On the eve of all kinds of holidays, carnivals and children's morning performances, the issue of costumes arises. They can be purchased ready or rented at specialized points. But it will be much more interesting and pleasant to dress yourself or the child in your own suit. Even if you can not sew, you can pick up the appropriate clothes from your wardrobe and make, say, accessories.
For example, it is very easy to make a hood of paper with your own hands. To do this, you need the most basic tools and materials and some time. We bring to your attention the basic scheme, on the basis of which it is possible to further make of paper the cap of Pinocchio or the wizard, painting it or gluing it with foil.
How to make a cap of paper?
- Bend a piece of paper in a square shape diagonally.
- Angle bend inward along a line separating about a third of the resulting triangle.
- Similarly, bend the second corner.
- Fold the formed corners and unfold the handcraft.
- The cap is ready, decorate it on your own.
How to make a paper cap of the cook yourself?
Such a cap can be part of a carnival costume, and can be used at home for the intended purpose for small cooks.
We need:
- white parchment paper;
- white cardboard:
- narrow adhesive tape;
- scissors;
- ruler.
Progress
- In order to determine the size of the base, you should measure the volume of the head of the person to whom it is intended. Proceeding from this, we make a base of cardboard, leaving 1-1.5 cm for gluing. Parchment paper takes twice the length of the base, because with the further it will have to be added.
- At the base of the parchment paper, we make folds and paste it with adhesive tape to the base so that it occupies its half.
- Form the folds on the other end of the paper, but do not stick it yet.
- We glue the base so that the ring is formed.
- After gently, without bending or deforming the folds, put the free end of the paper in the cardboard base and glue it.
- The remaining gaps on the sides are also carefully wrapped inside and glued to the base.
- Carefully stretch the parchment paper to give the cap a round shape. The cook's cover is ready.
Paper hats for birthday
No less relevant will be paper caps at the party about the birthday. You can buy ready-made in supermarkets and special shops, decorated in a variety of ways, in different styles, which is especially true for thematic birthdays.
And you can make them yourself, for example, the same for everyone, you can vary the options, decorating each hood individually. As scenery, colorful shiny ribbons, paper, foil are suitable. For children, it is better to choose images of your favorite cartoon characters.
For the manufacture of holiday caps we will need:
- prepared and cut out the cap pattern;
- colored cardboard;
- corrugated paper;
- an elastic band or a ribbon;
- wire;
- a knife for paper;
- glue;
- a stapler.
Progress:
- Template circle on the contour on the colored cardboard and cut out the blanks for the caps.
- Bend by putting one edge into the other.
- In order to keep the cap on the head, from the bottom along the edges attach an elastic band or ribbons to it.
- Make a flower from corrugated paper, cutting it into a ribbon with fringe.
- The same ribbon decorate the base of the cap, attaching it with a stapler.
- The flower can be threaded and glued on top of the hood.
- The hood is ready. Especially original on the guests will look caps of different colors.
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For other carnival images, other headgear may be useful, for example, a mushroom hat , a cowboy hat or a witch hat .