Do you dress up in lessons?

I have an abiding love of cartoons, especially those which appeared in the late lamented Punch magazine. One favourite has a portly male teacher striding confidently into a science class wearing only a towel. Awaiting him is a large domestic bath almost full of water.

“Turn to page 18,” he barks over his shoulder, “Archimedes’ Principle.”

I thought of it straight away when I spotted a question on Twitter from author and teacher Sue Cowley (@Sue_Cowley): “Have you ever worn or used costumes to teach, and if yes, what were they and what was the learning you did?”

Teachers in costume? Human visual aids? Surely, in the current rather po-faced and didactic climate, that would be alarmingly close to the dangerous “fun” end of the pedagogic spectrum.
But not a bit of it. Tweeters, presumably as glad as I was to take a break from academisation, leaked test papers, and the rules of grammar, fell over themselves to tell Sue and her followers gleeful tales of dressing up.