what to fill tights with for spider legs?

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ds is being a spider next week. i am thinking just putting him in a black jumper with black trousers and sewing teh legs of 2 pairs of black tights to the sides of the jumper. would this work and what can i fill the legs with to make them not flop down?

Newspaper should work. But you could attach the legs to elastic/string/wool that is attached to the sleeves of his jumper so that when he holds his arms out the legs stick out too - not sure if that makes sense?!

oh, yes good idea. thanks.

Fill them with balls of screwed up newspaper and then attach the foot of the lower pair onto the foot of the upper pair one using a length of black wool, then the top one make loops to go round his wrists using wool again.

Does that make sense? It does work, I've worn it mysel. Out. In public.

yep that makes perfect sense. i am looking forward to doing it. i love making comstumes for him. sad act that i am.

Here you go! I like the hat with googly eyes too!

ooh, we have a black hat too and i have a bag of googly eyes somewhere aswell. i am getting way to excited about this

I am now wondering if I can persuade my nearly 3yo ds to be a spider too - but he seems quite determined that he is going to be a 'purple monster with fiery breath', which I can't quite get my head around at the moment!

chopped up plastic carrier bags make great lightweight stuffing,

& as an added bonus you can pat yourself on the back for recycling too

ha, rockinhippy all my carrier bags have been recycled as bin bags so i have none in. got lots of newspaper though.

I'm impressed...lol..... we do that too & stil end up with stupid amounts of plastic packaging that & thats even though we rarely take new carriers....... realised a while ago it does makes brilliant lightweight stuffing though :)

though from experience I can say, just keep your fingers crossed it doesn't rain, wet paper is even heavier

oh it is second nature to reuse them. my mum never bought bin liners. there were always carrier bags as she did alot of shopping . i am a bit less frivilous than her so never have many new bags, groceries are all in hessian bags. they are doing a performance but all inside so i shouldn't expect he will get too wet!

your mother sounds like mine...lol......1 of her excuse for doing a LOT of shopping was needing more bin bags

paper should be fine then, I misunderstood & took it to be a "trick or treat" outfit, good luck with it :)

& "tikabilla" ....... how about a purple spider, with a bit of red & orange cloth flames at the mouth ....that way you are BOTH happy :)