Dress Up Ideas For Halloween For Girls Using Tutus and Fairy Wings!

Are you having a hard time trying to figure out what to have your child or daughter dress up in for Halloween? You are probably not the only one. It is tough to decide on the perfect, modest Halloween costumes for your daughter. There are some really easy things you can do for really not a lot of money.

First, let me suggest getting a cheap tutu. You can buy a basic tutu for $2.50. Then, pick out some butterfly wings or pixie wings. Here are some great suggestions on what to do with a basic ballet tutu and a set of fairy wings.

1. Lady Bug Costume. Get black and red combinations of tutus and butterfly wings and make a lady bug costume. Add some puff balls to the tutu for the dots for the ladybug. Put some black make up on the face. You can make a really easy headband with a plastic headband, some wire and some puff balls on the end. Or, we even have a red pettiskirt with small black polka dots to look like a ladybug.

2. Make a simple fairy costume. To do this, pick out a pastel color tutu. Get some pixie wings in a color that would coordinate well with the pastel tutu. Then all you need is some fairy dust (glitter) and to make a pretty wand. You could always add some pretty satin, organza or grosgrain ribbon to the tutu to dress it up.

3. Bumble bee costume. This one is really easy too. Much like making a lady bug costume. Get a black tutu, add some yellow strips of ribbon down it. Get some black butterfly wings, and make a simple headband like you would for a lady bug. This whole costume would cost you around $5. You just can't beat that and it would be super cute.

You can really take any of these ideas for babies, infants, toddlers or young girls. Butterfly wings are a really great addition to any tutu to make an easy, affordable and modest costume for a girl.

Just imagine going to a Halloween party with your family. You show up with even your baby dressed up as a little fairy. Everyone will think she is the cutest thing ever. She will definitely be the talk of the party. Don't forget to dress up the baby or young toddler!

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Why Do Fairies Have Wings?

While there are various explanations of the origins of fairies and the nature of them and their lands, there is little explanation in any studies of where the modern conception of winged fairies has come from.

None of the books suggest that fairies have wings like dragonflies or butterflies. The wee-folk of Celtic mythology are generally thought to be the size of small children or dwarfs, rather than the size of insects as they are thought of today.They also tend to be suitably disproportionate, like chunky hobbits or dwarfs rather than the tiny but perfect adult fairies in modern storybooks. It is likely that these modern depictions of fairies sprang more from the minds of individual humans than any specific culture or mythology.

For almost as long as people have been seeing fairies, people have been writing about them. The countries of the world have a wide variety of myths and legends, but the "little people" crop up in a great many of them. Into more modern times, we have Spenser's "The Fairie Queen", and Shakespeare's "A Midsummers Night's Dream" in Elizabethan times, both of which did much to cement the modern conception of what a "fairy" is.

A wide variety of cultures believe in fairies similar to the Celtic version, and some cultures see fairies as the animistic spirits of nature. None of these fairies bear much resemblance to the modern fairies and if they had wings, it is a detail that is usually left out. Spencer's fairies were like the Celtic version, Shakespeare's were like a combination of tall elegant elves and the wee-folk, but it was not until the Victorian era that fairies were established as little winged beings.

Thomas Croker (1789-1854) in his collection of Irish Fairy Tales, described fairies as being "a few inches high, airy and almost transparent in body; so delicate in their form that a dew drop, when they chance to dance on it, trembles, indeed, but never breaks."

One of the first of these "delicate" fairies to impinge on popular consciousness was probably Tinkerbell in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. Around that time, there was also a large amount of sentimental art, creating cutesy portrayals of fairies and cherubs. There was also a large fuss made about the fairy photographs taken by two young girls in England at Cottingsley. These photographs sparked a world-wide debate that did much to "fix" the image of the small, winged, fairy in the public mind, and if you ask any group of people, there'll no doubt be someone who remembers seeing the pictures at some time. The Victorians had a soft spot for the "cute", and much of the modern conception of the little delicate, insect size fairy came from them.

Disney also has a part to play from the 1950s onward, pushing the sanitised Tinkerbell as a sort of happy go-lucky nature sprite, making fairies happy and unthreatening, reinforced even more by having Julia Roberts play her in the live action version.

From these images people have come to see fairies as a happy, positive, image... a far cry from the baby-stealing wee folk of Celtic mythology from which they derived.

Butterfly Fairy Wings, Costume Dress Up Wings and Why Little Girls Love Them

Butterfly wings and fairy wings are a wonderful accessory for any little girl who loves dress up. It is amazing how much joy a little girl can get out of a simple inexpensive item such as fairy dress up wings. Her imagination will take flight as she lets her dress up wings carry her away into her Neverland. She can pretend to be a fairy or even a fairy princess and her adventures never seem to end.

Perhaps you remember what fun it was to be able to spend your day in imagination. What freedom it gives to anyone's mind to take that time and pretend. Our little ones seem to have it down pat. It's nice to know that small and simple things can add that important element to her growth. Whether it is a new set of wings for a Halloween dress up costume or just for everyday play it seems fairy wings are a hit that will last forever. There are so many different styles and colors with the butterfly wings and fairy wings these days that you can offer for your little fairy princess. Pink is of course a popular color for little girls but there are many who like rainbow fairy wings or even lavender or purple wings for their dress up costume. Perhaps they already want a variety so they have a color for each outfit. We all know that desire to have the right accessory for each outfit will start all too soon.

Think of the smiles you get to enjoy when she dawns her favorite butterfly wings and seems to fly off into her play land. A little boy might spend hours watching the bugs and exploring to see the butterflies in their element but your little girl will take it upon herself to become one of them at every opportunity dawning her wings often as soon as she wakes and perhaps changing her outfit several times a day. She will want to wear them to the shopping mall or even on a trip to the grocery store and why shouldn't she? She only gets to be a kid once. The rest of her life she will spend remembering the time and wishing she could go back.