Hooray! It's National Book Day! How Are you adressing the mindless demand to dress up as characters?

[Blu]

Oooh, my favourite, this one!

I was all for ignoring it this year, but Ds has become all enthusiastic and since he is missing so many of the school 'treats' atm, I a playing along.

But I am quite proud of my minimalist solution!

DS is currently glued to the Secret seven books - so he has made a SS badge, and a cardboard cut-out of Scamper. Scamper will be attached to the side of DS's wheelchair, he has a collar and lead, and DS will hold the lead so that it looks as if Scamper is running alongside!

brilliant

ds went as Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs last yr..nice and easy

THat's come around quickly. Last year I made DS2 a Mr Strong costume (cardboard box painted red, red trousers etc) and he was ILL so never got to wear it

Oh no! When is it?

Thursday - I think!

Thank-you for reminding me!!! Have only got two more days to sort something for ds! I made an Aladdin outfit for him a couple of years ago and he was too poorly for school that day, so not going to too much effort this time

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Very impressive, I am in awe! We needed a little more work here:

Angelina Ballerina - foam ears stuck onto hair band, drew on whiskers with face paint and sewed tail onto dress. Dd was very pleased and it meant I avoided sending her as one of 200 princesses.

DS - brown off cut of material with hole in chucked over head and belt round waist with black trousers. Several strings of cardboard rats sewn on and a recorder around his neck - Pied Piper.

Thank god neither previous nor current school goes in for this ridiculous dressing up malarkey. Why not do something relevant, like, er, read and enjoy some BOOKS? Its not national Dressing Up Day is it??

It's deadly.

Fancy dress (mostly based on film and tv characters as far as I can see), created mostly by mothers, is suposed to extend and enhance children's readng experience?

But I am planning a junior book club for DS and his friends - they can't wait! [ponce emoticon]

I managed to escape this year. I told my husband the night before about it... I was off to London for a girlie sleepover with a friend and didn't have to do anything. I was gobsmacked in the end - husband did make an effort. One cat costume (Winnie the Witche's cat) and Cruella de Ville (and took the book too) from the dressing up box. I missed the spectacle. Am I a bad mother for not even minding too much that I did?

I hate the costume making bit of being a mum I'm afraid - don't have a sewing machine and once had to sew a celtic costume by hand for school project. Oh deep joy!

Ah well - they'll be grown soon and then no longer want to dress up and they I guess we'll be sad...

So it seems the schools my DSs are at aren't participating this year...or maybe I havent' read the news letters properly.

Don't panic - they don't all do it on the same day. Friday is Bookstart Day, but I don't think that's the same as World Book Day and our school does it on a totally different day to suit them anyway.

DS (Reception) does not quite understand and wants to dress up in his Batman costume for tomorrow. This is the first I knew about it (more important issues going on here).

Do I let him or will it be non-U? The only other costume we have is Bob the builder and his favourite books don't exactly lend to dressing up.

Yay-our school hasn't noticed/doesn't care or can't be arsed!!! Last year in pre-schoolwas a pain.

blithedance - go to Amazon and make yourself familiar with Batman graphic novels, they're books, perfectly valid, you can look like a VERY cool mum.

Bob is in books too, not so cool though.

I'm worried though - I swear I saw dozens of Harry Potters walking to school last year, not a squeak from the school now that DD is in Reception. I hope they're genuinely not doing it - if not, she's wearing a paper crown and one of my white vests and going as Little Princess.

I think World Book Day's in the spring, isn't it?

Well yes, obviously, but can't get one for tomorrow.

He doesn't really like dressing up as a rule, so I'm amazed he wants even to be Batman.

Will just let hime choose a book he likes.

DD2 dressed in in an assortment of items, made herself a crown and went as the Queen of Hearts (I think!)
DT1 went as Tinkerbelle
DT2 went as a Pirate.

Thank goodness for dressing up boxes and DD2(10) who did all the hard work

So which other schools benefitted from a selection of such literary characters as Superman, Jedi Knights (complete with light sabres in the hands of the boy most likely to whack someone) a pinkness of Disney princesses (or whatever the collective noun is) and numerous Spidermen?

A fine day for English Literature!

I think there are two National literacy days as DD's school sometimes to it in March, which I think coincides with the time they dole out those £1 vouchers.

I think there are two National literacy days as DD's school sometimes to it in March, which I think coincides with the time they dole out those £1 vouchers.

Mine went as Harry Potter and Cinderella
What a pita the whole thing is!

We have a Book Week in the summer term and they dress up on the last day of that. They also have reading challenges (you know, for every book you read you stick a leaf on a big tree in the hall), poets coming to school, and numerous other bookish things. But many of the children are just in various Disney outfits - fair enough, there are books with them it. I am Mean Mum though and insist mine go as a character that originated in a book.

BoyBlu has won the competition for 'Best Book Cover Design', which has caused me snort, as he copied it exactly from the real cover of the book.

But he did put effort into making the 'Scamper' for his Secret Seven 'costume' - and it was (imo) funny. One of the multiple Pippi Longstockings won - deservedly so as she had pipe-cleaners in her hair to achieve the sticky-out effect.

They had a 'book swp'which was good - you tok books in in a bag, and could take the same number from the pool.