How to make a carnival costume of a hedgehog with your own hands for a girl and a boy: instructions, patterns

From this article you will learn how to make a carnival costume of a hedgehog with your own hands.

Living, as children dreamed and dreamed of in a fairy tale at all times. Therefore, they like to participate in the New Year's Mascaras, wear carnival costumes: bunny, hedgehog, fox and others. The task of parents is to help children participate in a fairy tale. Here we will learn how to make a hedgehog costume.

What is required for a carnival costume of a hedgehog?

The carnival costume of the hedgehog consists of the following parts of clothing:

• A set of gray, black, brown or beige: a sports suit consisting of a sweater and trousers, or you can a blouse or shirt with shorts - for boys
• Dresses or skirt of a mushroom (you can make such a skirt here) gray, brown or beige - for a girl
• Vests or capes with a hood and "needles"
• Hats, if there is no hood on a sports jacket
• Boots or half -bots

It is enough to attach the “needles” to our hedgehog on the back of the vest and on the hat, or the hood, the rest of the clothes are without needles.

How to make needles on a hedgehog costume?

Needles on a hedgehog suit can be made in several ways:

• Knit a vest with knitting needles, the back of which will be from the yarn "grass"
• On the back of the vest from fabric, glue the “needles” of foam rubber, sew in the form of cones from rough matter
• Stick on the back of the vest and a hat or sew a silver, or gray New Year's tinsel
• Make "needles" on the back of wooden linen trunk vests
• "Needles" from cocktail tubes, doubled
• "Needles" on the head from its own hair

How to connect a vest with "needles" for a carnival costume of a hedgehog?

A vest with "needles" for a carnival costume of a hedgehog is suitable for both a girl and a boy. The only difference is that a girl can wear a dress under a vest, but a boy is trousers.

The vest is designed for children 4-6 years old. Before the vests it is knitted from ordinary woolen threads, and the back is from the yarn "grass". We knit according to the following scheme:

How to sew a vest with "needles" for a carnival costume of a hedgehog?

We sew a vest of the following types of matter: cloth, bike, fleece, velor.

In the diagram, the dimensions are given for children 4-8 years old.

Attention. In the diagram, the dimensions are given without allowances for the seams, and the bar for fasteners is not provided, so when opening matter, you need to leave about 5 cm on the seams and the bar.

When the vest is ready, you can attach needles made in the form of cones from dense matter, as well as mushrooms, apples and other gifts of autumn, which collected a reserve hedgehog.

The hedgehog fur coat can be like this:

How to sew a hat with "needles" for a carnival costume of a hedgehog?

For a hat we need:

• Fleece and artificial fur
• Nasal
• White fabric
• Pieces of leather matter for eyebrows and pupils
• Linen gum
• Foamen
• Vata

We sew a hat with "needles" for a carnival costume of a hedgehog:

1. We measure the circumference of the child’s head.
2. We calculate what size each part of the cap should be, and cut out of the artificial fur 3 parts for the back of the cap, sew them. Do not forget to leave when cutting parts 1 cm of fabric on the seams.
3. Below, we bend the hat 3 cm, sew, and insert the elastic band.
4. From the fleece or velor we cut out 2 parts of the hedgehog, sew them, as shown in the video. Cut the eyes, ears, nose of the hedgehog and sew.

Video: Hedgehog cap with a cloak

How to make a hedgehog mask for a carnival costume of a hedgehog?

If you find it difficult to sew a hat for a hedgehog costume, you can limit yourself to a mask. We cut it out of dense cardboard. Cut the slots for the eyes. Then we draw with pencils on it a hedgehog muzzle.

If the mask is intended for a girl, we attach a bow from the tape on the side of the mask. When the mask is ready, we make holes in it at the level of the temples, and insert the elastic band so that the mask holds well on the child’s head. We put the mask on the face or on the forehead.

How to make a hairstyle "Hedgehog needles" for a carnival costume of a hedgehog?

The hairstyle of the “hedgehog needles” can only be made on short hair, 3-6 cm long.

To make stable "needles" from the hair you need:

• We divide the hair into small, in the form of squares, even strands
• Each strand of hair is well processed with wax
• Twist your hair like a hedgehog needles
• When all the needles are ready, we spray them well with hair varnish

How to make a makeup on the face for a carnival costume of a hedgehog?

A make -up for a hedgehog costume on the face of a child can be made with the help of make -up pencils or colors used by film artists. Since the makeup will be applied to young children, it should be from natural components. Well suited for this purpose, water -based water.

If there are no such colors, then you can use female pencils for makeup and dark powder, but first you need to make a child a sample for allergies on the wrist. If there is no allergy, then we begin to apply makeup from the middle of the face to the chin and hair growth line. At the end, we draw needles with dark pencils.

The make -up is well suited to the hairstyle of the "Hedgehog needles."

So, we were convinced that every mother or dad will be able to make a hedgehog carnival costume for his child, even if there is no time to bother with him for a long time, in this case the costume will be simple.

Video: DIY hedgehog costume

We advise you to find out how to make other carnival costumes:

• Sky carnival costume from the animated series "Puppy Patrol" with your own hands
• Fairy carnival costume for girls with your own hands
• DIY carnival costume for girls
• Winter New Year's costume for girls with your own hands
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