When the hot glue was a bit cooler and starting to form I'd press it into the glue and turn it over to cover the other side in glitter. I repeated this lots of times to make enough to cover the protruding nose section of the head, up the ears and enough for the ankle and wrist cuffs that you'll be making later.

1. Inflate your giant balloon and place it on top of a large saucepan which makes it easy to access from all angles, and saves your furniture from glue! Take your newspaper and tear it into strips. To start your paper mache, take your paintbrush and start to paint your giant balloon, and lay strips of your newspaper on top.

My children are fortunate enough to go to a wonderful school, which holds a dressing up day each year for World Book Day. They do like to add an extra bit of stress to the parents by giving it a 'theme'. We've had animals from books, Mr Men characters and this time it was Dragons from books... easy right? wrong.

So I thought I'd take some time to write up how I made this costume for any other struggling parents like myself who get tasked with this homemade costume for World Book Day, Halloween or, any other Fancy Dress event!

21. For the wings I did a REALLY rushed attempt (I'm talking 2am the day my son was wearing it for world book day) I cut a straight line across the top of black fabric and wing shape at the bottom. I attached the ends with glue to the cuffs (the picture below will explain a lot better I think). This is the only part I wish I could have gone back and redone.

I then got my son to put his head up into the toothless head so the helmet sits on his head - You may then need to gage whether or not you need to take some height off the cylinder - the head needs to rest on your shoulders.

7. Cut out eye shapes from your green card to fit in the 'eye sockets' on your head. I used a black sharpie to colour in the pupil and a tiny piece of white card for the reflection. I used my glue gun to glue onto the head.