It seems that New Year is still far away. However, it is always better to prepare for it in advance. After all, in the pre-New Year's bustle, something will certainly be forgotten, not done in time, or will not seem so significant as to devote precious time to it. It’s completely different if you think about the holiday in advance - six months or at least a couple of months in advance. Then it will be possible not only to think through everything down to the smallest detail, but also to gradually implement everything in detail.

Monkey in the house!

In Russia, people have long been accustomed to celebrating the New Year according to oriental signs and some traditions. But we definitely do something our own way. For example, according to the eastern calendar, the New Year begins only on the eighth of February. Despite this, it has already become a tradition, when celebrating the holiday in our own way, to add Chinese symbols to it. This year is usually celebrated in clothes of red, orange or purple. The house should be decorated with interest, since the coming 2016 according to the Chinese calendar will be the year of the monkey. And to make celebrating the holiday more fun, we dress ourselves and dress the children in the costumes of this animal.

Many different costumes from infancy to the largest can be found in stores or you can sew them yourself, spending a little more time on it. If it is not possible to buy or prepare a masquerade outfit yourself, or if you have prepared other clothes for the celebration, then you should at least buy ears or sew them yourself, attaching them to a headband. Let's consider different options.

The smallest monkeys

This New Year's babies will look very real. After all, they already look like funny little monkeys. And dressing them up in such a costume will be such a joy for adults!

Examples of New Year's outfits could include the following options:

These suits are equally suitable for both boys and girls.

Monkey boys and girls

For older children you can find a wide variety of costumes. For girls, despite the fact that this is a monkey outfit, there are beautiful dresses and suits with skirts.

Both boys and girls can choose suits with or without shoes. The most interesting, of course, will be the options when the legs are fully costumed.

However, when choosing such an outfit, do not forget about the child’s comfort. After all, if a child does not yet know how to walk, then pants with thick “legs” will suit him. But older children want to run around and have fun, so the costume should be adapted to this.

Monkey Costumes for Teens

These guys want to be the most fashionable. Therefore, the monkeys from them will turn out to be the funniest and most different.

Girls, for example, having a beautiful New Year's outfit, can only wear ears and this will be enough to effectively celebrate the New Year.

There are, however, more interesting costumes for them.

Boys will most likely enjoy costumes with masks. They can be scary or very funny.

Why aren't adults monkeys?

We all come from childhood. That’s why adults sometimes want to fool around and wear a fancy dress. Even dad can be forgiven for a while not being Santa Claus, but childishly treating children like a monkey.

DIY monkey costume

If you have some free time, you can prepare the costume yourself. Needlewomen sew or knit it.

How to sew a monkey costume?

To sew a New Year's outfit, you will need velvety or similar fabric of black, brown or red color, from which a vest and shorts are sewn for the child. The tail will require flexible wire to give it a beautiful shape.

The shape of the headdress will be a regular Panama hat, onto which an appliqué with a monkey's face and ears is sewn.

On the other hand, a vest with a hood can be useful for two parts of a fancy dress costume at once: the outer part of the clothing and the headdress to which the ears are attached.

For a girl, a suit made of faux fur or thick twill will look beautiful. The skirt, vest and headdress are sewn from the same material.

Basic elements of a monkey costume

Protruding ears in a semicircle, a long tail and a prominent muzzle with a black nose - this is how a “masquerade monkey” should stand out.

The easiest way to make ears is from cardboard, decorating them with paints, covering them with fur, or crocheting them around. Attach them to a hat or headband.

You can put an old belt, for example, from a robe, on a long wire for the tail and cover it with suit fabric.

When preparing a monkey costume, you need to remember humor and mobility, because it is extremely difficult for him to sit still! Therefore, creative imagination in making an outfit can be embodied in the most daring ideas.

By the way, as an addition to the headdress or even instead of it, you can paint your child face painting of a monkey.

A dog can be a monkey too

Is your four-legged friend a real member of the family? Then we sew him a monkey suit. He will greatly delight the owners and guests with his funny appearance.

A real monkey must have bananas

This exotic fruit has long become almost the most traditional attribute of the holiday table, along with tangerines and oranges. And this New Year there should be really a lot of it! After all, monkeys love bananas so much.

For the holiday, you can, of course, sew a banana, but it’s much nicer to have a real sweet fruit on hand that you can gobble up at any time and take a new one!

Monkey habits

In order for the monkeys to look and believe that it is them too, do not forget about their habits.

Well, in general, they are so similar to people that you just have to scratch the top of your head and armpits, “poke” and we can easily pass for monkeys.

They also love to show off themselves. Therefore, the most daring experiments with your appearance will be appropriate this New Year. You can even think about body art if the environment is appropriate and the room temperature is appropriate.

Huge accessories in the form of beads, bracelets, brooches and so on, torn fabrics, shiny satin, a prominent bow, for example, on the hip and everything else in this spirit will make you “their own person” for the monkey this New Year.

- an old brown blanket,
- knitted brown mittens or socks,
- buttons,
- old fur coat, scarf.

Children's brown tights, a hat, beads, and bows are also useful for the costume.

Monkey costume for boy or girl There is no difference in tailoring. You can decorate the finished monkey costume, sewn by yourself later. For girls, this could be bows on the monkey’s head or tail, beads, earrings, a bright short skirt, monkey makeup on the child’s face. For a boy, you can get by with just a suit and a painted nose and antennae of a monkey.

Monkey costume for little ones- sewing is even easier. You will need to cut out and sew a brown plush jumpsuit with a cape-hood with ears for the child’s head:

It is not necessary to paint your baby's face; paints can cause allergies and can be quite difficult to wash off.

Monkey costume for adults sewing with your own hands from scrap materials will not be difficult:

The main attributes of a monkey costume for adults: a hat with ears, mittens and socks, or fur leg warmers, and of course a tail!

But the most popular monkey costumes are, of course, for kindergarten children. Mothers can choose any version of the monkey costume for their child.

Monkey costumes for boys:

You will need a piece of fabric, plush, velvet, or other fabric that imitates fur, maybe grass fabric. Color: brown, you can make inserts in the ears and on the paws in a lighter tone.

The tail is cut from the remnants of fabric of the required length, we turn the already sewn tail inside out and stuff it with padding polyester, cotton wool, or the remnants of unnecessary fabric. distribute evenly along the entire length. It is advisable to cut the tail with a bend or wave so that the finished tail looks like a real one.

As an additional attribute, you can sew a banana out of yellow plush for the monkey and, like the tail, stuff it with padding polyester.

You can edit monkey costume model, changing, for example, the sleeves. You can expand them and sew in cuffs. The front of the suit can also be designed in different ways. You can sew a zipper, you can punch buttonholes.

You can also simplify the model if it is difficult for novice seamstresses to sew in sleeves. You can completely abandon them and just make a vest. The pants can be shortened to save material, and if the child is hot in long pants. Excellent in wearing a monkey suit Fur shorts look great too!

Imagine, experiment and you will definitely succeed in making a monkey costume with your own hands from scrap materials!

A monkey costume for a boy for the upcoming 2016 Monkey has fewer options than a similar costume for a girl, because... Options with dresses are out of the question in this case.

Most often, a monkey costume for a boy is sewn in the form of a brown jumpsuit with sewn-on ears. To make the ears stand up, they can be stuffed with padding polyester. You can wear brown mittens on your hands, and furry brown slippers on your feet, but if you don’t have any, then any brown, black, white shoes or even socks of these colors will do. A tail sewn to the overalls and a banana in the hands (real or made) will complement the boy’s resemblance to a monkey. Next are a few photos of monkey costumes for this type of boy.

Another option for a New Year's monkey costume could be a gorilla costume. Next is a photo of a suit made by a user of the club.season.ru forum with the nickname ScorpiOlga. For the suit, soft wool is used, the base of the fabric is hard. Ears, soles, chest and processing of sections of sleeves, trousers and hood are made of artificial leather. The head is sewn in such a way that inside the hood is normal, the emptiness of the head is filled with holofiber (an artificial filler for pillows and blankets, a substitute for down and feathers). The lock on the suit is not secret and it is sewn in such a way that there is no difficulty in fastening it. The monkey's chest is held on by three black Velcro strips, which means it can be completely unfastened.

Gorilla slippers are a different story.

The gorilla slippers are sewn as follows: If you are using a material that does not fray, cut out 4 tops, 2 soles and 2 backs.

If using material that frays, cut out 4 tops, 2-4 soles, and 4 backs.

Fold the right corners of the backs 1/4 cm. Thread the elastic through. Stitch along the sides to secure the elastic.

Trim the excess. For wool - fold the backs right sides together, turn the right corners 1/4 cm. Thread the elastic through and secure it.

Place the back piece with the front piece right sides together, the piece with the elastic facing toward the front. Place the 2nd front piece on top of the back piece, right side down.

Sew along a right angle (1/4 cm). Turn it onto your face.

Mark the centers at the front and back. Fold right sides together, centers aligned, and pin.

Sew everything with a zigzag. The right side of the zigzag should go along the very edge to create a curl effect. This makes the seam minimal, and will be comfortable for the baby; the edge will be processed cleaner. Turn it onto your face.

A costume for the symbol of the year, outgoing or coming, is the best option for a carnival event near the Christmas tree. Undoubtedly, this character will be relevant at the New Year's holiday, because more and more often all theatrical performances are dedicated to stories that are in one way or another connected with the symbol of the year. Therefore, a “monkey” costume at a carnival masquerade is the best solution.

Today, quite a lot of masquerade outfits are on sale, but if you want to emphasize individuality and be sure that such an outfit will be unique and inimitable, then you should arm yourself with sewing supplies and sew a New Year’s monkey costume yourself. Moreover, this process is simple! And the description of how to create a “monkey” costume presented in this article will help you understand the main stages of the work and will be a good guide to making a beautiful outfit for boys and girls.

How to create an image?

The first step is to determine the main details. A monkey costume must have a long tail and ears. And elements such as a muzzle on a hat, a bunch of bananas and appropriate makeup can already be classified as accessories and additional details.

For a boy it may consist of pants and a jacket or overalls. But girls can play up the image a little differently, using a beautiful tutu skirt, gloves on their hands and even a hat on their head. You just have to use your imagination a little and transfer all the planned details of the costume onto paper by drawing a small sketch. This will help you navigate the stages of work in the process of creating an outfit.

Pants and T-shirt: a quick cutting method

It should be noted right away that for an outfit it is best to give preference to knitted fabrics that stretch well. This will ensure a comfortable fit for the product. You can sew a monkey costume with your own hands from fabrics such as velor, velvet, diving, terry or fleece. Naturally, the color must be brown.

To create a pattern for pants and a T-shirt or overalls, you don’t have to bother yourself with taking measurements, complex calculations and creating drawings. It is enough to take the appropriate size items from your child’s wardrobe, turn them inside out, lay them out on film or paper and trace them, straightening the cut details along the main seams. The only thing you need is to measure the distance from shoulder to waist. And then such a need will appear only if panties and a T-shirt are combined at the waist to create a jumpsuit template.

The rest is quite simple:

• cut out templates;
• transfer to fabric;
• cut taking into account seam allowances;
• sew a suit by assembling the parts into a single piece.

It should be noted that the tail will need to be sewn into the middle seam of the pants or overalls in the appropriate place. For a playful look, you can play up the character’s butt and tummy by sewing round patches on them.

All that remains is to complement the look with a tie or bow tie. You can also play with details such as gloves in the form of paws, which will greatly delight the child and his friends at the matinee, when they need to gracefully dance for Santa Claus near the Christmas tree.

Tutu skirt for girls

For a girl, a lady monkey will be a win-win. An elastic band to fit the waist, tulle strips 10 cm wide and a length equal to twice the length of the skirt will quickly turn into a chic skirt. To do this, you just need to tie the fabric with an elastic band. You can also complement the outfit with brown jersey leg warmers and gloves. The tail should be attached to the elastic band of the skirt and brought out between the elements of the tutu skirt.

A monkey's carnival costume must be cheerful and elegant. And perhaps you can’t do without bright beads around your neck. This small detail can instantly transform an entire outfit.

It should be noted that color combination is one of the important points. Since the socks, gloves and T-shirt should be brown, it is better to choose orange, yellow, green, red or pink for the skirt. Although the option with a rainbow skirt is also good!

How to make ears?

What's a monkey costume without ears? This is one of the most important details that makes the image recognizable. Making them is not difficult at all. To make it you will need cardboard and fabric in brown and beige or pink. It is better to make the ears large enough, but you should not get carried away, as Cheburashka will immediately appear. So, two semicircles are cut out of cardboard, then the template is transferred to fabric and four parts are cut out: two from dark matter, two from light. In this case, you should give a seam allowance of 1 cm along the contour of the elements. Next, the fabric parts are folded facing inward and sewn together. When a semicircle cut remains, the product is turned inside out, cardboard is inserted and carefully sewn up, tucking the cuts inward.

Such ears can be glued to a hairband, a hat sewn from two semicircles, according to the volume of the child’s head, or glued to the hood. For girls, a suitable option is to attach the ears to clip-on hair clips.

How to make a tail?

The tail is one of the easiest elements to perform. For it, 10 cm is cut out of the fabric, folded face inward, a stitch is placed and turned inside out. You can tie a knot on one edge, and the second edge is sewn into panties or attached to the elastic of a skirt.

Fun accessories for the perfect look

A New Year's monkey costume can be made quite spectacular. A bunch of bananas sewn from yellow fleece on a belt, a necklace made of textile orange slices or whole tangerines will add cheerful notes to the look. To create such details, fleece or felt is suitable. Both materials can be glued together with a hot gun and you don’t have to worry about sewing on small elements.

A butterfly on the boy monkey's neck will make the character an interesting gentleman. Continuing the idea, you can make a cane and a top hat for the head, as well as white cuffs for the sleeves, which will go well with the large paw gloves. These elements are best sewn from fleece.

Girls will definitely love the idea of ​​a wig with long hair, which in combination with protruding ears will look so cute that you won’t be able to take your eyes off the baby. Such a monkey costume will definitely stand out from the crowd of children and will delight not only the child, but also those around him.

Monkey costume It can be suitable for both a child for a matinee in kindergarten and a teenager for a themed party. In addition, the Year of the Monkey is approaching, which means that such an outfit will come in handy for celebrating the New Year. You can buy such a suit in a store, but you will have to shell out a decent amount of money, so many mothers who are familiar with sewing and know how to use a sewing machine usually make such suits with their own hands, and we offer you some tips on sewing them.

First you need to decide on the material so that DIY monkey costume made, looked original, was practical and comfortable to wear, so the fabric must be reliable - it is better to take synthetic fabrics, fleecy, so that they replicate the fur of the animal.

For the main fabric, you need to buy brown fabric, and individual areas, for example, the abdomen, will be made of yellow fabric. Immediately prepare all the necessary tools so as not to be distracted from the process of sewing an outfit for your child. You will need needles and threads, sewing pins, scissors, and for sewing we will also need a sewing machine, without it it will be impossible to complete such a complex product, and hand stitches will not turn out so neat.

Monkey costume

New Year's monkey costume looks like a one-piece jumpsuit, it covers the entire body from head to toe, so you need to cut the jumpsuit out of brown material, you can cut the trousers and blouse separately, and then sew them together. When the overalls are ready, you need to cut out a yellow oval and sew it onto the belly.

You can easily find a hat pattern on the Internet; it can be either a separate hat with ears or a hood that will need to be sewn to the main product. The details of the hat and ears should also be cut from brown fabric, and yellow inserts will also be needed for the ears. When the ears are ready, before sewing them to the hat, you need to stuff them with padding polyester so that they keep their shape.

Another mandatory detail that should not be forgotten if you create monkey costume for girl or boy, it's a tail. It is done very quickly: you need to cut a long rectangular piece from brown fabric (its length will be equal to the length of the tail, and its width will be twice the width of the future tail). When determining the width of the rectangle, do not forget that we will stuff the tail so that it is round and voluminous.

The rectangle needs to be sewn lengthwise and then stuffed with padding polyester; you can also place plastic wire inside, which will give the tail an interesting shape - wrap it in a ring at the end. The tail should not be long, because otherwise it will interfere with the child during games and dances at the matinee, other children may step on it. At the end, the tail must be sewn to the pants and the outfit can be considered ready. To complement it, you can also sew a banana out of yellow fabric, which is also stuffed with padding polyester, because the monkey really loves to eat this exotic fruit, and take a few fresh bananas with you to the matinee, because after games and entertainment the baby will probably want to refresh himself.

Sewing tips will definitely come in handy if, for example, you have to sew a costume for a fairy tale where there are bears, but for a bear you don’t need to make such big ears and a long tail. The bear's tail should be small and fluffy, and its ears should stick up. You can also find some tips in the article where we looked at DIY.

Sometimes mothers do not have time to sew a one-piece suit; in this case, you can only add some elements to everyday pants and blouses that will need to be sewn separately. You need to take brown pants, and also find a brown blouse with or without a hood. If you find a jacket with a hood, then you need to sew ears made from felt or fleece and stuffed with padding polyester to it. If there is no hood, then you also need to make a hat with ears. Pants should be complemented only with a long tail.

Monkey costume for girls

If on monkey costume for boy For a preschooler you will need a little material, but to make such an outfit for a schoolchild or an adult you will need several meters of material, and given its cost, such an outfit cannot be called budget. Therefore, mothers come up with other options, for example, you can do without overalls, and make shorts and a vest, and for a girl - a vest and a skirt, you can also make leg warmers and fabric bracelets for your arms, and put a monkey mask on your head.

To sew shorts and a vest, you will definitely need faux fur, because such material resembles the fur coat of a real animal. The most economical option for such a suit would be to use fleece; moreover, it is easy to find in a wide variety of colors.

When creating a pattern, there is no need to adjust the product to your figure, so you can simply trace any summer shorts and a T-shirt or pants and a jacket on paper. First, the pattern must be drawn up on paper; for this it is better to use old wallpaper, as for drawing up other sewing patterns.

The finished paper patterns must be pinned to the fabric with sewing pins, outlined with chalk, making seam allowances of 1-1.5 cm, and carefully cut along the marked lines. The finished parts must be sewn together from the wrong side, and other sections must be additionally processed if you are using “loose” fabric. In any case, the vest needs to be treated with armholes, for example, you can use braid, and decorate the front panels with brown faux fur.

You can also decorate shorts with fur, then a tail is also sewn onto them, inside of which there is a wire base.

Lastly, you can move on to the simplest part of the suit: the hat. You can take the pattern of a six-piece Panama hat as a basis, and when it is sewn, attach the ears to it. By the way, the headdress can also be decorated with eyes, nose and mouth made of felt for the mouth and nose and buttons for the eyes.

Of course, we will not be wearing the vest on a naked body, so we need to wear a white shirt or T-shirt.

In addition to the vest in DIY monkey costume for girls It also includes a skirt, the lower edge of which must be trimmed with faux fur. To make the skirt comfortable to put on, you need to have a zipper or button closure at the back.

DIY monkey costume

Children's monkey costume Every woman can sew a small size, even if she does not have the skills to sew complex products, and besides, you will be working with simple material that does not require additional processing of sections. If we are talking about an adult outfit, then sewing a full-fledged suit is problematic, because it is necessary to make large patterns and sew a full-fledged product, so you can get by with only some basic elements of the image of a monkey. The simplest option would be: a ponytail with an elastic band, a monkey mask with ears.

Made with your own hands, there may be some mistakes, because an inexperienced seamstress may make an uneven seam or make a slight mistake with the pattern, but this is not critical for this product, because, most likely, the child will only wear it once.

For example, monkey carnival costume can be made in fancy colors, you shouldn’t limit yourself to just yellow and brown, your fashionista can be in a playful multi-colored skirt with large plastic decorations on her hands. The skirt can be sewn the same as for, using tulle. A light skirt can be complemented with brown leg warmers with fur trim and the same sleeves, and the final look will be formed by a mask with ears, which will be held on the head thanks to an elastic band.

New Year's monkey costume

To see how simple it can be monkey costume, photo you can find it on the Internet, perhaps some ideas will be useful to you, and you can implement them yourself.

The mask is best made on a sheet of cardboard, on which you need to draw the outline of a monkey’s face with ears, eyes and mouth. Then the eyes and mouth must be cut out using a stationery knife, this is necessary so that the child can comfortably move around the hall wearing a mask. The mask is fixed on the head with an elastic band.

For the tail, there is also no need to buy material; you can wrap a flexible wire with padding polyester, tie it in several places with thread, and then put a brown stocking on top and sew it up at the top and bottom. The tail will also be held on by an elastic band, which you will put on your waist.

You can easily do DIY New Year's monkey costume, if you find a pattern for the product on the Internet, and for your baby you can draw a pattern yourself.

Children's monkey costume

Do you remember how we did it using a hook and yarn, namely, the skirt and crown were crocheted? If you are cooking for a baby under 1-2 years old monkey costume, buy You need brown yarn. Since we are talking about a small child, it is necessary to choose exclusively hypoallergenic yarn so that it does not prick or cause itching in the child. Acrylic yarn, for example, produced in Russia by the Pekhorka factory, is ideal; you can find a series designed specifically for children's products.

Needlewomen who prefer to knit can use this type of knitting; for those who are more suited to crocheting, you can use this tool.

You need to knit a brown baby jumpsuit and separately crochet a yellow oval. Sew it on the front of the overalls. You can easily crochet a hat, but for the ears you need to knit two parts, sew them on both sides and stuff them with synthetic padding, then sew them to the hat.

Link or make a monkey costume- it’s your choice, but the knitted version is more suitable for a very little one who will attend a children’s party for the first time, for example, at an older brother’s matinee in kindergarten, and will spend time in her mother’s arms.