World Book Day fancy dress

hobbesy_2

My son's school have just done the same thing! grrrrr

Any suggestions for a 5 year old boy? They haven't been given a specific theme

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goerge and the dragon is traditional

my son wants to go as dog tanion this year from the cartoon what fun
last year i did him mr man mr tickle a yellow t shirt with yellow tights stuffed and sewn to the sides he loved it. what about chip or biff out of the school books they read thats theyre own clothes then or harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs they are the easier options and cheaper than buying a costume and sometimes making costumes.
hope it helps

morwenna

hobbesy wrote: »

My son's school have just done the same thing! grrrrr

Any suggestions for a 5 year old boy? They haven't been given a specific theme

Oliver? Raggedy up a pair of old trousers by chopping into the hems a bit? Don't forget a cap and a bowl

I once sent DD as "the Very Hungry Caterpillar" her fave book at the time, by giving her deely bopper antennae and a sleeping bag on her back (green) secured under her arms with a piece of ribbon and belted at the waist IYSWIM..

whatatwit

Miss Twit once went as Tigger...I managed to get some fun fur in a suitable print and made a tabard sort of thing and a long tail that was stuffed and sewn on.

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We had to do this at school....

My brother went as dennis the menance, a black and red stripey jumper and black shorts and mum 'blacked' his hair (not sure how tho!)

I've been as Little Grey Rabbit (anyone remember that?!) I wore a dress with an apron over the top, fluffy tail on the back made out of cotton wool, had whiskers painted on, made ears out of cereal packet, coloured them in and stuck them onto a hairband and carried a little basket with carrots in! (but when I took the ears off a few people thought I was a cat?!)

Cant think of anything else right now.....

scat

We had ours today. They had to dress up as characters from Peter Pan. My 11 yr old isn't that into dressing up so we bought him a plain white t-shirt and gave him some fabric pens. He then wrote 'Where Am I?' on it in bubble writing.... He went as a lost boy

Seriously just have fun with it. The school won't mind what they wear.

kscour

Um as daffs are in bloom what about Narcissus?
Dragon also appears in a Welsh legend/traditional tale - simplest explaination I can find here :-
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080207025757AA0rhhe

This used to really cheese me off when my DD's were in primary. Usually asked that they brought the book along as well! DD1 was probably the longest serving tinkerbell in the school!

Intergalactic_Floozie

Thanks everyone! I think a bed sheet, along with his guitar, a few leaves in his head and voila - Apollo - God of Music!!!

Best one I saw last year - when they didn't have themes to stick to - was Captain Underpants! A pair of massive blue y-fronts held up with some braces!!

hobbesy_2

Double argh! He's now come home (only just as we had hospital straight after school) and declared thats he's made a little red hen mask at school and thats what he wants to be

I'm off to hunt to see what crafty materials I have around. Please inspire me!

Intergalactic_Floozie

Been to haberdashers and wilkinson. Got a white flat sheet for £5.99 for the toga. Some gold beaded ribbon for £2 for 1 metre to tie round his waist. A gold dangly fringed thing to hang off that for £1.50, then I bought some elastic (40p) and some gold leaves and sewed that onto the elastic, and 69p on a plastic recorder (thought it was less cumbersome than his guitar) and the verdict on the gold leaf crown? "Wow, it looks well good" - although judging by the conversations I have had with the other year 6 mums outside school, it looks like three quarters of the class aren't bothering to dress up as they cant think what to dress them as.

How did you get on Hobbesy with your little red hen?