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Salad

Materials

  • One green kids outfit
  • Green felt (½ yard)
  • Green paper napkins (about 5 packs of 20 napkins in each pack)
  • White felt (1 sheet 9”x12”)
  • Yellow felt (1 sheet 9”x12”)
  • Lilac felt ( 1 sheet 9”x12”)
  • Orange paper (1 sheet 8.5”x11”)
  • Red balloons (2x)

Tools 

  • Safety pins
  • Hot glue gun and sticks
  • Scissors

Instructions

For the felt salad base:

  • Cut two large rectangles from green felt that covers the child’s torso. Cut a half circle at the top center of the felt for the neckline and hot glue the shoulder seams together.
  • Leave openings for the arms, and hot glue the sides of the felt together.
  • Cut a vertical line down the center back of the felt for an opening to get into the costume. Use safety pins to hold it together.

For the salad leaves:

  • Cut the salad leaves from the green napkins. With the napkin folded as is, cut a wavy line along the 2 open adjacent sides of each napkin.
  • Unfold each napkin, which now has matching wavy lines on all 4 sides.
  • Pinch each napkin in the center and hot glue napkin “leaves” all over the green felt base piece until it’s nice and full.

For the toppings

  • Make salad ingredients such as red onions and hard boiled eggs from felt, and cut shredded carrots from orange paper.
  • Hot glue these to the salad leaves. Use 2 red balloons for cherry tomatoes and carefully safety pin the base of the balloons to the felt base of the costume.
  • Add salad utensils for accessories, and you’re all set!

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