To dress dd up as dracula for World Book Day as we have no other costume?

[Rhubarb]

It's a book after all! I'm working and have no time to get a costume, I only remembered today, I'm a bad mum. But would it be so bad to put her in a vampire costume and send her as Dracula?

Well, even though this is a zombie thread, my schools doing the same again on Friday as its world book day again, so it might help someone!

I hate world book day dress up, its nothing but a pain in the arse.

Thanks. I think I can do a pirate. :)

Ds1 wants to go as a dwarf! I have an oversized t-shirt, black belt and either black pj bottoms or navy joggers. I am going to make him a hat and a beard and maybe some boot shapes to go over his shoes.

Bobble hat, scarf, stripey top, round glasses (drawn on)= Where's Wally.

Or

Don't turn up for school= Went as Where's Wally, but no-one could find me

Harry Potter is easy with a cloak and specs and lightning scar painted on forehead. Was a bit shocked at last school Book Day,when a Year I boy came as the Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. His mum cannot have read the book.

I'll take any ideas. DS wants to go as Ben 10. It's not a frickin' book character .
He then pipes up, he is mummy, look. And pulls off his bookshelf a sodding paperback version of one of the cartoons MIL bought him.

Try to tell him it's not a real book and when he says "what is it then" tell him it is merchandise and only counts if the book came before the cartoon.

Well that just says its all doesn't it. It's BOOK week and kids are dressing up as comic / movie characters. Christ on a bike....

Snow white and the seven dwarves is a fairytale before a film ect so I reckon we should be ok. Ds1 has only heard of it from books at home ( we have 3 versions which differ slightly) and as a panto, we have never seen the film version.

Blimely who digs these threads up - over four years old !

Twofairiesandapixie - start a new thread ???

My DD's teacher (reception) dressed up as the gruffalo full on costume not a 'made at home one' - Many of the children had to be talked into his classroom that day... DD cried she LOVES Mr XX and just could seen he was in there under the material/makeup ;)

Last year she dressed up as a pirate - easy peasy jeans and a stripy shirt and eye patch and we made a tin foil sword .

Its the Easter bonnet parade that bug's me.... now the twins are involved thats 3 x hat's they will have to make and there is ALWAYS 'that' mum who did an art degree and spends hours painting/moulding./faffing about... mine get a hat from the £ shop some plastic chicks and the contents of the 'sticky' drawer to go made with ;)

Veruca Salt sounds great!! DD went as Willie Wonka last year as I had a bright purple shirt I'd got in charity shop (for about ?1 - I wanted the fabric to sew with really) that I cut the front off with pinking shears and cut the back into tails, made a top hat from a cereal box, a cane from a wooden dowel and wooden knob glued together (no paint even) and 2 golden tickets. (It was the easiest way to solve the problem of school only telling us the day before!!).

There were LOADS of Wallys and Happy Potters. And Disney princesses.

We must have a chat over the weekend to think about options (preferably ones that don't involve me sewing - and definitely not buying an outfit - maybe a few bits like a wooden dowel, but not a commercial outfit).

I realised yesterday that it's coming up again

Fantastic idea! Bram Stoker's Dracula is an excellent piece of literature.

Sorry didn't read the date before posting - my bad. I still say send them to school as dracula though. None of this sparkly vampire crap.

Why do people do this???? Resurect such old threads I mean. FIVE YEARS. How do they even find it to bring it back to life. And WHY???

Twofairiesandapixie If you wanted to ask about World Book Day why not just start a thread on it? How long did it take to find an old one to use? And surely there were suitable old ones that weren't as old as this?

I just typed "World Book Day" into the search talk box and the first thread to come up was from March 2005.

I think that must be what happened with this one. And you expect the first post to be the most recent.