Quick kifayati costumes for kids

I quite liked the sound of that headline heh heh, always had a thing for alliterations. When I was working I had to restrain myself all the time from overdoing it.

Anyway coming to the point – I found four sheets of black chart paper bought god knows when for god knows what and decided to have a bug bash for the kids. All I had in mind was a lady-bug and a bee. However, with kids, things never work out to plan. N’s friend V dropped in and picked the lady-bug ‘costume’. N chose to be the bee. Those took just about ten minutes each despite the kids’ ‘help’.

H was left without a costume.. No we couldn’t have two of the same thing. He “thinked” and “thinked” what he wanted to be. First he wanted to be a cockroach (yikes), then a stick insect, “because they are the longest insects in the world”. He’s right by the way. Then he wanted to be a ‘cricketer’ (he mixed up the insect and the sport).

Finally he settled for a frog, “because frogs eat bees and lady bugs and are stronger” and being stronger than the girls is of course the ultimate ambition of his life. So a frog he was.

You know what’s the best part?.. Give the kids a start and they can take the game much further than you ever thought. The girls ran around “sucking nectar from flowers” … oops… ‘flew’ around.

H played the perfect spoil sport insisting that lady bugs couldn’t really fly, that they weren’t black with red spots but red with black spots. Sigh! I had no red paper, so I shushed him the best I could.

N’s going to have trouble having friends over if H doesn’t reform soon enough.

Then he hopped around with his tongue hung out threatening to “eat them both in a gulp”. He showed off his ‘flippers’ and did a bit of swimming too.

Then my niece dropped in and we dug up some pink paper and did a butterfly for her… not as good as the others but fun nonetheless. She enjoyed decorating the wings and the glitter… girls! They’re all the same.

All in all, a great day. How good the costumes were, remains debatable considering V’s mom thought it was an armour she was wearing and couldn’t fathom why a soldier was running around with her arms held out ‘smelling’ flowers, so that’s there!

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  6. @Snigs: I thought so too.
    @Bikram: Oh they had so much fun
    @CP: Hmmm I'm sure V would have liked that.. but we discovered it later.. we started off with just black paper.
    @Aparna: You are welcome :-D.

  7. They look great and the kids look like they are having so much fun! You have given me lots of ideas for the next fancy dress occasion that comes along – thank you 🙂 !!

  8. Wow.. that is really good.. I think for V.. if you had pink paper in place of black… it would have looked more cuter.. but must admit.. great work… how do you think such great ideas!!!!!

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