Hello!
Yesterday, in my World book day poem post, I mentioned that our theme for World Book Day this year was Fairy tales/folk tales/traditional tales, possibly with a twist!
Here's my costume:
Our new English lead wanted some ideas of what we could suggest the children could dress as that wouldn't cost them anything.
I suggested the children make some sort of cardboard tabard or sandwich board to wear. It could be a setting image, a book cover, a character or an item from a folk tale.
I gave her two examples I made of a Gingerbread house and a ladybird.
Here is the tabard I made
The other side is the coach that the pumpkin turns into!
My dress is actually one of my wedding dresses- bought on eBay in 2012 from Vivien of Holloway originally. It still fits, 12 years later!
I WAS going to wear my silver glittery shoes and a tiara but I had such a headache today, I couldn't face it. I was hypersensitive to smells today- everyone's room made me reel with artificial smells and cleaning products! I got through the day though. Just wore my blue boots!
I also made another tabard example from The Hare and the Tortoise:
I had fun making these.
L, a year 3 teacher was dressed as Prince Charming- we had a photo together.
A, the English lead was dressed as Rumaysa, who is a retelling of Rapunzel but who uses her hijab to escape from the tower she is trapped in, instead of being rescued by a prince. She then helps other female characters to escape their own fates! It's a great story! She looked amazing and she had 3 light pink scarves plaited and attached to her hijab and added flowers to it- she looked so beautiful!
A girl in her class, who I lent my copy of Rumaysa to, also came as Rumaysa and had made herself a tabard of the book cover- it was marvellous!
There was a brilliant child dressed as the Gingerbread man- a massive cardboard face!
There were some other brilliant ones!
I loved Dog in Boots, one of my choir boys came dressed as an alternative version of Puss in Boots.
The office staff came as The three little wolves and the big bad pig. This is a real book and is really funny!
There were a myriad Red Riding Hoods, Little Red Riding Hoodie, Little Red Running Shorts.
The three little minions (who I told they had to write the story to go with it and they did!)
It is always such good fun to see the children!
xx
Sounds like a great day. My great- nephew had to dress as a WORD. He wore a tee-shirt which said ILLUMINATE written with glow-in-the-dark paint, and carried an ultra violet torch to shine on it.
ReplyDeleteI love your boots with the dress (and good for you! There's no way I could fit in to what I got married in, but it's been almost 40 years ago...)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like the kids were so creative! I'd love to have seen the Dog in Boots.
I'm loving the tabard/sandwich board Idea, and you are a brilliant fairy godmother! Sorry to read about your bothersome headache. Sounds migraine-like to me if you were hypersensitive to smells :-( xxx
ReplyDeleteWhat an inspired costume, you look so pretty in it! You are such an inspiration to your pupils.
ReplyDeletethat headache sounds horrible, there's nothing worse than nasty synthetic smells for making a bad head even worse. xxx
You are so creative. This is a wonderful costume. Your wedding dress is very cute!!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like so much fun, Kezzie! I'm sorry you had a headache and were feeling sensitive to smells - that's the worst! <3
ReplyDeleteYou look so pretty in this!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the headache!
Cool costume. Everyone was coming in the store where I work looking for costumes the day before, but we'd sold out sadly. My colleague was giving them tips on how to make their own.
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