A masquerade for a New Year's party for a child is the most exciting event of the year. Therefore, you need to prepare for it in advance and thoroughly. The main stage of preparation is choosing a suit.
Costumes of animals and birds are very popular: bunnies, chanterelles, squirrels, owls. It is the process of creating an owl costume that we will consider.
Festive t-shirt owl outfit
To create an owl costume for a girl with your own hands you will need:
- t-shirt (preferably loose fit and elongated);
- trimming fabrics of various colors;
- thread or hot glue;
- scissors.
From scraps of fabric we cut feathers for an owl, of any shape you like. Then we sew or glue the feathers on the T-shirt in a checkerboard pattern. If the T-shirt is too short, then the lower feathers can be lengthened or sewn in several rows to imitate a skirt.
To add elegance, you can make several bows from satin or velvet ribbons. The bows can be attached to the sleeves or neckline. You can also add nylon ribbons or embroider some elements of the costume with lurex.
Owl cosplay costume universal
To make a suit that would suit both boys and girls, you will need the following materials:
- dense fabric;
- lining fabric;
- satin or velvet ribbon;
- small cuts of fabrics of different colors;
- threads.
We fold the main and lining fabrics and cut out a semicircle (you can either a full circle or ¾, depending on the required splendor of the outfit). The length of the semicircle should be equal to the length of the product, taking into account the folds and the neckline.
In the center we cut out a small semicircle so that the head passes comfortably. We grind the neck of the satin flight, and leave the ends of the ribbon free, they will serve as cloak ties.
We fold the material from below and trim it with piping or tape. On the sides we make cuts for the hands and grind with tape. It is better to make the slots more spacious so as not to hamper the child's movements.
We cut the fabrics into ribbons 5-10 cm wide. (If you wish, you can make smaller feathers) then cut the ribbons so that you get a kind of garland of feathers. We sew or glue the resulting blanks to the raincoat along the entire length, starting from the bottom edge. It is desirable that one strip slightly overlaps another, this will add volume and realism to the plumage.
Optionally, you can add a hood to the raincoat. To do this, cut out a rectangle from the main and lining fabrics folded in two, sew it along one edge and grind it on the other. Sew the end sides to the raincoat. Then we embroider garlands of feathers on the hood, making sure that the feathers on the hood do not stick out in different sides and matched the plumage of the cloak.
Such an owl costume is equally well suited for a boy and for a girl. All that remains is to choose the right trousers and jacket. For girls, you can even wear a dress under a raincoat (preferably not a fluffy cut).
Indispensable attributes for an owl
Such little things as a beak and glasses will complement the image of an owl. As glasses, you can use old sunglasses, after removing the glasses from them, or make a mask in the form of glasses. For those who use sunglasses, you can cut a small felt beak and glue it to the center of the glasses.
The mask can be cut out of cardboard, felt (it is better to use two colors) or printed on a printer. It should be noted that felt is more comfortable and more pleasant to the face than cardboard, and the paper mask wrinkles easily. You can secure the mask with an elastic band or hair clip (for girls).
Other options for an owl costume and its details.
First, go to a fabric store together. Let the child choose the fabric he likes. It can be traditional brown or fancy pink, as long as your child likes it. At this age, how you look is very important. And for a child of 10 years old to feel comfortable, he must make the decision himself. You are only an assistant.
With a standard fabric width of 1.5 m, it is enough to buy 2 colors per meter of fabric and about a meter of lining. Calculate based on your child's height. To sew an owl costume with your own hands, you will also need threads in color, braid and an elastic band on which the mask and non-woven adhesive will be held.
From the same fabric of 2 colors, cut out semicircles and cut them into strips of 25 cm. Leave a 5 cm seam allowance. The rest must be cut into halves of ovals. Now sew each such "garland" to the lining, alternating light and dark stripes. At the end, tape the neckline.
Now make owl costume mask do it yourself. To do this, cut out the outline of the mask from the fabric, the same blank from the lining and another from the non-woven fabric. Fold the 3 pieces so that the non-woven is in the middle. Iron to activate the glue, and machine stitch around the edges. Now sew the light stripes around the eyes and attach the beak. Done!
Owl costume options
A few hours before the ball? Limit yourself to such a scalloped collar on a cape, imitating feathers, and a mask.
It is not necessary to make a large cloak in the form of a semicircle; you can make a cloak with wings that look more like real ones.
Owl mask making options
Beautiful and in a special way cozy masks are obtained from felt. Here are two “girly” options.
And here are two mask options that are universal and suitable for boys, girls and even adults.
If there is very little time before the holiday, the mask can be drawn on a sheet of thick paper or cardboard.
If the child wears glasses, making a mask for an owl costume is even easier: enough glue a beak to glasses made of paper or felt, and the mask is ready.
This is how in just one evening you can make an owl costume with your own hands for your own or almost adult owl. Such an owlet will be unique at the Christmas holiday, and a cute photo will remain in the family album. She will remind not only of happy holiday, but also about joint leisure at the sewing machine.
Dress up as an owl on Halloween or any other children's party!
Despite the fact that the main goal of Halloween participants is to scare each other, we, nevertheless, will try to make our owl not frightening, but funny, because there is too much evil in our world.
Necessary materials:
- Different colors of felt fabric
- Ruler
- Bias tape or narrow tie ribbon
- Scissors
- Sewing machine
- Plate
Step 1
Let's start sewing the costume with the wings. Take the fabric that will lie on top. Place a plate on the linen to mark the opening for the neck.
Step 2
Now, using a ruler and chalk, draw 40cm straight lines down both sides of the opening. Then close these two lines in zigzags, forming serrated feathers on the owl's wings. It is not necessary to adhere to symmetry. When the wing template is ready, cut it out.
Step 3
In order to make the second wing (lower), take a ready-made template and lay it out on the second piece of felt fabric. Outline the template with chalk, keeping in mind that the bottom of the wings should be an order of magnitude longer. Therefore, focusing on the pattern, lengthen the side and zigzag lines. Then cut the wing out along the outline.
Step 4
Connect the upper wing cutout to the lower wing cutout and sew along the neckline. Sew the strings on the back of the wings, on both sides of the neck opening. The wings are ready!
This is how they should look in finished form.
Step 5
Make the feathers on the owl's breast in the form of figurines resembling a cherry leaf, measuring 10x4 cm in two colors. Cut out the shapes from the fabric and glue them to a regular T-shirt in about 5 rows, alternating color.
Step 6
Now we sew an "owl" headdress. Make a pattern of details on the fabric, as in the image. In this case, a children's garrison cap served as a template. But the size of the middle part had to be changed a little, expanding its front part.
Step 7
Sew all three pieces together.
Step 8
Sew on the strings and turn the cap right-side up.
Step 9
An owl costume can be made by both beginners and experienced seamstresses. The main thing is to follow the instructions and observe the proportions, and then everything will work out!
How to sew an owl costume with your own hands
First of all, go to the store for fabric. The basis of the children's costume of an owl "\u003e take a thick brown burlap. For a 3-5 year old baby, 2 m is enough with a standard fabric width of 1.5 m. For feathers, buy a beige mesh. You can skip the rest of the fabric and use scraps of old clothes.
"\u003e Let's start the pattern. To do this, cut 1.2 m from a piece of fabric and attach it to the rest of the fabric. This way, the future hood will remain in one layer. Cut it out as shown in the picture. The white dotted line marks the line that needs to be sewn. Green is a place for the face. It is better to trim this edge with braid so that small threads do not crumble and do not get into the eyes of the child. Do not forget to cut out the sleeves. They resemble geometric shape - rhombus. There should be enough fabric for them. Now we make the torsoowl costume. "\u003e The blue marks the hole where the sleeves are sewn. The yellow lines are the place to sew.
If you run out of time or patience, leave the costume in this form. This will make your baby look like a hermit monk. If this option is not suitable, let's start decorating. To do this, wash a mesh fabric on the front.
From above, manually sew the shreds on top of each other. Move from bottom to top, then the seams will hide under the next layer. INfrom this, the owl's costume is already taking shape.
Now sew the shreds to the sleeves and stitch the blank to the suit. It's good if the shreds are also in colors autumn that will give children's suit owls whole and thoughtful look.
It remains to "revive" the owl costume. For this on stitch the hood on the eyes and beak, and if burlap remains, make small ears. It will look really cute.
More options for costumes of owls
The main advantage of such suits is that they are easy to make yourself. Instead of an owl's head for a suit, you can use a regular brown hat, on which you can sew eyes and a beak.
The easiest option is sweatshirt suit black or brown. For girls, sweatshirts in bright colors like pink, red or yellow can be used.
Owl costume masks
A child can be hot at a party wearing a hat or a hood, so you can simply use an owl face mask as the top of the costume. As a rule, they are made of felt (since it does not crumble and keeps its shape), but they can be made of colored paper.
Create and design funny baby costumes! And since the coming year of the horse, you may like it. Happy Holidays!
Buy carnival costume for new year holiday the store is simple, but uninteresting. You will get much more positive emotions when you make carnival clothes with your own hands. And if you involve children in this fascinating process, the time until the New Year will surely fly by.
BOY CARNIVAL SUITS
Bunny
To become the star of the carnival, you don't have to sew a full-length costume. Moreover, it is not always convenient for babies to move around in a bulky or heavy outfit. The easiest and, most importantly, budget option is a mask. For example, bunny ears can be cut out of cardboard and glued to an elastic band or a paper rim. The similarity with the "oblique" will be more complete if you draw and cut out a bunny mask from a sheet of thick paper. It can also be secured to the head with an elastic band or a hoop.
Using this scheme, you can draw a whole fabulous zoo: Lisa Patrikeevna, Mikhail Potapovich, Princess Frog, as well as overseas animals: a monkey, a panda, a parrot. More complex options are volumetric cardboard masks. For decoration use colored paper, plastic plates, papier-mache, cotton wool and other materials.
Snowman
Making a snowman costume for a boy with your own hands is not so difficult. The easiest option is to sew a suit out of white fabric according to a pattern taken from your baby's winter overalls. It's also easy to tailor pants and a two-button jacket in soft white fleece. The volume is created by filler or elastic bands, which tighten the belt, cuffs and the bottom of the pants.
Obligatory bright details - large buttons, a bright scarf and a broom in hand. Place a washed plastic bucket from a sandbox kit on your head, or glue a cardboard cylinder.
Pirate
Every boy dreams of sea adventures! Therefore, reincarnation as a sea wolf will bring special joy.
The pirate costume consists of several parts:
- white shirt with a frill;
- pants;
- black cocked hat or bandana with a skull;
- buckle boots;
- wide belt.
Each part is easy to do with your own hands. The vest can be borrowed from dad or bought. If you want more romance, attach a frill made of lightweight fabric or lace to a white shirt with a brooch or pin.
Regular black pants will turn into pirate pants if you cut them to mid-calf and gather at the bottom with an elastic band. However, especially lazy needlewomen can get by with just a shabby bottom. A double-wrap belt made of red or black fabric will complete the look. You can also wear a vest, and the triangle hat can be easily glued from black cardboard.
A cowboy hat can turn into a pirate hat
The costume accessories will be an eye patch, daggers, earrings (clips), as well as high striped socks or knee-highs. On the shoulder of the hero, you can put a real trained or toy parrot.
An indispensable attribute of a pirate costume is the image of a skull and crossbones. Draw the emblem on paper and attach to your vest or headdress.
TIP Marine theme in fancy dress bottomless. A boy in a peakless cap and a vest, armed with a telescope, will become a brave captain. And to conquer the depths of the sea on new Year's party scuba gear made from plastic bottles will do.
CHRISTMAS COSTUMES IDEAS FOR GIRLS
Butterfly
The wings for the bee costume are made in the same way as for the butterfly costume.
Fixed wings
TIP It is quite possible to use the pattern on the wings of a real urticaria or a peacock's eye as a pattern.
Fluttering butterfly
You can flutter like a real "cabbage" or "Apollo", spreading and collecting wings, if you make them without rigid frame:
- Cut two semicircles out of the fabric with a radius equal to the distance from the armpit to the child's wrist. Decorate the canvas in any way you like, such as paints, other fabric appliqués, or tinsel.
- Once the decor is finished, attach the center section of the wings to the back of the collar with neat stitches.
- Attach the free edge of the wing to your wrist using colored tape or elastic.
New Year's moth costume for a boy
TIP Butterfly costume on New Year suitable not only for a girl. For a boy, you can create the image of a fluttering moth.
Owl
The original solution is to turn into a wise and beautiful bird for the New Year. Very little is needed for this - an owl mask and a dress with imitation of plumage.
A cardboard mask with expressive eyes and beak can be attached to an elastic band or elastic band and worn on the head. If you make slits, then you can put it on your face. In this case, the main thing is to calculate the distance between the pupils. Draw the mask on paper and color it in. Also, this accessory can be made of colored cardboard, velvet paper or foamiran. Cut out the parts and assemble them into a coherent whole. Even kids 3-4 years old can participate in creativity.
Option for assembling an owl mask from colored paper
To make a dress, some skills are required, but even novice craftswomen can handle the technology:
- Sew a simple sheath dress with cutouts for the head and arms as a base.
- Sew the plumage on it in rows - pieces of fabric in the form of tongues. "Feathers" can be typical bird colors (brown, gray, ocher) or fancy (green, pink, yellow). You can choose a solid color or create your own pattern, for example, highlight the breast or back of a bird.
- You can complement the owl costume with wings. Make them using the same technology as the wings of a fluttering butterfly. The feathers on the wings can be made slightly larger than on the body.
Versatile green dress
In the wardrobe of an adult lady, there should be “small black dress", Suitable for all occasions, and for little fashionistas, a green outfit can be considered the same universal option. It can be a dress or a sundress of any style. Your daughter will definitely be noticed if on a holiday she is not a snow-white snowflake or a pink princess, but turns into a bright elegant Christmas tree.
For other themed matinees, the dress will have to be slightly modernized:
- New Year's celebration. You can turn into a Christmas tree if you hang tinsel, rain or shatterproof toys on your dress. Garlands powered by AA batteries are also suitable for decoration. The bravest girls can decorate their heads with a small artificial Christmas tree. Attach it to a headband or clip.
- March 8. To create a spring mood, decorate the waistband or hem of your dress with real or fake flowers. The same flower can be woven into your hair. So the girl will turn into a flower fairy.
- Harvest Festival. To change the season, it is enough to sew a few yellowed leaves onto the dress. For realism, use real ones, but cut out of colored paper or painted will do.
TIP A girl in a green dress can turn into any fabulous tree. For example, in an apple tree with bulk fruits, under which Alyonushka and her brother were hiding from the geese-swans.
Modern heroes
Snow Maiden or bunny costumes will delight parents and grandparents. But modern children will be more delighted if they have a chance to become the hero of modern fairy tales. It can be the Bear's girlfriend Masha or the almighty Fixies. Dressing up as modern heroes is no longer called a carnival, but the fashionable word "cosplay".
Nolik's hat
To make original high-tech hats, you will need foam rubber, spray paint and glue. When cutting, parents may have to remember school geometry and drawing courses. But you can take ready-made templates from the Internet.
How to do:
- Foam rubber (you can take ordinary dishwashing sponges) cut into cubes in the form of parallelepipeds. Then, cut each block diagonally with a sharp knife.
- Glue the resulting parts with an overlap on the base cap, starting from the bottom of the product. You can use different sized pieces of foam. At the top of the cap should be the smallest pieces.
- To keep the hat on your head better, attach an elastic band to it.
TIP If you used white foam instead of pre-made sponges, spray paint onto the item. Do not use watercolor or gouache when making carnival costumes... This paint "flows" when it gets wet. We don't need such surprises!
Magic chest
Have you invited guests to the holiday and want to surprise them? Arrange an impromptu costume ball! Complete outfits are optional. One characteristic attribute is enough. This could be a headdress or a themed bag. It will take hours to transform an entire company. During this time from cardboard, paper, cotton wool, paints and other improvised materials you can do:
- santa Claus's beard;
- a magic wand for a fairy;
- superman badge;
- bag of the postman Pechkin.
Put it all in a box covered with colored paper. Also in the "magic box" you can put a police cap, tie, felt boots, toy pistol, grandmother's shawl and much more. Invite guests to take items out of the box without looking into it. Together you will not only try on new roles, but also play funny scenes or come up with your own New Year's fairy tale.
Preparing for the New Year worries no less than the celebration itself. Spend a little time and spend the pre-holiday evenings with your children, inventing and making original costumes. Creativity brings people closer together better than shopping together. Holiday greetings!
