Top. The jacket is light (light yellow, light gray, light pink), but not white. The sleeves are long and fringed. You can simply tear the fabric at the bottom of the sleeves or specially cut it. The method depends on the type of fabric: if you cut thin knitwear into noodles, it will twist itself into tubes (Fig. 1). One or both sleeves may have patches sewn on the arms over the edge with threads of a contrasting color.
sleeveless shirt- from burlap or other similar fabric. There are holes made here and there, the lower edge is uneven (Fig. 2 on p. 37). If the sleeveless vest is specially sewn, then there is no need to hem the edges, but on the contrary, they can be “ruffled.” The sleeveless vest is fastened with a large button. You can take a coat button and make it out of cardboard or a flat plastic cap from a bottle or jar. Holes in such a button can be easily made using a soldering iron or a knitting needle heated over a fire.
Bottom. A skirt made of chintz, satin, fine wool, etc. A skirt made of a rather dark fabric with a small pattern (small rare flowers, small checks, stripes) or a plain one will look better. The skirt is elastic, straight, not very wide. The apron is plain, with multi-colored patches sewn in the same way as the patches on the sleeves.
On foot. Dark-colored tights or knee-high socks and cut-off felt boots or short boots, the top of which can also be cut off (unless, of course, they are no longer needed).
On the head. A scarf tied at the back of the head and pulled low over the forehead. The scarf can be smooth, light, with a small dark pattern on a light background, or vice versa. You can let your hair down and apply a little hair gel to create sticky strands, or you can make a wig and wear it under a headscarf. For the wig, use some unnatural color (purple, green, blue) or make it gray. The wig should not be neat, on the contrary, disheveled and disheveled. The length of the strands is not the same (for making a wig, see the corresponding chapter).
Great hooked nose(Fig. 3) is put on with a hat elastic. The nose can be made from papier-mâché, foam rubber, or sewn from fabric and stuffed with cotton wool, foam rubber, padding polyester, etc. The easiest way to make a nose is from old flesh-colored tights or golf socks, as they stretch well. Cut a piece of tights (approximately 8 cm, Fig. 3), fold in half, then again to make a rectangle 8 x 3 cm. Pull one short side with thread, and sew the long side (Fig. 36). Then turn out the resulting cap, fill it with cotton wool or padding polyester, trying to avoid lumps (Fig. Zv).
Give the cap the shape of a hooked nose: the base should be wider and the tip curved down. In this case, the seam should be on the bottom. Bend the edges of the cap inward to the required size of the nose (Fig. 3g). Sew an elastic band to put on the head, use a marker to mark freckles and mark the nostrils (wings of the nose).
Makeup. Draw in eyebrows and freckles with makeup or a cosmetic pencil, and line the eyes a little.
Props. On the neck is a necklace of “animal teeth” (Fig. 4), which can be made from black bread crumb (dry and slightly tint), salt dough, paper pulp (see the chapter “Papier-mâché”). The “teeth” are painted ivory, ocher or brown.
On hands- short, dark-colored gloves (may have cut fingers). You can take a real broom, or you can make a fake one. To do this, you need to take a branch (it is better if it is relatively straight, but with knots). Saw off the knots and sand the sections. Make the broom itself from thick paper or thin cardboard, cutting it into narrow strips. The length of such rods should not be the same. The total length of the broom itself is 30-50 cm (depending on the child’s height), and its color can be brown, green, black, and even red. Tie the broom to the stick using thin wire or rope.
New Year's masquerade is a great opportunity to dress up as everyone's favorite hero. Along with pirates, snowflakes, fairies, robots and snowmen, Baba Yaga is a popular character. Let's find out how to make a costume for the real Baba Yaga quickly and easily with your own hands.
This famous heroine of Russian folklore is easily recognizable by her hooked nose, patched skirt, scarf on her head and a broom in her hands. Baba Yaga, although she is a negative character, often comes to the aid of the main Russian characters folk tales. Specialized carnival costume stores are replete with offers to buy Baba Yaga outfits for girls. But in fact, this image is easy to create at home, since all the necessary material is at hand.
Making a real Baba Yaga costume with your own hands
Necessary materials:- long sleeve jacket;
- vest made of rough fabric or burlap;
- dark heel-length skirt;
- boots or galoshes;
- handkerchief;
- artificial nose made of papier-mâché;
- dark leggings or knee socks.
Making a Baba Yaga outfit for a child from scrap materials is very simple. The guide will help you with this.
- We decorate the sleeves of the sweater with fringe and sew patches along their entire length. It is advisable to use contrasting thick threads for sewing.
- We make a couple of holes on the vest. If you don’t have a ready-made vest at hand, you can make it yourself. To do this, we cut out parts from burlap or coarse fabric and sew them together so that the edges of the product look uneven. We sew a large button on one floor, and a loop on the other.
- We also sew a couple of patches onto the skirt. For a suit fairy tale character you need to choose the simplest skirt without unnecessary decorative elements. On top of it you can wear a light, but not white, apron.
- Wear socks or leg warmers on your feet. Put on short boots on top, it is best to wear galoshes.
- Put a scarf on your head. Its color doesn't matter. The scarf can be tied like a bandana or knotted under the chin. It is not necessary to use a wig; you can give your hair a tousled look using hair gel.
- Use a thin elastic band to put on the artificial nose.
- Apply scary makeup to your face. Draw wide black eyebrows with mascara, and freckles and imitation of wrinkles with eye pencil. You can stick warts made from foam onto your face.
A bright image can be complemented with a broom in your hands, beads made of berries and mushrooms around your neck. Such step-by-step instruction suitable for adults who decide to take part in children's party or at a themed party.
Making a nose from papier-mâché.It is not necessary to buy a false nose in the store. Chances are you have everything you need in your home to make it yourself. We invite you to watch detailed photo management.
- Make a mold of the nose from plasticine. Let it be big and hooked.
- Tear the newspaper into 2 cm pieces. You need to tear the paper, not cut it with scissors. In this case, the pieces will lie on the mold softly, without lumps or irregularities.
- Apply the soaked pieces to the cast. This must be done overlapping, leaving no gaps or air bubbles. From the second layer it is necessary to generously coat the workpiece with PVA glue. There should be about ten layers of paper in total so that the finished nose does not become deformed during use.
- Dry the product for several days without removing it from the plasticine blank. After the glue has completely dried, carefully remove the nose from the cast, trim the edges with scissors, and cut a hole in the bottom so that you can breathe.
- Make thin holes on the sides of the accessory and thread an elastic band through them.
- Paint the workpiece with gouache in a flesh color so that the paint adheres better, you can apply a layer of varnish.
If you follow all the instructions, the artificial nose will be very durable and will last a long time.
Additional attributes of Baba Yaga.The evil old woman is often depicted as hunchbacked. If you want to highlight this defect, then you will need a small pillow or a folded piece of fabric. We secure the improvised hump on the back with straps. You can take a small backpack and put a pillow or cloth in it. Put the backpack under the vest.
Carrying a full-sized broom with you is inconvenient, especially for a child. Making a smaller copy of the broom will not be difficult. You need to find a stick about a meter long and collect long dry branches on the street. We wrap the branches with wire slightly above the end of the stick.
For beads we use dried mushrooms and berries, for example, hawthorn, cranberries or rose hips. We string them individually onto a thick thread using a needle.
Video on the topic of the article
We have posted several training videos. They show that creation carnival costume Excellent entertainment in itself.
Baba Yaga must be a bright and colorful figure at a costume party. Despite her negative qualities, she is always the center of attention: either plotting, kidnapping the Snow Maiden or the holiday itself, or helping good heroes find the right path. Like any character, the witch has features of her outfit that will definitely tell you that this is the classic hero of the fairy tale Baba Yaga. This:
- broom;
- hooked nose;
- a characteristic scarf tied on the head;
- long skirt with patches.
Other attributes of Yaga leave room for imagination. A vest, a shirt or sweater with fringes, tousled hair, high socks or striped leg warmers - whether you should wear them depends on the specifics of your event. A Baba Yaga costume will not require much expense. The character wears rags, so you can easily find all the materials at home to sew an outfit from scratch yourself.
How to make a nose for Baba Yaga
A nasty long nose is a distinctive feature of this character. Although the costume can do without this expressive detail. You can probably buy the nose from a store that specializes in holiday supplies. However, if you still decide to make this part of the costume yourself, try papier-mâché technology.
For this:
- Make a hook-shaped nose out of plasticine. It doesn't have to be wide, but thin won't do either.
- Cut or tear thin paper (you can use newspaper) into small pieces.
- Coat the plasticine mold with PVA glue.
- Cover your nose tightly and evenly with pieces of paper. Wait for everything to dry.
- Paint the uniform in flesh color. To do this, mix red, yellow and white colors.
- Make holes on the sides at the base of the nose, thread a thin elastic band or thread - the nose is ready for “work”.
Baba Yaga costume from the movie “Morozko”
Many people of the older generation, when they hear the word “Baba Yaga,” see in front of them an image from the Soviet film fairy tale “Morozko”. The character of actor Georgy Millyar can be called classic. To make a similar costume, you need to work a little with a needle and thread:
- Take a piece of cotton shirt fabric. You can buy the most unsightly and cheapest one.
- Create a simple full sleeve shirt with the back and front sewn together under the arms and at the sides.
- Make a few stitches on the sleeves, and then slightly cut the fabric and tear it into “delicate” rags.
- To make a skirt, take a simple rectangle of fabric or burlap, sew it in two places (at the waist and at the bottom) and insert an elastic band.
- Throw a scarf over your shoulders or take a ready-made vest.
- Tie a scarf onto your wig or tousled and spray-fixed hair. Yagi’s “signature” scarf is knitted in a knot at the back of the head, and then twisted onto the forehead, with the knot forward. For reliability, it can be secured with invisible pins.
- Apply appropriate makeup in pale tones.
Advice. You can artificially age a suit by staining it with watercolors and sewing patches from pieces of colored fabric.
Modern Baba Yaga costume for adults
The Yaga outfit is easy to make on a quick fix from rags and household items. Use any dark turtleneck as a shirt. For the skirt you will still need sewing skills. Sew a piece of fabric in a couple of places at the top, insert an elastic band into the belt. This skirt with a slit does not have to be made to the floor. It's better if she's free. All this can be purchased at a “Second Hand” store - buy things 2-3 sizes larger.
Tights with holes and arrows are suitable for this model. On your feet - flat shoes or old ballet shoes. Comb and fix the hair on your head with hairspray. But it’s better to do bright makeup: beautifully, but excessively line your eyes and paint your lips. Don't forget about black or red manicure. A cone-shaped hat would be appropriate for this outfit. It can be made from two cardboard parts: a ring and a cone.
Advice. If cutting fabric is not part of your plans, but you want to add some ambience to your suit, just sew fringe on the sleeves, hem and other parts of the outfit.
Baba Yaga costume for girls
For a child, you can make one of the previous versions of the costume, but you can also sew an original outfit. Find a dark fabric, cut out and cut out two identical halves of the dress: front and back. The outfit should reach at least to the knees, have long sleeves and be quite spacious so that the child can put it on over his head. Sew the details. Decorate the finished dress with colorful patches.
For a vest, take a thicker fabric. To make this part of the costume, cut out 3 parts: the back and a couple of sides - they should be the same. Sew all the pieces together, leaving room for the arms. You can attach a beautiful cord to tie the vest's hems together. Original idea for a costume - beads made of dry berries (hawthorn, rose hips) and mushrooms. An apron with a pattern, made from a thin piece of semicircular fabric, will look beautiful on a Baba Yaga girl.
When making any Yagi costume, do not forget about main part- broom. For an adult, a ready-made one is suitable, but a child will probably have to make it with his own hands, from a stick and thin twigs. This accessory will complete the look, and no one will have any questions about what kind of bright character came to the holiday.
To create a different look for the holiday, read how to make it yourself, or.
Making a Baba Yaga costume: video
We can say with one hundred percent certainty that at any costume party, being Baba Yaga is much more interesting and fun than the Snow Maiden, a princess or some other fairy-tale beauty. Baba Yaga, for whom, by the way, it is not difficult to make a costume, is completely unlimited in her actions, and all her pranks and jokes will be forgiven. If you decide to choose this look for yourself for the next holiday, then our article will tell you how to make a Baba Yaga costume yourself.
Basis for the suit
A Baba Yaga costume can be made based on some wardrobe items. First of all, we need a long skirt, below the ankles. You also need to choose a wide and long blouse or a dark-colored shirt that you wear untucked. If you want your “granny” to look feminine, you can wear a fashionable, beautiful belt.
If you don’t have any suitable items of clothing in your wardrobe, you can sew a suit yourself. For the skirt, select a suitable material measuring 1 by 1.5 meters, fold it, sew the side seam, sew an elastic band at the top, and cut the bottom of the skirt into flaps different lengths. Sewing a sweater will be a little more difficult. To do this, a suitable fabric must be folded in four so that the fold is on the left side. You need to make a smooth neckline at the top, and the lower right piece needs to be cut around the circumference, at a distance of about 20 cm from the top, and about 25 cm from the bottom. After this, the fabric must be unfolded, cut the neckline, sleeves and bottom by 3-5 cm, and sew the sides on a machine. If you have an old unnecessary fur coat, then you can use it to make a vest for your heroine. You can also sew patches on top of it with thick woolen threads. The Baba Yaga costume is almost ready.
Costume decoration
Choose fabrics or dark colors- green, brown or black. From them it is necessary to cut strips, the length of which is about 20 cm, and the width is about 2 cm. Then the strips are folded in half and (as thick as possible) sewn onto the skirt and blouse. Made from yellow or Brown You can cut out tree leaves, which will be an excellent decoration for a costume. They will look especially impressive if you use chiffon as the material. If you want your Baba Yaga to look like a real fashionista, then take care of ring earrings, as well as large multi-colored beads. A large multi-colored scarf will come in handy; it will look great if you tie it diagonally over a skirt. Also take care of a suitable wig, which should be pre-combed and fixed with hairspray.
Makeup
However, the Baba Yaga costume cannot be considered complete without suitable makeup. If desired, a false nose can be purchased in specialized stores. But you can do it without it. It is enough to apply a dark base on the face and draw with a black pencil near the nose. Also pencil your eyebrows and paint your lips with red lipstick, this will help highlight feminine your fabulous Grandmother Yaga.
Hello, friends!
Recently, when I was sorting through photographs, a folder with the title “Baba Yaga” caught my eye and I remembered that I had not yet shown here a work that was very unusual for me. Before last New Year's kindergarten I was approached with a request to sew a Baba Yaga costume for a matinee. To make it more convincing that it was really needed, they showed me old suit, or rather what is left of it. Only with a very good imagination can you imagine how you can decently cover your legs with those scraps of skirt. The suit had no top at all.
As I already mentioned, I really like to do something new, something that I have never done before. On the one hand, this is a huge responsibility, and on the other, a complete flight of imagination and freedom in creativity. It was precisely this freedom, as well as a piece of burlap, old trousers and a heap of braid that was provided to me. A big story about what came of it, photos of the process and from the matinee under the cut.
And here the fun part began - figuring out what the costume would look like. Attempts to find at least some sample on the World Wide Web were unsuccessful. The most decent costume was from Georgy Millyar, but I didn’t undertake to repeat it, because it’s easy to just make rags from burlap, but to ensure that what is torn does not fall apart even before the matinee and has served in kindergarten for many years already more difficult.
Then, looking at this photograph, I asked myself: “Who is Baba Yaga?” And again I went to ask Google questions. The mystical component did not interest me at all. It was necessary to understand who she was and where she lived. After reading many articles, I formed the opinion that Baba Yaga is an elderly woman who lives in the forest. She wears old clothes, which is why she has a lot of patches on her. And her character is harmful due to obvious health problems - she is all crooked with a hump on her back.
And here my costume began to emerge: there should be a long skirt, a loose-fitting shirt, an apron and a vest. But the materials that were given to me in the garden were clearly not enough. And then home supplies of Soviet fabrics helped. I chose green fabric for the skirt - I really associated it with the forest, and bright chintz with flowers for the shirt. I decided to make an apron and vest from burlap.
There was nothing complicated with the skirt and vest and there are no step-by-step photographs. I made the simplest skirt with an elastic waistband and a ruffle at the bottom. I made the shirt as wide as possible to make it look voluminous, because elderly woman won't wear a tight top. I added elastic bands to the neckline and bottom of the sleeves for a better fit. In addition, this version of the shirt will fit any figure.
The most interesting thing was working with the vest. I cut out the simplest version of the vest. I had to rack my brains over how to process the edges. Simply laying it down and flashing it is not an option. I won’t even talk about the fact that a lot of garbage and threads fall from the burlap. This is where the old trousers, which they gave me to be torn to pieces, and the braid came into play. I cut strips, pulled out threads to make it look more shaggy, pinned it all to the edges of the vest and finished the edges that way. And I sewed the side and shoulder seams through braid, because there is no other way to sew burlap.
The only request from the future Baba Yaga was the presence of fly agarics on the costume. I decided that they belong on a vest. I made a button from polymer clay. But unfortunately, at that time I didn’t have any white clay in my supplies, so I made the leg out of light brown plastic and then painted the finished fly agaric with white acrylic and varnished it.
I placed two more fly agarics on the back. I drew two cartoon mushrooms and made a sew-on applique from the most ordinary chintz.
An apron is simply a rectangle of burlap sewn to a wide band. There is nothing complicated in it, so there is no separate photo either.
Well, we can say that the costume is ready. However, I decided that I also needed to sew burlap patches on the elbows of the shirt and on the apron and colored fabrics. And in order for the skirt not to look very new and to be connected with the rest of the costume, I sewed a strip of burlap along the bottom and the same shaggy stripe as on the vest. I was pleased with the result. The photo shows the fully finished costume before taking it to the garden.
