Usually I am incredibly unorganised regarding school things, but as we’ve had a quiet half term I thought I’d get ahead with our World Book Day costumes. Luckily both girls wanted to be a character from Roald Dahl and even though part of me was willing Hannah to say she wanted to be Sophie they both chose relatively easy characters for me.
The BFG Costume
I used a pair of pirate trousers, cut a raggedy edge and sewed some patches on an old T-Shirt and upcycled some elf ears into BFG ears by sewing them onto a headband. That part did make my fingers bleed, but worth it to see how cute she looks.
We still need to make a dream jar somehow…but more about that later.
Matilda Costume
For this one, we used a blue dress and cardigan from Marks and Spencer, justifying the cost with them both being something she will wear again, and added red hairband and long white socks we already had as well as a stack of books.
What do you think?
Other World Book Day Costume Ideas
Red Ted Art has an amazing tutorial for a Cat in the Hat or Mad Hatter hat.
Red Ted Art also has a great Fox made perfect for a Fantastic Mr Fox costume.
Here Come The Girls has the most amazing Rainbow Fish costume.
Me and My Shadow has a great tutorial for making a Little Red Riding Hood cape.
Thinly Spread has the most amazing Cat in the Hat costume!
What are your children dressing up as for World Book Day?
I’m so glad you’ve posted this – my son is dressing up for World Book Day on Friday and I haven’t a clue what to put him in!!
Some great ideas here. I have just found out we need to dress up and have no idea what the kids will pick
I love Matilda – so cute! I am rubbish at being creative with WBD costumes and usually buy. The youngest wants to go as Harry Potter this year but no ideas for the older one. I like the idea of Fantastic Mr Fox though. x
Emma’s school will have its first World Book Day this year so I will need to come up with something for her. Last year the school I used to work in saw a lot of Where is Wally? impersonations, so I am very tempted to dress her in a stripy t-shirt as well, lol.xx
Great ideas, I absolutely love the BFG costume and very current with the new film coming out. I am not sure if my son’s school are doing anything yet but, if they do, he wants to go as Captain Underpants!
Love these ideas! Great new blog header too – looks fab. xxx
great ideas, poppy would love to go as Matilda x
World book day is hard for us too, especially as Maxi hates dressing up, so I have to tread carefully
Thank you so much for all the ideas, I have to say I slightly dread World Book Day because of the dressing up!!
Some lovely ideas. I’m just building up to ours. They’ve chosen Mr Stink, Highway Rat and one of Henry Vlll beheaded wives this year!
World Book Day – 3 words that fill me with dread. I hate doing costumes but I do need to sort something out for next week. Thanks for posting this 🙂 x
oh well done I’m doing diary of a wimpy kid thank god. My son hates dressing up so much
I LOVE the BFG one as my oldest is really into Roald Dahl at the moment! I think he’s going as Peter Pan this year though!
Despite it being WORLD book day, France doesn’t celebrate this (at schools at any rate) so I’ve never had to come up with costumes, but I know my sister in UK struggles sometimes. She’d find this very useful.
Love the BFG!!
Having Matilda, I’ve done that quite a few years but she audibly groaned at me this time #tween