Each year when it comes time to see the Wiggles’ concert, my daughter has a certain costume in mind. I’m not sure where she got the idea of wearing costumes, but it is something that she loves to do. For a few years, she would not wear anything but a Greg Wiggle costume when she went, but this year, she requested that I make her a Wiggly Dancer outfit. This was not as easy as I thought it would be, because I was stumped at first about how to make the music notes that adorn their jackets.
We started out with a red tshirt because the dancer coats are red. I didn’t want to get her a jacket because we were going to the show in the middle of August, and I didn’t want to her to sweat a lot. I then had to figure out how to make the music notes. I could have bought gold and black colored felt, but I thought that would look too plain. The music notes on the Wiggly dancer coats are shiny, and she would want the same thing for her new outfit.
I wandered into the craft section of my local department store with the music notes on my mind. I wandered up and down the aisles but didn’t find anything. I didn’t really expect to find already made shiny music notes on the shelf, but I thought it never hurt to look. Finally I came upon the section that had ribbons, laces, and other adornments. What I found there was the answer to my problem. There I found shiny adornment that I could form into the shape of the music notes on her new shirt.
Once I got the adornments home, I had to truly think about adding the music notes to the shirt. I ended up using my glue gun and a lot of patience to get what I wanted out of the materials. Though I wasn’t sure a glue gun would be the best idea, it was the only hope I had. In the end, I was lucky that the music notes turned out as well as they did. If you would like to create something similar just take some advice from me. The shirt will look good, but make sure you never put it in the dryer. When it came out, much to my dismay, the heat has bunched the shirt up in odd places. That’s OK though; at least I know I can recreate the shirt if she needs another.