Cow Appreciation Day is always a
fun, chicken-filled day. We started doing Cow Appreciation Day four years ago,
but have only participated in three because one year we were out of town. The
best part is definitely getting your friends together, creating some last
minute cow costumes, and of course all the free food. The first year we did it,
I woke up to my mom declaring that I needed to get dressed because she was
taking me to Chick-Fil-A for breakfast. We ended up doing lunch with a couple
of friends, and meeting up with my aunt and her kids and having dinner there later on,
even grabbing a couple of extra meals to take back for my dad, my uncle, and
her older son.
Fast forward to
yesterday. I made Kyle and I’s costumes two days
ahead of time (a first for me, usually the costumes are made the morning of),
and woke up early enough to finally make it to breakfast with a couple of
friends, and Kyle. For this year’s Cow Day, they reigned in the
policy by making it that costumers dressed in cow costumes could receive a free
entrée, and children could receive a free kid’s meal. When Kyle and I went back for
dinner, we arrived around 6:40 and didn’t end up parking until 6:55 because the
parking lot was backed up so bad that just trying to drive through
(not even looking for a spot at this point but content to park at the QT across
the street) had us sitting there for fifteen minutes. Luckily for us, in that fifteen minutes a car pulled out just in the right spot for Kyle and I to pull in, but we still had to wait awhile before the cars pulled up enough for us to have space to turn in to the spot (God was looking out for us definitely!). This year Chick-Fil-A also decided to
stop serving the free food at 7. People rushed to get there just in
time to get their final fix of free food. They cut off the line of people that
could get free food because many were still in line waiting to order at 7, and
some customers left very disgruntled,
but Kyle and I were fortunate enough to get there in time to get our dinner,
and get out. It was a great way to end our Cow Appreciation Day. Below I have some ideas
for your Cow Appreciation Day next year,
Kyle’s Costume:
For the Shirt:
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A white shirt/jersey (we used Kyle’s soccer
jersey)
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Black construction paper
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Tape, scissors
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White paper, or I just cut up a mattress cover
that I found at the dollar store
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Black and red sharpies
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Safety pins
First and foremost, cut out the cow spots.
I just
free-handed the spots all over a sheet of black construction paper and Kyle outlined
them in white color pencil so I could see them better, then I cut out the cow spots and taped them to the
shirt.
After arranging and taping my spots to the shirt, I used the exacto
knife to cut out a rectangle of the
mattress cover (you can also use copy paper) and traced out the chick-fil-a
logo onto the cover followed by “Soccer Cow.”
Using safety pins, I attached the piece of cover to the back of
Kyle’s shirt.
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| And Voila, our shirt is complete! |
Under normal circumstances, I would
use paint and apply everything straight on the shirt, but because it was
necessary to preserve the shirt, I taped and safety-pinned everything to it. If
using a shirt you don’t care about painting/writing on, you can use puffy paint
instead for the cow spots and draw the logo.
For the ears:
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A baseball cap
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A piece of white felt ($0.69/sheet at Hobby
Lobby)
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Black sharpie, fabric pen (a regular pen will
work as well)
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Scissors, fabric scissors work best
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Safety pins
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Online Template
Using a template I found online http://www.ultimatepapermache.com/bongo, I printed and cut out the ear and traced the shape onto my piece of felt.
Then I proceeded to cut out the ears I traced. Once cut
out, I used a fabric pen to draw out
some cow spots, which Kyle filled in with the sharpie.
Ears complete, I
just used safety pins to attach them to
either side of the hat. To make the ears hang right, safety pin the ears on
from the back side of the ear (shown
in picture).
Here’s the completed look!
For my costume, I simply used an
iron transfer for the Chick-Fil-A logo, and cut out and taped spots onto a
t-shirt the same way I did for Kyle’s.
A cute little extra included a bell that we originally purchased as part of a father's day gift. The bell was picked up from Jo-Ann's (it was a little expensive if you ask me), and used a sharpie paint pen to write "Ring for food" on either side, we refurbished this father's day gift by tying some yarn around it and wearing it as a "cow bell."
Finally, some pics from this year's cow day,
Thanks for keeping up with me, a bientôt!
Kaylah
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