How to make a primitive man's suit with your own hands

What do people know about primitive man? In fact - quite a bit. It is known that he lived in caves, hunted mammoths, used a club as a weapon, and dressed in the skins of killed animals.

Having even such scrappy knowledge about the first people, you can make an excellent costume of a primitive man with your own hands. A child in a kindergarten, on a holiday, at a performance in school or performing in a theater - the outfit will suit any thematic event.

Parts of the costume

How to make a primitive man's costume? Before you start assembling the outfit, you need to decide what the costume will consist of.

The clothes of cavemen were plain - ragged skins with uneven edges, roughly smeared with pieces of leather or veins or belted with leather thread. They replaced and pajamas, and "business outfit", and evening dress. At a very cold time of the year, another hide could be stored, which was used as a cloak or cape.

Ornaments were the same for all - the bones of animals that were tied to the hair or threaded on the thread, like beads. Bones could adorn the belt.

As additional accessories used bandages on the forearms and lower legs.

The most important attribute is a club. Both women and men had it. The difference was only in the amount of weapons - men, as more powerful members of the tribe, relied on a club more than a woman. Consequently, the costume of primitive man for the boy and for the girl is the same, only the baton will be of different sizes.

Hair is the final part of the outfit. Soap and shampoo were not yet known to our ancestors, respectively, the hair on the head was remotely similar to a neat modern styling. To create a full-fledged image, you will need a wig.

So, the costume will consist of:

• Basic clothing;
• Capes;
• Belt and ornaments;
• Truncheons;
• A wig;
• Bandages.

Basic clothes

Our ancestors were dressed in the skins of the animals they had caught. Therefore, the color should match and be similar to the natural skin or fur. For this purpose, a fabric of any quality is suitable. Color brown, leopard or brindle. Do not choose in favor of shiny fabrics, they are not very appropriate for this purpose. But felt, velor, artificial suede - the very thing.

Models can be different. The most simple variant is a winding with a knot on one shoulder.

It will take about 1.5 fabrics to work.

The material is folded in half, resulting in a rectangle. On the side where the fold, the middle is projected. You can do it by sight; The costume should not be ideal and symmetrical: primitive people were far from high fashion. Also the middle is also on the long side of the rectangle. Points join together, and the fabric is cut off. It turns out that a triangle was cut from a large rectangle.

Where the fabric on the fold remains connected, there will be a shoulder. The side that has become short, you need to sew with a classic thread with a needle. And you can soriginalnichat, combining parts of the outfit with the help of rough stitches. For the second option, you need to manicure scissors to make holes in the fabric on both sides, and then thread for knitting a suitable color or a thin cord to connect the halves together. You can do it crosswise - like lacing at sneakers, and you can - pass through each hole. Which way to choose - depends only on the imagination of the master.

A simple option

The second option is the simplest. In the cut of fabric folded in half, a hole for the head is cut from the side of the fold in the middle. You do not need to sew anything: clothes are girded - and that's all. The costume of primitive man for the boy with his own hands can be considered almost ready!

Well, the option for the summer cavemen is a loincloth. A piece of cloth is cut into strips of different widths. The main strip, equal to the girth of the thighs, acts as a base, the rest of the flaps are hung on it.

Cape

The cloak is made of the same fabric as the main part. But you can choose any other texture, the best material is dense.

For the cape, you can do the holes in the upper part of the fabric, thread the cord in them and tie it around your neck with a cord. The easier option is to tie the two ends of the cape with a knot and tuck it over your head.

Belt & Ornaments

The primitive man's costume is decorated with natural materials - bones and bandages.

To make bandages on the hands and feet, you need to cut 4 strips of tissue, 2 of which are equal to the forearm circumference above the elbow, and 2 others - the girth of the leg below the knee.

Strips of fabric are hung on the same principle as for the loincloth. This decoration is tied to a knot directly on the arm or leg.

The primitive man's costume is adorned with bones. You can make them easily yourself from polymer clay. Also, such accessories are sold in shops for needlework - beads in the form of bones, teeth can be easily threaded and convenient to use.

Polymeric clay of white color, previously mashed in the hands, is made by fangs of animals or bones. After heat treatment (the rules for working with clay are written on the packs of producers) in each workpiece holes are made, then the resulting parts are threaded onto a string or strip of skin. Such decorations can be strung on the ends of strips, of which a loincloth for hands and feet is made.

A caveman is often depicted with a bone in his hair. In order to make such an ornament for the boy, you will have to stock up a hair hoop and a gun with glue or a long thread. A drop of glue is applied to the hoop and a large bone is attached. A thread this accessory can simply be strongly tied. The bone that is tied directly to the hair will look best, but this requires skill, since the boys usually have short hair.

Wig

The costume of a primitive man completes the hat. A wig with matted hair is easiest to buy in a specialized store. Independently to make such an accessory is not more difficult than to tie a knot on a bandage.

From the hoop and a bunch of wool for felting, you can make an excellent dummy hair. Need to be strands of brown wool neatly glued to the hoop in several layers. The workpiece is decorated with a bone, which is tied to strands exactly in the center.