Carnival costume firefly for a boy

A firefly is not a very ordinary image for a boy, but all the more interesting and fun it will look among the “army” of musketeers, princes and pirates. This small creation gives its light is a truly unique miracle of nature.

Your son will also be the same unique at the festival, if you do not consider sewing a firefly suit for him for work.

How to sew a firefly suit for a boy?

As basic elements, pants with a pulver are used.
As accessories you will have to take care of the manufacture wings; the caps on which the antennae are located; flashlight; shoes.

What fabrics and accessories will be needed:

Velvet (or similar to velvet) fabric with a knitted base - you need to choose a rich green color.
Easy matter, which will shimmer when moving blue-green yellow shades (such fabrics are usually sold in trading departments involved in the sale of accessories and materials for stage costumes). You can also opt for fabric strewn with green and blue sequins.
Green, blue and yellow sequins.
Experiences of the oak and Velcro, which is also called the Velcro contact tape.
It is also necessary to acquire aluminum wire (its cross section should be 3 mm, or so). You can replace the wire with a whale mustache.

Creating a pullover and shirts for a Svetlyachka costume:

Choose on the Internet, or some fashion magazine, suitable for your child, patterns of pulver details (choose such a model that she has a stand-up collar). Or use the option we proposed.

Cut the fabric according to the selected scheme and build a pulver. On the cuffs and the neck of the neck of the nashta multi -colored sequins. The shelf in the abdomen also decorate with sequins-only green-blue decor will be required here.
Based on the shelf for the pulver, make a pattern on the basis of which you need to sew a shirt with allowances to the seams in the shoulders of about 3 cm. For its manufacture, select a overflowing fabric. When the shirt is already ready, strengthen it with an understudy. Connect it with a poolover shelf on the lower part on one side, and near the neck - on the other. Sew Velcro along the entire length of the product (the tissue part is used here).

We sew pants for the Svetlyachka costume:

You can find a suitable pattern on the Internet, or you can open old comfortable trousers, and on the basis of the resulting parts to find and sew a pants from a dark green or salad fabric for a firefly suit.
Equip the lower part of the leg with cuffs to which attach multi -colored sequins.

Making wings for firefly:

Based on this scheme, we interpret from the fabric, which shimmers when moving in different shades, wings for fireflies. So that they acquire some stiffness, grab the understudy from the inside, and stitch the tuck.
Insert a flexible wire or a whale mustache into its seam and the turned part of the edge of the wings - so a convex shape will appear in the wings. They need to be attached to the pulver so that they are overlapped.
This will turn out if you correctly combine the neck of the pulver with the upper part of the wings. A fragment of wings, which coincides with the line of the shoulders (L), equip the Velcro (or rather, its second half, since the first, tissue part you have already attached to the front part of the back of the pulver). After you put a pulver on the boy, attach the wings of this insect luminous in the darkness.

We make a hat for a Svetlyachka costume with your own hands:

You will succeed in a tight hat if you use our universal pattern. For a cap, a firefly fabric is suitable for green or light green color.

Sew the antennae of fabric, which shimmers with different shades. Sew them in a circle to the headdress. Attach sequins to the front of the cap.

We decorate shoes for firefly:

To put on a firefly is very simple: you need to give the Clays or cloth slippers the shape of the legs of this unique insect using velvet scraps and sequins.

Next, we complement the firefly suit with a luminous flashlight. You can buy a flashlight in a store, or you can make it yourself from multi -colored paper sheets. In this case, you will need to insert a luminous part from some toy from China into its middle-there they like to equip products for children with such elements.