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I need 7 monks cloaks for the Y6 play.

What I really really want is for someone to say they have them and will post them to me. (Will obv pay postage!!) (and send chocolate!)

Or for someone to tell me how to make them as I do not sew much at all and do not have a sewing machine!!

Any thoughts, ideas or spare monks habits at all???

Tia

Haven't got anything to give you buy what about just asking around for hooded dressing gowns?

buy-but

Cheap hooded dressing gowns and a pack of brown Dylon machine dye?

Or black dye if they're Benedictines

Dyeing them is a good idea.

I also need a king's cloak!!

Any cloaks out there?

I do have a couple of jedi cloaks, that to the uninitiated would look like monks cloaks, but they wouldn't fit year 6 as I made them for a 2 and 4 year old. Could you ask Yr6 if they have Jedi costumes - loads of kids in our school do.

Try your local youth theatre / am dram / panto society. They're helpful and bound to have a king's cloak and maybe something monkish - hessian sacks and rope did a lot of service back in the days when I did such stuff.

yy hooded dressing gowns.

get the cheap ones (cotton rather than fluffy) and dye them brown :)

king's cloak - dralon curtains.

in red is best.
the ties look like a grand collar.

Thanks everyone.

Great ideas,

Try your local Catholic Church and ask if you can borrow servers robes - likely to be cream but will look very authentic!!