Life is really short. If your kid wants to wear flip-flops in winter or way-too-early-spring, I say let them. I get it: once you learn to flip AND flop, it’s hard to go back to shoes that just shuffle around under your feet. But it just doesn’t seem right letting a kid freeze their toes off just to look cool (unless they are on campus and they feel the need to prove just how much they NEED their high priced education). So, they need at least some socks!
Here’s what you need:
- a pair of socks
- a bit of cardboard
- a marker
- a pin
- a sewing machine
- scissors
First, trace the foot on a piece of cardboard (not just paper) and be sure to draw between the big toe and the “other” less important toes (a good time run through Bill Murray’s speech from Stripes).
Now cut out the pattern. You will use it like this for one sock and you will flip it to make the other one (unless your kid is like the guy from Best in Show, hopefully with slightly thinner eyebrows).
With the sock inside-out, you slide the cardboard in like this to make it look like a duck flipper.
Now make your way to the machine, and locate the point where you need to start sewing (a little insurance policy to keep you from sewing the cardboard to the sock, which would be so frustrating that flip-flops might be banned from your house all together).
Now let the needle down as close as possible to the pin, remove the pin and sew a “V’ shape between the toes, back stitching carefully to keep the sock from raveling once you cut it. Then cut a slit, turn the socks inside out and repeat with the other sock.
There. Now she’s ready to go out into the snow.
chiddada 