For a fancy dress a lot of preparation is essential. Your child could be facing the stage for the first time. Prepare your self fully and if possible in front of the mirror or create a mock audience. About any dialogue it is important that you do it sincerely with the accent and punctuation. Verbal weightage is given in all competitions along with the body language you exhibit. Make sure that the clothing is comfortable and especially note that the make up is good and the props don’t get sloppy.
For fancy dress for your child the exposure is very important to understand the concept. Show them a few pictures online or if possible enact the entire episode in front of them. A family theme fancy dress is always easy and the dialogues are continual and disturbed. Animation comes naturally to children and hence the dialogues can be with the right punch. Use eye expressions and voice modulation and express the same to the child.
A pre school fancy dress has to be with minimum dialogues. Generally the authorities in school also lay the guidelines in a similar fashion. Generally the theme is general so that the kids can be done with simple hire clothes but again for an original creative idea there is always a special prize. The dialogue for a sheep can be ‘White and wooly here I come, Baa Baa.’ Or for a tribal boy the dialogues can be with general sounds and the prop spear doing the stomping.
Ideas for fancy dress have to be done with dialogues. For older kids in the Montessori the dialogues can be in rhymes. For a girl dressed as pea pod the child can say, ‘Sweet and green I am peas.’ Or for a butterfly one can have ‘I love honey and flowers, Am colorful. Oh let me hide before the rainy shower.’ Dialogues for a cartoon character must have the subtle sounds they make which kids are naturally aware of. The dialogues need to be simple, must convey the theme and be in the language mentioned in the guideline.