Fairy Costumes are a Little Girl’s Delight
When the time comes for your young daughter to wear a costume, whether for Halloween, a school, house of worship or youth club event, or just for play with costumed friends, a fairy costume is a traditional and timeless costume that will allow your little girl to feel enchanted as she enchants her friends with her delicate and ethereal appearance that suggests magical powers.
White, off white, and pink are the traditional colors of a fairy costume that is appropriate for a young girl. While dance costume stores, online retailers, and toy stores offer high quality fairy costumes that little girls do enjoy, it is often more economical to make a costume from fabric and other craft materials that you may well have at home. Old curtains make perfect body pieces and wings for your dressed up little fairy queen. Her wand can easily be made from anything ranging from a paper towel core to part of an old curtain rod, depending upon the length of wand that she feels most comfortable carrying as well as her age and size. And typical little girls’ dressy shoes, no matter how worn out or damaged, can easily be made into fairy shoes by gluing glitter onto their already shiny patent leather uppers.
Indeed, like any custom costume, fairy costumes can be made so that alterations are very simple should she physically outgrow her costume the next time she needs or wants to wear it. Use of Velcro fasteners which are easy for little girls to open and close themselves when putting on or removing the costume also allows for easy size changes, and length can be increased if the ruffles of the fairy dress are sewn in a way that allows them to be let down while still appearing neat and fairy-like.
Design ideas for fairy costumes can be found by checking with teachers and fellow parents as well as online and from crafts stores. And even the youngest girls often express a sense of individual style that they can use to help you with ideas for their costumes, as they look through your piles of old clothing, fasteners, fabrics and even their discarded toys for safe and easy to affix additions to their fairy dresses, wands or wings.
Indeed, creating original fairy costumes is a great way for mothers to introduce their daughters to the enjoyable world of crafts, as well as to help them better develop their innate creativity. If your daughter demands a light blue or purple fairy costume, or some other color that you might not have thought of, and you can easily find the materials for it, let her guide you with her budding fashion sense as you sew and glue the costume that will dazzle her friends.
Fairy costumes have always been a staple of little girls’ play and Halloween enjoyment, and while finding safe and inexpensive pre-made fairy costumes is possible, making it yourself with your daughter’s input is a great way to stimulate her creativity as you save money and enjoy a trip back in time to the costumes of your own early childhood. If you aren’t sure about fairy costumes for yourself or your daughter, consider the many other girls costumes available in Canada.