Batgirl Tutu Dress Tutorial

Last year I made a sushi costume for Z who was only 2 months old at the time. I cannot believe how much she has grown in only one year! 

This year she is going to be "Batgirl". For most of you who know me know that I am not the Kind of Mom who goes to party city and buys a ready made costume. I have nothing against it just like to make my own. Same goes for party decorations. I have always liked different and Unique. So I decided to make Z a Batgirl Tutu Dress using only 3 things for the dress. 

1. Black Tulle 

2. Crochet Top

3. Glitter and Black Felt 

 

The items you will need are

1. Piece is cardboard 

2. Scissors

3. Glue gun

4. Something circular to hold dress ( I used a lemonade can) and a vase 

5. Ruler or measuring tape

The first thing I did was cut a square out of cardboard that measured 14 inches long. It depends on the age of your child. For Z I wanted to be the tulle strips 7 inches so I made the box 14 inches since you will fold them in half. 

Next you will wrap the tule around the cardboard as many times as you want. This is how I make the strips. They will all be even and measure 14 inches long. 

Next you will cut at each edge. 

Now you have your strips and are ready to start attaching them to the top. 

 

I pair the strips in 2 per hole so that it can be fluffy. I also do 3 rows to make the tutu full. I start by getting 2 pieces of tulle and folding them in half and making a lil loop on top. Should look like this

You then start from the last hole of the crochet top. Put the loop side in first then tie it. You go all around then start row two. 

This is after I finished the first row 

Then after row 2 starting on 3 

Once your tutu is finished you make the Batman logo out of felt. I used gold glitter felt to make the oval and black glitter one for the bat. First I draw it by using a stencil. You can print the logo from searching it in google then cut and trace on the material. 

Then you use glue gun to glue the bat to the oval. And glue gun to glue the oval to the top. 

 For the belt I did the same thing by cutting out squares out of the glitter felt. And I used an old crochet headband for the actual belt. 

 Now that the tutu dress is done you start the cape by using a black T-Shirt. See my "Super Hero Cape tutorial" for this step. 

I Also made Henry a Robin Cape! He will be her sidekick, 

And of course you cannot forget batgirls pink Batmobile! All I used was a piece of black cardboard on the door and taped it with a batman logo! 

Can't wait to post pics of Z tonight! Come back to see all the photos! Happy Halloween! 🎃

Healthy Halloween Snack

Banana Graveyard Ghosts and Clementine pumpkins

 

You will need:

Almond Butter ( you can also use peanut butter) 

Cheerios

Raisins

Clementines

Celery 

Organic Banana 

First cut bananas in half. You can use as many as you would like to make. I only made one because its only for Z.

Use Cheerios and raisins to make ghost face. 

Put some Cheerios in a ziplock bag and crush, crush, crush! This will be the graveyard dirt. This is a fun step to let your lil ones help. 

Next spread Almond butter at the bottom of the banana and stand on Cheerios dirt. Last peel clementines cut a small piece of celery and stick it on the whole. 

Last enjoy the snack! Z really enjoyed her snack. She kept on saying "Mas, Mas" which means more in Spanish. 🎃👻

Spooktacular Playdate

It's that time of the year again one of my favorite Holidays "Halloween". Pumpkin Patches, Costumes, Fall Playdates, and Pumpkin Spice Lattes!  Zara went to a Halloween Playdate Hosted by her friend Alex and her mom Yvette. It was so cute to see Zara and all her lil friends dressed up. Zara went as a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader! ( only happens to be Mommys fave team) We met my Brother in Nashville and he brought her the cutest lil DCC dress from Dallas. 

So I paired it up with some Blue Pom Poms and of course her royal blue bow! 

Here are some pictures from that day. 

Robin enjoyed her Pom-Pom 

It was so fun they ate cupcakes, played with bubbles, did finger painting, and Halloween Crafts. It was also very fun for us Mommas. :-) 

I had one tired baby after the fun play date. 

DR. Seuss baby shower

We got invited to a Dr. Seuss themed baby shower a few weeks ago. Z loves Dr. Seuss books. I read them to her all the time. I had some leftover felt, and decided to make Z a thing 1 shirt! Remind you i decided to make this 4 hours before the party. I used an old red shirt that she wore for Valentines day and it still fits (minus the arm length) I picked this one because it had a red tutu attached to it. 

I was at my moms house so she helped. We first got a kitchen plate to trace a circle on white  felt. 

 Next we cut it. While she was cutting it I printed out a thing 1 picture searching the web. We used this to trace the letters onto black felt. 

We traced the letters onto white paper then glued the paper to black felt for easy cutting. My mom drew a black circle around the felt using craft paint so it can match the exact image. 

Remind you this is the day of the baby Shower with only 2 hours until the shower. I did not have Heat N Bond ( my life saver) since my mom does not believe in it. So I glue gunned each letter and number to the felt and left the sewing to the pro! My mom finished sewing the circle with a needle and red thread. And there we had it a adorable Thing 1 shirt.  

 I printed out a Thing 2 image as well so I decided to make a quick diaper cake out of Diapers that were too small for my Z and a pot. 

I then added red ribbon and taped the "Thing 2" sign on top. 

And now.... We were ready for the party!  

The baby shower was so much fun! Here are some photos I took. 

They even had real live fish as centerpieces! 

 

Z had so much Fun!!!!!! It also happened to be her first ever Baby Shower.