Duct-tape Pinocchio
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009About six months ago, I came across pictures of a fad I had not heard about: Duct-tape prom dresses. I was intriqued to say the least! I wish I had a prom to go to! Fast forward until now . . . We knew that we were going to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party at the Magic Kingdom and we needed costumes. Mackenzie has a Cinderella dress and Kimberlie and I could easily wing it, but what about Tristan?
Would it be possible to make a duct-tape costume? Could I pull it off? Will the weather be mild enough to dress my son up in nothing but duct-tape? I decided to go for it. But what kind of costume? Of course it had to be Disney-related, relatively easy to construct, and they had to have the colors available in duct-tape. As I looked at all of our pictures with Disney characters from over the past year, I came across this one of me and Pinocchio.
I’m certainly no seamstress, but somehow I made it work. After all, it’s tape, so if you screw up, you just cut out the mistake and tape it back together!
It went really well. Everyone at the party typically dresses up as the popular characters: pirates, princesses, pooh, etc. Nobody else considered Pinocchio. One of the cast members told us that he sees about 50,000 costumes a night and it was the first Pinocchio he had seen. Others were amazed when they discovered that it was constructed of solely duct-tape. Tristan thrived on all of the attention he received. Many told us that if there had been a costume contest, he would have one it. Wow! Of course, it wasn’t comfortable walking around in duct-tape so he was walking a little funny — like a puppet — which is exactly what Pinocchio is. Pottying proved difficult, but he could always hold it until the next day — when he became a real boy again!
By the way, it took 5 rolls of duct tape and about seven hours to put it all together. I will certainly do it again in the future!
