Food? A bottle of tomato ketchup of course!

But then an idea started to take shape. What was our boy's favourite food? Tomato ketchup. And we'd said many times that he'd turn into ketchup if he ate so much! So perhaps we should make this come true.

So here it is - tomato ketchup bottle in a few fairly easy steps.

I started with a piece of red fabric - cut from an old table cloth that was destined for recycling.  My limited machine sewing skills were put to the test with hemming around the edges and then the sewing machine broke down so that was it for mechanical help!

I had some old ribbon (can't remember where from) which matched fairly well so that became 4 ties at the sides.

Then I cut a hole for the neck at the top.  I'm no good at edging either so I had to use another bit of ribbon at the top to cover up the jagged edges and try to reinforce the neck - luckily this also looked a bit like the neck label on the bottle!  But I cut it all too big so it kept slipping off his shoulders - sort of solved by use of a bit of velcro.

The hard bit was the label - I found some good images of Heinz ketchup bottles on the web so printed one off large and copied the basic design by hand in pencil on an old white pillow case.  Then one of my friends suggested fabric pens so I went out and bought 4 colours - red, yellow, green and black.  I also used them on the neck label.

With my confidence up, I decided to have a go at the back label too:

Ingredients, nutritional info etc all done in squiggles!

Having broken the sewing machine, I then used fabric glue to stick the front and back labels onto the red material - use sparingly as it shows through if the material is thin and you use too much!












For the important final touch - the bottle lid:

A plain shower cap - but do you know how hard it is to get a plain shower cap without blue/green patterns, dolphins, fish etc on it; and getting a white one was even more difficult so this was cream-ish and from Tesco.

The fabric pen was useful again, to write on the lid stuff which was copied from a bottle in our local cafe!



So all we needed now was a red hoodie underneath (which we already had) and plain trousers.

He loved it - and no-one else had the same costume at school!!