to think that not many 11 year old boys have "spotty" clothes??

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Children in Need day at school on Friday - Children are having a non-uniform day and pay a minimum of 50p to raise money for children in need - don't have any problem with that.

Then read further down and see that they have to wear something spotty - the spottier the better - that's probably not too bad to fulfil if you have a young girl - nightmare if you have a boy - especially an 11 year old!!

I am sure the children that are in need don't really care how the money is raised - so why make such a specific stipulation?? - I'm not buying him anything special so unless I ruin a piece of his existing clothes by drawing spots on it, then he wont get to participate.

almost no spend, but a bit of effort:

cut out circles from waste paper - envelopes, old magazines etc, or too small t-shirt

tack onto any old t shirt with big stitches.

job done, and ethical as they can be removed and garment used again.

I've used circular stickers in the past - the centres from CD labels so they were in effect free. I don't want to spend much on a charity dress up day, rather than donating to the charity. We've suggested spots or yellow where I work (pre-school) and I've got the fabric scrap circles to tack on my uniform from last year. Expect soem children will come in spotty clothes, other will wear the pudsey ears. But at 3 or 4, much easier I know.

Actually the t-shirt that he had to write slave on never actually got used - it was for a class play - in the end he was a slave dealer instead and got a loan of a shirt from his (male) teacher as they are about the same size :o

Chops, that link didn't work but looked like it was for Tesco so i'll check them out. Ta

Thanks Panda - definitely easier with little ones I think and at least there is a plain alternative offered in your case.

We had this last year. I ended up buying some iron-on round sparkly things from ebay for 99p but it was a pain, and that was with a four-year-old - would have been much worse to come up with something for an eleven-year-old!

Could you not just feed him loads of chocolate for the next few days in the hope that he'll develop his own spots?

We did round stickers last year.

It's not just 11 year olds, 3 year old ds doesn't have anything spotty either!

lol spider - I am sure he wouldn't object - he has a beauty spot but I think one wont be enough :o

I bought a spotty blanket in Primark for £3 and made it into a poncho for DS last year and he will be wearing it again this year !!

spiderlight you made me laugh and snort a bit of tea on the laptop - Thanks

Normal clothes and draw spots on his face and arms :)

by the way, it not the teachers who came up with this idea - IT'S CHILDREN IN NEED! Blame the BBC! And sellotape circles onto something, or even better, get the children to do it themselves, then you all don't need to do anything!

We got an old CIN spotty hanky for 25p from a charity shop many years ago and I have hoarded it carefully ever since for these occasions, along with the Union Jack Tshirt for "Wear your National Costume" day and the Gryffindor robes from an NCT sale for World Book Day.

When the last DC finally leaves primary school I'm going to offer them on eBay as a job lot .

We cut holes in an old t shirt and ds wore it on top of another top last year. This year they have to wear pj's and the "donation" is £1.50, so £4.50 for us. Plus some new pj's as their old ones aren't fit for public consumption!

hmm, not sure why it didn't work, but they were spotty wellie socks for £3.

I think you're just against the idea, OP. Just use a bit of imagination and cut an old piece of clothing into circles and sew it onto something he'd usually wear. You can easily unpick it afterwards.

As a teacher in a school who are doing 'something spotty'...its really not that important. If they dont have something spotty send them in mufti and explain 'they dont have anything spotty'. Its a bit of fun, not a rule!

Agree with the drawing spots on. Costs nothing if you use some existing make up or face paint.

Scholes - not against as such, I just think that people in general will go away and spend unnecessarily just to fit with the theme (which has also been given at short notice) when they could have donated that money directly to the charity, kids would have been happy just to get to wear their normal casual clothes so no issue there. My son is big on following the rules so he wouldn't be happy just to ignore and wear something else so to make him happy we will do something. I just grudge the whole faff and potential cost of it for something that is supposed to be a charitable event.

If it wasn't that it would him him unhappy, I'd quite happily send him in in whatever he wanted from his existing clothes with a tenner donation - if I have to buy something - then i wouldn't give him a tenner. I also grudge wasting clothes (however cheap) that could be donated to charity too or sold on ebay for the Christmas fund

I'll talk to him later and see what he wants to do.

.......and I don't do sewing!! Speaking as someone who uses UHU to glue on the boys' Scout badges :o

Last year I let ds (then 8) draw big circles with fabric crayons (that I already had, thankfully) onto one of his super cheap supermarket polo shirts.

Agree, annoying.

Normal mufti - there is a spectrum of spottiness with 'very spotty' at one end and 'not spotty' at the other, you just go for the 'not spotty' end of things.

And it IS teachers that decide to do things like this, the BBC can't force schools to do this particular form of fundraising. DD's school is doing pyjamas, not spotty stuff - which is fortuitous as even as an 8yo girl the only spotty item of clothing she owns IS a pair of pj bottoms!

If it was PJs or stripes he could wear the Onesie he insisted on buying from primark and also insists that it fits despite it looking like his backside is getting cheese-wired :)

My DC have to wear PJs to school on Friday, if that makes you feel any better. Bloody freezing weather and wearing PJs. I really don't think they think these things through properly.

We sort of assume parents wont literally send children to school in their pjs...You surely think things through enough to know they need to wear a vest/t-shirt and leggings/soft trousers underneath. They could even wear shoes! (I know they aren't strictly pjs but we're thinking outside the box here.)

Bearing in mind many teachers will also be wearing pjs, we definitely think things through.

Loads of kids at my dc school devoratevplain white t shirts with fabric paint

As I run drama classes I generally raid my costume store ds usually wears an oversized spotty clown bow tie & braces.

Saw lots of CIN t shirts in ASDA today but there were loads more for girls than for boys, what's that all about? There were a couple for boys but one was a sort of hell's angel type thing and the other was a picture of a pair of headphones as if hanging round the neck, not spots. The girl's ones were lovely colourful spots which would have fitted the school's 'wear something spotty' theme.
Got a similar problem here with a 12 yo boy who is big for his age and doesn't possess anything spotty. I've already had a quick trawl of charity shops and come up with a big zero unless he wants to wear a blouse which I doubt . Have paid out for felt tips (no fabric pens in W H Smiths I went to) and now have to find a shirt to ruin.