Dorothy's Ruby Red Slippers

For our Young Women's New Beginnings program we are doing a Wizard of Oz theme. I've made a TON of decorations for the night, which is in 2 days!! It's going to be perfect...I hope!

One of the things I made was the ruby red slippers like Dorothy wears. Let me just tell you that I made 34 of these things. 34!! These are easy to make but I got burned out really quick making these since I had to do so many.

These shoes are great if you are doing a Wizard of Oz party, Halloween or Princess party even.

I found my pattern at Skip to my Lou. The pattern was printed off and then shrunk down to 85% on a copy machine. The same things was done for the shoe lining as well.

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The sparkle paper was purchased at Hobby Lobby when it was 50% off. I cut out my pattern and traced it on the back of the paper.


Then, I cut out what I had traced and folded it in all the right spots. The original pattern was used as a guide to make sure all the folds were in the correct spots. If you had a tracing wheel you could go right over the dotted lines on the original pattern. But, of course, I don't have one of those so as usual I had to do this the old fashioned way.


Once I had everything folded I used wood glue to put the shoe together. I used wood glue because it made the shoe more stiff and I figured it would hold better than a glue stick. All the flaps were held together with paper clips while the glue dried.



For the inside of the shoe I did basically the same thing.


I traced the pattern on the back of the blue gingham paper and then cut that out. Pay no attention to the darker lines on the pattern. I was trying to save myself a step and it didn't work.


I put the lining inside the shoe but it was never a perfect fit. Since I am a perfectionist I trimmed the portions of the shoe that were not matched up. I cut the extra off the toe part so that everything lined up. I used wood glue again to hold the lining in place.


And here you have it all finished and pretty. These will have candy inside and wrapped in clear wrapping to look totally cute.

I will be taking pictures on Wednesday so you can see how it all turns out.