DIY kikimora costume

This is a rather unusual attire for New Year's masquerades, but such an attire is infrequent and will certainly distinguish a child from a crowd of snowflakes and princesses.

Who is Kikimora?

This fairy-tale character is often found in Russian fairy tales and is called as Kikimora the Swamp or Lesha's girlfriend.

She lives in a swamp, has an untidy appearance, clothes - rags, disheveled hair.

Kikimora Carnival Costume

Kikimora has green coarse hair, a marsh-colored dress, as if in mud or other greenery. You can replace the dress with a skirt with a T-shirt, throw something on top like a fishing net.

Shoes for kikimory can only be bast shoes. Accessories will complement the image - it can be large necklaces or bracelets from beads of different sizes and colors.

Tips for making long hair

If you go the easy way, you can simply purchase a multi-colored wig for a costume, but they grew too well-groomed and shiny, they are not quite suitable for the image of swamp kikimora.

Another point is that the girl will be uncomfortable dancing and having fun on the New Year tree with a heavy wig on her head, especially if she has her own long and thick hair.

In this case, it is better to use multi-colored overhead strands, but they can be made with your own hands.

The formation of "swamp" strands

For homemade strands you will need flax, used in plumbing work. He perfectly imitates the untidy and disheveled hair of Kikimora, they are colored with green paint or ordinary green. For painting, divide the flax into parts and boil them together with the paint. After the lock, rinse well and dry.

The dried and colored flax is then formed into strands: long flax fibers are evenly folded in half and attached to the prepared thread with hot glue.

The thread should be fully hung with colored strands, good and large clips are glued to the edges, which are then attached to the hair closer to the roots. The resulting hairstyle looks very organic and natural and will be a great addition to the carnival costume.

Clothing for the image

The costume of the swamp diva can be either a dress or a T-shirt with a skirt or trousers; a wrap is put on top. The first thing to do is to choose the material for sewing.

Pants and a T-shirt are best sewed from thick knitwear: velor, it stretches perfectly, which allows you to make the suit tight and fitting the figure, also such material looks beautiful. As a fabric for a wrap, a mesh is ideal, it can be golden or silver. For the suit, a cut in two lengths is enough, it is carefully folded in half and a hole for the head is cut in the middle.

Important! A sloppy edge can be made around the entire perimeter of the cloak; for this, the fabric is incised. This creates a spectacular and extravagance costume.

We sew a skirt

Sewing skirts is not difficult. Light and airy multi-layer fabric is suitable for the bottom of the suit: tulle, organza, satin. For the skirt you will need square pieces of any fabric that are sewn together at an offset angle. The pieces of fabric are fastened in the middle and a circle is drawn there, equal to the waist volume + 5 cm.

After the elastic is sewn. In order for the product to keep its shape well, a tulle corset can be sewn down.

Masquerade Dress Options

To sew a dress, kikimory take a child’s t-shirt or t-shirt, carefully draw chalk around the contour of the item, lateral trapezoidal stitches are taken out of the armpits, so the baby will be comfortable walking the dress. They circle the sleeves of the T-shirt and cut out all the details along the intended outline.

The skirt of the suit looks beautiful when it is tiered, it is sewn as well as the bottom for a separate suit: square pieces of fabric are gathered and sewn to the yoke.

The top of the suit must be sewn from knitwear, it is easy to work with this fabric, and it sits on the figure without adjustments. The skirt can be sewn from more interesting fabric: tulle, organza with sequins or embossed print.

For the splendor of the bottom you will need a tulle petticoat.

Pattern trousers and t-shirts

The pattern for the costume will be based on the things of the child, in order to accurately get with the size.

To do this, you need to take the sweater and leggings of the baby, they are turned on the wrong side and laid on the fabric from which the suit will be sewn, chalk around the things and cut out.

After all the details are sewn together, on the trousers the top is turned inside out in order to raise the drawstring into this strip.

Shoe selection

What Kikimora and without bast shoes? These old Russian shoes will add a special twist to the costume. They themselves can be crocheted from thick green yarn. Ten loops are gradually gathered onto the hook and the bast shoes are knitted in a circle, so the sole is obtained.

After it, they knit three centimeters high, the final action is to knit the sock and close it. A 60 cm long tape is threaded in the middle of the heel so that later it can be tied to the child’s leg to the knee.

Important! Bast shoes will ideally fit the costume if they are made in green, yellow or swamp colors.

Creative accessories

Accessories will add originality and charm to the kikimora costume. It can be necklaces and green beads, a rim with a frog, a large hat with brim and veil, a belt with done leaves, threads or New Year's rain - all these details will give the costume a complete look.

Important! Large and multi-layered bracelets and long earrings will look great.

First of all, what kind of costume the child should decide, let it be the generators of ideas for decorating and decorating this carnival outfit.