How to make a New Year costume for a girl and a boy?

Many mothers dress up their daughters for New Year's party as princesses, often ordering evening dresses for this, the style of which would rather suit them. If you are not one of them and understand that childhood passes very quickly, then choose for the child something more original and appropriate to age, for example, a parrot costume. It's quite easy to make it with your hands. In this case, you can choose such an option in which your daughter will compete with any Snow White or Cinderella. There are also parrot costumes that will suit boys and even kids who are just learning to walk.

What will it take to create a dress

Depending on what New Year costume parrot with your own hands you are going to make, you will need:

• Any feathers;
• Food colors of bright colors;
• old clothes;
• cardboard;
• acrylic paints;
• Boa for registration of bouquets;
• Translucent organza of yellow, red and blue color (for a variant with a magnificent dress);
• wire;
• glue;
• paper;
• pencil;
• Ruler;
• scissors;
• Thread.

Well, if you have the opportunity to use a sewing machine. However, in case of absence, you can choose the option, which is made completely by hand.

Parrot costume for a girl with her own hands

Mothers who want the daughter's outfit to be not only original, but also beautiful, it is worthwhile to work and sew for her a dress from a translucent organza of several bright colors. It is made from scratch or using old clothes. For example, you can decorate a suitably bright monophonic blouse. For this, feathers are stitched to the sleeves and to the neck, colored by soaking the food dyes in a saturated solution, or 3-4 frills of different colors, to make something like a jabot.

Next, 5 bands are cut from the organza, the length of which is 2 times larger than the girth of the girl's waist. The width of the first of them should be equal to the length of the dress, and each subsequent - 5 cm shorter. The edges of all the strips are cut in the form of feathers and processed, holding them above the flame so that they do not begin to pour. Sew each in the form of a pipe, and the upper edge is wrapped and spread. In the resulting kulisku pass gum.

When the skirt is ready, it is put on over the decorated blouse. To hide the junction of the two parts of the dress, you can make a wide belt, sew on it feathers and tie a bow with the back.

Wings

If you have chosen a chic parrot costume, you will have to make accessories for yourself besides your dress. The main one is the wings. For their manufacture, a wire frame is formed from the wire, which is then covered with a cloth. Then you can choose one of the following options:

1. Cut from the fabric of two colors on one strip 15 cm wide. To decorate the bottom edge as the hem of the dress. Sew two rows on the edge of the "wings" with an indentation of 5 cm.

2. Completely hide the surface of the fabric chosen for tightening, under the layer of feathers, using several different colored boas for bouquets.

Accessories

If the girl is a schoolgirl, then her head should not be decorated with a beak design. Instead, it is better to take as a basis the pattern of the Venetian mask and decorate it with feathers. You can also use a bezel with the appropriate decor.

Parrot suit with your own hands for boy

The outfit of a tropical bird will suit not only the girl. It can also be sewn for the little boy. Coping with this task will be much easier if you have shorts and a long-sleeved shirt with bright colors at hand.

To make the easiest parrot suit with your own hands, it's enough to sew a cloak. It should resemble the shape of the wings and tail and be fixed on the back with the help of rubber rings worn on the wrists and shoulders.

To produce it, you should:

• Cut out of paper two semicircles with a diameter with a child's arms length and a figure in the shape of carrots;
• Fold the base fabric twice and, using patterns, apply the contours of the wings and tail to it;
• Cut out all the details, connect them in two, stitch it and turn it inside out;
• Draw a piece of paper in the form of a pen with a truncated end;
• Transfer the contour to the fabric and cut out so many details that you can sew the entire edge of the wings and torso of the parrot along with the tail;
• Decorate the cloak with feathers, preferably in 3 rows;
• Fix the rings of rubber bands in the right places (at the end of the wings and at the point of their connection with the trunk).

Cap

If you are going to make a parrot costume with your own hands, the photo of which is presented above, you will need to sew a beak with a beak. To do this, you need to cut out an oval from a knitted or other stretchable fabric, the width of the narrow part of which will be equal to the semicircle of the baby's head. The length is calculated by the formula: (width plus 10 cm) x 2. It is cut into two halves and stitched. In the upper part, it is stretched perpendicular to the main seam to make a cap. Turn out the headgear and process the lower edge, tucking it inward.

Further, the beak is made. For this, a shape of the desired shape is cut from the paper. Transfer it to paper and cut out two pieces of folded fabric. Sew them together, turn them around and stuff them with, for example, a sintepon. Attach the beak to the cap. Glue the eyes. If there is a desire, they complement the headdress with feathers.

Parrot costume for the baby: option 1

Who said that children who by virtue of their age do not go to kindergarten can not take part in the New Year's carnival? The baby is perfectly suited colorful parrot costume. With your own hands it can be made from a bright-colored jacket with a hood. For this you need:

• Cut stripes of different colors 15 cm wide (from the old clothes or from Foamiran rolls) (in the latter case, you do not have to process slices);
• Cut out of them at equal distance the same triangles, so as to imitate feathers;
• Sew them along the side seams of the jacket and sleeves;
• Cut out the fabric of the tail;
• Fasten on it multi-colored feathers;
• Sew the tail to the jacket behind;
• Paste large eyes on the hood;
• Make a beak, as described above;
• Sew it to the hood;
• Complement the jacket with brightly colored trousers.

If the jacket is without a hood, then you can make a hat from a children's baseball cap. Her visor is dyed in a bright color. Glue the eyes, and on the vertex, fix the sultan with feathers.

Suit for the baby: option 2

If in the house there is an old sweatshirt of an older child of green, yellow, blue or red color, then it can be used to make a baby's costume. For this it is sufficient:

• Make the bottom of the kuliska (if it is not) and pass the gum;
• From strips of shiny cloth of the same width 3-4 bright colors triangles are cut out;
• Sew them along the side seams (see photo);
• On the hood make the edge of the kuliska (if absent);
• Pass the braid or gum;
• To the seam that connects the hood with the sweatshirt, sew "feathers" cut from the fabric, the same as that used for the design of the side seams;
• Produce a beak of yellow color;
• Sew it to the hood;
• Stick to it a tuft.

The costume of the parrot is supplemented with bright monophonic tights. You can replace them with tight trousers, preferably red.

Now you know how to make a parrot suit with your own hands, and you will be able to make an original and bright outfit for your daughter or son.