The hero's costume: we prepare for the New Year's morning performance

Instructions on how to make a hero's costumewith their own hands, you can find a little. As a guide, you can use the book "Costumes of children's holidays" for the authorship of Olga Kontareva. More "advanced" house masters work without foreign instructions, based on their own ideas about the image of the ancient Russian warrior. To make a New Year outfit on your own project is very exciting and can be an excellent entertainment for the parents themselves.

In the quality sketch of a masquerade outfit can beany detailed illustration from a children's book, a picture or even a screen from Russian cartoons "Three heroes" is accepted. The costume consists of the following elements:

• A pointed helmet with nose protection.
• Chain or scaly shell.
• Shirt with embroidered border and high collar.
• Boots with curved noses.
• Sword and round shield.

Each of these items can be made with their own hands, without the special financial costs.

Hero's Helm

The headpiece of the ancient Russian warrior has a pointed form, thanks to which the hero's costume begins to claim a historical originality. To produce it you will need:

• Cardboard.
• Thin braid or cord.
• PVA glue.
• Paint with aluminum powder or "silver" in the spray can.

It is necessary to stock up with tools in the form of sharp scissors or a knife for paper, brushes, staplers and hand napkins.

The very process of making a hero's helmet consists of the following:

1. From the cardboard are cut out parts of the future heroic headgear. Details are glued to the allowances on the folds, which, for reliability, should be stapled from the inside.
2. In places of "seams", that is places of connection of a cardboard, it is necessary to let out a braid, having laid out its accurate pattern in the form of a fur-tree or a wave. The decor will cover the joints.
3. Then it is evenly covered with silver paint. For more elegance, the edge of the dress can be painted in gold or black. Metallic shine of the product will give a transparent nail polish.

Chain and shirt

The New Year's costume of the hero can not be done without chain mail up to the middle of the thigh. You can do it in any of the following ways:

1. You can make any sweater smooth in armorknitting. To do this, you need to pull it onto the stool legs or another shape and cover it with a "silver" from the aerosol can. The resulting mail will be light and comfortable, but wearing it can be unpleasant because of the smell.
2. Scaled shell can decorate a suithero, turning an ordinary warrior into a voivode. To create it, you need to cut out the details in the form of a rectangle measuring 1x2 cm with one rounded side. As a material, you can use a very dense foil, thin linoleum, the cover of a plastic binder.

The difficulty of making chain mail "dragon scales"consists in the fact that every detail must be painted, both from the front and from the wrong side. After drying, they gently sew on a sleeveless vest from dense fabric. Rows of scales begin to lead from below in a staggered order and each next row is laid with an overlap half the length.

Another element of the bright New Year's imageis a shirt, protruding from under the hem of mail for 10-12 cm and decorated with a "Slavic" pattern. Tapes with a similar decor can be found among the goods for needlework and turn into an ordinary turtleneck or shirt in a fabulous outfit.

Boots and pants

The costume of the hero for the boy is impossible withoutboots with curved noses or figured tops. In shoe stores, these are not found, and individual tailoring is very expensive. But from improvised means it is easy to make fabric covers that are worn over ordinary boots or even sneakers. Their manufacture consists of the following stages:

1. From a dense fabric elements of boots-deceptions on the measurements made on top of the shoe are cut out. Cutting should be done with an allowance of 1 cm.
2. The details are stitched from the inside. In the bootleg, a piece of cardboard is inserted into the top of the boot and fixed with glue cloth.
3. To the boot, the cloth cover is attached from the inside with the help of clothing hooks or double-sided scotch tape.

Pants of the Old Russian warrior have a cut of "training"and monophonic coloring, without patterns and ornaments. So you can not pick up a separate thing in the bogatyr's costume, but use the usual trousers. You can use even a part of the school uniform, after having smoothed the arrows.

Sword and shield

The fake weapons and equipment will make an outfit forNew Year's party more spectacular. In addition, they can be set aside at any time to participate in active games. As a rule, the hero's costume is supplemented by the following items:

A straight sword in a sheath.This object is cut from a sheet of cardboard and pasted with paper, and then painted. To decorate the handle, you can use rhinestones, beads or pieces of colored plastic.

Light shield. Complex forms are designed for European knights, and Slavic warriors associate circles and ovals. The decorative shield consists of several parts:

• The base is a circle of 2 layers of cardboard. Its diameter is equal to the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow of the boy's arm.
• Border in the form of a hoop 2-3 cm wide. Its inner edge can be cut figuratively.
• The central figure in the form of a silhouette of the sun, a three-headed dragon or a monogram.

The elements of the shield are pasted with paper, painted and only then combined into one.

Making a hero's costume with his own hands, you needgive vent to fantasy and worldly wit, allowing to give ordinary things a new purpose. And at the same time, it is important not to overdo with decorations and details. It is important to remember that the hero is a strict male image.