Children love wearing new costumes. Getting the best fancy dress theme ideas, are the best way to celebrate and can be more exciting. Fancy dress costumes are fun because they let your child dress up as their favorite characters and use parent’s creativity to set up their best look. You can pick from the most popular themes like animals, food, technology, superheroes, cartoon characters, and famous people.
Here are Few Fancy Dress Theme Ideas for Children:
Animal Costumes:
- You can also try costumes of animals like a dinosaur(R), lion, cat, monkey, or cute rabbit, whichever is your kid’s favorite animal.
- Kids can attract the audience, by wearing a bright tiger costume, and helping them speak about wild conservation of tigers.
Fancy Dress Theme Ideas for Girls:
1. Fairy Tale and Princess Costumes:
In this fancy dress theme idea, girls would love to dress up as a fairy princess like Snow white or Cinderella.
- Dress up your little girl as snow white, from the Grimm’s Fairy Tale, with the same name.
- Let them learn the famous dialogue from the story- “I have lips red as rose, hair black as ebony, skin white as snow. Who am I?”
- Another fancy dress theme idea for little girls is dressing up like a Cinderella.
- Dress up your princess in a pretty pink or light blue Cinderella costume. Wearing on glass slippers would put a great look for the dress.
- Make her teach the famous line from the story – “Oh my goodness! It is midnight; I have to go”; to make the experience interesting.
2. Evil Queen:
- Dress up your child, as the popular villain, Evil Queen, from the Fairy Tale of Snow White.
- The famous dialogue in the story for this character is- “ Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is fairest of them all?”
3. Hansel and Gretel:
- A great fancy dress up idea for siblings as Gretel and Hansel.
- They can put on this costume and say the famous dialogue together- “Whatever you do, don’t eat the candy from the house.”
4. Red Riding Hood Costume:
- This is the simplest, fancy dress theme ideas, that you can make it at home for boys.
- You will need a red cloth, that can be turned into a cloak with a hood.
- Let him learn the famous dialogue from the story- “It is I, Little Red Riding Hood. I have brought you fruit, cakes, and honey, and a bunch of pretty wildflowers to cheer you up.”
Fancy Dress Theme Ideas for Boys:
1. Prince Charming Costume:
- Dress up your little boy, into the most charming prince with a cool prince costume, which you can make it at home.
- Create the prince charming costume with a cloak made from a velvety cloth, and a dagger and crown made of cardboard.
- Make him teach the famous line from the story- “I don’t even know your name! How will I find you? (sigh)”, and your prince will be ready to interpret the character.
2. Robin Hood:
- Dress up your little one as Robin Hood, the highly skilled archer, and a good robber who stole wealth from the rich and distributed it among the poor.
- Let him practice the famous dialogue from the story- “Rise and rise again until lambs become lions.”
3. Peter Pan Costume:
- Dress up your little kid in a green color Peter Pan costume(R) and make him say the famous dialogue- “To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
Superhero Fancy Dress Theme Ideas:
- Your child would love to wear superhero costumes and will pretend to be a superhero, who can fly and rescue people in danger.
- These costumes, are easy to make. Most of them need a cape and a mask to make your kid look like a superhero.
1. Batman:
- You can make this simple superhero theme costume at home.
- Create a simple Batman costume with black cloth at home.
- Things you will need are a cape and a mask, a black one-piece suit or black tights and a t-shirt.
- Add a yellow belt with the Batman logo for the buckle, and you have your junior Batman costume ready.
- Teach your kid to say the dialogue- “It is not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me!”. And if that is too difficult for him, tell him to just say- “I’m Batman” in a rough voice.
2. Superman:
- To get the perfect Superman to look for your kid, you need to get the perfect right materials for this costume.
- A cloak and a costume in blue and red color is all you need.
- It would be easy, to create this costume, if your kid owns a Superman t-shirt with a logo on it.
- Teach him the famous dialogue- “You are much stronger than you know. Trust me!”
3. Spider-Man:
- Trying to make this costume, for kids, is not a good option. Rather, you can buy it online and turn your kid into the superhero.
- Let him say the famous dialogue- “With great power comes great responsibility.”
