Today, many children's clothing stores present a wide variety of carnival costumes. Only their purchase can result in a decent amount, and the child flaunts in this outfit only once. Therefore, we propose to make a costume of the Goldfish yourself.
Outfit components
The easiest way to sew a cloth outfit. Even to mothers who are not very versed in sewing, this task will be on the shoulder. It is important that the material is selected correctly. Well and, of course, fantasy is required. Start by choosing the right clothes in your wardrobe. Supplementing it with a few individual details, you will receive a costume of the Goldfish.
So, the main components of the outfit should be a turtleneck and a short skirt. The preferred colors for them are white, yellow, orange, beige, that is, light shades. At the next stage of work, we will manufacture tail for fish, fins, crowns.
Stages of work on a children's costume "Goldfish"
Remember that this fabulous heroine is golden. So, sequins, sequins, fabric with lurex - these are the materials that you do not need to spare. Everything will come in handy for work.
To make a crown, you need cardboard. After cutting the part from it, use for foil pasting with a golden color. You can make a crown of colored cardboard. In this case, yellow will look good. Glitter will be the decoration of this detail.
So, our work on the Goldfish costume continues. Getting to the fins. For their manufacture, light fabric is needed. Perhaps in the home stocks there are scraps of chiffon, pieces of organza. Well, if there is both. The edge of this part does not have to be flat and have the correct shape. As for the length of the fins, it is measured individually for each child.
Take an elastic band and measure out a small piece. Make sure that the fins do not pinch the child’s hand strongly. It is possible ahead of time to sew material on an elastic band. This will hide it and make wider the place where the fin parts will be sewn. Sew fabric stitches. Work on the fin is over.
We continue to craft the costume of the Goldfish with our own hands. According to the same scheme, you need to make another fin. Find the old belt. He will go on to make a fish tail. Sew pieces of light and transparent fabric to it. We will tie the belt in front. Put fins on the turtleneck, tie the tail, put on the crown, pick up elegant shoes. Admire, do you like the do-it-yourself Goldfish costume?
Other outfit ideas
To make a more complex version of the costume, you need to stock up with shiny fabric. And in large numbers. A dress is sewn from fabric. It should have flared sleeves and a flared bottom. Without a miniature crown can not do in this case.
Another option is to sew a felt suit. Work will take a little longer. You can’t call it difficult, but it’s painstaking for sure. The idea is to sheathe the clothes that a child has with scales from this fabric. The described Goldfish costume is ideal for girls who are not yet five years old.
The basis is taken overalls, tracksuit. You can take leggings and a sweater. It’s good if the clothes have a hood. Prepare pieces of felt of different colors. Make sure that they are harmoniously combined with each other. Cut the semi-oval and half-circles. There should be a lot of them. The size of the parts is also important - not very small and not very large. This will be the flakes. It remains to take the needle and thread and sew on the scales. To fasten each of them, sew a few stitches. Sew the entire outfit. The hood we talked about will be an imitation of a fish head. Sheathe it with scales, glue large cardboard eyes on the side.
If you picked up clothes without a hood, then use an ordinary bandage for hairstyles. Then the eyes need to be attached to her. And remember that the New Year's costume of the Goldfish must be convenient for your child.
Dress the newborn
To make the first carnival funny costume for the baby, you will need a body and a piece of fabric suitable for him in color. Beautiful openwork fabric will be used to make ponytails, and multi-colored shreds will become material for funny scales. And, of course, do not be too lazy to make cute eyes. They need to be fixed on a children's hat. Happy holidays to you!