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