since cod has started a thread...I have a school play costume query too

[clary]

Probably easy to solve...
I need a halo for dd but not the rest of the angel costume (spent last evening sewing a tunic with silver ribbon on!). Sureyl easier to buy halo than make.
She is Whoops-a-daisy angel so I need to be able to bend it out of shape.
Seen on online somewhere but don't want to pay £4 postage fpr a £2 item.
Who has them - woolies? None in Asda last night (tho DH was lookign so he may have missed them)

make one with a hairband, a coathanger and a bit of old tinsel

pah

dd1 is a book

when do you need it?? I have one. BUT I am unsure where it is, I can look today while tiding up.

a book??
oh ker-rist

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I have to make, can I just reiterate make, a 'sandwich board' style affair (that she can sit down in obviously) that looks like a book of fairy tales. She came out in floods ("i dont want to be a huge box mummy") so I have promised to paint a really fab one with a unicorn on it.

WhYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

sorry still snorting (in a schadenfreude kind of way) at the idea of having to make a book
oh god I have got all this nonsense to come
does it have to be a stiff one (as it were) - can you do a cloth book?? more comfortable I reckon

hmmm

what kind of cloth? then you have sticking to clothes issues

I thought a sandwich board, two bits of stiff card joined at the shoulder by thick ribbon

Oh your poor dd Enid!

at least all I have to provide is an 'everyday person in Bethlehem at the time of Jesus' costume!! teatowel on head me thinks!

ticking? like stiff upholstering cloth
or hessian
with dowelling along the edges
you could have the page of the books like wings attached to her sleeves, so she could just hold them out/fold them over her body at the crucial moments

They did whoops a daisy last year, was a nice message.

this year I had one traveller (ached to take in a pair of fklares and a UB40 but was warned off by teacher ) and one shepherd, so it's just neutral trousers and long tee's with wilkinsons T-Towels (29p each!), one de-sleeved oxfam linen shirt and one naturalish waistcoat tied at the waist with twine.

DS (4) is an angel this year, which we are very excited about. There is apparently "angel dancing" involved. DH has only ever been a rock (?) and a sheep in his day so in the Anchovy household an angel is pretty good going.

We were told he had to wear all white and they suggested a t-shirt and footless tights or similar. Now DS is in touch with his feminine side, but I think tights might be pushing it (and I haven't had a pair of white footless tights just hanging around at home since, let me see, 1981). So I spent Saturday afternoon making a pair of pj-style trousers in white cotton and have sourced wings and a halo from the internet. (may I recommend www.dressingupboxonline.com for all those nativity needs).

Cheer up Enid. Last year DS was "Summer Weather", which is considerably worse than a book.

There is definitely a gap in the market waiting for some inventive mum to open up an online costume shop for school plays, especially at Christmas and Easter.Just think,it could be worse - your could be the orange lobster in Love Actually that Emma Thompson was faced with.

I saw in Prima magazine that they have patterns for nativity plays costumes that you can just send off for - only needs a SAE. Probably wouldn't help with the angel halo (I'm sure we just used to wear tinsel in our hair!) but might be useful for others

My ds is a wild hare.
Not a tame one
Apparently.

I have been looking blankly at some fake fur and a couple of coathangers for a week now, must get on with it.
Thank god dd has graduated to a straight carol service now she is in Y3!

Thansk for replies so quickly!
Enid I was going to make one but then someone said it's really hard to bend the coathanger, and by the time I've faffed about I could surely buy one for £2. I've made the tunic, honest!
And am going to make the wings out of silver card....
A book by the way! What kind of book? I would do what you suggest or maybe have the opening on the side - would look more book-like but harder to do.
Sparkly I need it by next friday. Yes, whoops-a-daisy is so clumsy she never has anything to do, butthen she gets the job of tellign everyone about baby jesus.
DD soooooooooooooo sweet with her words (proud mummy emoticon].
Tunic needs to be grubby - dh says just give it to dd to wear! lol

Claires accessories have 3 or 4 styles, dead cheap.

The other option is white fluffy tinsel (more of a boa really) from Sainsburys, just worn on the top of her head.

My dd came back from nursery school yesterday singing " a way AND a manger" really sweetly. I asked her what she was going to be in the play and she said "a manger", I said "what do you think a manger is?" and she said "a bit like a horsey". I asked her teacher this morning and apparently she is a star! (dont know where she got the manger idea from!) At least they have all the costumes for them, they use the same ones for the nursery kids every year (phew)

Enid, it's not so awful. My mum made fantastic ones when I was little for Alice in WOnderland (the pack of cards. Still board, joined at the shoulders with thick ribbon. You can staple the ribbon to the card.
Shh...I quite like making costumes. Used to make them for my dsd. I once made a cool medieval outfit complete with pointy hat, veil and sparkly belt in the morning to wear in the afternoon. She was the belle of the party!

I have looked in my bedroom drawers where its normally kept (its one of my fancy dress thingys) but its not there, sorry, clarie's might have something.

Oh yes, and you need ribbon at the sides I think. Jolly hard to sit down in though!

clary - my DD's school are doing whoops-a-daisy angel as well

yes aloha thats how I thought I would do it

it says in bold

Ensure your child can sit comfortably in his/her costume

cheers thats easy to say if you are a rag doll or a teddy - I think its Bookist personally

dd2 is Lead Star

which means she stands at the front twiddling her hair and bellowing 'a baby born in BeFLEHEM, ALLAY-LOOOOOOOOO-YAHHHH'

as far as I can make out

I think they key is not to make it too long and provide something modest to wear underneath!