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• Egg-Straw-Ordinary – You can tell your child to say that she is ‘extraordinary’. Here’s what you will need:
1. Get a simple loose t-shirt, one that you wouldn’t mind not using again. Cut off the sleeves with a cloth scissor.
   
   
   Take 8 to 9 large brown paper bags, cut the sides so that you are left with sheets of brown paper. Sow the paper bags gently onto the shirt by stitching the bag to the neck and sleeves on the front and back.
2. Now take an old short skirt for your child or for a boy, use old shorts. Get straw, and using industrial glue, start gluing straws to the skirt or shorts. Glue them in such a way that the whole of the skirt or shorts are covered. If possible, you can also make a skirt of straw if you have the time.
3. Take 10 to 12 egg shells, breaking them gently into small mosaic style pieces. Using glue, stick the broken eggshells onto the brown paper bag sheets that are sown onto the t-shirt covering both the front and back with eggshell pieces.
4. Make your child slip into a pair of plain white or black leggings. Put the straw skirt over the leggings and then gently pull the t-shirt over.
5. He or she will now be egg-straw-ordinary!
• Pig-in-Blanket – this is a cute little outfit that will bring a smile to everyone’s face.
1. You will need a pink t-shirt and pink leggings for your child.
2. Get 11-inch sheets of pink craft foam. Draw out pig ears on the foam.
3. Use a hot-glue gun to join the pig ears on a pink hairband.
4. Cut a small rectangle and a small circle. Dot the circle with some glitter glue for the nostrils. Fold the rectangular piece of paper and glue it over the circle. Take one 12 inch piece of elastic and glue each end to the snout so that your child can wear it over her nose.
5. Take a white blanket and wrap it over your child’s shoulder with a safety pin. And voila you have pig-in-a-blanket.
• Little Sunshine costume
• For this, you will need an oversized yellow sweatshirt and yellow socks.
• Take a large piece of yellow felt, draw a big circle and cut it out. Take a large piece of orange felt and draw out rays of the sun on it.
• With a red and orange marker, draw a sweet smiley face on the yellow felt paper.
• With red and yellow felt that remains, cut out a crown the size of your child's head.
• Stick the rays to the yellow circle and using a hot glue stick, glue on the sun to the yellow sweat shirt.
• Pull the sweatshirt over your child and put on the crown.
• All tomato-y
1. Take an oversized bright red sweatshirt and sew the ends up so that it looks a bit ballooned up.
2. You will also need red tights and a red long-sleeved t-shirt
3. Take some green felt paper and cut out tomato leaves that fit exactly on the red sweatshirt. You can sew them on or glue the leaves on with a hot glue-stick.
4. Get a red beanie cap or you can even make one out of red felt paper and add some of the green leaves to the top of the cap.
5. Finish the costume off with red socks to match.
• Monkey Business
1. Take a thin wire coat hanger, and cut it into a 3 foot length strip. Fold in the tips
2. Now take a 3 foot by 6 inch brown faux fur piece and place it face down. Put the hander over to one side of the fur and secure it with duct tape. Now roll the fur over the wire and glue it with a hot glue stick.
3. You can bend the wire and attach it to the waist of the chinos pants, and secure it with duct tape from the inside.
4. Cut two ears off from the brown faux fur and attach it to a black hairband with a hot glue stick.
5. Make a small narrow briefcase with handles from a cardboard box and paint it with dark brown paint.
6. Have your child wear a formal shirt, a tie and the chinos with the tail attached.
7. Cut out a banana out of yellow felt paper and glue it on to the tie.

Make sure none of the things that you use for your child’s costume is flammable.

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