Literally everyone - both children and adults - are waiting for the New Year holiday as some kind of fairy tale. For children, this is a magical Christmas tree, Santa Claus with long-awaited gifts, a sea of fun and joy, and for adults, even despite all the rush and preparation, this is an incomparable feeling of high spirits and some kind of expectation of magic from childhood.
New Year's mess always begins with matinees in kindergartens, more precisely with the preparation of costumes for this holiday. And as often happens, parents are simply confronted with the fact that the child needs, for example, a suit of an ant or a grasshopper.
There would be no problems if these were hackneyed options: bears, bunnies, mushrooms or the same spider-man - but an ant !? Where to look for him? Or maybe it's better to include your own imagination and make a costume with your own hands? Of course, it is not easy to make an ant, but it is quite possible, but in order to be inspired, or at least have an idea of how it should look, you need to remember this small creature with thin legs and antennae on its head.
So, how to make an ant costume, and what do you need? The first thing is black or brown matter, it is better if it is velvet, it is more solemn, foam rubber, a sewing machine and other accessories. However, do not rush to run to the fabric store, maybe at home there is some suitable thing that will need only a little refinement.
The ant's suit should be with a hood or with a cap on which a cute mustache will stick out. The main detail is a chubby tummy, it can be made from an old velvet sweater by compacting the fabric with foam rubber and putting it together on an elastic band. The ant ass should hang out from behind, for it the sleeves will go into play. For a complete look you will need black tights and a blouse with a long sleeve.
Of course, if you don’t change anything, but to buy fabric specifically for the costume, there will be much more options and variations. These are additional legs, dangling from the side seams of the tummy, and beautiful bast shoes, and a mask with big eyes.
The ant costume for a girl can be with a bright bow on her head and a short tulle skirt. A small bright handbag hitched to a ribbon will become a stunning accessory for such a young lady. You can tie a white tie to the boys, and a gentleman ant with a colored bow-tie and a hat is a very interesting solution.
If you sheathe an ant's costume with colorful rain and add a few bright elements, you get a stylish outfit that will undoubtedly look original among the usual bunnies, chanterelles and butterflies.
You can beat any character, even the most unexpected, you just have to dream up and get down to business. The result will be an amazing carnival costume. And if from the beginning it seems that the task of the educator is simply not feasible, there is no need to make hasty decisions - get to work, because it also happens that ideas begin to pour in one after another in the process of work. It is necessary to involve a child in the process, then the whole family will get a huge amount of positive from this whole undertaking.