My daughter Rowan needed a costume for Art week, the theme being sculptures she chose to go as Emma Stebbins 'Angel of the waters'. Hence the wellies!
This was really quick to make and Rowan loved getting involved, especially when it came to adding the glitter!
We took an old bed sheet and cut a slit in the middle large enough for her head and cut strips off the edges for holding everything together.(The edges were elasticated which was really useful).
We placed the sheet over her head and tied one of the elasticated strips around her to create the impression of sleeves. While tying we scrunched the excess fabric up to her shoulders, looped the strip around the back of her neck, crossed it across her chest and tied it in a bow at the back. Then we carefully pulled the scrunched up fabric down to form sleeves.
For the water at the bottom of the skirt, we cut up plastic carrier bags into strips and added sequins and beads from Rowan's craft cupboard.
The wings were cut from an old roll mat and covered in tin foil. We then cut feathers from cereal boxes, glittered them and stuck them on with a mixture of strong glue and tape.
The elasticated strips came in useful again here as we simply tied two loops around the centre of the wings, making it easy for her to slip on and off trough out the day.
Rowan used pipe cleaners and cereal boxes to make her lilies which she soon got tired of holding so we attached to her.
