Adapted for an 8 ft bulletin board... The castle was traced onto white poster board and covered with tissue paper for color. Other than that, I just used the cricut to cut out the snowflakes and letters.

Once Upon A Time has some truly FANTASTIC costumes - I mean, that goes without saying. There is so much detail put into these creative interpretations on classic Disney characters that I'm constantly amazed everytime I revisit the series. If you were to ask me to choose a favorite, I wouldn't be able to.


However, one costume that really stood out to me was Aurora's purple gown.

Maybe because it's more informally feminine than other characters, like say, Belle's gold dress. Another aspect that drew my attention was the frayed edges of the dress and how it just fit so well with the background of the enchanted forest.

Overall, it was tough deciding what costume I wanted to make first, but I was very anxious to explore Aurora's outfit further .

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This dress was made into 3 parts: a skirt, bodice and the corset. And because this was only my 2nd costume to ever make, if I was honest, I'd say that the hardest part was everything.

Typically I always start with the hardest piece first which (big surprise) is the corset. Fortunately, I had one on hand and was able to base the form of Aurora's on the one I already had, with a few minor adjustments. Anyway, this is what I came up with...

Corset originally used grey ribbon instead of strange mismatched purple/pink

Here's a look at the Divergent edition of Clue teens played at our most recent End Of The World/ Dystopian program.

The rooms on the game board were made from movie images found online and it was all slowly pieced together to follow the format of the original game. I printed off the grid over 4 sheets of regular blue paper, glued them to sheet of poster board and sized the rooms accordingly... much harder than it sounds (at least for me).

Once all the rooms were fitted and glued on I realized I'd forgotten character starting spaces.  Oops! That's why they stick out the way they do. The book quotes around the board are to help tie them in a bit.


The game pieces were folded to stand up and the weapon pieces are images glued on to the back of those glass beads. That was one of our crafts for the program - glass bead magnets. From left to right images on beads are belt, glass shards, butter knife, syringe, Eric's gun and lit coals.

Weapons

Since this was a Dystopian event, we also watched the just-released Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire and played a Hunger Games inspired game called Panem To Panem based on the game Apples To Apples (I found the idea on a teachers resource website). Snacks for this were Dauntless chocolate cupcakes, Nightlock blue berries, Simulation Serum (orange jello) and Abnegation pretzels.

And in case you were wondering... a bubble magnets craft was also set out with images from different books/movies and sorts. That's why the weapons for Divergent Clue are made with glass beads.