spooky–costume to take home the grand prize in Patch's "Little Pumpkin Costume Challenge."

The "Headless Jack Hagan" entry from Wyckoff Patch, beat out 2,700 entries coming from more than 800 Patch sites across the country. Celebrity judge Heidi Klum, a fashion designer, mother of four and former supermodel, selected ten finalists and the top winner.

Jack's father, Ken, told Wyckoff Patch that the two enjoy creating costumes together.

"It's kind of a father-son fun thing we like to do each year," Ken Hagan said.

Jack chose K.I.N.D.: Kids in Need of Desks as his charity, which will receive $1,031. K.I.N.D., a joint effort of UNICEF and MSNBC, provides schools in Malawi with desks to provide students with a better atmosphere for learning. They aim to bring 46,000 desks to 172 schools.

Hagan said his son learned about K.I.N.D. when MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell visited his class at last year to speak about the charity. Sicomac students for the organization.

"It just stuck in Jack's head," Hagan said. "He felt that it was a really good charity."

Jack Hagan and a parent will go to either New York or Los Angeles to meet Klum, who seems to

All ten finalists win $1,031 for the charity of their choice. The full list of ten finalists, from snails, to ewoks, to the Transformer Bumblebee, are shown below:

1.   Fort Stewart (Ga.) Patch
2.   Acworth (Ga) Patch
3.   Wyckoff (N.J.) Patch
4.   Ridgefield (Conn.) Patch
5.   Danvers (Mass.) Patch
6.   Windham (N.H.) Patch
7.   Kirkland (Wash) Patch
8.   Redondo Beach (Calif.) Patch
9.   St.Charles (Mo) Patch
10. Darien, (Ill.) Patch

A big "thank you!" to all the Los Altos and Los Altos Hills families who entered through Los Altos Patch; those were some mighty good costumes.