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Dd2 has made it easy because she's chosen little red ridinghood but dd1 school has sticks theme on!

The theme is space

Help me think of ideas. So far a star, an alien and space person has been turned down. Just to make it worse, staff have to dress up too and I'm staff
Help!!

Feel free to add your own worries too.

Roald Dahl here. That's the theme.

I have said no to DS's Oompa Loompa orange facepaint idea, and a Fox Mask and tail has been ordered.

A star? Must have one floating around from a xmas play!!

Obiwankanobe (sp?) In a big hessian sack thing?

The solar system!! Black top and trousers with planets attached.

I did mugglewump for Roahl Dahl week:

brown polo, brown tights, tail made from a sewn-on stuffed brown pop sock, brown paper ears Sellotaped to a headband, brown face make up.

Good luck!

i wish we had been given a theme. this is my first 'world book day' dressing up and have not a clue what to do. DS wants to dress up as buzz lightyear or darth vader (neither of which we have and not entirely sure that they are books either DS, they are films). have tried to persuade him to be charlie bucket (thereby just needing me to cut out a ticket from gold card) but no! does this kind of hell go on every year? then the week after we have comic relief day to contend with too . no-one warned me about this when deciding to have children!!!

film characters even. gosh i am so traumatised i can't even write properly!

They should definitely do it in ante-natal classes shelley

1. Signs of labour
2. Giving birth
3.Establish feeding routine
4. Make an outfit for World Book Day

Something to do with Dr Who????

Own clothes and say they're horrid henry/hermione granger/harry potter (with drawn on glasses and scar)

Boring I know but with 3 dc's I have had my fill of bloody dress up days

Or just raid the dressing up box and match the outfit to a random book.

Dd has to be a book character who has travelled around the world. She is 6. I hate world book day.

Mine have to do Harry Potter. That'll be ds wearing dh's old glasses with the lenses popped out, scar drawn on forehead and normal clothes. Voila Harry Potter at the weekend

What about philleous fog lol

Glad I'm not the only one with this problem.

I always say I am sending him as The Invisible Man and give him the day off.

DD is going to be a Rainbow Fairy she is still 4 so loves them

As long as no-one sends their small boy in a pair of striped pyjamas like someone did at our school last year They can't possibly have read the book.....

this is our very first WBD

DD is going as Lola from the Charlie and Lola stories - i win!

dd3 has decided to be Emily from the book Hollow Earth

we asked Carole Barrowman on twitter what Emily would look like

blue jeans, t shirt and purple streak in her hair

DD can't decide- wants to go as Pippi Longstocking, she loved that book. Or Clarice Bean. She might choose Rainbow fairies in the end...
DS loves Aliens love underpants, he's nearly 4, and wants to go as one with underpants on his head. He's still at nursery.

For the one who has to be someone who has been round the world, what about Where's wally?

Space person - gun, black trousers and waistcoat, long-sleeved t-shirt - Han Solo.

DD is 3 and insisting on Madeline. I'm not sure anyone will know who she is. I'm going for a pinafore, big hair ribbon and a straw hat (if I can find one).

Oh sorry, she's a girl. Could do Princess Leia if she has long hair - 2 sock buns at either side, and wrapped in a sheet.