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that said we are having a dressing up day on our first day back at school-I want to be Lisa Simpson.....graaaaah....KIDS!  ::)
So then, 24 hours to make the costume. One red tube dress made from cotton bought today at the market, one pair red shoes bought in Monsoon sale for £4.25( ;D) and yellow body paint and yellow spiky hair made from cardboard painted yellow and sellotaped to a hairband.
Phew.   :P

Pictures please.   ;D ;D

Absolutely!  ;D

Red shoes ;). I have a 3 year old GD who aspires to being Dorothy. She knows all the words to songs in W o Ozz.

Grannyjanny! That's so brill-when I was little my nana covered my shoes with red quality street wrappers for ruby slippers!

Quote from: ACE on January 03, 2010, 06:41:06

well illustrated, ACE

Everyone can use it when the need arises.

Give me a flippin' chance!  :o :o :o
You're as bad as me kids Ace!

I went as the Wicked Witch on one of our Book Week fancy dress days.  The green face paint was the very devil to get off, but the costume wasn't as uncomfortable as the year I went as Tattybogle the scarecrow with a hazel branch through both sleeves and across the back of my neck.........

It seems a bit much to have a dressing up day the first day back after Christmas!Good luck with making the costume- must say I was glad when mine got beyond that age, although my son (23) did go to a Christmas party dressed as an elf recently- and made a much better job of the costume than I ever did when he was little!

I rang the school this morning to check it was today as I thought first day back seemed a bit much! It's tomorrow!  ::)
At least we had a dress rehearsal and i hadn't started on the paint!



The completed ensemble!



The sax!




One happy child.

All I can say is - - - blimey - - -  :o :o :o :o :o

I was never that inventive.  Teatowel on the head as a shepherd was my limit.  ::) ::) ::)

So clever....well done  :)

Thanks, I am pleased with it.  :) I love making stuff for the girls. I wanted to be a theatre costume designer when I was younger but didn't go to college as had to leave home and go to work instead! :(

Well done Emmy. I know where to come for advice when little one starts auditioning ;D ;D ;D. Trouble is it has to have a scary person in it. Strange child. Her daddy told her that Mary Poppins was on, first question was is there a scary lady, no. Well I'm not watching that. 101 dalmatians was tolerated because there was a scary lady at the end. Her cousin of the same age gets upset if anyone is naughty on the TV.

 ;D ;D ;D Grannyjanny! Mine like a bit of danger too-Disney in particular can be rather saccharine even for children! Is that why she loves Wizard of Oz because of the wicked witch?  ;D

Wonderful and well done you on the costume  ;D

Quote from: emmy1978 on January 04, 2010, 13:21:57
;D ;D ;D Grannyjanny! Mine like a bit of danger too-Disney in particular can be rather saccharine even for children![ Is that why she loves Wizard of Oz because of the wicked witch?  ;]
Most definately. She even dreams about Dorothy & tells her mummy about them. Her favourite is when her & Dorothy are talking & playing in her bedroom. She asks mummy for stories out of her head & tells her what the story should be like. The last one she finished by saying "It won't end happily ever after they will end up deaded." Good job mums a journalist ;D.

She won!  ;D :o  Came tearing out of school absolutely chuffed to bits.   ;D