How To Make A Book Costume

24 Book Calendar week costume hacks that are brilliantly easy

Demand inspo for Book Week? Relax, nosotros've got you covered.

past | 25 August 2021

Book Week is supposed to be all about children celebrating books and encouraging reading only for parents the meaning can get lost every bit they scramble to come up upwardly with a costume that's quick, easy, looks amazing and is inexpensive besides.

Don't stress! Nosotros've rounded upward the coolest DIY costumes that you tin can easily pull together, even at the concluding infinitesimal.

Then, when is it? Book Week 2021 will exist held from August 21-27. This twelvemonth the Children's Volume Quango Australia accept chosen the theme "Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds".

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No I Likes A Fart

While no ane likes a fart, we do LOVE this costume.

Best of all information technology's pretty easy to whip up.

To make the fart you lot will need a big piece of cardboard cut-out into a cloud shape.

Glue loads of cotton wools onto the paper-thin but first dip the top of the cotton wool ball into some murky xanthous paint.

Make the eyes, eyebrows and mouth from black felt or use black and white carboard and stick on with glue.

Add a neck strap and sling it over your child'due south caput and your little stinker is ready!

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Dr. Seuss Affair 1 and Thing ii

Double the fun! The perfect costume for siblings or class buddies.

For starters, you'll need two red t-shirts. Stick a large round white circumvolve with number '1' in the heart of i and number '2' in the centre of the other tee.

A quick dash to a variety shop or Spotlight can help with the bluish fluffy material for the lid and some strips of blue tulle can be added to a reddish tutu skirt.

Two beautiful!

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Do Not Open This Volume

Create the starring character from Andy Lee's striking book with some paint, cardboard and some mad art skills.

Add a strap to secure effectually the cervix, dress your kid in blue and ta-da you're washed.

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Stick Man

Who knew dark-brown cardboard could come in so handy?

Dress your child in dark-brown and then add paper-thin to their shins, forearms and heart.

Create the stickman caput with a larger slice of rolled carboard – ensure it tin clasp onto your kid'southward head – and add together the face.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

If your son has a plainly white tee and a pair of black shorts all y'all'll to wearing apparel up every bit main character, Greg Heffley is some white cardboard, a black texta and a pair of scissors. Oh, some high-sounding skills will help you lot out also.

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Fancy Nancy

Fancy Nancy dresses extravagantly so raid your daughter'south accessories and go crazy. Recall feather boas, tutus, ruby slippers, fairy wings… go completely and totally actress.

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The Lorax

Kickoff step is to dress your child in head-to-toe orangish. And so, employ a blackness texta to write, "I Speak For The Copse" on the tee. Finally, hitting up your local craft store for some plastic orange spectacles and yellow cardboard to make the wild eyebrows and moustache.

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Where's Wally

If your child doesn't already own a blood-red and white stripe tee, you could paint cherry stripes. And so add a blueish skirt or a pair of jeans on the bottom half. Your bargain shop should have black circular spectacles. Finish the expect with a red and white beanie.

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The Magic Faraway Tree

Steal a chocolate-brown shirt from your hubby'south wardrobe so head to the utensils drawer in the kitchen. Employ large safety pins to secure random kitchen objects onto the shirt, add together a saucepan as a hat and ta-da your child is Bucket Man.

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Thelma the Unicorn

If your girl loves pink and unicorns, this costume is a total no-brainer. A pink top and pants with a unicorn headband and you're done.

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Pete the True cat

A yellow long-sleeved t-shirt tin be transformed into a Pete the Cat oufit by using coloured paints for the large buttons. Add a pair of skinny bluish jeans and some Converse sneakers and you lot're almost done… the finishing impact is a black beanie with cat ears or buy a true cat ears headband at a bargain store.

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The Day the Crayons Quit

Crazy and cool! Simply apparel your child caput-to-toe in their favourite colour. Some black tape can be used around the ankles and wrists. And print some Crayola signs to secure to the tummy expanse. Utilize coloured hair spray (and your own styling skills) to ship your child's hair skyward.

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Winnie the Pooh

This is next-level cute. Merely pop a red tee over a long-sleeved yellow t-shirt. Use fabric paint to write, "Pooh". Add together a yellow tutu and secure pigtails with circular yellow cardboard, for Pooh's ears of course.

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The Adventures of TinTin and Matilda

Demand to sort outfits for siblings? Apparel your lilliputian man as TinTin by pairing a white collared shirt with a blue juumper. Add some brown pants and a white toy dog. Add together some gel to spike upward the pilus at the front and he is expert to become. Dress your trivial Matilda in a blue dress and white cardigan. Finish off with a ruby bow and a pair of blackness Mary Jane shoes.

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Where Is The Green Sheep?

Now this costume is piece of cake but time consuming. Once you've finished dipping loads of cotton fiber balls in green pigment, leave them to dry out. And then, use craft gum to stick them onto a over-sized t-shirt. Used cardboard to make the sheep's head and ears and cover with green cotton balls. Pop the "woolly" tee over a green long-sleeved t-shirt and you're done. You ameliorate baaaa-lieve it!

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One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Need a quick costume at the last infinitesimal? This Dr Seuss themed-look is information technology! Cut-out cardboard fishes; add optics and stick them to the front of a yellow shirt. Effective and oh and so cute!

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Minecraft

If your child is Minecraft obsessed they are old enough to exercise the craft work necessary for this Steve costume. A pixelated face tin can be hands made by painting loads of paper square pieces. Gum them on a box and create peep holes for eyes.

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Charlotte'due south Web

Recreate this await for your little Charlotte'southward Web fan with a white circular tablecloth. Cut a pigsty in the centre for your child's caput. Then using blackness yarn, or a black texta create the spider web. Stop the web by securing a plastic blackness spider.

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Captain Underpants

Raid hubby's draw for a pair of white pants and depict the initials C.U. onto them. Add a white singlet over a long-sleeved tee with a reddish cape and socks. Use your artistic skills to make a Helm Underpants cardboard mask and pop a plunger into your child's hand and ta-da, you lot've fabricated a hilarious and like shooting fish in a barrel costume.

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Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

This outfit is pawfect! Black headband ears, a black bowtie for a collar and a black long-sleeved tee with a scarlet paper, Hairy Maclary proper name tag. Finish the outfit by showing off your dazzling face-painting skills.

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The 13-Storey Treehouse

Disclaimer: You do need to be a bit crafty for this costume! Make a headpiece and stick plastic leaves onto it. Secure onto your child'southward caput by using a tie under the chine. Top-off with a brown cardboard roof. Paint a singlet wearing apparel brown for the tree trunk and glue on some actress leaves. Amazing!

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Mr. Messy

This i is cool. You'll need a large canvass of white paper. Cut-out two cloud shapes for the front end and dorsum of the costume. Use red pigment for the "mess" and add together eyes and a smile with black paint. Secure the cloud shapes together with yarn and Mr. Messy is complete.

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Alice-Miranda at School

Well, wouldn't it be handy if your daughter wore a like schoolhouse uniform!? This 1's a cich to recreate. Pair a tartan or plain black brim with a blue cardigan. Then add a shirt with a red tie and a headband. And total marks to you.

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The Hungry Little Caterpillar

Like the caterpillar turned into a beautiful butterfly, you Can practice this! All your need to practice is cut-out four green paper-thin circles and gum them together. Create some caterpillar anxiety and gum these on too. Utilise string to secure the "caterpillar trunk" to your child. Using a crimson plastic plate, stick on the eyes, oral fissure and ears with yellow, green and regal newspaper. Use pair of scissors to carefully mark out eye holes and secure with an elastic. Beautiful!