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A few years ago my daughter dressed up as the Little Princess. She reminded me of her anyway so it seemed a good idea. I made the white nightdress from an old sheet and the crown was made from stiff white material with yellow felt stuck to it. I did the make-up and crimped the hair and voila! she had the attitude and scootered off to school with her teddy Gilbert.

Saucepan man from the Faraway Tree. I fastened toy saucepans and kettles onto her top and we made a large saucepan hat out of cardboard and tinfoil. Very simple! (Although her teacher did comment on the large amount of clanging and banging throughout the day - oops!)

She went as Meg from Meg and Mog one year. We made a robe from black material and a black pointed hat from black sugar paper. The cauldron was card and the animals are made from pipe cleaners, feathers and craft foam. One year we did the knave of hearts from Alice in Wonderland: We made large playing cards to hang back and front, a crown, tights, a drawn on mustache and a plate of jam tarts. I have also made a huge paper mache shell, a mask and green tights and she went as the tortoise from Esio Trot- that was a bit of a massive undertaking.

My DD went as little Miss muffet had bought outfit prior for something a fancy dress party then used also at Halloween for a killer doll

Just found a pic from a previous year too. DS1 was being Asterix, I added some cardboard 'wings' to a helmet, and he wore a pinned and belted vest top of mine, plus check pyjama bottoms and a blonde stick on moustache! Not forgetting the sword of course.

DS2 was a pirate, I can't remember which of his many pirate books it was from.

DS2 wanted to be Paddington, so I just sewed some toggles onto his normal school coat as we didn't have a duffle, tied on a 'please look after this bear...' label and he wore an old hat of mine. We made some pretend marmalade with orange paper and a round tupperware pot, as the school wouldn't have wanted glass. I would have drawn a bear's nose on him with eyeliner, but they had to get changed at school for some reason. Cuddly Paddington had to come along too of course.

DS1 was Wally of 'Where's Wally?' fame. Stripey top, his Arsenal beany hat, and some of those 3D cinema glasses without the lenses. Done! (Hammy acting all DS1's own work). Oh, and I got a walking stick from a charity shop for him too.

No dressing up for us this year (or not that I am aware of)...but I am delighted to say that one of my previous creations has been sent off to be recycled and significantly improved upon by another MNer, who can share the results if she wants to

Aliens Love Underpants. Red jeans and top and sewed some purple spots on. Comic relief deeley poppers, red face paint with spots and finally some bikini bottoms on top of the jeans. But you can choose any colour you like!

We did Pippi Longstocking one year. We used that colour putty stuff to colour dd's hair red and make it into stiff plaits so they would turn upwards then added ribbons. I found an old white shirt then doctored a cotton dress, adding lace at the bottom and also sewing on red hearts. I then cut up two pairs of stripey tights in different colours and sewed 2 of the different legs together. Then tied green ribbons through her school shoes. Finally added her toy monkey and used face paint to draw Pippi's freckles.

Last year my daughter went as Sophie from the tiger who came to tea. I bought a pair of thick white tights from tesco and some marker pens and we drew checks in pink and purple to create the tights. DD loved helping with this. I roughly altered a purple t shirt of mine to create her pinafore dress. She wore her school shoes and I tied her hair up with a purple ribbon and she took a toy tiger with her. Not uploading photos as don't want to be outed!

DS went as Asterix, wore a Viking helmet, red top with my black vest top over it, ordered a blonde moustache online. Created belt from pair of green tights and sewed on gold choc coin wrappers for the buttons.

I LOVE the "duck on every page" might steal that one!

My 6 year old went as the cat in the hat - I sewed ( very badly) some blakc hairy fabric onto the bottom half of a pair of old trousers, and found a huge hairy jumper in a charity chop which I glued a piece of white material to the front of. Online I found a cat's tail ( about 2) which I attached to the back. We then made a huge stripy hat out of cardboard, and a big red bow out of an old T-shirt of Dad's. A bit of black and white face-paint and voila........Photo will follow if I can find one, but it was really easy and achievable even for me with very little crafting ability.

You've really captured the eyes of that Usborne duck, elfy!

My 4yo DS will be wearing a tiger onesie and going as the Tiger who came to Tea. That is about as far as my imagination runs :-( Either that or I recycle his Halloween skeleton outfit or his Fantastic Mr Fox from Roald Dahl day.

I asked what she wanted to be and she said 'The duck; the duck on every page'. She meant the Usborne duck.

I went to a charity shop and bought an adult yellow T-Shirt and a yellow skirt with lining. I sewed the neck until it was the right size. Then cut the skirt into panels. I made tubes for the arms, leaving an inch of fabric hanging past the seam so I could cut feather shapes and stitched then over the T-shirt arms. I then cut three layers of material and layered them, stitching them to the bottom of the T-Shirt and then cutting zigzags to represent feathers.

I ordered orange tights and a yellow baseball hat on t'internet. I crocheted a red beak to sew over the brim and stitched it on. The eyes and eyebrows were drawn on by sharpie.

This is my eldest son at last years World Book Day. He went as 'Big Skeleton' from Funny Bones which is one of his favourite books and also one of my favourite books from my childhood. We made a 'Little Skeleton' and 'Dog Skeleton' from a cardboard box and gave them moving joints. It took ages to cut the skeletons out from the cardboard as it was so thick, I was working well on into the Dark dark night.....!!

My son's favourite at the time, Mr Gum.

Fur fabric cut into a beard and moustache with elastic around the back, with eyebrows to match (I can't remember how I attached those ), all dirtied up with marmite and chocolate spread. The top hat I made from black felt and cardboard, and attached elastic so it would stay on. Then the clothes were just old ill-fitting tatty things. I think I put some face paints around his eyes too, he can't have been that tired going to school. It didn't take long, just the top hat was a bit tricky, but everyone knew who he was which made him happy

This is the inspiration for the Toothless jumper I am going to make: buy black hoodie, appliqué the rest on. Black trousers to go with it, done!

This is my DS as Mr Stink.

He has some old trousers and a shirt on. I found a cheap blanket and glued felt cut out in the shapes of leaves to the back, then tied it round his waist with string. Making it look like he was sleeping in leaves!

I found a cheap father christmas wig/beard and combed black shoe polish through it, stuck in some feathers. Old Harry Potter glasses and his sisters 'dog on a lead'

I have namechanged for this so i'm not outed, is that ok?

Shame it isn't 23rd April as it was chosen for being the date of Cervantes' death, and the birth and death of Shakespeare! You'd think UK would get it right!

Sorry for thread hijack... again!

Ooooh thanks Audit. DD has had allergic reactions to hair products in the past so I'd rather avoid dyes and sprays. Will try the tights-and-wool alternative that should keep me out of mischief.

Miss does she have long enough hair for plaits? If so, get some spray in colour. Alternatively my SIL made a fantastic rapunzel plait using wool, which she attached to her daughter's pony tail. Plaits would be harder, but do-able of you made a cap from the body of a pair of ladies tights to attach the "wig" to.

el quinto World Book Day is on 23rd April in many countries but not in the UK. I wish the UK would change over to 23rd April, there are some lovely traditions attached to that date.

I am gathering stuff for a Pippi Long stocking outfit for DD . Hopefully no sewing involved but the red wig is proving hard to source!

Willy Wonka. He went in jeans, a striped T shirt and a blazer. I made 'sweets' out of DD's out grown babygros and a cane with plastic ice cream cones on the end.

DS helped me make the hat out of papier mache. Which was a nightmare. But he also made a golden ticket to put in his top pocket.It was nice that we made the costume together. :)