Bringing Books Alive: DIY Book Character Costumes For Teachers! (2024)

FAQs

How does Junie B. Jones dress? ›

Junie B. Jones costume is a pink cardigan and a purple skirt. For her shoes she wears black flat shoes with optional colorful socks, a short brunette bob with a cute headband.

Start by wearing all brown, then make yourself a “coconut tree” hat by using a band of brown paper and lots of green paper leaves. Attach an alphabet of colorful paper or foam letters to your shirt and pants. Chicka Chicka... BOOM!

Amelia's style is simple and modest. Amelia Bedelia wears a bonnet, white apron and black Mary Janes. Put a sexy spin on an Amelia Bedelia costume by substituting a French maid costume. Of course, all of these costumes need a unique and personal touch to provide the one-of-a-kind Amelia Bedelia look.

Dorian Gray, fictional character, the hedonistic protagonist of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). He exchanges his soul for youth that never fades.

Barbara Park's Junie B. Jones series was listed in the American Library Association's Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books 2000-2009 because of parental worries that the 5 year-old character may serve as an inappropriate role model.

Jones was listed on ALA's Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books 2000-2009, and in 2004, Park was listed in ALA's 10 Most Frequently Challenged Authors. We are used to seeing censorship attempts for heavy, controversial topics: drugs, LGBTQ+ themes, sexual content, religion, death, ect. But the Junie B.

Jones could a brat. She was sassy, disobedient, and sometimes downright rude to adults in her life.

You can do this by using any knit pencil skirt built to fit your body, striping it with some red duct tape and white duct tape and attaching popcorn to it as shown in the Halloween costume top section below. The popcorn makes the costume!

Matilda costume is an adorable denim dress, a white cardigan, cuff socks, black Mary Janes, and red headband. Miss Trunchbull's costume is a large grey hoodie with a brown belt in the middle, black cropped pants, white socks, and black boots.

Amelia Bedelia has always coded as autistic, but throughout the earlier series she's shamed and insulted for it (which is so close to reality even the most vile books in the series have some merit as examples on normalizing ableism.)

How to dress like Pinkalicious? ›

Find a pink dress or create the look of one with a pink shirt and a pink skirt. Put your child's hair into pigtails. Help your child make daisy buttons with paper and glue and stick them to the front of the dress using tape. Design a pinkatastic crown with cardboard and gems.

Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, for most of the book, has only one character, and it's one of the classic elementary/middle school reading books. Cast Away features Tom Hanks stuck on an island for four years by himself. If you're feeling up for a challenge, writing a story featuring one character is a great exercise.

Book Character Day is celebrated every year on October 31st. Students, teachers, librarians, and book fans can bring their favorite characters to life. Schools across the country celebrate by inviting staff and students to dress up as their favorite characters.