New Year's holidays are a troublesome time when everyone is not only busy looking for gifts under the Christmas tree for children and loved ones, but also wondering about the purchase of a carnival costume for a matinee at school or kindergarten. It’s very expensive to buy a costume in the store, the one on the market has a cheap look, and you don’t want to rent it, because it is unclear how many people wore the outfit before your child.
In order not to be nervous before the holidays, you need to think over several important points. If you know how to sew or at least fantasize, then it is quite possible to start making a costume for the holiday yourself. First you need to think about what character the kid wants to portray, then look at what important elements of the outfit can be purchased in stores, for example, a hat, butterfly wings, a multi-colored wig or cap. Remember what things a child has in his wardrobe to help bring this image to life.
In the article, we will consider several ideas for Christmas costumes for girls. How they can be made at home, imagine a few patterns that will help to make an outfit quickly. We also teach some tricks to make an interesting costume, even without the skills of sewing and sewing machines at home.
The easiest outfit
Any girl dreams of being a fairy or a princess, a Snow Maiden or a sorceress at a holiday. All this is easy to bring to life by putting on a child a magnificent dress and making small accessories. So, to create a New Year 's princess costume for a girl , it is enough to make an original crown. To do this, you need a sheet of thick cardboard, a simple pencil, glossy colored paper (it is best to use golden or silver), PVA glue, a brush, tulle, scissors, a stapler, decorative elements.
The contours of the crown of any shape are drawn on cardboard. Even the simplest option, as in the photo above, will look great if it is beautifully decorated. You can make a crown around the circumference of the head, or you can make a small one that will be held on a hoop or elastic band. For a small part, you can take a cardboard sleeve from napkins or toilet paper. The edges of the cut out element are connected by a stapler, previously bright paper or fabric is glued to the cardboard.
To decorate this original accessory for the New Year's costume for girls, rhinestones, half beads or pebbles are glued to the crown. The bottom edge can be decorated with tulle, picking up its edges in the center. The crown is fixed on the head with an elastic band, you can attach the glue gun to the hoop both in the center and a little on the side.
Fairy or Sorceress Outfit
For the New Year's party, it is easy to create an outfit of a sorceress or fairy from any elegant dress. It is enough to remake a simple tree branch or a sushi stick into a magic one, wrapping it with foil and attaching a cardboard star to the edge. You can use a bunch of fine rain.
Still need a cone hat, which is easy to twist from a Whatman paper. The cone can be rolled right on the head of the child by attaching its sides with staples with staples. Then the excess paper from the bottom is cut to form a flat base. The hat can be painted with bright colors, pasted over with colored paper or wrapped in satin fabric. A bunch of silver rain can be attached to the top of the cone, and a piece of lush garland can be sewn along the edge of the base.
How to make a drape
Creating a fairy Christmas costume for girls, it is recommended to sew a drape or wrap for him. It is best to perform it the same length as the child’s dress. The material is chosen bright, it is preferable to take a satin fabric. A pelerinka appears on a flat surface, you can make it wide by cutting the sun-flared, but the sun will look good too. You can use the proposed pattern. You can decorate the Christmas costume for girls around the edge with a rain in the tone of the color of the fabric.
The cloak can be made with or without a collar. The top of the neck is preferably formed with an elastic band, folding the fabric in half. It will be interesting to look at a satin ribbon threaded into the neck, which is tied in front on a lush bow.
After making the capes, cone-shaped hats and magic wands, the New Year's costume for the girl is ready! On your feet you can wear pantyhose or knee-high socks (white or to match the color of the dress) and neutral shoes or plain Czechs. Shoes can be decorated with pompons or sheathed with rain.
Snowman costume
If for the dance of snowmen you need to make a New Year's costume for the girl with your own hands, do not start to panic. It is not necessary to pack your daughter in balls of different sizes, you can wear a white turtleneck or blouse, a long-sleeve gymnastics leotard is also suitable, over which a pack of white tulle is worn.
Making it is very simple. You must purchase a white tulle fabric and a wide elastic band of the same color. It wraps around the waist and is cut to size, you just need to add a couple of centimeters to the seams. Then you need to cut the strips of fabric and, folding them in half, stretch the ends into a loop through an elastic band. Thus, strips are passed around the entire elastic band until the tulle fills the entire space of the future skirt. The more pieces of fabric used, the more magnificent the pack.
The photo of the children's New Year's costume for girls, located above, shows how to decorate a snowman outfit. Pompons are made from black yarn threads. These are the buttons of a snowman, they are usually made of coals or stones. On the stomach and chest of the upper part of the outfit, eyes, a nose-carrot and a smile of the hero are made with application. You can put a hat on your head, and if the outfit has long sleeves, a striped scarf thrown over your shoulder will look spectacular.
Chanterelle outfit
Do-it-yourself New Year's costume for a girl (photo below in the article) can be done on the same principle as the previous outfit, only for the image of a fox, you need to buy a red and white tulle. A fluffy skirt is done by putting mixed strips of fabric on a wide elastic band, combining a large number of strips of orange and several white ones. To complete the image, you need to sew triangular ears and a fur vest. To do this, you need a small piece of faux fur red color.
The tail is sewn from a rectangular piece of fur. The edges of the long sides are sewn together on the wrong side, then the “pipe” is turned on the front part and filled with cotton or synthetic winterizer. The edges are stitched together at an angle. The upper part of the tail is sewn to the belt of the skirt, and at the end of the hanging part you can attach a piece of white fur, like a fox.
If you don’t know how to make a vest for a little girl’s New Year’s costume, you can simply attach strips of fur to the turtleneck with a fluffy collar. The ears are sewn inside out, stitching the edges of the triangle. Then the product is turned on the front side. To ears sticking up, you can insert inside the triangles of cardboard or make a wire frame. At the end, the details of the costume are attached to the hoop.
Fur charm will complement the chanterelle outfit. They can be sewn onto the sleeve of a blouse or stitched with a “pipe” by inserting an elastic band inside.
Squirrel costume
Knowing how to sew a New Year's costume for a girl in the form of a fox, it is easy to make a squirrel outfit. The styles are very similar to each other. The difference between the costumes in two details. Firstly, the tail is mounted on a wire and bends upward. So that it does not fall to the side, one end of the metal wire is first bent with pliers with a long and thin arc. It will be a tail. And then the second end is wrapped in a circle around the waist. The remains are cut off. So that the child does not experience inconvenience while wearing the outfit, you need to wrap the entire wire with fur, and fasten the craft on the button on the belt. So it will be convenient to put on and take off the tail.
Secondly, ears of squirrels are slightly different from foxes. On the tops of the triangles you need to make brushes. You can use short bunches of golden thin rain.
Tender kitty
It's easy to make a New Year's costume for a girl with your own hands, having black leggings and a tight turtleneck in your child’s wardrobe. You will also need black tulle fabric. Before sewing frills on the legs from below, the tulle is gathered with folds. They put frills on their hands, through the fabric of which a thin elastic band is threaded.
How to make a magnificent skirt, you already understood, we will not repeat. The only thing that needs to be taken into account is that a wide elastic band for such a children's New Year's costume for a girl needs to be bought in black.
It remains to make black triangular ears on the hoop and draw a mustache and a cat's face on the face of the child with a cosmetic pencil.
Christmas costume
The costume of a Christmas tree can be called a popular outfit for a New Year's party . To make it, you will need a green dress. If it is not in the daughter’s wardrobe, and the sewing machine is present in the house, then you can sew it yourself by taking any even dress of the child as a sample. On the green fabric, the outlines of the neck, shoulders and cutouts for the arms are outlined in small shallow, then a drawing of the pattern with the extension down is drawn from the last point of the armpits.
When all the seams are made by hand stitches and the fitting satisfied the master, you can sew the blank on a typewriter. For dress decorating, different sizes of frills are used that serve as fir branches.
It is easiest to make them from green tulle, but you can use strips of the main fabric, wide satin ribbons or green lace. Each frill is decorated with rain or small multi-colored pompons are sewn. If you sew well on a typewriter, then you can make them applique on fabric.
The outfit can be supplemented with a conical cardboard hat with a star at the top. It is recommended to paint it with green gouache or paste over with colored paper. The golden rain glued by a spiral looks interesting.
Clowness
The outfit of a funny clown looks very original. The skirt is made by the familiar method, only the tulle stripes are taken in different colors. On the front of the T-shirt you can sew multi-colored small pompons, put on a round neck a magnificent bright bow. An interesting flirty hat complements the image. It is easy to make from cardboard. The cylinder consists of three elements fastened together - a small circle of the top, a rectangle bent around, and a ring for the hat fields.
Decorate the craft with pompons and a strip of bright fabric. The costume can be supplemented with striped tights or golfs, and your face can be painted with cosmetics. Here you need to show your imagination.
Overalls pattern
Such a pattern can be used not only for the costume of Parsley or clown, it can be sewn for the dress of any animal - fox, squirrel, bunny.
After stitching the cut details, it remains only to decorate the outfit with small details, for example, attach a tail or a fur collar, put on a mask or attach the character’s ears to the hoop.
Sewing shoes on a pattern
Soft shoes or boots sewn according to the pattern below can complement any New Year's costume. It is best to use felt matter.
Such slippers can be sewn for a clowness or a cat, and if you raise the sides and sew ankle boots, then they will also suit a snowman or a fox. The color of the felt is selected according to the character. Sewing from such a material is easy, it is perfectly cut and stitched, the edges do not split, you do not have to hem the fabric.
As you can see, it’s quite possible to make New Year’s costumes for girls at home, there’s nothing complicated even for beginners and mothers inexperienced in needlework. The main thing is the desire to make the most original outfit, to be creative. Good luck