Get creative with cardboard. There's almost nothing you can't make with some cardboard, scissors, and a good idea. Think about sleepwear - Pyjamas and nighties can work for all sorts of costumes, like The Darlings from Peter Pan or Sophie from The BFG.

To begin with I drew round a bowl, to create a couple of circles on one of the sleets of foam, then cut them out with a pair of scissors. Photo Credit: The Listed Home.You won't have to go to Infinity or beyond to make your kid a great Buzz Lightyear costume this World Book Day, you just need this easy-to-follow guide! Top tips for making World Book Day costumes Next, cut a single line — from the edge of the circle to the centre — through each circle; then overlap the edges and glue them together, creating a shallow cone shape. I bought a green foam visor and some green foam sheets, although — to be honest — it would be just as easy without the visor. The curly plastic band snapped after a couple of 'dress rehearsal try-ons', so I ended up making a band from the foam instead. Cut a length of foam (around an inch and a half deep), to fit snugly around the circumference of the head you're making the costume for.

Well — I’m not entirely sure what the anatomical differences are, between a praying mantis and a grasshopper, but I managed to convince him that it would work for either. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. For the wings, I took a couple of lengths of bubble wrap and cut them into two long, teardrop shapes. Photo Credit: The Listed Home.Adapt a PE or sports kit, or their school uniform - think Football Academy for sports kit, Harry Potter and St Trinian's for the uniform. Then I cut the visor into a rounded point and also cut two lengths of foam to make antennae. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. To begin, draw round a bowl, to create a couple of circles on one of the sleets of foam, then cut them out with a pair of scissors. Start with a stripey jumper. It can be the start of many an easy costume including Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, Where's Wally, or Horrid Henry. The curly plastic band snapped after a couple of ‘dress rehearsal try-ons’, so I ended up making a band from the foam instead.

These form the eyes of your grasshopper costume. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. Get the face paints out. Book characters can easily come to life with cute painted faces. Think The Tiger Who Came to Tea or the Cheshire Cat. Because the curly band of the visor snapped, I cut a length of foam (around an inch and a half deep), to fit snugly around the circumference of my little boy’s head. To create the 'arms', take a couple of sheets of foam and glue down the long edge to create a tube, making sure that the hands of the person you're making fit snugly into one end; almost like gloves.

Then, if you’re feeling creative, you can also add a little pattern on the face of each one, to give the impression of insect wings. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. If you're using a visor, cut it into a rounded point and also cut two lengths of foam to make antennae. It would have been just as simple to create the visor shape from the foam too. Photo Credit: The Listed Home. Next, I cut a single line — from the edge of the circle to the centre — through each circle; then overlapped the edges and glued them together, creating a shallow cone shape.