Upload pics of your World Book Day costumes for chance to win £100 of books for your school's library

[RachelMumsnet]

World Book Day is looming (Thursday 5 March) and we're running a competition with Random House Children's books to celebrate the publication of a very special WBD Dinosaur That Pooped short story. We want you to show us your WBC costume ideas (past and present) to help inspire other mumsnetters when it comes to creating their costumes this year.

We'd like you to upload a photo of your costume onto this thread with basic instructions of how you made it (or put it together). We're going to be using some of the designs to make exclusive Mumsnet how-to videos by our production team which will be uploaded to our Youtube channel so others can replicate your costume.

One lucky winner (chosen by Random House Children's books) will receive £100 worth of books for a school library of their choice, whilst ten runners-up will receive a prize package containing a copy of the Dinosaur that Pooped a Planet signed by the authors, a copy of the Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas, a copy of the Dinosaur that Pooped the Past and a Pooping Dinosaur plush toy.

Read more about the Dino That Pooped series here

The competition closes on Friday 6th February so be sure to upload your picture before then. Good luck!

This competition is sponsored by Random House.

[GGrannyMN]

ZOMBIE THREAD

[Backingvocals]

These are all fab. You are all brilliant.

[croon979]

My 22 month son as Peter rabbit. He already had the onesie and the waistcoat. I made and sewed on the tail. I also made the bonnet. I bought bunny ears on a band and pushed them through an old hat turned inside out. Simple costume actually.

[Maneely123]

My daughters as fantastic mr and mrs Fox!
Very easy costume to make.
Mr fox: Lucy,s own jodhpurs, black boots and cream shirt, with her showing waistcoat, tweed jacket and tie. Orange and white face paint for simple face painting with black nose. Made tail from old kids fur jacket sleeves and attached with safety pins. Other sections of fur coat glued to McDonald's free batman masks for ears! lol
Mrs Fox: tail, face painting and ears same as above. Brown tights and boots over arms and legs. Yellow dress from charity shop and glued on cut out apples.

[RachelMumsnet]

Thanks to everyone who joined the thread and for the brilliant inspiring costume ideas. We've forwarded this thread over to Random House who will choose a winner and we'll announce the winner of the £100 books as soon as we hear back.

Over the next couple of weeks we'll be uploading all our World Book Day info including more costume ideas and info about the World Book Day books.

[Fe2O3Girl]

This is my older son who was 8 last year in his Snufkin (from the Moomins books by Tove Jansson) costume.

The hat was made from four triangular sections of felt with a flared out rounded edge at the shorter end. The longer edge of the triangles is the height I wanted the hat plus about 4cm to make a soft brim. The shorter edge is the circumference of his head divided by four plus a bit extra for seams. Sew the triangles together along the long edges. I hand sewed the yellow feather on to the hat.

The smock was made from one piece of fleece folded in half with the neck hole cut out of the folded edge. We cut simple arm shapes (so the folded material formed a T shape) and sewed up each edge to form the body and sleeve.

The outfit was finished off with a wide strip of yellow cotton for the scarf, and worn over green jogging bottoms.

He loved it, but no-one else had read the Moomins so everyone thought he was Robin Hood. So, if you want a Robin Hood outfit.....

[sasba]

My son is obsessed with the Guinness World Records so it was only fitting that he dresses as his favourite book

[Blatherskite]

DS was The Incredible Book Eating Boy.

This outfit was really easy. I couldn't find a red tshirt with orange stripes but it took about 20 minutes to paint them onto a cheap, long sleeved, red tshirt from ebay with orange fabric paint and actually, as the book is illustrated, it looked better with the painted stripes than it would have done with any other. Paired with jeans or blue trousers, he looks perfect.

I added the books logo to the front of the t-shirt but it really wasn't necessary.

Easy peasy outfit

[TenMinutesEarly]

Dd was Pippi Longstocking. She totally rocked the pigtails.

[AChocoLipsNow]

This was from a few years ago. Ds as Boris. I was Chuffed it turned out so well. I bought him an orange hoody, orange leg warmers and painted his face orange, for Boris's mouth i cut out a piece of cardboard, covered it with orange felt pieces, pink paper on the inside of his mouth and a foam red piece for the tongue and for his eyes a headband and i sellotaped on two eyes that i cut and coloured out of card. I attached string to it so he didn't have to wear the mouth all day and could take it off.

[Minisoksmakehardwork]

Dd1 was Zachary quack last year. Yellow t shirt, leggings and baseball cap. Friend made a yellow tutu to give the duckling feathery bottom effect. I stitched some felt to the brim of the hat to make the beak, coloured the vents on the hat black for eyes and made a dragonfly out of pipe cleaners then sewed that on to the hat. She looked fab [not modest at all].

Previously she went as the witch from room on the broom. So I found a purple skirt in a charity shop, teamed it with a pink cardi and a cloak. Made the very tall hat from black card and the long ginger plait from Orange wool (tied on her pony tail with a hair bobble) and finished with yellow ribbon.

This year she wants to be rapunzel. So I've got an appropriate (and non Disney) style princess dress coming from eBay and I'll make her long hair from wool again. Ds1 wants to go as the Incredible Hulk. Green Tea shirt, blue trousers and green trainers plus mask. All of which he already had. I'm quite proud of him asking to dress up tbh as he's never been a fan of dressing up and actively avoids it if he can.

[Sammyislost]

Harry Potter! We had been reading the books with him and watching the movies, and he has actually worn the costume at other times too!

[SpendingTimeOut]

It was tricky to think of a practical and suitable costume idea for my 5 yo DS for his traditional tales costume. We decided on Jack and the beanstalk. I ended up adapting some old clothes by covering up the holes with the hen and golden harp and some cleverly placed beanstalk leaves! The beanstalk and leaves were made from an old green tshirt (great as the fabric doesn't fray) and I used bits of craft felt and fabric scraps for the hen, harp and golden eggs. I used a glue stick to stick it all on and then machine and hand stitched but only because I like doing it I easily could have got away with just gluing! Hey presto!

[TitsCrossed]

DS was Mr Bump one year. Blue clothes, wrap bandages around. Easy!

[StillPukin]

Willy Wonka :D

[Yiska]

Oooh excellent this gives me the opportunity to boast about share a costume I made with DS a couple of years ago.

We used a big box and egg carton for the head spines, an old plastic ball cut in half and glued for the eyes and little cardboard teeth. The body was made by making holes in a piece of cardboard and pulling bits of old carrier bags through.

We made a tail by using brown paper tied with yet more old carrier bags and a couple of old broken rackets for wings.

(Looking back I clearly used to have far too much time on my hands... )

[Purpleflamingos]

Ds wore his skeleton Halloween onesie and we made these for his funnybones outfit.
He's currently growing his hair so he can be Horrid Henry this year.

[Beingme2014]

This is DD being matilda last year, charity shop dress and luckily BIL made the trolley. I'm in a firm believer in not spending much for book day!

[5madthings]

Madthing3 was fantastic Mr Fox, 4 was Mr strong.

Fox outfit, trousers, shirt and waistcoat we already had, bought tail, hat on fb and used face paints.

Mr strong invoked an old TV box and lots of red paint, cut holes for arms and head, drew on face. Hat out of cardboard and painted green.

Some great ideas on this thread!

[WellDidYa]

I made all of his costume - but couldnt decide how to do the mask, so painted/glued on on to flat cardboard and over his head

the cloak was one i made for his 'hobbit' phase

I also tweeted the pictures, and the author of the book re-tweeted... we were very excited

[WellDidYa]

my youngest as MouseGuard
www.mouseguard.net/

(i also do World Book Night every year, and we all read like crazy in our house)

[katymo]

DD went as Katy Morag. Charity shop jumper and skirt that I sewed/pinned to fit her, then I added blue ribbon for the zig zag. Green wellies. I plaited her hair to curl it but it did go a bit madly frizzy!

[LittleBoxes]

Goth Girl, last year. I adapted a nasty purple sequinny evening top I had hanging around (from New Look about 10 years ago, I think), with a purple T-shirt underneath. For the headdress, I stuck a silver cardboard crescent onto a plastic tiara and added a purple ostrich feather. Bought the elbow-length gloves from Amazon (and we'll use them again for this year's Dementor costume )

And we made the mouse from felt from a pattern we found on the web somewhere.

[HoneyBeeJS]

I 'sewed' this saber tooth tiger costume for my wee boy last year. I thought it would take me about an hour to make, in fact it took over four as I did it all by hand and I was covered in fluff by the end. I made it like a jumpsuit, then attached the arms to a black long-sleeved t-shirt so he wouldn't be itchy from direct contact with the furry body. Little does he know, but the ears were made using one of his little sister's hairbands, and his tail was stuffed with some outgrown pants. All good recycling On the morning, I discovered that my black face-paint crayon had disappeared so I completed the whiskers and teeth with eye-liners and some white paint. He was Boing Boing from the Chuggalug books and was delighted, so that made it all very worthwhile... I think

[BeCool]

DD went as Alice and it was an easy costume to knock together - Cinderalla dress she had "modified" herself, white tights, school shoes, hair band, sponge lollipop with "eat me" label.

She looked pretty good HOWEVER most girls in KS1 were also dressed as Alice :) and a few in KS2 also - I think it's a pretty easy "go to" costume for girls.

I'm scouring the thread for other ideas for this year.