Children's holiday, morning performance and school performance – a suitable occasion to dress the son in a suit of the medieval knight. In the suit made by the hands, the boy surely will feel the invincible soldier capable to protect the kingdom from artful conquerors and huge dragons.
It is required to you
- - fabric;
- - cardboard;
- - plywood;
- - glue;
- - threads;
- - paints;
- - sewing machine.
Instruction
1. Take a jumper which by the size completely suits the child now for creation of a pattern of a suit. Apply a product to the velvet cut folded double. That fabric and a jumper on it did not slide, chop off them together tailor's pins. Accurately circle with chalk a raglan (without sleeves), leaving 2 cm on an allowance. Cut out a tunic which in expanded form has to represent a rectangle with a cut in the middle – a suit mouth.
2. Cut out the lower cuts of a tunic in the form of large cloves. If fabric is scattered in places of cuts, sweep off them a zigzag seam. To make a suit of the knight is more dense, hem the lining which is cut out on a similar template to inner side of a tunic.
3. For decoration of a suit cut out a cross from the atlas and sew it on the center of front side of a tunic. Sides of a tunic can be decorated with a tape which will also serve as a belt. From inner side of sidewalls it is necessary to sew garters thanks to which floors will be able not to scatter.
4. To make an image of the knight complete, it is necessary to add a suit with an armor. To make a board, take an old tray or cut out a circle from the sheet of plywood or dense cardboard. If cardboard is easily deformed, stick together together several sheets.
5. Wrap up the basis of a board in the metallized paper or a foil. Then cut out from color paper of a detail of the coat of arms (the symbolics of the coat of arms can be the most various). Paste them in the center of a board. That it was convenient to child to hold him in hand, from a reverse side attach to him an elastic band or a thong. Also it is possible to make guards for hands and shins of the cardboard which is wrapped up in a foil.
6. To make a chain armor slightly more difficult. It can be connected by a big hook or large needles from yarn of silvery gray color. It is possible to add a polypropylene twine from household shop to the threads put several times. The most suitable ways of knitting are columns with nakidy or hosiery knitting.
7. It is possible to look for a helmet among old toys and to slightly update it, and it is possible to do in a knitted hat a cut for eyes. It is the best of all to decorate a visor from cardboard with the Gothic drawing, fix it by the principle of a mask.
8. Old fishing-rods, plates, shanks, etc. will be suitable for production of fighting tools. However you remember that they have to be blunted, easy, so safe for children.