The girls love dressing up and for Rebecca's 6th birthday she decided that she wanted a Buzz Lightyear party. She invited all her guests to dress as their favourite toys and was clear from the start that she wanted to be Buzz!
I purchased a costume at a reasonable price and decided that it would be fun for her sisters to dress as other characters - Sophie wanted to be Woody but all the costumes I found were either very expensive or just not nice, she had a hat so I decided that I could probably manage the rest!
I bought a pack of school shirts - kept two for her when she started school in September and dyed the third yellow - teamed with a pair of skinny jeans, brown boots and hat she was beginning to look the part - I tried to persuade her that she could wear the brown sheriffs waistcoat from the dressing up box but even at 4 Sophie was quite precise and that would not do!! So using the brown waistcoat as a template I cut the pieces out of white felt and sewed it together - I added black felt patches and overlarge white stitching round the front and armholes and she was happy.
We even added Andy's name to her boot and we were done - which left Annie!
I thought that the potato heads would be fun and as she was quite little I decided to do it as a sandwich board . I cut a cardboard template for the front and back and used this to cut two pieces of felt for each side that was slightly larger that the card. I then sandwiched the card between the felt and sewed it together - The front piece was lightly stuffed with toy stuffing to make it more rounded. I joined the front and back with a small squares of felt sewing it at the front and using velcro at the back for ease of removal.
The features I made out of felt with velcro on the back so they could be moved around as in the game
It was so much fun though I think she may have got a little tired of being rearranged!!
Why don't I remember this party? Beth
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