New Year is a favorite children's holiday. And you can’t do without a carnival costume. An interesting idea is to dress a child with a spider. You can find such a suit in a special store, but it will cost a lot. Without special difficulties, you can make an outfit at home. The cost of its manufacture will be minimal, but the created image will delight the child and surprise others with its originality. Below is a description of several options for carnival spider costumes.
Option One: The Easiest
How to quickly and easily make a spider costume? To do this, you need dark-colored clothes from the baby’s wardrobe: a sweatshirt with a hood and shorts or pants of a sports cut. In addition, 4 pairs of gloves will be needed, preferably a light shade, a black knitted hat and dark comfortable shoes. If the bottom of the outfit is represented by shorts, then under them should be worn white tights or leggings.
The most time-consuming in this case will be the process of making paws. There should be six of them. You need to make spider legs from black fleece. As a padding, a synthetic winterizer will be used. Inside each foot, a wire should be placed along the entire length. Thanks to this, the legs do not hang lifelessly. On the contrary, they can be given the desired position. A white glove should be worn at the end of each foot. The other side of the spider leg is sewn onto the hoodie.
On the hat you need to attach the eyes of a spider. They can be made from large buttons and, if desired, be decorated with tinsel.
Your little black spider is ready to surprise others.
Second option: hat + cape
What kind of outfit can I do with my own hands? This may be a spider costume, the main components of which will be a hat and a cape.
The cylinder can be made of thick cardboard. After dyeing the headgear black, you need to decorate it with a cobweb that can be painted with paints. It will also be interesting to look at the cap a voluminous fluffy figure of a spider made, for example, from thin woolen threads.
Next, you should borrow a dark vest or sleeveless jacket from the child’s wardrobe. To the front of these clothes you need to sew on a spider on the web application bought in a store or made with your own hand.
The cloak needs to be made of black cotton fabric. You can carve out this item of clothing as a half-skirt. To do this, fold the fabric in half and draw a semicircle from the corner. After you need to process the bottom of the product and sew to it the ties. To decorate the cloak, you can use white woolen threads. They should be sewn to the cloak, imitating a web pattern. Instead of such threads, you can use a three-dimensional braid or lace of golden or silver color.
Option Three: With a Backpack
Another element with which you can make a spider costume is a children's backpack. If you use this item, you will end up with an image of an ominous spider-cross. A backpack behind the baby’s back will imitate the abdomen of this insect. The satchel must be tightly filled with cotton or foam rubber, covered with a gray or black cloth and drawn or glued on the cross.
Spider costume must be supplemented with six legs. They should be made of wire, which will be wrapped in several layers with knitting threads called grass.
A hat with funny spider eyes, which can be made of cardboard or buttons, can be worn on the child’s head.
In this case, the cobweb will look interesting, which is recommended to be drawn on the baby's cheek with a transition to the neck. To create such a picture, use black, white and silver paint intended for children's makeup.
Method Four: Using the Clothesline
The highlight of this outfit will be a cape that needs to be woven from a clothesline. This item of clothing will depict a web. Its appearance resembles a fishing net with large cells. The top of such an impromptu cloak must be sewn to the vest from the baby’s wardrobe. On the corners of this cloak, it is recommended to make loops for fixing on the wrists of the child.
In order for the spider costume to look convincing, you need to supplement it with six legs. You can make them out of knitted tights and fill them with padding polyester. A wire should be inserted inside - then the legs can be given the desired position. Another option is to do without such a fixation. Then it is recommended to sew the ends of the legs to the mesh cloak, and they will be fun to move along with the cloak.
A black turtleneck should be worn under the cloak, which should be decorated with cobweb patterns. For this purpose, you can use the same clothesline. This will make the image harmonious. The bottom of the outfit can be represented by shorts or pants.
You can supplement the costume with a hat or a cylinder with eyes. Such hats have already been mentioned in the description of previous outfits.
Spider-Man Costume
5 years is exactly the age when the baby already wants to feel like some kind of superhero, for example, Spiderman.
In order to make such an outfit, it is recommended to take a ready-made suit of elastic blue fabric as the basis. It can be clothes for cyclists or divers. Using shreds of blue and red elastic material, you need to complement the outfit with appropriate elements in order to bring the image of your little Spider-Man to the screen.
After that, you should decorate the suit with golden and silver threads, sparkles to create an imitation of a web. You can also use special paints for fabric.
Spiderman's required attribute is red glasses or a mask. It is recommended to make them from an elastic material of the corresponding color and apply a web-like pattern in black paint. The result is an original accessory that your little Spider-Man will be very happy about.
Children's carnival costume is best complemented with sports shoes in blue or red. So the child will feel more comfortable.
Conclusion
If your kid decided to try on the image of a spider on a New Year's party, do not rush to the store for a carnival costume. After all, such an outfit can be done with your own hands. The cost of its manufacture will be minimal. In addition, in such a suit, the child will look spectacular and original. The article describes several options for making a carnival outfit. Choose the image that is right for your baby. It can be a black spider or a spiderman. The main condition for success is that the costume should delight the child and give a feeling of comfort.