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16 February 2024 | Posted in:  Book Week |

Book Week Ideas for Teachers


Teacher Book Week Ideas

Book Week is just around the corner, and the air is buzzing with excitement. For teachers, it’s the perfect opportunity to ignite a love of reading in their students while donning creative costumes that bring their favourite characters to life.

 

 

Lets jump in and have a look at the awesome teachers book week costumes we have available at Heaven Costumes!

 

Three circle images of people in costume. One of Cinderella and Prince Charming. One of two people in Gryffindor robes. And the third of Alice and the Mad Hatter.

Men's Classic Book Character Costumes

When you think about classic book characters who comes to mind?

There’s a few standout classics that are great options as a men’s book week costumes!

Classic Dr. Seuss characters, The Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2! Or what about Where’s Wally?

You could go with Wally or Odlaw! We’ve even got a Granny Wolf costume from Red Riding Hood!

 

 Men's Harry Potter Costumes

Now the Wizarding World is always going to be a favourite and we’ve got the best teacher costume, a costume ideal for an inspirational Potions Master, the Half-Blood Prince… Professor Snape!

If dressing as Snape isn’t the way you want to go, we also have Harry Potter costumes, Newt Scamander from Fantastic Beasts and all of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, house robes! 

 

 Men's Disney Character Costumes

The Disney category is incredible, and the best thing? All of the characters have graced the covers of books multiple times!

Alice in Wonderland brought characters like The Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit to life!

Toy Story, has the ever popular Buzz Lightyear and Woody! As well as Aladdin and his sidekick the Genie!

 

 Men's Stand Out Book Character Costumes

Stand out costumes for Book Week?

Why not get some laughs with the students this year! We’ve got some hilarious stand out costumes to choose from!

You could go as a Teletubbie (we have them all), or Shrek with a stuffed belly!

We even have the team from Scooby Doo, Shaggy, Fred and Scooby!

And we can’t forget Pikachu.. That one’s guaranteed to make you a hit among the students!

 

 Women's Classic Book Character Costumes

Classic characters from the books we all love for women? There’s some great women’s Book Week costumes in this category!

We have the team from the land of OZ, Glinda, the Wicked Witch and Dorothy!

Little Red Riding Hood is also an incredible option as well as everyone’s favourite nanny, Mary Poppins, we’ve also got Miss Trunchbull from Matilda if you want to scare your students a little! 

 

 Women's Harry Potter Costumes

Looking at the Wizarding World and we have some fabulous options for Hogwarts fans!

Dress in your house colours and house robes! We’ve got officially licensed Harry Potter character costumes for women that are sure to wow at the Book Week Parade!

 

 Women's Disney Character Costumes

Our Disney Princess selection for women is incredible, all of your favourite characters are available and the best thing about Disney is the characters all started in books!

Think Disney Princesses, we have Belle, Snow White, Moana, Rapunzel, Alice in Wonderland and so many more!

Of course, we also can’t forget the Disney Villains, The Evil Queen, Maleficent, The Queen of Hearts and Cruella to name a few!

 

 Women's Stand Out Book Character Costumes

Finishing off our women’s Book Week category, are the characters that stand out from the rest!

Characters that have graced pages and screen!

We have the ever lovely Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley from Scooby Doo. Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach from our Super Mario range!

The crime fighting Power Rangers, Minions and even Shaun the Sheep!

 

Three circle images of people in costumes. One is Maleficent. One is Belle from Beauty and the Beast. One of The Mad Hatter.

 

Now that we’ve covered some of our favourites, have you found your dream costume? If you’re still stumped there are a few things to remember when picking a costume… 

If You Can Read it, You Can Be It!!

Pick A Book (Any book is OK! Even comic books or history books are an option!)

Choose Your Character

Find a Costume!

Dress Up and Have Fun!

One last thing before I go… don’t forget, we love to see everyone’s Book Week Costumes!

Tag us on social media @heavencostumes and use the hashtag #heavencostumes for a chance to be featured on our socials and website!

Until Next Time….

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