No children's holiday is complete without elegant costumes. With their help, you can create a cheerful mood in both children and parents. The watermelon costume is not the most common at children's mornings, but at thematic events dedicated to harvesting you can not do without it.
Watermelon Costume Materials
You can sew any clothes with your own hands, the main thing is to stock up on fabric. Depending on the model, dark green and light green matter may be needed. If the model provides that the watermelon is cut, then you will need to purchase also pink material. It is worth saying that in the image of a watermelon for a boy, fabrics with such a shade are practically not used. With pink fabric, costumes for girls are most often sewn.
If you want the pulp to be visible, then for a boy it is better to sew a watermelon suit with a red cloth. In our case, it will be lucky to find striped material, just cut out the details from it and assemble the product. In addition to fabric, doublerin is also needed, as well as green and red threads. If you need to make seeds, then for this you can use a dense black leatherette. It is preferable, since the edges of the fabric do not crumble and seeds can not be sewn to the product, but glued.
Independent work on tailoring a suit
There are different options for how you can sew a watermelon outfit with your own hands. For each age, its own model will be successful. After all, the child should be comfortable in these clothes.
When the model of a watermelon costume is wireframe, then all the details need to be glued to a dense doubler.
The front half is made of red material, watermelon seeds are painted on it with fabric dyes. Also, seeds can be cut out of artificial leather and glued, creating any pattern or chaos. For the back half we use a dark green fabric. In this case, there are two parts: the rear and front shelf. The neck can be made wide enough so that the child’s head goes even without a fastener. In this case, the two parts can be exactly the same. If the neck is small, then a fastener can be made behind the product. Since the clothes should keep their shape, we glue two parts on doubler.
To sew a watermelon costume for a boy with your own hands, you need to lay seams on your shoulders. Next, grind the details from the armhole to the armhole in a circle, skipping places for legs. To doubler was not visible, you can sew a lining. It is cut in the same way as the front and back shelf of a product. The lining is sewn to the product. If it is created without it, then the holes for the arms and legs need to be formed using the hem of the fabric.
Watermelon Costume for Kids
For small children, you can sew a suit in the form of overalls. A t-shirt loosens easily underneath. If the baby is smeared, it is easy to replace, and the watermelon costume will remain in order.
In this embodiment, there is also a hat, but it is sewn quite simply. One round detail is cut out, taking into account the size of the child’s head. The pattern is superimposed on the fabric and encircled, the part is cut out. Another piece is made of red fabric. It will be inside, and you can notice it on the lower edge of the side. The resulting two circles are folded with the front sides to each other, and a line is drawn along the edge. A piece of 5 cm remains uninhabited, the headpiece is turned out through it, the seam is closed and an elastic band is laid at a distance of 5-8 cm from the edge to make a quilling.
For overalls, two parts are hidden: front and back. To decorate the front, a decorative element in the form of a slice of watermelon is cut out. The lower side is green, the upper front side is red with painted seeds. A DIY watermelon costume is easy to sew. This model is made without lining, you do not need to calculate the width of the neck and armhole. In the overalls there are two loops, which are fastened with buttons on the front. It is easy to take off and put on overalls. Down on the legs galoshes are going to the rubber band. A kid in such a suit will be comfortable walking and playing.
Watermelon "troika"
Another simple, and no less successful version of the costume. Separately, pants are sewn red, the waist is assembled with elastic.
The headpiece is cut and sewn in the same way as in the previous model. If there is no fabric to carve out a large circle, then the use of several elements is permissible. Just on the headdress there will be seams.
The watermelon itself is sewn on a lining. Initially, two details are cut together: front and back. The same operation needs to be done with the details of the lining. Until the top is closed, it is worth processing the armholes. The bottom of the product is collected on an elastic band to form a rounded shape. The top is processed using a red coquette, on which watermelon seeds are glued or drawn.