Dressing my 20 month old as a shepherd?

Counting_Pennies_2

I need to dress my 20 month old as a shepherd any ideas?

Thanks

black-saturn

Put a stripy teatowel on his head and tie a string round it. Then make a t shirt shape out of an old stripy sheet and tie a string round his waist.

Savvy_Sue

If you haven't got a stripey tea towel a towel will do, just buy a cheap one! We had a couple of stripey dressing gowns which are still used at church, I've got to be a shepherd at work and I'm not quite sure what I'm going to wear! Didn't even think I'd got a stripey tea towel any more but mercifully the cheap ones I bought for eldest going to Uni are stripey and he's managed to bring them home for a wash!

hex2

Lucky you - mine is a sheep!
Old black fleece of my husbands, made into a tabard, one sleeve converted to a hat. Added ears and a tail. Very pleased with myself right up until the point he flatly refuses to wear it!

Savvy_Sue

hex2 wrote:

Very pleased with myself right up until the point he flatly refuses to wear it!

:snow_laug

You think it's going to get better. You're all wrong! Just before Sunday lunch my youngest (13!) told me he needed a pirate costume for Tuesday! Which he'd known for 2 weeks but had failed to share! Nothing I could make was going to be acceptable (even though I found my Jane Asher fancy dress book and there was a very good suggestion of a video pirate), so please could we go to the fancy dress shop and buy or hire one? No way, Jose! It's for non-uniform day rather than a performance, as it happens, but I don't think my answer would have been much different.

Earlier today I found the dalmatian costume I made some years ago. Wish it had been before the weekend as I could have passed it on to nephew.

devils_advocate

I agree with the tea towel round head idea, with a bit of string.

The best thing for the shepherd's costume is an old pillowcase - the stripier the better. Holding it with long sides downwards, and the open bit at the bottom, cut a hole in the top seam for the kid's head to go through. At the top of hte long sides, unpicjk the seam for arms to go through. Bit of stringa round the waist, and problem solved. If any ragged edges, or other crises, a bit of tinsel around the holes will be quite ok.

Savvy_Sue

devils_advocate wrote:

The best thing for the shepherd's costume is an old pillowcase

It would have to be a darned big pillow case to fit me! :rotfl: Hey, have just remembered that I know a chap who wears stripey nightshirts, he might lend me one!

Counting_Pennies_2

Ok I have a stripey dressing gown and a matching coloured t-towel, but how do I fix it to his head? Elastic bands are too small, any ideas?

Thanks

Tulip

Have you got any string you could use,that might do the trick

Katie

skipton

Tights! Cut the body part off and use the legs like string. They will then fit and stretch to most head sizes and they don't slip like string. If you want to make them special plait them and sew the ends together to make a ring.

Amba_Gambla

we always used to use the bit from our dressing gowns and tied that round our heads(i think?) unless you're wearing the dressing gown too.....