Repurpose a Generic Colonial Costume for All Your Kid's School Projects
by Christine Burke on Offspring, shared by Christine from Lifehacker on (#4BWA1)

When my son was in second grade, his teacher loved to assign projects where the kids had to dress up as historical characters. New to the elementary school world, I wasn't yet up to speed on the stress that character costumes cause parents. That year, my son had to dress up as two separate famous men in history and I"