Sometimes it’s a chore to find yet another costume for your school’s dress-up day. These teachers make it look easy, and have great ideas too!
These dress up ideas will help inspire your costumes for Spirit Week, Red Ribbon Week, or any other occasion that calls for a costume. It’ll be fun!!
A special thank you to all of the teachers who took the time to post these pictures, but more importantly the teachers who take the time every day to educate and mentor our youth!!
1) Policing the Grade School Grammar
Haha, it’s the grammar police! These brave women are here to straighten out those kid’s words
and their behavior. What a cute idea!
2) Dress Up As the Four Seasons!
Spring, winter, autumn, and winter. What a fun idea! There are so many ways to interpret nature’s seasons into costume form. This idea could be super complex, or super cost-effective!
It’s easy to turn a white shirt into a white shirt with black paint spots! How fun to include a Cruella Deville. You could also add in some stuff animal puppies!
These teachers did a great job of recreating Disney’s classic characters. Look at that rendition of Goofy, he’s spot on!
What a fun time for the kids, seeing their teachers posing as some of their favorite TV characters. You can get creative with the costuming like these great teachers!
Book characters make great costumes!!! The kid’s imaginations will come to life, and you can have a blast acting out your favorite children’s books!
Every kid loves Toy Story. And there’s something for everyone, so many choices of characters to dress up as. There’s something for everyone on the staff!
8) These Teachers Are Incredible!
Share the message of family and togetherness with your students by dressing up as
The Incredibles (2004) with your fellow staff members. The time you spend to find matching tights with be worth it!
Animal headbands complete these Whiney the Pooh costumes perfectly! Bonus, you can read or screen Whiney the Pooh for a fun activity!
Haha! What a great costume idea! The possibilities are endless. This is a great example. It looks like they found someone who is really good at sewing and crafts to make these!!
11) The Seven Dwarfs With Snow White and the Evil Queen!
How fun! Whether you think have the fun original in mind, or something more personal growth-oriented like
Once Upon a Time’s (2011-2018) take on it, fairy tales never grow too old for dress-up!
These math teachers are committed. Get creative and make your own costume concept!
“Math Monsters”
This is a great way to get your whole school’s faculty on board! Teach a lesson about unity with some fun blue shirts and fun white hats! The tricky part might be getting the principal or headteacher to wear a white beard!
My niece loves Pete the Cat. It’s easy to convert a cat-eared headband and some big yellow glasses into a Pete the Cat costume! This is great for Spirit week. You can even do a special activity reading of your favorite Pete the Cat book!
Every kid has played CandyLand! Dress up as their favorite board game and support their imaginations during the school day.
Top Chef (2006-) is such a fun show to watch with the family. You are already top teachers, why not dress up as “Top Chefs”?
17) Be a “Very Hungry Caterpillar”
Celebrate one of the world’s most loved children’s authors—Eric Carle. There are many animals to dress up as, and Carle’s abstract paper ripped like style makes costume creating fun!
18) Marvel To the Rescue!
There’s a reason Marvel characters are so popular, kids love them! Why no treat your kids to a day of adventure with superhero teachers the next time you go for a dress-up day!
19) Represent Children’s Literature!
Take a twist and dress up as your own favorite children’s book characters. I have so many favorite children’s authors, just thinking about it I realize the possibilities are endless!
20) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
What a fun way to introduce your class to one of the classics if they don’t know it already. With all of today’s superhero movies, sometimes it’s nice to get back to the classics!
Haha! This looks like a fun and cost-effective way to celebrate Dr. Seuss books! I am pretty sure you could get everything you need at one craft store too.
22) Junie B. Jones — So Many Options!
My niece loves Junie B. Jones! There are so many dress-up choices depending on which book you choose. What a great idea!
My nephew loves
Give Mouse a Cookie. These costumes are easy, cost-effective and fun. They even involve coloring!
A fun throwback to one of America’s most beloved comic characters, Charlie Brown. This could also provide a great opportunity to teach that comics aren’t just about Marvel superheroes!
25) Rock, Paper, Scissors!!
Haha! This is brilliant, your whole class will be smiling! Every kid knows about this game. You can even settle who gets to be scissors by play Rock, Paper, Scissors with your fellow teachers. How fun!!
I love this one!! It’s easy and can work for any number of faculty. I am filing this in my mind’s section of “great and easy costumes”. It’s a great lesson on different personalities and cost-effective too!! I love it.
You can always go with the easy staple of Disney princess and princes. The costumes are straight forward and easy to find. If you want something classic, this could be your ticket.
A fun and uniform idea. I feel like dressing up as M & M’s shows an example of unity. It’s an easy costume to get started, and can be used again and again!
I took care of a little girl who came into her own by reading the Fancy Nancy books. I love that the books define lots of different words to help expand vocabulary! And you can dress up as a diva yourself with this costume.
Here’s a true classic. Matching stripes! And you can pay where’s the teacher with your kids.
31) Pregnant? Dr. Seuss Has Got You Covered
This is a fun and cute costume, that includes your little one. What a blast! This teacher looks very happy. How fun!
32) “Dunkin’ Donuts”… Punny
For better or for worse, who at school doesn’t love donuts! Be punny with your costumes by picking up some pool inflatables and drawing lines on some orange balls!
33) I Aint’ Afraid of No Ghosts!
Toss a coin for who has to wear the sheets.. that might get a little complicated! But for a night at spirit week, this is a great one.
34) Emotional Intelligence with Inside Out (2015)
I love that these teachers dressed up as the character Riley’s emotions in the movie
Inside Out (2015)! What a great way to help your kids explore their emotions, and have fun in the process.
35) Apps On Your Smart Phone
Brilliant! The possibilities are virtually endless. Just print out an app icon, and tape it to your shirt! Or paint it on, if you are feeling crafty. Easy, inexpensive, and I love it.
Be a bunch of umpa-lumpas from Charlie Chocolate factory… just like from the movie. This is a great way to promote unity!
Bahahahahaha! This is really funny. Your kids would love it! You can do an impression of small arms on a t-rex for some good laughs in your class.
What a unique and wonderful idea! You can use the opportunity to talk to your students about healthy eating. This costume is great for any age!
Be sure to bring some Scooby snacks for your kids (and for you). This is an easy and fun idea. Great for older kids too!
This idea could apply to any of your favorite books. What a fun costume! I think I would go as the cover of
Where the Wild Things Are.
Few popular children’s books are as scientifically imaginative as the
Magic School Bus series. Have tun leading your class on some fun explorations dressed up as Miss Frizzle!
What a fun way to live out the childhood dream of becoming a My Little Pony. I would totally be on board with this one. It’s a fun and easy DYI idea too!
What a fun picture! Olivia the Pig posing next to Pete the Cat. It’s always fun to dress up as one of the kid’s beloved book characters.
44) Dress Up as Emily Elizabeth
All this smart teacher needs is a stuffed animal that’s a big red dog! This looks fairly easy to complies as well. Great idea!
This is a fun one for the boys. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! It looks like they made their own tulles shells with spray paint and aluminum baking pans, but I think I saw some plastic shells at the Dollar Store as well!
46) Rockin’ and Rollin’ in the 1950’s
Dress up as fashion from another era! 50’s poolde skirts, 70’s disco, 80’s aerobic wear… with everyone on the same page, this idea could be really fun!
A fun one for the boys! Fly Guy from the book series is a great costume idea. Just grab some all black clothes and make paper headbands and you are set to go!
You don’t need Snow White. Just grab some beanies and cut out some paper circles, and bam! Transformed into one of the Seven Dwarfs.
It’s quick and easy to pick up some wigs and some fairy wings or tutu. How fun to dress up as the Kinder Fairies!
How did these teachers do this, they look amazing! What a great idea. Maybe using a service like Spoonflower.com to print designs on fabric and then mounting that fabric on foam? Genius.
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Sometimes it’s a chore to find yet another costume for your school’s dress-up day. These teachers make it look easy, and have great ideas too!
These dress up ideas will help inspire your costumes for Spirit Week, Red Ribbon Week, or any other occasion that calls for a costume. It’ll be fun!!
A special thank you to all of the teachers who took the time to post these pictures, but more importantly the teachers who take the time every day to educate and mentor our youth!!
