You can create a beautiful tree with your own hands from sisal, and it does not waste much time and material. Such a Christmas gift will appeal to children and adults.

December 8, 2017 handmadebase

Christmas trees don't just come with needles!The New Year's beauty can be made soft and fluffy if you use a special material - sisal. A sisal Christmas tree amazes with its beauty and uniqueness, it will be the best gift for the New Year 2016 for close friends, relatives. Such a sisal Christmas tree will easily fit on the edge of the desktop, you can decorate the top of the fireplace with it or put it on the windowsill. From all sides, the tree will add to the interior of your home and bring a festive mood.To make a beautiful Christmas tree from sisalYou will need: 1. Sisal of any color. It will take no more than 50 grams. You can choose a salad material, blue or, as in our example, soft yellow. 2. You will definitely need a cone for the base of the tree. This can be a glued semicircle of cardboard, of course, you need to take a large thick sheet so that the size of the semicircle along the radius is 30 cm. If you do not want to wrap yourself with gluing the edges of the cardboard into a cone, then you can immediately buy blanks from foam plastic. The height of the cone template should be 30-40 cm. On a smaller tree, fluffy circles of sisal will not fit and will look ugly. 3. Glue. You need a lot of adhesive mass to firmly, but imperceptibly attach each part, so the best solution is hot glue, that is, transparent glue sticks that are heated in a melting gun. 4. You will also need various decorations. You can prepare colored wires with small tinsel, they easily turn into bows or into the outline of funny animals. Even studs, rhinestones, plastic bows, etc. will do. 5. Wire for the upper part of our decoration.The creation of a Christmas tree consists of several stages:First, the balls are rolled, then they are glued to a cone-shaped base and finally the tree is decorated with additional details that will replace the usual painting on a large tree. To accurately understand the process of creating a craft for the New Year, you can watch the video: Let's get to work. At the first stage of creating a beautiful Christmas tree, you will need to divide the sisal into small parts. To do this, you do not need to cut it, but you need to pull out several fibers so as not to crush their structure, because the longer the hairs of the material, the easier it will be for us to create balls.We will need such separate parts of sisalthree or four dozen, so you can tear them in stages, that is, first tear off a few pieces and roll the round elements, then separate a few more pieces. If you tear all the sisal into pieces and put them in one place, it will simply tangle again. At the second stage of work, you need to roll balls from each piece of sisal. To do this, you put the material on your palm, cover your hand with the other palm and make circular movements so that all the threads turn into a ball. Sisal is a little prickly and can be unpleasant for people with sensitive skin. In this case, it is recommended to wear gloves, but not smooth latex ones, but made of fabric, but so that the gloves fit tightly on the hand. It is convenient to place the rolled balls in a large box with low sides. You can lay out the parts in one or two layers, they will not get tangled with each other. If you roll a large number of balls, you can leave them for the next craft, because such sisal balls are used to make topiaries, trees of happiness, and are put as a separate element in bouquets with toys. When a large number of balls have been wound, you canmove on to the next step - glue them. In advance, you will need to connect a special glue gun to the power supply and insert a glue stick into it.Wait until the first drop of hot glue appears.and apply it to the first ball of sisal on one side, i.e. apply the glue locally once, and do not spread it over the entire surface. Immediately bring the part to the cone and fix it by pressing the sisal to the base.The first tier of fluffy balls is glued onthe bottom edge of the cone, but not close to the cut. Try to place the elements at such a height that they cover the base, the white bottom edge is not visible, but at the same time the balance at the base is not lost. That is, the cone should stand on the base, and not fall off because the protruding part of the sisal interferes.The second layer of sisal balls shouldbe located higher. Try to place new elements in the upper part above the gaps of the parts from the lower row so that the gaps are covered and the tree looks neat and symmetrical.Repeat the procedure for attaching the sisal ballsto the foam cone. Each new row starts slightly above the previous tier. New balls are fixed above the gaps of two elements from the previous row so that a checkerboard pattern of rounded parts of sisal is obtained.Towards the top of the cone the base area narrows andfewer soft elements are required for each row. The distance between the elements is kept to a minimum, only the number of parts changes. The gap between the side parts and the parts from the upper and lower rows is absolutely the same.At the top of the cone, glue only four elements of sisal so that they are located strictly opposite each other.It is worth adding wire to the very top,which will help smoothly finish our craft from sisal. The wire should be about 15-17 cm. The top of the foam cone the wire deepens by about 5-7 cm, such a distance will help to reliably hold this additional detail in the base.Tear off some sisal from the main skein anddistribute some of the unusual material over the top and wire so that some of the sisal hangs down a little. The work should be harmonious, without sharp transitions, only then will the craft look festive and interesting.Straighten the sisal again, if any threads have come loose from the winding and are sticking out in different directions, they can be cut off, leaving a neat appearance of the Christmas tree.At the last stage we move on to decorating the Christmas tree.Cut the wire with small tinsel into pieces, each piece should be about 6 cm. Bend each piece into a shape that looks like a droplet.The middle of the arc needs to be pressed to the place where the ends of the wire were intertwined and twisted once. In the end, it turned out to be a simple bow made of fluffy tinsel.Make several bows. They should all be approximately the same size, but completely different in color tone. Such a selection of the palette will help to make a bright and interesting Christmas tree.Now, using hot glue, we will fix the bows in different places of our tree. Decorate the tree symmetrically over the entire surface.Here is the finished craft for the New Year 2016 - a wonderful Christmas tree made of sisal.

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