DIY mermaid children's costume-schemes, master classes, photos, videos

The character of the mermaid is found in Disney cartoons. This character is loved by both children and adults. Therefore, the costumes of mermaids are sewn on New Year's holidays. A children's costume of mermaid can be sewn at home. It looks great on girls, and you can make it different methods.

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A children's costume of mermaid can be bought in a store. Most often, it includes a wig of long hair, a skirt, below of which there is a tail, jewelry. You can create the same mermaid costume with your own hands, moreover, in different ways. Krei and its appearance can be diverse. The fabrics are used for sewing a dress or other item of a wardrobe with sequins, brocade, material with lurex, satin fabric are still suitable. The main thing is that the girl looks like a real mermaid from films and fairy tales.

What does the mermaid costume include?

A children's costume of a mermaid can look different. It is beautiful when it consists of a long dress, like a fabulous heroine, because the mermaid for her prince still became a girl. Another costume may have such wardrobe elements as the upper part in the form of a bodice, the lower is often in the form - leggings or a narrow skirt with a rim below in the form of a tail of a mermaid. Moreover, the more magnificent the tail of the mermaid, the better.

What tissue shades are best chosen for a marine beauty costume?You can choose any color scheme. The only way to keep in mind that the sea beauty has beautiful hair of blue, red, red or green color, and the tail choose the same shade as the color of water in the sea or ocean: blue, greenish. Better yet, if it is turquoise.

It will also be beautiful if the fabric on the bottom of the outfit is with scales, or with imitation. The material with sequins or the corresponding pattern in the form of scales looks good. You can choose any top, no matter what shade of the material will be, the main thing is that the whole finished outfit looks perfect for your taste. To determine the color scheme of the costume, see the images of fairy -tale and cartoon heroines presented below:

What other wardrobe items and accessories will be needed for a carnival costume of a mermaid?

Young beauties should prepare shoes, suitable color so that they merge with the tail of the mermaid. If there is no way to find suitable shoes, then the Czechs are bought, and paint them with acrylic paint in the tone of the suit.
You can make rings and bracelets from beautiful beads or beads in your hands. Bracelets from elastic bands or in the form of colored laces will look pretty.
To emphasize completely the outfit of a small fashionista on a festive matinee, you can use accessories such as a clutch in the form of a sea shell or a soft fish -shaped handbag.
Girls often imitate adult women. Therefore, you cannot leave the neck without jewelry, and the ears of a small mermaid. Well, if you yourself make beads suitable for bracelets and rings. There will also be beads from the "pearl" mother -of -pearl beads. It is better to use earrings or clips the same as jewelry on the neck from the same set.
The hair color of the girl can be left natural and make curls on her head, decorate them with hairpins, a diadem or a hoop, etc. And if your daughter is ready for experiments, then for the holiday you can buy a wig or kanecolons, and also paint the strands with colored crayons.

IMPORTANT: The mermaid is a bright image. Therefore, makeup is necessary to complete the image. It is desirable that there were sparkles on the eyelids and on the lips of the mermaid. What is the holiday without such makeup?

But when you already decide on a full bow for a carnival, then you can move on to the most important action - this is sewing a costume. Then three images of mermaids in different performance will be provided.

How to sew a mock-up costume from a razor fabric?

Sewing a child’s child’s mermaid to sew from elastic fabric is not difficult. After all, the fabric has the ability to beautifully tighten the body and sit well. Fatin frills from below the skirt will look like a real tail of the mermaid. Choose tissue colors at your discretion. If you want the mermaid costume to be not like everyone else, make your changes to the image of the heroine of fairy tales. You can sew frills, decorate the top with accessories, etc.

Materials and tools:

organza or Fatin for the tail of the mermaid
top
sewing machine
needle
threads
scissors, tape for edging.

Tail for a mermaid costume according to the principle of skirt-tower

Process:

Before starting to cut the material, it is necessary to remove the measurements of the child. You will need to find out the girth of the chest, waist, hips, the length of the skirt and the length of the top.
After build ordinary rectangles on fabric with sutures. One of the rectangles is a top, another skirt.
Sew the top and skirt on the sides on a typewriter. Turn the top and bottom and stitch with a knitted seam. So the products will look neat.
So that the top is certainly sitting well, the straps can be sewn at the top. And on the skirt at the top, sew the elastic band that emphasizes the waist. It is advisable to choose the elastic band the same color as the product.
The magnificent bottom will come out if you cut the strips from tulle, and then tie them closely and closely on the elastic band, higher in the photo you will see how to tie nodules correctly.
One such product will be not enough, excellent if you wove three such skirts, then the tail will turn out perfect. For the convenience of weaving, the elastic bands are put on the legs of the chair and after the product is ready, removed. The result is a magnificent skirt, which will need to be sewn to the bottom of the skirt.

Organza you can decorate the top. Make a cloak from the fabric on the shoulders. The image of the mermaid will be romantic then. It will be also beautiful if you make a hairstyle to a girl with the help of strands of Canecon. See the image below:

How to remake a summer suit with leggings into a masquerade costume of a mermaid?

There is not always a lot of time to prepare a child for festivities, sometimes you have to hurry, do everything on the eve of the masquerade. In this case, you can make a children's dress of a mermaid from some summer top and leggings of a girl or leggings. Moreover, the color can be adjusted. Even if there are no costumes in blue colors, you can use other tones, the main thing is to focus on the fish tail of the mermaid.

Tools, materials:

tOP, organza
losins, threads, needle
matches, candle, centimeter ribbon
glue gun, sequins, scissors
sewing machine

Product manufacturing process:

With a centimeter tape, measure the circumference of the legs along the sewing line of the “tail”. Add two centimeters for free fit.
From organza, cut out wide stripes of fabric. On the one hand, scorch them with fire so that they do not get torn, or just coordinate the head.
Stitch the other side with a large seam, then pull it to the required size. Then set up there at the top of the box of beautiful overflowing fabric, leave ropes for ties. With the help of these ties, you are after and tie lush phalda on the legs of a beautiful rosalka.
To decorate the top, again, take to cut a strip of fabric from the organza and glue them in front, as in the image above.
After make an application from other fabric and beads in front on the top.

The finished costume on the carnival will definitely produce a splash if you still decorate it with shiny sequins, and make up the mermaid itself beautifully and make a nice makeup.

How to sew a children's dress of mermaids?

To simplify sewing the mermaid dresses, you can find a blouse or a top of a suitable color. Then it will turn out that the mermaid costume is ready for fifty percent. It remains only to sew the skirt and sew it to the top.

Materials, tools:

topik or blouse ready for the top of the product
sequin
threads of a suitable color
scissors, pattern paper
tape measure
machine
satin turquoise color.

Sewing process:

First, remove the measurements of the girl in the waist, hips, chest. Measure the length of the product, the height of the waist, hips. Write down the measurements on paper. It is according to the same measurements that the pattern of the mermaid skirt.
The diagram clearly shows how to build a diagram. To do this, you should along the waist: TT1, hips BB1 postpone 1/2 of the volume of the waist and hips. Below, draw the wedges skirts that will imitate the tail of the mermaid.
Transfer the scheme from paper to the fabric. Leave the allowances 1 centimeter on the seams.
The bottom of the skirt should be made separately from crepe-satin. Then sew to fabric with sequins, from which the skirt will be sewn. The lower part should be done in two layers, so the skirt will be more magnificent below and more beautiful.
When you sew all the details of the skirt and process the seams and the bottom of the product, you can sew the bottom and top of the dress. The only thing that should be taken into account is the allowances for free fit and insert lightning so that the dress can easily be removed and put on.

Decorate the finished dress with flower stalls, a belt at the waist. At the top on the blouse, sew the application. To make the dress look perfect, decorate it with mother -of -pearl beads, which are similar to real pearls. There are no beautiful accessories. Be sure that such a mermaid will definitely win the first place in the competition for the best costume on the carnival.