Book week is a great opportunity to celebrate the love of reading and to dress up as your favorite book character. If you’re looking for costume ideas, here are a few popular choices:

Harry Potter: This classic book character is always a popular choice for book week. You can dress up as Harry Potter himself, or as one of his friends, like Ron Weasley or Hermione Granger.

Percy Jackson: This is another popular book character costume, especially for kids who love Greek mythology. You can dress up as Percy Jackson himself, or as one of his friends, like Annabeth Chase or Grover Underwood.

The Cat in the Hat: This is a fun and easy costume that is perfect for kids. You can wear a striped shirt, a red hat, and white gloves, and you’ll be all set.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: This is another easy costume that is perfect for kids. You can wear a green onesie, and you can make your own caterpillar antennae out of pipe cleaners.

Pippi Longstocking: This is a fun and quirky costume that is perfect for kids who love to be creative. You can wear a red dress, white knee socks, and pigtails, and you can even make your own wooden sword.

These are just a few ideas to get you started. There are many other great book character costumes out there, so be creative and have fun!

When choosing a book week costume, be sure to consider the following factors:
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Your budget: Some costumes can be more expensive than others.
The ease of wearing the costume: You don’t want to be uncomfortable all day long.
The time it takes to put the costume together: If you’re making your own costume, be sure to start early.
I hope this helps!

If there is a book about cars, you could make one out of a cardboard box??

I like to start with going through their favourite books fir ideas and inspiration. And go from there, I usually find something

Yes I would just use a bit of imagination too. Good luck!

First, work out their favourite books, then go from there

I’m sorry I can’t give you any ideas as I’m here to watch and take note. I’m not at that point of doing book week dress ups but I’m worried about it!

It should always be about what books and characters your children love. Usually cartoony characters Aren’t too difficult to do a dress up for. Just use a bit of imagination.. Good luck!

Meg and mog is an easy option. Mrs wishy washy is always a favourite of mine. Alice in wonderland, the wizard of oz. As for 5 yr old boys I found my preps tend to come as dr Seuss characters.
Good luck !

We’ve done Max from ‘Where the wild things are’ a white onesie and a home made golden crown. We’ve made Peter Pan following the step by step instructions on
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2009/10/peter-pan-costume.html
We’ve also done Willy Wonka with a tall hat, walking stick, and golden ticket

It really depends on what their favourite book at the time is. Get them to pick a book or two early on and then choose a costume from the book that appeals and is pretty easy to make. Like where’s wally, a striped top and hat with some glasses and your set. Action heroes can be a bit toughr but you can sometimes purchase reasonable ones and if you look early enough in the year you wont be at peak time or price.

My daughter is a school teacher and dresses up every year as well. One year she went as : Elizabeth from:”The Paper Bag Princess” simply make a dress out of brown paper, make a crown but remember it is bent out of shape, smear on some charcoal or similar for dirt and your done.

But if you google: Images of book week costume ideas you will be flooded with heaps of wonderful ideas.

BEST OF LUCK and hope your youngens have a great time. 🙂

i dressed my son as the hungry little catterpillar for kinder book week.

5 yr old boy could do wally, or any superhero jake the neverland pirate, 9 yr old girl could be monster high, any princess, alice in wonderland, the ideas are endless,

what is your childs favourite book or books they love? You could get a character from there.

How about a Mr. Man costume – just paint the character on a cardboard box; Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka – a red dress and headband and make a golden ticket (or Charlie – regular clothes and a chocolate wrapper and gold ticket); Peter Pan – green shirt and pants and make a little felt hat; Red Riding Hood would be easy; Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz – blue sleeveless dress/white shirt and red shoes (or old sneakers sprinkled with red glitter).

When she was nine, my daughter dressed up as Princess Leia. We didn’t buy anything except for the small sabre laser that we took at the Reject Shop.

Dress your child as a worm. A book worm. Or a fairy style character. What about a book painting up a cereal container to look like a book. A book marker on a piece of cardboard hanging over the childs shoulders. Many options.