We need your costume ideas for World Book Day

Califrau did you see I uploaded Cap'n Patch pictures (made me all sniffy and nostalgic - DS has grown up so much since then)

for pesha - there are other pictures where he wears a red velvet 'smoking jacket' which looks uncannily like a bath robe.

Dd's whole school have to go as a character from Wind in the Willows. DD wants to be Badger but I cannot find my Wind in the Willows book (moved a few months ago so probably still in a box somewhere!) and cant completely remember what he looks like.

I bought her some brown cord trousers in Tesco this morning for £2, she can wear her school shirt and she has a denim waistcoat or a black one to choose from but he has a scarf doesn't he? And presumably she could do with some sort of jacket too? Anything else I've forgotten?

Mr Strong - paint a cardboard box with red paint, cut out holes for arms and head. Draw on a face. Green hat, red longsleeved tshirt and legging/trousers.

Am also outraged at the anti football kit teachers

My 2 are going at Dracula (ds1) and Frankenstein (ds2) They did want doctor who and James bond but I can't afford to buy them suits just now.

Burgular Bill .

Black flat cap/beret
Stripey top
Black trousers
Eye mask
Black gloves with fingers cut off
Sack/large bag with swag wrote on.

MY ds looked great .

My dd won a book token in nursery for going as maisie mouse as in crazy for maisie - donned dungarees, stuffed a leg of a pair of white tights and safety pinned to back as tail, stuck on some pipe cleaners and a snout out of a paper cone to a white baseball cap i already had and job was done.

DS's school is doing Book Week from 16 March. Am sure they will need to dress up but haven't been told as yet. Am equally sure that he will want to wear football kit! He does have a couple of books about football - 2 of them written by a football-mad authur Alan Durant who actually came to the school last Book Week so am not entirely sure the school will be able to ban football kit!

They will also do a book at bedtime where we bring the children back to school at 6pm in their PJs and they have hot chocolate and a biscuit and a bedtime story. Parents supposed to be in PJs too but I usually 'forget'!

Witch outfit with hair plaited and a bow on end, carrying wand and broomstick with cut out pictures of a cat, dog, frog, green parrot.

Room on the Broom, Julia Donaldson.

Last year did mouse outfit (bought sadly) for the Gruffalo.

DS2's infant school have come up with a brilliant idea for the day.

They've come up with a "theme" of "Bedtime Stories" - and so all the children will be going to school in their PJ's - armed with favourite bedtime story and/or favourite teddy bear.

DS1 is going to be Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III from the Cressida Cowl books.

I have bought a viking helmet from ebay, I am making him a 'fur' gilet, he can wear his roman tunic from last year and one of my leather belts round his middle. I might even lend him my large pewter celtic design brooch. (He will be wearing trousers too).

DS2 is going as fantastic Mr Fox as he was a fox for Percy the Park keeper Day last term and I knitted him a fox's tail with a bit of white fun fur at the end. I made him some ears by sticking the wool onto pieces of card. Having made that I intend to get some more use out of it!!

DS1 has been Charlie Bucket before now which is really easy - just get some old clothes, preferably too small, sew on some rough patches of fabric and make a golden ticket to cart around all day. I even typed the words out from the book to stick on it although it isn't necessary.

We live next to the school and looking out of the window on WBD all you can see are scores of little girls dressed up in Disney Cinderella dresses and boys in Harry Potter capes. Never send your child as either!!!

my dd won a world book day competition when i dressed her as the illustrated mum

hippyish outfit and tattoos easy!

What did you do for Tracey Beaker, please? [not that I think DD will be diverted from the impossible Toto]

Last year my oldest went as Tracey Beaker, and the youngest went as little miss muffet, this year all the children are going to be pirates, which hasn't gone down to well with my 2 girls !!!

ds1 - in year two at the time and cool for school, went as 'The gingerbread man' (horrid henry and co had been banned ) in brown top and trousers, big black cardboard buttons stuck on and black face paint on his nose and around his eyes; also with a banner proclaiming "You can't catch me - I'm a gingerbread man!"
oh, and a box of mini gingerbread men in case anyone / fox did catch him!!!

My DS went as Twoflower from Sir Terry Pratchett's 'Colour of Magic'.
Hawian -type shirt with chinese dragons on it, 'Howard' glasses free from the Halifax, an old exercise book with prases in Bes Palargic and english translations written in it and some large gold card discs that I had helped to decorate as coins. I think he was 10 at the time and it was all stuff we had in the house.

oooh I am soooo excited about WBD

We have the Mr Men and Little Miss theme to work from with our own interpretation of the character and I have to dress up too!!

DS1 is Mr Funny.

He is wearing a size 22 lime tshirt from Peacocks (£1) with lime green legwarmers (£1), yellow washing up gloves and DH has made him a big yellow hat with a flower sticking out of it. He is going to carry 2 joke books as well.

DS2 is Mr Tickle.

He is wearing a huge orange tshirt (Charity Shop £3!) and I found some long orangey feather thing from the market for his arms. I cut out 2 orange hands from cardboard and put it all together and a little blue hat which we made today.

I am going as Little Miss Contrary.

Black thermals. Huge red/orange pashmina pinned all over me, yellow curly wig and glasses.

LOL!! How sad that I cannot wait for next Friday!!

There now, Califrau - how very dare your DS's opt for store-bought costumes ? Do you want to go into business or are you too busy making banners ?

stealthsquiggle - stick an advert up a discreet distance from a school that is still in thrall to this event, and watch yourself get inundated with responses! You may have a business on your hands there...