to want a bit more notice for dressing up?

[mitochondria]

Now, being a teacher, I am aware that Thursday is World Book Day. Having heard nothing from boys' school though, and remembering that they didn't dress up last year, I was assuming that they wouldn't be this year.

Or, they'd have told us before half term, right? To give us some time to get a costume together?

Nope. Letter home today (yesterday was training day).

And there was me feeling pleased with myself for having my costume sorted.

Is two days' notice reasonable?

YANBU

I pride myself on being able to come up with something at a moments notice-I keep things in the loft for that very purpose- but YANBU-people need longer.

No YANBU. For natvity play we had one weekend as the letters went out late. Though I had the costume already fortunately as it was recycled from the year before.

YANBU. We didn't even get a letter - DD just came home yesterday and casually announced 'oh it's WBD on Thurs and we need to have a costume'. She then added that the teacher had agreed that she could come as a character from Super Mario Wii. WTF?? It's book day not bloody video game day.

A weekend, I can do. Two days, in the week, not so much.

They're going in their Halloween costumes (Dracula, and pirate). Next year I'll be ready for 'em.

Had to sort out a viking costume last night. Not only did she have to be a female viking (what do they wear?), but she had to be distinct from the romans, celts and anglo-saxons in the other classes.

My fault it was a last minute thing, I forgot. But still quite a hard remit, I think. She ended up looking like 'peter pan goes to the gym.'

Lol the female vikings would have been stuck at hme in the hut wearing an assortment of animla skins and no glam horned helmet!

I would make a brown dress/tunic and add a sash of brown or cream fake fur...over on shoulder...and a horned hat. Teamed with boots...you could bind the boots in brown cloth....

YANBU, to be honest (i have 6 children) i've started finding all the dressing up days my childrens school have really annoying and costly even with notice.

I don't have a sewing machine at home, or spare old clothes lying around (space is at a premium). I don't find the charity shops where we live cheap either.

Twice a year would be more than enough dressing up days for me.

I've just sent a letter into my son's class this week telling them i won't be sending him dressed as a tudor on Friday because i haven't the money to buy one or time in which to make one. My son will be going in his uniform, i do feel guilty but at the same time i'm thoroughly fed up of them.

I LOVED books when i was growing up and my enthusiasm for them wasn't bore out of dressing up as book characters, it came probably from having no computers/technology to entertain me

Main problem was not being able to find anything brown. Hence the overdose on dark green, looking like peter pan. Plus the orange headband, having completely failed to make any sort of hat that didn't just look like a christmas shepherd.

We had a letter home today too for Thursday. It's bloody stupid. I used to pride myself on not running to the nearest shop for a fany dress outfit and actually creating something with the kids, but there's no time.

YANBU I saw the notice today saying they can dress up on Thurs. Now it might be my fault cos there was a bit on the newsletter but I'm sure it was specific to one year group.

Anyway, dd is going as little red riding hood. Have begged asked dh to get me red fabric in his lunch break and will have to give up wine relaxing for sewing tonight

Asda does a Red Riding Hood outfit for £12.50! My daughter's going as something pink and disneyish (Asda) and my son's going as Percy Jackson - jeans, t-shirt and checked shirt. Easy peasy!!

Good for you Violet5

YANBU.
We got a letter home today, and they are expected to be dressed up on Thursday. That gives me 1 whole day to arrange outfits in a town where a lot of shops still shut for half a day on wednesday. It is bloody ridiculous.
My 2 DD's have managed to cobble something together with stuff they already have. Good job as I've got no money to buy anything with anyway.
DS hates dressing up, so I'm not forcing anything on him and will happily let him go in his uniform.

YANBU at all. I didn't even know it was world book day anyway, school had a book fair before half term but appear to be having another one this week!
DS gave me the message today that he needs to be dressed in pj's (?) on Thursday for reasons best known to his teacher. Haven't heard anything from DD's teacher yet.
Am trying to figure out a book featuring lots of pyjamas...

we had a letter today too...... dress up as a word

WTF??????

How do we do that then?

I think that the word uniform springs to mind!

Way too short notice. But you're not at school anymore! Stand up to the teachers - they can't set you lines anymore you know!

Rhinestone - I would. But...it's the thought of two small boys being disappointed that everyone else is dressed up apart from them.

It's a PTA thing, small village school. I expect many of the parents found out before half term via "grapevine" - but because I don't drop off or pick up (and my husband doesn't tend to talk to anyone when he does) we're probably the last to find out.

Pyjamas is the default world book day dressing up setting if you don't do a book costume - the idea is you read books before bed in your pyjamas, or something.

Actually, I think we may have a solution for boy 1 - I have a Gruffalo costume in my wardrobe (that I wore last year) and it's not too big. But it's not usually the sort of thing that parents have hanging about. Boy 2 is quite happy to be Dracula, despite not having read the book (he's 4).

Dressing up as a word - how about "blue" or "pink" depending on what colour clothes children have available?

Have you got a couple of white sheets? Twirl sheets round them in manner of a toga and say they're Roman emperors. Or ghosts!