~thing 1 and thing 2~

Austin- March 2007 (6 years old)

Can't decide which "Thing" you want to dress as??

Be both!

Austin's Kindergarten class celebrated one day of their "Dr. Seuss Week" at school by dressing as their favorite character.  Austin loved the book THE CAT IN THE HAT and chose from it.  

He knew he wanted to dress as Thing 1 or Thing 2, but couldn't decide which one.

Solution:  A flip sign so he could be both!

To create this costume I used:

Red Sweatshirt

Red Sweatpants

Red Gloves

"Thing" Sign

 Circle Cardboard Cut Out

2 Printouts From Computer

Glue

Red Ribbon

Blue Hair

Winter Hat

Light Blue Napkins

Hot Glue

***Tip for the Hair*** 

Make this as you would like gluing little pieces of tissue paper to a project with the eraser end of a pencil. Wrap the napkin around the pencil end, apply your hot glue to your hat, then attach napkin to hat.  I used a mini basketball as a prop to hold the hat open to make this process easier.   

The whole costume put together looked adoradble, but I must say the hair was a HUGE success!  I had everything on hand except for the napkins, which were only a few dollars and I didn't use the whole pack.

 We can't leave the little brother out, either:

 Derek- March 2007 (3 yrs. old)

   

The more that you read,

the more things you will know.

The more that you learn,

the more places you'll go.

~Dr. Seuss

You can check out Derek's costume, The Lorax, from his week of celebrating Dr. Seuss by clicking here .

For more inspiration, visit obSEUSSed for some awesome ideas!

~coming soon~

Have you heard the news?!?!  One of our favorite stories is making it to the big screen March 2nd! 

Are you as excited as we are to go see The Lorax movie??

I thought I would share with you a few pictures of Derek (from Kindergarten) when he got to dress up for school in his favorite story character.  They celebrated a whole week of Dr. Seuss fun and had activities for each day. 

On this day, Derek was *The Lorax*.

We bought the bright orange fleece at a thrift store and I cut the sleeves. The hunting hat was on clearance at a local store.  We had some thick yellow yarn and felt on hand and we tied them in knots around two K'Nex pieces for him to hold for his mustache. 

It all came together and I thought it was adorable!

In keeping with the story, we decided he should hand out "Truffula Seeds" to all of his classmates to plant at home.  I picked up a variety of flower seed packets and just printed off these new labels. They fit perfect in this little wire basket for him to carry around and pass out!  

Needless to say, the costume and seeds were a huge hit with his friends and teachers.  And we had Truffula plants blooming all along the side of our shed that year!!

Do you have a costume idea to share??

Please feel free to leave a link to your idea in the comments! 

(And now you know where we'll be March 2nd...)

Linking up with obSEUSSed