Costumes for Halloween
For the ancient Celts Hellouinskaya night or in another night of Samhain was a time when you could become a victim of spirits, ghosts or other denizens of the underworld. Therefore, the Celts sought to protect yourself and your home from intruders. To do this, they made various tricks to their house and they become invisible or unrecognizable: quenched in the homes of the fire, put on themselves animal skins, painted face and body with all sorts of patterns.
The modern celebration of Halloween costumes to allow not only animal skins, but also any costumes that are related to the evil spirits. Classic feminine dress for Halloween witch costume is considered. Real witch dressed in a long black dress, black pointy hat and have black nails. Of the required accessories in a witch should be: a broom and a burly black cat. Matted hair and makeup complement the awesome image! Basis makeup witch - green skin tone.
Excellent image witches turn, provided no wash-up in the evening and in the morning do not comb your hair.
Little girl witch can be dressed less gloomy. In the suit may be a bright long dress of tulle air strips of blue, green or purple tones striped stockings. Appropriate bat wings behind the back, broom, black dried rose in his hand.
Manufacturing hats cap
Indispensable attribute of both small and adult witch is a black pointed hat, cap. Witches hat is very quick and easy to make yourself out of cardboard. Need a thick cardboard large size, at least A3, scissors and glue. The easiest way to get ready cardboard black. If this board is not - paint white cardboard with black paint or ink, dry well, and then start making hats. Stunning hat comes out of velvet or corrugated cardboard.
Black pointed hat - symbol of witches. Pattern hats consists of two parts: the cone and ring (field hats).
Before making hats a must measure and record the circumference of the head in the future witch, or hat can get small or too large.
To make a cone, you need to cut out of cardboard quarter circle: center of the circle which is located in the corner of a sheet of cardboard. The radius of the circle is calculated as 2.3 * (length 1 cm in head circumference). From the resulting roll cone quadrant, one edge lubricate adhesive and tightly press the edges together. For gluing cardboard and easy to use double sided tape.
The formula of the circumference is known from school days - 2PR.
The second item is a hat - this ring. Cardboard need to draw three circles with the same center: the first - a subsidiary, for the manufacture of "tongues", with which the field will stick together and cone hats, the second - the hole for putting a hat on his head and a third - the end of the brim of his hat.
First, the smallest circle is drawn radius equal to (the circumference of the head / 6 - 1 cm). The second - a radius equal to (the circumference of the head / 6). Third, the largest radius equal to (the circumference of the head / 6 + 15 cm).
The radius of the third circle may be less or more than 15 cm. This is the width brim of his hat and modeled at the discretion of the master.
After three rounds are drawn, you need to cut along the contour of the largest and the smallest circle. From the edge of a small circle to make cuts to the middle circle drawn line - receive "tabs" for bonding. Bend tabs up and glue the cone with a brimmed hat: tabs should not be visible, they should be inside the cone.
One way to make an unusual hat - a hat curly handle edge scissors.
Decorating hats
To fly from hat on the head, especially the girl-witch useful to attach to it a hat gum: puncture in the fields hats two holes and insert them in the ends of the gum and tie knots on.
To make the hat of mystery and secrecy can sprinkle it sparkles from the spray - are often sold in stores for decorating your home or cover the paint with glitter, for example, in a set of gouache over 8 colors found gold and silver gouache.
The highlight of the hats can be a spider hanging from a thread on the field. You need to cut the spider made of cardboard or buy a ready-department store fitting fabrics, hang it on the thread and attach to the fields of a hat.
You can also decorate the shiny plastic buckle hat and veil. Children's hat original complement a long train of tulle in the color of the dress.
If you have the time, desire, and most importantly, the ability to sewing, you can sheathe hat cloth. For this purpose, the most suitable fabric dense mat. Very impressive to look hat trimmed with black synthetic padding or pasted pieces of cotton, pre-painted black.