So the Uk's World Book Day is fast approaching on Thursday 3rd March 2011. It has come to be a huge event for schools over Britain and children categorically look send to the chance to go for their favourite book character, while parents then have to spend a frantic few days searching down the fancy dress costume to match... It's ordinarily last-minute panic stations and the schools often don't help the situation, ordinarily only issuing the decide a week or so before World Book Day, much to parent's annoyance.
Hopefully this year many schools will act upon parent's feedback and contribute more time for preparation. Great for children's expectation levels, they can also assist mums and dads in assembling or even production items for their costume.
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Fancy Dress Shack has compiled a list of top ideas to help children, teachers and parents with some unique and novel ideas for world book day. ordinarily world book day events encourages children to come dressed as their favourite character of their favourite book and perennial favourite books nationwide together with the following:
Ideas for World Book Day Costumes
Thomas the tank engine characters - production the engine out of cardboard is your best bet or cobbling together a costume for your wee fat controller - the zoot suit is a good start for the base of the costume, just add bow tie and top hat.
Alice in Wonderland characters like; Queen of Hearts, the mad hatter and the rabbit are great choices.
Enid Blyton characters, like the preponderant five, don't forget a picnic basket and bottle of ginger beer! Malory Towers for old-fashioned school uniforms for kids
Roald Dahl Characters, like Matilda, the Twits, the Witches, spectacular, Mr Fox
Narnia Characters, like Prince Caspian in a knights outfit and the white witch.
The Wizard of Oz - Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman and cowardly lion.
Nancy Drew - generate a mini detective with magnifying glass and notebook.
Little Princess - everyone's favourite wee spoiled brat! Or a princess from any favourite fairytale like sleeping beauty or the princess and the pea.
The Peter Pan characters - Tinkerbell, Captain Hook and Smee the pirate.
However, schools can often throw a last-minute curve ball and pick a theme within a theme, like historical books and if that happens parent's have to dig a bit deeper.
Historical Book Themes; Oliver Twist and the cast of wee Victorian pauper boys is all the time a good one.
Books made into movies, this is an easier one and gives children abundance of scope for imagination. Lord of the Rings with characters like Aragorn & Legolas or the The Hobbit with Bilbo Baggins & Gandalf and of course, the huge Harry Potter francise; with Harry Potter, Ron, Hermione, eerie Dementors and frightful Voldemort.
The great thing about World Book Day is it has multiple benefits. Children are encouraged to read for a charitable cause and school gets disrupted for a day on the 3rd March with both teachers and children totally getting into the spirit and dressing up in some spectacular, and imaginative world book day costumes. Fun to be had all round!
If you're a instructor in need of a costume for World Book day, or a busy parent zealously hunting down your child's favourite book character, check out our option of World Book Day Costumes, we have handpicked a costume range and created some easy browsing world book day fancy dress categories on their website to assist you in your quest for The costume. With a huge costume selection, same day despatch when ordered before 3pm and guaranteed next day delivery options, fancy dress shack is the first option online retailer for world book day costumes.
Have a great day on Thursday 3rd March!
Ideas for World Book Day Costumes
