A couple of weeks ago, L's school held a Book Character Day. The children were encouraged to go to school in their most favorite book character, and to bring along that story book. It was a happy news for me as that meant more DIY costume-making!  Being a typical boy who is especially fond of heroes, L wanted to go as Percy Jackson,...

Though Frozen is still very popular, and many girls I know would want to dress up as Queen Elsa, Ch chose to be a Minion from the Despicable Me movie as part of her costume for Children's Day in school. I secretly rejoiced with that choice as she has never really been the princessy type anyway. Plus, I highly suspected I would see...

The school celebrated Children's Day last year with a Super Hero theme and Ch went as Spidey Girl. This homemade costume was an easy assembly of different components - the mask, Spidey shirt, a pair of blue tights, and a red tutu (idea taken from here).  Buying a Spiderman costume off the shelves would have cost me $30. And I'll be stuck with...

The K2 kids in L's preschool were given a home project to complete with their parents a couple of weeks ago. The project required them to create their own skeleton costume as they were studying about My Human Body for the whole of Term 3. The best part to this project is that the kids get to wear their costumes to the school...

Photo credit Our family loves The Avengers movie, and we watched it again for the third time during our recent Movies Night. It was then that L decided he wanted to be dressed up as Thor for the school Halloween party. I tried to persuade him to be The Incredible Hulk instead. After all, all it takes is some green face paint and...