By Rebecca Hughes
Children's birthday parties are usually a much larger event than any adult's birthday party, and obviously this means that a lot more effort has to be put in to make it a perfect event. Girls specially love having a fantasy setting with lots of other things such as games, beautiful cake, fancy dresses and lot of decoration.
One of the most popular themes at children's birthday parties is fancy dress. Since all children like dressing up as their favourite superhero or fairy story character, a birthday allows them to dress up and really show off in front of their peers and enjoy a night as someone else.
A favourite costume for girls is dressing up as a princess. Princess themes are really popular not just because of the many cartoons that feature beautiful princesses, but also because this allows the little girls to get their wish of dressing up like their mothers and look grown up.
If your daughter wants a princess costume, don't worry. It isn't as complicated as it sounds. While you can definitely buy the entire costume at a children's store, you can also save some money and conjure one up by yourself with the things you have in your home.
To start with, you will need to figure out the main dress. For this, you should look for a fancy dress that your daughter already has. If you don't have a dress in the house that you could use, ask friends who have daughters that are older than yours and see if they have an old one lying around which they can give to you. It's a plus point If the dress is in pastel colours, or is white. If it's in some dark colour, then you can either consider bleaching and dying it (with the owner's permission of course), or ask your daughter if she is ok with the darker colour.
Now that the dress is here, you need to change it (again, with the owner's permission). Feel free to add as many ruffles, feathers, beads, or any other fancy embellishments onto it as you think your daughter will like. Make sure, you don't make it too heavy or awkward to wear, and that it doesn't end up looking funny.
Moving on, you will need to make a tiara and wand, and other accessories. You can get your little tot to help you with this. Give her some tin foil and ask her to bend it into bracelets, rings, or other jewellery she wants to wear. While she does this, you can take plastic tubing and cut-out a star shape from some cardboard. Join these two into a wand shape, and then put some pink (or any colour that looks good with the dress) ribbon all around it and glue it together. If you want, you can make a tiara or a pointy hat with some cardboard too. Just make sure that the tiara is silver in colour and fits your daughter's head comfortably.
That's it. That's all it takes to make a perfect fancy dress costume for a birthday party at almost no cost.
Children's birthday parties are usually a much larger event than any adult's birthday party, and obviously this means that a lot more effort has to be put in to make it a perfect event. Girls specially love having a fantasy setting with lots of other things such as games, beautiful cake, fancy dresses and lot of decoration.
One of the most popular themes at children's birthday parties is fancy dress. Since all children like dressing up as their favourite superhero or fairy story character, a birthday allows them to dress up and really show off in front of their peers and enjoy a night as someone else.
A favourite costume for girls is dressing up as a princess. Princess themes are really popular not just because of the many cartoons that feature beautiful princesses, but also because this allows the little girls to get their wish of dressing up like their mothers and look grown up.
If your daughter wants a princess costume, don't worry. It isn't as complicated as it sounds. While you can definitely buy the entire costume at a children's store, you can also save some money and conjure one up by yourself with the things you have in your home.
To start with, you will need to figure out the main dress. For this, you should look for a fancy dress that your daughter already has. If you don't have a dress in the house that you could use, ask friends who have daughters that are older than yours and see if they have an old one lying around which they can give to you. It's a plus point If the dress is in pastel colours, or is white. If it's in some dark colour, then you can either consider bleaching and dying it (with the owner's permission of course), or ask your daughter if she is ok with the darker colour.
Now that the dress is here, you need to change it (again, with the owner's permission). Feel free to add as many ruffles, feathers, beads, or any other fancy embellishments onto it as you think your daughter will like. Make sure, you don't make it too heavy or awkward to wear, and that it doesn't end up looking funny.
Moving on, you will need to make a tiara and wand, and other accessories. You can get your little tot to help you with this. Give her some tin foil and ask her to bend it into bracelets, rings, or other jewellery she wants to wear. While she does this, you can take plastic tubing and cut-out a star shape from some cardboard. Join these two into a wand shape, and then put some pink (or any colour that looks good with the dress) ribbon all around it and glue it together. If you want, you can make a tiara or a pointy hat with some cardboard too. Just make sure that the tiara is silver in colour and fits your daughter's head comfortably.
That's it. That's all it takes to make a perfect fancy dress costume for a birthday party at almost no cost.
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