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20 Easy Costume Ideas for Book Week

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Bookweek is this week – and it comes around waaayyyy too fast every year!

Here are some relatively easy suggestions if you need a bit of help!

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For the Girls:

Matilda (Roald Dahl)

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Don a headband. a denim skirt and a cardigan – and you have Matilda!

A Golden Ticket!

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Charlie in the Chocolate Factory is one of my favourite books of all time.  Why not try going as a ‘Golden Ticket’? Grab some gold wrapping paper, and with some careful handwriting on the front – you have the infamous Golden Ticket!

Fox in Socks

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Dress your child all in red, add some fluffy socks for the hands and feet – and make a tail out of anything you have. Put a bit of makeup on with whiskers and a button nose – and buy a cheap set of ear headbands from your local cheap store!

Pippy Longstocking

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Put on a plain dress, stickytape some patches of material, add a cardigan, some boots with different coloured socks, and plait the hair in two!

Where is the Green Sheep?

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Put on anything green your child has. Make a simple sheep mask – and that’s it!  Pretty easy!

Meg & Mog

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Dress your little girl in all black.  Make a simple cardboard witches hat, and grab a broom if you don’t want to make one at home yourself.

 Miss Trunchball (Roald Dahl)

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Grab one of Dad’s old shirts, put a belt around the middle and draw on a monobrow!

Charlotte’s Web

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Grab a flanno shirt, sneakers, denim jeans or shorts, and a pet (stuffed) pig!

Sophie from The Big Friendly Giant

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Jody Allen is the founder of Stay at Home Mum. Jody is a five-time published author with Penguin Random House and is the current Suzuki Queensland Amb...Read Moreassador. Read Less

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