Wibu to send ds as Spider-Man for World Book Day?

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Seems we missed the letter stating that they'd be dressing up (as usual), I check his bookbag everyday but we had no letter. Apparently it contained lots of cheap ideas.

Found out today they're dressing up on Thursday.

Which leaves me tomorrow to sort something out, and I'm at work tomorrow.

Ds has various character costumes but technically non from books.

He has no striped Dennis the Menace/Where's Wally type tshirts.

What do we do?

Zany - would HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy do? Send DS in his dressing gown, and voila - Arthur Dent.

I think that last year every single boy in my class was spiderman/batman and each girl was a princess.
I couldn't give a fig. Every year I dress as a witch, couldn't tell you which one though. Might be Meg, Winnie, someone from Harry Potter...........

peri belle is not a random disney princess, she is a french literary character who has been around since the 1700s disney has just given her a recognisable face hows that for world book day!

yanbu at all, my dd was going to go in in normal clothes and one of her soft toy dogs on a lead as Ellie from the Naughty Little Puppy books - we are currently reading book number 6 of about a trillion

That is super, smeg. Thanking you.

Captain Hook? Piratey clothes, rag toes around his head and a tin foil / Tescos party hook?

Thesecows - now that would have been easier than an Ewok!

Isn't the point to encourage kids to love reading.

So if they love reading Spider-Man so bloody what?

It's not like they're reading the Booker list at 6 is it?

After creating an epic costume for the Christmas nativity I'm perfectly cool with him wearing a pre-made costume.

I can use the money I save to buy more books.

Tied not toes!

Our school has specified 'animals in books' fucking yay. I thought Fantastic Mr Fox as super easy but DS1 has vetoed that and wants to go as something from Beast Quest with 6 heads and horns or something. Any suggestions oh wise mumsnetters blatant hijack

Didn't realise that people were so sanctimonious and judgemental about superheroes.

Oh. No. Do.I. look. like. I. give. a . xxxx?

My ds really wants to be Scooby Doo btw.

World book day costumes can fuck themselves. What is the point? To showcase whose mummy has most time and money to devote to a costume to be worn precisely once, and whose mummy doesn't give a fuck?

Whoop de fucking doo.

Educational my arse.

Isn't a human actually an animal? As in animal, vegetable or mineral?

This is a few years since for me but I was led to this thread as I was informed there was some unintentional hilarity

well done, fudge

anyway, my ds won Book Day thingy one year by going as Just William on next to no preparation. I cut down some too-short grey school trousers (phew, grey uniform) and hemmed into shorts, white shirt/t shirt with smudges of dirt, ditto bare knees, skew wiff school tie, freckles painted on face with eyebrow pencil, catapult fashioned out of three twigs from garden

voila!

Yep agapanthers I have working mum guilt enough without world book day costume bother. It's all good fun enough but I'd be happy if he just read more or they had a book fair or something, an author visit.

Nation - lots of animals in Narnia. Sword, tail and hat? Reepicheep the fighting mouse. Tail and big teeth - Mr or Mrs Beaver. Black stripe down his face and a target on his back Mr Badger.

"I can use the money I save to buy more books."

This. Exactly this. I hate World Book Day and I'm a librarian. It is about the books, goddammit! I'm all for schools celebrating it by having a literary theme for the day and planning lessons and activities and assemblies round that. Eg. Make a mini chocolate factory for Design and Technology for a Charlie and the C. F. theme. Have a diary theme for Literacy, or comic book theme in art. But expecting parents to fork out for materials and spend precious time traipsing between tesco and the charity shop and amazon to cobble something together that will be used on one single day is just not on. Parents are already having to pay out for uniform (which gets lost often!). regular replacement of school shoes, coats. That is enough! People quite reasonably want to use what they already have at home and be done with it. The older pupils get the more likely they have grown out of their dressing up clothes from when they were into dressing up when younger so it becomes difficult. It takes all the fun out of the day. Older primary boys in particular are just not into dressing up anymore and just find the whole day a stressful nuisance which defeats the whole object of it being to celebrate the fun of books.

I write the same post every year! I just think it's got completely out of hand. It seems to be a choice between a generic boy or girl character (or superhero or princess for younger ones) OR spend a load of time (which working parents don't have) or money sourcing bits and bobs for a more imaginative costume.

Meh.....

Be grateful it's a character! In my school for book day we have all got to wear bloody onsies!! (WHY?!)

I'm 46 and I don't want to wear a onsie!! I am having to borrow one of DS2's (he's 16 so it's huge) which is a wolf onsie. My colleagues are a reindeer and a water melon

Worst of it is DS2 has an appointment at CAHMS straight from our special school..no time to change. They are going to make some interesting conclusions about us!

As a veteran of years of this malarky I def agree with the sentiment 'Educational my arse'

There are many things in life I like, love or hate, but at no time have I ever felt the need to qualify my feelings by dressing up as anything to underline the point. It's madness.

Why, why must every topic at primary school (not just WBD - if only it were) default to dressing up to ram it home?

It's all just a load of snow and hoopla to make it look like more is going on re 'learning' than actually is.

No, I don't agree with superhero costumes for the sole reason that the boys who tend to come dressed as Superman/Spiderman etc are the ones who like to spend most of their time at school making guns/swords/doing karate kicks/talking about video games where 'you shoot people and then cut them open with a knife and its really cool and its called shooting game' and it just makes them even more likely to spend the day in some sort of play battle and louder than ever.

Very easy to be a book character from a more traditional story. A costume for children can be very simple, say all pink for a pig or a mouse, a traditional party dress for someone like Alice, grey for a wolf, green with some leaves for Peter Pan. Its parents who stress themselves out making the costume really cool when it doesn't have to be.

I dont even know if DDs school is doing it, if they are she will be rapunzel, sleeping beauty or minnie mouse...

I dont even know if DDs school is doing it, if they are she will be rapunzel, sleeping beauty or minnie mouse...