Delightful Disguises

Materials:

green blanket or sheet
safety pin
paper towel roll
green paint
construction paper
scissors or craft knife
plastic lid
orange tissue paper
green poster board
string

Steps:

1. Wrap the child in a green blanket or sheet, securing it on one shoulder with a safety pin.

2. Create the torch by painting a paper towel roll green or gluing construction paper around it.

Materials:

brown grocery bag
scissors
pencil
yellow construction paper
large piece of cardboard
stapler
black construction paper

Steps:

1. Using a brown grocery bag, cut a large circle out the bottom, then cut up the middle on one side, creating a V as you cut up toward the top (figure C).

2. Draw buttons and holes down the front.

3. Make a star out of yellow construction paper.

4. For the hat, cut out the shape of a cowboy hat on a large piece of cardboard and staple it at the bottom to a headband that you have made from a circle of construction paper.

5. Make a mustache by folding a black piece of construction paper in half.

6. Cut the edges in strips about halfway up, curl up the edges and add string on each side to tie the paper around the head.

Materials:

white garbage bag
scissors
construction paper in red, orange and yellow
tape
cardboard
child’s pair of sunglasses
string
white poster board

Steps:

1. Use a white garbage bag for the body of a costume.

2. Cut an oval at the top for the head and an oval on each side for arm holes. Split it up the middle in the back for easy access--like a smock.

Materials:

laundry basket
scissors
string
safety pins
dryer sheets

Steps:

1. Cut out the bottom of a laundry basket.

2. Make holes in the sides and add string "suspenders" that will go over your child’s shoulder and suspend the basket skirt.

3. Safety pin items of clothing to their shirts and pants. Add some dryer sheets, too.