How to sew a Kolobok costume with your own hands: two sewing options

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Parents of young children often face the question of tailoring a carnival costume for some holidays, events, performances. It’s expensive to rent an outfit and you don’t want your child to put it on after someone else. After all, you don't know for sure how these suits are actually processed after each donning. Most likely not. Especially when the New Year holidays season and there is an entry for costumes. One rents, the other picks up an hour later. It is better to try a little and sew the costume yourself. Then your child will be safe, and you don’t need to run to the rental after the holiday to return the outfit on time.

This article will tell you in detail about two different ways of sewing a Kolobok costume. The photo shows how these outfits look in finished form, a step-by-step description of tailoring and what materials you need to have available for this.

Kolobok costume with own hands

This costume has an element depicting a fairy tale character. The rest of the outfit can be selected from the ready-made items in the wardrobe, or you can sew a cape and a hat as an addition to the image of Kolobok. To make this costumeyou need to prepare a yellow fabric (it is more convenient to use cotton: it is easier to work with), orange fleece, threads, needles, a thin sheet of foam rubber, scissors, a sheet of drawing paper, a pencil.

First you need to measure the distance from the base of the neck to the navel. This will be the diameter of the circle. There is no need to do more, as it will be inconvenient for the child to move or sit in such an outfit. We transfer the dimensions to a sheet of drawing paper and draw a circle. Then we transfer this pattern to a fabric folded in half to cut out two identical parts at once, and cut out a foam circle according to the template.

The next step is to fold the prepared blanks with the wrong side out and stitch or stitch with your hands in a circle, leaving a small hole for later insertion into the foam rubber. We turn it on the front side, iron it with an iron and insert the foam rubber, carefully spreading it over the entire internal space. Then the remaining hole is sewn up with an internal seam so that it is not visible.

Costume decoration

After preparing the base, it remains only to make a mouth, eyes, rosy cheeks and a forelock, and the Kolobok suit, sewn with your own hands, is ready. Some advise to make small handles on both sides. But this is optional. Eyes can be made using two oval buttons. For rosy cheeks, cut out two small circles of fleece. They can be glued, but it is more reliable to sew. The mouth can be made using a gypsy needle and knitting threads, sewn along the drawn contour with a decorative seam. Chub fairy-tale hero can be made of fleece,cut into strips, as in the photo.

Fix the resulting circle either with ribbons on the back, like a backpack, or by sewing it on a child's vest or shirt.

Kolobok costume: second option

Another option for sewing such an outfit for a holiday consists of two similar circles. The principle of sewing is the same, only you can use a thin synthetic winterizer instead of foam rubber. The pattern is also slightly different. If in the past method there was just a circle, now on the front and back you need to cut armholes for the sleeves and neck. Sleeves can be omitted, as this requires skills and a sewing machine. You can simply put the resulting Gingerbread-vest over a yellow shirt or golf under the throat.

The back of the circle, which will be on the back side, can not be stitched with a padding polyester. So the child will not be hot at the matinee. It is enough if the front is voluminous. From below, we leave part of the circle without a seam so that it can be put on the child over the head. Pants can be any color: black, blue, yellow, brown.

So, the creation of the Kolobok costume with your own hands is completed! It is not difficult, and in one evening you can create an outfit that will be remembered by the child for a long time. Yes, and a photo for memory of such an interesting role will remind you of the efforts of a mother for her baby.

Tips & Tricks

Usually there are many guests and children at the holidays. The hall in the kindergarten is small, the air warms up instantly. Even in winter, matinees are very hot and stuffy. Since this costume has foam rubber orsintepon details, then the baby and so they will warm. So that the little artist does not feel hot, the rest of the Kolobok costume needs to be made lighter. For example, wear a yellow T-shirt and shorts with socks.

Before the performance, it is necessary to try on an outfit so that the child looks at home in it, teach him how to sit on a chair correctly so that the costume looks aesthetically pleasing, does not wrinkle. Then the baby will not be nervous and worried because of some kind of malfunction. Yes, and errors will be immediately visible. Before the holiday, there will be time to touch up details or clasps.