........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??

Angel wings:
you can cut them out of card, and spray them gold.
Cut a rectangular piece of sparkly fabric, gather at middle and attach to dress and put elastic loops at the top corners which go round the wrist
Shape wire to wind shapes, cut out 2x pieces of organsie and sew to the wire. Edge with ribbon, then spray some glitter on

I like making costumes

I am a pretty advanced seamstress and generally make anything that needs making.

But I wouldn't be such a martyr as to try to construct a donkey costume when I could buy one for £5! I have better things to do with a couple of hours than clog up my sewing machine with bits of fur fabric....

I like making costumes too, especially ones with tutus! But you'd never be able to make a decent donkey costume for £5. DDs were vv cute for Halloween but I spent probably 5x what I'd have needed to for ready-made costumes.

Father Christmas - bought from asda - sorted!

Snowflake costume - net curtain type fabric with a hole for a head and a couple of bits of elastic to attach the drapes to her wrists. Then cover with glitter. That's what I had when I was a snowflake many years ago!

Angel wings - cardboard painted/covered in foil or glitter, or two layers of stiff net fabric cut to shape and sandwiched round some lightweight interfacing. I think you can also get stiffening spray which you could use.

Well, we've been given proposed donkey costume guidelines, issued by the teachers in charge of the play.

Grey or brown trousers and grey or brown t-shirt or top + a donkey head of some sort, oh and a tail !

My child has none of these items in the wardrobe and by the time I have acquired them, to be worn once (as I doubt I'll persuade them to choose to wear either part of the outfit again given the dull colours involved) plus purchased used a variety of craft materials to fashion a head and tail, I'll have spent a fair bit and devoted a lot of time to the project at one of my busiest times of year workwise. I'll also have something we'll never use again.

NO WAY ! - Ebay is my friend and we got a corker of a costume for a bargain price. Cheaper and quicker all round.

What I object to is school not saving the costumes of donkey/cow/robin/angel/star/wiseman/shepherd/joseph/mary and re-using them each year until they fall apart. It would be much cheaper for all parents to put £1 or £2 a year into the costume fund to replace any that are beyond repair.

Surely someone could house the costumes in their loft.

Our primary had just that omg, stashed away in some boxes in the attic. Bliss!

people make them?

They'd get topped up as needed by the stay-at-home mummies with crafty tendencies. PTA supplied cash for materials.

I love making things and i have time. I dont make costumes however i buy them, because i love making things i want to make a reindeer costume or whatever never falls into that category.

blackeyed/mumbling - you are very wise. Cut out glittery thingies it is (unless the local charity shop has 2 spare arms of course) Seem to recall my cousin giving me her dd's outgrown thermals (long johns/vest in white (ish)) so they will do nicely underneath. DD can be head of glitter which will keep her happy (tho no doubt the house will be sparkling until Easter)

My DD is being a wife and a singing ghost for her Christmas play. She brought home a whole list of stuff she needed including long skirt, black socks, shawl, fingerless gloves, lacy blouse..............................
I was lucky enough to walk past a charity shop and find a lacy blouse and long skirt outside. Both for a pound.
She took them to school yesterday to show her foul teacher who said the skirt was too loose and the blouse was too big.
I said tough tit. She isn't getting the apron or the gloves now.

ooh and kungfupannda - yes - liking that too. Specially as I bought a net curtain when we moved in that has been scrunched in a drawer for the last five years. It's like fate (kinda)

kreecher quite right too

oooh - and cutest snow flake deely boppers on ebay for £2. Perfect (tho...clearly I will go to all this effort and she will be ill on the day. Isn't that how it works?)

Well this year my DD is a frog. I briefly thought of making a costume, but when I saw one online for £8.99 incl postage, I quickly bought it before I spent way more than that making it!

Well, it came at the end of a stream of requests for money/alcohol/time etc.
The skirt may be a tiny bit too big around the waist, but a bit of string will/would have sorted that out.

Help!
DD in reception has to be a chicken (??) in her Christmas show
she needs yellow clothes and beak and wings
I have yellow t shirt but has anyone come across yellow leggings or anthing suitable?? and the wings...my first google attempt got me pictures of buckets of chicken wings ...and I can't seem to find anything to buy. I can try and make but I am a craft beginner (non starter)
and then the beak....HELP!!

I am not sure if this is the right place for how to do...but I saw this and thought would ask

duh...just had a thought...DD has just been bridesmaid in white dress with netting skirt and sparkly white shoes. The solution was in her wardrobe all along. I can use the time to eat chocolate do something really useful instead

Shabang Cut two separate wings/teardrop shapes out of thickish cardboard, the corrugated from a cardboard box sort. Attach 2 loops of elastic to each to hold them on her arms. Paint brown/yellow and use a black marker to draw on 'feathers' (just squiggly shapes, like you'd draw scales on a fish)

Or, do the same but out of felt, so she actually move her arms

shabang - chicken wing pics - lol.

Check this site out - just about every animal you can think of - incl chickens!

My daughter needs a king costume with a crown and a purple cloak.

Sorted!

YANBU. I bought a Woody costume for my 3yr old DS for his christmas play for nursery. HE is meant to be a "toy". I got it from ebay. They only gave me a weeks notice, so I had to pay a bit more to get it BIN, so it could arrive it time!
My DD, same nursery, is supposed to go as a "present", that is going to be a "homemade" outfit of red rights and top and a big white bow tied around her middle.