fancy dress - recycling theme

[missmjs]

Any ideas for a 5 year old boy's fancy dress on a Recycling theme - I wanted something different to making an outfit out of bin liners or old food packaging. Any ideas appreciated!

[aims1202]

Your question has just reminded me of when i was a kid and my older brother went to a fancy dress party, dont think it was recyling theme back in the 80's, i dont know what the theme was but i remember the costume so well. He was a TV set! It was so good, my mum made it out of a cardboard box, painted all the details on it. It had braces to hold it on his body and he had an aerial on his head. You could adapt this to make it look like a broken one for recycling maybe.

[FUZZYBEE]

on the same theme as aims1202 here ..........what about a robot with lots of cardboard boxes painted grey with tin foil and buttons etc etc.

[LuBlu]

How about making, from cardboard, the recycling symbol. The one that's made up of the 3 arrows making up a triangle (it's on most packaging). Make 2 and attach them together with 2 strips of cloth, to go over each of the shoulders. You end up with one 'symbol' at the front of the body and one at the back.

You can then 'decorate' each triangle/arrow with a theme or cover them in recycled goods. Tins/plastic bottles/tin foil - anything recyclable, but not too heavy. Your son won't be able to walk otherwise!!!

[Reverandfunk]

What happened to the innocence of childhood and dressing up as cowboys or spiderman.

Recycling theme for 5 year olds followed by macro economics for the over 5's lol

[missmjs]

Thanks all - think am going to do the box idea and the logo aswell! Its daft isn't it - why can't the theme be superheros or something?......