Hickory, Dickory, Dock

• Use a cardboard box to make a grandfather clock. The top of the box, with the flaps, will be the back. The sides of the box will be the top and bottom. Cut circles out of the top and bottom so that your head and feet will fit through them. The top of the box should rest on your shoulders.
  
  To make the clock face, measure the top left and right sides of the box. Cut a piece of cardboard that wide, and twice as high as your head plus four inches. Crease the cardboard in the middle, forming an upside-down V. Cut out two pieces of cardboard to fit the front and back of the V. Glue a circle of yellow foam or construction paper to one of those pieces. This will be the clock face. Hold it over your face, marking the position of your eyes. Draw the clock numerals on the yellow foam or construction-paper circle, making sure that your eyeholes will be in place of two of the numbers, and cut out the eyeholes. Draw clock hands pointing to one o'clock.
  
  Glue all the pieces together. Duct-tape or glue the clock top to the clock bottom on the inside. Glue a toy mouse to the front of the box. Enter using the back flaps, which can be taped shut.
  
  

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

• You can dress up as your idea of Mary, in a frilly dress and apron, or you can be a modern Mary in jeans, rubber gardening clogs and a gardener's tool apron. Carry a watering can and a plastic flowerpot filled with silver bells (use Christmas or wedding decorations), cockle shells (available on the beach or online) and some Barbie dolls or other dolls for the "pretty maids."
  
  

The Queen of Hearts

• Take a playing card to a copy center and have it copied as large as possible. Doing it in two sections will work fine. Glue it to a sheet of white poster board and glue on a piece of red ribbon to hang it around your neck. Wear a red dress and red tights. Carry a tray of tarts.