Amscan - Officially Licensed Roald Dahl Matilda Adults Costume Size: 8-20

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From Matilda and The BFG to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, here are 26 easy costume ideas for your kids – ideal for World Book Day and they'll come in handy if your school's doing Roald Dahl Day, too!

Wormwood will be dressed in a loud ruffled blouse, matching breakaway skirt, large tacky belt, contrasting fishnets, and colorful hair flowers. Just remember to cut out eye holes in the cardboard before you give it your child so they can see where they're going!The doctor claims that Matilda is the most beautiful child that he has ever seen, however Matilda’s mother is more preoccupied about the dance contest that she missed. Many of these costumes work as well for adults as they do for kids, and if you don't have quite everything suggested for the costume you'll probably still get away with it. This is only a mere glimpse at what The Costumer has to offer for productions of Matilda The Musical! Matilda’s kind-hearted and caring teacher, Miss Honey, immediately recognizes how gifted Matilda is and recommends that she is placed in the top class with the older children (“Pathetic”).

While the book doesn't go too much into detail about the characters' appearances, the 1996 film gives us lots of outfits to choose from. If you can’t get hold of a top hat, make one by cutting a rectangle of black card and stapling to the correct size of your child’s head.When it comes to making up their face, you might also like to do white face paint on their eyebrows too, as in the classic film. Young Matilda will resemble that of a clever yet modest little girl in simple day dress and black tights, while her parents by contrast, will be costumed in attire that is just as ostentatious as their personalities. There are not many services I would pay to subscribe to, and even less I would recommend, but yours is one which I did! Wear old clothes that are slightly too small and carry a Golden Ticket made from gold Christmas wrapping paper over cardboard.

You'll need: White or pale yellow shirt (with thin vertical stripes for extra accuracy) with short sleeves or rolled-up long sleeves, black school trousers, school shoes, and a whole mess of brown paint and facepaint for the chocolate stain. Your waist is between the bottom of your ribs and the top of your hips, so your measuring tape should be placed in the middle - usually just above the belly button. With your child, make some big ears by cutting out an ear shape using pink paper, then stick them onto a head band. Top tip: mark on the wall using a pencil or place a book (or another flat object) where the top of your head meets the wall, then, measure from that point to the floor to get your height!Written by teachers and experts and exclusively available to TheSchoolRun subscribers, learning packs (each 50+ pages long) are fun as well as practice-packed. TheSchoolRun offers parents thousands of printable and interactive worksheets, covering every aspect of the primary curriculum. Life isn’t easy for Matilda Wormwood, a young girl whose impressive wit and wisdom are far beyond her years.