Of course, you can buy children's costumes for the carnival in stores or turn to tailoring professionals and be calm about the festive look of your child. You can simply dress the "heir" in something elegant. Actually, this is exactly what modern parents do most often, because time is in short supply! But it’s much more interesting to create children's Christmas costumes with your own hands, thinking through them to the smallest detail, and getting something unique as a result.
It is necessary to start work in advance, so that before the holiday there is time to purchase accessories for the New Year's outfit and make changes (if necessary). You can buy the necessary fabric in any specialized store, and very interesting patterns are on the Internet.
Now you can start sewing. Do not forget that the carnival outfit for children should be comfortable, not overloaded with details, not dangerous for the child. For at the children's matinee in the kindergarten, the baby will have to dance and actively move. To "create" children's New Year's costumes with their own hands, you do not need to purchase expensive materials and accessories. You can be smart and easily do with improvised materials.
An excellent basis for a carnival outfit is a jumpsuit with a hood. Having sewed details from faux fur or plush, you will turn this everyday item of clothing into a fancy dress of a teddy bear, a bunny, a wolf, a fox. It is very interesting to make children's Christmas costumes with their own hands in the presence of children, then they will learn to show imagination and participate in joint creativity.
Pirate or Native American costumes - favorite children's New Year's costumes for boys 5-6 years of age. To create such an image, old jeans are taken, cropped unevenly below the knees, colored patches are sewn to them. Then a vest is put on, and around the waist there should be a wide belt, for which a toy gun and / or knife are tucked. On the head there is a bandana and a black narrow blindfold (well, or one eye). The pirate is ready for the offensive!
It is advisable for the “Indian” to have real feathers on his headdress, but you can get by with paper ones. The main thing in this outfit is the “combat” Indian coloring. And the outfit itself can even be sewn from burlap (of course, pre-washed)! In order not to suffer with patterns, you can simply lay on the fabric trousers and a child’s t-shirt, circle their contours and cut out “blanks”. Then it remains only to stitch all the details. By the way, the seams may not be the most accurate - this will make the image even more colorful! Yes! Bow and arrow will not hurt.
In the house where there are children, you can keep a special chest (well, or a basket / box), where all kinds of details, jewelry, fabrics, masks will be stored. Having such a "treasury", you can "make" children's Christmas costumes with your own hands, without rushing around in search of the necessary gizmos. It is worth making a rule to fill this container with new details throughout the year. Various buttons, feathers, eyelets, ropes, braid, hole punch, balls, confetti, hats, whatman will come in handy.
If the celebration of the New Year and Christmas is planned in the fresh air, then you can make New Year's children's costumes with your own hands from old things, supplementing them with original details. For example, use an old sports jacket and trousers, sewing on them something original (snowflakes, bright pompons) or simply decorating it with a felt-tip pen. Get a comfortable, inexpensive outfit. If a child tears up or stains an improvised outfit, he will be thrown out without regret.