A festive children's carnival is a bright event, the memories of which are often kept in memory for a lifetime. Children always with great enthusiasm choose a character for themselves, in the image of which they would like to appear at the holiday. A good carnival costume is of great importance for a child, but do not rush to the store for it. Creating a fabulous image with your own hands with mom and dad - what could be more exciting and fun for a child? This is a great opportunity for the whole family to become even closer and closer, and a good chance for everyone to show their creativity and ingenuity.
It is necessary
- For a papier-mâché helmet:
- - latex balloon;
- - plasticine;
- - old newspapers;
- - PVA glue or starch paste, glue gun;
- - cardboard;
- - a cord for decoration;
- - silver and black paints;
- - a piece of fabric for the aventail.
- For a helmet from a plastic bottle:
- - 5 or 6 liter bottle;
- - silver paint;
- - a piece of fabric or mesh.
- For a cloth helmet:
- - thick fabric, adhesive fabric, shiny fabric or mesh;
- - cardboard;
- - braid;
- - silver paint.
- For a helmet made of cardboard:
- - thin cardboard;
- - silver self-adhesive film;
- - fabric for the aventail.
Instructions
Step 1
Indeed, for the manufacture of some elements of the costume, sometimes it is necessary to resort to extraordinary technological discoveries. What is even the task of making a heroic helmet! But she also has several solutions. The first is to make a papier-mâché helmet. To do this, first measure the circumference of the child's head and inflate a balloon of this volume. Mark the approximate line for the bottom edge of the helmet using the child's head size and actual helmet samples. To obtain a pointed conical shape on top of the helmet, mold a tip of the appropriate shape from plasticine and attach it to the ball on the crown of the future heroic headdress.
Step 2
Then evenly glue the ball with a sharp tip using PVA glue or starch paste with pieces of torn newspaper to the marked border (the first layer is pieces of newspaper soaked in water). Make at least seven newspaper layers. The edges of the border can be uneven - they can then be trimmed.
Step 3
Dry the resulting workpiece thoroughly. Let the air out of the ball and remove it along with the plasticine tip. Refine the bottom line of the helmet and carefully cut off any excess paper. The main part of the helmet is ready. On the model of a real old Russian helmet (helmet), cut out additional parts from cardboard and glue to your product (a nose piece, a half mask that protects the upper part of the face). You can wrap the edges of the helmet with an embossed cord for decoration and glue it.
Step 4
Paint the helmet with silver paint. To make the helmet look natural, you can mix silver and black paint and apply the resulting color in places on the surface of the headgear. Paint it inside with black paint. Let dry.
Step 5
From the fabric with silver sequins (or mesh fabric), cut out the back part of the helmet - the aventail (in the original - the chain mail mesh that protected the neck and shoulders of the hero). Tucking a little, attach the fabric to the base of the helmet with a glue gun. The heroic helmet is ready.
Step 6
The second solution to our problem is to make a helmet from a round large plastic bottle. Mark the bottom line of the helmet on the bottle. Make a tip from caps of different sizes and other materials and screw it to the neck of the bottle. Cut off unnecessary parts of the bottle. Cut and glue additional cardboard parts, if necessary. Cover the helmet with a silvery spray paint. Cut out and double-sided tape an aventail made of shiny fabric.
Step 7
The third solution is to sew a helmet from dense fabric according to the pattern of the Red Army Budenovka (it was the heroic helmet that served as the prototype for the headdress of the Red Army soldiers). Such a hat is sewn from 4-8 gussets. For stiffness, glue the base fabric with a heavy glue cloth. Change the budenovka pattern a little so that it looks more like a helmet of the heroes. Sew the bottom of the helmet with tape from the inside, and attach the rest of its parts to the outside of the base.
Step 8
Using approximately the same pattern, you can make a helmet out of thin cardboard, previously pasted over with a shiny self-adhesive film. Attach the wedges cut without allowances butt to each other from the inside of the product using tape or long strips of paper greased with glue. Glue the bottom edge of the helmet with a strip of cardboard and complete it with the missing details.
