How to make a paper ninja mask. DIY ninja turtle costume

The mutant turtles from the comics have not lost their relevance for several decades. And after the release of a feature film about these fairy-tale heroes, the boys completely lost their heads. If your child is also delirious about some Raf, Leo, Mikey or Donnie, make the baby pleasant - make on New Year's party favorite character costume.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume for a boy

First of all, carefully consider the pictures of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Please note that they are green in color, with huge muscles and numerous garters. The belly is brown with well-defined reliefs of the press. Behind the turtle shell, and in front of the eyes - a mask with long garters.

We sew a costume of a ninja turtle with our own hands

Based appearance ninja from the comics, we will select the appropriate materials for tailoring the costume.

Materials and tools

You will have to spend money on costume materials if nothing suitable is found at home. You will need:

  • 2 m of green knitwear;
  • 30 cm light faux suede;
  • 50 cm dark faux suede;
  • 50 cm red velvet;
  • 1 m sintepon.

In addition, stock up on newspapers for making patterns, a pen, a ruler, threads of appropriate colors, a needle, scissors. If you have a sewing machine, great. If not, you will have to do all the seams manually. And it is unlikely that the machine will cope with a thick layer of synthetic winterizer.

Suit

You can sew a jumpsuit for your son, but if you don’t have sewing skills, it will be easier for you to cope with the pants and jacket separately.

Suit cutting

The order of work on cutting is as follows:

  1. Take your son's sweater, lay it out on a newspaper, folded in half, and circle the contours of the halves with a pen.
  2. Cut out the pattern, attach it to the bend of the green jersey, folded in half, circle with chalk, leave allowances for the seams and cut out the shelf.
  3. Do the same with the back.
  4. Make a pattern for the sleeves and cut out two pieces.

Take suitable pants, transfer the front and back to the newspaper, then transfer from the newspaper to the same green jersey, cut out all the details and sew together.

Additional details

Now we prepare the "muscles" from the padding polyester. The main part will go to the stomach. We hem a piece of padding polyester to a light rectangle of suede, stitch it once along and several times across so that the muscles look embossed. We are preparing similar rounded seals for the forearm and hips. We fit the pieces of synthetic winterizer with a simple fabric and sew them to the sleeves and legs of the green suit from the inside.

From a piece of dark suede we cut out a belt with curly edges. We make tucks along the waistline, gather it up so that it looks beautiful, and sew on thin strips for tying.

We use the remaining material for leggings, which will also need to be collected.

Headdress

We prepare a bandana on the head . We lay out the red velvet rectangle on the table, measure 1/5 of the right and left and make cuts about a third - these are garters for the headscarf.

Leave a piece of velvet for the mask, which is a narrow rectangle with slits for the eyes.

shell

No ninja turtle is complete without a shell..To make it, you need a foil plate. You need to give it an oval shape. Next, glue on papier-mâché. Cut newspaper sheets into 5 cm squares, dip them in glue and apply to the outside of the plate. Make several layers, and cover with a layer of white paper on top so that the newspaper letters do not shine through.

When the design dries well, you need to paint it to match the color of the shell. It remains only to make four holes along the edges and pass the straps through them, with which the shell will be attached to the back like a backpack.

Decorations

Additionally, you will need to cut ribbons and tie around the arms and legs to give a resemblance to the original. And the belt can be decorated with a cardboard plaque with a diameter of 10 cm. On it, write a large initial letter of the name of your favorite turtle.

Simplified version

If you categorically refuse to sew a suit or are not trained in this type of needlework, do it easier. Take a child's green tracksuit that you don't mind throwing away.. Draw a light brown rectangle on the front of the T-shirt. Divide it with dark paint into about six parts. Let the child put a piece of cardboard under the T-shirt so that the “muscles” look clearer. It is desirable to weight, as we said above, the muscles on the forearms and hips.

It remains to go to the toy store and choose a weapon worthy of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to complete the image. If it is uncomfortable for a child to walk with a mask over his eyes, you can simply draw it on your son's face.

With such a suit, you will have to tinker with more than one evening. But the result will be stunning, and the child will be satisfied, because he has been in the shoes of his favorite cartoon character.

Ask any boy who he would like to be for the New Year's masquerade. In response, be sure to hear the name of one of the cartoon or fairy-tale characters.

Boys love to be heroes. There is nothing wrong with this, but mom will have to try to sew a suitable children's costume with her own hands. Stories about ninja turtles have been around for many years, but boys still remain in awe of its main characters. Let's try to make a ninja costume on our own from improvised materials.

Sewing materials

Of course, you can take the ninja turtle costume and rent it. But a creative activity can turn into an interesting pastime for children and their parents. So, the ninja costume consists of:

  • green bases;
  • shell;
  • additional accessories in the form of bandages, knee pads, weapons and more.

To sew fancy dress for children you will need:

  • Turtleneck or green sweater, as well as trousers. It could be old green pajamas. It is desirable that the shade of green be darker. But light green is fine too. After all, this is your version of the turtle. The main thing is that it be recognizable.
  • Yellow fabric. It is convenient to use flannel. It is more flexible and dense. What you will do from it, we will tell a little later.
  • Use acrylic paint and fabric dye.
  • The brown ribbon will act as a belt.
  • You will need Velcro to connect the parts.
  • A piece of red fabric for additional accessories.
  • Holofiber or synthetic winterizer. It needs a little. Perhaps you have old sofa cushions left at home. You can borrow some stuffing from them.
  • Form for baking. As you may have guessed, this is for the shell. The form should be large enough so that the children's costume is recognizable in it.

Arm yourself with thread and needles. And don't put off work until the last day. The result will exceed expectations if you start the task in a good mood.

Working process

In this section, we will show you how to make a children's ninja turtle costume from available materials.


Our ninja costume is almost ready. Not enough weapons. It can be made by cutting it out of thick cardboard or bought separately at a children's goods store.


  • If you don't have colored fabric and don't want to buy a new cut, use colored socks.
  • If your son is rollerblading, feel free to take knee pads and sleeves. Then you don’t have to do them, and they will look more impressive.
  • If you are painting a fabric or a separate part, for example, a shell, wait until everything dries completely.
  • Attach accessories securely to prevent them from flying off. We are sure that your child will want to show the costume to his friends and classmates in all its glory, and for this you will have to get used to the role, jump, run, brandish weapons.

If something doesn't work for you, don't despair. Set aside work for a while and come back to it when inspiration strikes. We are sure that while sewing a children's costume, you will have a lot of interesting ideas.

Bold and funny cartoon characters, ninja turtles have appealed to many generations of kids. Although the cartoon about them appeared quite a long time ago, it still remains the most favorite for many kids. The boys are happy to try on the roles of their favorite cartoon characters, tirelessly acting out scenes from it. How to do it yourself for children carnival costume ninja turtles? Despite the apparent complexity, it is not at all difficult to do this. In our article, we will tell you how to sew a ninja turtle costume for your favorite mischievous.

For the costume we need:

  • children's pajamas without a green pattern;
  • yellow flannel;
  • a piece of red fabric;
  • acrylic paint;
  • dye for fabric;
  • sewing needles and threads;
  • brown ribbon;
  • large foil baking dish;
  • Velcro;
  • remnants of holofiber or synthetic winterizer.

Let's get to work:

  1. The basis of our costume will be the usual children's pajamas, consisting of panties and a T-shirt with long sleeve. It is better to take pajamas in green, but if one is not available, then you can dye it with any suitable fabric dye.
  2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are distinguished by pumped-up torsos. To depict muscle cubes, cut out an oval from a yellow flannel.
  3. We sew an oval to the front of our T-shirt, laying three lines: one vertical and two horizontal. Thus, we will get three “pockets”, which we will fill with synthetic winterizer or holofiber to give relief. Let's stitch our oval along the contour - the muscle cubes are ready.
  4. For stripes on the arms and legs, take a bandana or any red fabric and cut out of it 5 strips 7.5 cm wide each.
  5. We sew the stripes on the sleeves and panties, laying a line in the center of each strip and leaving the ends free - we will tie them. You need to sew strips on the wrists, at the level of the elbows and knees.
  6. We proceed to the most important detail for the ninja turtle costume - its shell. For the shell, take a disposable foil baking dish of a suitable size and paint it with brown acrylic paint. To make the shell more textured, you can draw lines of the characteristic “turtle” color with green paint.
  7. We will fasten the shell with a belt, which we will make from a piece of brown ribbon. Using a knife, make two holes in the baking dish, thread the ends of the tape through them so that it passes on top of the shell.
  8. In order for the shell to be securely held on the back, we fix it with Velcro. Glue one half of the Velcro to the shell, and sew the other on the T-shirt. Thus, the shell will be securely held on the back of our ninja turtle without slipping off.
  9. A very important detail of the ninja turtle costume is the belt buckle, on which each hero has the first letter of his name written on it. For the belt buckle, we cut out two circles with a diameter of 7.5 cm from embossed cardboard. We cut out the same circle from ordinary cardboard and put it between two cardboard parts.
  10. Glue all three parts of the buckle together. While our buckle is drying, we cut out the initial letter of the name of our turtle from embossed cardboard. Glue the letter to the center of the buckle.
  11. Glue the buckle to one half of the belt. Under the buckle on the back of the belt we fasten half of the Velcro, and attach the second part of the Velcro to the second half of the belt.
  12. Our costume is almost ready, it remains to add details to it: weapons and half masks. These attributes can be bought separately or also made independently from improvised materials.

With your own hands, you can make a child a costume of other popular characters, for example,

Ask any boy who he would like to be for the New Year's masquerade. In response, be sure to hear the name of one of the cartoon or fairy-tale characters.

Boys love to be heroes. There is nothing wrong with this, but mom will have to try to sew a suitable children's costume with her own hands. Stories about ninja turtles have been around for many years, but boys still remain in awe of its main characters. Let's try to make a ninja costume on our own from improvised materials.

Sewing materials

Of course, you can take the ninja turtle costume and rent it. But a creative activity can turn into an interesting pastime for children and their parents. So, the ninja costume consists of:

  • green bases;
  • shell;
  • additional accessories in the form of bandages, knee pads, weapons and more.

To sew masquerade clothes for children with your own hands, you will need:

  • Turtleneck or green sweater, as well as trousers. It could be old green pajamas. It is desirable that the shade of green be darker. But light green is fine too. After all, this is your version of the turtle. The main thing is that it be recognizable.
  • Yellow fabric. It is convenient to use flannel. It is more flexible and dense. What you will do from it, we will tell a little later.
  • Use acrylic paint and fabric dye.
  • The brown ribbon will act as a belt.
  • You will need Velcro to connect the parts.
  • A piece of red fabric for additional accessories.
  • Holofiber or synthetic winterizer. It needs a little. Perhaps you have old sofa cushions left at home. You can borrow some stuffing from them.
  • Form for baking. As you may have guessed, this is for the shell. The form should be large enough so that the children's costume is recognizable in it.

Arm yourself with thread and needles. And don't put off work until the last day. The result will exceed expectations if you start the task in a good mood.

Working process

In this section, we will show you how to make a children's ninja turtle costume from available materials.

  • Let's start with work on trousers and a jacket. If you don't have green clothes at home, take a white flannel pajama and dye it with fabric dye.
  • When the green base is ready, we continue to work on the torso of the turtle. To do this, cut out an oval from the yellow material.

  • We sew it to the green jacket as follows. We lay a line vertically - through the entire area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe oval. Then two more lines horizontally. It is desirable that between them there was the same distance. In a circle, the yellow oval is not sewn yet.
  • When you have laid three lines, you will have six yellow pockets. We fill them with synthetic winterizer or holofiber for volume. Then it's time to sew on the oval. The hero's torso is ready.
  • We cut the colored fabric into strips, which we sew on the sleeves of the jacket on the elbow bends, cuffs. On the pants, colored stripes will appear in the knee area. If there is no time to sew them on, you can simply tie them. From a colored strip we make a blindfold.

  • We proceed to the manufacture of the most difficult and important part. I'm making a shell. It should be voluminous and light so that the ninja costume does not create discomfort when worn. To do this, use a baking dish of the appropriate size. First paint the shape brown using acrylic paint. Ask the children to do this. They will enjoy the job.

  • Lightweight shell enough to fasten on the belt. To do this, we make holes along the edges of our form into which the brown ribbon will be threaded. Another secret to attaching the shell is Velcro on the ribbon. One of its ends is attached to the upper part of the shell inside, and the other - to the clothes on the back.
  • When both the shell and the belt are ready, we proceed to the manufacture of the belt buckle. If you remember, each hero had the first letter of his name on it. Ask the children what they would like to be. We remind parents that the names of the turtles are Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo.

  • The buckle can be made from cardboard. We cut out a circle on which we glue the first letter of the name in advance, also cardboard.
  • Our ninja costume is almost ready. Not enough weapons. You can make it yourself by cutting it out of thick cardboard or buy it separately at a children's goods store.

    • If you don't have colored fabric and don't want to buy a new cut, use colored socks.
    • If your son is rollerblading, feel free to take knee pads and sleeves. So you don’t have to do them yourself and they will look more impressive.
    • If you are painting a fabric or a separate part, for example, a shell, wait until everything dries completely.
    • Attach accessories securely to prevent them from flying off. We are sure that your child will want to show the costume to his friends and classmates in all its glory, and for this you will have to get used to the role, jump, run, brandish weapons.

    If something doesn't work for you, don't despair. Set aside work for a while and come back to it when inspiration strikes. We are sure that while sewing a children's costume with your own hands, you will have a lot of interesting ideas.

    The cartoon "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has not lost popularity for almost 30 years. Its first season was released in 1987, and comics appeared even earlier - in 1984. Since then, films, animated series and full-length animated films about the adventures of four brave warriors have been released with enviable regularity. And it is not surprising that not only children, but also adults are happy to put on a costume of ninja turtles for theme parties, matinees, gatherings of fans. Demand creates supply, and you can easily find a factory outfit, but it will cost a lot. How to make your own ninja turtle costume We will talk about this in the article.

    Funny family

    What to do if dad, mom and children want to wear for a holiday? there are a lot of characters in the series, enough for the average family. For example, dad can be dressed as Shredder - what man would refuse armor, and even the famous villain? And the image of April O’Neil will suit my mother, perhaps you don’t even have to sew or buy anything, the girl’s outfit is quite casual. Well, children will be happy to transform into any of the four warriors - Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael or Michelangelo. Here is an example of such a family:

    For inspiration

    And here are a couple more options for what a ninja turtle costume might look like. The photo shows that all the details are easy to make at home, it is worth making a little effort.

    This is a costume that will take a lot of time to tailor, and if you are looking for simpler ideas, then check out how the girls beat simple pieces of clothing and forms from foil.

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Costumes

    Do you want to make your child an inexpensive and comfortable outfit in which he can show off not only at the holiday, but even play with friends? Then take note of this option:

    You will need:

    • Green pajamas (if not available) right size, just a t-shirt and panties will work too).
    • Thin felt of different colors: coffee, orange for headbands (if you are doing Michelangelo, but in general each turtle has its own color and weapon).
    • Form for baking.
    • Green
    • Brown chalk.
    • Toy nunchucks.
    • Adhesive thermal tape.
    • Iron.
    • Velcro.
    • Scotch.
    • Glue gun.
    • Scissors.

    How to make a costume

    1. From the coffee-colored felt, cut out an oval to make the “turtle” abdomen. Finely draw a press on it.
    2. Pajamas are used here, which fastens with a zipper. Therefore, the felt was glued to the right side on a thermal tape, and Velcro was sewn on the left. So you can conveniently unfasten the false belly and remove / put on pajamas for the child.
    3. Now we take ordinary plastic nunchucks and decorate them with brown and coffee-colored felt.
    4. Let's move on to the shell: the height of the sides of the form is too big for a child, so they should be cut off and treated with tape so as not to cut yourself. We paint the foil from the can in green. When it dries, glue the Velcro on top and bottom, we do the same on pajamas so that the shell is held on the back of the child.
    5. If you cannot find such a foil shape, then you can get by with a painted cardboard shell or sew a small oval-shaped pillow.
    6. We cut out a mask, elbow pads and knee pads from orange felt, and a belt from brown felt.
    7. The latter is useful to additionally fix the shell on the back of a small fidget.

    Older boys will love a sweatshirt decorated according to the same principle:

    Costumes for adults

    Simple calculations show that children who watched the first episodes of the animated series in 1987 have reached middle age, younger fans are people about 30 years old. And they continue to love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. An adult costume can also be made independently. It can be of different levels of complexity, depending on the event where they are going to wear it. For example:

    Let's complicate the task

    For gatherings of fans or large parties, you need a more serious Ninja Turtles costume. You can again get by with a large baking dish as a shell, but it needs to be beautifully painted.

    Most adult homemade costumes use elements made from papier-mâché. As a rule, this is the head, arm, legs, shell and breastplate. Enthusiasts can also add muscle made in this technique.

    A lot of thick paper was taken to make this costume. The head and arms are made of papier-mâché, which was pasted over an approximate blank of cardboard glued with adhesive tape. Then newspapers, flour, water and glue were used. For the eyes, we took one ping-pong ball, cut it in half and painted it. The feet are also made of papier-mâché, but old sneakers were used as the basis.

    I had to buy a one-color green suit, then the ready-made elements were painted with acrylic paints to match it. If you make such an outfit, do not forget to immediately mix a lot of paint, because if it runs out, it will be difficult to repeat a particular shade.

    For the shell, a more complex technique was required: first, each of its elements is cut out of cardboard, then glued with hot glue from a gun (carefully, you can get burned more than once). This is how a convex blank is obtained, the volume and relief of which was given with the help of brown bags for sandwiches and paints.

    The bib is made of several layers of cardboard and foamiran (foam for needlework).

    It took about 2 months of work in my spare time to make this Raphael costume.

    For lovely fans

    But such a costume of ninja turtles for a girl can be made in two hours:

    You will need:

    • Tulle in different shades of green.
    • Elastic.
    • Scissors.
    • Needle with thread.
    • Baking dish.
    • White sports top and stockings.
    • Green paint in a can for fabric.
    • Watercolor.
    • Black lace.
    • Old T-shirt.

    Production order:

    1. First, paint the top and knee socks green.
    2. Then we make a skirt: cut off the elastic around the waist (keep in mind that it stretches). We sew it in a circle, cut the tulle into thin strips. Fold it in half and fasten it with an elastic band. So repeat until you get a fluffy skirt.
    3. We paint the aluminum mold green, thread the laces to wear it as a backpack.
    4. From an old T-shirt of a suitable color, we cut out strips for the head, elbows, knees.

    The end result is a great costume. DIY ninja turtle is ready. It remains only to paint the abdomen and back with watercolors and make the cubes on the press a lighter color.

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