A chicken costume may be needed both for a New Year's party and for a real role in a play where your child is participating. Is it worth spending money on a ready-made outfit if you can sew it yourself? Any mother can easily cope with this task, and besides, you can take into account all the girl’s wishes and make the costume perfect.
What will you need for work? How to make a costume correctly?
Necessary materials for a “Chicken” costume for a girl
An important point in tailoring a suit is always the color scheme. Remember that you will need a lot of fabric in bright, sunny shades: yellow and orange.
The necessary materials will probably be found in every family’s home, and what is missing can be purchased additionally in a special store.
The “Chicken” costume does not require any special skills or abilities, nor does it require a large amount of raw materials.
You can make a chicken costume for a matinee with your own hands.
For sewing you will need:
- yellow, red and orange fabric;
- sewing machine;
- sewing supplies;
- rubber;
- feathers or other decorative elements.
When everything you need is available, you can start working.
Step by step we sew a New Year's children's costume “Chicken”
The outfit will consist of three parts: a semi-sun skirt, a T-shirt and a headdress.
Important! Be careful when calculating sizes. New Year is an amazing holiday, so the child will probably experience a lot of emotions and behave very actively, as well as participate in competitions, dances and other entertainment. That is why it is so important that the suit is comfortable for him, does not pinch or fall down anywhere.
Half-sun skirt
This element of the costume will consist of a half-sun skirt and parts for a belt. The first step is to sew the parts along the side edges, and then fold the two strips face down and stitch along the length, leaving an allowance. Then unfold and be sure to iron the seam.
Then the edges of the waistband are aligned and the side cuts are aligned. For convenience, you can pin the fabric with pins so that nothing moves while working.
Now turn the waistband inside out, fold it and sew the remaining seams. The final touch will be the overlock processing, which will allow the product to look beautiful and neat.
Invite the girl to watch the work - this way she can learn something new and become interested in sewing. And the New Year, which receives so much attention and effort, will become her favorite holiday.
Mike
The upper part of the outfit can be decorated in a special way, making it look like feathers.
Before this, sew a regular T-shirt according to any pattern that suits your daughter’s size, and then start decorating. You will need several garbage bags, white and black.Cut some of them into thin ribbons in the form of a fringe and stick them on the base of the whole bag. Attach the resulting cape to the T-shirt.
Such an elegant chicken will surely attract attention at the holiday and will be the most beautiful among other children.
Headdress
The last element will be the headdress. With its help, it will become clear to everyone around who exactly the child is portraying.
Making such a hat is not difficult - you will need yellow and red fabric, padding polyester for the scallop and beak. The beak is best attached to the cap in the forehead area.
If necessary, insert an elastic band so that the headdress does not fall off the head and is as comfortable as possible.
Important! Synthetic fabrics are best used together with a lining made of some other material, for example, cotton.
In this way, you can make a beautiful, comfortable and budget-friendly version of the “Chicken” costume, so that the holiday will forever remain in the baby’s memory and give only pleasant impressions! Remember that the attention and time you devote to your child, creating a costume with him, is the best gift.