Whether it’s a rainy day, a pending party or you and your child are looking to use some creative expression, you can’t go past a dress up. This month we help you get a brilliant “troll look” from head to toe.
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Trolls
These spectacular little garbage bag trolls are from the minimum-effort-maximum-effect school of dress-ups. In fact, the hardest part of the whole thing is keeping a small troll still while you tease her hair. And don’t worry – wild as it looks, the crazy hair returns to normal with shampoo and a good dollop of conditioner.
Materials
Tunic: Tie-top garbage bag in colour of your choice; firm cardboard or stencil film, craft knife, acrylic paint in “forest colours”, sea sponge
Leggings: Wear tunic over purchased leggings
Also: Firm hold hair spray, spray-on hair colour, teasing comb, brown face paint (optional)
Tunic Fold garbage bag so that the ties will be positioned at shoulders, as shown below. Cut away armholes below ties. Cut off bottom of bag and trim into a jagged edge. Draw a simple large leaf design onto firm cardboard and cut out design with a craft knife, to create a stencil. Using a sea sponge, stencil leaves in various colours over the back and front of bag, randomly overlapping them. When placing tunic on child, draw up shoulder ties until neckline fits, then tie ends in bows.
Hair Using a teasing comb, tease small sections of hair at a time, working from the base of the neck upwards, spraying each completed section with hair spray as you proceed. When all hair is teased into an upwards direction, spray liberally with hair colour, placing an old towel around the neck and over the face for protection. Face and arms can be “dirtied” with brown face paint if desired.
