Oh fuck off... Superheroes for CIN

For once I am over the moon about this day. Dd1 (10 year 6) came home on Monday and said it was superheroes dressing up day on Friday. Bloody marvellous I thought . Later that evening dd1 said she'd like to go as a votes for women person. I was slightly taken aback and said, a suffragette? And she said yes. I thought YES! I am currently sewing purple and green ribbons on to a white ribbon for a sash. Dd1 has found and printed out an old votes for women poster.

Dd2 (8) then decided she wanted to go as something different - all her friends are going as cat girl(?). So ds2 suggested Florence Nightingale. She was happy with that when we'd explained who she was!

Pirate princess. Tough, pretty, swashbuckling. I made a cape by sewing a button onto a pillow case. So then you have super hero pirate princess.

Ds2's school has decided they can either do superhero or pyjamas, so while he was going to wear his superhero pyjamas (and cover both themes), he has tonight changed his mind and is going to wear his Thomas the Tank pyjamas.

Ds1 has a superhero tshirt (Superman), so he's debating whether to wear that or casual clothes as his school said superhero or casual clothing.

I'm not quite sure why the upset here. There are a fair few female superheroes out there to choose from, and to be honest, if boys are free to dress up as princesses (hasn't this been the topic of many a thread on MN?), then why can't a girl be free to dress up as a male (or female, whichever she chooses) superhero?

Dd has decided to go as "Pyjama girl".

She's going to wear her pyjamas and have a blanket Cape. Her sidekick will be a teddy bear.

Her super power is making naughty children go to sleep.

Can you tell that she was gutted that they aren't to go in their pyjamas like they did last year?

DD2 loves superheroes so she's gutted that she's not at school yet. I think she'd love to be Spider-Man.

My friend's DD said that she's going as Elsa, which I ed at at first but then she said that she's a hero because she saves Anna and she has powers.

Don't forget the xmen ladys jean grey/phoenix, Storm, rogue, emma frost, scarlet witch thats just a few from the xmen series, look into comics :)

My DD is going as an admiral of the US navy. Our school is doing superheroes or any hero, it's a very loose theme.

Ah, Tallulah, you're grand.

choochi I was thinking Hermione might be a good idea too.

aggressive love the idea of kitting them out in yellow and black jumpsuits.

I'm wondering if I can stretch the Superhero theme to a suffragette outfit .

Sounds amazing.

Like Lambzig my DD1 is wearing the same Spiderman outfit with solid six pack. She looks terrifying too!

Ahhh, "sowing". Hope your harvest is fruitful.

Jimmy Corkhill bless you for the tshirt cape link. One trip to the charity shop and we have a cool, red, all purpose super heroine cape with a gold star on it (it was a Spanish beer tshirt). And we have a ninja type mask made from the sleeve. She's thrilled.

DD 4 told me her hero was me (sob into sleeve), but that I didn't have any good outfits, so she wanted to dress as Spider-Man. She has her cousin's too large, muscle Spider-Man outfit with full head mask which is frankly terrifying.

Princesses is a hideous suggestion on 'hero' day, truly appalling.

We had this with DD's school. I bought her an incredibles outfit from Amazon. She looked ace

haha Maki... good luck with that one!

Wonderwoman batgirl super girl, spider woman are all female super heroes for whoever asked up thread

I made this out of a couple of old t-shirts and a jumper. Took about 45 mins.

In DS's last school we had the "Superhero or princess" thing. Was very tempted to send him as a princess but went with Doctor Who instead.

This year it is just Superheroes so DD is going as Professor River Song wearing jeans and denim jacket and carrying a sonic screwdriver. We are counting regeneration as a super power. An alternative we thought of was Hermione Granger.

Some superheroes have an 'ordinary person' identity....

Or, this is Hit Girl in her non-costume outfit. Basically a school uniform anyway. If your DD has hair that can do this, worth a try. Maybe have a bit of purple wig (just some threads) and a mask dangling out of her pocket, maybe swap her normal school bag for a suspiciously bulky duffel.

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If you want to go a wee bit PA, you could dress her up as Princess Pinkpower (or Pinkpants) and get her to pull big pink pants over pink leggings. Match with a pink sparkly cape (made of lycra) and you're there!

- I'm afraid I don't know - I sent DP off looking for some t-shirt fabric, and he came back with it from some market stall, having completely failed to find brightly coloured jersey instead and in the end it worked out better.

T-shirt fabric (or t-shirts) would work the same way - just not as shiny, and wouldn't drape quite so nicely.