The apple costume is an original masquerade outfit for the holiday. It is suitable for both girls and boys.
All the materials necessary for the “apple” carnival outfit are easy to obtain, and such a costume can be sewn with your own hands in just one or two evenings.
What will you need to create a children's "Apple" costume?
To make an apple dress, you need to purchase the following tools:
- Yellow, light green or red fabric, a combination of all three shades will look beautiful, but you can also use one color of the fabric. Iridescent fabric, such as crepe-satin, looks very bright and festive.
- Suit pattern from the Internet.
- Scissors.
- Paper, cardboard for patterns.
- Pencil and chalk.
- Pins and needle and thread.
- Sewing machine.
For that to make a pattern you will need children's things: a T-shirt, a T-shirt, shorts and a skirt, depending on who the outfit is being sewn for - a boy or a girl.But if you have ready-made things in the appropriate shades, then you can simply decorate them in the “apple” style using paper apples and leaves attached to things.
Baby outfit
It’s very easy to create such a costume for a small child; he will look very cute in it. Take a red or yellow bodysuit, or sew it according to a ready-made pattern using the dimensions of your baby. A green cap is suitable as a hat.
Sew leaves from emerald-colored fabric and attach them to the hat and body of the apple-shaped sticker. You can cut an apple from the remaining fabric and sew it on the front of the bodysuit. In such an outfit, the baby will not be too hot, and he will look unusual and playful.
Important! If the suit with bodysuit is very simple, then you can sew an apple outfit using a jumpsuit or sew it yourself using a pattern.
Model of a costume for a girl with step-by-step instructions
A masquerade costume for a girl in the shape of a cheerful apple will become a holiday decoration. IN The child’s ready-made clothes, namely a dress, are suitable as the basis for the pattern. Buy yellow fabric the length of the girl's original dress. Fold a piece of fabric so that on both sides you get two-layer parts along with folds.
Carefully place the front and back pieces along the folds of the fabric and cut out the resulting pieces. Sew “apple” sleeves from scarlet fabric to decorate the dress. From a fabric of a soft green shade, cut out a collar and a thin strip for a frill on the bottom of the suit, its length depends on the openwork of the hem.
Important! Instead of a hat, it is better to use a paper crown with the image of an apple; tights and shoes should match the dress.
Variant of the “Apple” costume for a boy
There is also a version of this costume for a boy. It will additionally include a red vest. It is also sewn according to a pattern from the child’s ready-made clothes. The vest is easily cut from two identical parts; a button or zipper is sewn on the front; instead, you can make a belt from the same fabric to tighten the suit at the waist according to the figure.
Any hat will do, but green or red, or sew from two semicircles cut from fabric, carefully folding the edges.
All that remains is to decorate the outfit with leaves and apples from the same fabric.
Important! The vest can be worn over a white or any other light-colored shirt.
Master class on making a hat for an outfit:
Choose a canvas of a light green shade of about a meter, it is better to take with reserve, a ribbon, two ribbons in green and brown shades, stickers or drawn images in the form of apples of different sizes, matching threads, needles, scissors and chalk.
If you don’t feel like sewing a vest or don’t have time, then you should buy ready-made trousers and a turtleneck or jumper in green tones.
Measure the circumference of the boy's head with a tape, for example, 53 cm and add a couple of cm to this measurement for seam allowances:
- Cut out a rectangle of the required length from the green canvas.
- It is advisable to make the height of such a rectangle larger and trim the edges with a lighter, otherwise the canvas may come apart.
- Fold the bottom edge of the product and carefully hem it; an elastic band will be inserted there.
- Assemble the fabric with an elastic band.
- Trim and hem the edges to the elastic.
- Fold the fabric in half and sew from the inside out.
- Place it on the boy's head and tie the edges at the top with a regular hair tie.
- The tip can be slightly twisted, then folded in half and secured with matching threads.
- Using a dark brown satin or satin ribbon, twist the green edges at the top of the cap, fasten with thread or regular glue, the seam should not be visible.
- For a leaf, you need to draw an outline from the inside out on a dark green satin ribbon and cut it out, using matches or a lighter to go along the edges.
The hat is ready!
Paper model
If you don’t have any time for sewing, you can make an outfit out of paper. You will need cardboard or paper of bright colors, a pencil, scissors, paints with a brush and glue.
Master class on making a costume:
- Cut out the shape of an apple from colored cardboard or paper; if you don’t have colored paper, you can paint plain paper with paints.
- Cut out or decorate the apple leaves; you will need to make 4 of them.
- For the hat, you need to roll brown paper into a cylinder and glue it together.
- Make a belt from ribbon and hang apple figures on it; by the way, you can also make a strip of paper with an apple in the middle on your head.
Making an apple costume is not at all difficult; there are simpler options for those who do not have the time and sewing skills. You can take more complex options for those who do handicrafts.
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