School "inspiration" day is Mini-beasts... AIBU to send DS dressed as a bat?

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It's the only dressing up costume I have (apart from Lightning McQueen...) and we live in the Middle East so not easy to find a bug costume

I'd make a beetle headdress and use a decorated binliner as the carapace.
Do you have to have a bought one?

Bats are mammals, not minibeasts.

MIL thinks it's a no-no.

I think he could just be the baddie!

Do some bats eat bugs, can you get away with it from that POV?

Bats aren't mini beasts are they?

Can't you make a costume?

But but but do they have to be insects?

How old is he?

Minibeasts are insects and worms and woodlice and bugs.

It wouldn't usually encompass bats, as some are huge.

But if you made it clear he was a microbat then it's near enough. Just as long as he doesn't try to eat any classmates who come as the insects that are many microbat's natural diet...

He's five.

What exactly are Mini-beasts? Someone said slugs are in this category too.... Confused!

minibeasts is PC for creepy crawlies LOL - ie insects and such like so, no, not a bat.

black jumper and 4 pairs of black tight stuffed with newspaper or loo roll = spider

red/black clothing and a headband with antennae on = ladybird

dress in green plus green face paint = caterpillar

there are loads of fairly easy options, you do not need a full or bought costume

What does 'inspiration&qo ut' mean?

Put him in green clothes, wrap him in cling film and send him as a caterpillar

www.parkfieldict.co.uk/infant/minibeasts/groups.html

Bit of card and paper, sellotape and glue, facepaints and coloured clothing...
it doesn't have to be a big deal.

minibeasts are worms, slugs, earwigs, ants, beetles, caterpillars, spiders, woodlice, flies etc
the sort of stuff you could find in your flowerbed/garden

so not all are technically insects, but definitely NO MAMMALS!!

Inspiration day... Apparently it's about building confidence bad team spirit. So yeah, I suppose a bat would BA a bit odd in a team of bugs

Sorry! I meant confidence AND team spirit

i really hate the term mini-beasts, aren't they just insects? what's so wrong is using that term?

Yes can you customise the bat outfit to be a beetle

No, worms are annelids and slugs and snails are molluscs and spiders are arachnids and... they are not all insects.

Ah Silverapples that makes it crystal clear! Ta

I might send him as a worm.

So just out of curiosity, what was wrong with the term creepy-crawlies.... I thought is was kind of cute!

see examples in my previous post SEA, the reasons you can't just call them insects - insects have 6 legs, minibeasts may have 6, 8, none, or many!

Can't stop laughing here at building 'bad' team spirit

Thehorridest - interesting idea. Ta

It was seen as giving them a negative image, so they got rebranded.

Yeah Worra that kind of typo could get me in serious trouble at school