Are your kids into fashion? These kits make introducing fashion design to kids easy and fun for kids of all ages! A big thank you to Faber-Castell Creativity for Kids for sponsoring this post and sending us the kits to try out and review.
Updated October 2024
As a parent, we do our best to nurture each child’s individual interests and skills. And to introduce them to new ones that we think might click with them or benefit them. We do this through conversation, home life, books, travel, and activities. And sometimes we nurture their skills and interests through kits, like activity kits, craft kits, or science kits, which are basically experiences wrapped up in a box.
If you’ve got a kid at home who loves fashion and design, the Creativity for Kids Designed by You Fashion Studio, is the perfect introduction to the ideas, techniques, and tools inherent in fashion design. We also love the Creativity for Kids Fairy Fashions Kit.
Fashion Design for Kids Made Easy and Fun
The Fashion Studio kit is designed for kids to explore fashion design from sketching ideas, to coordinating fabrics with trim, to creating dresses on a small mannequin. You get a sketchbook, markers, fabrics, ribbons, bows, pins, a mannequin, and more as well as some instructions. While younger kids may want to use the kit to create doll clothes, the kit is not strictly set up to do but see our workarounds below.
Here’s a video of the kit in action!
The Fairy Fashions kit is a no-sew kit that enables children to create and decorate fairy outfits on the mannequin provided that translate well to their 11-inch (and even 9-inch) dolls. You get a sketchbook, tulle, sequins, wings and bodices that can be decorated, glue, a mannequin, and more, as well as some instructions.
Here’s how we used the fairy fashion kit.
While the Fairy Fashions kit is designed to make fairy clothes for kids’ dolls, the Fashion Studio kit is not technically designed for doll clothes. But you can create your own workarounds and use the Fashion Studio kit to make clothes for your dolls to wear. Check out some of the ways we used the kits to make doll clothes.
- Use the fabrics, ribbons, bows, lace, to sew clothing directly onto your dolls using the thread and sewing needles provided (after designing the outfit on the mannequin).
- Buy some stick-on-velcro to make your clothing easy to put on and take off
- Small safety pins can hold clothing together if you’re not too concerned about how the outfit looks from the back.
- Or just use the Fairy Fashions kit, which is made for making clothing you can dress your 11-inch doll in.
More Gift Ideas for Kids
- Our Favorite Art Activity Kits for Kids
- Best Creative Gifts for Tweens
- The Artful Parent’s Creative Gift Guide for Kids
- Creative Gift Ideas for Toddlers & Preschoolers
- Creative Gifts for Kids Who Love to Build
- 40 Handmade Gift Ideas that Kids Can Make
Again, a big thank you to Faber-Castell Creativity for Kids for sponsoring this post and sending these kits to try out and review. As always, all opinions expressed are my own.
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