One of the reasons I joined Destination Imagination this year was to have fun and work with people, and it toatally paid off. If you’re thinking of joining DI, do it. it is fun, you get to let your creative side show, and in the end, you wanna do it next year. One of the aspects of DI is creating your own creative costumes to be judged. This is how I made my costum. First off, my character was Mrs. Soap (s-oh-ah-p), the main manager of a dishwasher. Her and the two workers she in chrge of are all miniature people that wash all dishes inside of a dishwasher in our world, instead of machinery.

Since she is the manger of a dishwashers, I based her costume off of bubbles and cleanslieness and the color white, usind a base color of white and other colors like light blue.

I first started off with a skirt created entirley of bubble wrap, plastic, tubing (which I nicknamed “fabulous string”), and clear masking tape. I used several layers of transparent, shiny pplastic to make the base part. Clear plastic bubble wrap was wrapped around the plasitc, wich showed the shiny plastic. They were secured with clear masking tape. I then used the fabulous string as a belt waist of the skirt. To complete it, I wore white leggings underneath it. It may have looked good, but it was very hot, and I couldn’t sit down. If I did, i would pop the bubbles on the skirt :/

Next I made boots. I sacrificed an old pair of Uggss by covering them completley in white duct tape. A layer of silver was added to the bottom. for the final touch, and also add more bubbles to it, I wrapped the top part of the boots in blue duct tape, and blue bubble wrap to make it appear as if they were rain boots.

For the shirt, I borrowed one of my mothers long sleeve button up dress shirt and tucked it into my skirt.

Since mrs. soap is a manager, and has a job, of course she has to have a name tag. I used light blue duct tape to make a double sided piece of duct tape. I then used the rim of a cup to draw circles, wich I then outlined in thin strips of white duct tape. To finish it, I Sharpied in “Mrs. Soap” on the front, and duct taped it to my shirt.

The final touch-and personally my fvorite piece of my costume- was made with starting out with a dollar-store hat from last year’s New Year party. I wrappped that in white duct tape, and the bottom rim covered in light blue duct tape. I made more duct tape bubbles the same way I did before and attached them to the side of the hat. I then used the fabulous string and used it as a hatband. This is my final costiume. Since I was competing in DI, no parents were allowed to help or give any team member any ieas, including me. I hope you enjoyed this post, a I am hoping that I will make it to state this year.