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.

[vicki77]

Aliens Love Underpants. Red jeans and top and sewed some purple spots on. Comic relief deeley poppers, red face paint with spots and finally some bikini bottoms on top of the jeans. But you can choose any colour you like!

[stealthsquiggle]

No dressing up for us this year (or not that I am aware of)...but I am delighted to say that one of my previous creations has been sent off to be recycled and significantly improved upon by another MNer, who can share the results if she wants to

[Loula117]

DS2 wanted to be Paddington, so I just sewed some toggles onto his normal school coat as we didn't have a duffle, tied on a 'please look after this bear...' label and he wore an old hat of mine. We made some pretend marmalade with orange paper and a round tupperware pot, as the school wouldn't have wanted glass. I would have drawn a bear's nose on him with eyeliner, but they had to get changed at school for some reason. Cuddly Paddington had to come along too of course.

DS1 was Wally of 'Where's Wally?' fame. Stripey top, his Arsenal beany hat, and some of those 3D cinema glasses without the lenses. Done! (Hammy acting all DS1's own work). Oh, and I got a walking stick from a charity shop for him too.

[Loula117]

Just found a pic from a previous year too. DS1 was being Asterix, I added some cardboard 'wings' to a helmet, and he wore a pinned and belted vest top of mine, plus check pyjama bottoms and a blonde stick on moustache! Not forgetting the sword of course.

DS2 was a pirate, I can't remember which of his many pirate books it was from.

[Segga86]

My DD went as little Miss muffet had bought outfit prior for something a fancy dress party then used also at Halloween for a killer doll

[clopper]

She went as Meg from Meg and Mog one year. We made a robe from black material and a black pointed hat from black sugar paper. The cauldron was card and the animals are made from pipe cleaners, feathers and craft foam. One year we did the knave of hearts from Alice in Wonderland: We made large playing cards to hang back and front, a crown, tights, a drawn on mustache and a plate of jam tarts. I have also made a huge paper mache shell, a mask and green tights and she went as the tortoise from Esio Trot- that was a bit of a massive undertaking.

[vicki77]

Saucepan man from the Faraway Tree. I fastened toy saucepans and kettles onto her top and we made a large saucepan hat out of cardboard and tinfoil. Very simple! (Although her teacher did comment on the large amount of clanging and banging throughout the day - oops!)

[LibraryWhisper]

A few years ago my daughter dressed up as the Little Princess. She reminded me of her anyway so it seemed a good idea. I made the white nightdress from an old sheet and the crown was made from stiff white material with yellow felt stuck to it. I did the make-up and crimped the hair and voila! she had the attitude and scootered off to school with her teddy Gilbert.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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!

[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)

[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

[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!

[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!

[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.

[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... )

[StillPukin]

Willy Wonka :D

[TitsCrossed]

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

[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!

[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!

[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.

[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.