Cape bird costume. Do-it-yourself Firebird costume for a girl: patterns, materials, instructions. Sketch and color scheme of the costume

Do-it-yourself titmouse costume for a girl is a great alternative to more common carnival children's looks. The titmouse bird is elegant and bright - in a yellow-blue dress, with wings and in a bird mask. In this outfit, your baby will definitely not go unnoticed.

Choosing materials

The materials you use for your titmouse costume will determine the final look and feel of the costume. Outfits made of poor synthetic fabric are cheap, but they stick to the legs, become electrified and can irritate the child's skin. Then, instead of joy, he will receive continuous grief from the holiday.

For the breast of a titmouse, you can use plush or fleece that imitates short plumage; elegant organza or tulle is suitable for a skirt. Wings and a mask are perfectly obtained from dense, bright and well-shaped felt. You may also need thick cardboard from which to make your bird's beak.

As for the shades, let's pay attention to the titmouse in nature - this bird has a yellow belly and a "tie", a head and wings of black, shimmering blue. Therefore, the titmouse costume will resemble a real bird, if you take the main outfit in yellow, a dress or a skirt with a T-shirt will be preferable for a girl. Complement it with blue or blue wings, and you get a real titmouse.

Dress

If you don't know how to sew well or don't have time to spare, the easiest way to make a titmouse costume is to take a ready-made bright yellow dress. However, there are other less time-consuming options. For example, you can take a yellow T-shirt and sew a skirt from bright tulle. You can choose a hard one that stands up and keeps its shape well - the skirt will turn out to be fun and perky, like a tutu. And from soft eurotulle you can make a lighter fluffy skirt that will create a romantic look, and then this skirt can be used in other outfits.

To make a skirt, measure the child's waist and measure the length of the future skirt. According to these measurements, cut 4 pieces of tulle so that the skirt does not shine through. Set the sewing machine to the longest stitch length and sew along the edge of each piece separately. If you sew by hand - just type the edge of the cut on the thread, as they say, "bait" it. Then pull the thread at one end to get the assembly. Straighten all the folds so that they are uniform. Now sew over the folds with the already short basic stitch to secure the gathering. Do this with every cut.

Measure a piece of wide satin ribbon for the belt - waist circumference plus 30 centimeters on each side for tying a bow. Fold all the pieces of tulle on top of each other, sew so that they become one. Put a satin ribbon on top of the cut and pin it to the tulle with pins. Fold the free end of the ribbon over to the other side and pin again. Stitch the belt to the skirt and it's ready. Due to the long ends of the belt, you can easily tie it around the child's waist.

Wings

The next step in creating a do-it-yourself titmouse costume is wings. There are many options here, but we will highlight a few of the simplest and most beautiful.

For the first one, you will need a blue bolero with short or long sleeves. On the sleeves, you can sew long shreds of shiny organza in blue shades - the wings are ready.

The second option is to sew the wings out of fabric and felt. To do this, you need a cut of any blue fabric for the base and felt of different shades of blue. Let the child extend his arms to the sides, and you measure the distance between the wrists. This will be the width of the wings. From the fabric, cut a semicircle, the base of which is equal in length to your measurement. The diameter of your semicircle can be made to measure the child from shoulder to waist. Sew rubber bands or ribbons to the corners to tie the wings at the wrists.

Next, cut out a lot of oval long blanks from felt - they will imitate feathers. Sew these feathers onto the base with an overlap. Sew the finished wings to the collar of the dress, tie on your hands, and your titmouse can take off.

Another option is to sew a blue feather boa on a similar fabric base around the edge - it will turn out very similar to a bird.

Titmouse costume mask

Measure the circumference of the child's head, add 3-4 centimeters for overlapping. Cut out a strip of this length from the cardboard. From the same cardboard, cut out two triangles, glue them along a long edge to make the beak voluminous, and glue the base to the middle of the cardboard strip. Connect the strip into a circle. Cut out two eyes from cardboard and stick on tape. Color the blank, and you can put it on your head.

The second option is to make a mask out of felt. Cut out two pieces of glasses and a teardrop nose from felt. Glue the nose to the middle of the glasses, glue the second piece of glasses on top. Insert an elastic band around the edges. The edges of the mask can be stitched for security and decorated with feathers or bright pieces of felt in other colors.

Details

To complete the titmouse costume for the girl, you can wear yellow knee-high socks or leggings, suitable shoes under the dress. You can also add makeup to the face - for example, draw blue wings on the cheeks.

Easy to perform, interesting and original outfit - create a bird costume with your own hands and flutter in it all the festive evening. You can buy a ready-made costume for an adult and a child. But we invite you to be creative and create your own - a crow, an owl or a bluebird. Following our recommendations, you can easily do that.

Option 1: Raven

Template preparation. Take a piece of black thick fabric and draw a beak. It should be in the shape of a crescent, cut in half, and consist of two identical parts. Cut them out.

We sew. Place the pieces together, secure with pins and sew along the sides. Next, attach them to the top of the suit and sew.

Preparing details for the eyes. Before you sew a bird costume with your own hands, prepare all the materials. To create the eyes, you will need two circles, yellow and black, and a white semicircle.

Shaping the eyes. When making a do-it-yourself bird costume for a girl, place the prepared parts in front of you. Place the black circle in the middle of the white one and glue them together. Put white on top (its flat part should pass through the center of black) and glue it as well.

Decorate. Take a pair of feathers and attach to each eye. Each feather must be glued separately, on the back of the eye.

We fix our eyes. They will be located on either side of the beak, above its base. Pin the eyes with a pin and then sew or glue with a hot glue gun.

We decorate the sleeves. Now you need to trim the sleeves with feathers. Before making the bird costume, prepare two pieces of feather fringe for the entire length of the sleeve. Secure it with pins and baste.

Trying on the whole outfit. Get black pants and shoes. Try on the entire costume, including the sweatshirt you made. Put on a hood with sewn eyes and a beak. Congratulations! You have completed the task. You can make a New Year's bird costume with your own hands and decorate it with rain.

Option 2: Dress up as an owl

Option 3: Bluebird

Skirt. For the skirt, you will need a boa and a hot glue gun to attach it to. Lubricate the boa along the entire length and attach to the bottom of the skirt around the entire circumference.

Mask. You can buy ready-made, it will be a great addition to your look. Or get a regular mask and decorate it with blue feathers. Glue a few symmetrically near the eyes, turning them with the fluffy side to the side.

Try on the finished outfit. Before you sew a bird costume with your own hands, get everything you need: a white T-shirt or vest, black tights and shoes, a jacket with blue sleeves, a brown scarf with feathers or a boa. Put everything together, as well as ready-made skirt and mask.

Congratulations! Your outfit is ready.

Your bird has a blue tail (skirt) and face (mask).

The chest of the bird is white with brown, you need to choose things of such colors.

The blue sleeves are the wings of your bird.

You can use a ready-made mask or purchase a peacock costume and replace the headgear with a homemade mask.

To make costumes you need

Needle and thread

Crow

Felt fabric in yellow, black and white

• Hoodie

  Black pants and shoes

Owl

Blue, black and orange felt fabric

Ribbon

Soup plate

Gray sweatshirt and trousers

Glasses with tinted lenses

Blue bird

Fluffy skirt

Several blue boas in different colors

Brown boa

White jacket

Blue tank top

Feathers for decoration

You don't have to spend a lot of money to get the perfect carnival costume. In particular, a bird costume, given the time and patience, is quite easy to make on your own. However, some of the costumes are a bit more complicated to make than others, so be sure to fully familiarize yourself with step by step instructions of this article to immediately familiarize yourself with what you have to do.

Steps

Azure bird costume

Before you start working on the costume, you need to prepare everything. Gather the following materials:

• Plain or bottom plain skirt (white or blue), or a tutu that fits you
• Blue feathers or feather boas
• glue gun
• Leggings and tank top
• Ready-made or homemade mask

1. Start with a skirt. You need to use a plain skirt in a color that will accentuate the blueness of the feathers. Try to use the colors natural for the azure bird - blue or white. Avoid greys, greens, oranges and reds.

   Attach feather boas to the bottom of the skirt. The boa must be glued onto the skirt with a hot glue gun, starting from the bottom edge of the skirt and spiraling up to the waistline.

   Make a simple mask covering the eye area. Take the material chosen for the mask (blue felt or cardboard) and circle the contours of your forehead, eyes and bridge of the nose on it. Cut out the mask.

   • The eye holes should be large enough so that you can see everything normally.
   • Attach a band or elastic band to the sides of the mask. To do this, you will need to make mounting holes in the mask with scissors or a hole punch.
   • Alternatively, you can simply buy a simple ready-made mask and then decorate it.

2. Cover the mask with feathers. Use a glue gun for this. In no case do not stick feathers on the mask when worn, it must be removed.

   • Start at the outer corner of one of the eyes. You should glue the feathers with hot glue so that they fan out from this point.
   • Move on to the inner corner of the same eye. Stick on the feathers with the same slope so that they overlap each other a little, but do not block the hole for the eye.
   • Repeat the procedure with the second half of the mask.
   • Trim some feathers to a length of 2.5 cm. Glue them to the mask at the bridge of the nose to cover the transition area from one feather half of the mask to the other.
   • Let the glue dry.

3. Gather all the pieces of the costume together. Now that you have your two feathered pieces, all you have to do is dress appropriately. Try to use colors in clothes that will not stand out, but will serve as a good background for feathered elements.

   • For example, you can try wearing a low-key leotard to draw more attention to the needlework you have created. Or you can wear leggings and a T-shirt.
   • To dress up, you can put on simple black shoes or act more boldly and dress up in orange leggings and shoes to imitate bird feet.

4. Ensure that all elements of the costume are combined. In order for the costume to match the look of the azure bird as closely as possible, all the items of clothing you use must be combined!

   • The blue feathered skirt imitates a bird's tail, and the blue mask imitates the bird's head.
   • The chest of the bluebird is usually represented by a combination of white and tan, so instead of using a blue top, you can take a white tank top and a brown boa.
   • A blue jacket or cardigan worn will represent the blue wings of an azure bird.

   Owl costume

   1. Gather the required materials. Before you start working on a costume, you need to prepare everything that is required for its successful manufacture. Gather the following:

      • Pieces of brown, gray and black fabric of sufficient length and width to cover the span of your arms and make a cape to which feathers will be attached
      • Extra fabric for making wing feathers
      • Circle template (you can use a standard dinner plate) to make the neck of the cape
      • glue gun
      • Tape or rubber band
      • Sewing machine or needle and thread
      • A simple gray jumper that is not a pity to cut and glue parts to it (you can take an old unnecessary thing)
      • Gray tights
      • Ready-made or homemade mask made of cardboard, foamiran or fabric

   2. Cut out the gray wings. Take a piece of fabric as long as the span of your arms and a width equal to the distance from the neck to the knees. From it, cut out a semicircular cape with a zigzag edge. She will imitate wings.

      • Place the upside-down plate in the center of the top edge of the fabric for the cape and use it to trace a semicircle on the fabric with chalk. Cut out this piece. So you get the neck of the cape, so that it is comfortable to wear around the neck.
      • Attach a ruler to one of the corners of the neck so that it deviates from the top straight edge of the fabric by about 20 °, and draw a line to the side edge of the fabric. Repeat the process with the other half of the cape. Cut the fabric along the two drawn lines. Now you have the top edge of the cape ready.
      • Make a zigzag bottom edge of the cape. Draw a semicircle from the end of one wing to the other, and then draw a zigzag line along it. Cut the fabric along a zigzag line.
      • This will complete the process of making the top gray layer of the cape.

   3. Cut out the black wings. Lay the first gray cape over a slightly larger piece of fabric. Take the chalk and accurately outline the contours of the upper edge of the cape and its neck, and draw a semicircular line of the lower edge below approximately the height of the zigzags made on the first cape. Cut out the outline of the black cape and then zigzag the bottom edge as well.

      Sew the capes together. Align both capes with the neck line and sew them in this place.

      • You can sew parts both on a sewing machine and manually.

   4. Attach two ties to the corners of the neck of the cape. Measure out two pieces of black tape. Sew ribbons to the corners of the neck of the cape from the black side.

      • Each piece of ribbon should be long enough to wrap around your neck.
      • Instead of sewing on ribbons, you can simply glue them on with hot glue.
      • This completes the manufacture of a cape that imitates wings.

   5. Measure the gray jumper. Measure from the sleeves to the bottom of the sweater. Also measure the front width. You will need to cut enough feathers from the fabric of your choice to completely cover the entire measured area of ​​the jumper.

      • For each feather, you will need to cut a slightly elongated oval out of the fabric. The pen should be about 7.5 cm long and 5 cm wide.
      • Divide the width of the jumper into sections of 5 cm. This will tell you the number of feathers in each row.
      • Multiply the number of feathers in the row by 3 to find the total number of black feathers.
      • Multiply the number of feathers in the row by 2 to find the total number of gray feathers.

   6. Attach the feathers to the jumper. Glue each feather onto the jumper with a separate dab of hot glue. In this case, you will need to alternate rows of black and gray feathers, and the first and last rows should be black.

      • Start working from the bottom row. The lower tip of each feather of the first row should protrude quite a bit beyond the edge of the bottom of the jumper.
      • Gradually, row by row, rise higher. The feathers of each next row should overlap slightly with the feathers of the previous row.
      • Lay out the feathers in a row so that they are in contact.

   7. Make an owl mask. Take foamiran and draw the contours of the mask on it yourself, or use a ready-made template. Cut out the mask along the contour and make holes in it for the eyes. Glue the mask to a pair of cheap sunglasses.

      Dress up in a suit. Wear a feathered jumper and gray bodysuit. Tie a wing cape around your neck and complete the look with an owl mask. This completes your work on the costume.

   Raven costume

   1. Gather materials. To make a costume, you will need the following:

      • Sewing supplies
      • Black felt
      • yellow felt
      • White felt
      • Black hooded jumper
      • glue gun
      • Dark trousers and boots

   2. Draw and cut out the details of the beak. Draw on black felt the contours of two slightly curved halves of the beak. Cut them out with sharp scissors.

      • If desired, the contours of the details can be drawn by hand. Please note that the beak should be visible as if from the side, and not from above. The base of the beak should be represented by a straight line, while the beak itself should look like a slightly curved triangle.
      • The size of the beak should be sufficient so that when it is attached to the hood of the jumper, the external resemblance of the hood to the head of a bird becomes noticeable. Please note that the size of the beak for children and adults will be different.

   3. Sew on the beak. Align the two parts of the beak and sew together along the top edge. Then attach the beak with the base to the top of the opening of the hood and sew.

      • Since the felt does not crumble, there is no need to turn the parts inside out after sewing. Just try to make sure that the lines are even and the work looks neat.
      • The center of the beak should be located in the center of the hood, while it should hang over the face when the hood is put on the head.

The Firebird carnival costume can be made independently, having only basic needlework skills. To do this, you need to follow simple recommendations and trust your imagination.

Sketch and color scheme of the costume

No work is complete without a preliminary sketch. When creating a Firebird costume for a girl with your own hands, you can use illustrations from fairy tale books and folk art. Using the imagination of artists, you can create several options for dressing. One of them looks like this:

As a basis, you can use any dress to which you add additional details and decorations.

The color scheme of the costume is designed in traditional "fiery" colors - red and yellow of different shades, interspersed with black and white details. But often there is also a "peacock" color - blue, emerald, purple, gold with mother-of-pearl reflections and tints.

The choice of material, its texture and density depend on the specific detail of the suit. For example, the fabric for the wings should be light and flowing - satin or silk. Velvet can be used for small details, and rhinestones and braid can be used for additional decor.

Making a cape in the shape of wings

A spacious cape imitating wings makes the children's costume of the Firebird especially recognizable. The order of its tailoring consists of the following steps:

1. From a light double-sided fabric (silk, satin, satin), a cloak is cut out in one piece according to the pattern below. The most complex detail, the curly edge, is cut out according to the pattern. The length of the back of the raincoat-wings should not exceed 2/3 of the height of the child.

2. The front edges of the raincoat are folded over by 5 mm, after which they are hemmed or glued with a cobweb. The figured hem is stitched in a "zigzag" or, if the type of fabric allows, it is singed with a match flame.

3. A wide braid is sewn to the collar, forming a kind of stand-up collar. As a fastener, a button with a loop, hooks, ties or a brooch-fibula can be used. At the lower edges, at the very bend, a piece of braid or a weak elastic band is attached so that you can tie them to your wrists and wave the edges like bird wings.

4. Two-layer feather appliqués are sewn or glued to the gossamer on the inside of the raincoat. The combination of colors is at the discretion of the master - white-blue, red-black, yellow-blue and others.

Additionally, the raincoat can be decorated with sequins, beads, rhinestones or other light decor. Immediately before leaving, it should be treated with an antistatic agent.

Making the Firebird's Breastplate

Do-it-yourself Firebird costume for a girl is sewn on the basis of a dress with short sleeves or a sundress. Its upper part is decorated as follows:

1. A short (to the waist) vest with a triangular neckline is cut out of a dense yellow fabric. The edges can not be processed, as they will be closed further.

2. An imitation of scaly feathers is attached to the vest using a cobweb or a glue gun. It can be done in 2 ways:

• Rhombuses with a side of 1 cm made of dense fabric or foil, overlapped. In this case, they begin to glue the detail of the outfit from the bottom, each small detail requires processing.
• The vest is glued with sequins, placing them as close as possible to each other. Yellow or red rhinestones are placed in the gaps between them. This method requires patience and hard work.

The New Year's costume of the Firebird for a girl with a fluffy skirt is especially attractive. If there is no such outfit in the wardrobe, then from tulle you can sew a petticoat that gives the desired volume in a few minutes.

Making a headdress

The upper part should not be massive, so as not to cause unnecessary associations with the participants of the Brazilian carnival. There are several options depending on the hairstyle and how the Firebird costume for the girl is decorated. You can make the following with your own hands:

1. Beret with a feather.

Sewn from dense fabric. To give the beret the desired bend, you can insert a thin wire into the seams. A long feather is sewn to a place that should be located 1 cm to the left of the bridge of the nose. The mount is masked with rhinestones.

2. Bandage with a long feather or comb of them.

According to the size of the coverage of the head, a strip of fabric, cardboard or a piece of wide braid is cut out. The seam or fastener in the form of a button with a loop should be located at the back of the head. The feather can be single, triple, in the form of a stepped crown and can be located not only vertically, but also along the hoop.

When creating the headdress of the Firebird, it is worth noting several nuances:

• For dyeing natural feathers, it is recommended to use safe formulations. A bright red color is given by ordinary henna and food coloring (2 tablespoons of salt, a bag of dye and 2 drops of vinegar per 1 liter of water). They are preliminarily degreased in soapy water and dried.
• For fastening strength, the feathers are first glued, and then intercepted with a thread stitch at the end of the rod. The attachment point is covered with decor.

Makeup and hair

When making a Firebird costume for a girl with your own hands, do not forget about hair and "war paint". There is a safe one (brands Pupa, Sephora, Markwins and Hello Kitty) that allows you to apply a full-fledged holiday make-up. You can also glue rhinestones on your face using BF-6 medical glue.

The shape of the hairstyle depends on many circumstances - the type of headdress, hair length, time. Most often, girls in Firebird outfits appear with neatly curled and styled curls. Less often, hair is taken into high hairstyles or a ponytail.

Creating New Year's carnival costumes is very exciting, because it makes it possible to realize the love for creativity that is inherent in all people.