fancy dress SCIENTIST ideas please.

[bigknickersbigknockers]

Any suggestions please...

[bigknickersbigknockers]

Help, urgent... need to get costume for Friday

[gorgonzolasouffle]

doctors white coat

Spiked hair

Big glasses?

Bit like the mad scientist in Back to the future??

[choosyfloosy]

ooh brilliant

have just watched nina and the neurons, so I'd say big bunches, nail varnish

mmmm white coat and maybe deely boppers (male or female) but add more (plasticine and matchstick) balls to make molecule models?

depends what age

interesting to see what costume wearer think it should be

[DrMarthaMcMoo]

Beaker from the Muppets - dh has done this with a white coat borrowed from work and spikey hair. Or Bunsen.

here

[wotzsaname]

start with a mans oversized white shirt. Add some biros in top pocket. For mad scientist...add some gel in hair like his just had an explosion. You can buy those joke glasses that have crazy magnification in them.

[Blandmum]

at the risk of being a very boring old fart, pleeeeeese don't to the mad scientist thing?

I know this makes me sound like Humourless Tumbrige Wells, but one of the things that puts kids off science is the 'Boffin' Image.

White lab coat, testubes of coloured water.

What would be cool would be to send him him with Bicarbonate of soda, and vinegar is sepater bottles. Mixt the two, a WoW! instant fizz. Co2 given off

Or you could do the lab coat and stethescope, many scientists are also medical doxtores

[SlightlyMadScientist]

Tell him to go in as he is...scientists are normal people and where normal clothes...

On top of that we have a lab coat (doesn't have to be white - I where blue half the time) & safety specs.

We certainly don't have wild hair...

If you wanted to accessorize... pens in pocket, pair of tweezers, syringe (oral dosing syringe), some charts/graphs, notebook would all be suitable.

Like MBs idea of vinegar & bicarb though...

[Blandmum]

Quite!

When I was a reserach scientist I wore jeans and a teeshirt!

a calculator as a prop

[DrMarthaMcMoo]

My dh is a scientist too and really does look a bit like Beaker anyway...mad hair, white coat n'all

Lol @ "scientists are normal people"...they are not

[Blandmum]

We so are, and I will mutate anyone who disagrees with me!

[DrMarthaMcMoo]

Are not.

[SlightlyMadScientist]

We are more sane than most....

calculator is definately another good prop. I could get you some tubes and stuff but I won't have time to get them to you before Friday I'm afraid.

Some of the guys in our lab wear shorts in summer Looks VERY VERY strange to see a labcoat with bare (hairy) legs hanging out the bottom.

[Tamum]

I'll give you blooming beaker, moo

[motherinferior]

Yes, but Tamum has been known to frolic about in nothing but a lab coat

[Tamum]

Arrrgh, you traitor

It wasn't nothing anyway, just no trousers

[bigknickersbigknockers]

Wow, thatnkyou for all the fab ideas. Not sure if I dare send DS to school with Bicarb and vinegar but think I will just for the laugh and I wont have to clean up the mess.
Any ideas where to get something resembling a white lab coat from?

[Iota]

is this for a child? - I was going to suggest a Franknfurter outfit, but maybe not for a child

[SlightlyMadScientist]

Oooh I know someone who had to walk around in a lab coat an no trousers after contaminating them with chemicals...

[Tamum]

How old is ds? You could probably improvise something from a white pillowcase if needs be.

[Tamum]

Oh, I did that too SMS- got a bad phenol burn on my leg, so not only did I have no trousers but loads of medic scientists coming in to give me their opinion... MI is talking about when we had a washing up lady who was like a mother to us all and made us all take off our trousers and put them in the drying oven if it rained.

[Blandmum]

I walked around for most of a day after I 'Shit surfed' is dog crap on the South bridges. I had crap all up my leg! Thankfully the department had its own washing machine.

I also knew someone who spilled dilute ntric acid over the bottom of his trousers. All seemed OK until he went in the rain, and the bottom part of his trousers disolved!

[dabihp]

dare to be different! send him as a germ!!!!

[Tamum]

That would be a good trick actually. But maybe not one for bigknicks' ds.

[Tamum]

(I was talking about dissolving trousers, sorry, not germs )

[DrMarthaMcMoo]

Shit surfing, dissolving trousers and knitting DNA...nah, I take it back, scientists are completely normal