Creative Ideas NEEDED

M.,

Something to keep in mind for this in the future is if you garage sale at all keep your eyes open for crazy hats at garage sales. I will pick them up so we can use them to put together Halloween costumes too.So check you old costumes (if you save them) for any hats you could use.

For Crazy Hat Day you could take a bicycle helmet and glue artificial flowers, or stickers on it. You could also take a stocking cap and either safety pin or glue ribbons, or streamers onto it. At my sons school one little girl came in with a wig from an old Halloween costume and it was really cute! My son wore a Pirate Hat (also from a Halloween costume). Otherwise try to think outside the box, any baseball caps lying around you could embellish?

For Silly Sock Day, Could you put a pair of adult mens knee socks on her-over her pant legs? Thats definitly silly! Or maybe several pairs of socks in different lengths and colors, so that you can see all the layers of socks? Maybe go a different direction and safety pin lots of socks to her pants and shirts?

Good luck and have fun with it, you don't need to spend much- if anything- just try to be original!

My teenage neice has these really fun thigh high rainbow striped socks that she wears with shorts around the house. They are super fun. I'm not sure where she got them but I bet you could find them at one of the teen stores at the mall like Limited Too.
Enjoy these fun days!

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Does she have to wear the silly socks or can you send her in with a sock puppet? Or find a way to make the socks she's wearing into puppets?

Crazy hat day - if you can buy it the Flower Factory (that now has free memberships...feel free to say J. Brandenburg referred you = : ) has some crazy crazy hats all for just about under $3.

To make one, since you do have a 4 year old. Buy a hat from the dollar store and then find all sorts of craft supplies or odds and ends from around the house and let your little kiddo go to town gluing the items on. You could even name your hat "Things from around my house" or "Things found in the couch!" - lol there is quite a collection of things under our couch cushions!

Socks - you could either buy socks from walmart and let them sticker them (one time use) or use fabric paint. Or just let your daughter pick out some crazy socks (that may end up to be princesses). Your daughter won't care so much about the prize so I wouldn't focus on that....just let her have fun and she'll enjoy herself!

In my opinion, I would just ask my child what they think would be a super silly hat or sock. This is a great opportunity for her to get creative/artistic. It should be a fun activity for the children, not a creative mom contest. I've seen this stuff get way out of hand at my daughters preschool where they had to make posters about themselves. It was obvious that most were done by parents. Ask her what she thinks and then try to accomadate her imagination with supplies to create it and by all means help her if she needs help, but let her take the lead. Also, I don't like the idea of the "prize" either considering that a hat created by a parent might win instead of an authentic child's creation.