WORLD BOOK DAY is nearly upon us! what will your child be wearing?

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Our theme this year for Thursday 1 March is nursery rhymes......

DD (6) will be wearing her black skinny jeans, black boots, black vesty top and a fake dragon tattoo from Claire's Acessories and quiffy hair!!!

I couldn't could I (!!)

Maybe I will be brave and ask why not They don't do children in need either.

TBH they are pretty tuned in to the fact that 95% of the mums work and I suspect costume requests may not go down well with some.

Oh no, do primary schools do this too? Thought it was only nursery. Darn.

Still, here's a cheap idea - use an old T-shirt and buy some fabric pens from Poundland. Voila - your child is rocking EB White (see profile pics of then 18-month-old DD).

itsonlyyearfour:

We got 2 weeks notice and I know a lot of parents bought costumes. For girls in reception it was easy, a lot of fairies, witches, princesses etc.

I found DD's costume as Pippi easy: too short blue dress, stripped T-shirt, one pair of tights with stripes and the cut-off leg of a white pair, plaited pig-tails and spots on her face.

Any ideas of how I can do a Roald Dahl character for a 7 year old boy?

DD will be Alice in Wonderland whether or not she likes it because we have a ready made costume and I need one more brainwave.

Nothing. Thankfully our school doesn't buy in to this sort of thing!

nothing?

like as in the Emperor's New Clothes?

DC's school has a book week in October rather than doing WBD when it actually it. So I have a few months to think of something.

The simplest young boy costume I ever did was Harry from Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs. Ordinary clothes, plastic sand bucket with a couple of plastic dinos stuck in! Great for the reluctant dress-uper.