Reader Jessica just started a new blog called mad in crafts (named after a quote in Hamlet – love it!), and to kick it off she wrote up a fabulous tutorial for making a Max (from Where the Wild Things Are) costume, and guess what, she used a ton of dollar store stuff to make it!! She cleverly hacked up a couple of dollar store teddy bears for faux fur (crown & tail), used a white dollar store fleece scarf for raw material (including Max’s famous pointy hood), and bought a pair of oversized thrift store jammies for the main part of the costume (turned inside out, so they’d show white – brilliant!). You have to check out her tutorial and all her cleverness in making this amazing costume! If you made it through this paragraph and all its parenthesis, then you deserve to [click over to Jessica’s blog for the full tutorial].

If you start gathering supplies today, you still have time to make one of these great costumes for your kiddos!

Project Estimate:

• Thrift store pajamas, $1 and up
• Fleece scarf, $1
• Teddy bears (brown & white), $2
• Stiff yellow felt, $.50
• Buttons, on hand or $1
• Sewing stuff, on hand

Total: $5.50 and up

p.s. If you’re loving the Where the Wild Things Are theme this year, check out last week’s post and Wild Thing craft round up

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Katie from Matsutake has some of the most adorable ideas I’ve ever seen, including these cuties, which are dolls based on characters from the book Where the Wild Things Are. And, they’re cleverly made of toilet paper and paper towel tubes! She also made a bunch of super cute Halloweeny dolls, too. You have to check it out! [click here for tutorial] [via]

You can customize these TP tube dolls in any way you like. It would be fun to make a nativity set, your family, or other favorite characters from books, movies, etc. (Ooh, maybe I can make my Alexander Girard-inspired dolls out of TP tubes!) Of course, it goes without saying that this is a great activity for the kiddos!

Project Estimate:

• Toilet paper tubes, on hand
• Acrylic paint, on hand

Total: FREE

p.s. Just for fun, here are some other great Where the Wild Things Are crafts, treats, and activities via the Crafty Crow:

My favorites:

• Whimsy Love’s Stop Motion Puppet How-To
• Max Ornament by Flickr user batzie09
• Cupcakes by Flickr user Claire_Issa

p.p.s. I don’t usually do this, but because I’ve seen some cool WTWTA stuff lately, here are some cute Where the Wild Things Are things for sale at Etsy:

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