Help!!

Nara

Hi all,

It's starting to get tiresome that my daughters school keep having days where they 'dress' up!

Actually I'm moaning alot but so far its only been twice but then she is in the first year of school:rotfl:

So Xmas was the angel outfit, np, bought a second hand one from Ebay sorted.

Next Friday is a special 'red nose day' but instead of own clothes day they have to dress up as characters from The Wizard of Oz:eek:

Now I for one don't have costumes like that hanging around my house :O and I'm afraid i am useless with a needle and thread!
I have looked on Ebay and its £20+ for a dorothy costume ! My daughter says she wants to be Toto, but i cannot find a black dog costume either at a resonable price!
I was thinking Dorothy with a toto 'teddy' in a basket maybe? but i don't want to spend £30 for one day as she is unlikely to wear the outfit again altho she would like the doggy.

Any ideas? I have looked on Tesco etc to try and find a gingham dress etc but no luck

emma12345

Yes I know what you mean, my daughter's school had a dress up day for World Book Day today and together with the other various dress up days they have during the year and the costumes they need for the 2 school plays it all adds up.

What a lot of people did to save money I noticed was to wear their school summer dress which is gingham and can be used for a lot of characters so that might suit. If your school doesn't have a gingham summer dress you can buy them cheaply from ebay or a charity shop second hand, so that might save something.

HTH

pigpen

how about one of the gingham school dresses? She could wear that for school when the weather is warmer too then.

Or a witch?
Or Glinda the good witch?

If she wants to be a dog. black trousers and jumper.. an eye pencil to colour in her nose a red lippy for the dogs tongue lolling out and the best bit a black woolly hat with 2 black socks stapled on as ears... voila.. a dog! A length of red ribbon tied LOOSELY around her neck as a collar.

Mine had a Peter Pan day... everyone went in pj's apart from DD4 who was a crocodile (in a dinosaur costume with an alarm clock)

Elle7

pigpen wrote: »

how about one of the gingham school dresses? She could wear that for school when the weather is warmer too then.

Or a witch?
Or Glinda the good witch?

If she wants to be a dog. black trousers and jumper.. an eye pencil to colour in her nose a red lippy for the dogs tongue lolling out and the best bit a black woolly hat with 2 black socks stapled on as ears... voila.. a dog! A length of red ribbon tied LOOSELY around her neck as a collar.

Mine had a Peter Pan day... everyone went in pj's apart from DD4 who was a crocodile (in a dinosaur costume with an alarm clock)

That sounds like one adorable dog outfit!!

alanalea

pigpen wrote: »

...A length of red ribbon tied LOOSELY around her neck as a collar.

Spoilsport

pinkshoes

I went as the Tin Man when at uni, and the whole costume cost £4:

A couple of £1 cans of silver spray, silver carpet tape to tape everything together, and lots of cardboard (a rectangle with hole in middle for body - the head goes in the hole(!), tubes for arms and legs, attached to body with some string or ribbon, and a smarties tube and cardboard funnel shape for hat!). Oh, and some silver body glitter, which was also £1.

It was great fun to make, and got lots of compliments all night. I think I accessorized it with a £1 watering can (sprayed silver), which I used as a handbag all night!

zoesmummy_2006

my dd has just dressed up today for world book day, fortunately we have TONS of dressing up dresses as my cousin passed us a load on from her daughters and ive picked up a fair few disney princess dresses from charity shop. our problem today was-which to wear!!! she eventually decided on her princess and the pauper reversible dress, princess side showing naturally.
i was stumped at xmas as she was a snowflake in the concert and i hadnt a clue what to dress her in. i ended up making her costume and was pleased with the result lol, but she fell on the way home from first showing and ruined the leggings so we had to raid the dressing up box-found a net skirt in white id forgotten about, would have saved me a lot of time if i'd seen that in first place.
i'd be annoyed too if i didnt have anything to send her in and felt like i had to go buy something, tho there were 2 lil girls in my daughters class who refused to dress up today!!!

pigpen

alanalea wrote: »

Spoilsport

One of mine 'helped' her sister... cue blue child!

izzybusy23

Nara wrote: »

Hi all,

It's starting to get tiresome that my daughters school keep having days where they 'dress' up!

Actually I'm moaning alot but so far its only been twice but then she is in the first year of school:rotfl:

So Xmas was the angel outfit, np, bought a second hand one from Ebay sorted.

Next Friday is a special 'red nose day' but instead of own clothes day they have to dress up as characters from The Wizard of Oz:eek:

Now I for one don't have costumes like that hanging around my house :O and I'm afraid i am useless with a needle and thread!
I have looked on Ebay and its £20+ for a dorothy costume ! My daughter says she wants to be Toto, but i cannot find a black dog costume either at a resonable price!
I was thinking Dorothy with a toto 'teddy' in a basket maybe? but i don't want to spend £30 for one day as she is unlikely to wear the outfit again altho she would like the doggy.

Any ideas? I have looked on Tesco etc to try and find a gingham dress etc but no luck

Try Sainsburys; they are getting the gingham school dresses in for summer now and they deffo had the blue ones and they are £5, should had got last week though with 25% off! Not sure how you would go about red sparkly shoes though!

I know how you feel; Christmas was an angel, tomorrow is pyjama day (ok thats cheap enough) and next week red nose day..its just ongoing isn't it?

alanalea

pigpen wrote: »

One of mine 'helped' her sister... cue blue child!

A very MSE Smurf costume

stejobeth

Wait until the own clothes days! I used to dread them because of the arguments they used to cause over what she wanted to wear