World book day - costume ideas!

[Tillyscoutsmum]

As a trainee teacher, I have thus far managed to avoid any dress up days because they've all been on a Friday which is my day in Uni Unfortunately, some bugger made World Book Day on a sodding Wednesday

I'm pretty useless at any making stuff (unless it's ridiculously simple) but all the bought ones look slightly pornographic I'm neither the right age, nor have the right figure for such things.

Soooo. Any ideas please?

Erm...it's on Thursday 5th

Didn't want to let you turn up in costume on the wrong day!

I feel your pain...it's shocking, the amount of porny fancy dress out there.

I'm going as The Woman In Black. I'm doing the Victorian thing, but you could just wear all black. You'd still be The Woman In Black.

LBD, shades, pearls, cheap tiara - Holly Golightly?

Red dress - Curley's wife?

Twenties style stuff - Daisy Buchanan?

Rolled up jeans, check shirt, hat - Scout Finch?

Sixties style dress a magnifying glass and notebook - Nancy Drew?

Granny clothes and a burglar mask - gangsta granny?

I'm doing Curley's wife. I've got red mules and a wig and everything. I'm excited.

Ha! Brilliant I was about to dress myself up (and send my own dc's in costume) on the wrong day . Thanks for the heads up and the suggestions. Scout Finch, Holly Golightly and Gangsta Granny all sound do able with stuff I already have (or can easily get). Is it usually a character from a book that will be familiar to the children? I'm in primary.

Ah. Probably not Holly GoIightly or Curley's wife then. Professor McGonagall is easy if you've still got your academic gown and a tartan scarf.

Ah, primary...

jeans, red and white striped top, bobble hat, glasses - Where's Wally?

Old fashioned nightgown - Wendy.

Mr Twit

Miss Honey
Miss Trunchbull
Willy Wonka
Little Red Riding Hood

I'm going as one of the 3 little pigs - jeans, checked shirt, boots (could use wellies, builders hard hat, pipe cleaner tail, egg box snout and my toddlers plastic hammer and screwdriver.

Enjoy.

Julia Donaldson is a rich seam I think if you are KS1: stick man (brown/black clothes, leaf headdress), old lady from a Squash and a Squeeze (if you have long hair), Princess Pearl from Zog.

Anything from the Wizard of Oz.

It's KS2 (yr 6). I've only been there for 2 weeks and my own dc's are ks1 so I'm not too well versed on books popular with year 6's yet.

I think the other yr6 teachers are going as Miss Honey and Trunchball. Hmmmm. Some great ideas though. Keep 'em coming!

Could you go as Matilda to keep the theme going. Our school usually the teacher/ta's go as characters from one book.

It's a possibility. Just feel a bit daft as a 40+ year old Matilda. I'm overthinking this aren't I?

Go as Matilda's mum. Tarty, too much makeup, fag, bingo card. Or her dad!

Ha! I could do that one with minimal dressing up

Mrs Weasley would be easy and 40+ is the right age.

If you want simple get a temporary tattoo of a dragon and be, well, the girl with the dragon tattoo.

I went as Handa's surprise last year. The kids all guessed who i was and I surprised myself by really enjoying dressing up.