In this master class I will tell you how to sew a carrot. I received an order from kindergarten, needed 14 pieces for the bunny boys. I'll tell you how to sew one.
So let's get started.
We will need: orange fabric, green fabric (in in this case polka dots) and filler (I took padding polyester).
Also threads, thin cord and sewing machine. You can, of course, do it with your hands, but it’s very difficult.
So, the first step: we make a pattern from cardboard. A triangle of the desired shape and size of carrot. I have it 20x9 cm. And two “fingers” 9.5x4 and 6.5x4 cm, for making green carrot branches.
On the orange fabric, on the wrong side, we trace a triangle and apply the same triangle to its long side again and trace it. It turns out to be a quadrangle.
We cut out this part taking into account the fabric at the hem, approximately 1 cm.
To make the carrot more realistic, I painted brown stripes on the fabric. To do this, I took fabric paint.
I drew it and ironed it with an iron. If you don’t have fabric paint, you can do it with regular paints or felt-tip pens, but keep in mind that such a product cannot be wetted or washed. You can embroider stripes with brown thread. But for a large number of products, this technique is not suitable, as it is too labor-intensive.
Sew the fabric from the nose of the carrot to the base. The result is a cone.
Then we prepare the carrot tails.
Take the green fabric and trace the pattern. We will need to circle the small part once, then place it next to it and circle it again.
Then for the second tail again. And circle the second, larger detail twice.
Then cut, taking into account the hem.
And sew along the contour.
Then the products must be turned out and ironed.
They turned out like these - similar to the fingers of gloves.
The result is that all the parts are connected.
Then, we stuff our beautiful carrots with padding polyester. And tighten it with a string. It turned out to be an excellent bond. And there was no need to manually connect and tighten the product.
And here they are, our beautiful carrots.
Our bunny boys will be happy!
Vegetables are the most noble, safe and inexpensive material for children's crafts. For example, you can make fun carrot crafts with your own hands without extra cost or effort.
Why carrots?
So, why should you choose carrots? Firstly, it is stored for quite a long time and does not fade. Secondly, it is easy to work with: it is hard, but at the same time can be cut. In addition, this vegetable does not slip in your hands (after all, it contains little juice). And thirdly, carrots are inexpensive, so you don’t have to spend a lot of money. And DIY carrot crafts are beautiful and funny.
Several options for carrot crafts
Carrot gnome
To make it you will need:
- 1 medium sized carrot;
- colored paper;
- scissors;
- matches or toothpicks;
- markers (or better yet paints) of different colors;
1. First, cut out all the parts for the gnome. Cut off the tip. This will be a gnome's hat. Cut a couple of rings from the top. These will be your palms. Now cut 3 rings from the bottom of the carrot. These will be blanks for the legs and head. You will be left with the middle part of the carrot - the future body.
2. Now start connecting all parts of the body. Insert two toothpicks (or matches) parallel to each other into the lower part of the body blank. Pin blanks for legs onto their ends. Now make toothpick hands and attach the palms to them. Fingers can be made from pieces of toothpick.
3. Attach the neck to the upper part of the body (this, of course, will also be a toothpick), placing the head on it. And attach a cap from the tip of a carrot to your head (you can also do this with a match).
4. Now cut out the vest from paper and put it on. Draw the face. Ready!
You can make these unusual and funny carrot crafts with your own hands quickly and without extra effort.
Carrot Pirate
To make this craft you will need:
- 1 large carrot;
- 1 balloon;
- cardboard;
- paper (you can use colored paper);
- paints;
- corn silks (if you don’t have them, you can use thick threads);
- stationery knife.
1. First, peel the carrots. Cut off the lower part with a stationery knife and cut out the nose from it (choose the shape yourself, you can make it rectangular, round or square), and then put it on a piece of toothpick and place it in the hole made specially for this on the pirate’s “face”.
2. Now use a knife to make a mouth and teeth: make one long horizontal notch and many short vertical ones, located perpendicular to the long one. Also make one eye (it may look like a circle-shaped groove with a bump in the middle).
3. Now do the headdress and hair. Cut the balloon and pull it onto the carrot on top. Under such an improvised cap, secure the hair, which will be made from threads or corn silks. In the same way, fasten the eye patch cut out of colored paper.
4. Cut out 2 triangles from paper and glue them together, leaving their bases free. The result is a three-cornered hat. Place it over the balloon on the pirate's head (for decoration, draw a skull and crossbones on it).
What could be simpler than a carrot costume? You can buy a ready-made one or rent it. But there is nothing to compare the emotions from a common cause - jointly making a costume for the Christmas tree.
Why carrots?
A masquerade costume helps a child develop imagination, fantasy, and what can you compare the pleasure of the result - colorful New Year's costume, which certainly no one will have.
With the help of a carrot costume you can introduce your child to healthy eating, popularize healthy image life, explain the benefits of vegetables, the amount of vitamins in them. Even if the baby has never eaten carrots before, after working together on creating a New Year's costume, he cannot help but fall in love with the vegetable.
In addition, this is a universal outfit: a carrot costume is suitable for a girl and a boy. After all, its bottom, the rhizome, can be made as a skirt and panties or a cape.
Complete benefit!
Where to get ideas?
The source of inspiration will be the carrot itself. You can take a vegetable and examine it with your baby. By bringing the child into contact, the mother will be able to consolidate his knowledge of taste and taste.
You can also prepare delicious dishes, bake so that the child will surely understand that the carrot is a real hero worthy of visiting New Year's party.
Idea preparatory stage- interactive conversation about carrots and their benefits. Let the child describe the vegetable, what color it is, its shape, what its components are, and how it differs from other vegetables. And the main question is how he imagines the carrot costume.
I made him out of what was...
As a result, the child himself will say that for a carrot costume you need two main colors: an orange bottom to make the rhizome, and green tops.
Surely in the girl’s wardrobe there will be things of this color: a sundress or skirt and a green blouse, a hat, a scarf, a headscarf, a bow. All this, including imagination, can be used in preparing a costume.
Bottom of the suit
Sewing a carrot costume with your own hands is not difficult. You can find examples of work and even patterns for them, as well as instructions and tips on cutting a model and sewing a suit.
To prepare the bottom of the suit, that is, the rhizome itself, you can use any shape. You can leave your existing outfit unchanged or decorate it with red, yellow or orange garland.
Foam rubber can serve as the basis for a voluminous suit. A cone-shaped carrot bottom is made from a piece of the desired size in length and width.
You can put sewn fabric on top or full skirt, sundress or full-length cape. You can insert an elastic band at the bottom and tighten it a little. Or cut the fabric from the bottom on both sides with a wedge, similar to the root of a vegetable.
Miracle material foam rubber
Foam rubber is an excellent material for making the base of a suit. An important stage of the work is the correct cutting of the material. It is important that the cut site is perfectly level at the desired angle.
Universal glue “Moment-1” is suitable for gluing. Having spread it on both sides, let it dry for 5-7 minutes, and then lightly press and twist so that the glue is evenly distributed and sets. Everything needs to be done quickly and carefully.
Work on gluing foam rubber should be done by an adult so as not to harm the baby’s health.
All that remains is to cover the suit with fabric.
To make the carrot costume complete, you can use a ready-made item from the girl’s wardrobe as greenery, or sew a frill, scarf, or bow from any fabric of the desired shade.
The tops can be placed on the head as a green hat, bow or hoop with visually similar leaves, which can be made from any material: fabric, cardboard, green garland.
A simplified version of the carrot costume
Clothes that are in stock are used. Traditionally, the bottom is orange and the top is green. And on the head, using a hoop or cardboard headband, or crown, place a drawing or applique - an image of a carrot. You can also attach a carrot sewn from fabric to a green hat. Or attach colorful pictures of vegetables to your chest and back.
Option in the basket
You can make a carrot costume in a basket using three main parts.
A brown skirt with a foam base and a shoulder strap will resemble a basket. The carrot itself can be an orange blouse. The green top is a hat, scarf or bow.
Upside down
Or you can completely simplify the carrot costume with your own hands. The headdress will act as a rhizome. It can be a cone-shaped hat or cap made of foam rubber, colored cardboard, or painted.
And the tops will be either a set of blouses and pants, which will be decorated with green garlands or bows.
It has become fashionable to arrange photo sessions. Young mothers especially love to do this. You can imagine your long-awaited child in any image.
It's easy to make a carrot costume for a girl with your own hands. It can be knitted with orange yarn or sewn into a regular carrot envelope from any fabric.
Use a hat with pom-poms as tops.
What will we tell Santa Claus?
On New Year's holiday The baby will be able to adequately present his carrot costume. Photo will display bright emotions child. The main thing is not to forget to capture it.
To present the costume, you can come up with a funny fairy tale, a scene with other characters, for example, beets, cucumbers, green peas, or read a poem:
I was born a carrot
I got angry with the kids
They don't want to eat me
Everyone is looking at the candy.
And I have all the vitamins
You just can't see them from above.
If you love me -
You will be healthy and strong!
I grew up beautiful
And on New Year's Eve
Came to see the kids today
On the New Year's tree.
I want to tell you a secret
Everyone can live with me for at least a hundred years.
I will treat you with vitamins,
To grow you smart and strong.
The main rule for making a carrot costume is to maintain a combination of two colors: orange rhizome and green tops. And what materials, sizes and proportions to use depends on your imagination.
And then at the New Year's party, Autumn festival or photo shoot, your beloved baby will be the most beautiful.
Bright and soft knitting threads can also be used for other purposes. For example, you and your child can make a funny two-part carrot from them. A cardboard frame is used as a base.Required materials:
- red and green cardboard;
- green and orange knitting threads;
- simple pencil;
- office glue;
- scissors.
How to make carrots from cardboard
1. Draw the outline of a carrot on red cardboard.
2. Carefully cut out the silhouette of the carrot along the pencil outline.
3. Make several cuts along the contour of the carrot. We stretch the orange thread and make a knot for fixing.
4. We begin to wrap the cardboard element in the shape of a carrot with orange knitting thread along the entire length on both sides at the same time. We fill the empty spaces with thread to get voluminous carrots.
5. On green cardboard we draw long stems for our carrot-shaped craft.
6. Cut out the carrot stems along the contour.
7. We begin to wrap the stems with bright green knitting thread from the wide part. Then move on to one thin stem. We wrap it and return to the wide part. Let's move on to the next stem. We do this with all the elements to completely cover each area with green thread.
8. Glue the stems to the back of the carrot. We use office glue. You can also use hot glue from a gun. He will be able to connect two elements together more reliably.
At the annual traditional New Year celebrations, our beloved children are recommended to attend in some kind of costume. Well, mom has to decide which costume to choose for her beloved child and where to get it. Of course, the easiest option is to buy a ready-made carnival outfit or rent it. But since real needlewomen do not look for simple ways, we suggest you create it yourself, for example, sew children's costume carrots.
How to make a carrot costume with your own hands for a girl?
Agree that a version of a carrot costume for a girl must definitely have a skirt. Does anything look more elegant than bright and fluffy? And, by the way, you don’t even need a sewing machine to create it. So, stock up:
- a piece of orange tulle 2-2.5 m long;
- wide elastic band 2-3 cm wide;
- scissors;
- thread and needle.
The heaviest part of the costume is ready.
The skirt can be additionally decorated with a bow or a layer of opaque fabric.
For the top of the suit, you just need to choose an orange or green T-shirt or golf. If there are inscriptions or a drawing in front, they can be covered with an appliqué in the shape of a carrot.
It’s easy to use the girl’s existing one as a headdress. You need to attach a carrot made of colored paper or fabric to it.
Not hard to do orange cap from a rectangular piece of orange fabric, gathered with an elastic band. We decorate the upper part of the headdress with “tops” made of green material.
A DIY carrot costume for a girl is ready!
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How to sew a carrot costume for a boy?
If you have a son, then his carnival costume will consist of an apron depicting a carrot. So, prepare:
- orange satin 1.5 m long;
- padding polyester – 1.5 m;
- a piece of fleece or felt 20 cm long;
- Velcro;
- orange satin braid 2 cm wide.
The carrot apron is ready! If desired, decorate the front of the costume with zigzag stripes of brown thread characteristic of the vegetable.
All that remains is to create a hat for the boy’s carrot costume. We sew it from a rectangle measuring 50x20 cm, which is first lined with padding polyester and decorated with brown zigzag stripes. We close the rectangle into a cylinder by sewing the short sides together. The top edge of the hat needs to be gathered and sewn, and the bottom edge needs to be folded and machined. We decorate the resulting hat with tops made from felt or fleece strips.
So the carrot suit for the boy is ready!
