Roman/celt costume idea's.

caseystar

Dd came home with a note today saying her class are having a roman/celt party this Friday and they need to dress up. :eek:

Does anyone have any idea of costumes that are either cheap or can be made easily? Any help is most appreciated. :A


Please move if i'm on the wrong board.

esmf73

Blimey - Roman? How about a toga? or something along those lines?

Celt? - Paint her face blue and plait her hair.

patchwork_cat

Get a non fitted sheet and make a toga with a leather belt.

heavenleigh

Funny you should mention this, my dd is having a Greek day on Friday, and i am going down the toga theme, using a bed sheet as the base then going to make a cloak with some material i can hopefully blag from my sister in laws wedding shop. I plan to make a headress out of an old wire coat hanger and some plastic leaves, and a belt and bracelets from gold twine :0)

topsyturphy

My son went as a celt last year, we just used some old brown jeans, I had an old beige suede sleeveless top which was put over a t/shirt and fastened a brown belt round it. he also wore a black cape (from hallowean) and a skull type hat. he carried a plastic sword and money bag. Oh and we painted a moustache on him with face paints.

caseystar

Thank you for all your great ideas, she has decided she wants to go as a celt. I've found an old dress that would do and a white top to go underneath. I just need to hunt out an old belt now. Most of the ones she has are covered in some sort of sparkles. I may have to borrow one from her brother.

I really wish they'd give us more notice about these things. Thanks again

patchwork_cat

Yes personal bugbear lack of notice. We as parentsx have nothing better to do than find a celt costume in 2 days etc. or run to the supermarket to get the ingredients for cookery lesson with 1 evenings notice, grrrr, and no surprisingly when this happened regulary to me it wasn't DS not passing on info.