He's became fascinated with the Harry Potter series and had just finished the first book when this project was announced. He decided to do the snowy owl...wonder where he got that animal from? He decided that he wanted a vest out of material, and he wanted a huge flying owl on the back of it. It had to be white with black "spots" and have huge yellow eyes. So naturally I did my best to comply. He read through 3 different books to find his 5 facts, and helped pick out the pictures to go along with it.
And here's the finished vest:
I couldn't find a free vest pattern for kids that I liked, so I drafted my own using the lining and then cut out the blue polar fleece to match. I didn't realize how much polar fleece stretched until I went to sew the bottom and had to make these little tucks to get the fabric to match up.
We had him write out his facts and then scanned them into the computer and "attached" them to the pictures they went with, printed them on photo transfer paper and then used iron on heat bond to attach them to the vest.
For the owl I found a coloring page of Hedwig from Harry Potter online and scaled it to the size of the vest. I traced the image onto white felt with a lt. gray marker before cutting them out. I created layers of felt to give it a more 3 dimensional look. Once the pieces were cut I used the marker to mark where the black "spots" would be and then he used black paint to go over them. We used fabri-tac to glue the pieces together and then to the vest itself. The eyes were 20mm yellow google eyes. we cut slits in the eye "layer" and inserted them a bit to cover the eyes slightly.
The beak and talons are cut from black felt and layered in.
The owl winds up covering most of his back. He was pretty excited to try it on : )
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