Carnival is coming and we have to celebrate it. In this article we are going to give you some ideas for easy unisex costumes that you can make at home. Depending on the age of the children, they can help you to elaborate them and they will contribute their degree of creativity and originality. We propose unisex costumes that you can use for both boys and girls, and if they are brothers they can dress up together.
Dressing up, playing a character and acting like him or her, is something that children tend to like a lot. So you can ask him for his opinion, see photos on the internet or consult with other mothers to form a theme group. But we also tell you if your son or daughter does not want to enter the dress-up game, do not force him.
Easy unisex animal and plant costumes
The animal costumes are pretty easy to make, and they are always very funny, especially in young children. These costumes are very makeup based, you can get some fun ideas at this article. Or you can directly make the mask out of cardboard and dress the boy or girl in the right color.
Squid or giant octopus costume. This costume is very original, it is out of the most common of cats, dogs or cows, and you have to put in a little crafts. In Goma Eva or with double white cardboard, that is, one for the front and one for the back, draw the structure of the squid. In the front part we leave space for the face of our boy or girl. Then you just have to stick the tentacles. The child's own legs will be another of the tentacles.
Other very helpful costumes, fun and with a lot of game both for boys as for girls they are those of plants or fruits. For babies, just put a green jumpsuit on it and make a petal headband. They will be very funny, and it is very comfortable for them. Other ideas are the costumes of orange, strawberry, lemon, bunch of grapes with purple balloons ... you can have a complete fruit salad at home.
Easy trade costumes to break stereotypes
Many trades seem to be dedicated to boys and others to girls. Fortunately this is changing, stereotypes are broken, and we can disguise our boy or girl as we want. Already There are no limits to that and they can be scientists, plumbers, beekeepers, cleaners, or thieves ...
For example we can make a chef or cook costume, just with a white t-shirt, better if it is long-sleeved, and we draw the buttons, pockets and even kitchen utensils with a black marker. You can put a scarf around the neck and the typical chef's hat can be made with cardboard.
The Mime and clown costumes are also unisex, and very easy to make. In the case of clowns there is a great variety. Surely at home you will find clothes that you can combine in a quirky and fun way. For the mime costume you will need white gloves, a black outfit and paint the child's face with hypoallergenic black and white paint.
Unisex weather and other costumes
Among the costumes that can be used for both boys and girls, the unisex ones, we find those that have to do with atmospheric phenomena. They are for example costumes of rain, storm, tornado, wind, rainbow. All of them are easy to make, they are very original, and the only negative point is that, sometimes, they are bulky to wear.
A costume, one of the ones we mentioned above very simple to do at home is the ray. For that you only need to dress the child in black, or even red, and strike a lightning bolt on his clothes. To make it more original, you can make a cloud hat with black tissue paper, from which some rays also come out.
The lego pieces costumes, emoji, dice, gift boxes are very easy to make. If there are four of you at home, the costume of ludo chips is always very helpful. We want to give you an original, fun, and little-used idea of unisex costumes: traffic signals or traffic lights. To do this, all you have to do is make them in Goma Eva or paint them on the child's t-shirt.