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....BADGER"

Just. Fucking. Why.

She is ten FFS and she doesn't want to dress as a cocking badger any more than I want to spend tomorrow scouring the charity shops in our arse end of nowhere one horse shitsville town for black and white clothing.

Arrrrgggghhhhh

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Are there many great literary badgers

Wind in the Willows?

<Clutches straws>

There's badger in wind in the willows?

Well there's Badger in Wind in the Willows. And I think Percy the Park Keeper has a badger friend.

After that I am stuck.

Send her in in whatever colour you like and say the badger dyed its fur?

Bodger and Badger?

Fantastic Mr Fox

Is there even a badger in that book <scrabbles through fried memory>

List of fictional badgers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_badgers

Bloody teachers, is this revenge for something?

A list of household objects from which a 10 yr old can fashion a passable badger costume would be good [hopeful]

She has no black or white clothes so that's a non starter. I have some black but no white, but she's not painting or cutting up my clothes!

Bloody teachers, is this revenge for something?

Black and red as roadkill badger?

Personally I would print out a picture of a badger, glue it on card, and string it round her neck. When she's had enough of it she can just enjoy being in her own clothes.

It is so, so stupid and such short notice I would not try any harder than that.

Actually, I lie, I might as my children conveniently go to school next to a Primark. But in your situation I wouldn't.

hang on, school are choosing who your daughter dresses as?

nightmare!

YANBU I thought the whole point was that children/parents could choose their own character. Why are the school choosing for you? FWIW, I am a teacher and I'm supposed to dress up and have no clue what to dress up as.

Just paint her face?

Sorry but I laughed out loud at this, it's so utterly ridiculous it's pretty funny

Did they assign everyone a different animal do you think? I can't for the life of me work out why they'd want everyone dressed as a badger?! How bizzare!

Send her in with an almighty hangover and then she can say "i feel rougher than a badgers arse" (my stock hangover phrase) then it will only cost you a bottle of pinot.

Badger mask:

www.naturedetectives.org.uk/download/mask_badger.htm

They used to be allowed to choose. That was fine, DD went as Beryl the Peril every year

This year the head (who is leaving so maybe this is some kind of final act of revenge) has decreed that each class choose a book by voting and then the children all have to be a character from said book.

Sorry to detract from the thread, but I've just spat tea everywhere.

Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to A LIST OF FICTIONAL BADGERS?!?! Sorry, but that tickled me something rotten. I'm hacking up a lung I've laughed so hard.

Is there no way you can buy a cheap white bedsheet, cut it up and then sew the patches into already-black clothes?

Oh come on! Fictional BADGERS! HAHAHA!

Here is a badger mask, print off, stick to cardboard and cut out. Wear as much black/grey as she can manage (?dusbin bag) mask

@ kennyp. Though she'll have to fight me for the pinot. My costume making muse (along with my birthday cake muse) only visits me when I'm pissed.