Book Week Costumes - Little Red Riding Hood + a simple Dinosaur/Dragon costume

Each year, as part of a week long celebration of books and reading, my children's school has a dress up day where the students are encouraged to come to school dressed up as a character from their favourite book.  My children have had 3 years of costumes so far and I have had fun making their costumes for them each year.

For the second year my daughter decided she wanted to dress up as Little Red Riding Hood.  She had a costume for this that she'd been given several years earlier that her Nanna had made for her.  Unfortunately, as tends to happen, she'd outgrown the costume so it was time to make her a new one.  For this costume I utilised several patterns that I already owned to make the various pieces needed.

 

(The three patterns that were used to form the costume)

The skirt was simply made using the basic pattern for options B, C and D from 2576 Simplicity.  The hood I made was a combination of pieces from options A and C from 9476 Burda Kids and was constructed so that it was double sided - one side pure red, the other a red and white check pattern using the same material as the skirt.  I also made an apron using red and white material adapted from pieces from 1595 Simplicity, although she decided not to wear the apron as part of the costume on the day.  To complete the costume she wore a white shirt from her cupboard and I bought a small weaved box from a local $2 shop.  A simple handle and insert for the weaved box was made using some ribbon and left over material from the skirt/cape and she added some toy food from her play kitchen.

 (Little Red Riding Hood)

 (The basket and apron)

 (Some play food to 'fill' the basket to take to Grandma's house)

To finalise the costume I braided her hair with some red ribbon threaded through it as well.

(You can also see the double sided nature of the hood in this picture)

My younger two children also wanted to dress up since their older sister was.  My son decided to use a store bought costume he had with a green tracksuit to become a dragon and my younger daughter was able to wear the other Red Riding costume we had.