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<\/a><\/p>\nThe White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland<\/u><\/h2>\n
As confident as our son is with his beautiful blonde hair (despite lots of inappropriate comments by at least one adult who should know better!) he was not up for wearing a dress! He did not give me any indication as to what he would like to go as and so thinking back to our festival donkey costumes I decided to turn him into The White Rabbit. Note it was after I had made this costume that he piped up that he wanted to go as The Jabberwocky but I am mean and told him it was too late.<\/p>\n
As I say I don\u2019t like to spend much on dressing up and just adapt what we already have. I spent less than \u00a32 each on my children – and for this outfit the spend was on a red dickie-bow (of which the young boys in my house thought was a hilarious name!). I did consider him wearing his brother\u2019s karate trousers as white legs – but it just didn\u2019t look right. If you do not have suitable clothing available you could always try a charity shop or ebay. Luckily he had a suit complete with waist coat. Ideally this would have been red – but I don\u2019t think that matters when it is a bit of fun at school for one day. The first thing I made was the pocket watch. Really simply I googled an image and printed it out! Then I stuck it onto a piece of cardboard, cut that out and painted the back black. I threaded some string through and used a safety pin to attach it to his clothes. For the rabbit ears I used a cereal box to make a headband which I covered in cotton wool. I then cut out two ear shapes from another part of the cereal box and again glued cotton wool onto them. For the inner ear I used pink tissue paper, screwed into little balls and again glued on. I used a hot glue gun to attach them together but did end up resorting to sellotape the next morning. Maybe a paperclip to hold them in place may have been the answer. For the finishing touches I got out the face paints – which are always handy to have! As soon as the World Book Day theme was announced our youngest was certain he wanted to go as a card (only I never knew that it was what was suggested to them and that most the kids were going as cards!). This was easy enough – especially as we had just bought his bicycle and so had a massive box. Although saying that it was really hard to cut. I therefore decided to make it a one-sided card – and I thought it would be easier for him to sit down in! It also took quite a few layers of white paint too. I then found a spade shape online and adapted it for my needs – I printed out three sizes – 2 large for the spear and an extra one for his head; 4 middle size for the card, and 4 little ones as my Cornwall cards had a small spade by each number (my teenager says that it is only on two of the normal cards!). I painted all the spades and the tube from inside of wrapping paper in black and waited for it all to dry. I again used a cereal box to make a headband to attach the head spade and painted it black also. I then used the hot glue gun to attach everything together. The spear needed more strengthening as it unfortunately snapped in the wind on the way to school. I would in future put newspaper and papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 the two sides together and then paint it. Our son wore black long-sleeved t-shirt and black trousers (which is why I went with the spades rather than hearts\/diamonds) and I ordered him a black ski\/helmet hooded thing (again less than \u00a32) to complete his look. The boys both loved their outfits and I think they looked great if I do say so myself. Why not visit my Pinterest board for more kids dressing up ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/a><\/p>\nThe Queen of Heart\u2019s Playing Card<\/u><\/h2>\n
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