It’s that time of year when school nativity plays abound. And I’ve been requested to provide costumes for both Son1 as a census official and Son2 as an innkeeper. Mostly fairly simple except the note for Son1 requested a laurel headdress. Now that sounded a challenge, especially as I’m not particularly creative.
Luckily we do have laurel growing in our garden, so I picked a few handfuls of laurel leaves and popped them in the airing cupboard for a few days to dry. I then cut a length of green garden wire several inches longer than the diameter of son1’s head and threaded the leaves on, ensuring that half faced one direction and half the other. I then placed it on son1’s head, twisting the wire ends closed.
It looked fine on the floor whilst I was making it, but the leaves all flopped down once it was on son1’s head, so I hope school consider it okay.
Son1 as a census official
Yet another blogging mummy!!! 
This looks so inventive!
I think you’re a star as wardrobe mistress – hope the performance was fun too!
Emma 🙂
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Thank you. Yes the performance went well but we weren’t allowed to take any photos on the church
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Oh bless! I think you did a great job – better then I would have faired under the circumstances!
Thanks for joining in x
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Thank you. It seemed a simple idea, but the leaves that I’d carefully lined up in direction as I threaded them, went whichever way they fancied once I picked it up off the floor
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