Family fancy dress - arrghh!

[buggie]

Hoping to pick the collective creative minds of the forum...

We've been invited to a friend's daughter's 2nd birthday party, got told it's fancy dress - thought bless will be fun excuse to dress up Bugglet, but we've now found out that hubbie & I are also exextend to dress up :-S

So... Any ideas? Bugglet is 18mths & fairly small so unlikely to fit supermarket fancy dress & am clueless about me & hubbie - trying to think along nursery rhyme/fairy tale themes but no ideas yet!

[Pam50]

One easy solution is a Pirate family: old shirts with ragged edges, cut off off jeans and some cheapo trimmings from the toy shop? I have a parrot puppet that squawks if you want to really annoy your host!

[enjoy]

- Dracula,

- Pippi Longstocking

- Pyjama Party (in your night gown)

- go with a nice wig from wandsworth road

- Alien (green face painting)

- "Dotty" (like the exhibition from the japanese artist at tate modern with all the dots)

- harry potter

...

endless possibilities. Shall I go instead? (only joking)

enjoy

[MrsAk]

three blind mice? Grey hoodies, 'ears' and sunglasses.

[hellosailor]

As Pam50 says, you and your husband could go in stripey tops with eye patches, headscarfs, etc as pirates....but maybe the buglet could go as a parrot!! Dress her in green and get her a little feathery headers or fascinator type thing!

Or you could get one of these and sew it onto a headband for her, dress her in green etc, or am I getting carried away?!

(not sure that my fancy dress ideas might not be a bit skewed after the 'mum dressing me as a poacher' trauma which you may remember from a thread a while ago, hahaha!)

[amyw]

The flint stones

The Simpsons

50's family (my sister and I have a 50's housewife costume if you want to try then it's just suit for dad etc)

Family of cats /dogs/other animals

Serial killers (they look just like everybody else, a la Wednesday Addams)

[womanofdulwich]

togas ( sheets) or ghosts- more sheets.

[crystal7]

3 little kittens (who lost their mittens)?

[buggie]

Oooo - knew you guys'd come up trumps!! Thought & ruled out "mad men" style (annoying as have perfect dress) as thought might be bit too grown up! Liking pirate ideas esp dressing bugglet up as a parrot - though if I got the toy parrot & dressed her in brown she could go as the perch maybe!

Will let you know how it goes :-)

[toomuchchocolate]

smurfs!

[Pam50]

Happy to hand over the parrot if you go with the pirates. I'm in ED until Thursday, so PM if you'd like to arrange a drop off!

Pam