New Year's costume for children

In fact, making a New Year's costume of a snake with your own hands is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. No one really needs to accurately reproduce the appearance of a scaly reptile, The main thing - that the image was recognizable.

As the basis for the costume is best to taketight overalls or leotards. You can buy already ready, but you can sew yourself. It is best to use stretch fabrics on a knitted fabric. Ideal, of course, will be material with a "snake" pattern, but if you can not find it, you can monochrome overall with beads or paillettes for imitation of snake skin. The preferred colors of the fabric are green, gray, sandy-brown.

If the New Year costume of a snake is for a girl, you can use as a base for a suit not a coverall, but a straight dress of the right color. Wherein in front the hem of the dress should be shortened, and in the back - elongated, imitating the tail of a snake.

Completion of the costume will be headwear. There are several options. The easiest way is to take the usual hat and sew a soft toy in the form of a snake to it. This option is well suited for younger children, and if the costume is for an older girl, you can take a hair ring, and attach a homemade cobra with a swollen hood to it (it's easiest to draw it on cardboard, paint and cut).

But for greater similarity we advise Hook the hood using any available pattern. At the top of the hood you need to sewtriangles of white felt - this will be the teeth of a snake. From red felt cut out a forked tongue and also sew it to the top of the hood. Do not forget to sew your eyes to the hood or embroider them. The tongue and the eyes are attached to the hood when it is put on the child, so you can more precisely place them on the spot.

You can make a hood with a tail. The easiest way to make a tail in the form of a long strip of tissue, tapering downwards, which will lie on your back. But it will be more interesting to look the voluminous tail; For this edge, the strips of fabric need to be sewn and the tail be filled with a sintepon or any other filler. By the way, The snake tail can be sewn separately and fastened at waist level, instead of making it a part of the hood.

If you are tight with sewing, you can for a snake suit to use a ready-made blouse with a hood, to which you only need to sew your teeth, tongue andeyes. As the bottom of the suit you can use leggings or straight trousers (jeans). You just need to embroider a suit with paillettes or beads to simulate snake skin.

You can also make New Year's costume snakes as follows. You need separately sew a long snake from the fabric and fill it with filler (you can buy a ready toy in the form of a snake, butsuch large soft toys usually cost a lot). The child puts on the basis for the costume (dress, overalls, trousers and t-shirt / turtleneck, etc.), then you spiral around the snake around him, placing the snake's head on your shoulder, and fix it with imperceptible stitches. It is important to make sure that the costume does not constrain the movements of the child.

To make a New Year's costume of a snake from improvised materials is not so difficult as it seems, the main thing - to show imagination and ingenuity. Usually, a few recognizable details (bifurcated tongue, tail, imitation of scales) are enough to make a wonderful carnival costume of a snake.