If you’re looking for ideas for costumes for kids the choice is endless, as there are now so many fantastic fancy dress outfits available. You can get just about every character from every Disney film, cartoon and popular kids movies ever made, as well as classic animal costumes, super hero costumes, Halloween costumes and pretty much every costume that is available for adults comes in a kids version too.
So where do you start, how do you choose? Well the best place to start is to ask your kids who or what they’d like to dress up as. They’re bound to have a favourite cartoon or storybook, or maybe a fairy tale or even a nursery rhyme. If they’ve been invited to a themed fancy dress party then the boundaries are a little more limited, although this is often helpful as it reduces the choices you could be faced with!
How old your child is will also make a difference as to which type of costume you choose, but you can get costumes for babies and costumes for kids, going right up to teenagers. The cutest costumes of all have to be the baby costumes, such as a Baby Bunting Bee costume or a Baby Bunting Halloween ghost. You can even get baby Star Wars costumes so your little one could be a Princess Leia, a baby Chewbacca or a baby Yoda.
Sticking with the Star Wars theme this a great one for costumes for kids of all ages as there are so many weird and wonderful characters in the movies. There are loads of different Star Wars costumes available of many different characters and to suit many different budgets.
If you’re worried about expense and have a budget to stick to then look for the simpler costumes or think about ones you can make yourself by buying some great accessories to go with them. Some simple costume ideas include pirate costumes, and most kids adore pirates, especially if they’ve seen Pirates of the Caribbean or Peter Pan.
Peter Pan is a good example of a popular storybook theme, as well as being a movie, and most little girls would love to dress up as Tinkerbell. In fact usually any fairy will do, or pixie or angel, as long as they can wear wings. Kids’ fairy costumes are easy and fun to put together and you can guarantee your little girl won’t want to take her costume off. You can make them look pretty and fun with a pair of sparkly wings, a tutu or pretty dress, some stripy tights and the all-important magic wand.
Another magic theme that kids love for fancy dress is Harry Potter, following the huge success of all the books and subsequent movies. You can get costumes for most of the Harry Potter characters, including favourites Harry, Voldemort and a very cute Hedwig costume.
If your preference is for more traditional films that you can share with the whole family, The Wizard of Oz is a great theme to get for costumes for kids for. The most obvious being Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Lion and the Scarecrow. There are some wonderful Wizard of Oz costumes available, and if your child would prefer to act up as a baddie there’s always the wicked witch to dress up as.
Witch costumes for kids in general are extremely popular of course, because of Halloween, when their imaginations can really run riot. Halloween costumes open a whole other can of worms in the choices that are available!
The ideas mentioned here are just scratching the surface really of a mountain of ideas for costumes for kids! So find out what your child likes, what the set theme of the occasion is and have a look around. You’re bound to find something suitable, as there are lots of adorable costumes for kids available.