World Bookday Costume angst

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It will be upon us before we know it - tell me about your winning costumes so that I can shamelessly copy start considering what to suggest to my DS and is within the realms of my very limited cobble-up-ability.

DS and mates have often gone in football kit as 'player from football annual'. Extremely handy for me!

My son has chosen Tintin which is fairly easy - white shirt, blue jumper, brown trousers rolled up and long socks. Plus of course a quiff.

However, my daughter wants to go as Janet from the Secret Seven. I am stuck! They don't have a school uniform at her school so I can't even fall back on that...! Anyone else ever done an Enid Blyton costume?

Justturned40, what about a plain skirt (ideally plain blue/grey/brown) plus a blouse and a round necked cardigan. Mary Jane shoes plus ankle socks. Plain cardigans seem really fashionable at the moment, my DD's seem to have a few each. A boring colour like grey or navy would be best!

Plus, (if she has hair in a bob or longer) a side parting, then take the big side into a bow on the side.

Arrrgggghhh my DS's primary school has decided that to 'save stress' instead of our children wearing a costume, we have to bring in a piece of fruit or vegetable or egg dressed as a book character faints
any ideas welcome.... Keep looking at our fruit bowl for inspiration... Can a kiwi fruit look like a gruffalo or not?!

Draw red stripes on an egg - where's Wally!

Our school have never asked for fancy dress in world book day........until now!

Ds1 wants to go as Jeremy Clarkson, all good. Ds2 wants to go as Harry Potter so I've cheated and bought the cloak.

DS1, who is screamingly camp aged nearly 9, wants to go in full make-up and be Aunt Sponge. I can lend him a dress and stuff it with cushions if need be. DS 2, trying to helpful as he knows I hate dress-up days at school with no notice (our school has never done World Book Day before and now has suddenly announced it will, with 6 days to go), said "I know Mummy, why don't I just be a shepherd again". So he is either 'someone from the bible' (although he doesn't know what the bible is), or he might go as himself but have a bottle with some liquid and a label that says 'Grandma's Marvellous Medicine', and he can be the eponymous George.

PMSL at the notion that dressing a kiwi fruit as a book character would "save stress". Someone in your school clearly lives on a different planet from the rest of us .

clareanna paint an egg gold and send it as the golden egg from jack and the beanstalk?

DD has informed me today that she wants to go as George from the Famous Five.
I reckon that, in a school filled with people dressed as disney princesses, harry potter etc, people won't "get" who she is!

Faced with DD's request to be the White Witch from Narnia on Friday (we possess no white dresses) I came up with a solution - choice of

1. jeans and red and white striped top - Where's Wally (thanks Mumsnet for that one)
2. DH's brown dressing gown, DS's PJs and a small box with 'Don't Panic' on it - Arthur Dent from the Hitchhikers Guide (she has read it but I don't think her classmates would recognise it)
3. Track suit and a home made MockingJay brooch - Catniss Everdene.

The first 2 were non-starters as I'd suspected but she jumped at the third, changing it to a blue dress (which she already has) for Catniss at the Reaping.

Bingo (and as she's in year 5 only one more year to go)

dd and her friend (Y5) are going as the twins in 'My Sister the Vampire'

No problem with costume, as just girly clothes (light and dark), but they apparently NEED identical green rings. One more year, one more year, one more year...

(dd2 is going as Matilda, which is basically school uniform - phew)

Some cardboard & tin foil = the Saucepan Man from The Faraway Tree!

I let my child dress up as any thing and say its from the dicsonary

Counts yourselves lucky folks our school has decided to forgo the bookday theme and instead opted for Fairtrade fortnight so DS has to go dressed as a Fairtrade fruit. There isn't a pair of yellow trousers or top to be found anywhere within a 20 mile radius.

Fuxache. DS1 is bloody 3! He detests dressing up. I knew I shouldn't have picked thursdays for nursery .

If I send him in wearing jeans & top holding a bucket and some dinosaurs that he will promptly put down and lose the moment he gets in the nursery door will I get away with it?

Bloomin school only told us yesterday they are doing it they don't normally (which I've always thought was a shame) but 2 days notice! I've ransacked the house this morning and come up with The Little Princess for youngest big white t shirt, homemade crown, wellies & messy hair, older daughter Esmarelda, sandals, floaty gypsy skirt, white blouse, scarf around waist another round her hair which I'll plait the night before so it goes curly. Just hope they'll go for that or it'll be down to asda for a couple of Disney Princess dresses

Gandalf, get him any cheap pale brownish or grey onesie, add paper crown? Stick on a furry tail if your resources stretch that far.

My DD who is in Yr 2 loves Book Day...me not so much! She is currently working her way through the entire Roald Dahl collection and has decided she wants to go as Veruca Salt this year. Purple skirt, cream furry coat, bow in her air and carrying a golden ticket and a wonka bar. And possibly a bag of nuts as we've failed to track down a cuddly squirrel! Last year she went as the Roly Poly Bird.

Dchildrens nursery is asking for costumes. Dd is 2 and ds 6 months, any ideas? We have the following items of clothes:

A pink tutu
Fairy wings
Black and white stripes dress
Red and white stripes top
Black top
Purple spotty top
Dungarees
Jeans

Baby has mainly sleepsuits and leggings, tops, dungarees.

Any suggestions?

Ds doesn't like dressing up. He's going as John Grogan, author of Marley and Me. This involves normal clothes and ddog's lead. Think I will take care of the lead once everyone's seen it, though!

my kids are easy. Yr1 DD is going as Fireman Sam LOL.... she loves him and the book and well we have the costume already and DS Yr3 is going as roman footballer from the Frank Lampard books. :-)

Easy peesey

Need some quick advice. dd is year 3 and had a girl pirate costume. Thing is there isn't a pirate she could say she is. Can anyone tell me a girl pirate story character in a book that,someone if her age might read or know of? Thanks

Pirate Gran. It's a picture book about the adventures Gran had when she was a young pirate on the Black Barnacle, before she saved Grandad from the pirates and fell in love.

Damn it, I read that as 3 year old not year 3, Vicky from the Pirate School books?

I was tempted to do DS as the invisible man, but DH didn't think that was quite in the spirit of the day -DS and I would have been happy doing something on our own for the day, while I got DH to walk to school on his own and pretend to hand him over at the door.

So, he's going as a fireman from Fireman Sam.