Book Week Characters

Assalamu Alaikum everyone!

About a month ago Hanifah and Sumayyah had to dress up for World Book Day at school. In today's post we are going to show you the outfits they wore.

Mad Hatter Costume

The staff had an Alice in Wonderland theme and had to dress up as a character from the book. Hanifah chose to go as the Mad Hatter and this is the costume she wore:

Our mum made the top hat using cardboard and fabric.

Hanifah made the sash using thick red felt and spools of thread (which she tied to the sash).

The rest of the outfit consisted of Hanifah's grey coat, Maryam's beige skirt and our mum's old handmade waistcoat.

She also wore a stripy black-and-white shirt underneath the waistcoat and wrapped a scarf around her neck like a bow tie.

We mostly just repurposed what we already had. It was a fun, quirky look, masha'Allah - especially with the face paint - and everyone really loved it, alhamdulillah!

Elizabethan Lady Costume

Sumayyah's class were studying Shakespeare in English and they were asked to come in dressed as either a Shakespearian character or someone from the Elizabethan era. Since it was hard to find an outfit, our mum decided to make Sumayyah a dress. This is how it turned out, masha'Allah:

Our mum already had the fabric and it took her a few days to design and make the dress.

She added a crisscross pattern in gold to decorate the front.

For the most part, the dress was kept simple with only a few embellishments on the sleeves.

Masha'Allah, Sumayyah had a very unique outfit to wear and she was very happy, alhamdulillah!

Well, that's all for this post. We hope you enjoyed it and we will see you next week, insha'Allah.

Take care and Wassalam,