Dressing for Thanksgiving

Tips for Children Who Don't Do Dress-Up

Thanksgiving is a day when you want to show off your family at its best-dressed, but your child may have other ideas. Don't let getting your daughter into a pretty dress or your son into a shirt and tie put a damper on the day before it's even begun. Let your child pick the duds, and you provide the trimming with one of these easy ideas.

• Hang a drawing of a turkey, pilgrim hat, or other Thanksgiving design around your child's neck on a piece of brown yarn.
  
  
• String some fat beads on a piece of yarn in Indian corn colors and let your child wear it as a necklace or bracelet.
  
  
• Paint a Thanksgiving design on your child's cheek or hand.
  
  
• Stick a feather into a ponytail or braid, or pin it to the back of a sweatshirt hood.
  
  
• Use fabric paints to decorate plain sweats or a t-shirt with leaves, turkeys, candy corn, or other Thanksgiving motifs.
  
  
• Depending on what your child will tolerate, use glittery nail polish, face glitter, or a little spray-in hair color to gussy-up a plain outfit.
  
  
• Re-lace your child's shoes with some special Thanksgiving-colored or -themed shoelaces.
  
  
• Thanksgiving-colored or -themed socks are another fun, small way to play Turkey Day dress-up.
  
  
• Find a cute, lightweight Thanksgiving pin to affix to whatever odd or comfy garment your child will agree to wear.
  
  
• If all else fails, just relax and be thankful that your child agrees to wear clothes at all.