To send DD into school in a superhero costume on Friday

[CuppaSarah]

It's children in need, so it's mufti day. Except it's not just mufti day, they have to wear something spotty. Well DD doesn't have any spotty clothes, neither does her brother. So I have a choice of going out and buying something she will never wear again, dragging the toddler and baby to the terrifying craft shop, full of delicate, breakable things to buy pom-poms that I can spend hours sewing to her clothes.

Or option 3. I send her in, in her miraculous

A lot of people use round stickers

Buy a packet of those little round stickers from a stationery shop and stick them all over (if she would be prepared to wear that)?
A t-shirt she already has and a fabric pen?

Cut circles out from paper and colour them in with help from DC or use coloured card and glue to an old jumper or T shirt.

Or just wear own clothes

Blimey, someone needs to have a word with the school don't they? More will be spent on spotty clothes than is donated to Children in Need. How about just the one spot? A circle cut of a duster or something and safety pinned on for the first half hour of the day.

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I send her in her Miraculous Ladybug costume. It's covered in spots and she's only in year one too so still thinks dressing up at school would be awesome. I'll put some proper clothes underneath so she can take it off if she wants.

But the problem is you're not meant to send them in dressing up clothes, apparently it's not appropriate. Plus it'll be a pain with PE. But neither of the other options are appealing either. Although if any crafty people have other, ideas please, please let me know!

I think the costume would be ok, but only if you have the type of child that doesn't mind not being the same as everyone else. Mime would say they wanted to then gradually get more and more crestfallen on the walk to school followed by a melt down after school because they perceived they have broken some unwritten code. What most people do here, as above, is use stickers on existing clothing of buy something from asda with pudsey on. Which I often do but it feels counter intuitive really because a. Some child in need has probably made it and b. Wouldn't the purchase price just be better going to the charity.

Do you have a plain t shirt ans felt pens ? Just do big spots or her own clothes and draw some spots on her arms with face paint.

I drew multi coloured circles on a white polo shirt for my daughter. Not sure if that’s an option for you. Just used normal colouring pens and she enjoyed helping with it.

Those saying about how buying something is counter intuitive I totally agree. Unless I find something in the charity shop, it's totally wrong and pointless spending five pounds on a top that will be born once, maybe twice at best.

I think DD would be more annoyed at wearing something with stickers on than wearing her costume. She is stupidly confident and would love the extra attention it brings, but stickers wouldn't be 'proper' enough for her and she'd be worried about it.

Maybe get stickers, put them on the clothes under the costume and then she's covered either way!

I had no clue who miraculous is but yes if it is a lady bird crack on and let her wear it

Supermarket/primark plain t-shirt and fabric paint and a firm round brush (Amazon next day) - dot on spots, dry by Friday morning. Or if the DC are an appropriate age they can do the dots themselves with a brush or finger. Could this work?

I remember getting an old white t.shirt for my DS and drawing round a 2 pence coin, all over it.

We then sat together for about an hour colouring the circles in.

Happy memories.

The costume is fine. It’s spotty.

Just seen what you’ve said about not buying anything new - that is fair enough.
I’m feeling relieved that nursery have opted for them wearing PJs!

Oh I hated these "themed" mufti days when DS was at primary school. We had the spotty one like yours, and I felt like writing in to point out that polka dots weren't in fashion for boys this season. In the end my mum made him a tie from bits of coloured felt and a length of elastic she had lying about. Most went with the white t-shirt and felt-tips option.

I got a plain white t-shirt and drew spots on it one year with regular colouring pens. DS thought it was ace. Pair of Pudsey ears and sorted.

It's a pj day this time around, which I always think is ridiculous at this time time of year!

At my DD’s (Secondary) School last non uniform day someone went in an inflatable T. rex costume and one of the boys dressed as a cheerleader, and it wasn’t even fancy dress day
Let her wear what she wants - at DS Primary School one child from each class gets non uniform on a Friday and in the lower years it’s not unusual for them to wear super hero costumes

I hate this too! I'd rather give the fiver to children in need than spend it in asda on a cheap spotty t-shirt.

Luckily ds is happy to be allowed to draw all over an old white top, and dd has lots of spotty tights. But I do wish schools would think this through!

I really wish the themes were things that people would definitely have, like pyjamas or mismatched clothes or something. The school is in an area of high deprivation and a lot of parents just can't afford to go buy new clothes, let alone stickers or fabric paint. It feels really unfair on those families.

But I'm really glad for all the ideas on here!

Our school usually does this, wear something spotty. Most people just use permanent markers on a white t-shirt. It's pretty simple to do.

This year I was all prepared with a CIN t-shirt from a charity shop. The school then changed the game this year and now DD hasn't dressed up at all and is sad because it is her final year.

The theme this year is 'do your thing' so our school have said Pudsey stuff or what your thing is such as football, brownies etc.

Could she dress up to reflect something she is in to?

Is her costume a two piece or all in one? Id say send her in the costume but only the clothes iyswim. No eyemask etc. She's still spotty then. Btw love miraculous ladybug in this house, dd7 always singing the theme

We had 'wear something pudsey' day at nursery today. I just got an old muslin and a felt tip and drew some dots on, to be pudsey's eye patch. Took me 5 minutes the other night.

I do hate this sort of shit thought - I always cave into the peer pressure of being the only parent not doing it [sad[

I have to say I’ve usually bought a pack of white t-shirts, usually 3 in a pack (oversized so I could reuse them the following year!) and use pens/paint/stickers on make dots or whatever the theme was.

This is a naive school.

In a deprived area, asking people to buy something new that is likely to be never been worn again is crazy.

Beckystreasurebaskets on Instagram recommended using one of their pe t shirts (as they come in a pack of three) and paint or pens.