OUR very own Yummy Mummy, Veronica Madden, on getting her son dressed to impress for World Book Day...
IS CLOTHING and feeding these children of mine not enough?
With World Book Day fast approaching, the school has suggested that all pupils come dressed as their favourite book character for the day.
Great.
Obviously my son has rushed home in delight requesting that I make him his costume. Oh, the joy I feel.
This year mini man wants to be none other than Julia Donaldson’s famous Stickman.
Those of you that are not familiar with my little one’s favourite story can rest assured that the main character literally is a man made of wood (or a talking twig?). Easy as that may sound, to a mother already
short of time to wee, being creative with costume design is no mean feat.
Anyway, with just hours to go before son wears his amazing home-made costume I am still trying to fathom how to make my silverback-gorilla-lookalike-rugby-playing-8-year-old somehow become a stick.
I start searching through his drawers hoping for some inspiration. Nothing. Then it hits me. Out of the corner of my eye I see the stack of ironing that I have been ignoring. Grabbing a mish-mash of brown items I decide that the only way forward is to take the scissors to the fabric and get creative.
Two hours of slashing/sewing later and the costume is almost done. A green leaf (made from socks) as a finishing touch and my Stickman costume is born.
Book day arrives and the boy is impressed. All dressed and ready to go out the door I’ve even surprised myself.
It’s only when the hubby starts noticing that two of his shirts, a pair of trousers, one of his ties and three of his socks are missing that I might have some explaining to do.
But hey, it will be worth the stick...
IS CLOTHING and feeding these children of mine not enough?
With World Book Day fast approaching, the school has suggested that all pupils come dressed as their favourite book character for the day.
Great.
Obviously my son has rushed home in delight requesting that I make him his costume. Oh, the joy I feel.
This year mini man wants to be none other than Julia Donaldson’s famous Stickman.
Those of you that are not familiar with my little one’s favourite story can rest assured that the main character literally is a man made of wood (or a talking twig?). Easy as that may sound, to a mother already
short of time to wee, being creative with costume design is no mean feat.
Anyway, with just hours to go before son wears his amazing home-made costume I am still trying to fathom how to make my silverback-gorilla-lookalike-rugby-playing-8-year-old somehow become a stick.
I start searching through his drawers hoping for some inspiration. Nothing. Then it hits me. Out of the corner of my eye I see the stack of ironing that I have been ignoring. Grabbing a mish-mash of brown items I decide that the only way forward is to take the scissors to the fabric and get creative.
Two hours of slashing/sewing later and the costume is almost done. A green leaf (made from socks) as a finishing touch and my Stickman costume is born.
Book day arrives and the boy is impressed. All dressed and ready to go out the door I’ve even surprised myself.
It’s only when the hubby starts noticing that two of his shirts, a pair of trousers, one of his ties and three of his socks are missing that I might have some explaining to do.
But hey, it will be worth the stick...
