Make Tinkerbell Costume / How to Make a Tinkerbell Costume

The first step to make a Tinkerbell costume is making the skirt or dress. You have to choices for the main party of you Tinkerbell costume. You can either make a Tinkerbell dress, or just use a skirt/too-too, and a shirt. Look below for an explanation on how to do each.

Tinkerbell Dress/How to make a Tinkerbell Dress
Making a Tinkerbell dress is very simple to do, but takes a lot of times, and some sewing. You will need a green leotard, and some green fabric to do so. What you should do is sew random almost triangle shaped strips of green fabric on to the leotard. The bottom row of fabric should have longer strips, so that the dress isn't too short. This is a simple way to make the first component of your Tinkerbell costume, but will take you a lot of time.

If the option shown above is to complicated for you, there is a much simpler way to make a Tinkerbell costume

How to Make a two Piece Tinkerbell costume(skirt and leotard).
Your other option to make your own Tinkerbell costume is purchasing a light green leotard, and a green tutu. The tutu can have other colors, like yellow, but should be mostly green. This costume, if you shop smarty, could cost less than $15. That is a great deal, for any one on a budget.

The only thing you need now is Tinkerbell shoes, wings, and a wand. Look below to see how to make each.

Making Tinkerbell shoes is relatively simple, and should be cheap. They can just be plain black shoes, and this would be fine, but if you want to be unique, you need the green Tinkerbell shoes. To do this, get green, thin fabric and glue it to the shoes. Make sure if you do this, that the whole shoe is covered. The video below will better explain this.

Making Tinkerbell wings is relatively easy. The only things you need are

-pliers
-rope
-ribbon
-glue
-old tights or socks
-WIRE(16 gauge)

Next, watch the video below on how to make them. This video shoes black wings, but you should be making either white, green, or yellow wings, in order to look like Tinkerbell.

Making your hair styled like Tinkerbell is relatively simple. You need a very tight bun right in the back, and if your girl has bangs, let them stay out. If she doesn't, it will be fine with out bangs. Look below for better explanations on how to do Tinkerbell hair.