This classic dish will get 5 stars at any costume contest.
We’ll see your baby dressed as a lobster in a pot costume, and raise you a baby dressed as spaghetti and meatballs. Yes, this costume trumps all others when it comes to cuteness, cleverness and true hilarity. Plus, the baby gets to play with the yarn all night — just make sure your little one doesn’t actually eat it!
Materials:
- 4-5, small Styrofoam balls
- Brown paint
- Tan yarn
- Hot glue
- White baby hat
- White onesie
- Red bandana
- Elastic
- Big cooking pot (optional)
Step 1: Start by painting the Styrofoam balls brown and let dry. These will be your meatballs.
Step 2: Place the baby hat in front of you. Wrap the yarn around your hand a few times and then slide the loops off. Glue the loops onto the hat with hot glue in any design you want, being sure to cover the hat completely. When the meatballs have dried, glue two of them to the hat with the spaghetti.
Step 3: Place the white onesie in front of you. Cut at least 30 long lengths of yarn, about 12 inches each, and glue one end of each string to the collar of the white onesie. This will look like long strands of spaghetti. You want to cover the white completely so add more string if necessary. Then, glue a few meatballs to the onesie.
Step 4: To make your table skirt: Fold the bandana in half and cut out the center following the pattern on the bandana as a guide. Cut a length of elastic long enough to fit snuggly around your baby’s waist, but not too tight to make it uncomfortable. Hot glue the two ends of the elastic together. Then, glue the elastic to the underside of the bandana around the center. Fold edges of the bandana over the elastic to clean up the inevitable rough edges.
Note: You can choose to put baby in a large pasta pot instead of making a bandana skirt if you want a more realistic look. Just make sure baby can sit up comfortably and safely. Might just be good for pictures!
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Katie Bugbee is our global parenting expert and senior managing editor here at Care.com. She has written for Babble, Huffington Post, Newsday and Parenting. A busy working mother, she offers families advice on many parenting dilemmas, from appeasing picky eaters to finding the perfect babysitter.
