O.K. do I have you wondering ? An up coming show has a costume contest for goats .HELP how and what should I dress a kid up as .I would like to let the baby {2 years} bring the goat kid {3 months} into the class with matching outfits .By the way the show is this weekend so can't be to hard to make .

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), August 14, 2001

Answers

Tutu's Patty. That would be pretty easy with ribbons crisscrossing up the hind legs like ballerina shoes. Or plaid kilts with black ribbons on the hind legs for celtic dancers.

-- Peg (Ashlinep@localnet.com), August 14, 2001.

Response to How to dress up a goat ? (Costume Party)

Patty:

I suspect just about everyone else is going to go the tutu route, so perhaps try to be different. Some possibilities: A school teacher with the kids in a school uniform (plaid skirts), A mummy and kiddies (wrapped in gauze), Playboy bunnies, Kids dressed as babies with diapers and a bottle, rattle and teether around their necks, Bunches of grapes (purple balloons tied around them, or Christmas presents (using wrapping paper - but probably wouldn't last long).

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), August 14, 2001.

I have allways wanted to dress up a goat as a Skunk (strip of black down the back with a bushy tail) and have the kids wear white pants, shirt and a gass mask (exterminator).

-- miller (smillers@snowcrest.net), August 14, 2001.

oops, a strip of white!

-- miller (smillers@ snowcrest.net), August 14, 2001.

Wish I had seem the skunk one before I went to the store .The goats name is Daisy , so can you guess what the kids decided on ? Yep daisy's .I got the baby a green shirt and pants and will make the flower to go around her face .I will make the goat a kinda shirt {green} and a flower to go around it's face .I will take lots of pic's so look for them on the cs friends page.

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), August 14, 2001.

Recipe

How to Dress up a Goat

Hang one braided clove of garlic around neck

One Crown of Sage and Bay leaves and maybe a few oregano leaves mixed in

In a see thru saddle bag on goats back: a few onions on one side including salt and pepper shaker the other side potatoes

Child wears a chefs hat and coat! one hand lead rope the other spatula!

beats a tutu!

(please take this with the humor I intended)

-- westbrook (westbrook_farms@yahoo.com), August 15, 2001.

Hi patty,

This is what a dear friend of mine did for the costume class for her graddaughter for the VA St Fair last yr. We always have a theme, should make that had, I'm in AR now. But anyways, last yr the theme for the st fair was "Going ot the Fiesta!" She took a wagon and decorated it in mexian colors and streamers, then she put her collection of stuffed Taters (looks like cabbage patch dolls) in the wagon sitting also dressed in Mexican outfits. Then Sandy, her granddaughter wore an outfit similiar to the Coffee guy, Juan. She then made a similiar outfit for the goat, then attached saddlebags on the goat with coffee cans and more taters in the pockets. It was so cute and she got first place. Hope this helps. Have fun and good luck!

Bernice

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), August 15, 2001.

When I was a kid, we tied deer antlers on our goat, hooked up a cart behind her, and put jingle bells aroung her neck. My little neice led her. Kind of a Santa's reigndeer theme, but it turned out really nice in the local parade. Think we even placed.

Blessings

Joy

-- Joy (bigredbarn@myexcel.com), August 15, 2001.