Oh crap, I need a nativity outfit for DD(4)

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Dress up church tomorrow at 10am.

Her dressing gown is a Paddington one, so I can't put her in that and chuck a tea towel over her head to make a Shepherd.

She can be any nativity character.
What can I cobble together from stuff that is already in the house?

Any fairly plan dress and a blue scarf dealers over her head for Mary?

Tights/leggings, a big white t shirt with cotton wool stuck on for a sheep?

Any light coloured dress with tinsel as a halo for an angel?

Fancy clothes with a cereal box crown covered in tin foil for a king??

Anything pink+face paint for a pig??

All in black + triangle ears made of card stuck on a head band for the stable cat?

An plain white or brown short sleeved adults t shirt belted around the waist with a scarf and the tea towel headdress so she could be a shepherd, or tinsel twisted into a circle for an angel headdress, along with the long white t shirt?

If you are prepared to sacrifice a pillowcase this can be any kind of tunic - add teatowel for shepherd, tinsel halo and wings for angel, jangle of keys for innkeeper etc.

Cut out a star from cardboard, cover in tin foil and stick it to the front of a white t-shirt?

Whit pillowcase with head and arm holes cut to make a dress, tinsel/tinfoil for a belt and halo?

Or even larger cardboard sandwich board style star.

Tinsel on head + White pillowcase = angel
Print out & colour animal face mask?

Would the Paddington dressing gown work turned inside out?

1. Cut a hole in the top of a cheap white pillow case and cut up the sides.

Fasten with a belt or rope in the middle

Hold a stick and hold a toy sheep under an arm for a shepherd.

1. If you have any coloured pillowcases going spare do the same but put a crown made out of cardboard on instead and lose the sheep. Ditto inn keeper.

1. Wear beige and stick something to make a camels hump under the material at the back.

1. Hairband with horns attached. Facepaint and black or brown clothes and a stuffed tights tail and you have an oxen, or a donkey if you make the horns ears and the clothes grey.

To add to the shepherd costume...

1. Cut holes in a white pillow case for head and arms
2. Get an adult’s plain T-shirt in another colour. Cut from the collar to the bottom to fashion a long waist coat
3. Tie belt around waist
4. Tea towel on head.

You are a creative bunch. Thank you. Some of this will work.

BadnessInTheFolds Sat 14-Dec-19 23:26:47
Anything pink+face paint for a pig??
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Where would a pig fit into a nativity scene? :-)

Go to Asda/Sainsbury's/Home Bargains and buy one. Simples.

@Bluerussian there were all sorts of animals in that stable

Hope you got it sorted OP!

There was more than one lobster present at the birth of our Lord?!

We've cobbled together a passable Mary from an old swaddling blanket, a cut up breastfeeding top, and a muslin. DH has been roped into being the donkey; she's mounting and dismounting with startling athleticism for a heavily pregnant woman.

Perhaps you could weigh her down with a heavy doll up her top, slows her down and gives DH more exercise

Not pigs though. Also no shell fish or crustaceans (what they would have been doing swimming in a barn I don't know anyway). They were a Jewish family!

I suppose the inn keeper could have knocked up some bacon sarnies after the birth, smothered with sauce they wouldn't have noticed.

Anyway op I'm very glad you've managed to cobble together an outfit.