ideas for sons dressing up International Day

[lynseyloo]

Son Has come home telling me and younger son that it's International Day tomorrow, I thought I had weeks!, they need to dress up in dress from any country. Help!! I have very little in the way of anything here, what costume can I throw together?? :lol: youngest came up with this for himself.. Australian Surfer, he's wearing his swimming shorts, vest top, and we're making a cardboard surf board... errm in a minute I guess.. :lol:

Any help much appreciated xxxxx

 

[* Helen *]

Son Has come home telling me and younger son that it's International Day tomorrow, I thought I had weeks!, they need to dress up in dress from any country. Help!! I have very little in the way of anything here, what costume can I throw together?? :lol: youngest came up with this for himself.. Australian Surfer, he's wearing his swimming shorts, vest top, and we're making a cardboard surf board... errm in a minute I guess.. :lol:

Any help much appreciated xxxxx

I like that idea, a pair of sandles and he will be well away!!!

Erm ... a scottish but a young lad wont want to be wearing a kuilt (SP)
a greek with a toga ... but the same reason as above
OR a english school boy ... but not very imaginative :o

I like the Australian!!

 

[juju]

a beret string of onions draw on a tash and a stripey t shirt .... french man

 

[Fingertips ND]

do you have a check shirt and a sun hat (straw sun hat)?

 

[lynseyloo]

I dont have any of these items.. :lol:

He wants to go as Ireland he tells me but how can I make him look like he's irish??

 

[lynseyloo]

do you have a check shirt and a sun hat (straw sun hat)?

have the shirt, dad will have a hat I am sure.. hes on hols but I can raid his house.. :lol:

Yes the australian is a very easy option for me, and all his own idea, but older son refuses to go the same ..he says "I aint going half naked"

 

[juju]

erm put im in green a little hat a leprechaun no offence to you irish out there

 

[* Helen *]

I dont have any of these items.. :lol:

He wants to go as Ireland he tells me but how can I make him look like he's irish??

The colours of the Irish flag ... orange, white & green!! I suppose they dress like english!!

 

[lynseyloo]

yeah exactly what I thought... but I was thinking if all else fails dress him in normal clothes, put a white t shirt over him with a painted or drawn irish flag on the front, they cant help but know then I suppose...

he's now read that idea and isn't impressed.. :lol: flaming 10 year olds... ANY ideas for ANY country appreciated.. get your thinking caps on... xxx

 

[Fingertips ND]

have the shirt, dad will have a hat I am sure.. hes on hols but I can raid his house.. :lol:

Yes the australian is a very easy option for me, and all his own idea, but older son refuses to go the same ..he says "I aint going half naked"

PUT HIM IN RIPPED JEANS, CHECKED SHIRT WITH STRAW HAT AND GET A WHIP/LASSOO - HE CAN BE A COWBOY.

 

[lynseyloo]

yes this has already been thought of, it has to be instantly recognisable to a particluar country..

 

[Fingertips ND]

Have you got a sombrero?

 

[stampy]

straw hat with some corks tied to it .... any excuse to down a few bottles of wine this evening! x

 

[lynseyloo]

in this house?? we have very little ..we've just finished an extention so everything that wasn't getting used got charity shopped..

he has a top with BRAZIL on the front, he's now saying if 'we' cant think of anything he'll go with jeans and that top on...

 

[Fingertips ND]

add a poncho and a false moustache and your laughin!

 

[lynseyloo]

yup suggested this one to him earlier... he says no-way!... I'm dealing with a stubbourn 10 year old who thinks he has dress sense. :lol:

 

[Fingertips ND]

put him in a white sheet and draw his face on like egyptions did.

 

[lynseyloo]

I have just sat with a few flattened cardboard boxes and made my son a stetson hat and he's going as a cowboy afterall, he's not happy with anything else, his dads made him a lasso (sp) which clinched the deal, we've been colouring in the surf board but I have blisters from the scissors where I cut it out from cardboard :lol:
I knew that A level in Art would come in at some point, cant remember making stetson hats though... :lol: