Everyone dreams of meeting a fairy-tale character who can fulfill any, even the most cherished, desire. Nobody knows whether they really exist or not, but if you look into a kindergarten or school during matinees, you can easily meet many wizards and sorceresses. When preparing their children for matinees, parents sew them wonderful outfits that allow them to get into character as much as possible. One of the most common and difficult costumes to make is the goldfish costume. It is recommended to carefully study the recommendations and photos before starting work.
How to make a goldfish costume for a girl with your own hands
With the character of the fairy tale “About the Fisherman and the Fish” A.S. Children meet Pushkin at a very young age. The little sorceress can also be found in modern cartoons “Masha and the Bear”, “Vovka in the Far Away Kingdom” and other television programs and films created for children.
A goldfish can fulfill only three wishes of the person who caught it, and the main wish of the parents, who are racking their brains over how to make a costume for the girl with their own hands, a dress with a tail and scales, would be the most important. The easiest and fastest way to create a costume is considered to be a dress trimmed with scales of shiny fabric. To work you will need:
- dress (yellow, red);
- organza or taffeta to match the dress;
- hair hoop;
- yellow or orange felt;
- glue gun, glue;
- scissors;
- sewing supplies;
- pencil and sheet of paper.
Step-by-step instruction:
- As the basis for a children's goldfish costume, you can take any suitable size dress or sundress. If you don’t have a dress, you can take a yellow skirt and long sleeve golf.
- After a suitable base has been found, it is necessary to make blanks for the scales. Organza or taffeta, yellow or orange with tints, is best suited for scales. Round or oval scales of two to three sizes are drawn on paper and used later as a stencil.
- As soon as the required number of scales have been prepared, they begin to be attached to the fabric of the dress. This is done with a needle and thread. Sew on the shiny elements completely, or leave the lower part of the circle unfastened.
- If there is an excess of shiny fabric, you can make a tail from it. To do this, a wide and long piece of organza is gathered at one end and left open at the other. The gathered edge is sewn onto a wide elastic band and worn over the dress.
- A headdress for a goldfish can be easily made from a crown cut out of felt using a stencil.The two halves of the crown are cut out of orange felt and sewn together, filling the space between the fabric a little with padding polyester or cotton wool. For decoration, beads, rhinestones or shiny sequins are sewn onto it. The felt crown is attached to the hoop using a glue gun.
- On the girl’s feet you can put on golden tights with lurex and put on yellow shoes or sandals.
Step-by-step instructions for creating an adult goldfish costume
The role of the magic fish at the New Year's party can go not only to the child, but also to one of the teachers. You can create a costume for an adult, just like you can for a child, using a tight-fitting dress of golden or yellow-orange color with 3/4 sleeves as a basis.
The step-by-step manufacturing process looks like this:
- On the front side of the finished dress, wavy lines are drawn with a dried piece of soap, which will later become scales.
- The second stage is the patch of shiny gold sequins and stripes drawn with chalk.
- The collar and sleeves of the dress are also trimmed with several rows of shiny sequins. To achieve maximum resemblance to a fairy-tale character, several layers of shiny organza are sewn onto the sleeves, which will act as fins.
- Several layers of organza or taffeta are sewn to the bottom of the dress, imitating a fish tail.
- A crown made of felt and attached to hairpins is used as a headdress. For greater similarity, two layers of organza are sewn to the bottom of the crown in the manner of a wedding veil.
- An adult “fish” can wear golden high-heeled shoes on his feet.
Additional accessories for the goldfish costume
In addition to the shiny fabric of the fins and a scattering of sequins on the crown and main dress, the goldfish costume can be further decorated with:
- Small shells.Seashells brought from a summer vacation at sea can be glued onto a carnival costume. You can decorate a hat, a crown, or make an applique out of shells on the chest of the dress. You can attach a light shell using glue melted with a glue gun.
- Markers or fabric paints. Multi-colored markers and paints will help you add fancy patterns to your costume.
Advice! To make the outfit much more interesting and elegant, you can decorate it with shiny gold or silver felt-tip pens.
When starting to make your own carnival costume for a child or adult, it is important to remember that the outfit should, first of all, be comfortable. When making an outfit for a child, you should try to use as little synthetic fabric and poorly secured decorative elements as possible.
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