OS World Book Day Fancy Dress Ideas Please

Reverbe

Good luck with this everyone. Seems a really rotten thing to do to parents during a credit crunch tho.

jinny

My sons are grown up now and it seems teachers are still putting parents through these pressures to come up with stuff at the last minute usually. Luckily I am a dressmaker and could run up something quite fetching in no time but I often was up till the early hours sewing up costumes for less handy school pals and hard up busy working mums. One time my neighbour asked for help when she found 'the letter' at the bottom of her sons sports bag underneath his footie boots covered in mud (like you do) So to carry on with the theme of mud we dressed him up as Stig of the Dump raggy muddy clothes hair tatted mud on his face legs ect it was a great success and his street cred upheld

shegha

My DS book day is friday this week and he wants to go as the cat in the hat. Made a cardboard striped hat, black school trousers, black top with white pannel attached, black pop sock for a tail, red scaft in a bow and hoping the is enough white face paint left over from halloween.
I wanted him to go as where's wally or captin underpants as I thought they would be easier.

Justamum

Last year my son's school didn't do this for some reason (they have for every other year) and he wanted to go as Biggles. So he's doing it this year instead. He has a flying jacket and flying helmet so is pretty well sorted.

VeganClaire

When I was a child I went as Alice in wonderland - my nan made me a white apron out a pillow case and I wore it over a blue party dress and carried a white rabbit. I loved it but doubt it cost anything much

dollydaydream07

my DD has to dress up tomorrow for book day and the theme is any character from a Roald Dahl book - we only found this out at the end of last week!
as i can't afford to go out and buy anything i am simply putting her in one of her 'posh' dresses and sticking a hair band in her hair and saying that she is Matilda! if i had had more time/money i would have done something completely different but as it stands this is what she is going as tomorrow!!

kunekune

We only found out last night, too.

DD is going as Pippi Longstocking. Will have to work out what that means for the costume! DS will want to be Horrid Henry. But what on earth does HH wear????

SunnyGirl

kunekune wrote: »

We only found out last night, too.

DD is going as Pippi Longstocking. Will have to work out what that means for the costume! DS will want to be Horrid Henry. But what on earth does HH wear????

Jeans & a stripy jumper - blue & yellow if memory serves me correctly. My youngest DS went as this a couple of years ago and, as we didn't have a blue/yellow jumper, we opted for blue/red instead You could make a skull & cross bones flag, draw it on a largish piece of paper maybe? Horrid Henry always flys this flag in his garden to annoy his brother Perfect Peter

zippybungle

Hi,

My Kids (boys 5 & 8) are dressing up for World Book Day next week, so I was looking for some costume ideas if anyone can help?

Zippy x

pinkteapot

Probably far too obvious but Harry Potter and Ron Weasley?