Aibu to go on strike over world book day

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DD2 wants to go as an animal for WBD. I don't want to spend money/time/the earth's resources on making her an animal costume. It doesn't help that she is DC2 so I have done lots of costumes for DC1 in the past. DD2 us in year 4, if that's relevant. School have given the option of wear PJs but she wants to go as this animal.

A brown hoodie, some felt sheets, tack the pieces on lightly with a few stitches and you can cut it off after and keep using the hoodie

Or brown clothes and a cardboard beaver mask, draw around a beaver outline from online and then she can colour it in and you just need a bit of ribbon or some elastic to fix it on

Beaver mask example

Vinted is your friend here

Rason #983627 I'm home educating

Just do this. It’s an easy costume, I thought you were going to say something complicated. You can buy a beaver mask for a few quid on Etsy. And if she doesn’t own any brown clothes then I’d buy some brown pyjamas so they’ll get used again.

I feel exactly the same about it. But don't mind making a costume. When DD1 was little she went as burglar Bill which I fashioned from a white t-shirt, black duct tape and a flat cap.

Or dress all in one colour and be a crayon from the day the crayons quit (age dependant obviously).

I just have to buy two per year. One for their wow days and one for their book day. Sometimes they ask for colours, dots, teddy bear, other cultures colours and one name it.

And that's how you make sure your kids know who's your favourite.

It's a very specific beaver who wears a helmet, not a common or garden beaver.

I've found some brown clothes on vinted and actually some might even get worn again. Thanks for that idea!

@dimllaishebiaith yes that was my point - make one !
But the child has to be the designer and make as much as they can. Not the OP.

Bit mean to do it for the first and not the second!

Something like a cat is pretty easy - black clothes, but some cheap cat ears and paint her face with whiskers?

Oh ignore that - I see it’s a specific beaver not just any old animal!

@10ThousandSpoons my mum let my older sister have her ears pierced at age 6 or 7. She screamed the house down and eventually the earings came out after a couples of day.
My mum said "No" to me when I was a similar age.
Should my mum have let me do it because she agreed to my older sister doing it?

You are going to have to point to where you think I disagreed with this point...

But the child has to be the designer and make as much as they can. Not the OP.

I'm confused why you think you get to dictate any of this tbh but sure the child can make it with the OP providing age appropriate support

Yes. Because your ears are not her ears.

I don't know that book, do you mean like a knights helmet or a safety helmet?

I feel like that's probably one of those things that you could ask around on a local Facebook group for and someone would have one lying around from a previous world book day

But if its a knights helmet that would be pretty easy from cardboard as well

@dimllaishebiaith@10ThousandSpoons sorry I just don't think parents have to do exactly the same experiences for all their children.
@dimllaishebiaith I don't think I was "dictating" - I was suggesting advice actually 😂

Charity shop bits and clothes, they may even have a cuddly beaveresque toy she can tie onto a headband to wear or take the stuffing out and open the bottom seams to make a mask out of

yes, you've said. Repeatedly. I'm not sure why you felt the need to tag me in another post to say particually when the OP agreed with me in the first place

If its a beaver in a safety helmet this might work for a mask idea?

I think the helmet has to be particular colours. DH is going to look for a 2nd hand bike helmet.

The issue with DD is that when she sets her mind on, say, dressing up as a specific beaver, she won't be persuaded to the Anne from the famous five or Elizabeth Bennett 😁

Nevermind, it's solved now. I'll try to be less mean. It won't be long til she's too big for this and maybe I will miss it...🙄

@dimllaishebiaith ok... apologies if I have said something to upset you. I didn't intend to.
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🤣🤣 Every time I think I miss making my nephews I end up helping my neighbour with her three kids costumes and have flashbacks to why I don't miss it at all