A Review Of The Great Pretenders Bumble Bee Costume

As my regular readers will know we love dressing up in this house. With two gorgeous little girls we have a variety of pretty tutus, fairy costumes, wings and wands. Now thank you to The Great Pretenders we also have a very cute bumble bee costume too as modelled by Poppy age 3:

Poppy has had great fun trialling this and loves pretending to be a bumble bee.


The Great Pretenders claim to offer high quality costumes that are manufactured using the best materials and workmanship, so do we agree with this? Well yes we do actually.


The dress itself is of  a very good quality. It is lined inside so very soft and silky against the skin, making it very comfortable to wear and not scratchy at all. The bodice of the dress is made of rouched satin whilst the bottom of the dress has several layers to it, making it quite full. The black stripes are made with a lovely satin ribbon. When I first saw it, I thought it looked quite small but it stretches well and fits perfectly. She loves it!


The wings have the elasticated straps that fit over the arms. Complete with gold glitter and black feathers, they are quite glamorous for wings!


The headband completes the outfit. It has black ribbon wrapped around the actual band then it feels like thick pipe cleaners on the end. Feather pom poms top it off complete with gold sparkles.  It is apparently very pretty and very comfortable and Poppy thinks it makes her look like a real bumble bee.


This costume not only looks good but has sparked great imaginative play. Since it has arrived Poppy has been running around the house pretending to fly and when she sits down she pretends it is on flowers. In fact it was quite hard to get photos because she would not stand or sit still long enough.


We give this costume a huge 10/10 and would recommend it to others.


If you want to get your hands on one then they are available at Bright Spark Toys. The dress is available for £21.98 and the wings and headband for £9.98


I think we now need to get some sort of dressing up rail as we are getting quite a collection and the next party we organise will have to be a costume one.


Dressing up is such fun!


Karen x

Beautiful Fairy Costumes From The Dressing Up Chest

We are huge fans of dressing up in this house and have been very lucky to be sent a beautiful box of girly goodies to review from the wonderful Libby over at The Dressing Up Chest.

Both girls were sent tutus, satin tops, fairy wings and wands. Perfect for these two little fairies:

Delighted, the girls could not wait to get them on.

The tutus are bright and colourful with big satin bows. They are very full so they stick out beautifully:

The girls love them and have lived in them since the box arrived. In fact Poppy wants to wear hers to her ballet lesson this weekend, I have a feeling the other girls will all want one.

The sizes are good and stretch well. They are not as soft as some of the other tutu skirts we have but the girls don't appear to have noticed. They love them!!

The silky soft tops are very pretty and good sizes. They should definitely fit for a while! They came delicately wrapped in soft pink tissue paper, which as well as protecting them, made us feel pretty special opening them. I like the way they do up with Velcro too. It makes it so easily to put them on and take off. They really are very pretty.

The wands are gorgeous, we have a pink one and a white one. The girls love waving them about and Poppy keeps trying to turn me into a frog. Lucky for me she cannot really do magic...I would much rather be a Princess!

The fairy wings are very pretty and delicate. We have a pink pair with pink and silver glitter and a white pair with silver glitter. They are very sparkly and have elastic that goes around the arms to keep them in place. Poppy tells me they are very comfortable and very pretty too!

All in all a beautiful box of goodies fit for a princess or princesses in this case. They should fit for a long time so will provide hours of fun and enjoyment.

In fact the box they arrived in has also provided lots of entertainment too:

I would say that The Dressing Up Chest is the perfect place to visit if like me you have not yet done your Christmas shopping and have little ones you would like to spoil this year.

Karen x

For the record we were sent two tutus, two satin tops, two pairs of fairy wings and two wands for the purpose of this review. However, all words and opinions are my own!