Evacuate!

I'm getting quite good at this school dress up day thing, yes I'm swiftly moving away from that feeling of utter detest each time the school mentions it, but don't be fooled; I'm not yet loving it...I'm not sure how or when I got more enthusiastic about it...perhaps it was just the simple case of having more than three weeks notice this time. So there was no flat panic, no rush trying to throw something together and there was plenty of time to decide what was needed, what we had  and what could make do. The topic this time: World War Two Evacuee's.

Getting Monkey-Moo off to the library really helped, he may have cleared out the entire World War Two section of books, but it really paid off. Not only did we get a clear picture of what he need to look like (yes I did a Google image search too) but he managed to find a book that had tons of art and craft ideas all centred around WW2. He decided to make his own gas mask.

I think he did a really good job. Apologies that I didn't get a photo of it without him holding it in place.

Here he is; an old white shirt he used for a wedding years ago (looking slim fit but still useful) a pair of tailored shorts (last seasons fashion trend), school socks and shoes and a plain grey v-necked jumper picked up in the local supermarket, all topped off with (the now trendy) flat cap!

Final touches to finish off the look- simply a tag and his boxed gas mask.

And with that dress up day success under my belt, I have just learnt that both Monkey-Moos will be needing to don 60's themed outfits at the end of the month...watch this space for those creations....right now I'm off to Pinterest to work out how to tie dye fabric...