My children's primary school
is celebrating Roald Dahl day today, which is odd because the late author’s website says it is on his birthday on 13th September.
I liked the idea
anyway, I grew up devouring his books and always think of his irreverent and
very funny books with lots of affection.
Gorgeous went as
Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Darling went as Matilda.
Both of the
babies (as they are collectively known in our house) woke up way too early and
very excited at the prospect of dressing up:
Darling is in nursery and
too young to know about Roald Dahl's books, so her teacher suggested we dress
her up in something from one of her favourite books. We ended up with the
butterfly from The Hungry Caterpillar.
The wings were two pieces of
card we spray painted silver. Then everyone helped to finger paint
(Little Lady’s idea) and sprinkle glitter into. I made holes with a hole-punch
and wove some ribbon through as you would shoe laces.
Then
ribbon pushed through holes in the middle of the wings to make two loops to go
over the wearers arms.
I
suspect Gorgeous' favourite part of his costume was the chocolate bar...I wonder
if it will come home.
No comments:
Post a Comment