Princess Dress-Up Gummy: English Instructions, Step by Step
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Bandai's Princess Dress-Up Gummy is a paint set that happens to be a sweet. You mix your own colours, paint them onto gummy powder shaped like ball gowns, and when the gummies set you lay them over a printed Disney Princess card to dress her. Everything on the pack is in Japanese. This is what it says, and what we found making it.
What's in the Pack
Tray with a built-in spoon
One clear tray: dress-shaped moulds on one side, three large wells and a set of small palette wells on the other. The pack lists six tray designs.
One gummy powder, three colour powders
The silver sachet is the gummy powder (gumi paudā). The three slim sachets are the colour powders, in soda, grape and orange flavours.
Princess bromide sheet
A printed card of one Disney Princess — ours was Cinderella. There are six designs. The finished gummy dresses are laid on top of it.
The pack states that the tray and the sheet are each one of six designs, so you cannot choose which princess you get. It also notes that the pictures of the gummies, tray and sheet are examples only, and that the kit contains no fruit juice (mukajū).
You need a cup of drinking water, a pair of scissors, clean hands and a flat table. The colour-powder sachets say to ask an adult to cut them open with scissors. No heat is needed at any point — if that is what you are after, we keep a list of every water-only kit.
Why the Colours Come First
In most gummy kits the colour is already in the powder. Here the gummy powder is white and the colour arrives in the water. That is the whole idea: you make three primary colours, mix them into your own palette, and decide what each dress looks like before it exists.
The basic mixes work the way they do with paint: red and blue make purple, red and yellow make orange, blue and yellow make green, and a little of all three makes brown. Nothing stops you putting two or three colours on the same dress — a skirt that fades from green to orange came out better than any single colour did.
How to Make It
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We don't reprint exact water quantities or timings here. Makers change details between production runs, and the printed pack is the one to follow for amounts. What this guide gives you is what the Japanese says, what order to work in, and where it goes wrong.
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Get ready
Wash your hands, pour a cup of water and have an adult cut open the sachets. Take the spoon off the tray.
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Put the gummy powder into the moulds
This is step 1 on the front of the pack: kona o kata ni irete, "put the powder into the moulds". Tip the white gummy powder into the dress shapes and spread it so every shape is filled, with the surface roughly flat.
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Make the three colours
Put one colour powder into each of the three large wells, add water and stir with the spoon until it has dissolved. You now have blue, red and yellow.
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Mix your own palette
Step 2 on the pack: iro o tsukutte, "make the colours". Use the spoon to carry coloured water into the small wells and mix new shades — purple, orange, green, brown. Wipe the spoon between colours so they stay clean.
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Spoon the colours onto the powder
This is the step that makes the gummy. Drip coloured water onto the white powder; where it lands, the powder darkens and turns to gummy. Work patch by patch and stop once the powder has changed colour — flooding a mould makes a soft gummy that is slow to set.
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Lift the dresses out and dress the princess
Once the gummy has set, ease each piece out gently with the end of the spoon. The large skirt shapes sit over the princess's dress on the card, and the smaller pieces become bows and accessories. Eat them soon after making them.
If Yours Went Wrong
What to check
- There is white powder left in the mould. Not enough water reached it. Drip a little more coloured water onto that patch and it will turn.
- The gummy is soft and will not set. Too much water. Next time stop as soon as the colour changes, and give it more time before lifting.
- The dress tore when you lifted it. Too early, or too fast. The skirt shapes are large and thin — start from one edge and peel slowly.
- The colours came out muddy. The spoon carried one colour into the next. Wipe it between colours and mix in the small wells, not the three large ones.
- It set, but oddly. Water is the usual cause across every kit, and we have a separate guide to that.
What the Japanese on the Pack Says
These are the words that carry the instructions and the warnings.
The words worth recognising
- 粉を型にいれて (kona o kata ni irete) — "put the powder into the moulds", step 1.
- 色を作って (iro o tsukutte) — "make the colours", step 2.
- グミパウダー — gummy powder. カラーパウダー — colour powder.
- ソーダ味・グレープ味・オレンジ味 — soda, grape and orange flavour.
- スプーン付きトレー — tray with a spoon attached. プリンセスブロマイドシート — the princess card.
- 1枚入り（全6種） — "one inside, six kinds": the tray and the card are each one of six designs.
- 無果汁 (mukajū) — contains no fruit juice.
- おうちの方にハサミで切ってもらいましょう — "ask an adult at home to cut it with scissors", printed on the sachets.
- くわしいつくりかたはパッケージをお読みください — "for detailed instructions, read the package".
- 画像は一例です — "the pictures are examples".
Common Questions
Does it need a microwave?
No. Water only, at the table. Nothing is heated at any point.
Can I choose which princess I get?
No. The card and the tray are each one of six designs, packed at random. We cannot see which is inside a sealed pack either.
Is there gelatin in it?
The manufacturer's ingredient list shows a starch-based gummy — glucose, sugar, starch and modified starch — with no gelatin listed. The printed pack is the definitive source.
Are there allergens?
The manufacturer declares none of Japan's designated allergens in the ingredients, and notes that it is made in a facility that also handles egg, milk, wheat, shrimp and crab. We have written more on reading these labels.
Is this a Popin' Cookin' kit?
No. Popin' Cookin' is made by Kracie; this kit is sold by Bandai. Its closest relative is Super Mario Maker 2 Gummy, which uses the same colour-your-own idea, and all of our English instructions are listed here.
PopnCandy Tokyo is an independent shop and is not affiliated with Disney or Bandai. Disney Princess is a trademark of Disney.
Make it yourself
We post the Princess Dress-Up Gummy kit from our shop in Tokyo, alongside the rest of our DIY candy kits.
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