Purple fabric dye: $2
Another purple fabric dye when the first doesn’t work: $1
Fabric paint $1
Four pairs of socks: $2
A t-shirt for when the cruddy socks don’t dye: free
A stained onesie: free
Four big plastic bottles: free
Metallic spray paint: $2
Four meters of ribbon: $2
Two pieces of black card: 50 cents
A needle and purple thread: 20 cents
Soft toy stuffing: free (found in cupboard, no idea where it came from)
Black shorts and t-shirts x2: free
Drinking straws: free
Goggles: free
Hours spent dyeing clothes, painting bottles, stuffing and sewing, painting clothes, sticking bottles together and making straps: too many to count.
Looking like a pillock but having fun at your first fancy dress party as a family: priceless.
PS. ‘Eight is a lot of legs, David’ which is why our little octopus has four. Clearly if you count his limbs plus the additional purple ones there are eight. It totally had nothing to do with the fact I couldn’t face trying to sew on eight. Honest.
