Mask for the child with their own hands

In the life of every child there are holidays and merry events. To stand out among the rest, it is worthwhile to think over the festive attire. Making masks by your own hands for children, you can get an original and unusual costume. It will remain to add details to complete the image and you can go to the party. Consider how to make masks correctly.

Superheroes

Well, who among the boys in his childhood did not dream of being a superhero? Almost everyone, but did everyone have this opportunity? Mask for a child with the emblem of a superhero is very simple. You will need white or colored cardboard, scissors, paints, markers and gum. Mark the future workpiece with a pencil and cut it out. After that, proceed to decorating the base, paint with the colors of the desired color and add details. Look at the photo. This is how a mask for a superhero child can look.

Some of them are monophonic, they are easier to cut out of colored cardboard. You can paint colors, fine details are better to draw with a felt-tip pen. It is useful to connect the children to this process, it will be very entertaining for them. After completing the design, you need to put a rubber band in the workpiece for fixation on the head. In such a bright original mask, the child will feel confident, especially if you finish the rest of the costume.

Carnival

Carnival masks for children will be an indispensable addition to the image. In such a suit, you can perform at the matinee in the kindergarten or at another solemn event. Everything you need for a carnival accessory can be found in any home. So, let's start, cut out a cardboard shape with holes for the eyes. You can draw the shape arbitrarily by hand or by using a stencil. To masks for children on their heads were festive, it is necessary to decorate them beautifully. For this you can use everything that there is at home: sequins, rhinestones, beads, rain, feathers and stuff. An example of such ornaments can be seen in photographs.

You see that the brighter and more colorful, the more beautiful it turns out. You can use felt for the basis, it is more dense, and it will also be better to keep the shape. All decorations are better to fasten on hot silicone glue. For fixation on the head, you can use an elastic band or stick a stick-stick on the side.

Non-standard solution

Now you will learn how to make a mask for children from improvised means. For example, an option from a paper plate. Materials will be required:

• plate;
• paints;
• Markers;
• scissors;
• Colored cardboard or stickers;
• elastic.

From one plate you will get two masks, because it is cut in half. Then you need to decide on the theme and start decorating. To be clearer, one can start from the examples shown in the picture below.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated in this process. If you decide to make a picture of the animal, then simply glue the ears, nose, antennae and mask is ready. To attach the base, use an elastic band, a stick (as in the picture). If you use a colored plate, then there is no need to paint it, and if the plate is white, you will have to color it. To this process, you can attract kids, so that everyone is happy.

Soft animals

An excellent material in the role of the basis for animal masks for children can be felt. It is a soft, dense and natural material, which can be found on the shelves of shops for needlework. The advantages of felt are its elasticity and the ability to easily cut with scissors. It is very good from the felt to get animals because of the bright colors of the material.

Additional parts are attached to the substrate with the help of super-glue. Due to this, the mask for the child will appear voluminous. To make a reliable attachment to the head, it is better to use a thin elastic band. You can complete the image with a felt tail and gloves, the kid just will not go unnoticed.

Shielded Masks

New Year's masks for their children can become even more interesting and bigger. The most successful choice will be images of animals. Decide on the way and prepare the necessary materials:

• the cloth;
• scissors;
• Sintepon or cotton wool;
• Beads;
• Fishing line.

Start by making the base. To do this, draw the desired shape on the fabric, cut and sew, leaving holes for the eyes and filler. Sew better on the wrong side. After that, you need to turn the base, through the hole fill it with sintepon or cotton wool. After that, you can start making additional parts. These can be ears, nose, eyes. Prepare each piece separately, then you need to fill the workpiece with sintepon. At the final stage, you need to sew all the details of the future animal with neat stitches. To ensure that the mask for the baby fits snugly to the face, use a tight band.

Masks made of cardboard

As you can see, the material for manufacturing can be varied. One of them is at hand, but is often underestimated. You can make not only a mask for children from paper, but also from cardboard. This refers to the dense cardboard from which the boxes are made. Everyone in the house probably will have a cardboard box from under the home appliances. That's it and it will be needed to create a foundation. Brown cardboard is good because it does not need to be painted, because of this it is great for muzzles of various animals. Here, for example, the face of a dog made of cardboard.

To such cardboard bases it is necessary to attach additional details, in the case of a dog's muzzle, a nose, ears, eyebrows will be required. You can use pieces of foam rubber, cotton or other bulk material. If you draw well, you can mark the missing details with a black marker: mustache, nose, mimic lines. Also it will be necessary to fasten the fixing elastic, too thin will not suit for this mask. To ensure that the rubber band itself is tightly connected to the cardboard and does not break the base, you need to know one trick. Pass one end of the rubber through the hole and tie a piece of foam rubber. Do the same action on the other side, the muzzle is ready.

Adding an image

The mask is just one of the elements of a child's costume. To harmoniously complete the image, you can decorate your clothes or pick it up in a tone. It is necessary to take into account the specifics of the image, supplement it with the necessary attributes. Let's say that the dog's muzzle will need to sew a ponytail on his panties and put on mitten-paws. At the carnival you need to decorate with sequins a dress or a suit. But you can do without it. Just choose a one-color clothing for the color of the base or some of its elements. A beautiful costume for a child for a holiday does not have to be expensive, it's enough for an original mask made by ones own hands, and thoughtful details.