Tell me what your 8/9 year olds are going as for World Book Day…

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No ideas that aren’t very complicated here! Looking for some inspiration before I have to spend hours and hours crafting tomorrow!

DS2(8) was easy - he's going as a Slytherin and we already had the robes from Halloween.

DS1(10) is going as a flipping dark elf from one of his fantasy novels, which has been ridiculously complicated!

Last year we did Percy Jackson (camp half-blood t-shirt and jeans) and Sir Charlie Stinkysocks (we had a helmet and shield and I drew chainmail on a grey tunic with a Sharpie).

Luna Lovegood and Harry Potter. They love the books so would entertain anyone thing else.

My 9 year old hates dressing up. He will be a man United footballer again this year. (He has the annual)

Wouldn’t entertain anything else!

Harriet the hamster princess - furry onesie, cape and sword, all of which we have.

DD’s school have decided no costumes this year, they all have to come in their pyjamas. She’s gutted because she had her outfit all planned (basically she wanted to dress as a cheerleader and then we’d have to find a book to match 🤣)

@123fushia

Teacher here - my nephew always went in black or brown trousers and a red top for WBD. He hated dressing up....but his mum stuck black spots on his back and he went as any book related ladybird!

Brilliant!

Danny the champion of the world z- khaki clothes for hunting

The christmas pig....

Mine wants to go as Wimpy Kid or Rafe from the Middle School books. So probably just going with regular clothes...

WBD. 🤮

Nancy Drew or The Hardy Boys were a winner. Own clothes, freezer label for a name badge. Job done.

We did actually have a couple of the books, so they did know the characters. Even if their teachers were too young to know!!

Dd is going as one of the girls from murder most unladylike, thankfully its basically school uniform! I just had to buy her a hat. My 6 yr old ds hates dressing up, so I'm just sticking a Mr Tickle sticker on a t shirt!

My daughter went as Oliver Twist years ago. We used her older brother's old school shirt and trousers with the hems chopped off, borrowed a cap and sent her into the garden to dirty herself up a bit. She won first prize out of the whole school for the most original outfit, the rest of them came as Disney characters!

Spiderman.

Charlie Bucket with golden ticket and real chocolate Wonka bar

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Ginny Weasley. Her best mates are doing Hermione and Luna Lovegood.

I am well pleased as we have the robes costume and I've made her a "Tom Riddle's diary". Just got to get a supermarket white school shirt....Done!

that is a lovely idea

We have also historically done George from George’s Marvellous Medicine (own clothes plus plastic bottle labelled‘Grandma’s Medicine’), Charlie Bucket (one golden piece of card) and (probably too young) Captain Underpants (made a red cape, refused to let him wear only underpants so he wore some over his trousers superhero style).

Can you tell he hates dressing up?

Do you have an animal onesie? DS2 may be going as a dragon as he already has a dragon onesie…

Loving these ideas! Will be running them past dc in the morning!

If you have a onesie or pjs - one of the lost boys out of Peter Pan. Dd2 used this once she was not wanting to dress up.

DS1 does not do dressing up. He wears normal clothes like Minecraft then takes an appropriate book/ manual on that theme. He's not a lover of novels/ fiction anyway (very dyslexic, and has ASD)

DS2 wants to be a Christmasaurus. Fine by me. We have Christmas hats, tinsel and dinosaur clothes. I don't throw money at these things.

Our school are doing - dress to represent a word, with a brief definition as part of the outfit, specifically to save having to buy anything extra.
DD 8 has chosen the word 'imaginative' and is just going as herself in her own clothes.

Skulduggery Pleasant - black suit, red tie, fedora and skeleton mask.

Grover from Perfy Jackson - made goat legs from a fuzzy brown blanket, a vest from faux leather with suede cord to tie his sword around and horns.

Harley Quinn from her super heroes girls book

Some nice quick ones here including a couple of printable things.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2019/feb/3-step-world-book-day-costume-hacks.html

My daughter (8) is going as grandpa from grandpas great escape. We made her a cardboard spitfire at half term she sits in it and it hangs on her shoulders (well it will when I've finished it) I bought a Biggles hat and fake moustache from Amazon and she's wearing her swimming goggles, a check shirt with dark trousers and a medal she has from a library challenge she did!

We're big fans of dressing up here. I know it's not for everyone, sorry (not sorry!) for being that mum

I get annoyed every year though as I have 3 kids and we've always made their outfits which are always based on books they've actually read. Not one if them has ever won the class prize for best outfit. I so desperately want my effort recognised.

I promise this is the only "try hard" mum thing I do!