![]() I have lots of others but I could only enter one. Making the hoop skirt and tail on the chicken work took a little ingenuity, but a trip to lowes and a 6 foot length of pipe insulation and a little fishing wire to hold up the tail did the trick. Daddy was a good sport and even helped to make the shell Z necklace (engraved with his power tool) and shaped and painted the cardboard surfboards. My son loved dressing up with us and proudly wore his costume (with mommy who was a room mom for the day) to his preschool party and of course on the big day. I had no idea how to make my chicken hat, but like everything else, by constantly trying it on and cutting, sewing, and resewing until it fit, I emerged from my office about three weeks later with three costumes, surfboards, and plenty of sweat equity! I bought fabrics and just draped them on each of us and started sewing and gluing. Along the way, deep friendships are forged amid the roiling (and spectacularly rendered) surf. I looked at halloween stores for ideas and studied the movie images to figure out how to make us look like these animated characters. Big Z helps Cody see that there’s more to life than winning, but it’s a truism that the old surfer has to internalize anew himself. ![]() ![]() Bound and determined, I went to craft store and fabric store after fabric store and craft store. I happily agreed, only to find out that none of the characters had any portion of their likeness on a costume that could be bought in a store or on the internet. Of course, the next thing he asked was if Daddy and I could be his friends from the movie too. I said, sure that was a cute idea without knowing just what I was getting into. One September morning my almost three year old son asked me if he could be Cody Maverick for Halloween.
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