Costume Upgrade

Our elementary school has such fun, interactive activities for the students.  In the 5th grade, students gather facts about an explorer from the 1800's, create a costume, develop a persona... and participate in a Wax Museum day.  Parents and students from the other grades enter the classrooms and choose a student wax sculpture... by pressing their "button," the wax sculpture springs to life, reciting an informative overview about the explorer they are representing.

The first photo "Robert De La Salle" was taken 3 years ago when Bailey was in 5th grade.  Suit coat, velvet vest, and white blouse with ruffle sleeves were all purchased at the Good Will.  Now, with Berkley in the 5th grade, we revamped the costume into "Sir Walter Raleigh" by adding a white ruffle collar and a mustache-on-a-stick.  She made the hat in class out of newspaper and Spray Paint.  The ruffle collar was made by cutting a long strip from an old white sheet and doing a different ruffle effect down each side.  Then we simply wrapped it around her neck a couple times like a scarf.

The most fun part of this costume has been the mustache, in fact I made three different mustaches which have resulted in hours of fun (and crazy accents!) around here.  I will do a seperate post on making the mustache because they are so fun I think it deserves its own post!

I'm already wondering which explorer Austin will get, and what fun things we can do to upgrade his costume... but I guess Halloween is right around the corner and I should be concentrating on those costumes next!