Take off the cap and send your model off to play. Mark off where you want the bangs to begin and end with safety pins. Turn right side out and stick back on your model’s head. (You can’t see my zig zags, but they’re where the arrows are.)

Sew with a zig zag stitch, then trim the excess fabric off. (Yes, I actually ended up making two wigs. If you want to do things a little more nicely, thread a needle and sew a basting stitch in a spiral to gather the fabric together nicely. If you want to be quick, just pinch the legs together at the top of the head and sew across with a zig zag stitch. Turn the tights inside out and stick them over your model’s head. (You’ll see that my daughter was in a tongue-sticking-out mood for these pictures.) Get your model ready by pulling up her hair and clipping back any bangs or short bits in the back. They were all really quick to make, leaving us lots of time for… dum dum dummmm… the wig! Here are all of the finished accessories. Both of these official documents got glued onto cereal boxes to make them more rigid. I found a nice image of the AVL logo here, which I resized and tried to print out, however my printer has been malfunctioning so I used my tried and true tracing-from-the-computer-screen trick to draw my own on white paper. I made an ID card for Lucy (it was my daughter’s idea to make her only 10 cm tall) sticking on the extra album sticker for her photo and a bit of bar code that I cut out from a cereal box. Pretty close to Lucy’s trademark turquoise color! What fun is it to be able to flash Lucy’s ID card, right?! While cleaning out some old stuff, I found this cool sparkly plastic pocket from the photographer where I get our ID photos taken. I stuck it on the colored side of a cereal box and cut out around it. We made a key for Lucy’s super awesome flying-swimming-driving car just because we happened to have an extra of these stickers.

When they were dry I popped the lenses back in. I gave the glasses 3 coats of polish on the outsides and 2 coats on the insides. If you don’t dare pop them out, you can protect them with some masking tape. My pair was a hand-me-down from some other kid and pretty cheap, so much so that I was able to just pop out the lenses so that I could paint the frames with nail polish. In leiu of the stickers you could always print pictures from the Internet. I already had all of these materials except for the yarn, which is how I spent the €2. For other accessories I used old sunglasses, teal nail polish, a plastic pocket they give you passport photos in, plain white paper and old cereal boxes (not pictured) and stickers from a Despicable Me sticker album of Lucy and her key. Want to know how to make a fantastic bright orange Lucy wig with chignon plus a few of Lucy’s must-have accessories? And want to know how to make them spending a mere €2? Then read on!įor the wig you need an old pair of tights that fit tightly around your head (preferably orange, but use what you have), two skeins of cheap orange yarn and orange thread. Sofia decided to be AVL agent Lucy Wilde. (Evidence of this can be seen here, here and here.) And yes, this year my kids are dressing up as Despicable Me characters for Carnival.

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