Getting ready for the New Year party? Looking for ideas for creating fancy dress? Making an apple costume with your own hands is easy. Use various materials: both fabric and paper. If time permits, you can make a very beautiful and original thing. For those who are very busy and unable to needlework for a long time, there are manufacturing options in one evening.
Everything you need to create an outfit
To make an apple costume with your own hands, you need to prepare the following:
- fabric of yellow, green, red shade. You can choose one color or combine all three. Iridescent material, for example, crepe satin, looks very impressive and elegant;
- pattern elements of the suit;
- paper, pencil;
- pins, chalk, scissors;
- needle with thread;
- sewing machine.
To complete the costume, you will quickly need ready-made things of appropriate colors (T-shirt, shirt, shorts, skirt), which you can only decorate in the style of an apple.
Outfit for the smallest
If you have to put on crumbs for the New Year holiday, the easiest way to make this option is as shown in the photo.
It is easy to sew a body according to the available sample, corresponding to the sizes of the child. As a hat, you can use a green cap or sew a base from purchased fabric. Wash the leaves in the form of an applique on clothes, as shown in the sample, or at your discretion. If time permits, decorate the body with an apple cut from green fabric. In such a suit the child will not be hot. You can do it quickly, it will turn out beautifully and interestingly.
If the presented sample seems too light for you, make the basis not according to the body, but in the form of a jumpsuit, also using the thing available in the baby’s wardrobe to create a pattern.
Option for girls
If you need to make an apple costume with your own hands for a schoolgirl, take as a basis the sample from the following photo.
The sequence of work will be as follows:
- Perform a paper pattern using the child’s dress;
- Buy a yellow fabric with the length of the dress. Fold the flap so that on the sides you get two-layer parts with folds. Attach the shelves and backs folded along the part to the folds of the material. Cut out the pieces.
- From the red fabric, make sleeves and small apples for applique.
- Cut out a collar and frill strip from light green material. As for the latter, then, depending on the openwork of the folds, choose the appropriate length, twice or three times the real length of the hem.
- You can make any hat or cut out a "crown" with the image of an apple from paper .
Tights and shoes are best chosen to match the tone, if the dress is not on the floor.
DIY apple costume for a boy
The following photo shows a universal option for any age and gender. Its main advantage is the speed of manufacture.
The kit includes a red vest and hat. The first item is easily sewn even from two identical parts. If it is wide and involves dressing over the head, it will not require either zipper or buttons. You can use the ribbons on the belt to assemble the vest at the waist according to the figure.
The hat is easy to sew from two semicircles in one seam, having previously bent the edge. Decorate a hat or both elements of a masquerade dress with leaves and a twig. You can wear such an outfit on a white shirt and colored clothes. It’s better, of course, to choose everything in tone.
DIY apple paper costume
If you do not know how or do not want to sew at all, there is another simple, but original option. To do this, you need the following:
- paper or cardboard;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- paints and brushes;
- glue or thermal gun.
To make a voluminous paper apple costume with your own hands (photo below), follow these steps:
1. Cut the apple shape in duplicate. Ideal if you find colored cardboard. This will speed up the process. If such material is not at hand, paints will always help out. You can entrust this work even to a child.
2. Do the same with the leaves. There should be four of them.
3. For the head, roll the cylinder from a brown sheet, glue the joint. Cut a hole for the face. This "hat" will indicate a twig.
This can be stopped by attaching images of apples to a belt or ribbon, which then will be enough to wrap around the waist. With the clothes selected in color, this may be quite enough. By the way, instead of a cylinder on the head, it is easy to make a ring from a strip of paper also with the image of an apple.
If you want to create something more spectacular, to give volume, follow the side surface of the desired width, connecting both images of apples. Leave a hole at the bottom through which the suit can be worn. Also cut out hand spaces if necessary.
Shoes are best matched to color. If you have time, you can additionally decorate the fruit with the image of a cheerful worm.
So, you saw that making an apple costume with your own hands is not difficult. Choose an idea in accordance with your skill level and the amount of time you are willing to spend on fulfilling this pleasant surprise for your baby.