World Book Day

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Is on 1st March. I thought some costume ideas might be helpful? Son 1 has decided he would like to go as Dracula or Pikachu (handy, as we have stuff for both of those costumes) and Son 2 is going to wear his cowboy outfit.

I'm going as Wee Willie Winkie. No, I'm not an over-keen parent, I'm a teacher and we have to dress up as well.
I was Wally last year, the Gruffalo the year before.

I am going as the very hungry caterpillar (work in a library).

Green clothes, with boot shapes sewn on at the side. Mum found a puppet set with a little fabric piece for each thing the caterpillar eats, which she sewed onto the tshirt for me.

Loving all these ideas!

Mad panic here- DD(11) was going as Thing 2 with her friend as Thing 1 . Friend has decided to dump her today (grr) , so cue DD comes home in tears as a) hurt by so called friend and b) doesn't have anyone to go as.

I dropped everything and we ran into town to the nearest charity shop.1 black skirt, white blouse and a new toilet brush later , to add to holey tights , an old v neck jumper, pair of plain glass specs, a old grey stripey tie and some left over halloween cobwebs and we have Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter.

Grey face paint and bunches and we're all happy

DS2 is going as Abel Magwitch, from Great Expectations (having eliminated Pip from consideration as we didn't have a top hat).

Ds is going as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I am just going to put a cushion underneath an old white shirt. I really can't be arsed.
My dh said that my ds should go as the Emperor in The Emperor's New Clothes, starkers.

Noone is dressing up for World Book Day in DDs school, as it is trumped by St Davids Day [where's the daffodil emoticon?!].

Shawls, Bonnets and rugby shirts all round .

DS is going as Charlie Bucket. Some old clothes that are slightly too small we've 'scruffed up' a bit, golden ticket made out of a bottle bag, large bar of chocolate with a Wonka logo stuck over the supermarket name. Maybe I'll think about a smear of dirt on one cheek in the morning

ds1 (10) is going as Where's Wally (red/white striped jumper, red hat, 3d cinema glasses with the lenses popped out) - ok not very literary, but it is a book character. ds2 (4) is Harry and the bucket full of dinosaurs (jeans, red sweatshirt, blue bucket, toy dinosaurs). Total effort almost nil, and all stuff we'd got already!

Sorry if it's been mentioned already re: 1001 Dalmations> for a daughter with long black/brown hair how about Cruella De Vil? White wool hair extension, make up and some of mums more glamorous clothes!

DD is going as Lucy from Narnia using an old maroon bridesmaids dress and gold belt. DS is going as Diary of a Wimpy Kid (I know, sigh) - easy that one - black shorts, white t shirt, black rucksack, diary and you're done.

Not feeling particularly creative this year. Past years we have had Cat in the Hat, Pippi Longstocking, Anne from Famous Five, Go Diego Go (I know, not a book, I know...)the usual Disney Princesses and countless others I prefer to forget.

I fear their new school this year will be full of rather competitive costumes perfectly sewed and finished off. Never mind.

Son's friend is going in her Brownie uniform, because she is currently reading a book with Brownies in it. I think that's genius.

DD y3 going as Jessie, Toy Story as she has a costume from a theatre show which still fits.

Has anyone seen any willy wonka golden tickets anywhere that I can print out? The only one I've seen is coming out tiny and I don't know how to make it bigger!

We got a gold bottle bag from Sainsburys, cut out a rectangle shape (glued both sides together) and wrote a suitably blurby type 'invitation' on in pencil so it looked etched.

Our kids have to dress up on Friday.

DD is going as Alice in Wonderland, she still just fits into the costume, although we shall have to custom make a hairband as we can't find the one from the costume, which is actually too small anyway.

DS was supposed to be going as Philleas Fogg, but the top hat DH has made (from cardboard) is far too wacky, so instead he's going as the Mad Hatter. At least he can just wear the same trousers, shirt and blazer he would have worn for Fogg. As far as taking the books in with them goes, it just means that one will have to take in 'Wonderland' and the other 'Through the Looking Glass'.

LittleMissGreen I'm pretty insistent that the character they go as must be from something which was a book first. Unfortunately that ruled out 'The Man With No Name' from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly trilogy, as that was a film first. DS would have loved to go as him, we went to see the Spaghetti Western Orchestra recently and he's been playing their CD to death ever since. :)

ds 1 is going as a bunch of grapes - just loads of green balloons attached to him - He's in a bad mood (can't think why ) so is "The grapes of Wrath " lol

ds 2 has red towel cape and pants on outside trousers - Captain Underpants

dd is Slinky Malinkid - black tights and tshirt and fur ears attached to a headband. Tail is a leg of my opaque black tights.

St David's day so no book day :( I do know some schools which are doing it Friday instead but ours isn't. But if they were she would probably pic moody Margaret.

Just what we all need on the morning that secondary school results come out - [arrgghh].

LunarSea - In my Y1 we are ALL going as Where's Wally. And it is also very very apt for this year's WBD as one of the books on the £1 thing is Where's Wally?

DS (YR) is going as Peter Pan. At nursery he went as Mog the Forgetful Cat. I have been getting excited for weeks. I love WBD (but realise I am a time rich/outside interest poor tragedy of a modern woman) :(

DS has been desperate for an outing for his fireman's costume so he's wearing that. Unfortunately he's well into Beast Quest which doesn't really fit (although Ferno the Fire Dragon might I suppose). Anyhow his favourite book of the moment happens to be a step by step drawing one which includes a fireman so that's OK, but I'm pretty sure he's meant to take a story book? There's no telling him though!

My dd is going as Moody Margaret from the Horrid Henry books. No change there then ....

To whoever said their school bans footballers: my son is a Chelsea fan, and has the strip of course. We are so lucky, because that fits Michael Morpurgo's "Billy the Kid" which we have read and indeed seen at the theatre. I defy the school to say that Michael Morpurgo doesn't count as a proper book! Effort - nil, costume - 100%. Phew!

DS1 - Percy Jackson, he had an orange T-shirt so we wrote 'Camp Half-Blood' on it and he's made a paper watch, trying to work out how it can transfrom into a shield.. he's on his own with that one
DS2 - hates dressing up, but came up with 'The Incredible Book-Eating Boy' on his own, so he can wear own clothes and we've cut bites out of some old and duplicate books as props
DS3 - in deadlock over whether Ben 10 qualifies

gaelicsheep with the beast quest fan - DS2 was Tom last year, we did a cardboard shield with the six tokens on, quite fun to make

my dc's school have themed book day this year. dd (yr 5) is doing bedtime stories so the whole class is going in pj's, ds (yr 2) is doing fairy stories so is going as peter pan.