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To have world book day rage

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Nocabbageinmyeye · 02/03/2017 15:23

Dd's school just piss me off, I have the rage Angry. World book dayday today, they never participate, ever, they are useless BUT dd has just come to to say they are allowed to participate and dress up as whatever they like - tomorrow!!! Like wtf??? World book day is today and at 3pm today where in the hell am I supposed to pull a costume from for tomorrow? We are rural so nowhere nearby, nearest town is 20 miles away Angry gobshites

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BobbieDog · 02/03/2017 15:27

I hate it. There are far too many dressing up expenses with school and nursery, it stresses parents out

rogueantimatter · 02/03/2017 15:28

Very annoying.

If she has a red hoody -little red riding hood?

Jayfee · 02/03/2017 15:33

jacqueline wilsons the tatooed mum...some of your clothes and some drawn on coloured in tatos??

Soubriquet · 02/03/2017 15:33

Easy

Muggle from Harry Potter
Famous five character
Anything with normal clothes

Allthebestnamesareused · 02/03/2017 15:34

There is another thread on MN somewhere with suggestions for costumes that you can cobble together at home!

missyB1 · 02/03/2017 15:34

I've no idea why schools think dressing up is the only way to take part? Hmm
My ds school don't dress up (thank God as I'm not at all creative), but they do a sponsored readathon for charity, and lots of other reading focussed activities.

Sixgeese · 02/03/2017 15:41

Percy Jackson character, Annabel Chase (or one of the many other Half blood girls) orange t shirt with Camp Half blood written on it.

DaffodilsAndCrocus · 02/03/2017 15:44

This year ours read- no dressing up!

DaffodilsAndCrocus · 02/03/2017 15:45

My niece once went as Hermione from Harry Potter- uniform and messy hair.

liz70 · 02/03/2017 15:47

Three DDs here. They've never been asked to dress up for any WBD in the thirteen years they've been attending school. Looks like we've had a lucky escape!

user1472308229 · 02/03/2017 15:52

My friend at work said her boy went as the dummy slappy from goosebumps. A suit a red bow tie and slick back hair is this is any good!

Bloodyworldbookday · 02/03/2017 15:56

have you got an old Halloween witch outfit? Worse Witch

Bloodyworldbookday · 02/03/2017 15:56

Worst even!

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Nocabbageinmyeye · 02/03/2017 15:59

Thanks a million for all the suggestions, I'm going to Google as I don't know them all. To make matters worse we have recently moved so a lot of our things are in storage, I have nothing at all crafty and only everyday clothes so I don't even have much to put something together from!

I honestly would have helped dd (11) put something together with notice but to tell us on world book day for the day after is super irritating, I wish they would go back to being useless as they were less annoying that way

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GlitteryFluff · 02/03/2017 16:02

There will be hundreds of parents selling off costumes on FB selling pages from today.
Get on there and ask if anyone's selling a WBD costume in your dd's size and you'll get loads of responses I would have thought, pick it up tonight.

DramaQueenofHighCs · 02/03/2017 16:07

Last year my DS went as one of the Secret 7. Shirt, trousers, trainers and a 'SS' badge made from cardboard with a pin stuck on.
Simple.

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Nocabbageinmyeye · 02/03/2017 16:09

Ah fb selling pages are a good idea GlitteryFluff , to be honest though at this late stage I actually don't think I'll put in that much effort, I doubt we will be the only ones to be honest, I'll lose my mother of the year certificate but hey ho

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poisonusnorks · 02/03/2017 16:12

Dress them up as George Orwell and have them read extracts from "Burmese Days" whilst smoking a pipe.
I hope this helps.

PuppyMonkey · 02/03/2017 16:14

Just get her to go in her pyjamas and a dressing gown and she's the little girl from the BFG.

spiderlight · 02/03/2017 16:16

That's ridiculous! Is it maybe jsut that the kids have all been asking today and the Head has just said 'Oh, go on then'. What about Pippi Longstocking - pinafore, stripy tights, pigtails, drawn-on freckles. My friend's daughter did this and looked fab.

milliemolliemou · 02/03/2017 16:19

try your best and just suggest to the school children reading their best bits - even from a comic - is a better celebration of WBD than dressing up

Areyoufree · 02/03/2017 16:20

@poisonusnorks I love your name and everything about you...Although, on reflection, have I made an error? Is it "poisonous norks", "poison u snorks" or "poison us norks"?

Megatherium · 02/03/2017 16:27

Leave them in uniform, say they're characters from Malory Towers or similar.

bibbitybobbityyhat · 02/03/2017 16:27

25 fucking threads about World Book Day in the past week! Enough already!!

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Nocabbageinmyeye · 02/03/2017 16:28

I don't think it is just the head giving into pressure on the day to be honest, she came home with a note and I don't think the head would be the type to give in to pressure from students. Her school are pretty useless to do anything to be honest but a new teacher joined last year and he is brilliant and wants the kids to have fun so I think the head might be feeling the pressure from him but is too used to being useless so only making a half arsed attempt. I would normally support stuff like this for the kids but its the ridiculous notice that gets to me.

I am loving all of the suggestions, dd is 11 so a little old for some of them, I just offered to pay her not to dress up Blush €2 and she is happy, that's probably shite of me.

Tomorrow is national pyjama day here (Ireland), all creches get involved and raise money for a national Children's charity, they could have just told them to do that, happy kids, happy charity and it would be on the actual day too which would make more sense

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