New Years is soon? Will the child go to the Christmas tree?Not sure which outfit to choose for your son? An interesting option is the beetle costume. For a boy with his own hands to make it easy. Enough basic skills in the field of sewing. If you approach the work creatively, then it can become an interesting joint activity with the child. Baby will help you with pleasure.
To make a beetle costume for a boy with your own hands, you need the following:
In some embodiments, additional frame parts (paper, cardboard) and a filler (holofiber, sintepon, cotton wool, rags) may be required.
Beetle costume for a boy with your own handsmake in different ways. A compulsory detail is a headdress, which can look like a hat, hood, or dress over your head like a crown. It is logical to make the costume by the type of overalls, another option - as a set of a cape or jacket with a shirt and pants. To create a realistic image often use gloves and make an imitation of additional pairs of legs in the form of three-dimensional parts.
Regarding manufacturing methods, you have two options:
The first method is good with enoughtime for work, and the second - if the outfit needs to be prepared quickly, for example, in the evening or if you are a beginner and have never seen the ability to sew in yourself.
Your element should be the element with wings. This thing is carried out in the form of a cape, jacket or whole product in one piece with the hood. The easiest way to make the wings as follows.
If you do not want to spend time on the pattern,you can cut along the center line, or just build along this vertical guide that runs along the baby’s spine. The center line, like the edges, can be decorated with braid, lace. In the upper part, sew a ribbon or part from the same fabric as the base. These will be cap strings. In a more sophisticated version, it makes sense to combine the wings with a collar, vest, jacket. They will be stitched on top of the product or act as part of the backrest.
The complex version of the wings is performed using a wire, cardboard, foam rubber frame, which is sheathed with a cloth.
The second important element will be a cap.It is easy to make it on the basis of a ready-fitting, for example, swimming one, and also to sew from two semicircular parts or parts that resemble petals, in order to create a semblance of a sphere without a lower part. The easiest option is the shape of the crown. It is made from both fabric and paper or cardboard. Headdress must be decorated with antennae, can be added with eyes.
If you are thinking how to make a baby beetle costumemore realistic, it is worth adding it with two pairs of legs, which will run parallel to the hands of the child. Paws are usually made in the form of bulk "sausages", culminating in the similarity of mittens. Here, you will need stuffing material, as well as a thread or wire frame for fixing the legs, so that they are located in a certain direction, and not protruding in different directions.
Typical details created. Everything else you can easily pick up from the available children's things.
Вся работа выполняется по той же технологии, что and in the manufacture of any other beetle. The difference is only in the headdress. He must have the characteristic horns. No wonder this insect is also called the stag beetle.
If you want to make just such a costume,not some kind of abstract beetle, you will need to pick the appropriate color material. In addition, it is best to perform and imitation strips on the wings. This is easily realized with the help of narrow satin ribbons or ribbons on the background of the fabric.
As you can see, making a beetle costume for a boy with his own hands is easy. Choose your favorite method and model. Make for your fidget original outfit for the New Year tree.
