World Book Day fancy dress

Tan007_2

I dont know if anyone else is in the same boat, but the kids got a letter from school saying its book week, and they need to dress up as their favourite character. Well my kids are 9 and 10 and no longer have the box of dressing up stuff! I cant afford to go out a buy dressing up stuff for them, got any ideas anyone, looked on the web but cant seem to find much. Girl is 9, boy of 10! Helpppppppppppp

RedBern

my friend's lad went as Harry Potter, plain shirt with jumper - a lightning strike on his forehead and a wand that she made herself.......

or something from Roald Dahl - BFG wears corduroy trousers, stripey shirt and flat cap? .... football kit - ? running out of ideas fast....

Zazen999

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what are their favourite characters then?

sticher

Had this problem myself - my 9 year old went in today as Oliver Twist. I don't think he was that impressed but that was all i could rustle up in an evening. Luckily I had a flat cap from the Victorian day they did a while back. I cut down some old school trousers to make them look raggedy, put a white school shirt on him with the sleeves rolled up and cut up an old fleece to look like a waistcoat. I then tied a hankerchief round his neck and hung a sign round his neck (saying 'more please sir') to give everyone a clue who he was. He took a bowl and spoon and his big brother's school shoes with no laces in them. I blackened his hands and face with face paint and off he went. Going to see the parade in a while.

Sorry no ideas for your little girl.

mumofcookers

My 9 year old boy has to dress up next friday for book week.

So what I have done is got a blue and yellow jumper off ebay yesterday for 99p and then his own jeans, trainers and will mess up his hair with gel and he is going as Horrid Henry!
Hope that helps.

scat

My 11 year old wrote Where Am I? on a t-shirt and went as a Lost Boy from Peter Pan!

Fav book for 9 yr old girls in our school is probably High School Musical. Pretty sure that can't be very complicated as they dress pretty much the same way most 9 yr olds do!

Savvy_Sue

As we have several very similar recent threads on dressing up for World Book Day I have merged them, hopefully this will give you all some ideas.

Posts are merged in date order, so you may need to skim from the beginning to make sense of them.

Madmel

Kazzieg you are complete star!!!!

DD2 had decided to go as Toad from Wind in the Willows, so DH helped her make a car from a packing box, then I face painted her green with some black "warts", she wore a school shirt, DH's tie, a waistcoat, leggings with long white socks and my Dad's peaked cap. She won the prize for the best dressed/most effort.

DD1 went as the wardrobe as you describe, but added her witch costume from Hallowe'en and a cuddly lion and went as "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe". She won too!

It cost us 2 evenings and a bit of face paint. We all had fun trying, so thanks for the brilliant idea.

loopylass

My son has come home from school with a letter saying his got to dress up as a recognisable fictional book character this friday :eek:

has anybody got any costume ideas i can do they have to be easy as im not very good at making things plus only 2 days to do it in

thanks in advance

hex2

Some suggestions here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=780939

good luck whatever you decide to do.