The mouse as a character is often found in children's staged performances. For example, everyone's favorite fairy tales Repka and Teremok are hard to imagine without this modest but full of charm character. Therefore, if a child participates in such a production, parents face a problem: where to get a carnival costume.

The best solution would be a cute mouse mask made by your own hand for a child. You can make this little thing together with the baby, then he will be very proud that a muzzle made by his hands flaunts on his head.

Paper mouse

This master class is designed for those who want to save time. The mask is made very quickly according to the template:

In order to create a mouse, you will need a sheet of white or gray A4 cardboard and an elastic band. As well as auxiliary equipment and tools: printer, scissors, glue and hole punch.

How to make a mouse mask on the head:

1. You need to save the template you like to your computer, and then print it at home on a printer.
2. After that, cut out the muzzle of the animal along the contour and glue it to the cardboard base for rigidity. Cut out the animal from cardboard along the contour.
3. Punch holes along the edges of the base on the head using a hole punch - an elastic band will be attached in this place.
4. Measure the length of the elastic so that it is equal to the circumference of the child's head.
5. Pass the elastic through the holes. The paper mouse mask is complete!

Felt mouse

Two-layer animal made of felt. Such a thing can be easily made at home, it requires gray, pink and black felt, threads of the corresponding colors, and an elastic band. The product is sewn on sewing machine, if desired, this animal can be made manually.

To make an animal out of felt, you can use the template:

Manufacturing sequence:

1. In this master class, all the details were made in one copy of felt, except for the muzzle. It must be cut in duplicate, leaving slits for the eyes.
2. Sew pink details to the muzzle in the ear area.
3. Sew on the nose in the appropriate place.
4. Sew in the direction from the nose to the edges of the mustache with black thread.
5. After that, connect the front part of the animal with the second, wrong side. Measure the length of the elastic to fit the child's head. Insert the edges of the elastic between the front and back sides. After that, stitch close to the edge, retreating 2 mm.

The product is ready! Your "home workshop" can also make masks of other cute animals from felt.

Examples of other masks

You can also try to bring to life other mouse masks:

1. Crochet. Cute beanie shaped like a mouse blue color. On the Internet you can find diagrams and master classes explaining how such a product is made.

are simply necessary in families where small children grow up. These masks are also suitable for New Year, and for a birthday, and for a children's performance.

In the spring of this year, our youngest daughter participated in a children's play. She was a goat. Since the New Year celebrations were behind us, we had a problem with buying a costume. We had to make the costume ourselves. Our daughter is a lover of complete reincarnation, and therefore she needed a goat mask.

Here is the most best mask goat we found. I printed out a picture from a computer, pasted it on cardboard and inserted an elastic band to attach it to my head.

We had cats, and dogs, and bears, and hares, and mice.

The children dressed up in animal masks and put on a fun show.

Our bunny jumped, jumped and gnawed a carrot 🙂

The dog barked and searched for hidden treasures.

The mouse ate cheese and crackers and teased the cat.

The cat tried to make friends with the mouse.

The bear cub climbed the rope like a tree, getting "honey" from the beehive.

Regarding this mask, neither children nor adults came to a common opinion. For some it was a mask of a cat, for someone a cougar, a tiger. And one girl saw a fox in this mask 🙂

Some of the masks were taken away by the guests, and some remained at our house. And periodically, the daughter puts on herself mask some animal and gives us a home show.

As if from a fairy tale they came out: cunning foxes and kind bears, snowmen and fragile mice, beautiful princesses and noble knights - what beautiful outfits and masks they have! Have you already figured out how you will celebrate the New Year?

Or are you still puzzling over who to be on the New Year's holiday? Or maybe you have already found someone to transform into, but you don’t know how to make a mask out of cardboard? Don't worry: DIY New Year's mask is not so difficult! Pustunchik has found such wonderful options for you that you don’t even need to draw - you can just print it out. And after that - stick on thin cardboard and cut along the contour.

And in order to keep Your mask well on your head, glue wide paper strips on the sides at eye level. Try on the mask by securing the strips with a paperclip. Glue in right place. Instead of paper strips, you can glue an elastic band by gluing paper rectangles with inside masks.

And now - voila! Do-it-yourself animal masks for children: Pustunchik has prepared a whole collection! You just have to choose :)

bear mask

Refined aristocratic mouse

Serious owl

Kind and fearless gray wolf

Sad frog princess

dog mask

cute hedgehog

Bunny mask

sheep mask

cat

Another cat

crow mask

Ant Mask

dragon mask

But if you need crane mask, you have to sweat - print and cut out the diagram, color it like this, as in the picture, and then glue it correctly. But if difficulties do not scare you, keep the scheme!

A hand-made mask will be even more beautiful if you decorate it with tinsel, rhinestones, sparkles, ribbons. Fantasize, invent interesting costumes and masks - and then the New Year will bring a lot of positive, unforgettable impressions and give you a real New Year's fairy tale! Happy Holidays, original images and vivid impressions!

How to make a bird mask?

The article today will be very short, because the answer to this question can be fit in one sentence and a couple of pictures, because making a bird mask is very simple.

What do we really need? - Make a beak, think of a way to fix it on the face. You can do this with domino glasses, or you can use a half mask. I prefer the second option. Here is a universal pattern for the mask of any bird-bird. Basic, so to speak.

Pattern of a universal bird mask

For an adult, the width of the mask will be exactly the width of an A4 landscape sheet. We cut the tucks on the forehead, slightly wind it up and glue it. In real life, the beak of birds consists of the upper and lower parts (jaws), but we will only do the upper half, because the lower "jaw" would prevent the actor from breathing and speaking.

We cut out the beak (note that the flaps on the sides do not reach the bridge of the nose), bend along all the fold lines (try on without a mask, adjust) and, having put the flaps on the sides of the part inside the mask, paste:

Everything! This is a universal bird mask, based on which you can develop options for specific birds. For example, we already have, as well as.

One of these days I will write articles on the masks of an eagle, a cockerel and a parrot. If you need any other (exotic) mask... marabou, for example, then write in the comments, and I will definitely figure out how to make it.

And now, to prove to you that the mask model proposed here is indeed very versatile, I will turn it into a sparrow mask. Sparrow bird mask (not Jack))).

The sparrow has a brown beret on its head, a dark black-gray beak, and eyes outlined in black. The cheeks are white, and where there should be a blush - black spots. There is still a black beard, but - alas - it will have to be abandoned.

We take our universal mask and color it. Here - I reproduced the approximate distribution of color, and it obediently turned into a sparrow mask:

sparrow mask

Color the universal mask in yellow - there will be a canary.

Black beret and white cheeks - and it will be very: