We will next be celebrating World Book Day on 7 March 2024. Our mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. Each child will receive a book token but there will also be lots of prizes to be won book tokens and books!

World Book Day Potato characters

We are inviting the children to create a potato character inspired by their favourite book and bring the character to spend World Book Day with them! So there will be no dressing up needed for the children.  

World Book Day – how you can prepare together with your child:

  • What is your favourite book and why?
  • Can you think of a book you’ve really enjoyed recently?
  •  Who is your favourite book character and why?
  • Who is the funniest/most evil/most unique book character you’ve come across?
  • Do you dislike any book characters? Why?
  • If you could be any book character, who would you be and why?

Pupils can use the design sheet to plan their creation before they set about creating it. They might want to bring that in on the day to discuss how they made their character and why they chose the character they did.

You will need:

• One large baked potato

 • Paint

• Felt tips/permanent markers

• Craft materials such as googly eyes, pipe cleaners, card, tissue paper, wooden sticks, string, felt, feather, sequins…

• PVA glue

• Scissors

The children might like to paint their potato to create a base colour for their character. If so, factor in time for their potato to dry before decorating with other materials.

Once dry they can decorate their potato using pens and a range of craft materials.

You can find lots of examples of character potatoes online for inspiration.

We look forward to seeing all the different creations on the day.