Family tree with their hands in the technique of quilling with step-by-step photos and a detailed master class for children and adults
Quilling — amazingly beautiful technique.You can create entire stories from voluminous paper patterns by mastering a couple of the simplest techniques. And you can create such a picture with a family tree with your children by spending a couple of fun evenings together. In the process of joint creativity, you will not only become closer, but will also contribute to the development of fine motor skills, imagination, and most importantly, instill in the child faith in his own abilities.To create a picture you will need:
- A4 size sheet for the base;
- colored stripes of the same width;
- tinted colored paper;
- white and colored cardboard;
- PVA glue with a brush;
- hole puncher;
- scissors, including curly ones;
- quilling tools (tweezers, template, forked stick, awl, pins);
- comb with teeth;
- colour pencils;
- a simple pencil;
- eraser.
Cut circles for portraits with curly scissorsand give them to the child so that he can, to the best of his ability, depict the faces of his relatives. Tell him what characteristic features this or that loved one has, so that the drawings are not monotonous. Let him change pencils more often.Using a simple pencil, sketch out the outlines on the sheetcomposition, attach the finished portraits to it and glue it. Let the drawings be apples, and the names — branches. It is very important to do all the inscriptions before you start making outlines and gluing the rolls, otherwise it will be very difficult later.Mark the outline of the trunk and branches with a stripebrown paper, applying glue to its end. Press it with your hand for half a minute. Despite the fact that the contact area between the strip and the base will be small, PVA glue will reliably fix the joint.Now it's time to make rolls — basicfigure in quilling. Clamp the tip of the strip into the sting of the stack and begin to wind it tightly, pressing the end of the sting to your finger. Without removing the roll from the stack, transfer it to a template with a circle of the required diameter and release the end.The roll will bloom a little — the tighter you aretwisted, the more evenly it will be distributed. Pins can come in handy if you are using special templates — drops, triangles, etc. With their help, the strip is fixed at the corners.Carefully fix the edge with a brush with gluestrips, pull the roll out of the template and squeeze it with your fingers on one side — it will turn out to be a drop. And if you press it from the other end, a figure will come out that looks like an eye or a leaf. This tree is made from just such rolls.Start laying out the barrel, filling it upmodified rolls of different shades of brown to make it more realistic. Apply glue to both the bottom of the roll and the sides. Do the same with the crown of the tree.When the crown and trunk are ready, you canstart decorating the background. To do this, use the most common hole punch and tinted colored paper. For the sky, you can use light blue, cyan and pastel purple to give it depth.To prevent it from being empty below, you can make grassfrom the same quilling strips that were used for the leaves. Twist one end into a spiral and glue the other to the very bottom of the composition. It is better if the length, width and shades of the stripes are different, because in nature nothing is the same.You can also make an inscription in a three-dimensional circle.To make it even, use a mug or bottle of the required diameter. Wrap one strip around it, fix the end (no need to glue it to the base itself). When it dries — carefully remove, attach and glue in place. By that time, the inscriptions inside the circle should already be ready.To decorate the circle with a wavy line, use a comb as shown in the photo.When the composition is completed, glue colored stripes along the edge of the sheet to make the picture look complete. If you put it in a frame, you don’t have to do this.