Children's carnival costumes can be made from waste material. See how to make a costume for a Christmas tree, ladybug, peacock and other characters. Matinees are periodically held in kindergartens. If they are devoted to some topic, then children need to come in the appropriate attire. To save your parents from spending too much money, see how you can easily sew an outfit or make a suit from junk material.
Clothes for a matinee from garbage bags
The holiday in the kindergarten will be unforgettable and fun, and a costume for each child will cost quite inexpensively if you make an outfit from garbage bags.
Children will be happy to become residents of exotic islands for a while. Now you can buy garbage bags of various colors, so the costumes for the matinee will turn out to be colorful and varied. Each parent will make an outfit for their child, having familiarized themselves with a master class on making such clothes, and thereby help children arrange a real holiday.
To make a suit with your own hands on this topic, you will need:
- garbage bags with a capacity of 30–35 liters. in a roll;
- elastic;
- scissors;
- Scotch.
Unroll the roll, find the first package in it, without tearing it off, fold it in half.
To work faster, fold 2-3 bags at a time. Then it will be possible to cut so many pieces at once.
Now you need to tear off these folded packages from the general roll and cut off the side strips from them to the right and left.
Further, the resulting canvas is folded in half lengthwise and cut along this fold.
Now fold the next 2-3 rolls in half. Trim the sides, then fold and cut into ribbons. Stack them up.
To further make a suit from waste material, take the tape, unwind it for a meter, glue it with small pieces of tape horizontally on the table with the adhesive surface outward.
Cut off the edge of the tape made from the bags on the side where the cellophane was folded in half.
Now glue the resulting blanks to the adhesive tape with an overlap - on one side and the other.
After all the strips are attached in this way, you need to put an elastic band in the center, glue it with tape.
It remains to throw the strips to one side.
The skirt is ready.
To give it strength, sew at the top, below the elastic, without touching that. Bags are an excellent material for a suit for a matinee in kindergarten, both for the bottom and for the top. We sew a bodice for girls.
Use strips cut in the way described a little earlier, but you need to cut the fold from them not from one, but from two sides. Then they will be 2 times shorter than for a skirt. After that, you also need to glue them to the tape and attach an elastic band.
You have a skirt and bodice.
It remains to make jewelry on the legs and arms in the same technique, and the costume for the matinee is ready.
From garbage bags you can sew a princess dress, Scheherazade outfit, oriental shah, fairy. This material is well sewn, so it is enough to cut out the details of the suit, and then grind them on a typewriter. To give more strength to the line, you can put braid under it.
Junk outfit ideas
CDs can be used to make a costume for a kindergarten or a school party. If they are in good condition, then use whole discs. They can be sewn to the hem of the dress or decorate a swimsuit along its entire height, and for a skirt, pull a cord through the holes. Pulling it together, fix the decor elements of the outfit.
If the disc fragments are scratched, cut out these triangles from the good parts and glue them to the dress.
If the child no longer reads his children's books, you can sew an original dress from them. If you put each sheet in a file, and then sew it, the new thing will be more durable and moisture resistant. Instead of books, you can use pages of glossy magazines.
But what kind of dress from junk material came up with creative designers. You can also take note of this idea.
Even ordinary toilet paper can turn into an interesting outfit. If you decide to arrange a home party for the kids, and you need children's carnival costumes, this one can be made in 10 minutes.
All that is needed for it is:
- 1-2 rolls of toilet paper;
- black cosmetic paint;
- brush.
To make a mummy costume, you need to wrap the child, right over his clothes, with toilet paper. In this case, it should be covered: head, arms, legs, body. The face remains free, makeup is drawn on it so that the image is complete.
For greater strength, you can wrap a little white bandage on top of the paper and securely fasten its ends. Other children's carnival costumes are quickly being made. If the boy plays the role of a mummy, then the girl may well turn into a snail for this time. Her outfit is also created with paper, but more durable.
This is what the costume outfit for the girl is made of, from:
- thick paper;
- tapes;
- hair band;
- cardboard;
- glue gun;
- construction tape;
- two small balls of expanded polystyrene or packages from kinder surprise.
Take a roll of heavy brown paper or wallpaper and cut a large rectangle from it. Remember it with your hand, so that it becomes more pliable, wrap it in a roll. Starting on the smaller side of the rectangle, twist the workpiece to one side. Having designed a not very large area in this way, begin to fold it in a circle. To fix, fasten the curls with small pieces of tape in different places.
Based on the size of the child's back, cut a rectangle out of cardboard. Sew or glue 2 tapes to it, measure these straps first. Glue the cardboard to the curled paper and the snail house is ready.
To make her horns, cut 2 smaller rectangles out of paper than for the house. Twist them as well. Glue the tops on a ball or on a package from a kinder surprise.
The work has been completed. Such children's carnival costumes do not require special financial costs, and they bring pleasure and good mood to children.
New Year's costumes for children
It will be interesting for the child to turn into a Christmas tree for a while. Such children's carnival costumes will surely make a splash when, in the midst of the holiday, the lights are dimmed and the outfit shines with many bulbs.
To make this New Year's outfit, you need the following:
- dense green fabric;
- LED bulbs 10 mm;
- AA batteries;
- wires for light bulbs;
- crayon;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- pearls, beads for decoration.
We begin to sew a children's carnival costume for the matinee with cutting out. It is easiest to take an existing dress, sundress or T-shirt as a basis. Wrap the sleeves, collar inward, attach this fabric template to the newspaper, outline, make the desired length, cut. Make 2 similar details, but the neckline is deeper on the front than on the back.
Attach the pattern to the fabric, outline, cut, leaving a seam allowance of 2 cm, and 7 mm on the neck. Stitch 2 parts on the wrong side - a shelf and a back.
The neckline should be sufficient for the child to easily put on the matinee costume over his head. Otherwise, you will need to make a vertical cut from the back collar down and sew in a zipper or arrange a fastener on the shoulder.
Without turning the dresses inside out, draw diagonal lines on the wrong side using a large ruler. Try to keep them at the same distance as the markings for the bulbs. Turn the dress over your face, stick the latter into the fabric, bending the antennae of the lamps, fix them on the canvas.
Now connect the bulbs with wire, securing it to the antennae. The scheme of this is such that short antennae are negative (-) and long tendrils are positive (+).
Do not pull on sections of the wire so that the structure does not break off and the fabric is not too taut. Run the wire from the front to the back, securing it to the side seams.
Finish the neckline of the dress, decorate it with beads, and the spectacular outfit for the matinee is ready. To prevent the garment from pricking, have the child put on a tight turtleneck under it. If you were unable to purchase LED bulbs, then buy a battery-powered garland and attach it to the front of your dress.
Outfit wonderful ladybug
Children's carnival costumes may be different. This mischievous ladybug will find a place at any holiday.
The top of the outfit is made on the basis of a red turtleneck. Here's what you need to make such a carnival costume:
- red turtleneck or T-shirt;
- hair rim;
- black brushes;
- sequins;
- glue gun;
- fluffy red ribbon or pom-poms of that color;
- black fabric;
- a glass or glass for a template;
- red tulle;
- crayon or thin dry bar of soap;
- elastic band in black;
- tape measure;
- scissors;
- tracing paper.
Let's start with the headdress. Take a hair band, attach 2 brushes to it, folded with bundles and bent in half. Attach a dark fabric to the rim, cut it out according to its size. Make a cut in place of the antennae. Pass the fabric through them, secure it to the rim with the contents of a glue gun.
Cut 2 pieces from the fluffy ribbon, roll them in a circle. Glue these elements or 2 pom-poms to the tops of the brushes.
Place the black cloth on the wrong side, and use a piece of soap or crayon to circle the glass or shot glass to form circles. Cut them out and glue them to the turtleneck.
To sew a skirt, first make markings for future folds on tracing paper. Step back 2.5 cm from above, draw a line. Then measure another 2.5 cm from it, draw another segment parallel to the first. Make markings between them every 2.5 cm.
Cut 2 strips of red tulle - each about 60 cm (depending on the size of the skirt). First put the first red transparent fabric on the tracing paper, make cuts on it along the markings (every 2.5 cm), then exactly the same ones on the second tulle fabric.
Cut 2 pieces of 55 cm from black fabric, do with them in the same way as with red tulle. Putting together a fluffy skirt. Place pieces of black fabric on the folded tulle, thread elastic through all the aligned cuts. Try on the girl's skirt, cut off the excess ends of the elastic, sew them. Now such a wonderful ladybug can fly, or rather, go to a merry holiday.
Beautiful long peacock tail for kids
It is enough to make only it, and an elegant suit for the matinee is ready. Here's what we'll use for it:
- trimming taffeta;
- a linen gum;
- green ribbon;
- blue, green, blue felt.
Attach the elastic to the girl's waist, pull slightly, cut, leaving allowances on both sides in order to knit or sew the elastic. From taffeta or tulle, cut into strips 10 cm wide. The more of them, the more magnificent the skirt. Tie these ribbons to the elastic in the manner shown in the photo, placing them on the sides and back.
And here's how to make decorations for a skirt so that it looks like a peacock's tail. Cut out crescent-shaped blanks with a sharp center in blue fabric. For this, it is most convenient to use a template, then all elements will be of the same size and the desired shape.
From blue felt we make blanks that are sharp-angled on one side and rounded on the other sides. Exactly the same, but slightly larger, cut out of green fabric. We make large oval elements out of brown felt, then sew each with light threads so that they imitate feathers.
Now you need to take one ready-made element of each color, apply it as shown in the photo, and glue it.
Take pieces of tape of the desired length, glue blanks of felt here, and then attach these feathers to strips of taffeta.
This is what a beautiful peacock tail came out, it will become a detail or the whole carnival costume for the matinee. See what other outfits you can quickly make from simple materials with your own hands.
