- Decide whether to be a good or a bad faerie and start with a basic costume. For a good faerie, wear a pale pink leotard and a white or pink tutu. Alternatively, make a skirt out of shear or silky fabric cut into pointed petal shapes. Add ballet tights or striped tights and ballerina slippers. Add a set of sparkly wings, a tiara and a magic wand. Make a wand by wrapping a dowel in ribbon and adding ribbon streamers or a silver star at one end. For a bad fairy, wear the same basic costume but have everything in black; a black leotard or corset, a tutu, wings and wand. Wear fishnet tights and long black boots. Use dramatic make-up with dark eyes.
- For a faerie queen costume, use gold fabrics. Add bells and sparkly jewels to the skirt and neckline of the leotard. Make a crown from card stock and spray it gold with metallic spray paint. Add stick-on gems to the crown. Make a cape from a rectangle of gold fabric and edge it in fake fur. Trim the wings with gold ribbon or tinsel and wear them on the outside of the cape. Add an extra-large gold wand. Smile graciously and wave regally.
- Give a basic faerie costume a humorous slant by adapting it as a tooth faerie costume. Make a necklace and earrings with large tooth shapes cut from white card stock or modeled from white air-dry modeling clay. Make a headband or crown with a large tooth shape cut from white card stock glued to the front. Sprinkle fairy dust from a sparkly bag and tell everyone it is made from ground teeth.
- Create a woodland or flower faerie costume by assembling a basic faerie costume in shades of green. Have layers of skirts with green leaf shapes cut out and stitched or glued into place. Stick fabric flowers all over your costume. Make a garland for your hair using ivy and real flowers. Hang lengths of ivy from the waistband of your skirt. Paint flowers on your face with face paint.