Who Are You Supposed to Be?

 A friend of ours has a kids party every year right after school starts when everyone is done with their summer vacationing This particular year it had a Disney's Toy Story theme to it.  I was really pushing for my daughter, who is always the oldest but still gets invited every year, to be Bo Peep but she insisted on going outside of the box and going as Dolly from the 3rd movie. Of course it turned out great, her ideas always do!  It is so simple and the dress comes out great even if you don't sew on account of the fact that she is a rag doll.

The Dress: I just pinned the front and the back of the orange cheap fabric onto my daughters body and then machine stitched along the pins.  I made sure there was a ragged cut edge along the bottom and a slit in the top by the head in the back so she could get it on.  The buttons are just paper plates and a napkin sewn on with yarn and then yarn haphazardly sew around the top hem and collar.

The Hair:  I pinned 2 pieces of purple felt into her head, cut 6 curved tabs  from a separate piece and inserted them into the proper placed pointing toward the inside, then machine stitched along the curved line the pins created as a guide, trimmed the excess felt, turned it the right way, then cut the curve for the part in the bangs.  The butterflies were made out of Model Magic by Crayola and need to be made the day before so they can dry over night.  I used a straw to form 2 buttons holes in each and then attached them with yarn.  Her hair is in 2 french braids then pinned up underneath.

One of the Old Yarn Girl's
kids came as Barbie

The other Old Yarn Girls baby
 came as Mrs. Potato Head.
This is just a brown Onesie
with felt pieces attached

Here is our other Old Yarn Girl's
 baby dressed as... You guessed it...
Big Baby from Toy Story 3

My Daughter's Mad Hatter Tea Party

Baby Alice

The White Queen and One
of Tweedle Brothers

 My daughter-The White Queen- threw a Mad Hatter Tea Party for some of children we know.  She worked with a friend of ours to make invitations and party decorations for the big day.  The children were all allowed to wear an appropriate outfit if they wished and come together for tea and cookies, croquet and songs.

 They placed red roses from the 99 cent store in the already existing white rose bushes and made large playing cards out of poster board then placed on wire for the game.

Birdencil

Bread and Butterflies

The special characters were made from Crayola Model Magic and craft accessories.

The Mad Hatter himself

We decorated lanterns before the party to hang in the trees with tissue paper, alice pictures, pom poms and craft paper. Of course the table was set for tea.

The  moms were invited for appetizers and sangria and were each given a large hat to wear upon arrival (the sangria helps with the hat wearing).

Alice

We allowed all of the children to dive right into the cake with their bare hands.  It was funny to watch the children's faces as the first one dug in.  They all looked around to see if he was going to get in trouble and when none of the adults said anything, they looked at each other with shocked faces and and slowly put in one finger at first, but by the end were taking large scoops of cake.  Not something I would suggest for any party, but for a Mad Hatter Tea Party, it was perfect.