Buzz Lightyear Costume Baby

Creating a Dress Up Box to Encourage Your Child's Imagination

About the author: Rebecca Johnson is a work at home mom who enjoys writing in her free time. Some of her many works include a site about the best toy vacuum cleaners and a buyer's guide to choosing a toy spring horse.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. QUESTION:
   Baby sitting 4 year old boy... game tips?
   so tomorrow a 4 year old boy is coming over (along with his 2 year old sister). She is really easy, but I want games and such to keep him interested. He only gets an hour and a half for tv, but i'll have him for close to 8 hours tomorrow. He is obbessed with Buzz Lightyear and Toy Story. Today while baby sitting him, we dressed up in costumes and danced. I want some new ideas for things to try tomorrow He isn't always open to new things though. Any easy crafts, or things I could make in advance? Thanks <33

   PS: we do live by a park, but its been raining hardcore lately, so that is not a possiblity. Indoor stuff

   • ANSWER:
     Creativity is the key: If he enjoys Buzz Lightyear, let him dress up as such, and tell him that there is a "waskley wabbit" (what Elmer Fudd calls Bugs Bunny) loose in the house, and sneak around the house, and see if Buzz Lightyear can find him and save the house from being over run with "wabbits"-- doing this, and when he doesn't find the wabbit in one room say "I thought I just heard him in the livingroom- quick, Buzz- we gotta find him!" and then go there and tip-toe around to sneak up on the wabbit..

     This game can be fun and exciting, use up a lot of their energy, and can use up at least an hour or two of the time. Also, if you have a Mr. Potato Head, hide the pieces around the house, and create a story about how the Toy Story Mr. Potato Head has been harmed, and you need to find the pieces to make him "whole" again.

     Be creative, using the Toy Story theme as a way to keep him occupied, while at the same time making you the most fun babysitter he has ever had (because you focus on his interests).

2. QUESTION:
   outfit/costume ideas and help please?
   So my best friend is having a birthday party in april.
   the theme of the party is
   ''something beginning with B''
   eg batman, or bart simpson
   and i said, why dont i go as Bill and Ben the flowerpot men?
   but, i cant find anywhere that would sell an outfit.
   for example, i could
   - backcomb my hair
   - paint red rosy cheeks
   - freckles
   - mud on my face
   - a big plantpot on my chest saying bill or ben
   - a plantpot on my head
   - orangey-red leggings
   - green gloves
   -some kind of shoes

   and i really dont know where i am going to get it from
   im probably going to be saving up like any teenager would,
   so it cant cost over, say, 25 quid?

   and if there isnt an outfit for it, what else could i be?
   as far as i remember, all of these are taken up:
   ballerina
   butterfly
   barney (dinosaur)
   bee
   bad girl
   baby spice
   belle
   a bird
   batman
   buzz lightyear
   bond
   basil brush
   bugs bunny
   bunny rabbit
   business man
   bart simpsn
   boxer
   betty boop
   blue smurf
   bubblewrap
   banana
   bear

   pleaseee help.
   i am lucky, she has told me about it first so i have more time

   +i will add anything else so keep checking back, kay?

   • ANSWER:
     Baker
     Beaver
     Beyonce
     Belly dancer
     Britney Spears! (school girl look lol)
     Bengal tiger
     Blobby
     Baked bean
     Biscuit
     Bluebell (flower)