........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??

I'd go with the cheaper choice. This year I made DS's halloween outfit, last year I bought it

At £5 I'd be buying the donkey, wouldn't say it'd be too easy to make (and I'm going to be mean and say that some the suggestion of how easy making a donkey outfit on this thread sound like they could be describing a dog outfit) as I'd say the head of the donkey would make it hard.

Anyone looks at someone in horror because they bought an outfit is a bit of a saddo really

I'd buy one too, just like any other clothes and just ensure it was recycled.

DD is an angel. I am torn between cheapo readymade (look oddly like Tudor costumes in polyester), expensive readymade (£20? Really?) or sacrificing a perfectly good sheet and grappling with the sewing machine.

I suppose I could buy a cheapo sheet and use that

Could you add to the cheapo ready made SureP?

I did that with an Grim Reaper outfit once (evidently for Halloween not Christmas!)

Not really Moln. I have the halo and wings and shoes cobbled together from the dressing up box. I need the dress but the bought ones are really odd gold and cream net affairs like this. I've been considering cheap bridesmaid's dresses on ebay

lions

camels

hens here and here

Thank you very much :)

No don't feel guilty at all. She obviously is quite good with her hands and has lots of time on her hands then! I did the same, dd was an angle, and I bought her a ready made outfit, a lot of parents bought ready made outfits. Life is so much easier nowadays

i buy my ds2s from asda /ebay

I made my dt's donkey costumes the other year, because I begrudged paying a tenner for 2 crappy shop-bought ones. Picture in profile if I've done it right, behold my donkeys!

They took me aaaaages and probably cost about the same as I'd have paid for the Tesco ones but I found the crafting side of it quite therapeutic. I do have the time on my hands though and I do fall prey to the competitive parenting bug now and again

All the other kids were in shop-bought and the other parents now think I'm a complete nobber but meh.

You couldn't make a costumefor £5 so I would definately get that especially as animal costumes are really difficult and generally end up looking like shite.

As a general rule, if you can convey the general gist (shepherdness, maryness, donkeyness etc) through the medium of a hat or headgear then you can normally get away with the rest of the costume being crap. Wouldn't know where to start with a camel though.

Bollocks, profile thing didn't work. Now?

DS has to look like this for his show this year.

Arse. I might follow Dick Van Dyke's lead and stay drunk until it is all over.

YANBU. I'd buy a costume if I could.

Who chucked a snowball at Wibbly's nativity scene? How on earth did you manage to turn this into 'benefit scroungers' vs 'co-called working families'? Bizarre!!! Chip on shoulder much?

I couldn't sew a button on so I would buy every time lol!!! Or get a family member to make it if the costume was too expensive???? I reckon you got a bargain for a fiver!!!! x

shop bought everytime, we now have a star, angel, sheep and this year i will be buying a shephard outfit, when dd starts school hopefully i will just have to look in the box

I have bought my DS the Asda shepherd one. I'm sure I could mock up some kind of tea towel type thing but he deserves to look nicer than my efforts would accomplish, plus you get a crook and sheep hand puppet with the Asda one. It's really rather good. Fair play to those who enjoy/are good at needlework but I'm not and it is more economical for me to buy than spend days sweating over something that'll look rubbish.

cazroz I reckon an adapation of a costume my mum did for me as a child would work for a snowflake - leotard or similar then staple tissues on to it. Nice fluffy feel, cheap to do (box of value tissues and stapler) and doesn't matter much if it gets damaged. Sounds odd but it worked!

£5 is cheaper than buying all the raw materials and making the costume yourself (don't forget to factor in parking cost or the bus/train fare shlepping to the shops). People who criticise others for buying need to get out more!

If I tried to make it, the other parents might beg me to buy one from the shops instead. The teachers too.

how sad, that i knew this was an old thread due to the woolworths mention early on

how i miss woolworths :(

Oh yes, just noticed the date. Am sure it's still quite low priced at Asda. No way would I attempt a donkey outfit.

homemade costumes can cost more than I ever imagined.. I made my daughter a white witch costume this year, and by the time I was done it had to have cost $200 in materials :O Next year I'll just get something on ebay, but I wantedd to be able to say 'look, I made you that, I wasn't always rubbish'....

there is competitive parenting here for best costume...

My Mum was horrified (yes, horrified!) at the nativity costumes in Sainsbury's the other day. She was truly confused as to why anybody would ever buy one, and why don't people make things anymore. She had a face like this

I then pointed out to her that if you have a couple of school age kids and a full time job that making a bloody sheep costume isn't going to be high on the priority list. She gave me this face -->

When I was a kid everyone made their own costumes, mostly 'cos shop-bought ones were really expensive and possibly also 'cos many Mum's didn't work or worked part time and so had a bit of time to sew costumes! If you work full time and costumes are relatively cheap the obvious choice is to buy one... Can't see what the problem is - yes it would be lovely if we all had time to make individual costumes for our kids, but most people don't. Either is fine, your choice just depends on how much money and how much time you've got.

I love making costumes at Halloween for my dc and really put lots of effort into them. But at this time of year I would never consider making them, its so busy. Although most of the nativity costumes require any 'making' as such, or does a dressing gown and a tea towel over the head not cut it any more?

Thanks herecomesthesun, I couldn't find anything in the right size for £10 or less yesterday. Fingers crossed!