Christmas tree created by own hands, will serve as an original decoration for the office or educational audience.

February 9, 2018 handmadebase

New Year is just around the corner.It will rush to us by night express. And having seen it off, you may not have time to prepare for the New Year as you should. And what should be for this holiday? Of course, various crafts. The main decoration of the room is a Christmas tree. It can be live or artificial. Well, with a live one everything is clear, but with an artificial tree there is room for imagination. The material for the tree can be the most unusual - paper, plastic bottles, pasta, pine cones and even coffee beans and allspice. Such an unusual combination of completely non-handicraft materials, such as coffee beans and allspice, give a magnificent result. Indeed, with imagination and free time, you can create real masterpieces. Crafts are good at any time of the year, but winter ones differ from others in their beauty and originality. They are made this way by the holidays for which they are intended. Everything changes, and so do the crafts. And this time, New Year's crafts are gradually replacing crafts on an autumn theme, because there is almost a week left and Autumn will hand over the reins of government to the frosty beauty Winter. It is in winter that the most cheerful and long holidays fall, beloved by children and adults - New Year's and Christmas festivities, during which it is customary to give and receive gifts. It has also become very fashionable to decorate houses, offices, school classrooms and even student auditoriums for Winter. I like to decorate my classroom for the New Year. But in the computer room, every square centimeter is occupied, so a small New Year's topiary tree will be just right. Such a tree is not embarrassing to give, you can even put it on the festive table. In this master class, I will clearly demonstrate how to make New Year's crafts with your own hands using paper and other materials available to everyone. Together we will learn how to make paper Christmas trees, which can pleasantly surprise and please people during the New Year holidays, as well as decorate a classroom or office. In addition, if you make topiaries together with schoolchildren or students, it brings not only aesthetic beauty. Students will be able to develop their creative abilities, and the process of creating beautiful things cultivates their imagination and fantasy.For work we will need: 1. Materials for the tree itself:

A sheet of thick A4 paper (I have a paper for drawing)
Aluminum wire length 40 cm
Polyfoam 8x8 cm
Lining fabric 10x10 cm
Green thick threads for the herringbone and brown for the trunk
PVA glue
Glue "Moment"
Sequins of two kinds
Necklace of Christmas tree 50 cm
Braid for the bottom 30 cm
Ribbon for bows 30 cm

2. Materials for the pot:

A plastic cup
Building gypsum
Sacking 20x8 cm
Lining cloth 8x8 cm
Synthepon 8x8 cm
Braid for decoration 20 cm (2 pcs.)
Candy wrappers (for “gifts”)

3. Tools:

Scissors
Ruler
Pen (or pencil)
Combination pliers

The process of making a Christmas tree: 1.Roll up a "cone" from a sheet of paper, adjust its width at the bottom. Coat the edges of the paper with PVA glue and press firmly. 2. Apply a ruler to the top of the cone and measure it at its shortest part (this is the maximum possible height of the tree). Then, holding one end of the ruler and gradually turning the cone, make marks of the same length along the entire bottom part.3. Use scissors to cut off the excess paper. The base of the tree is ready.4. Place the cone on a piece of foam, trace the circle and carefully cut out the bottom.5.Prepare the "trunk": wrap a piece of wire on one side with brown thread for about 1/4 of its length. (I did not do this right away, so it was inconvenient). 6. Pierce the center of the foam circle with the top of the "trunk" and insert it into the cone so that it protrudes above the top by 7-10 cm and bend it with pliers.7.Coat the sides of the bottom with PVA glue and insert it into the bottom of the paper cone. You can additionally stuff crumpled paper (newspaper) inside the cone so that the cone itself does not deform during subsequent manipulations. 8. Make a hole in a piece of lining fabric 10x10 cm, put it on the wire from below and carefully glue it with PVA glue to the bottom, covering the entire foam. For insurance, you can wrap the edges of the fabric along the bottom of the cone with several turns of thread. I wrapped the entire cone with a thin thread, greased with PVA glue for better subsequent adhesion to the main thread.9.Attach a green thread to the base of the cone, coat the cone with PVA glue for about 2 cm and wrap it tightly with thread so that there are no gaps. Then coat and wrap the next 2 cm, etc. I did it this way so that it would be easier to hold the product and not get my hands dirty.And there you have it...10. Now it's time for the pot. Prepare the necessary container: if the pot is too small, the tree may fall over, and if it's too big, it's not pretty. I cut a yogurt cup.The bottom was covered with 8x8 cm lining fabric, glued with PVA. The sides were covered with burlap. The excess burlap was tucked inside the pot.11.Then you need to prepare a solution of gypsum, diluting it with water to a doughy state. Here I cheated a little: I added a handful of river sand to the ready solution - and saved gypsum, and the solution turned out heavier, and therefore the stability of the future product is better.The pot needs to be filled with gypsum solution.almost to the top. 12. It's time to insert the base of the tree trunk and the center of the pot and tamp the solution around it. You can use the blunt end of a pencil, having previously wrapped it in cellophane. The solution will "settle" and there will be room for the "snow". Now you need to leave our product for a couple of hours or until the next day so that the solution hardens properly. I had to put the tree "in the corner" to preserve it. Here I got so carried away that I forgot about the camera. 13. Decorate the pot. The joint of the burlap can be sealed with tape. Place synthetic padding around the trunk. Glue the tape on top of the pot and around the base with Moment glue. Glue bows and sequins if desired. "Gifts" under the tree from candy wrappers (there are also wrappers inside).14. The final stage: decorating the tree itself.First, glue the tape along the bottom of the cone to additionally secure the threads and cover up any imperfections. Then the Christmas tree beads, individual beads, sequins, bows - and all with Moment glue (PVA takes a long time to dry). Here is our beauty with her friends made of "grass" and "swan's down".And two more babies are born.And she herself has already taken a place of honor in the computer class and reminds my students that the New Year is coming soon and it’s time to take tests.

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