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The final day of dressing up for camp is here!  Overall, creating costumes was not as awful as I anticipated but I have to admit I am glad that I don't have to think about it again until next year!  Today's theme was dressing up as a superhero.  You could create your own superhero, or you could dress up as Batman, Captain America, etc.  My girls have never been interested in superheros, so we did not have any costumes to use at home.  I decided to go back to Dollar Tree (luckily I have one really close to my house)!  We bought a plastic tablecloth to cut into a cape and stickers to decorate the cape.  I also bought ribbon to use to attach the cape around her neck.   (I cut 2 small slits at the top of the cape, fed the ribbon through, and tied it.) My daughter decided to be a superhero that helps dogs and cats that are in trouble.  She chose dog, cat, and star stickers to decorate her cape.  Then, I used face paint to create a mask on h...

My daughter Emma is going to a theater day camp this week.  She is so excited!  I was excited too, but I admit I was a little anxious when I saw that each day is a themed day.  Which means that she has to dress in a new costume for each day.  The first day she is supposed to dress up as an exotic animal because they are doing their own production of Aladdin.  Now, I am a mom that wants to be crafty but many of my attempts do not turn out as planned.  I did not want my child to be the one that showed up with a costume that had people asking, "What are you supposed to be?"  Emma decided that she wanted to be a zebra. We went to Pinterest, which can lead to Pinterest fails but it is a good starting point!  I found a site that gave directions on making a zebra out of a paper plate.  I decided that we could print those out and attach them to a headband. http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mplate-zebra.htm Once we printed the ears out on cardstock,...