How to make a beetle suit for a boy with your own hands

New Years is soon? The child will go to the Christmas tree? Do not know which outfit to choose for your son? An interesting variant is a beetle suit. For a boy to make his own easy. Sufficient basic skills in the field of sewing. If you approach creativity, then it can become an interesting joint activity with the child. The kid will be happy to help you.

Materials and Tools

To make a beetle suit for a boy with your own hands, you will need the following:

• Fabric of suitable shade;
• Ready-made pattern or inventory for its creation (pencil, ruler, eraser, paper);
• scissors;
• Pins;
• a piece of chalk;
• Threads with a needle for sweeping parts;
• Thread suitable for the fabric shade to perform the stitching;
• sewing machine.

In some embodiments, the frame parts (paper, cardboard) and the filler (holofiber, sintepon, cotton wool, shreds) may additionally be required.

Elements of the attire

The costume of a beetle for a boy can be made with his own hands in different versions. An obligatory detail is a headpiece, which can look like a hat, hood or dress on the head like a crown. The suit itself is logical to make the type of overalls, another option - in the form of a set of cape or jacket with a shirt and panties. To create a realistic image, gloves are often used and imitate additional pairs of legs in the form of three-dimensional details.

As for the manufacturing methods, you have two ways:

• Sew everything from scratch;
• Make only individual characteristic details that easily supplement the available clothes of the right color.

The first method is good with enough time for work, and the second - if the outfit needs to be prepared quickly, for example, for the evening or, if you are a beginner and have never seen in yourself the ability to sew.

Suit beetle for the boy: do it yourself

The main thing you need to become an element with wings. This thing is performed in the form of a cape, jacket or whole piece in one piece with a hood. The easiest way to make wings is as follows.

1. Take a cloth flap of the appropriate shade and size corresponding to the width of the shoulders, and along the length - the distance from the shoulders of the child to the waist or below, depending on what wings will be.
2. Make a pattern for half the detail (wing shape).
3. Fold the flap in half in length, pin the pattern with pins, circle the contour, add the allowances to the hem, cut out the part.
4. Fold the edges along the entire perimeter. You can simply sweep them so that the threads of the slices do not crumble.

If you do not want to spend time on the pattern, you can cut through the center line, or just an assembly along this vertical guide that will go along the backbone of the child. The central line, like the edges, can be decorated with braid, lace. In the upper part, sew a tape or part of the same fabric as the base. This will be the capes of the cape. In a more complex version, the wings make sense to combine with the collar, waistcoat, jacket. They will be sewn on top of the product or act as the back part.

A complex version of the wings is performed using a wire, cardboard, foam skeleton, which is lined with a cloth.

The second important element is the hat. It is easy to make on the basis of a ready tight, for example, swimming, and also sew of two semicircular details or parts resembling petals, to make a sphere resemble without a lower part. The simplest version is the shape of the crown. It is made both from fabric with a frame, and from paper or cardboard. The headdress must be adorned with antennae, you can add eyes.

If you are thinking how to make a beetle's baby costume more realistic, it is worthwhile to complement it with two pairs of feet that will go parallel to the hands of the child. The paws are usually made in the form of three-dimensional "sausages", culminating in the likeness of mittens. Here you will need the packing material, as well as the yarn or wire frame to secure the legs, so that they are located in a certain direction, rather than sticking out in different directions.

Characteristic details are created. All the rest you can easily pick from the existing children's things.

New Year costume "May bug"

All the work is done using the same technology as in the manufacture of any other beetle. The difference is only in the headdress. He must have horns of characteristic shape. No wonder this insect is called a beetle.

If you want to make such a suit, and not some abstract beetle, you will need to select the appropriate color material. In addition, it is best to perform and imitate strips on the wings. It is easy to realize with the help of narrow satin ribbons or braids on the background of the fabric.

As you can see, it's not difficult to make a beetle suit for a boy with your own hands. Choose your favorite method and model. Make an original outfit for your New Year tree for your restlessness.