When preparing for holidays or children's parties, difficulties always arise in choosing and creating a suitable costume. It is especially difficult to choose an image for a girl. Young fashionistas want to look beautiful and magical. Therefore, you need to thoroughly think through all the details of the costume and make a real masterpiece.
Recently, stores have been pleasing with their assortment, but the prices for suits are too high. And the quality sometimes leaves much to be desired.
Therefore, we suggest you make your own costumes. For girls, an excellent option would be the image of a strawberry, similar to the one used in the well-known orchard advertisement.
How to make a strawberry costume
To create the desired look First of all, you need to imagine the future costume itself.
Required measurements
After this, it is necessary to take the basic measurements according to which the pattern will be built.
- Child's height.
- Waist circumference and length of the skirt if you want to use it as a base.
- Arm length. We will need it to create leaves and greenery.
- To sew a hat you need to know the size of your head.
After measurements, you should create all the necessary patterns using a pencil on graph paper. Then cut the fabric and sew all the parts. To complete the look, you can use additional jewelry and decorative inserts.
IMPORTANT! Don't make the base too big and heavy! It is necessary to evenly distribute the weight and load so that the girl can feel comfortable and move freely.
Color spectrum
For a complete understanding, you can remember the appearance of the berries by looking at them in nature, if possible. Another option is to find a photo on the Internet.
The main colors that are characteristic of strawberries are various shades of red and yellow. But don’t forget about the bush and flowers. To surround the berries, you can use leaves of different sizes and stems; green is used for them. But for flowers, white petals and yellow cores are suitable.
This image will be very similar to real strawberries from the garden.
IMPORTANT! You should not deviate from the basic range; the image should look natural and natural.
Costume base options
Your main tool will be imagination and creativity. We will only suggest a few basic directions for making an outfit.
- Decide on the appearance. Consider options for the location of the base. The berry can be on the waist, in the form of a skirt, or simply decorate the child’s head.
- The easiest way is to decorate your head with a hat in the shape of a strawberry and additional leaves on your hands.
- An interesting option would be a red skirt with white splashes and fabric decoration in the form of green leaves and grass.
- The most complex will be the image of a berry made of foam rubber.. This suit is made round and put on the body. It looks very interesting and looks like a real big strawberry.
Based on the time and amount of material, you can choose one of the proposed images. Purchase the necessary materials and prepare the tools in advance, after which you can start working.
Decorating the base
If you have decided on the choice of the main part, you can start decorating it. Details are important in every costume; they fill the image and give it expressiveness and beauty..
- For decoration you can use paints and draw a plant pattern on the fabric.
- Another good way would be skirt decoration with white beads. You will get white grains, which are found in strawberries.
- Attach leaves from green fabric to your hands. And on your shoulders you can hang homemade white flowers that are found on bushes in the garden.
Headdress
The hat is a very important element in the costume.
You can make it as a top made of red material or as green petals at the base of the berry.
- Take a ready-made knitted hat or sew it yourself from thick red fabric.
- Glue green fabric or cardboard on top.
- Decorate the hat with green rounded antennae made from wire.
- If you have the desire and opportunity, you can create a fluffy round hat stuffed with cotton wool or foam rubber. This will create an unusual effect and decorate the costume.
Attributes and decorations
If you want to add additional decorations, you can use the following techniques.
- The bottom of the product can be painted to look like a basket or basket.
- Can pick up a small basket, as if the strawberry itself went to collect the harvest.
- To create the impression of living nature, attach butterflies, caterpillars or birds throughout the body. For example, you can hang a toy bee on flowers.
- Shoes should be spacious and comfortable, they should also be covered with small flowers.
Create a costume together with your daughter and ask her what jewelry is best to use. Become a real sorceress for your child and present a wonderful image for the holiday.
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