I work with special needs children and some of the parents are awesome and go to a lot of trouble to make the kids look amazing for book week. They decorate the wheelchairs, etc. Sadly others dont bother at all which is a little disappointing for the child that misses out.

These are actually more inspiring than I thought they would be! And fun. And easy. I also find Temu fantastic for chai but impressive costumes! My son and as the hungry caterpillar and a bee for Book Week and got heaps of positive compliments. And I bought them in a larger size so we can get a couple of years out of them!

these are quite fun. My son (9) went as Skunky from Bunny Vs Monkey – just black clothes with a lab coat – he had a great time. I find book week such a fun idea. My son is already planning on what he wants to wear next year (Ash from Pokemon)

The Charlottes Web costume is a firm favourite for so many reasons. The book Charlottes Web is a truly wonderful story that teaches children so many valuable and important lessons. The cute costume is so fantastic and could be used again for other book ideas, costumes and costume week dress ups.

How cute are these! I love to see the smiling faces at Book Week Parade and am so glad it is something that is sticking through the ages. My grandson is writing his own book and going as the main character so we have a very different theme this year.

Aw man these costumes are adorable! I LOVED doing book week for my kids! Yes it’s and effort and a half but if you get organised early you won’t need to run around spending a pile of money. Have fun with it , use the op shops, borrow from friends, make things out of what you have at home… make memories

I love book week – my favourite school dress up ! Thanks for sharing, it’s great seeing other ideas. With a couple of kids and many years of book weeks, having some extra suggestions up your sleeve is essential, especially those that can be put together a little last minute.

Thanks for sharing these idea’s. I admire those who make a lot of work from the book week costume each and every year ! I’m afraid I’m over it already and belong to those who seek an easy fix. I may just turn the dress up basket up side down to see if there something suitable in there to use. Lazy I know 😉

I have my son’s book parade next Friday and I’m so glad I came across this article! All of these costume ideas are a lifesaver, so simple fun, and creative (without the stress which is a bonus). Thank you for the inspo! Feeling much more prepared & will definitely be using one of these suggestions!

Such great ideas and some look so easy to create which is great for busy mums especially those with multiple children to dress during book week! Love some of the out of the box costumes not all just Harry Potter haha that’s a good change to see here some orginality

Book week costumes are always such fun and a great opportunity for children and parents to work together to create fun and fabulous costumes. It is such a good idea to find clothes and objects that are inexpensive for book week costumes. Being able to use and recycle costumes is also important.

This is a timely article as i have just started discussing with my daughter what she would like to dress up as for book week. There are some really creative ideas in this article that are very very creative. I love how creative some people are and how much effort they go to.

These are great ideas, thank you. This will be my first book week and I am so excited to be organising it for my little girl. There are so many characters to choose from but the pictures and ideas above are fabulous and have given me so much to think about.

My daughter has the ultimate easy hack for book week – she has one of those ‘find me’ books that was made with a cartoon of her, so each year she just takes the book and says ‘i’ve come as me!’ (she is not a fan of dress up!) I dream of her letting me make her a cardboard cloud costume , so she could go as ‘no one likes a fart’ but I guess it’s never going to happen!

I’m feeling a little nervous as this year is our first year doing book week. My little girl wants to go as Hairy Maclary. Thankfully my mum has offered to help!

I still remember all the outfits I made for my daughter for primary school book weeks. A little stressful to make but lots of enjoyment when they turned out.

These are all very cute! I unfortunately don’t remember having book week dress ups when I was in school. We had the fun spread in the library with all the pens and stationary you could buy, and that catalogue you’d browse through to order from. I can’t wait to dress my little guy in the future

These are great ideas. Im finding it a struggle finding my older daughter costumes this year as sizes usually run smaller for the little kids! Love the ideas in this where I can just throw something simple together and still make it work! Its only once a year so i hate spending too much

Some great ideas here. It’s a shame book week pretty much drops off when kids go to high school. Okay, it’s one less thing for me to do. But the kids used to have so much fun, and I loved going to the school parade to see what everyone had come up with.

I am looking ahead as book week is going to approach us very quickly and I need ideas. Last year I was running around at the last minute trying to think of an idea so this was a great article to come across again. Some really great ideas to consider for this year and give me inspiration