Book Week Costumes - Wenda

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 her third year of selecting costumes my daughter decided to go as Wenda from the "Where's Wally?" series of books.   Wenda is one of the additional characters that readers are encouraged to find on each page alongside their search for Wally.




Once again I made use of patterns I already owned to help make parts of the costume.  The Shirt and Trousers were made based off 2156 Simplicity's pattern.  Technically the pattern was for stretch material and the material I was using wasn't stretch so I enlarged the pattern a bit to make it work but it made a very helpful starting point for me.  A blue skirt she already owned + a pair of costume glasses from the local $2 shop and we were almost finished.

To make the hat I used a piece each of white and red felt.  I cut each piece in half and sewed a white piece to a red piece.  Once I had that finished I laid the two pieces of fabric together and sewed an arch across the fabric using the same method as the one mentioned in my post about "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" costume.  My daughter helped me make a pom-pom using red wool that I then sewed to the top of the hat and her costume was complete.

(Wenda)

This year my son was also participating in the dress up day so had his own costume (there's a separate post for that costume) and my younger daughter made use of components from "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" costume I made a couple of years earlier.

(Wenda, Butterfly, Rainbow Fish)