Another long overdue post, that's been sitting here written for months that I simply forgot to post!
Nothing fills me with as much dread as dress up days for school, I can just about deal with a Pyjama day, simple easy and no fuss at all, but the rest of them, book day, always with a theme that makes it more difficult than just pulling something out the cupboard, and maths week which lets face it - is just so dull you can't make it exciting! So you can imagine the look on my face when Monkey-Moo came home from school with a letter instructing that their year would be doing a Crimean war dress up, girls as Florence Nightingale and the boys as soldiers! pffft.
I was happily about to send him off in a white t-shirt ("Pretend it's your vest under your soldiers uniform" I said ) bandaged up, and call him the Walking Wounded! Then after a few discussion at the school gate with other Moms, I started to get pangs of guilt that I wasn't putting much effort into this at all.
With little over 12 hours to go, one fabulous phone call from another mom, currently in the supermarket- " I'm picking up a Red Sweatshirt, it comes in a two pack, I'll drop it round on my way home!" SAVED!
OK send him in red with bandages, still Walking Wounded, it's good enough right? Right? No, didn't think so! Oh no dinner time. Kids to bath, Little Monkey to bed.
Light Bulb!
Get paper plates. Get gold paint. Bandages. Find old ribbons. Scissors. Double sided tape. and GO!
Enlist Monkey-Moos painting skills.
We have buttons!
A bit of double sided tape, a snip or two, yes that will do!
More gold paint!
Send Monkey-Moo to bed, it's getting late. Wait for paint to dry.
Quick assembly 15 minutes before it's time to head to school, double sided tape all the way, throw on a bandage! (no fake blood here, but some great moms did add that touch.)
Ready to go! My Walking Wounded! Proud as punch!
Amazing what you can come up with using simple things that everyone has in the home!
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