Attention all families – this is the cutest carnival costume idea for you and your child! The heroes from the children's film “Finding Dory” come to life and conquer the hearts of young and old. These homemade family costumes are not difficult to imitate and guarantee you a great partner look for carnival. In the article we show you how you can make the original carnival costumes from “Finding Dory” for your family!
Ideas for cute family costumes inspired by the movie “Finding Dory”
“Finding Dory” is the sequel to the popular children’s film from the previous decade “Finding Nemo”. This is about the adventures of the two fish and their families and friends. If you and your child are fans of the cute story, then these family costumes are perfect for you! In addition to Dory and Nemo, we have provided instructions for the Kraken Hank costume, which perfectly rounds off the partner costumes from the children's film.
Make your own Dory costume
Dory is a small pallet surgeonfish who suffers from amnesia. Nevertheless, he finds good friends and looks for his parents, from whom he was separated as a child.
OneDisguise as Doryis suitable for both adults and children. In our example it is a women's costume, but it can easily be made like a little girl's costume. You just have to adjust the sizes. It consists of several components and takes a little more time than the other two, but it's definitely worth the effort because Dory is the star of the film.
What you need:
- yellow tights
- yellow sneakers
- yellow pleated skirt
- blue long sleeve
- blue hat
- black and yellow textile paint
- Craft felt in white, purple, black and orange
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun
- Paint brush
Directions:
1. Paint thick curved lines on both sides of the blue long sleeve to mimic the coloring of the palette surgeonfish. Follow the example in the picture. When finished, allow the textile paint to dry thoroughly.
2. Paint a thick yellow stripe and a thinner black stripe like these in the picture on the ends of both sleeves. Allow to dry.
3. Cut out two larger circles from the white felt, two medium ones from the purple, two smaller ones from the black and two very small ones again from the white. Glue the circles together to make Dory's eyes.
Now glue the finished eyes onto the blue hat with hot glue. The distance to the hem should be approximately 1-2 cm.
4. Paint two thick black stripes on the sides of the yellow pleated skirt. Ideally, these should merge into the stripes of the blouse.
5. Put on the yellow tights and yellow sneakers. If you don't have yellow shoes, you can paint a pair of white sneakers with yellow fabric paint.
6. Cut a tag out of the orange felt and also cut a slit in the strip to tie the tag to your wrist.
Make your own Nemo costume
Now it's Nemo's turn. He is a brave clownfish who lives in the coral reef with his father Marlin. Therefore, a costume like clown fish for father and child would also be a great idea for partner costumes.
This cute fish costume for kids iseasy to doand looks very nice. If it is made for a little boy, then you will need the same clothes except for the tulle skirt.
Materials and tools:
- 1 meter each of orange, white and black tulle
- orange fabric ribbon
- oranges T-Shirt
- orange Leggings
- orange hat
- white sandals
- Craft felt in white, orange and black
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun
- black and white textile paint
- Paint brush
Directions:
1. Paint a thick white stripe on the front of the orange blouse, making the outer contours curve out a little. Outline these with black textile paint and let dry.
2. Cut each color of tulle into several 50cm long strips. Then cut a piece of fabric ribbon that is 60 cm longer than the child's waist size. Tie two knots at a distance of 30 cm from each end of the ribbon.
3. Now start from one knot and knot the strips of tulle around the fabric ribbon. The pattern looks like this: 7 orange tulle strips, 1 black tulle strip, 4 white tulle strips, 1 black tulle strip. Repeat until you reach the other node.
4. Cut out two large circles from the white craft felt, two medium ones from the orange and two smaller ones from the black. Glue the circles together to make Nemo's eyes. Finally, glue them to the orange beanie with hot glue.
5. Complete the fish costume with orange leggings and white sandals/sneakers.
Hank the octopus costume for carnival
Hank is the grumpy octopus who enjoys life in the aquarium and who helps Dory find her parents in the film. The family costumes from the popular children's film can be perfectly rounded off with an octopus costume.
Although making an octopus costume yourself seems really complicated, we'll show you below how you can do it super quickly and easily. Don't forget that Hank is in fact a septapus and only has seven arms.
What you need:
- oranges Longsleeve
- orange pants/sweatpants
- orange shoes
- orange umbrella
- white pompoms/cotton balls
- orange tree Bastelfilz
- Hot glue
- Scissors
Directions:
1. Cut out seven large octopus arms from orange felt. Make sure that the arms should be a little longer than the radius of the umbrella.
2. Glue several white pompoms/cotton balls onto each arm using hot glue.
3. Glue the octopus arms to the inside of the umbrella using hot glue. The ends should stick out a little from the umbrella.
4. Combine thatcrafted accessorywith orange clothes and orange shoes. If you don't have any orange shoes, simply paint a white pair with orange fabric paint.
HomemadeCostumes for the family
Did you like our idea for family costumes? Then get to work and make these cute carnival costumes yourself! We hope you have fun dressing up as the heroes from “Finding Dory”!
