A turnip suit can be worn by both a girl and a boy. Such a role can be played by children in kindergarten at the autumn matinee, when it comes often to vegetables and crops. Also, the child can play this role when showing the theater or put on an open lesson. It is not difficult to make it, the main thing is to purchase the necessary materials, at least be able to sew and draw.
Knowing how to sew a turnip suit, you can make outfits for the other vegetables in the same way - beets, onions, carrots, any root crop. The tops are located in the upper part of the costume, usually it is made out in the form of a hat on the child’s head, and the root crop is created below the level of the head. This can be a snap-on element like a backpack with ties, worn on the shoulders of the baby. You can make a vest worn over the head, with the image of the turnip in front. For a girl, you can sew a skirt, wide on top and narrowed down. The skirt on which this root crop is made an application is suitable for a turnip suit. You can fantasize in different ways. The main thing is to want to make your child a beautiful outfit.
Necessary materials
Turnip is usually depicted in yellow, but there is still the option of sewing and pink. Depending on the color of the conceived vegetable, material is also selected for sewing it. A meter of fabric is enough with the head. The tops are usually made green. Elements of the costume can also be made the same shade. The fabric is better to take bright colors, for carnival costumes a satin shiny fabric is usually used. She always looks festive, so she is often used to sew costumes for a matinee in kindergartens.
In order for the turnip image to be voluminous, you will need to purchase either a synthetic winterizer or a thin sheet of foam rubber. If you will fasten the vegetable with ribbons on the shoulders, then do not forget to buy satin ribbons to the color of the turnip suit.
You will also need: scissors, a drawing paper for a pattern, a simple pencil, crayon, thread, a needle, if any, then use a sewing machine. For tops on a hat, you can use an artificial plant.
Pink turnip
This costume consists of only two elements: a volumetric turnip-backpack with ties and hats with tops. In this case, an artificial fern bush was used, which was attached to the top of a green hat. As you can see, the work on creating a turnip costume with your own hands is minimal, the main preparation process is the manufacture of the vegetable itself.
On the sheet of whatman paper they draw the shape of the root crop. Then the material is folded in two layers and the pattern is transferred to the fabric, circled in chalk along the contour of the template. Then stepping back from the contour of 1 cm (allowance for seams), cut the turnip with scissors. Then, according to the template, it is transferred to foam rubber. When a vegetable is cut, on the contrary, 1 cm recedes into the inner part of the root crop so that it can be placed inside without folds. Then, the side bends of the turnip are sewn along the wrong side, the product is turned on the front part and the foam layer is inserted. Then, the hole in the fabric is closed with an internal suture. It remains to sew the bandages that fasten the turnip over the shoulders and on the belt. A turtleneck and pants of green or neutral color - yellow, beige or white are selected under the bottom.
Turnip suit for the girl
How to make a turnip, we will not repeat ourselves, we only note that for this costume you can sew a skirt and a vest separately or put on a green dress. The cap is represented by a bandage on an elastic band with sewn leaflets cut from felt sheets.
The vest can be represented by a cloak sewn from a rectangle of fabric in which the neckline is cut.
Suit for boy
The costume consists of four elements. This is a bandage with a felt leaf sewn along the line of the forehead, shorts like bloomers (wide with elastic), vests and cloaks.
As you can see, it is not difficult to sew a suit of this vegetable; in a couple of hours you can create a beautiful outfit for your child, even without a sewing machine.