........in buying a ready made outfit for the nursery nativity play???

[Chipstick]

My son is the donkey and they had a fab outfit in Asda for £5 - snapped it up and he has had it on all day.

Met a nursery mum today and told her - she looked at me in horror and said 'oh......you're not going to make an outfit then?!?'

Home made or ready made??

There are more types than that. There are those that make and make well, there are those that run up something wonky, there are those that look down on those that run up something wonky or buy. And of course there are those who don't notice that they should make one until the night before the show....

Donkeyness
I wasn't being funny btw, just know what some people can be like, I made DD an all-in-one velour type black suit thingy for book day once, and added a pair of 'ears' on a headband, only to be told all the ways I could have improved it, like a hood, or instead of making the tail out of haircurler thingys sewed on with velour round them how I could have got a special type of stuff that made it stand up more!
Making her wear her normal black boots was wrong as well apparently, I should've put shoes on her, with something covering them that made them look more like paws.

That bar just keeps on being raised doesn't it?

My zip at the back wasnt straight either

A crooked zip. Dear me.

KerryMum - there are many more types of mums too..

Personally I'm from the "I can earn 10x more doing what I do, in the time I would spend faffing around sewing a school costume, therefore I will buy it in from someone who 'does costumes' as 'what they do' (e.g. a shop).

Having said that, DS did have a homemade costume for Roman day, and later asked me 'Mummy - why did SO MANY people have the same costume?' (£7.99 on eBay )

"The world is made up of two types of mums" LOL i am presuming that was a joke think of the many academics/psychiatrists/medics/politicians who have all been barking up the wrong tree. please do tell us more about these mums, in order that i may categorise myself

It's absolutely fine to have ready made - especially for something difficult like a donkey.

My sister made a sheep costume for my dd to wear in Yr One for her nativity play, out of my old towelling dressing gown and it was returned since 'it wasn't what the teacher had envisaged her wearing'. The other child had a shop bought costume so that wasn't returned. My dd was handed a fake-fur(???) tunic that was otherwise used for a cat costume in other plays. I had to wash it as it stunk of 'school' and then it needed mending before it was fit for wearing. I've not seen many sheep with fur coats on.

I don't 'do' costumes anymore - they can provide them.

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Yes, the bitterness still rankles somewhat . I await this year's instructions with interest.

My daughter's foundation unit have dispensed with the need for parents to provide costumes for the nativity. They've been and bought out the Tesco nativity dress-up section themselves. Bless 'em!

Agnes

school normally does them, but this year they haven't. I have ordered a 'biblical costume' on line for 9.95.

I don't have the time, or the inclination to muck about making it.

If other people enjoy it, fine. I don't, and don't have a sewing machine so I can't be arsed to hand sew the thing.

Between work, the kids, dh and dh's illness I've got enough to cope with

How can I make angel wings at home? My little one is due to be an angel soon and shes really small so I'm trying to put together her costume at home.any easy way to make wings at home anyone?

Can you bend some wire into shape then stretch some white tights over them and decorate with tinsel or something else sparkly? Or is the wire a 'potential deathtrap'? Sorry, not got to costume-making stage with my DS yet.

ready made is good. When my dd was a shepherd i ended up buying a new dressing gown and doing whole tea towel on head thing. It would have been cheaper to buy an outfit. Incidently i may buy the sheep one.

Ideas for a snow flake costume for a 3 year old girl needed. I'm thinking white tights and t shirt but other than dousing her in cotton wool and/or glitter no other thoughts and thinking there must be a better solution.

I can't stop laughing at "a general donkeyness is implied"

NKF gets quote of the week? priceless

I LOVE making fancy dress outfits, my youngest is a chicken in the nativity (because of course there's lots of chickens in the nativity) - he's a chicken because I made a suit for Easter one year and its very cute.

However, if I'd found a chicken suit that was ready made and for a fiver, I'd have bought it.

blushoes TOTALLY disagree that shop bought outfits look nicer! They all look the same..no personality....give me a ow of higgledy piggledy kids anyday...crooked, falling apart..that's the charm!

Donkey outfit is easy....grey or brow fun fur....ears cut from card or furand onto a headband....make a simple tunic...two oblongs sewn together to pop over a brown or grey outfit....cross pattern on back of tunic.

cazroz. snowflakes have 6 arms so is there any way of attaching 2 more arms to dd... or a big bit of card stuck on a tabard with a glittery snowflake painted on.

Lina <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=img4.realsimple.com/images/1109/angel-wing_gal.jpg&imgrefurl=www.realsimple.com/holidays-entertaining/holidays/halloween/diy-halloween-costumes-00100000065971/page14.html&usg=__DzZW91docm_Y1YVCiD0eN9168SM=&h=518&w=435&sz=36&hl=en&start=15&sig2=Wy3Wqbq9bn5akT5rKzu98A&zoom=1&tbnid=JIwxHbuD_BtTCM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=110&ei=nP_MTp2RCITEsgb13tm5DA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhomemade%2Bangel%2Bwings%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1T4ACAW_enGB356GB357%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here is a great angel wings how-to!

I'm very crafty, but mostly, handmade costs more.

Blackeyed I would cut out a big circle and decorate with glitter....I wouldnt go for arms....just a big snowflake shape and maybe a few of those plastic snowflake decorations as a sort of crown? Hot glue some to a head band.

£5 is way cheaper than making it!