WBD Costume for child who won't wear fancy dress.

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DS nursery are doing costumes for World Book day tomorrow and while we have plenty of costumes, he won't wear any of them. Lovely Mnetters please inspire me. Is there a well known book character that wears "regular" clothes that I can try to replicate with what's in his wardrobe?

Not Wally as I dont have a striped top or hat.

This could have been mine. They just used to go in their own clothes, it was technically against the rules but whatever! There was a t-shirt on amazon with "This is My Dressing Up Costume" written across the front, which I was very tempted by!

Charlie from Charlie and the chocolate factory
Something about crumpled and ideally stained
You could make a golden ticket?!

I’m sending one of mine in this theme

This is for nursery aged child? Let him wear what he wants. If you feel somehow pressured to participate, just say he’s dressed as a future author.

Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs. Normal clothes, beach bucket and plastic dinosaurs!

Maybe a themed t shirt.
Or make a badge to pin on regular clothes.

At DD’s nursery there’s usually a significant minority of the children who aren’t wearing costumes, usually because they don’t want to. They’re nursery age, it really doesn’t matter.

My dd went as the animals from the 'that's not my...' books. Last year she was the polar bear so wore all white.

Last year one of mine went as Danny, from The Dinosaur That Pooped A Planet, it consisted of a red t-shirt, green trousers and very messy hair. This year he is going as Terry from The Tree House series.....he doesn't do dressing up!

I would just be sending him in his usual clothes. I have little time for enforces dressing up, especially when the child doesn’t want to wear it in the first place.

I just wouldn’t do a costume if he didn’t want to. It doesn’t matter.

If you have lots of costumes, and think he might change his mind once he gets there and sees other people, could you send in an easy costume so he can just change his top, for example? Or a hat that he can wear?

Mr Bump. Blue T-shirt and a bandage on his head?

Billionaire boy normal clothes but with wallet with lots of fake money!

Jeans, hoody, backpack = diary of a wimpy kid

Normal clothes = muggle from Harry Potter

Also if will wear football kit character out of football acedemy to. Palmer

PJs - John from Peter Pan.

These are brilliant, thank you so much.

Simple answer don't bother.
My DC both flatly refused to dress up so they never did. It's not compulsory and will do nothing for their literary education.

My DS did Dennis the Menace once. That was easy with a black and red striped top that he had.

What do you think will happen if your child doesn't wear a WBD costume?! It's not obligatory.

Another suggesting he just doesn’t do it. It’s only nursery (although I’d do the same at school if they didn’t want to) it’s not going to make a blind bit of difference

I tacked 2 brown felt spots onto the sides of a yellow tshirt. He already has yellow trousers - he's going to be spot the dog.

Our school are asking dress up as an adjective, could that help? He could be sleepy (PJ'S) colourful/sporty etc

Mine took a pan in one year filled with empty bottles/jars/containers and I just slapped a big label on the side saying 'George's marvellous medicine' and drew some bubbles.
He can hold it in a photo then doesn't need to have anything else to do with it all day.

Normsl clothes, waterproof jacket and some binoculars (either real ones or made out of loo rolls). Say he's going on a bear hunt and send a Teddy bear x

Muggle from HP