How to Make a Skoomer Costume
If you have children from kindergarten or early childhoodschool age, the approach of New Year's holidays becomes an occasion to think about how to dress up a child for a morning performance. Naturally, the suit of almost any fairy-tale character can easily be purchased in a store or ordered on a site. But you will agree, such a costume costs money, and a child can wear it no more than 1-2 times. In addition, to create something with their own hands is not only cheaper, but also more pleasant. In this article we will tell you how to make a buffoon costume for a child for the New Year.
A couple of tips
Before you get started, talk tohis child about the costume. Find out how he wants to see him, specify the details. Only after completely coordinating the dress style with the child, proceed to sewing.
Beauty is beauty, but convenience should not be forgotten. The costume should be comfortable, do not restrain movements, do not rub anywhere, do not prick or scratch. Only in this case your child will spend a solemn day with pleasure.
We sew the costume of a buffoon with our own hands
Required tools and materialsany work should acquire all the necessary. Below is a list of what you might need when creating a dress. Some details you can naturally add on your own. It can be, for example, a variety of accessories for decoration.
So, you need the following:
matter of two different colors. Shades are better to choose contrasting, but the structure of the material should be the same. Optimum for a buffoon suit suits silk or satin, but you can use other fabrics
a piece of white calico. From it you will need to sew the lining for the hood
scissors
threads and needles
underwear
zipper or buttons
other fittings at your discretion
The process of sewing a buffoonie costume
If you have prepared everything you need, you can proceed directly to the process of creating a dress. Let's consider all stages of work:
First of all, you need to make a pattern of the futurecostume buffoon. In our case, the outfit is a one-piece overall, but you can at your discretion slightly change the style and sew a shirt and pants separately. So, remove from your child all the necessary measurements and put them on paper. Draw a pattern. After that, transfer the pattern to the fabric and cut out the part from the material. Teach that the fragments of the future costume should take into account the allowance of a couple of centimeters to create seams. When the parts are ready, join them and stitch them, then trim the throat with the oblique bake. After that, sew a zipper or buttons in the overalls, cuffs of sleeves and the bottom of each of the pants, tuck and sew, leaving a small gap. Through the resulting hole, insert the elastic bands, pull them together and tie them.
After preparing the buffoon jumpsuit, proceed to thecollar. In our case, the collar is made in the form of two semicircles of different colors. The pattern of this detail is not anything complicated. Cut out the necessary parts from the fabric and sew them together.
To give the collar a splendor, make small creases. To do this, simply pull the thread from the seam at one end.
Sew a detail to the overalls. On this, the main part of the buffoon suit is ready.
Now you need to sew a cap of a fairy-tale hero. To do this, remove the measurements from the child's head and make a pattern.
Transfer the pattern to a white fabric and cut the inner lining.
Of color matter just dothe necessary parts, connect them together, sew to the lining and turn the cap outward. You can decorate the bell with ringing bells. The headscarf's headpiece is ready.
As a shoe to such a suit may suitbast shoes. Find them on sale now is almost impossible, so try to connect something like a crochet or knitting needles. The technique of knitting bast shoes you can look at the video:
In this article, we told you how to sew a skomorok costume for a New Year's party to your child. If you decide to dress up your son with this fairy-tale hero, we hope that our article will be useful to you.
