...but not the edible kind.
Each Easter the K-2s at our local school have, since forever, put on an Easter hat parade. It's a loud colourful affair where 300 5-8 year olds parade their finest to cheesy music in front of their parents.
This year the format has changed -to an Easter fashions parade. Fashions. Children 'are encouraged' to dress up as rabbits, chickens, Easter eggs etc and remain in their costume all day. Great. I have a ready supply of Easter hats which have been recycled year on year but no, this year it's different.
And what does Padawan Learner want to dress as? You guessed it from the picture above, a hot cross bun. Different, he is.
I used Simplicity Pattern 3593 (Halloween Pumpkin) and modified it to be less round (didn't put elastic in the top and bottom), stiffer (lined it with quilting wadding) and less pumpkin-y.
Do you think it looks a bit like a hot cross bun? Firegazer thinks he looks like a Musketeer. Or a Knight Templar.
The costume stands up on its own so PL can pull his arms, head and legs in like a turtle retreating into its shell and just sit there, like a real hot cross bun.
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Very 'To Kill A Mockingbird', Easter style.
I love PL's sense of "fashion." You may have to start a second career in sewing/knitting.
Is it me, or are those kids on the front of the pattern packet weirdly happy? Should anyone be that happy wearing a fabric pumpkin?
M knits, M sews, M blogs,- is there anything this domestic goddess can't do? PL will look fabulous in his easter parade. Well done!
Yes, S, M can't make sure the pantry has enough food to prepare dinner at night; M can't get her laundry under control; M can't find a real job (so she gives up and fluffs around with knitting and blogging instead) :-)
Oh my. That bun is quite something. So clever of PL to go against the bunny and chicken flow.
(And yes, with just a little alteration you can recycle it into a Knight Templar costume for when they have Crusades Day at school.)
M sounds like she may have been separated from me at birth.
Except for the knitting bit.
I struggle to put together a shepherd's costume so this is very impressive to me!
Are you trying to be nominated as mother of the year??!!
A hot cross bun... from a pumpkin! Remarkable.
Okay, so I thought PL was being a little different. I ran into a friend this arvo - her son is going as Ned Kelly* albeit with Easter embellishments... whatever that might be (Easter eggs stuck to the helmet?)
*infamous Australian bushranger
Sewing. Another thing I have been thinking of latley. I have not used my sewing machine for ages.
I think it looks great.
We were singing this at school today. I had few of my boys (those boys, you know the ones) singing "Hot Coss Bums". Hmmm.
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