DIY Gladion Costume Dress-Up

Book Week 2020 is coming up and G1 wanted a Gladion costume. Before you ask, “Is that even a book?” Let me assure you that it is… Gladion is a character from the Pokemon Manga series – Sun and Moon: It is a series of graphic novels inspired by the Pokemon Games – Sun and

DIY: Dragon Costume

For Book Week, the boys dressed up as Nightwing dragons from the book series “Wings of Fire” by Tui T Sutherland. It was a last minute rush job – I started work on it two days before the dress-up day – so it didn’t turn out quite as well as I would have liked. In

DIY Chocolate Bouquet with Felt Flowers

G1 played Cogsworth at our Primary School Musical – Beauty and the Beast. It was the first time he’s ever participated in the school musical and we were so proud of his efforts. When a friend asked if I was going to get him a bouquet of flowers for the night of the last show,

DIY Bonnet Instructions for Costumes and Dress-Up

This year, our Primary school is putting on the musical “Beauty and the Beast”. Drama and musical theater are terrific extra-curricular activities for child development so I was delighted when G1 joined the production this year. To support his efforts, I volunteered to help “in any way that I can”. In the end, I was assigned

Halloween Dress-up: Pokemon Chandelure Costume

And here we are with the Chandelure costume – number 3 of 3… Now everyone has a costume for Halloween, and just in time, too! How to Make a Chandelure Costume What you will need: 2 sheets of blue felt (60cm x 70cm) – like the ones from Daiso yellow and black felt for the eyes, lantern

Halloween Dress-up: Chick Costume

Halloween costume – number 2 of 3: the chick costume. Costume number 1 was the Gastly. My SIL saw this on Pinterest and couldn’t resist the idea of dressing up her daughter in the same outfit for Halloween. The Internet is flooded with cute chick costumes for toddlers and I’m sure there are plenty of

Halloween Dress-up: Pokemon Gastly Costume

The boys wanted to make a Halloween costume this year. G1 and G2 wanted to be ghost type Pokemons. G1 chose Chandelure and G2 chose Gastly. G3, my niece, is going to be a chick. As the designated costume maker, the task has fallen to me to figure out how to make them. So here

DIY: Easiest Lion Costume Ever

It’s G2’s turn to learn about biomes at school and what did he choose to dress up as? A Grassland animal! He couldn’t make my life easy by choosing a scorpion from the savanna so we could recycle G1’s old scorpion costume? So I decided that a lion costume is probably about the easiest one

DIY Happy Pokemon Families Card Game

G2 has always been my distracted boy. He is the boy who would put the milk carton in the sink (still full of milk) instead of back in the fridge. With his head in the clouds and rarely on what he was doing, he is the child I worry about when I think about his

DIY: Shakespeare Costume from the Elizabethan Era

G1 dropped a bombshell on me and told me he needed a Shakespeare costume in two days. He had a school play and his character was Shakespeare. Since I didn’t have much time to run around to get materials, I recycled some of our old costumes and came up with this: Shakespeare Costume – Elizabethan