Where to buy nativity costumes? Help needed with ideas.

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We need a nativity costume for the King. Is it possible to buy something cheap (any supermarkets)? If not how do I make one and how do these kinss costumes look like? Is there a particular website which would give me ideas for the kings' costumes so I could think of the material and the decorations? Thanks everyone.

Tesco had some kings I think - I was in there at the weekend buying an Angel costume which was £8.

Sainsbury had them but ours is a large one.

Tesco.com and can be delivered to local Tesco branch free of charge in most cases

Asda have got them too

Will check the shops at the weekend. Hopefully they are still there. Thanks for your help!

Supermarkets have them, but if you need to make one, try a brightly coloured shirt/ blouse (grownup) over leggins/tights and a rectangle of brightly coloured material from the market for a cloak. velcro at the corners to fasten?

you could make a simple tunic from a rectangle of bright material with a slit cut in the middle for a neck hole. if you hate sewing put some tape on the inside to stop the split getting too big.

You say, blackeyedsusan, that I need a bright coloured material. May be we can find him a gown which could be used afterwards. I do not really want to waste money on that rubbish. Have seen something for Kings in ASDA and it looked so cheap yet the price was around £8.00. What are we going to do with it afterwards? So, I am prepared to make one myself unless I see something really good in Tesco or Sainsburys.

Does anybody know where to buy tinsel? Where shall we go first, Tesco or Sainsburys ( I have no idea who has a bigger stock of Christmas decorations)? I have not seen tinsel in Asda. Need to buy it today but two supermarkets are in completely different directions. This is what I need www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/global_search/global_result.jsp?bmForm=global_search&GLOBAL_DATA._search_term1=tinsel&GLOBAL_DATA._searchType=0&bmUID=1291740556248

Worth looking on ebay - though the closer to Christmas the more likely prices are to rise due to late rush of parents looking for THE sheep/angel/shepherd costume.

Been there - this year my son was assigned a camel, as you can imagine not easy to find so I started trawling ebay as soon as I found out and hit the jackpot two weeks ago.

If you're really organised you can get a cheap outfit in January sales for next year....

We got an outfitvery late from the supermarket.Took all the labels off only to find out there was a damage done by someone else. Have been trying to mend it as there was only one suit. We got the tinsels from Tesco.