Ladybird is a popular character in New Year's performances. Children love him for the brightness and originality of the image, and his parents for the simplicity of tailoring. We offer you several interesting options how to make an original ladybird suit with your own hands at home in just a few hours.
New Year's costume Ladybird - step by step instruction
In principle, if you replace the red skirt with trousers of the same color, the New Year's costume of a ladybird offered below will suit the boy. Among its main advantages is the speed of manufacturing. You can sew such a suit in just an hour!
Necessary materials:
- red cloth in black peas
- black sweatshirt or t-shirt
- pin
- scissors
- wax pencil
- bezel
- felt
- soft wire
- New Year's Tinsel
Main stages:
- A piece of red cloth in black peas will be folded in half with a pattern inside. On the wrong side with a wax pencil draw the contours of the wing. Their diameter depends on your preferences, but we advise not to make the wings too much, so that they do not cause inconvenience when socked.
- Carefully cut out the wings blanks.
- Lay out the wings face-to-face on the back of the blouse and secure them with a thread. If you plan to wear this sweatshirt later, it is better to fix the wings with a pin.
- Now go to the design of the antennae of ladybug. For this, we fix the soft wire based on the rim.
- If your base is not black, then we recommend to decorate it with black felt or other dark fabric.
- In conclusion, decorate the tips of the red Christmas tree tinsel, which will fix the glue.
Ladybird costume for a girl - step by step instruction
This option can not be called very fast and it takes several hours to make it. But the result will certainly please you with its originality and brightness!
Necessary materials:
- cardboard
- a cloth of red color
- scissors
- elastic
- red t-shirt or body
- black gouache and tassel
- paper
Main stages:
- Let's start with the design of the costume, as it will take a little time to completely dry it. As a base, you can use a red soccer shirt, a body, a blouse. From ordinary paper, we cut out 7-10 patterns in the form of circles and place them on the fabric. Brush or sponge we will put on a cloth black gouache.
- Immediately after the application of the paint, the templates must be removed. Now you need to wait until the paint is completely dry.
- In the meantime, we will begin to create the wings of the ladybug. We cut out a template from a dense cardboard and circle its contour on the fabric. We cut out 4 blanks and glued them with a cardboard base.
- Using paper blanks, draw on the wings of black circles and leave to dry.
- From the remaining red fabric we will form a small dense square and attach to it gum, previously lined with a cloth. We fix the structure on the wings with hot glue.
- New Year's costume ladybird - ready! Supplement it with a black skirt or leggings.