Mermaid Costume with Own Hands

Charming Ariel from the Disney cartoon "Mermaid" is the favorite of many children. Little girls really want to look like a sea princess. A birthday party, carnival, New Year's party is an excellent occasion to put on a mermaid suit made by yourself. It looks luxurious, but it is sewed quickly and easily. To make a mermaid costume for a girl, a pattern will not be needed. The elastic skirt in this dress will serve as the bodice of the dress. Of course, mermaids are associated in children and adults with girls with a fish tail, but walking in this outfit, and even more so dancing, is not very convenient.

We will need;

  1. If you can not find the tape from the tulle, you have to cut it yourself. The optimal width is 10-12 centimeters. Then determine the desired length of the skirt, multiply it by two and make 50-60 strips of tulle of this length.
  2. Take a strip of tulle, fold it twice and pass through the extreme loops of the bottom edge of the top. Secure the strip by passing the ends through the formed loop. Tighten the knot firmly.
  3. Similarly, treat the entire bottom edge of the top. As a result, you will get such a magnificent skirt with top.
  4. But on this creation of a mermaid costume for children is not completed, because there is no hint of a characteristic fish tail! To make it, you need to divide all the stripes of tulle into three parts. One will be in front, the other two behind. To simplify your work, tie them together with elastic bands. Now cut 50-60 strips of blue tulip. Their length should be about 10 centimeters. Tie them to the ends of the green strips. Try to ensure that the stripes located at the back of the skirt, turned out a few inches longer than the front.
  5. Sewing a mermaid costume is possible with or without straps. If the top is loose and does not fit the body well, it is better to make two supporting straps. To do this, thread a piece of tape in the top part of the top and fix the both ends with knots from the inside. An excellent addition will be a decorative knot on one of the straps, bound from satin ribbon and narrow stripes of tulle.
  6. If you want, you can decorate the cutout assembly, passing between the loops weaving the top of the braid. Tighten the ends - and you're done!
  7. As you can see, making a New Year's mermaid costume with your own hands is not an easy task. This is a force for novice handicraftsmen. However, accessories that complement this outfit are no less important than the dress itself. A variety of necklaces and necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pendants will in this case appropriate. Very impressive look ornaments from sea shells and pebbles.

Skirt-tail

If the mermaid costume for children needs to be made with a tail, we offer an uncomplicated master class.

So, the pattern of the mermaid costume looks like the belt, front and back of the skirt, "scales" and "fin".

  1. Sew both halves of the skirt and attach "scales" on top. Then sew a belt with an inserted rubber band.
  2. Pick up the "fin" and sew it to the skirt.
  3. Our skirt is ready! It remains to add it to the top in the form of two cockleshells.

In such a charming carnival costume the girl will feel like a real sea princess, a subjugator of underwater depths and just a beauty. Good mood and vivid memories are guaranteed to her!

With your own hands, you can make other carnival costumes: Snow Maidens or Gypsies