To MAKE DD dress up for World Book Day?

[AwkwardMary]

She's 7 and in year three...she's not that keen this year...new school...she's not quite settled in yet though is getting there by increments.

It's a small school, very friendly and nice...I know that the vast majority will join in...if I let her go in her uniform then I feel I''m allowing her to be a bit of a wet blanket....something she sometimes does to feel safe.

SHe's ok in that she has made a couple of friends but she still sometimes feels a bit shy....I suggested going as Tracy Beaker where she can just wear a funky jeans based outfit but still be seen t join in...she seemed QUITE into the idea....has anyone got any advice?

Our prvious school was TINY...30 kids in all...the little girls were REAL little girls iykwim...thought nothing of being princesses at age 8 or 9....the kids here are more grown up I think....she mght be feeling like she doesnt know whats "cool".

What do I do?

It's bothering me a bit..anyone there with the answer?

i think tracy beaker is a good idea cause as you said it is just really jeans and a top so she will be seen to be joining in

My son is the same (7) and at a similar school. He's getting there but even so we had to revert to plan B on dress up for Chinese New Year day.
He isn't into dressing up and even the most blinding brilliant costume didn't cut it. He liked something that was either exactly the same as it "should" look or something safe that came from him even though I thought it as dull as.

School uniform doesn't seem to be a problem in out school TBH on dress up days. There are always some and they don't seem to feel left out . However I have found that if I don't keep on too much and just ask him he usually will put something on. The one time he wore uniform was totally down to me insisting what he wanted to wear wasn't Victorian enough. Big mistake on my part and refusal to wear anything on his.

Ha I can relate nothinggold...I don't think I have gone on about it but she seems obsessed now! Asking "what can I go as??" and everything I tell her she's not happy with...she COULD be excited I suppose.

She just said she wanted to go as me.

How about keeping the school uniform but adding a cape and a wand and doing a Harry Potter theme? Sort of a half-way house?

Offered that blackpudding she went

Mathilda?

Sorry that's all I can think of...will repost if I can think of ayone else.

Good luck!

Aie me. I think I will send her as something utterly bizzarre like Mother Theresa. That'll befuddle them. Or Toyah. She can take my vintage copy of Smash Hits as her "Book".

I like your thinking OP!

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Picks at scab.

bloody world book day, the stress it creates!!!! go with the tracey idea

Do you think so?

[dithers]

Hmmm...Mein Kampf is a book...

Do you know what her new friends are going as? My DD has always enjoyed dressing up in theme with some of her friends. If she doesn't know, do you know any of their parents well enough to ask?

But my DS in contrast has never once dressed up for it. Their school doesn't have uniform so I guess he stands out a bit less, but he just doesn't do dressing up at all, ever. Once said to me it felt a bit like lying - I think he was genuinely uncomfortable with the idea. He's an otherwise happy and confident child.

If her friends will do a group one then put them all in PJs and send them in as the sleepover club?

She could go as one of them, of course, but might feel a bit self conscious...

Aaaaaaah good old World Book Day. My DD1, also in Year 3, wants to go as Amadala from Star Wars. Not even a blinking book is it! Wish me luck with that costume. I am not all that handy. DD2 is in Y1 and is happy to go as a fairy ballerina from one of her Tilly books.

Now. Your DD. Are there any sports she likes and has the kit for (not swimming obviously) but football or a martial art? Then you just have to find a matching book. Try searching on Amazon.

Does she have a close-ish friend at the new school yet? I have seen Thing 1 and Thing 2 done very effectively. Very fun.

Other popular ones that are not too much trouble (hopefully!):

Pippi Longstocking (any outfit with striped socks, hair in plaits)
Anne of Green Gables (plain dress, apron, straw hat)
Cat in the Hat (black outfit, White paper circle on tummy, black hat, whiskers)
Anything vampire-y (although this seems to be the older girls)

HTH.

DS never been keen on dressing up so I tend to go for the anyone who wears jeans and a tshirt option. He has been Kipper from the reading books before, could DD be one of the girls from her reading book?

It's hard to arrange group things realy as they're a bit young to come up with these themselves and her friends parents though I have met them, are always in work. They arrive with nannies or neighbours iykwim.

I COULD call but I don't want to have a big job with it all. It's a pita isnt it with only a day or two.

She might go for a vampire type thing...Chewbecca her eading book is about a bloody Unicorn...she's NOT going as one of those!

tiggy I am tempted.

Rainbow Magic books are your friend here - pair of wings and a tracksuit and she is "Wendy the Warthog Fairy" or whatever.

I was going to suggest what are they reading in school. DS had an army dress up uniform so went as Bertie from the Butterfly Lion last year. This year he has a king/knight costume so I've suggested either Macbeth (which they'll be studying after easter) or Aragon from Lord of of the Rings. He's picked Aragon as he doesn't know how good the story of Macbeth is yet.

I saw thing 1 and thing 2 done last year by the school twins (small school)

I've also seen many Horrid Henry's, Moaning Margarets and Sour Susans :o

ds1s going as cat in the hat, partway through his costume now, ds2 going as thing 1, just finished sewing his

usually our schools give hardly any warning for stuff like this and i end up not bothering, this time they gave us over a weeks notice!!