What is the most unusual item your grandchild has asked you to make for them?

I made fancy dress costumes for my two litle boys for the queens silver jubilee parade: Robin Hood and Frar Tuck (im not a sewer so it was a bodged job!) Robin hood won the boys prize to my amazement and was played with as a dressing up outfit for years. Nowadays they seem to buy fancy dress outfits. Though I did have to make a spider costume for my little granddaughters nursery nativity play! Another granddaughter asked me to knit knickers for all her dolls (various sizes) as she thought it was rude to have dresses and no knickers!

A unicorn, a giraffe, a teddy bears picnic complete with sandwiches plates cakes blanket and bears. Recently i got a request for a Stegosaurus called Susan. My grand daughters keep me busy.

Last year it was a parrot outfit to fit my 13 year old gd, last month it was a tsunami cake ! These are always requested the night before , aren't they !!

What I love most is my granchildrens complete confidence that no matter what the request is , Nana can do it !!

That's what I love too, Nana, but it takes a lot of living up to sometimes!

Luckily Hilly their expectations of perfection are a lot lower than mine ;-)

5 yo GD asked me to sew her "a teddy bear horse with a saddle, stirrups and a unicorn horn " !

A knitted character called "Sackboy" (from a video game.) I'm not a great knitter but (with a little help from my friends) I managed to do this. DGS was thrilled and I felt so proud of myself - three years on and he still takes it to bed.

Not my grandchild but my nephew wanted to go to a fancy dress party as a "wire" so constructed a huge tube out of cardboard and painted it green and yellow

A Tsunami cake for my eldest granddaughter. It was for a project at school. Her remit was the 3 colours of the earths layers for the sponge and a beach scene with a huge Tsunami wave complete with debris. Her and her friend came to help make it and between the 3 of us we produced a quite impressive cake even though I say so myself. If I knew how to put pictures on I would show you the finished product.

A hedgehog cake

My five year old granddaughter requested that I make her a fart!!!I which I successfully did.Cant even begin to describe it but when it was alll done everyone agreed that it did resemble what a fart might look like.

Aged about 4, he required a "tooth fairy pillow". [His older sister had one in pale pink.]

He was quite clear that his had to be a padded cushion with a pocket for the tooth/money. It also had to be black, shiny, triangular, and have a ruffle all around the edge.

It took me quite a while to make it, but luckily his tooth held on until it was finished!

Last year my DGD had a fairy party - we sourced some wooden fairy doors and passed the buck! we sat them all around a table and gave them all sorts of crafty stuff and glue and told them to get on with it! Really super and strange ideas.

To make the party last longer I made fairies out of wooden clothes pegs and dressed them all differently, then they played hunt the fairy and each child had one. Went down very well and saved going to one of these expensive craft parties.

My twin 4year old GS demanded a time machine and despite my best efforts with wind up alarm clocks and loads of string were surprised it didn't actually work. Have referred them to Stephen Hawking for advice.

My son who is a teacher rang me up and asked if I could help him? I replied ,"of course if I can, what do you want?"
Will you make me a brain ?!!!
I spent hours making a brain out of rolls of cotton wool covered in glue and paint.
I was very pleased with the result but my DDin law said it looked like dogs poo!
It looked good on his classroom wall .

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Not at that stage with GS yet, but so many fancy dress costumes, including 'toga' pillowcases, hobbit shawls, a variety of nativity wear. My favourite, and only real triumph was a costume I made for my daughter when we were away at a summer school - so not much to hand, just carboard, paper and paints. I made a sandwich board outfit, with a Branston pickle jar front and back, a jar lid for a hat and a super-sized fork. The jar label said 'Mummy's little pickle!' I have one treasured 'snapshot' photo of her beaming out from underneath the wonky hat.

My granddaughter needed a Viking shield for a school project, she was the Viking King leading a raiding party. A joint effort between Mum me and GD. A photo appeared on the school website but GD decided she didn't want to be in the photo so gave the shield to one of her army to hold'.

The Magic Faraway Tree from the Enid Blyton books.
Was (as usual) a homework project for DGS aged 7.
We foraged in the garden for twigs and assembled a sort of knarled old tree.
Added wool leaves and cardboard cut out doors and windows.
GS got a gold star!

A Dumbledore robe, hat, beard and wand.

Last of many, was a poncho with a detachable unicorn horn ! ???

A Tracy Island birthday cake. As this was just last month, he was the only four year old at the party who knew what the heck it was, realistic though it was down to the very last detail (well, sort of!). There were some very puzzled little faces gathered round it on the day. We'd introduced him to Thunderbirds when we found some of the old toy vehicles in a box in our cellar, and he has been a huge fan ever since.

Our Grandson asked Santa for a set of Pylons!! Papa sent for some from Hornby and they arrived in a box like a bunch of thin sticks for self assembly. I would have put it straight in the bin. Looked like an impossible task. It took him 3 hours but he finally got them assembled. 3 of them. Then he put thread between them to represent the wires. That was when Grandson was only 4. He’s 7 now and still plays with them around his train track. He is very gentle with them and they have only had to be “rewired” once. They live in our house proudly sitting on the window sill.

My grandchildren will have do their marzipan birthday cake, especially the kind I can't make. It usually comes out ok, but it takes a lot of time. Embroidery takes even longer, but it's easier for me. it only has to look good. A cake must taste good too. I just got into a larger project now, a Story Book from Ann's site, looks like is taking me a long time, but I already have my grandchildren each wanting to take it home when done. I'll try to post some images when done. community.annthegran.com/post/2011/05/06/embroidery-advisor-presents-sew-story-books