Home-made Costumes?

[DianaB]

This may be too hot to wear where you're at but maybe someone could use this idea. MySIL made a dalmation costume one year for my niece and eventually my daughter wore it. She took a white sweatshirt and white sweatpants and either painted spots on it or used permanent marker to make spots all over it. Then she took some little cheap canvas shoes and made spots on them too. Then she took a pair of white socks (not ankle length, but longer ones) and made spots on them. Then she took her daughter's hair and put it into piggy tails and took a sock and put it through the elastic to hold the piggy tails. The socks were the ears!! Then she made spots on some cheap little white gloves (or socks would work) to cover her paws, oops, I meant cover her hands!! She also painted spots on her daughter's face and made her nose black. It was a really cute costume!! For boys you would have to figure out how to have the ears with it. Maybe get a white stocking cap and pin the ears to it.