to HATE the whole dressing up thing at school?

[catwalker]

Am sitting here browsing the internet for ideas for my 10 year old son who has to dress up as a fictional character for school on Thursday. I REFUSE to buy anything special and he refuses to dress up in anything which anyone might laugh at. Quite frankly I've got better things to do with my time! We sort of managed to put together a Hagred outfit this evening - but it involves a cushion up his jumper, a big woolly brown blanket (cloak) and a beard on elastic (which he will refuse to wear of course). Problem is, it's all a bit too hot for this time of year!! If anyone has any easy and simple ideas I'd be ever so ever so grateful!! We've done Oliver Twist to death and I've no idea where the Harry Potter glasses have got to....

i feel your pain.
dd is doing the tudors and am so worried that she will need a costume.
when dd1 did the same topic i borrowed an outift, but i don't have the same contacts.
garrrrrrrrr

He could stay off and go as the invisible man?

Alex Rider

not much help there was i ?
sorry

James Bond? Really easy. Shirt, tie, plastic gun, hey presto!

Had just written James Bond and it disappeared! Tis a great idea.

Personally I'd leave the gun out of it though.

Ghost of Thomas Kempe?

White sheet - ta-daaa.

A chimney sweep? There were always chimney sweeps in Victorian novels. Tom from The Water Babies for example.

I hate World Book Day for this reason. Bloody nightmare. Buy him a striped t-shirt and tell them he's Horrid Henry.

If he's 10, then it's his problem. Give him a tenner and send him off to Oxfam to sort out his own costume.

Job done.

Pirate costume (for any number of fictional pirates).

Tell him to write a story about himself and then he is a fictional charcter

Charlie Bucket from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory?

Old scruffy clothes, preferably with holes, a bar of chocolate and a golden ticket?

Or as Just William?

Or in old fashioned clothing with a parcel and possibly a sign around his neck as an evacuee child? Like Willie from Goodnight Mr Tom?

Bloody hate it with a passion too. Sent ds to school in a football strip (he has several, being footie crazy) for book week - he has about 6 fictional books featuring football so it was a quite reasonable, no effort solution....

Some good suggestions - thanks everyone!

yanbu. I hate it hate it too!

I echo Thunderduck.

DS LOVED his book day costume and it was sooooooooooo easy and got loads of compliments.

I just got some elastic, some gold wrapping paper and some chocolate bars. Punched holes in chocolate bar wrappers, tied them together with elastic, and he wore them as a sash with the ticket in the middle.

It took less than 15 minutes and I got to eat the chocolate afterwards!

"He could stay off and go as the invisible man? "

Excellent!!

Have you decided what he'll be going as yet?

Harry Potter - school uniform with magic wand and a lipstick scar on head - done!

Know the stress though, they do this at my DD's nursery. She is 2! If I get creative with the sewing box she will look like a wally, if I buy something she will grow out of it by tomorrow. Can't win...

Problem solved - he's been unwell for a couple of days and so is off sick today!

In case he was feeling better we had prepared an outfit - a "Viscious (sp?) Viking from the Horrible History books. I have a real thing about not buying ready made outfits for these occasions - mainly I guess because I hate being pressured into spending money! So, he was going to wear a big old pashmina as a tabard (I'd cut a hole in for his head) and fastened it round his waist with a belt into which he could slide a sword. He had a brown cloak which was converted some years ago from a dressing gown. We also had a dressing up beard which he wouldn't wear as a beard (too scratchy/silly) so I sewed the hair round the base of a skull cap. I was also going to get him to tuck his trousers into his socks and do a criss cross thing over them with some rope. But it's all lying on the kitchen table and he's snoozing upstairs!!