To go in my story sack for family learning I decided I would make and add a Golden Pants Trophy like the one the Pirates are hunting are hunting for.
I picked up a pack of trophies in £1 shop, this is one of them:
I painted the bottom part and the stem with gold glitter nail varnish - I think it had about 5 coats in the end to get a nice thick gold colour.
I then hunted the net for a pattern to make underpants and found this one:
As you can see I cut it in half to use as I would have had problems fixing an "all in 1" pair round the trophy because of the stem etc.
I had some gold sparkly/sequin material in the cupboard which I thought would be great and look really like a gold trophy:
I drew round the pants template and cut out 2 pairs of the pants. I also added a piece of material across the top of the 2 pairs of pants but this didn't work so I had to remove it. I stitched the pants together leaving the crutch area open so that I could get it onto the trophy. I added some goldish ribbon to the pants to make the "Y-front" markings.
I stuffed the middle of the trophy with pillow stuffing and wrapped some all around the handles and the outside of the trophy. I then very carefully (and hard) got the pants onto the trophy where I added more stuffing to them to make sure the whole of the pants were stuffed and the right shape.
I finally sewed the bottom of the pants together and the finished Golden Pants Trophy looks like this:
