Help needed! Myrrh nativity costume?!

[Mum1234]

My first ever post.. so hi.

My son just been given the part of Myrrh in the nativity play and I need to make a costume - any ideas?! Help!

A very large cardboard box with his arms and legs sticking out and Myrrh written on it?

or an old ali baba laundry basket, similarly attacked with a stanley?

Definitely more authentic, Aitch, but possibly a bit sharp on the appendages.

do you think? i thought maybe with a pyjama beneath...

if not, cardboard box covered in tinfoil it is. plus natty cardboard had and a smile.

one dimentional cardboard container with his face sticking through in the style of those seaside photo things that make you look like a bodybuilder. Like this but myrrh instead of a woman in a bikini

I would still worry about chaffing, to be honest.

Ooohh, amolad, are you one of those uber competative mums one reads about?

actually, amidai's suggestion makes me thing that a sandwich board type of thing (plus natty hat) would also work. although only sideways movement for our young actor.

Oo good ideas - thank you. This is his first ever nativity play so I feel I need to make an extra special effort as these photos will haunt him for many years hopefully! :)

My suggestion? Move immediately to a more deprived area. My son's school provides the costumes because a few years back this area was a lot poorer and the parents had better things to do wouldn't have looked kindly on ludicrous requests like this.

In reality, myrrh is a resin. Brown t-shirt (or longsleeved top if you happen to have one) and brown tights/trousers, and I'd agree, use a fabric pen (gold?) to write Myrrh on the front. Top tip: if you have to buy a brown top, don't forget you can buy one with logos and crap on it, then turn it inside out for instant plain brownness.

Read that last sentance a bit quick, I thought it read that I should cr*p on the t-shirt! Right best see what I can find first, cardboard box or brown clothes. Myrrh - I ask you, at least with a sheperd I could have used a tea towel!

brown clothing = jobbie. don't make a five year old explain 'but i'm a resin'.

@ Aitch

PMSL yes probably 20 years of therapy right there

You are absolutely sure he's got to impersonate myrrh, not the wise man bearing it? How wonderfully weird!

Surely the magus wouldn't have brought a lump of resin as is - it would have come in a fabulous myrrh container

...I'm sure you can knock up something like that (and get your DS to wear it!)

The myrrh tree is very pretty. You could try that: here

I love that nobody has said "but myrrh? Are you sure it isn't supposed to be a wise man?". Truly we are moving towards the era of the Nativity Prawn at high speed.
Resin. Excellent.

Anyway, my twopennorth, obviously he will be in a jewelled casket. www.qantara-med.org/qantara4/public/show_document.php?do_id=1082&lang=en. Box covered in gold crepe paper. Hat in a pointy lid shape, ditto. Stick on jewels. Balthazars yer uncle.

That's what it says on the letter... 'chosen to represent the present myrr in the nativity play'

So maybe a space suit with a gold bow and a hat that says myrrh?! So much choice and so little time!

ahahahahahaaaaaa YES a space suit, that's exactly what we've been saying. it's either that or a conker-coloured unitard.

www.joke.co.uk/find/nativity?SEARCH_CATEGORY_ID=JMW_CHILDREN&LIST_PRICE_RANGE=

Don't ask me which one brought the Myrrh though...

pity you didn't get frankinsense, so much each to find!
www.joke.co.uk/find/frankenstein?SEARCH_CATEGORY_ID=JMW_CHILDREN&LIST_PRICE_RANGE=

Ok google search suggests that Caspar brought the Myrrh. So you could dress him up as a ghost!?

Another good idea - and with a comedy element too! Thanks for all the ideas, you lot are brilliant :o)