How to make your own accessories and summer clothes for children

I have always considered summer as the best time to have fun creating accessories and clothes for children
The light and colorful fabrics and the absence of long sleeves or too demanding parts in fact, stimulate the imagination and make you want to sew dresses, clowns, sundresses and hats and fill the wardrobe with many beautiful new and original garments and small accessories.

In addition, to make summer clothes for children the time required is not much and even the necessary material is really limited: some scraps of fabric, elastic bands, buttons and little else.

If you also have a passion for DIY and this summer you want to try your hand at creating some practical and light garments for your boy or girl, here are some suggestions with tutorials to follow, to make sundresses, clowns, hats, swimsuits for both boys and girls.

Summer clothes for children do it yourself

Sundress for girls

Beautiful these dresses / sundresses in summer fantasies! They have a top with elastic straps and a wide skirt curled at the waist. To make one just follow the tutorial with photos and explanations.

Summer jumpsuit for children

In a child’s summer wardrobe, a striped cotton romper cannot be missing . It has shoulder straps with buttons, elastic at the thigh point and it’s comfortable because it opens underneath.

Circle skirt

Very easy to do and extremely cute for the summer is the full skirt with the elastic waistband, very tender to look at especially if it is worn by a small child. Tutorial here → Girls’ Skirt

Shorts/swimsuit

I find these shorts perfect as a swimsuit for children or as a simple diaper cover. They are very easy to do and in the link there is also the pattern to download. Tutorial here →Shorts/Swimsuit

Romper / Swimsuit

Very simple and nice also this costume / clown for girls. To do this, just a small piece of cotton or sweater fabric, three elastic bands and a ribbon and follow the explanations. Tutorial here → Swimsuit girl

And after the swimsuits, in summer you can not miss the bathrobe to take to the sea or to the pool. For example, you can make a cute rabbit-shaped bathrobe like this using the sponge of a towel. Tutorial here →Bathrobe with pet

Cloche girls’ hat

This cloche hatis quite challenging to make, but it’s worth it because the model is really cute, especially for little girls. It can be done in a solid color or in a pattern and is very useful for protecting the little head from the sun.

For children here is a nice doubleface fisherman hat. This model is made with two types of fabric (one internal and one external) and shows an application sewn to the side. Being doubleface, the seams remain internal so you can wear both turned both in solid color and in fantasy. To do so, follow the explanations. Tutorial here →DIY fisherman hat

Here, these are just some of the sewing projects you can do for your children. I recommend you choose the right fabrics and take the measurements well and, considering that summer has already begun, if I were you I would immediately get busy. Good luck with your work!