Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Paper Dresses

One of my favorite parenting magazine is Disney's Family Fun.  They offer all sorts of great advice and share a lot of advice from other parents.  This month, one mom wrote in and shared and idea that I love because I have a princess who refuses to wear anything that isn't a dress.

The idea is simple: take a large piece of white paper, fold it over and trace your child's outline.  Cut the pieces out for your child then let them decorate.  Use paint, markers, curling ribbon, stickers or anything else you (or your child) desire.  When the dress is decorated, use a hole punch along the sides of the dress and string the two pieces together with yarn or curling ribbon.  The dress is now ready for your child to wear.

This can be done with two pieces of large colored cardstock found at Dollar Tree stores or you can purchase a roll of butcher paper at IKEA or we found one a few years back at Albertsons.

The thing I love about this is it would be a great play date or birthday party idea.  If you had a few helpers you could pre-cut the paper and have a few helpers oversee decorating while all of the girls made dresses and maybe even crowns for a tea party birthday.

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