DIY Christmas tree costume: ideas
The path of least resistance is to buy or rent a Christmas tree dress. There are numerous offers for carnival costumes on the eve of the holiday, and there is plenty to choose from. A beautiful Christmas tree costume for a girl can also be ordered on Aliexpress. You can read about how to do this in the article: “New Year's costumes of the Snow Maiden, Father Frost, Snow Queen, Snowflake, Princess, animals for adults and children on Aliexpress. How to buy a New Year's costume in the Aliexpress online store? Then you won’t have to waste time or make efforts.
A huge disadvantage is that dresses that are made to order look somewhat formulaic and have no soul. In addition, if in a group or class the roles of Christmas trees go to several girls, there is a high probability that at the matinee they will end up wearing the same store-bought costumes.
IMPORTANT: If you make a Christmas tree costume yourself, it will definitely not be repeated, and the baby will be the center of attention at the holiday.
Christmas tree costume for a girl for a New Year's party.
There are several ways to make a Christmas tree outfit:
- Make it from corrugated paper. Simple, cheap, but rough.
- Take an ordinary white dress or sundress, cut out a Christmas tree from felt and glue it to the bodice. Decorate the costume with rain showers and Christmas tree decorations.
- Decorate a green dress with rain showers, tinsel, Christmas tree decorations, and come up with a headdress to go with it.
- Limit yourself to just a headdress - a wreath of rain, a hoop with a Christmas tree, a cap with green foil and tinsel, a crown, etc.
- Make a Christmas tree dress from tulle ribbons.
- Make a team costume from a T-shirt and a tulle skirt.
- Cut out and sew a dress from satin, knitwear, etc., decorate it in a New Year's style.
This felt Christmas tree can decorate a girl’s New Year’s costume.
Christmas tree costume made from a T-shirt and a fluffy skirt.
Warm Christmas tree costume.
Herringbone dress with layered skirt and cape.
Simple A-Line Herringbone Dress.
Herringbone dress with pompoms.
Beautiful double herringbone dress.
Christmas tree made of paper and cardboard
If you have nothing to do at work) or just want to add a little holiday to the office, make a Christmas tree out of paper. What's easier?)
And this tree is very similar to a designer one, don’t you think? It’s all because of colored designer cardboard, which is so beautiful and bright that you don’t even need to decorate the Christmas tree with anything else), which simplifies the process of making a Christmas tree with your own hands.
Secondly, to make a designer Christmas tree, you can use threads that are wound on a paper cone using the technology of making openwork balls.
Thirdly, flower net and bouquet net.
The technology for making these three Christmas trees is very similar, so the process of creating them is shown in one master class.
How to make a Christmas tree costume for a girl from tulle for the New Year with your own hands: master class
The New Year's tree should be lush and elegant. Therefore, the first thing that comes to mind is to make a suit for the girl from airy tulle. It can be purchased in cuts or in skeins. Tulle has many shades, one of them is called spruce. You can also choose several shades of green and combine them.
If you don’t have a sewing machine at home, you can make a herringbone dress - here, which is not sewn, but literally woven. And only individual elements of the outfit are hand-sewn.
For a girl 4-6 years old with a height of 108 - 116 cm, you will need the following materials:
- one and a half meter tulle – 6 – 7 meters
- satin ribbons: medium width - 6 m, narrow - 3 m.
- wide elastic band (2 cm) – 1 m
- beads, rhinestones, Christmas tree toys, foamiran or felt for decoration
Christmas tree costume made of tulle.
You should also have on hand:
- ruler
- tape measure
- scissors
- threads and needles
- glue gun
- stapler
- chalk or soap
Making a Christmas tree dress from tulle: step 1.
Making a Christmas tree dress from tulle: step 2.
Making a Christmas tree dress from tulle: step 3.
- Depending on the child’s build, tulle is cut into 50–60 ribbons 15 cm wide.
- The length of tulle ribbons is calculated as follows: measure the length from the girl’s armpits to her knees, multiply by two and add 3-4 cm per knot. For example, the distance from the armpit to the knees of a girl is 55 cm, then the length of the ribbon will be: 55*2+4= 114 cm.
- Using chalk or soap and a long ruler, mark cutting lines on the tulle and cut it along them.
- If you take tulle in rolls, cutting is faster and more convenient. It is very easy to calculate how many rolls you need, knowing the length of each tape. For example, if the length is as indicated above, 114 cm, and the roll is usually 22.5 m, calculate as follows: 114/100 * 50 = 57, then 57/22.5 = 2.53. It turns out that you need to take three rolls.
- Measure the girl's chest circumference and subtract 5-7 cm from the resulting value. This will be the length of the elastic band.
- Sew an elastic band, put it on the back of a chair, a plastic bottle with water, which is much more convenient.
- The ribbon is folded in half and threaded under the elastic band. The ends of the tape are pulled into the resulting loop. Tighten the knot well, but so that it does not squeeze the elastic.
- This is done with all tapes.
- A wide satin ribbon is woven between knots of satin stripes.
- Sew the straps to the dress. They can be made criss-cross on the back or made to tie at the neck.
- To make the herringbone dress fitted, consider a belt. It is made from satin ribbon sewn onto an elastic band, or simply from satin ribbon.
- Decorate the dress at your discretion. You can glue or sew bright beads, pebbles or even small Christmas tree decorations onto it.
- The remains of tulle are used to make a head decoration, for example, an openwork cap.
Dress - tutu: Christmas tree.
Another version of the New Year's Christmas tree costume with a tulle skirt - with an openwork top - elastic. For this they take:
- top elastic band of the desired color
- tulle at the rate of 50 sheets of 30-40 cm (depending on the height of the girl) and a width of 15 cm
- satin ribbon
- decor at your discretion
Tulle herringbone dress with ribbed top.
Christmas tree costume for a girl with a fluffy tutu skirt: patterns for girls 3 – 6 years old
It will be convenient for your little one in kindergarten to dance in circles and play with Santa Claus in a Christmas tree costume, which consists of a decorated T-shirt and a fluffy tutu skirt.
- For a suit, take a white or green T-shirt, preferably with sleeves - lanterns.
- Rain sleeves are sewn onto the sleeves.
- On the bodice, a Christmas tree with a top is made from rain or strips of tulle; toys on it can be made from colored buttons, for example.
Herringbone suit with tutu skirt and white t-shirt.
Herringbone suit with tutu skirt and green t-shirt.
You can read about how to sew the most difficult part of a costume, a tutu skirt, in the article: “How to sew a tutu skirt for adult women, girls, for a girl and a newborn baby? DIY tutu skirts made of tulle, organza and chiffon.”
Herringbone dress made of tulle: patterns for girls 3 – 6 years old
A dress with a satin bodice will look very beautiful at a party. And a skirt underneath:
- made of multilayer tulle
- from tiers of tulle and satin
- semi-sun made of satin
Pattern of a bodice for a Christmas tree costume (front).
Pattern of a bodice for a Christmas tree costume (back).
Semi-sun skirt pattern.
If you go with the last option, their skirts can be placed on a ring and trimmed with tinsel. Along the entire length of the dress, use neat stitches or glue to attach small, lightweight Christmas tree decorations: bells, bows, balls. Girl - the Christmas tree will be very elegant.
Christmas tree costume with a half-sun skirt.
How to make a crown for a Christmas tree costume? How to make a headband for a Christmas tree costume?
When the Christmas tree dress is ready, it’s time to think about what the baby will wear on her head.
Christmas tree costume cap.
Hat for herringbone costume.
Kanzashi cap for herringbone costume.
Headband for herringbone costume.
Kokoshnik for a Christmas tree costume.
The simplest option is to glue a cap out of colored paper, decorate it with tinsel, and put a star on top. Options for headdresses for girls - herringbone - are also:
- hat - cone
- cap covered in satin
- headband with tulle, beads and Christmas tree decorations
- kokoshnik
- decorated headband
- crown
Crown for herringbone costume.
The girl will be especially happy with the crown; she will wear it as a queen at the holiday. There are various ways to make your own crowns. Relatively new and original is the use of the kanzashi technique.
To create a headdress you will need:
- hoop base
- piece of felt
- satin ribbon 5 cm wide (green, red, gold)
- tweezers
- candle
- glue gun
- stapler
- beads of different colors
Materials for a Christmas tree crown using the kanzashi technique.
Making a Christmas tree crown using the kanzashi technique.
- The ribbons are cut into squares, that is, 5 cm by 5 cm.
- The rest of the green tape is wrapped around the base for the hoop.
- They make branches for the Christmas tree - crowns: I fold the squares in half to make triangles, and these triangles - in half again
- Trim the ends of the triangles and glue them together, bringing them to the candle.
- A base for a Christmas tree is cut out of a piece of felt.
- The Christmas tree is assembled on a base of twigs - kanzashi petals. The top can be made red, golden, etc.
- They “decorate” the Christmas tree with beads and pearls.
- Glue the kanzashi crown to the base for the hoop.
Christmas tree crown using kanzashi technique.
The headbands also look interesting:
- with felt Christmas trees
- with fir branches and cones
- with Christmas toys
Headband with springs for a herringbone costume.
Headband with a hat and kanzashi petals for a Christmas tree costume.
Headband for herringbone costume.
Christmas tree made of pine cones
You can make a very original Christmas tree with your own hands from pine cones. But we will not use the whole cones, but will use only their scales so that the tree is not too bulky.
So, first, let's separate its scales from the cone. This can be done with a sharp knife, wire cutters or pruning shears.
Be careful, take care of your hands!
The next step is to make a cone from thick paper or cardboard, which will be the base of our Christmas tree. We roll the paper into a cone, glue it on the sides and cut off the excess at the base.
Then we simply take the scales in our hands and glue them in a circle, starting from the base of the cone.
You can glue each new row in a checkerboard pattern, or, like here, on top of each other.
You can glue a clove to the top of the tree (such a spice))
After the glue has dried, you can start painting our beauty. To do this, you can use spray paint or regular acrylic paint.
If you choose acrylic paint with a metallic effect, your Christmas tree will look much more impressive.
Then we cover the ends of the “twigs” with PVA glue and sprinkle glitter on them.
This is the beauty that results from these simple actions:
Using exactly the same principle, you can decorate the cone with chains and beads, decorative cords, ribbons, braid, etc.
Another very popular way to make artificial Christmas trees with your own hands is to weave them from beads. This is perhaps the most painstaking method, but for lovers of beadwork nothing is impossible!
The detailed process of weaving Christmas trees from beads cannot be contained in one article, so we are sharing with you links to master classes previously published on Krestik.
DIY Christmas tree costume cape
In winter, when New Year's matinees are held, it can be cool in the music halls of kindergartens. A girl in a Christmas tree costume will not freeze if she has a cape. This element of clothing will also add volume and splendor to the forest beauty’s dress.
For the cape you will need:
- fabric - satin, corduroy, other fabric from which the Christmas tree dress itself is sewn
- braid
- tinsel
- fur pom poms
- satin ribbons
- New Year's decor
- scissors, thread, needles
- centimeter, chalk, ruler, pencil
Cape pattern.
- The cape pattern is made taking into account two sizes: the length of the product and the circumference of the child’s neck.
- Transfer the pattern to the fabric and outline it.
- The cape is cut out, its edges are folded over with braid and tinsel.
- Satin ribbons - ties - are sewn onto the collar. Their ends can be decorated with pompoms.
- Decorate the cape at your discretion to match the style of the Christmas tree dress.
Cape for herringbone costume.
Option for a thick cape for a herringbone costume.
IMPORTANT: The cape can also be made of two layers, from satin and tulle, for example.
Tights, socks, knee socks
White tights or knee socks or socks look very festive, but if you don’t have them, try using those that are available. Supplement them with tinsel or figure out how to divert attention from them, for example, slightly lengthen the dress.
The ruffles in a herringbone dress are a great focal point to make the dress as long as you like.
If you want to add more sparkle, add rhinestones to your tights or knee socks.
Video on how to decorate tights with rhinestones
