Book Week Ideas

[curlew]

Anybody got any ideas for a book week costume for a year 6 girl? We did Minnie the Minx last year, and her friend has already bagged Violet Beauregard. Trouble is, all the books for this age group seem to feature people who wear ordinary clothes - not much fun to dress up as! All ideas gratefully recieved!

Alice in Wonderland
Hermione from HP
Harriet the Spy

Lola from Charlie and Lola
The Worst Witch

dd2, age 5, is going as Captain Hook. DP and I have spent several evenings already pressganged into service making her costume. Sinsists on making it all from scratch.

dd1, age 6, is going as Tinkerbell as we have a tinkerbell dress.

My suggestions were a tiger (as in the tiger who came to tea) as we have a tiger costume already. or a spider (from Charlotte's web). Or a witch, from various books - Worst witch, little witch, etc. Or a cat, as in 6 dinner Sid which they've read at school.

that should be "She insists"....

When in Reception my ds went as MR Tickle from the MR Men books. I bought a cheap white t-shirt, 4 pairs of white knee-high socks and cheap white shorts and machine-dyed them orange. I made him a Mr Tickle Hat out of cardboard and painted it blue. He had his face painted orange. He wore one pair of the socks, and I stuffed the remaining pairs with newspaper, stitched them together and stitched orange marigolds onto the ends for hands. I then stitched these long arms onto the shoulders of his t-shirt so they dangled loose (leaving ds to use his 'real' arms for work/play/lunch etc)

He looked FANTASTIC if I may say so myself!!

How about the White Witch from The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe.

Thank you coral - I suggested it and it made her suddenly think she'd like to be Susan. Easy peasy - slighly modified school uniform, gas mask box and a bow and arrows sprayed silver. Remember this idea everyone for when your dds get older - it gets much harder to think of good costumes when they are 10!

But Susan is the really boring one, surely noone would ever want to be Susan?

I see you are now sorted but dd once went as JW's Illustrated Mum - loads of fake tats! Last time she went as Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) which was far harder for me. Next time we're using Celia Rees Pirates as inspiration.

my DD's have been red riding hood with basket of goodies (cakes to share), Dorothy (with toy dog)and Biff from the Biff and Chip stories (complete with magic key), Gingerbread man, (brown clothes with white card buttons sewn on) & snow white (they had been reading it in school and at least a dozen little girls all came as snow white as did the teacher)

My DS went as a thunderbird, harry potter, and bob the builder.

Love the Mr Tickle idea. Will try to pursuade my DS to go as this one but I know he will say he wants to be a power ranger