Preparing for the holidays is always a pleasant experience. It is especially interesting to prepare children for the New Year tree. It does not matter if it takes place in a kindergarten, school or somewhere in a specialized theater and entertainment organization, parents will certainly try to prepare a fancy dress for the child. This is what creates the atmosphere of mystery and the feeling of a real holiday. Creating a costume for the baby can be easily turned into family creativity.
Fancy dresses for children for the New Year
Of course, the easiest option is to choose the right idea and buy a finished outfit. The range of such products is sufficient to satisfy the needs of even the most fastidious baby. It is worth noting that you can buy an outfit for both a teenager and a baby.
The materials from which the costumes are made for children for the New Year, you can also choose the appropriate air temperature in the room where the event will take place. Satin, silk, guipure, mesh are suitable for hot rooms, and fleece, plush or faux fur will be just where it is cool. You can order a costume both online and directly in stores. There are two disadvantages to this option:
- High cost, especially when you consider that this is an outfit for one time.
- There is a high probability that the model will not sit perfectly, and it will have to be sutured, modified, “brought to mind” so that the child is comfortable, comfortable, and it looked beautiful.
The advantage, of course, is that you can buy something that is very difficult to make with your own hands, or it will take a lot of time. So measure all kinds of costs.
DIY fancy dress for children
In favor of this option is the fact that you can create an outfit from what the child already has in the wardrobe, only by decorating things. Another way is to sew on a pattern that will be built in accordance with the proportions of the child. In addition, you can create an outfit together with a baby who will be happy to keep you company and will not miss the opportunity to show your creative abilities. New Year's fancy dress for children, made with their own participation, especially dear to the kids and their parents.
What you need to create a costume
If you decide to make a fancy dress for your child yourself, prepare the following materials and tools:
- patterns, patterns, patterns;
- paper for patterns;
- pencil, eraser, ruler;
- scissors;
- the cloth;
- pins
- tailor chalk;
- thread with a needle;
- sewing machine;
- decor elements.
Everything is available or already in your home.
What you need to create a headgear
To make a mask or hat, you will need materials from the following list:
- Paper.
- Cardboard.
- Wire for the frame.
- Paints.
- Brushes.
- Glue.
- Fabric for tightening the base and all tools for working with fabric.
- Plastic eyes, nose.
- Artificial hair or their imitation, for example of thread.
Also nothing complicated and special.
Bunny Costume: The Easy Way
Various masquerade costumes for children (photos clearly show this) are performed by several methods. A hare costume (one of the simplest and most traditional) can be done like this:
- Make up from the finished things of the child, suitable in color and style, using additional decoration.
- Sew on the finished pattern.
- To make completely with your own hands, starting with the construction of the pattern, by the specific standards of the child.
The first way is the easiest, fastest and cheapest. If you need to make a suit, for example, for tomorrow or the coming days, choose this option. Think about what elements of your child’s wardrobe can make such an outfit.
Work sequence
If you want to make a fancy dress for a child with your own hands, you can choose the image of a bunny. Such an outfit is made like this:
1. Take a white turtleneck and pants.
2. Cut out of paper for patterns, and then from fabric, such as pink satin or white fur, a circle or an oval.
3. Sew the prepared part onto the turtleneck (t-shirt).
4. On white pants, shorts or a skirt, attach a tail in the form of a pompom made of fur or cotton.
As a result, you will get a finished outfit. It remains to make a hat and decor details.
- Cut the ears out of white paper or cloth.
- Paint the front side pink.
- Fasten the parts to the hair band with wire or glue.
- Sew mittens from fur or guipure.
- Make white shoes and knee-highs for the girl.
Such a fancy dress for a child can be made for a boy - based on a white shirt and trousers. In this case, pink color, of course, will not work, so it’s better to use either white fabric or blue decor. Ears are easy to decorate with tinsel along the contour.
Making a bunny costume for a pattern
This method will require you to search for a ready-made template. It can be downloaded, printed in the right size and used to cut parts from fabric. In this case, enough initial knowledge and experience in the field of sewing. You can work as follows:
1. Use the sample pattern from the following illustration.
2. Print the blanks and, based on the given sample, build your own pattern of the required size.
3. Cut out the elements.
4. Prepare a white cloth, such as fleece. Lay the parts on the fabric and pin it with pins.
5. Circle the contours with chalk, make seam allowances and cut out the parts.
6. Fold the paired elements with their faces inward, knit, and then sew on a typewriter, stepping back from the edge to a distance equal to the allowances for the seams.
7. On elements where there are rounded details (everything except a T-shirt), it is possible to carefully make cuts along the allowances so that the fabric does not tighten after being turned out.
8. Turn out products (mittens, slippers, ears and a basis).
9. Sew the ears into the seam of the headgear parts. Turn the resulting "hat".
10. Decorate the product with eyes and a nose (sew plastic or embroider).
The third method, when you build a pattern yourself, is suitable for more experienced ones, as well as when you have enough time to work. An unambiguous advantage is that the outfit will be made perfectly according to the figure of the child. In the process, you will be able to try on and refine.
Fairy costume
Each girl will surely find an elegant lush dress and matching shoes. Work as follows:
- Buy fabric in the tone of the dress and cut out elements for making a vest, wrap, bolero or just a spectacular collar.
- Sew the selected part. Decorate it along the contour with a decorative cord, tinsel, brocade ribbon or other decor.
- Make a crown out of paper.
- For strength, fasten the part to the wire. Use a hair band as a base.
- Decorate the crown with beads, sparkles, sequins.
- To make a magic wand, take a core, a kebab skewer or any other element suitable for the role of a skeleton.
- Wrap the workpiece with satin ribbon, decorative tape, or corrugated paper. To prevent the decor from moving out, glue it with a thermal gun as the rod is wrapped.
- Decorate the top with a butterfly, asterisk, ball or other suitable detail.
Spectacular outfit is ready.
If there is a white dress, it is easy to make a snowflake outfit.
Fancy dresses for children and adults are different. Choose the right one. Use ready-made ideas or create your own based on seen patterns.