Every little princess needs a sparkly dress and carriage. How to make a princess dress and tiara for dress up or Halloween. A beautiful puffy dress with lots of sparkles and NO zippers or buttons!
Ruby has known what she wants to be for Halloween for about 10 months now. Are your kids like that too? Halloween ends, Christmas comes and goes, and it’s back to thinking about Halloween again. She wanted to be Glinda from the Wizard of Oz because, well, the DRESS! We came up with our own little spin off dress that is easy to pull over her head and made from cotton, elastic, and a bit of sparkle.
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How to Make a Princess Dress and Tiara for Dress Up
Princess Costume Dress
I started with a modified peasant top with long sleeves (cotton as the bodice lining, and sparkly tulle for the outer). The sleeves are cotton. You can purchase the pattern from  Whimsy Couture.
Step 1: Make two separate skirts, one from sparkly tulle and one from cotton and attached them to the bodice, each using about 2 yards of fabric (similar to this tutorial here).
Step 2: Create a cotton waist band that wraps around the back with velcro to bring in the waist.
Step 3: Purchase a hoop skirt for extra fullness.
I love the simplicity of this princess dress. No buttons, collars or zippers and the elastic neckline makes it a simple pull on style dress that is easy to get on and off. 
I wanted Ruby to help customize her costume so we decided to make a sparkly tiara that she could decorate.
Princess Costume Sparkly Tiara
Supplies
- Poster board
- spray ahdesive
- fabric
- gems
- craft glue
- sticky back Velcro
Step 1: Use this free template from Being LDS and traced it onto poster board and cut it out.
Step 2: Spray it with spray adhesive and add a layer of pink fabric and trimmed it to the size of the poster board.
Note: You can leave it just like that, but for added stability top stitched 1/8″ around the edge on your sewing machine. Yes, you can sew on poster board!
Step 3: Accessorize it with gems and add some sticky back velcro for closure. So easy and so cute!
My boys are still undecided as of right now.
They are all star wars characters again this year. I’m hoping we can reuse our R2 and chewie, but of course they aren’t quite settled on what they’ll be. They don’t usually decide until the week of!
Mickey Mouse and a BAD witch are what my kids want to be this year.
I think we are going to do Mickey Mouse also.
Blue!
my son wants to be sonic the hedgehog
My little boy is going to be mickey mouse! It’s a very simple costume to put together, which makes me a happy momma!
My son really wants to be a power ranger this year!
My daughter is going to be Little Red Ridinghood and my son will be the wolf.
My son is going to be a vampire! Took him a while to decide, but the cape and fangs sold him 🙂
My daughter is going to be a buzzing bee for halloween
we are going to be having a little batman, Spider-Man, and possibly a padwan this Halloween.
so cute! I’m glad it comes in blue too. My little boy wants to be a ninja turtle this year. He carries a stuffed one everywhere so it’s fitting.
We are torn between costume ideas. Originally we were going to dress the littles up as historical figures. Willow (age 2) was going to be Amelia Earheart, Teagan (age 4) was going to be William Wallace but we were stumped for Genevieve’s costume. Which has us thinking let our girls be lambie and Doc McStuffins and Teags could be Michaelangelo his favorite “engine turtle” =)
My daughter is going as a My Little Pony 🙂
I’m trying to talk my four into being a set of Legos for Halloween lol
we’re still expecting but I have my eye on a little lobster costume from nordstrom for next year 😉
I usually make my kids wait till October before we will discuss costume ideas, but then Target that that cartwheel coupon last week, so now we have a stormtrooper and a skeleton so far. My 4 year old will probably decide on Haloween day 🙂
How cute! My daughters would love the pink one! For Halloween my daughters are going to be Ariel and Flowder, and my husband is going to be king Tritan and I’ll be Ursela.
I really would like to make a panda bear costume for Barrett, but we are leaning more toward Mickey Mouse.
Looks like my 4 yr old grandson wants to go the Star War’s route this year.. Darth Maul….but not sure what 4 month old sister will be.
My son might go as R2D2 or Toad from Super Mario Brothers.
I’d probably choose a blue 🙂
My 7 year old son wants to be an army man. The rest of my kids haven’t made up their minds yet!
My grandkids are going to be Batman, a princess, a Monster high girl and a ballerina!
We don’t celebrate Halloween, so they will just be themselves.
My 3 year old loves Paw Patrol and has rejected every costume but Skye’s! So, it’s off to look for her!
Pink, of course. L is going to be a pink crayon..
My daughter wants to be a butterfly
We’ve always wanted a wagon!
They are going to be Mike and Boo from Monster’s Inc.
My oldest daughter is going to be a barbie super hero. And my youngest Tinkerbell.
My son wants to be a creeper and my daughter wants to be a ghost!
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