We love this example from Pinterest with the girls learning the ballet leotards, but your kids could wear anything they have that's pink! You will also need red, white and black face paint and white hair spray, but dry shampoo or talc will also do the trick! Recreate the look with white trousers, a brown top, and white braces criss-crossed across the front.

Bright clothes essential for this one - Courtney-Leigh Williams and Lacey Williams did a brilliant job emulating Scooby Doo's Daphne and Velma. A great costume if you’ve forgotten about World Book Day and only have a few hours to make a dressing-up outfit.

From the number one best seller book from David Walliams comes this brilliant costume of the Demon Dentist, Miss Root.

You don't even need a full witch's costume for this to work - just a hat and the book would do, or a hat attached to a headband like Isabelle's wearing here.All you need is a red and white stripy top and some glasses but if you don't have those items you could always create your own by drawing red stripes on to an old white t-shirt with a felt tip and use facepaint or an eyeliner to draw the glasses on. If you've already got a princess or character costume, there's usually a book character there somewhere - like Devon Birkett, who dressed up last year as Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile and his sister Paige, who went as Belle from Beauty and the Beast. You can be as elaborate as you want but it would work with a shirt, tie and tape measure for the shoemaker and you could make some stick on ears for the elves and give them a few accessories of their own. Or there's the school attire - a belted suit or coat - a look pulled off fabulously by Salford City Academy Principal Melanie Haselden, who terrified children as she took on the full character role for the day.

For full instructions on how to make this costume, head over to Blue Bear Wood, but a witch’s hat, dark dress, stripy tights and broom stick should complete the look! Dress them in black, add black feathers to wings (which can be made out of cardboard), and craft two long pointy horns onto a headband! face paints in all the essential colours including black, white, orange, green and red (so you can match their face to their costume! However, you can make a much simpler version using silver-painted cardboard, foil or silver clothes. If your child wants to go for a dark and creepy Halloween vibe but isn't sure who or what to be, why not just give them an easy goth look?The cost of living crisis continues to affect every household across the UK and when bills are mounting and the cost of feeding the family has doubled, yet another dress up day at school is something we could surely all do without!

All they need is a school uniform, a cape trimmed with Slytherin green (which you can make) a homemade magic wand, and ideally, a short, floppy blonde wig! If you want to make it even easier there are loads of free Wonka Bar printable templates online, so you don't even have to get the felt tips out. She's the formidable headteacher of Matilda's Crunchem Hall Primary School and Miss Agatha Trunchbull is a pretty easy one to go as for WBD. Miss Root appears to be just like any other dentist – she has perfect teeth, wears a white lab coat and gives children sugar-free sweets.Just paint your child's entire face green, add grey/black around the eyes, and create the stitching on the head.