What do people know about primitive man? In fact, quite a bit. It is known that he lived in caves, hunted mammoths, used a club as a weapon, and dressed in the skins of dead animals.
Having even such fragmentary knowledge about the first people, you can make an excellent costume of a primitive man with your own hands. For a child in kindergarten, for a holiday, for a performance at school or a performance in the theater - the outfit is suitable for any thematic event.
Costume Parts
How to make a primitive man costume? Before you start assembling the outfit, you need to decide what the costume will consist of.
The clothes of the cavemen were plain - torn skins with uneven edges, roughly swept with pieces of leather or veins, or girded with leather thread. They replaced both pajamas, and "business attire", and evening suit. In a very cold season it could bethere is another skin in store, which was used as a cloak or cape.
Decorations were the same for everyone - animal bones that were tied to hair or strung on a thread like beads. Bones could decorate the belt.
Forearm and shin bandages were used as additional accessories.
The most important attribute is a club. Both women and men had it. The difference was only in the size of the weapon - men, as stronger representatives of the tribe, relied on a club more than women. Therefore, the costume of a primitive man for a boy and for a girl is made the same, only the club will be of different sizes.
Hair is the final part of the outfit. Soap and shampoo were not yet known to our ancestors, respectively, the hairstyle on the head was remotely similar to a neat modern styling. To create a full-fledged image, you will need a wig.
So, the costume will consist of:
- basic clothes;
- capes;
- belts and jewelry;
- batons;
- wig;
- bandages.
Basic clothes
Our ancestors dressed in the skins of captured animals. Therefore, the colors should match and be similar to natural leather or fur. For this purpose, fabric of any quality is well suited. The color is brown, leopard or brindle. You should not opt for shiny fabrics, they are not very appropriate for this purpose. But felt, velor, faux suede - that's it.
Models can bedifferent. The simplest option is winding with a knot on one shoulder.
It will take about 1.5 pieces of fabric to work.
The material is folded in half to form a rectangle. On the side where the fold is, the middle is outlined. You can do it by eye; the costume does not have to be perfect and symmetrical: primitive people were far from high fashion. Also, the middle is located along the long side of the rectangle. The dots are connected to each other, and the fabric is cut off. It turns out that a triangle was cut out of a large rectangle.
Where the fabric at the fold remained connected, there will be a shoulder. The side that has become short must be sewn with a classic thread with a needle. And you can be original by connecting parts of the outfit with coarse stitches. For the second option, you need to make holes in the fabric on both sides with nail scissors, and then tie the halves together with a knitting thread of a suitable color or a thin cord. You can do it crosswise - like lacing on sneakers, or you can thread it through each hole. Which way to choose - depends only on the imagination of the master.
Easy option
The second option is the easiest. In a piece of fabric folded in half, a hole for the head is cut in the middle from the side of the fold. You don't need to sew anything: the clothes are girded - and that's it. A do-it-yourself primitive man costume for a boy can be considered almost ready!
Well, an option for summer cavemen is a loincloth. A piece of fabric is cut into strips of differentwidth. The main strip, equal to the girth of the hips, acts as a base, the remaining flaps are hung on it.
Cape
The cape is made from the same fabric as the main part. But you can choose any other texture, dense material is best.
For a cape, you can make holes in the upper part of the fabric, thread a cord through them and use a cord to tie it around your neck. An easier option is to tie the two ends of the cape in a knot and throw it over your head.
Belt and jewelry
The costume of a primitive man is decorated with natural materials - bones and bandages.
To make bandages for arms and legs, you need to cut 4 strips of fabric, 2 of which are equal to the girth of the forearm above the elbow, and the other 2 are equal to the girth of the leg below the knee.
Strips are hung on strips of fabric in the same way as for a loincloth. Such an ornament is tied into a knot right on the arm or leg.
The costume of a primitive man is decorated with bones. You can easily make them yourself from polymer clay. Also, similar accessories are sold in needlework stores - beads in the form of bones, teeth are easy to string on a thread and convenient to use.
Animal fangs or bones are made from white polymer clay, previously kneaded in hands. After heat treatment (manufacturers write the rules for working with clay on packs), holes are made in each blank, then the resulting parts are strung on a thread or strip of leather. Such decorations can be strung andat the ends of the strips that make up the loincloth for the arms and legs.
The caveman is often depicted with a bone in his hair. In order to make such an ornament for a boy, you will have to stock up on a hair hoop and a gun with glue or a long thread. A drop of glue is applied to the hoop and a large bone is attached. And with a thread, this accessory can simply be strongly tied. A bone tied directly to the hair will look best, but this will require skill, as boys usually have short hair.
Wig
The primitive man's costume completes the headdress. The easiest way to buy a wig with tangled hair is in a speci alty store. Making such an accessory on your own is no more difficult than tying a knot in a bandage.
From a hoop and a bundle of wool for felting, you can make an excellent fake hair. It will be necessary to carefully glue strands of brown wool to the hoop in several layers. The blank is decorated with a bone, which is tied to the strands exactly in the center.
