Is New Year coming soon ? Does the child go to the Christmas tree? Not sure which outfit to choose for your son? An interesting option is the bug costume. For a boy with his own hands to make it easy. Enough basic sewing skills. If you approach the work creatively, it can become an interesting joint activity with the child. The kid will be happy to help you.
Materials and Tools
To make a beetle costume for a boy with your own hands, you need the following:
- fabric of a suitable shade;
- finished pattern or equipment for its creation (pencil, ruler, eraser, paper);
- scissors;
- pins
- a piece of chalk;
- threads with a needle for sweeping parts;
- threads suitable for fabric shade for stitching;
- sewing machine.
In some embodiments, carcass parts (paper, cardboard) and filler (holofiber, sintepon, cotton wool, shreds) may additionally be required.
Outfit items
You can make a bug costume for a boy with your own hands in different versions. A mandatory item is a hat, which can look like a hat, a hood or put on a head like a crown. It’s logical to make the costume itself according to the type of overalls, another option is in the form of a set of wraps or a jacket with a shirt and pants. To create a realistic image, gloves are often used and imitation of additional pairs of legs in the form of volumetric parts.
As for the manufacturing methods, you have two ways:
- sew everything from scratch;
- make only individual characteristic details, which are easy to complement existing clothing in a suitable color.
The first method is good with enough time to work, and the second - if the outfit needs to be prepared quickly, for example, in the evening, or if you are a beginner and have never seen the ability to sew.
Beetle costume for a boy: do it yourself
The main detail for you should be an element with wings. This thing is performed in the form of a cape, jacket or a whole product in one piece with a hood. The easiest way to make wings is as follows.
- Take a flap of fabric of a suitable shade and size corresponding to the width of the shoulders, and in length - the distance from the child’s shoulders to the waist or below, depending on what the wings will be.
- Make a pattern for half the part (wing shape).
- Fold the flap in half in length, pin the pattern with pins, circle the contour, add allowances for the hem, cut the part.
- Fold the edges along the entire perimeter. You can simply overcast them so that the threads of the slices do not crumble.
If you don’t feel like wasting time on the pattern, you can make an incision along the center line, or simply assemble along this vertical guide that will go along the spine of the child. The central line, as well as the edges, can be decorated with braid, lace. Sew a tape or part from the same fabric at the top as the base. These will be the cape ties. In a more complex version, it makes sense to combine the wings with a collar, vest, jacket. They will be sewn on top of the product or act as part of the back.
A complex version of the wings is performed using a wire, cardboard, foam frame, which is sheathed with fabric.
The second important element will be a hat. It can be easily made on the basis of a ready-made tight-fitting one, for example, a swimming one, as well as sewn from two semicircular parts or parts resembling petals, so that it looks like a sphere without a lower part. The simplest option is the shape of the crown. It is made both from fabric with a frame, and from paper or cardboard. The headdress is necessarily decorated with antennae, can be supplemented with eyes.
If you are thinking about how to make a children's suit of a beetle more realistic, you should supplement it with two more pairs of legs that will run parallel to the child’s hands. The paws are usually made in the form of volumetric "sausages", ending with the likeness of mittens. Here you will need stuffing material, as well as threads or wire frame for fixing the legs so that they are located in a certain direction, and not stick out in different directions.
Characteristic details created. You can easily pick up the rest from the available children's things.
New Year's costume "May bug"
All work is performed using the same technology as in the manufacture of any other beetle. The difference is only in the headdress. He must have horns of a characteristic shape. No wonder this insect is also called stag beetle.
If you want to make just such a suit, and not some abstract beetle, you will need to choose the appropriate color material. In addition, it is best to imitate the strips on the wings. This is easy to implement with narrow satin ribbons or braid on a fabric background.
As you can see, making a bug suit for a boy with your own hands is not difficult. Choose your favorite method and model. Make an original outfit for the New Year tree for your fidget.