The New Year always pleases children with carnival matinees, but such holidays add trouble to parents, because the kid needs to be the most original at such an interesting celebration in order to receive the coveted gift and prize from Santa Claus.
As a rule, in educational institutions the child is a participant in a scenario, and the role the costume must correspond to is prescribed. A large assortment of shops today allows you to easily select the appropriate outfit without any problems, but it also happens that he is urgently needed tomorrow, and there is no time to run to the next shopping center. And the mothers have to solve the problem on an emergency basis with their own hands in the company of the most unpretentious improvised means.
DIY Christmas costume, as practice shows, is more original, emphasizes the individuality of the child and, most importantly, allows you to save some cash reserves.
The main components of the New Year's costume
Original Christmas outfits for children can be divided into several components, such as the base, auxiliary parts, attributes and accessories.
One-piece base can be overalls, dresses, hoodies. If you prefer a separate option, shirts, turtlenecks, vests, t-shirts can be used as tops, skirts, leggings, leggings, bicycles, shorts or breeches, trousers, and harem pants are often suitable.
Auxiliary details are satin capes, boots, raincoats, gloves.
Attributes and accessories include crowns, ears, masks, ponytails, weapons, noses, caps.
Often, masters of New Year's costumes focus on the attributes and accessories themselves, which are associated with the created image of a fairy-tale hero.
For example, the fairy has the main attribute - wings, the Little Red Riding Hood - the apron and red headdress, the fox costume for the girl is emphasized by the presence of a muzzle and a beautiful ponytail.
Several ways to sew a New Year's costume
Since many mothers have to work and fantasize about creating a costume on their own, and this process takes time, several ways of this action have been invented:
- the first is the most labor-intensive, it requires independent sewing of absolutely all the details of the costume and the base itself;
- the second method consists in sewing only part of the suit, for example, a skirt, and the top is selected from the child’s clothes or vest suitable for the color scheme, and some trousers are attached to it;
- the third, easiest way is to pick up relatively old things from the child’s wardrobe, paint them, or cut them, or sew on them accessories, or even break them artistically; This method always helps in emergency situations.
It is not necessary to create a New Year’s image in detail to the smallest detail, only some details and attributes can hint at the similarity with the hero.
Fairytale costume for girls
The standard New Year’s image of Snowflakes for a girl is suitable for ages from two to three, when the child grows up and participates fully in the matinee - sings, tells rhymes - he is given a certain role. Girls often appear in the images of sorceresses, Nights, Gypsies, Baba Yaga, squirrels, foxes. These costumes require a bit more attention than just picking a white puffy dress.
Many needlewomen on electronic blogs share tips on how to sew a fox costume. This outfit can be used not only for the image of the fox, but also in the future for the embodiment of squirrels.
The costume of the chanterelle for the girl does not require much time for tailoring and a large number of accessories. The most basic emphasis is the ears and tail.
The Christmas fox costume, created with his own hands, turns out to be very original and does not repeat the details of the costumes sold in stores. Even the simplest material can look great if it is ironed or starched.
Material for the details of the New Year's costume
Sewing a fox costume for a girl is as easy as having a piece of orange material in the house. It can be either a light shade or a dark one. In any case, he emphasizes the color of the real red fox. A piece of white cloth will also come in handy to simulate the edges of the breast, tail and ears.
Christmas fox costume can consist of several options for the basics, including:
- turtleneck, vest, skirt, leggings or tights;
- turtleneck, jumpsuit;
- turtleneck, vest, harem pants.
All options look very original. But it is preferable to still choose a fox costume for the girl, including a skirt, sundress or orange colored dress.
How to sew an orange sundress (dress), a skirt?
To start creating an outfit should be with the selection of fabric. A fox suit for a girl from a dense fabric holding a shape looks great. To sew a sarafan or dress, you need to lay out the fabric on a flat surface (table or floor), put a sarafan on it from the daughter’s wardrobe, which she wears, draw a marker around its contours to the waist, and then draw the desired version of the skirt of the dress. The resulting pattern is cut out in the amount of two parts and sewn on the sides.
Dress decoration can be a white breast. To do this, a white piece of fabric is pinned to the front of the resulting dress, fitted with scissors to the neck, and a contour imitating the fox’s breast is drawn with a marker on its base.
For sewing a skirt, the girl’s waist is measured, the parameters are applied to the fabric, and only then the fantasy will tell you to make the
skirt flared, straight or in the form of a trapezoid.
How to sew an orange vest?
For sewing a vest, an orange piece of fabric is also required . The pattern for him can be done as described above - to draw a jacket from the girl’s wardrobe to the waist contour, to supplement the pattern with thoughtful necklines, to round out the openings for the hands.
The resulting two parts are sewn and decorated along the contour of the bottom, neck and hand slots with fur or orange Christmas rain.
The front shelf of the vest can be divided into two, complementing the suit with beautiful black buttons.
How to make ears, ponytail and mittens?
The costume of the chanterelle, made with your own hands, without fail involves tailoring the tail and ears. They are also made of fabric according to the conceived pattern. As an internal filler, you can use sintepon or regular cotton wool. Ears can be worn on a regular hair hoop.
But the tail looks good on the belt or waist gum.
It looks very elegant fox with mittens to match the costume - orange or black. You can sew them from pieces of faux fur. For this, the palm of the girl is measured in width. A rectangle with a double width and a half palm length is drawn on the furry side from the upside. The cut part is folded in half, sewn on one side, taking into account the opening for the thumb.
Make-up under a fox costume
New Year's suit of foxes can not do without makeup. Cosmetics on the face are drawn antennae and nose.
You can do without drawing, if you make
a fox mask for your face with your own hands. For this work, cardboard,
watercolor paints, thin rubber, white or orange Christmas tinsel are used.
Having solved a minimum of tasks, as a result, the craftswoman gets an excellent result - an original outfit that you certainly can’t buy in the store. Independent work on the execution of the fox costume takes only two hours of free time, but brings maximum pleasure.