to be secretly gutted that ds has a normal part in the school nativity?

[2anddone]

my ds started school in sept and for all the time i have been a member of mn every christmas i enjoy reading the threads about the strange costumes you have been asked to provide usually at 3 days notice! Anyway today ds comes out of school with a letter to say that he is a shepherd in his nativity and not only that i have 2 and half weeks before it needs handing in, i was looking forward to having to make a penguin suit or something else really random and have no time to do it in so aibu to be slightly gutted that ds school has taken away my ability to moan on here this year and not be able to join in with all of you! Go on make my day tell me what your dc are this christmas

Dd class are doing a pantomime snowhite and 7 dwarfs reception/nursery doing the tradtional christams assembly

Last year my daughter was a kangaroo.

When I was at school i had such parts as a tree andva dead body ( in cluedo)

YANBU! When I was at school I got to be a narrator because I was such a good reader. No costume required

I'm still bitter nearly 25 years later. Think I may need counselling to get over the trauma.

LOL my dd is 'a cloud' - she is disappointed because it isn't a very nice cloud and she would have mauch rather been someone nice like Mary..

AT DC's school the reception children have the parts, Y1 sing and Y2 narrate.
DS1 was a cockerel
DS2 was a superhero
DD was a cow. But also got the act in Y1, when she was promoted to wise man's camel.

This year will be the last one any of mine are in as KS2 have a carol concert instead

No nativity here - panto type plays instead so we have had:

chinese girls
mouse
fish
beanstalk (betcha can't guess which play that was)
fairy
bollywood dancer
princess
elf
ugly sister
tailors wife

all of which require flippin hard costumes (well they are to me who can't sew for toffee!) so think yourself lucky I say!

My ds1 was Joseph one year, we went around proudly telling people that he was the romantic lead

I am Scottish, kids were born and brought up in Hampshire and sound quite posh. DS1 told me he was to be a ,kettle, in the Xmas play. What does the kettle do, I asked. I low, Mummy was the reply. A cattle! Not a flipping kettle! Lucky I didn't get creative with the tinfoil.

My 2 are too young for school plays yet.

I remember the one and only time I ever got a part in the school play though - I got to play one of the 7 dwarves in a production of Winnie the Pooh . We all Hi-Hoed onto the stage, took a look around, noticed we were in the wrong play, and shuffled off again. It was every bit as hillarious as it sounds.

In a few years i want DD to play the star i.e. sit at the end of the stage covered in tinsel but still smiling away.

BIL (aged 8) goes to a tiny school. Last year at his nativity they didn't even have animals.

Chubby - I will have to tell my mother that I wasn't the only tree. I think she was more damaged by it than I was!

I was a snowflake!

my dd is a sheep in her first nativity play - age 2.5yrs. have been helping her rehearse her lines.

baaaaaaaaaaaa.

I seem to remember one year when DD was a Spice Girl and DS was a breakdancing turtle.

DS3 is either a chicken or an egg I don't know which one yet as our school has a rather annoying habit of confirming these things around 2 days before the play. DS2 is a cowboy....apparently, again, I will not purchase any kind of cowboy attire until I know for sure.

Last year DS3 was a sheep, much to my delight as he had been a sheep the previous year for nursery, so I swiped the costume I'd made back from the nursery

We had Chinese Singing Wind

My DS who started in September is a Sheep like most of his class. I think there are about 44 in his class so there will be a whole flock of sheep.

We had the letter on Tuesday and we have until next Friday to get the costume in.

I struggled to find a sheep costume on the high street. Got one on ebay today just hope it arrives on time.

I remember when I was about 5/6 we did The Snowman, the boys hated having to have lipstick painted rosy cheeks

DD isn't old enough yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing her on stage - whatever part she ends up with.

My own experience involved me having not one but three separate mini-parts in the Christmas play! Sounds great... But all three of the parts died horribly - one stabbed, one eaten, one struck by lightning.

With the morning rehearsal, afternoon performance and evening performance, the teacher had me die dramatically nine times in one day... Should I have been worried?

DD is following in my footsteps- she is a narrator. (every freaking year I was narrator, except 1 year when I got to be one of Herod's soldiers, and round up babies to be killed Joy of Joys.)

OP - my DS will never be in a nativity. He can't cope as he has ASD. I feel really sad that I'll never experience this little rite of passage, so be glad that he can take part and you can be there with your camera and tissues. I wouldn't care if he was a donkey, I'd love to see my DS on stage in any role.

DS1 was the donkey last year - the phrase 'stubborn as a mule' springs to mind as he refused to wear his ears and spent most of the nativity chewing his extremely dirty toe nails - I was on a training course with work and unable to go but luckily DH recorded it all for me, so we can share with DS once he is a teenager!

He was Joseph the year before at pre-school but no-one told us in advance so that was a very nice surprise - not that it entailed doing much other than sitting in the right place.

DS2 is a king at pre-school this year and I can't wait to see him [proud mummy!]

ds was joseph he is shy and hates speaking in public which is lucky as it was a non speaking part - i was so proud