Green Eggs and Ham

Beret has ALWAYS loved the Dr. Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham. So today when the kids were asked to dress as their favorite book character, it was an obvious choice to go as Sam-I-Am! So, naturally, we didn't start working on it until 10:30 last night. (That is another story, which I won't get into!)
We took one of Reed's t-shirts and altered it to look more like the fringy outfit Sam wears. I kind of made up this hat pattern, which is of course 10 sizes too big! (Hey, my kids typically have big heads, and he was in bed so I could not measure!) Oh well, its very Seussical. The eggs were easy--I used some Sculpey and knocked them out in two minutes. The ham? That was Reed's area. He used some foam stuff called "Stuff It"--its this weird substance he uses to fill cracks and reattach the headlight when I have a minor car accident. (ha ha...only a few of those!) He shaped and sanded it, glued it and painted it, until we have the finished green ham! If we had more time and no need of sleep, we could have found a way to put a big fork in it, glue whiskers to Beret's face, etc. But, maybe another year!