Tis The Season for....... Non-Uniform Days. LO(effing)L

[MUM23ASD]

And i bloody well wish they didn't have the sodding things

Smuggly escaped 'book day' (dress up as a character from a book)

Only to find he went back to school yesterday after holidays- came home to tell me

"You've got to make me a Jack Sparrow costume for FRIDAY"

TOMORROW!!!!

when i asked why.... he produced the note from school...advising me that on friday, "It would be lovely and nice and sweet"...well not exactly what they said.... "if all children could come into school dressed in a country's national costume"

ofcourse. they discussed this in class... and ds3 has told them he is going a a "CARIBBEAN PIRATE"...and they obviously agreed.

so as far as he is concerned- tis set in stone...and if i don't make said costume by tomorror- he aint going to school.

reasons...he has told them what he is wearing.
Jack Sparrow IS from the CARIBBEAN...so that means PIRATE clothes is a NATIONAL COSTUME

NO AMMOUNT OF PERSUASSION CAN CHANGE HIS MIND. Tried to suggest costomes i can conjure up overnite...good one being a "Transylvanian Man/ie DRACULA".... as he wore that on friday!!!!)

so have phoned the school for backup- waiting for them to phone.

want the teacher/TA to explain to him that what he's asking is impossible for me to do (yes, some mums may cope with this...I cannot)
AND he DOES have to go to school....AND he will NOT be the ONLY one to not have a COSTUME ....AND also i need to know if he's not in costume....what does he wear??? As they are doing this to raise money- they have to take in a 'small contribution'...so i'm assuming he can turn up in
ENGLISH NATIONAL COSTUME...ie Jeans, trainers and T-Shirt!!!!

school just phoned...not the teacher...not the TA... to advise... EFF ALL

So i have requested they advise ds3 that ENGLISH NATIONAL COSTUME Is FINE!!!

(she suggested he 'just wear a hat'....so would a pirate hat do???? Is that national costume?

could not get her to inderstand that his AS is the issue here...

So, had 1 idea.... maybe can persuade him to print a load of national flags off the internet and may a bunting that they can hang up at school??? (he would LOVE doing that)

just pissed off...as if this was announced pre-school holidays- i'd have made him a Jack Sparrow cossie... ignoring the 'national costume' criteria...I'm not a total cow. But to give me 1 day to -as the receptionist just said' just something simple' is still IMPOSSIBLE for me...

If i could be sure he'd wear it...i'd scour every charity shop in town and put together a costume...but with DH's mum dying, I cannot raise the energy to do that- to find he refuses to wear it.

I feel for you - we've been there. 2 days notice for ac ostume and a boy with as/hfa who is terrified of dressing up. Those days are my nightmares.

Flags sound like a good idea. Good luck!

Prats.

As it happens, DD2 dressed as a pirate for a kid's dress-up birthday party the other day. Yes, I made it. Scouring the local charity shops took about a week and a half; since ebay you get very few kids' clothes in there. I adapted a sweatshirt into a waistcoat. I got some trousers and cut the bottoms to make them raggedy. I sewed the shirt from scratch (so about 2 hours' work on its own). Making the sash was the easy bit and fortunately we already have a furry parrot without which no pirate is complete. It's a great costume so I see why your DS would want it. But it is not something simple, it is not just a hat and it did not take five minutes. There is no way I could have done it in 2 days.

The only thing I can think, if he is adamant - if you cut the collar off an old man's white shirt, then roll the cuffs up (I mean a man's old shirt, not nick a shirt from an old man, lol) and make a sash from whatever scrap of material you have hanging around, and tie a headscarf on his head (knot at the side) that is fairly piratey already. Get an empty beer bottle and relabel with "RUM - PIRATES ONLY". Etc. Your issue is if he wants the full jack sparrow with tricorn leather hat and dreadlocks and swashbuckling boots then you are a bit beggared. Though the eyeliner would be easy enough!

thanks1 Honest...R3dh3d- that really does help- the bottle- the cut 'raggedy' shirt

Wide- have found a great website 'Classroom Clipart" which has flags...so have found 12 that i am printing off (4 a pageaaaa0 and am going to LAMINATE (well...need to get some pleaseure out of it!) ...and get ds3 to stick them either on sticks or on a ribbon to hang up.

Laminated. What could be better.

whats niggling me is though that ds3 and i argued about this last night- this morning....and its a long time to 3.15- and i feel i want o tell him about my flags...he will love gluing them onto sticks/ribbon...and probaby want to make more than i have...so he will get distracted off of the costume...i am confident of that... however... to ring the school to ask them to tell him is a bit over the top...

this is just my guilt for argueing with him

Black eyeliner pencil, draw a tache and beard on him (as well as lining eyes obviously!)

Do you have any clip-on dangly earrings?

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Strings of beads you could stitch to an old headscarf?

White shirt (with more beads)
black trousers (rolled up to knees)
Long white socks.

simple look

DH - Waistcoat?

Print out/draw skull and crossbones image - laminate, stick to front of shirt!

Cardboard cutless covered in silver foil

bottle of rum (for you!)

When DS1 (AS) was in MS last year they had book week. He absolutely insisted he was going as Mog the Cat!! He was 9 at the time, and is very big for his age. No amount of persuasion would convince him to change his costume idea to something less erm cute!!

I've posted on here before about ds1 (ASD) refusing to wear his own clothes for non-uniform day because "Mrs X said it's for children in need and I'm not in need!"

LOL!
(d'ya remember when my ds3 insisted on dressing as a fairy for world book day? Managed to persuade him to be a pixie instead!)