Music!

Still enjoying my creative triumph of the ketchup bottle, another email came from school, saying that next week is non-uniform day with a musical theme.  Pupils can go as their favourite music star or as something musical.  My son wanted to go as a music star - but at 4, the only example of a music star he came up with was 'twinkle twinkle'!

So thinking caps on again to come up with something easy, cheap and recognisable to a bunch of 4 and 5 year olds.  We're a fairly musical family but I couldn't see how I could make a violin or french horn easily and cheaply.  But we do have a piano which the children love to plonk on regularly.  So the germ of my idea is to do something piano-like.

The trusty white pillow cases have come out again - at this rate, we'll run out of 'old' ones and need to buy some new ones specially!

So far, I've printed off a picture of the piano keyboard from the internet and used it to judge key size and placing.

I marked out the keyboard in pencil and then cut a card template from an old folder for the black keys.

I used the template to cut out 12 black keys from an old M&S black t-shirt.  Then I used the trusty fabric glue again to stick the black keys into the right place.

After that, I used the black fabric pen to draw in the rest of the keyboard shape.


And the last thing I've done so far is to cut out a hole for the neck and arms.


Next step - to finish the arms and neck holes so they don't tear or fray.  I've also been toying with the idea of something on the back - maybe some music?  I've also tried to think of relevant headgear- which I think makes a fancy dress costume - but in this case, I can't think of anything.

So that's where I'm up to.  More to follow over the next few days!