Dress Like A Smurf
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
Nowadays, it seems like many parents are too busy to really take the time to do the things that parents should do for their children. I’m not talking about driving them to school, going to parent teacher conferences, talking to them about drugs, or even making dinner. I’m talking about the things that go a little bit beyond that. With Halloween coming around, my thoughts turn to children’s Halloween costumes. My mom never knew how to make a costume for kids. She would buy us costumes that looked pretty sharp, but she would never take the time to really help us make them ourselves. I know that it is a small thing, but I’ve tried to be more involved in this aspect of my kids lives.
This year, I made my little daughter Stacey a Smurf costume. She had been listening to the Smurf theme song nonstop for a week. When I asked her what she wanted for her Halloween costume, she could not decide. She is a little bit too young, and sometimes indecisive. I told her I had the perfect idea, but would not tell her what it was. I started working on the Smurf costume that very day.
Making Smurf costumes is a little bit tricky. You would think a Smurf costume would be an easy thing, until you really start on the work. It is much more than a blue outfit with white shoes and white hands. Of course, you can make it recognizable as a Smurf costume without putting in that much effort, but if you want to really make a bang up costume, it takes a lot of work. I actually had to make her a whole papier-mâché mask! It took me hours and hours to make the puffy hands, the puffy feet, and the little round blue belly. Finally, however, I had it done!
Needless to say, she was ecstatic about the Smurf costume. Not only did she wear it on Halloween, but she wore it the next day, and the day after that. She was so proud of it that she would’ve worn that Smurf costume for the whole weekend if I had not stopped her. I made her a deal that she could wear it when she got home from school. I did not want the other kids to be jealous of her, so I would not let her keep wearing it in school. After all, it was a great Smurf costume.
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