How to impress on a New Year's holiday? Of course, the original carnival costume! Snowflakes, snow maidens, hares and seals are a hackneyed option, but not everyone dares to wear a children's New Year's goat costume , and it is this image that can be beaten so that it will take your breath away. It is only a little imagination - and the idea of ââthe original outfit will appear by itself. This article will discuss how to sew a goat costume with your own hands with minimal financial costs. Someone will say that the character is not standard, but this can be the main advantage of the outfit. It all depends on how to present and fulfill. After all, the fact that the costume of a goat is not popular does not mean at all that it has no right to life. Well, if you approach the process with creative imagination, the result can exceed all expectations. So what can be the image of a goat?
Idea selection
It can be that formidable goat, which butts all the children who do not listen to mom and do not want to eat porridge. Another option is the kind mommy from the well-known fairy tale âSeven Little Kidsâ. Or an ironic image that will amuse not only the child, but also those around him. Or maybe a glamorous goat with chic long eyelashes, white curls, false nails and a crown on his head. There are just a huge number of ideas, and perhaps the child will be able to tell how exactly the costume imagines. By the way, creating a costume can be an excellent option for co-creation, where the baby can show his creative abilities.
Image Details
To make a goat costume with your own hands, you should first consider all the elements of the outfit, from the horns to the hooves. So, here are the main elements of the outfit:
- base of the costume;
- horns;
- accessories.
The main thing here is to disclose each item well, choosing all kinds of options.
How to choose the basis for the costume
To sew a beautiful goat costume with your own hands, you need to choose the right fabric. For this purpose, velor, velvet or thin fur with curled small pile is ideal. It is best to give preference to well-stretching materials. Even novice craftswomen will cope with them, since when landing on a figure, all the flaws of the cut are a little hidden due to stretching the fabric. It should also be noted that a special needle for knitted fabrics will be necessary for the sewing machine. Without it, it is unlikely to be able to lay even lines without gaps and holes on the fabric. Another plus of knitwear is that it does not need to be swept, it is enough just to shake off the cut well so that the pile damaged by the cut will fall off. It is easy to sew such fabric not only on the machine, but also manually.
The basis of the costume may consist of a dress, skirt or panties with a blouse. Fitting leggings with a wide elastic band at the waist and a short skirt-bundle will look great. For the top, it is not necessary to sew a blouse on your own, you can pick up a white T-shirt or turtleneck over which a cape will be worn.
How to sew a base
To sew a goat costume with your own hands, you will need patterns. How to make them? The easiest way is to loop around the childâs clothes and get patterns of leggings, trousers or dresses.
In order to make a skirt, it is necessary to cut a strip of fabric, connect the edges to the top, sew on an elastic band or make a drawstring for the elastic band. If a tutu skirt is planned, then you will need 6-7 meters of tulle, which is cut into strips of 10-15 cm and tied to a dense elastic band as long as the childâs waist.
The cloak is also cut out in the form of a rectangular cloth. Its edges can be tucked up or treated with an oblique inlay, on top the cloak cloth is turned inside out by about 1.5 cm and a seam is laid, a satin ribbon 3-5 cm wide is inserted into the hole so that the child does not accidentally pull the tie from the drawstring, at the edges of the main fabric you can attach soft buboes. To do this, circles with a diameter of about 10 cm are cut out of the fabric, along the edge the part is stitched and pulled together, filling the bubo with synthetic winterizer. Making a goat costume with your own hands is not difficult - a little imagination and perseverance will give its result.
Which color to choose
In order for the goat's outfit to be harmonious, it is necessary to choose the right color. You can dress your mom-goat in a national costume and just add a scarf with dark or light horns, but for a glamorous goat you can use a combination of pink and white. For example, pink horns, hooves, nails and middle of the ears, white locks of hair, a delicate bow or flower on the ear or a small diadem. A terrible goat can be made in gray-black shades, and not only horns, but also a muzzle with an appropriate expression can be sewn on the cap. To make a goatâs New Yearâs costume made interesting and spectacular, you need to think carefully about all the details of the image.
How to make horns
Horns in the shape of a goat are one of the main details. They can be made using the papier-mùché technique, and then painted with ordinary watercolors or sewn from brown fabric and filled with synthetic winterizer. It is necessary to cut out four parts from matter (two from the front, two from the wrong side) in the form of a curved horn and cut out taking into account the increase for the seam (1 cm). Next, you need to sew the blanks in pairs, turn them out and fill with filler. At the base, the horn is carefully sutured with a hidden seam. The size of the horns can be very different. For a glamorous goat, small horns that are barely noticeable in the hair are suitable, but for a formidable goat, large and swirling ones, catching up with fear.
As a base, you can use a bezel, crocodile hair clips, textile dressing or a hat. Next to the horns, small ears of the same fabric as the outfit itself can be sewn onto the base.
How to make a goat momâs costume with your own hands so that no one doubts the chosen character? In this case, large horns should be attached to the scarf and complement the outfit with an apron and a long skirt.
Costume Accessories
To make the goatâs carnival costume sewn with your own hands and look chic, and the look is finished, you must definitely add accessories: beads with a bell, bracelets, flowers or a crown in the hair, a ponytail, white locks of hair in the hairstyle, and even hooves and fur legs. These interesting elements will enliven and add zest along.
Hair strands can be bought on the market or made independently. It is necessary to take a satin ribbon 5 cm wide and cut it into pieces of the required length. For each hairpin, you will need two segments. Tapes are glued with hot glue to the hairpin and dissolve them from the bottom to the junction. As a result, excellent curly curls come out, which can only be fixed in the hairstyle under natural hair.
Such hair clips can also be made from curls from an ordinary wig, which is easy to purchase on the market.
How to make a hoof
It is clear that the child will wear shoes or Czech shoes for the matinee, however, if the legs are properly arranged, the outfit will be simply stunning. So, how to make a goat costume with your own hands with hooves? If the base of the outfit is with leggings or panties, then they should be made flared from the ankle by about 10 cm. A strip of dark fabric will need to be sewn down. For greater effect, you can sew two semi-oval details filled with padding polyester and sewn to the bottom of the trousers. Such a detail will look very impressive.
Hooves can be made not only on the legs, but also on the sleeves.
Creative approach - great result
DIY Christmas goat costume made by yourself is a great idea for a carnival evening. And although it may seem to someone that the character is not quite popular, but this can only be a plus. Involve the child in the process of creating the outfit, offer yourself to choose an image and beat every detail. Let the babyâs vision be taken as a basis, and then he will certainly be pleased with the image. Fantasy is the most important helper here. For inspiration, consider the work presented in the article, come up with something of your own and eventually see that the outfit is excellent.