World Book Day: It's About Encouraging Reading, Not Costume Competitions!

Intresting post. We painted some cardboard orange for James and a giant peach. Cost nothing but a bit of time as a neighbour donated the card. We made it together the night before which was lovely. No stress, no worries, no money and still managed to work all week. Had we remembered we would have bought something earlier, I'm glad we forgot as it was more fun making it together 🤷‍♀️
There was no judgement for anyone who bought or made their costume. Who cares the children all looked so happy regardless
 
My school did a whole book theme so the children just wore their favourite colours and did buddy reading with other year books. I think the book was called 'The Day the Crayons Quit'. Last year it was the zones of regulations so wore colours to match their feelings.
 
Well said... absolutely no need to put your costumes on the biggest fb group you're in... no one cares, unless you're showing us a hilarious parent fail, then I'm all for it!
 
I have to admit when i saw all the posts i felt relieved that i live abroad and we don't have all these pressures that parents in the uk have, we have 1 day a year at my kids school where the kids dress up however they want for apokries (carnival/ start of lent) and i find that stressful enough as my kids do not like costumes but also they worry about being the odd one out and not dressed up.
 
People need to work on their self if they get upset by someone achievements! The "yay me parenting" sounds more like you get upset by people doing/having time / money to do this with their kids!
 
1st child, I had loads of time and used to love spending time making costumes and things with her (although still nothing to the degree of some posted on here) it was time we would spend together...as she got older she would make her own. Would ask me for bits and she would do it. Shes yr6 and went as Wednesday addams. My 6r old hasn't embraced it like my 1st so it's usually a princess dress which is fine but this year was off with a tummy bug as was my 1yr old. So they missed out on dressing up however, one thing they haven't missed out on is sharing stories. My 1yr old loves books and is his favourite thing. My 6yr old needs to be in the mood but her baby brother is helping her and my 11yr old is the biggest book worm going. I dont need costumes to make myself feel good. I've happy children who enjoy books. That's a win in my book (excuse the pun) 😆 x
 
Guess what - I cba either. Only one to dress up now but he didn’t want to - so he went in uniform. He didn’t give two hoots and neither did I.
But nowt against tho who want to get involved and crack on. Good for them - hope they had a fab time.
Some people haven’t spent a penny and just made/recycled things from home.
End of the day - social media is always full of positives and negatives.
Just gotta balance it out.
My school friend pulled an overnighted to make her kids costume - oh I took the mickey out of her light heartedly - but her kid was so happy on WBD 😃 and he looked fab too.
 
World book day is about embracing books but I don’t agree any parent should be shamed for showing off what outfits they have made or bought..if people want to dress them up show what they’ve done why not? If they choose to send them with no costume & in uniform that’s fine, whatever everyone chose it’s there choice.. I personally don’t have time to make outfits but I’m happy to see what other people have made
 
My daughter made her costume this year with a bit of help from me. It definitely wasn't the greatest, but we had fun which is all that matters really.
 
Our school has stopped doing costumes for world book day. It’s quite an affluent area with plenty of parents who can afford to buy or make but equally some who probably can’t, so I think it was a good decision. I love making costumes and I will try to make the time to do it when it’s needed because I enjoy doing it, but at the same time I was flippin glad not to have to find the time for WBD.
 
I got mine from ebay totally crept up on me this yeR. But I don't mind she was happy. To be honest with the cost of living crisis going on you would think schools would be like "you know what come in pjs and we will do a polar express day" or something
 
Our school doesn't do dress up, we get a timeslot to go into the school and we get 30mins of reading with our child reading their favourite book.
 
I don't see the problem- the woman who stayed up all night hand crafting her child's world book day costume maybe didn't have 'time' either. They also didn't intend to offend anyone who didn't make as much effort. It makes no odds- you decide if you are offended/hurt by something/someone.
Next time say 'wow that's lovely, how well have they done making that when we are all so busy with life' show your child, discuss it?' It shows you are not the kind of person to be resentful because someone else is achieving different results to your own- that's life. Take joy in others achievements. Love not hate every time.
 
I love looking at other parents creations and what they have achieved for their children and I also think that they should be proud of what they made for their children because some costumes were brilliant!
However ... I couldn’t be this parent because my little boy will just not dress up ... and that’s fine too! I think we should celebrate all parents just for doing their best for their kids ... fancy costumes or not!
My son was quite happy to take a bucket full of dinosaurs in as ‘Harry and a bucket full of dinosaurs’ and that’s all I would get out of him! ... it is what it is!
 
My son wore this and said he was a cat as they had to go as a noun. Have never really spent money in world book day and this was his final year
 
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