Hobbies and Crafts, Life

Costume Construction and a Haunted Corn Maze

2012-09-25 23.50.57Kids are a lot of fun, especially during this time of year. In the previous post, I talked about how I have a whole collection of Halloween-inspired things I want to do this year. It turns out my son needed a costume for a presentation in his history class. Since he’d already mentioned his admiration of Ferdinand Magellan, we decided that we’d do a Magellan costume for his presentation and then he could wear the same costume for Halloween.

It wasn’t exactly easy to find a Magellan costume, so I hand-modified a Robin Hood costume and pirate hat in order to make the costume “work.” It took a lot of hand sewing, but I think the end result was well worth it.

After the sewing marathon, we all decided it was time to cut loose and have some fun, so we headed to an advertised haunted corn maze. What a fun experience? The boy had fun – and was quite scared by the hi-jinks carried out by the actors in the maze. It took a good little while to go through it, but when we were done, it was well worth the time spent. We all laughed, and screamed, quite a bit during our October adventure.

 

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Ronda Bowen

Ronda Bowen is a writer, editor, and independent scholar. She has a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Northern Illinois University and a B.A. in Philosophy, Pre-Graduate Option, Honors in the Major from California State University, Chico. When she is not working on client projects from her editorial consulting business, she is writing a novel. In her free time, she enjoys gourmet cooking, wine, martinis, copious amounts of coffee, reading, watching movies, sewing, crocheting, crafts, hanging out with her husband, and spending time with their teenage son and infant daughter.

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