Immy is currently enamoured by the story of Cinderella. We take turns to be Cinderella sobbing with disappointment as she wishes to go to the ball and the fairy ‘goldmother’ who works all sorts of magic with her wand, the most fascinating of which must be those precious glass slippers!
So here is my Cinderella, ready for the ball. We were waiting for my parents to arrive for a visit and Cinderella took the time to very thoughtfully set a table laden with a (play) feast for the guests and then decided to have a little boogie while she waited…
…bet you didn’t realise that Cinderella could hip hop!
The crown and skirt were simply made (follow the links for my tutorials). The cape is a silk scarf and the long jewels were from a necklace of mine which broke and I threaded the beads onto a length of ribbon. The glass slippers on the left are a dreadful pair of commercial plastic ‘heels’ which she can only hobble in, in fact, if anyone has an alternative idea for how I could make some alternative dress up shoes I would love to hear your ideas 🙂
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Re the shoes, could you get some ballet slippers (we bought ours at Target for about $11) and decorate them by gluing on some sequins and other glittery stuff, or sewing beads on the? Fabric paint, if you have some?
Could be another postable activity :)
We had great fun working together on a dinosaur model this week.
Thank you for the community service announcement, it can be so frustrating going through to comment on all the We Play blogs and not know if some of my comments are getting through.
And I agree with Marita.. though I've been slack on commenting of late (sleeping baby in lap and shaped net access make it hard) it is frustrating to comment on a blog and have it not work, and worse that the blogger probably has no idea!
Thank you for the announcement - I had no idea and have fixed mine up.