Dressing my kid up in this...

[scarysnowman]

My 10 year old son wants to go as a ‘scary snowman’ for his schools Halloween monster disco. I’m up for the challenge as I love doing special fx makeup, but is it too sinister for a ks2 Halloween party?

The last one is fine, go for it!

Well good thing you asked mn their opinion then 🙄

I find this whole "Halloween is supposed to be scary" line really bizarre. It's not supposed to be scary, it's supposed to be fun.

The whole Halloween party thing has come from the US, where it's about kids dressing up as their favourite character, not Freddie Kruger It's a children's party ffs.

As you like special fx makeup why not do amazing character makeup, that won't spoil the evening for other children. As a PP said "snowmen are meant to be magical and innocent" why on earth are you trying to ruin that?!

I can’t believe you would even consider that appropriate for a child

Horrible.
That's a proper horror look. For primary school children it's completely inappropriate. If you have to ask, you know it's not suitable.

Just no x 1000 times.

@scarysnowman

"I am sticking with this snowman costume as I don’t think children will really be THAT scared of it as people are making out."

I missed this update before.

If you don't give a flying fuck what others think then why did you even bother posting? What a joke.

OP: Would this be an unreasonable thing to do?
MN: Yes.
OP: I'm going to do it anyway.

🙄

If children would be scared of a cartoon skeleton snowman thing (I really don’t know what to call it), then they shouldn’t be going to the disco at all

don't forget this.

If children would be scared, they should stay home. No intention of making her son wear a non-scary costume that's appropriate for the school disco, let's just exclude those who are younger/not as tough.

I just opened the first pic right as my 2 year old walked over and looked at my phone. He screamed "no!" Then went all quiet...so yeah too scary i think!

That is not ok. Whatever the age of your child, the school will have younger children there too.

Wtf!!!! No way!

@KickAssAngel what type of costume isn’t ‘scary’ then? I think some of the costumes that supermarkets sell are quite creepy.

Like i said, you’ve all seen an inspiration picture, not my interpretation of the costume. The Pictures of the costumes have been done by a professional special fx/ makeup artist, I just do this once a year and will tone the ‘scariness’ a whole lot down. I plan to use face paint, and make it look very skeleton like. I wouldn’t doubt you all to say skeletons are scary though!

This is a classic 'everyone telling the OP they are wrong and the OP refusing to accept it' type of AIBU

@KarlDilkington nope, I found a picture of a child with a scary snowman face paint on instagram and realised that it’s certainly not scary on a child, compared to an adult. The picture made me realise that it isn’t as scary as people make out it is.

Since when were snowmen scary? Aren't there enough scary characters around without encouraging there to be more?

Poor kids - clowns, dolls, now snowmen. Innocence is lost.

Why don't you go for Psycho Santa? That's going to work really well on the 7yr olds.

That would've given me nightmares as a 7/8 year old

Fucking hell, I’m 28 and that will give me nightmares! Terrifying

He'll be the coolest kid there

btw - I live in the US where the tradition is NOT to have scary characters. At our school (age 5 - 14 year olds) any child turning up looking scary would have their costume/face paint removed. I'm a teacher btw, and teach the oldest kids there so I'm used to passing judgement on whether they've got carried away and may upset someone.

But I know that the British tradition is go to with more scary costumes. I'd still expect that any kids likely to upset the younger ones to be asked to leave.

I DEFINITELY would never expect younger kids to suck it up or not attend if they are intimidated by the older ones.

OP - if you're going to keep it age appropriate, and cartoonish, fine, but the examples you showed didn't come across like that.

Calm down everyone, OP would have to have Oscar-winning makeup artist skills to get it looking exactly like in the video, plus how many 7yos would sit still for that long? I’m
sure it won’t look anywhere near as frightening IRL!

Tell you what, why don’t you show his teacher that picture and get her opinion? I’m an ex primary teacher and if you sent your kid in like that I would have sent him to the toilet to wash it off.