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What does an Inn-Keeper wear?????

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Poshpaws · 23/11/2004 16:56

Have just picked up DS from nursery and they have informed me that he will be an Inn-Keeper in the Christmas Nativity play.

I'm quite chuffed about this as he has only been at this new nursery a week and I thought that they may not be able to find him a part.

Anyway, have no idea what the costume should look like - I thought it may be like a shepherd's!!???

Any ideas are welcome - need to have it made by beginning of December

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JanH · 23/11/2004 19:13

One of DS2's friends had to be a polar bear in a play they did when they were in Y4, sarah - a polar bear is surprisingly like a sheep...they had a small sheepskin tied on his back and he wore a white t-shirt and tights underneath, and this is a big macho footballer, so your DS might be prepared to make this sacrifice in the name of art?

sarah77 · 24/11/2004 16:25

Ah yes that's a good idea. I need to check with other mums at school what their kids are wearing as apparently this sheep has three friends but I will bear that in mind. P'haps he can be persuaded in the name of art :O

motherinferior · 24/11/2004 16:26

Keys? Big set of keys clanking from a belt?

bundle · 24/11/2004 16:43

tabard & belt. keys good idea, MI

Northerner · 24/11/2004 16:48

Keys are a good idea. I think a lantern would be a good idea too.

my ds is in his first nativity this yera too - he's a shepherd and I've got to make his costume too.

Lonelymum · 24/11/2004 17:05

Has anyone suggested he either wears his dressing gown or one of his dad's shirts with some sort of belt around him. Headgear is usually a tea towel with a cord round it. Well done your ds for getting such an exciting role!

Anchovy · 24/11/2004 17:51

I was getting very excited about DS's (3.1) first ever Christmas play. He is at a fairly multicultural nursery school, but I was still hoping for a star, possibly a sheep or a donkey. I actually bought a new sewing machine about 4 months ago with some money my late grandmother had left me and had a fleeting thought that it would come in very handy for the nativity play. Casting was announced this morning and DS is going to be....wait for it...Summer Weather (????) WTF is that? DH thinks its going to be some sort of conceptual play - possibly like an early 20th century French existentialist musing on the condition of life, with summer weather as a metaphor for our fleeting happiness. I happen to think that DS will be wearing a hawaiian shirt, a pair of sunglasses and singing "The Sun has got its hat on" (probably before someone chucks a bucket of water over him)

Still, I'm looking forward to it. We don't get to go to DS's lovely nursery school that often as DH and I both work. According to DS there is a very naughty boy X who likes to do a lot of pushing and has on occasion pushed DS over. DH thinks X will be lucky to get through the Christmas play and refreshments afterwards without DH giving him a sly retributive shove.....

SecondhandRose · 25/11/2004 08:50

Burberry cap? and a shell suit?

motherinferior · 25/11/2004 11:26

Anchovy, I am rivetted. Please update us on the performance.

I appear to have got out of the Costume Drama, as Dd1's preschool seems to be doing it themselves. I think we did get a plea to get involved, but no imperative demands to produce a three-piece suit and top hat by tomorrow.

CathB · 25/11/2004 11:40

I am very pleased to see this thread, it saves me from starting one...DD1 is a shepherd, I am so proud and soppy about it you would not beleive. M and J go to Bethanyhem but hey. Interestingly the nursery Queen Bee is Mary, its amazing how early it all starts! 3rd lobster anyone?

There is a fantastic children's story called Jesus' birthday party in which the (increasingly grumpy) has a nightshirt and cap as he keeps having to get out of bed.
For the costume a lantern and a big apron I should think. There is an urban legend to the effect that a small innkeeper was so cross that he did not get to be Joseph, that when M and J turned up he said, "Of, course there's plenty of room".

singingkat · 26/11/2004 18:10

Have been following this thread with interest since it seems my DD is going to be an innkeeper! Am trying not to let my disappointment show at the moment but I feel like tearing the teacher's head off! All the blue eyed blonde girls are the angels, and Mary, and my daughter is in a boy's part.

Rant over Anyway I like the idea of dressing gown, but does anyone know where to get a suitably sized night cap from?

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Poshpaws · 26/11/2004 18:47

Have only just seen these responses to my original thread....thanks for the additional ideas.

Really like the idea of keys and a lantern or candle (with paper flame of course).

Thanks again - DH has agreed to make the costuime (as I made the Easter hat this year)!

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Anchovy · 07/12/2004 13:26

Well, just come back from the existentialist nativity play where Ds was appearing as "Summer Weather". Speaking as only the proud mother of a talented 3 year old can, I have to say he was, objectively speaking, really pants! Stood looking out at the audience rather bemusedly. Mouthed the words of one of the songs, then stopped trying. Said very loudly "Oh, I do not know the words". Picked his nose on stage.

DH and I had been encouraging DS to consider winning Pop Idol or becoming a premiership footballer as his best career choices. On the basis of this morning's display on singing I think we better spend a bit more time in the back garden practising those ball skills.

motherinfestivemood · 07/12/2004 13:34

Are you sure it wasn't, you know, luvvy impatience with the production overall?

Anchovy · 07/12/2004 13:52

You know, it just could be

DH took DS down to nursery school this morning at the usual time and was shocked when he came home and reported that DS did not have his own dressing room. We did wonder then how DS was going to be able to focus in these off-putting conditions.

motherinfestivemood · 07/12/2004 13:57

I personally am extremely concerned that my DD1 may in fact be only an understudy Fairy Godmother. It's a little hard to elucidate, with Dd1.

bundleofyulelogs · 07/12/2004 13:57
MarsselectionboxLady · 07/12/2004 14:03

my daughter has been asked to be Mary's friend. She will be doing the laundry and because she doesn't want to steal the show from all the angels, shepherds, sheep etc etc she will be wearing a green satin, full length dress with gold buttons and cream lace. Now if I were to be doing laundry that's exactly how I'd dress. lol

bundleofyulelogs · 07/12/2004 14:26

marsselectionbox, do you think she's a kind of biblical doula???

JanH · 07/12/2004 14:26

I didn't know Mary had a friend...I wonder what they used to talk about? Breast v bottle, do you suppose?

fairlypissed · 07/12/2004 14:34

oh i know who that is, its my mother, and they talk about how to get me back in a church

MarsselectionboxLady · 07/12/2004 14:54

I never knew that Mary had a friend either. Be an interesting spin on things, Mary and her doula. Must make sure to put that into the script when no-one is looking. I imagine Mary's friend would have been very concerned to know that Mary was undertaking a long journey and the donkey probably didn't have a seat belt. Can you imagine her shock when she found out that there were no beds in the inn? lol

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