Octopus costume do it yourself

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

On Sunday, you accidentally find out that on Monday the child has a matinee and everyone should come in carnival costumes? There is no time and energy left for something large-scale, but still you want something original? What to do? The main thing is not to panic. In this article, we will show you how to make an octopus costume with your own hands quickly and without special needlework skills.

Benefits

This image has a number of indisputable advantages:

1. Unisex: This octopus costume will suit both boys and girls.
2. For any age: from baby to teenager.
3. Easy to make: absolutely no skill required.
4. Availability of needed materials: you will most likely find them at home.
5. Fast production: everything about everything will take you 10-15 minutes.
6. Economy: all elements of the costume can be reused already in normal, “non-carnival” life.

Materials

All the materials needed to make the costumeoctopus is most likely to be found in your home. In a pinch, they can be easily and inexpensively purchased at a store like Funny Prices or Fix Price near you.

So, we need:

• 4 pairs of tights;
• belt, belt, ribbon or at least rope;
• long sleeve T-shirt;
• cap;
• pieces of felt or other fabric in black and white;
• pins (safer English ones are better);
• lots and lots of synthetic winterizer or cotton wool.

An octopus costume will certainly look more harmonious if all its parts - tights, a T-shirt and a hat - are matched in the same tone, but an eclectic combination of different colors and textures can give an interesting result. It all depends on your imagination and materials available.

Process

Remember that an octopus has 8 legs. Therefore, the first thing to do is fill three pairs of tights with filler. Do not pack too tightly, firstly, it will take a lot of material, and secondly, the tentacles will become too heavy and will pull the structure down.

If it so happened that neither cotton wool nor padding polyester was at hand, you can use torn and crumpled newspapers like those publications that are always stuffed into mailboxes. It won't be as neat, but it's fine for an emergency.

It is possible and necessary to involve the child himself in the process of stuffing tights with filler: firstly, it is quite fun, and secondly, perhaps next time he will remember the need to bring something to the holidaya little earlier than the day before.

We put a T-shirt on the child. If you, carried away by the process, accidentally stuffed all pairs of tights, then you will have to pull out the filler from one of them and still put them on the child. Wrap the top of the remaining pairs around the belt and fasten with pins.

Cut out two large circles from white fabric, and two smaller circles from black. If there was no fabric at hand, then you can simply draw and cut out eyes from paper. Attach the eyes to the cap.

If you have the time and desire, you can decorate with ribbons, buttons or other things that have been lying around for a long time.

Everything. Our octopus costume is ready. Other parents who have wasted their weekends making some intricate designs will definitely envy you. In addition, the probability that one of the children will come to the holiday in the same costume tends to zero.