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DIY Scientist Dress-up Day lab coat

DIY Scientist Dress-up Day lab coat

Have you ever heard of Scientist Dress-up Day? Goodness knows how anyone comes up with these days but the school newsletter gave us at least a weeks warning of the latest dress up day at school. Yes, Scientist Dress-up Day is now a thing.

What is Scientist Dress-up Day?

Friday 8th June is Scientist Dress-up Day. On Friday children can go to school wearing a ‘lab coat’ decorated with words and pictures linked to science. With two children at school we seem to have a lot of strange requests, but this is one of the craziest.

DIY Scientist Dress-up Day lab coat

My son recently got black pen over one of his school shirts which refused to wash out. I decided to use this as a basis for a scientists’ ‘lab coat’ and a pack of fabric pens to design our own Scientist Dress-up Day lab coat.

Scientist Dress-up Day lab coat costume for kids

I sat down with my 6 year old and we had a chat about what she wanted on her shirt. We decided to sketch out our design on a piece of paper. My daughter wanted a name badge as well as pens, a magnifying glass, test tubes, and safety goggles.

We used the black fabric pen to add our designs to the white shirt. Then coloured them in. It felt a little strange drawing on a school shirt, definitely not something I’ve done since I left Sixth Form a long time ago.

DIY Scientist Dress-up Day

I think my daughter enjoyed this activity too. The fabric pens were lovely and colourful so she had fun colouring in our drawings.

Scientist Dress-up Day lab coat

Can you tell what everything is? Her pocket has pens and a ruler, along with her name badge. We added two more pockets, one with safety goggles and the other with test tubes. Other science symbols include rubber gloves, a lightbulb, lightning, a magnifying glass and a warning symbol.

Scientist Dress-up Day lab coat costume for kids

Now she’s already for Scientist Dress-up Day with her homemade lab coat. She has to wear it over her school uniform and I can’t wait to hear how they will be celebrating at school!

2 Comments

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    MissPond
    June 4, 2018 at 8:01 am

    As a scientist myself I think this is a fantastic idea! What a great design too! I hope they enjoy their day 🙂

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    Yeah Lifestyle
    June 4, 2018 at 8:41 am

    What a fab idea to go to school dressed up as a scientist! Although they should have given you more notice. Looks like its such a fab what you did and so creative as well.

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