Fancy dress is one of the many, many banes of my life.
World Book Day is this Thursday. Every year the school gives the kids a theme for fancy dress, the parents are told not obsess over it and not to spend any money. This is fine if you are all creative and able to sew … and have lots of fabric hanging about … and clothes in every colour of the rainbow … and have a wealth of accessories from nursery rhymes to woodland creatures and back over the hill to TV characters from the 80′s.
I have none of these things.
Our fancy dress comprises a donkey (aged 2-3), Rudolf (aged 2-3), a Cinderella dress (aged 4-5) and let’s not forget the strap-on Baloo head from the Jungle Book (one size fits all).
I am stuffed.
Yesterday morning in the playground I heard a vicious rumour that the theme was ‘hedgehogs’. I had panicked thoughts at work all day of making a hedgehog outfit. Then I realised it was easy, the 5 year old could wear brown, which is fine if you have any brown clothing, and then I would stuff several brown socks with I don’t know what and sew them onto the back of her top to make spikes.
But, then I realised that my daughter would look less hedgehog and more like Mummy Poo giving her baby poos a piggy back to school.
The vicious rumour turned out to be true, but for Year 2 pupils. My daughter is in Year 1 *insert raucous cackle*.
So last night a letter arrived home saying they had finally decided on the theme and it would be … Aliens in Underpants. So now I am looking for head boppers and some large y-fronts.
The only good thing I can think about that theme is that at least it isn’t hedgehogs. That could scar a child for life. Having said that, I can’t wait to see all the Year 2 Mummy poos giving their babies a piggy back to school.
17 Comments on "Mummy Poo and an Extra-Terrestrial in Underpants"
Oh, I can’t tell you how good it feels to know that I’m not the only one who hyperventilates at the mere mention of World Book Day!
I wrote a post about it this week as well — hope no one minds the link!
http://mammyp.blogspot.com/2010/03/national-book-day.html
OMG what a weird book to pick. It’s a fab book but just a weird one for them to pick. Hee hee.
Lucky escape!
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Our school is doing ‘characters off the telly’. Inspired isn’t it? Still, Tattoed Mummy may just have saved all our skins!
Well at least it’s no sewing!
I am at the end of my tether with constumes. We’ve just done Cinderella, this Friday she wants to be Big Chris from Roary and in three weeks she has to be a character from Morag’s Story or somesuchthing I’ve never heard of. I’d kill for Aliens in Underpants!!
“Don’t spend money and don’t stress” – in my experience you have to do both!
Aliens in Underpants – great idea, mine love that book. Trying to steer them away from Ben 10, because it’s a cartoon and not likely to pass muster in the library. Though one of them was given a Ben 10 costume for their birthday… And as soon as this one is over we move on to the Easter Bonnet Parade. Why can’t we have Dress Mummy in Designer for FREE day – I’d vote for that.
Aliens in underpants? What sort of school is this? And am I supposed to be doing something on Thursday?
Looking forward to finally meeting you!
Its a shame you’re not making the hedgehog competition – I would’ve loved to have seen that one lol
Aliens in underpants. Sounds like my husband.
CJ xx
But won’t going to school in your underpants scar you for life, too?
Let’s hope they change themes for next year and you don’t get stuck with mummy-poos-giving-baby-poos-a-piggyback next year when your daughter goes into Yr 2!
I dread book character days! I also dread dress-up-as-a-bug day, dress-up-as-a-jungle animal day and dress-up-as-a-victorian child day. But then I’m fun like that
. Honestly, don’t schools realise we have more important things to be doing than making costumes?
I am very much looking forward to the photos.
top tip – almost any costume can be created in a sandwich board stylie using large cardboard pieces from a box or two from the local supermarket or electrical store, paint on the ‘costume’ and use two strips of material to make shoulder straps!
Luckily we can choose what our kids wear this year, DD is going as a horse rider from one of her pony themed books, handy as she rides! LOL so will just wear her riding kit!
Dead cool, you only need y fronts or bloomers and some deally boppers, I used to love mine and wear them all the time – the underpants!!
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