DIY autumn costume for a girl

The need for a carnival costume for a child most often appears in the autumn-winter period, when holidays - matinees - are held in kindergartens, other preschool educational institutions, schools and development circles. If a girl prefers the “Golden Miss Autumn” costume, you can make it yourself, based on the instructions and photos.

Features of creating an autumn costume

Each of the matinees, depending on which of the autumn or winter months it is held, has a specific focus:

• the period from September to November is characterized by an autumn theme - harvesting and the glorification of autumn as the queen of fertility;
• the period from December to February is associated with the New Year and Christmas holidays.

As on the New Year, during autumn matinees, kindergarten teachers and school teachers organize carnival performances to interest children.Children themselves take part in such performances. A certain number of characters are selected for a fictional fairy tale story, the number of which depends on the number of children attending kindergarten. Boys often play the roles of hedgehogs, bunnies, mushrooms and wolves. The girls portray squirrels, foxes and, of course, the most important role - the Queen of Autumn.

The parents of a girl who is lucky enough to play the main role at the matinee will have to make a lot of efforts to ensure that the child’s appearance fully corresponds to the theme of the upcoming performance. The main component of the Autumn look for a children's party is, of course, a suit.

Today there is a huge selection of ready-made carnival costumes that you can buy or rent for a certain time. In both the first and second cases, for a small dress or suit and the accessories that come with it, you will have to pay a considerable amount of money. Even if you rent a costume for half the price, you cannot be completely sure that a child who is playing too hard will not ruin it, which is why you will have to pay the full amount for the outfit.

Making carnival costumes for children with your own hands is easier, more enjoyable and cheaper. The following facts confirm this:

• Parents can create an Autumn costume for a girl from any material at hand, purchasing only a few cheap accessories and decorations;
• If your child has a dress that matches the color and type, you can simply decorate it with leaves and flowers cut out of shiny cardboard - and the themed outfit will be ready;
• You can involve your child in creating a costume, which will help develop his creative abilities and strengthen family relationships;
• By making the costume themselves, parents do not have to worry that someone else at the party will have the same outfit as their daughter or son.

Important! Autumn costumes for girls and boys have fundamental differences. For boys, the basic basis of the look is trousers, shorts and a shirt (polo, T-shirt), caps (caps, hats). For little beauties, a dress or skirt is chosen as the basis of the costume.

How to make a simple DIY fall costume

If parents find out that their child needs an Autumn costume for a matinee on the eve of the party, there is little time left for making complex outfits. Be that as it may, the lack of a costume should not be the reason that the child will miss the holiday and the mother has to use her imagination and apply her design skills in creating a suitable outfit from scrap items.

To create a simple costume you will need:

1. Basic clothing. The basic clothing from which the costume will be created can be a dress, skirt with a turtleneck or T-shirt in red, yellow, brown or bronze shades. It will be good if the clothes have a themed print (leaves, twigs, berries) or trim made of shiny, iridescent fabrics;
2. Twigs and leaves. They are used for decorating and finishing a suit;
3. Accessories. If you don’t have time to sew an outfit, you can quickly decorate a suit with beautiful buttons, scraps of shiny brocade or organza, laces and beads - everything you have at home;
4. Head decoration. A suitable headdress should complete the look of the Autumn Queen. It could be a hoop, crown, hat or veil.They should be decorated accordingly - with autumn leaves, berries, pine cones cut out of colored paper (cardboard), wild mushrooms;
5. Tools. To create a costume you will need sewing (needle, thread, scissors) and stationery (PVA glue, colored paper and cardboard, pencil) supplies, and a glue gun.

To create a simple Autumn costume for a girl, they use ideas of ready-made images taken from the Internet. If this is not possible, you will have to use your imagination and ingenuity.

After you have chosen a suitable basic outfit - a dress or a skirt with a “top”, you need to think about how to decorate them in such a way that when you look at the finished work, it is immediately clear that this is an Autumn costume. The most impressive decor is natural leaves, twigs, and rowan berries, sewn or glued onto fabric. They need to be attached in such a way that they do not interfere or fly off when moving. Natural decor is used to trim the hem of a skirt or dress, sleeves and collars of turtlenecks, and lay out a beautiful ornament on the chest or back.

If jewelry made from natural materials is not enough, you can complement the look with beads and ribbons, which are attached to seemingly “empty” parts of the fabric. This decor is sewn on with thread or “set” on glue using a heating gun.

The headdress for the Autumn Queen is decorated in the same style as the main outfit. The finished hoop is decorated with natural rowan leaves or bunches. A crown twisted from thick wire can be trimmed with shiny brocade or organza, and several yellow-red beads and bright satin or silk ribbons can be sewn onto it, which will fall over the shoulders and hair.

Don't forget about shoes for the Autumn beauty.Light shoes or shoes, decorated with a scattering of golden sequins and natural or artificial maple leaves, will perfectly complete and complement the look. Tights or knee socks are selected to match the dress; they can be made of thin nylon or microfiber with a density of 40-60 denier.

We create a carnival autumn costume for a girl with our own hands

Girls participating in the festival dedicated to Autumn do not always get the main roles. There is no need to be upset about this; parental ingenuity and inspiration can even turn you into a princess:

1. Tuchka. The main element of the cloud's costume is a wide-brimmed hat, which must be covered on all sides with blue-painted holofiber (medical cotton wool). The more flakes on the hat, the more magnificent and rich it looks. Droplets cut out of felt or cardboard, or threads of blue beads or large beads, are sewn to the lower parts of the headdress. The lower part of the costume is a cape made of blue or light blue satin, decorated with the same decor as the hat (droplets, beads, beaded threads);
2. Fungus. Boletuses and boletuses are frequently encountered characters in children's matinees. Don’t think that this is an exclusively boyish image; girls also quite often have to play one or another mushroom. The main element of the costume is the headdress - the hat. Making it yourself without certain skills is quite difficult. The simplest option is a color image on cardboard attached to the hair. A more complex option is a circle cut out of fabric of a suitable color (red for fly agarics, red for chanterelles), which needs to be stuffed with cotton wool and sewn on both sides to form a hat.The bottom of the suit can be as simple as the mushroom leg itself - a white turtleneck and a white skirt with tights. In this version, the main thing is to place the main emphasis on the hat and decorate it with various elements - leaves, rowan berries, beads and shiny stones reminiscent of dew drops;
3. Vegetable. Autumn vegetables such as pumpkin, tomato, eggplant and cabbage are “frequent guests” at children's parties. It is very simple to sew such a suit - a fluffy skirt is assembled from pieces of tulle of the desired color, which is put on over a matching golf shirt or t-shirt. A hoop decorated with a figurine of a vegetable, sewn from felt and beads, is put on the head.

DIY “Beauty Autumn” outfit

For mothers who know how to handle sewing supplies and know what a pattern is, the following option for creating a costume for an autumn festival in kindergarten or school will be useful. To work you will need:

• any loose fabric for a dress in light brown, yellow or red tones - 1.5 meters for the skirt and 0.8 meters for the top;
• shiny organza or any other fabric with shimmer;
• glue gun;
• pattern paper;
• a piece of dry toilet soap;
• artificial or real maple leaves, which are pre-coated on both sides with paraffin or varnish for durability;
• beads, ribbons or sequins for decoration;
• a piece of thick soft wire.

The first step in the work is preparing the pattern. A diagram is drawn on paper, which is then cut out and applied to the fabric. Using soap, the contours of the pattern are traced over the material and the parts necessary to create the costume are cut out - the front and back of the jacket, sleeves and skirt.

Next, the back and chest are sewn together, and organza sleeves are sewn to them.After the sleeves are sewn on, their edges are cut diagonally and cut into thin fringe-like strips or zigzag stitched to create a “wave” effect.

A skirt cut according to the sun-flared principle is sewn to the upper part. The edges of the skirt are processed in the same way as the sleeves - cut into fringes or trimmed with a zigzag.

One or two layers of organza are sewn on top of a thick petticoat, which gives the outfit more airiness and solemnity. Maple leaves are glued on top of the shiny material, mixed with other decor available at hand.

The crown for the Autumn Beauty is made from wire, which is pasted over with the remnants of the fabric from the dress on all sides. For convenience, the crown is placed on the floor of the head in front, and on the other side a thin elastic band is attached to match the hair. The crown is decorated with artificial or natural dried maple leaves, which are glued to a wire base using a glue gun.

Accessories and additions to complete the look

The following accessories can complement the “Autumn Beauty” look:

1. Umbrella. It’s hard to imagine autumn without rain, so a girl in an appropriate costume just needs a small umbrella to complete the look. The accessory can be red, yellow or completely transparent. The main thing is that it does not have a pattern or ornament that is inappropriate in style;
2. Bouquet. A small bouquet consisting of wildflowers, ears of wheat and rye, decorated with grape leaves will emphasize that autumn is harvest time;
3. Basket. A small basket made of vines filled with apples, mushrooms, berries and grapes will perform the same role as a bouquet - it will show that it is in the fall that people reap the fruits of their work spent in the hot summer.

Parents who are preparing their child for an autumn or any other matinee should take into account that the selection of a carnival costume must be approached with all responsibility. Despite the fact that the child will have to wear it, the outfit must be chosen with taste and a sense of proportion. There is no need to overload the dress with unnecessary and bulky accessories and sew New Year’s “rain” on it.