World Book Day...so what did your kids go as?

[LGoodLife]

...and how much stress was that!

dd1 went as the white rabbit from alice in wonderland
all home made (phew!)
i was most smug when all the other girls in the class turned up in their asda/tesco HSM cheerleader or princess costumes

sleeping beauty.....no stress at all [cop out emoticon]

For some reason the school ds is at don't do the dressing up bit anymore.

last year dd went as the cat inthe hat and i was most proud but a girl who had on a disney princess woolies bought outfit won the first prize

Was she one of the loud, always talking to the teacher types NP? I find they win every bleeding thing at school.

Pirates...
One may go as a spy with a newspaper with eye holes, sun glasses and a fake beard or a hat.
They have gone as a Knight before, a spider and a tiger......all, except the knight, homemade because I haven't enough to do!

the child isnt but her mother is

also i think it was her birthday. maybe has a point, but most unfair i think

The teachers dressed up too - one as Harry Potter with paper glasses!

Ds was Mike Wasowski (yes I have a costume bought from ebay many moons ago, no frantic sewing here)

I am a memeber of staff there so had to dress up to. I was Mary Poppins and was practically perfect in every way.

an enormous sponge bob walked past the house this morning
it was THE best ever dress up outfit i have ever seen

LOL!!! at the spongebob - how surreal!

ours is tomorrow, dd1 is going as Meg and her friend will Mog, it was nice and easy as dd1 had a witches outfit from Halloween (a bit of a cop out really).

The school decided to have a World Pyjama Day instead. We have a few inches of snow here (hooray) so dd decided to go in her normal uniform - too bloody cold for pjs. No stress at all, except the school phoned us to take dd home at 10.30.

OK, call me pedantic... but I thought the point of dressing up on World Book Day was to dress up as a book character?

I steadfastly refuse to let the DCs go as anything that wasn't a book first....

You are pedantic. Its hard enough thinking of something at 8 am on book day. We had Darth Vadars,storm troopers, all sorts at school today.

Ours is tomorrow

DS1 is Mr Funny

DS2 is Mr Tickle

I am Little Miss Contrary!

All homemade too. and I have been organised for 3 weeks!

Tsk, Tsk...

Should we perhaps rename it 'World Crappy costume from Asda Day' then do you think?

am so relieved that we don't have to do this now ds is at secondary school - hooray !!!!!!

NS, I like your style!!

Agree absolutely with mrsmaidamess. Otherwise it's a complete waste of time.

The thing is, the way childrens literature is now, there ARE books with Darth Vadar etc in...I know in a pure sense they shouldn't be allowed, but if the character is in print somewhere I think its fine.

NS - agree so much with you there ! it used to annoy me no end...

Katie Morag. Wellies, her own kilt and a T-shirt with a zig zag line painted around the neck.

Effort pretty minimal and I she definitely got brownie points for actually being from a proper book.

oh i love katie morag
dds teacher went as grannie mainland - it was hilarious

Me too, nailpolish. I'd have loved to see grannie mainland.

DD's teacher was Mrs Wobble the Waitress and carried it off with great aplomb.