What could be easier than a carrot costume? You can buy ready-made or rent. But nothing compares to the emotions of a common cause - the joint production of a costume for the Christmas tree.
Why carrots?
Masquerade costume helps the child develop imagination, fantasy, imaginative thinking. And with what can you compare the pleasure of the result - a colorful New Year's costume, which certainly no one will have.
With the help of a carrot costume, you can introduce a child to a he althy diet, promote a he althy lifestyle, explain the benefits of vegetables, the amount of vitamins in them. Even if the baby has never eaten carrots before, after working together to create a New Year's costume, he can't help but love the vegetable.
In addition, this is a universal outfit: a carrot suit for a girl and a boy will do. After all, its bottom, the rhizome, can be made as a skirt and panties or a cape.
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Where do you get ideas?
The carrot itself will be the source of inspiration. You can take a vegetable, consider it with your baby. By pulling the child to contact, the mother will be able to consolidate his knowledge about the taste and benefits of carrots.
You can read books together, watch cartoons, look through pictures.
You can also cook delicious dishes, bake a carrot cake, so that the child will surely understand that the carrot is a real hero worthy of visiting the New Year's party.
The idea of the preparatory stage is an interactive conversation about carrots and their benefits. Let the child describe the vegetable, what color it is, what shape it has, what its components are, how it differs from other vegetables. And the main question is how he imagines the carrot costume.
I made him from what was…
As a result, the child himself will say that two primary colors are needed for a carrot costume: an orange bottom to make a rhizome, and green tops.
Surely in the girl's wardrobe there are things of this color: an orange dress, a sundress or a skirt and a green blouse, hat, scarf, scarf, bow. All this, including fantasy, can be used in the preparation of the costume.
Bottom of suit
It's easy to sew a carrot costume with your own hands. You can find examples of work and even patterns for them, as well as instructions and tips on cutting a model and sewing a suit.
For the preparation of the bottom of the costume, that is, the rhizome itself, you can use any form. You can leave the existing outfit unchanged or sheathe it with a red, yellow or orange garland.
Foam rubber can serve as the basis for a voluminous costume. From a piece of the desired size in length and width, a cone-shaped bottom of the carrot is made.
You can use sewn or fluffy fabric over the topskirt, sundress or cape in full growth. From below you can insert an elastic band and pull it off a little. Or cut the fabric from the bottom on both sides with a wedge that looks like a vegetable root.
Wonder material foam rubber
Foam rubber is an excellent material for making the base of a suit. An important step in the work is the correct cut of the material. It is important that the cut is perfectly level at the right angle.
Universal glue "Moment-1" is suitable for gluing. Having smeared both sides, let it dry for 5-7 minutes, and then lightly press and twist so that the glue is evenly distributed and seized. Everything must be done quickly and accurately.
Work on gluing foam rubber should be done by an adult so as not to harm the he alth of the baby.
It remains only to cover the suit with fabric.
Green leaves
To complete the carrot costume, you can use the finished item of the girl’s wardrobe as greenery or sew a frill, scarf, bow from any fabric of the desired shade.
The leaves can be placed on the head as a green hat, bow or headband with visually similar leaves, which can be made from any material: fabric, cardboard, green garlands.
A simplified version of the carrot costume
We use clothes that are in stock. Traditionally, the bottom is orange, the top is green. And on the head with the help of a hoop or a cardboard rim, a crown, place a drawing or application - an image of a carrot. You can also attach a carrot sewn from fabric to a green hat. Or atchest and back attach colorful vegetable pictures.
Option in basket
You can make a carrot costume in a basket with three main pieces.
A brown skirt with a foam base and a shoulder strap will resemble a basket. The carrot itself can be an orange blouse. The green top is a hat, scarf or bow.
Upside down
And you can completely simplify the carrot costume with your own hands. The headdress will act as a rhizome. It can be a cone-shaped hat or a cap made of foam rubber, colored cardboard or painted.
And the tops will be a green dress or a set of blouses and pants, which will be decorated with green garlands or bows.
Carrot costume for the little ones
It has become fashionable to arrange photo shoots. This is especially true for young mothers. You can imagine your long-awaited child in any way.
It's easy to make a carrot costume for a girl with your own hands. It can be knitted with orange yarn or sewn from any fabric as a regular carrot envelope.
Use a pom-pom hat as tops.
What do we say to Santa Claus?
At the New Year's holiday, the kid will be able to adequately present his carrot costume. The photo will display the vivid emotions of the child. The main thing is not to forget to capture.
For the presentation of the costume, you can come up with a funny fairy tale, a scene with other characters, for example, beets, cucumbers, green peas orread the rhyme:
I was born a carrot
I got angry with the kids, They don't want to eat me, Everyone is looking at candy.
And I have all the vitamins
Only you can't see them from above.
If you love me –
You will be he althy and strong!
I grew up beautiful
And for the New Year holiday
To the kids came today
On the Christmas tree.
I want to tell you a secret
Everyone will live with me for at least a hundred years.
I will treat you with vitamins, To grow you smart and strong.
The main rule for making a carrot costume is to withstand a combination of two colors: orange rhizome and green tops. And what materials to use, sizes and proportions, depends on the imagination.
And then at the New Year's party, the Autumn Festival or a photo shoot, your beloved baby will be the most beautiful.
