Characters from a book

A notice was sent home from the school that friday (Halloween) was a dress up day as a character from a book. Children were going to be allowed to wear costumes to school as long as they were a character from a book that was a book before it was a movie. They emphasized that parents were to not go and buy anything, they were to be creative and use stuff from home. I let my kiddos be creative.

Camie wore the dress up that my mom made her for Pioneer Day party. She was Laura from Little House on the Prairie. Taneal dressed up as Cowgirl Kate from the book we have here at home. She did not want to wear her Halloween costume (kids at school seem to think a 3rd grader is too old to be a princess) although I thought she would make a great Ella from the book Ella Enchanted, which was a book before it was a movie. She insisted otherwise. I liked how my girls went through several books trying to figure out what they wanted to be.