{"id":648,"date":"2016-08-25T01:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T01:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2016-08-25T01:11:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T01:11:06","slug":"tree-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/25\/tree-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s book week in Australia! Halloween isn’t really celebrated widely in schools the way it is in America, but kids do still get to dress up in costumes once a year. They all dress like book characters on day this week. Here is the costume I made this year from a book called “The Happiness Tree.”<\/p>\n

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You can just have your child wear brown or grey and then just make a tree hat. We had some pants from Gap that had plants on the bottom, so I thought those worked well for this.<\/p>\n

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There are several trees in this book, but this costume is based on the tree of hope.<\/p>\n

I crocheted a basic hat. I also joined back up at the top of the hat and made a long chain and then made one row of single crochet to get back to the top of the hat. I made a few of these and sewed felt leaves on it and the base of the hat in the front. I made sure all of the “branches” were towards the back of the hat so they wouldn’t hang down in front of the wearer’s face.\u00a0 I just cut these leaves out free hand from the felt. I folded the felt over and cut both edges together so\u00a0 the leaves would be symmetrical.<\/p>\n

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You can see there is a little bird house in the tree so I cut that out of felt as well and sewed it onto the hat.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Happy Book Week everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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