Tinkerbell fancy dress costumes are a top choice of fancy dress for little girls and adults alike as they let us live our fairy dreams and fantasies from childhood.

Tinkerbell fancy dress costumes are popular due to the well-known J.M. Barrie novel Peter Pan and all the consequent movies and animated films that have been made, based on the story, including the 2003 Hollywood blockbuster Peter Pan movie.

Tinkerbell is a tinker fairy that makes and fixes things, and she leaves a trail of sparkling fairy dust wherever she goes. She is often bad-tempered but at other times she is kind and helpful to Peter Pan. These extremes in her character are explained in the original story by the fact that a fairys small size prevents her from being able to have more than one feeling at a time.

These character traits make some fantastic costume ideas, as you can either dress as a sweet Tinkerbell or a grumpy Tinkerbell.

If you would like to go as happy, kind Tinkerbell your costume should include a lime green little dress with matching fairy wings and some fairy dust. For your fairy dust use some silver glitter.

There are loads of ready-made Tinkerbell costumes available to buy but if you want to create your own you can make one and then add some fairy wings, as there are loads of different ones available to buy.

If you want to dress as the mean Tinkerbell, or make an anti-Tinkerbell statement, the obvious choice is to go for black or dark colours. This is a great costume idea for Halloween. To make your own wear a black or grey short fairy dress and get some dark wings.

The choice is varied but if you want to have the best Tinkerbell fancy dress costume make sure you spend as much on it as your budget allows and search around for some pictures of Tinkerbell before you start planning your costume.