How to make Christmas toys with your hands of dough, silicone sealant, tangerines and crochet and knitting, master classes with recipes and photos

February 24, 2018 handmadebase

Celebrating New Year is one of the mostwonderful moments of winter time. Merry bustle and pleasant chores fill our lives with warmth and joy. In the previous article we began the story about creating Christmas tree decorations with our own hands. Here we will also present master classes and recommendations on creating beautiful decorations that you can easily make at home with your own hands from ribbons, laces, beads, threads, paper and even tangerine peels. You can make all these wonderful things together with children or your significant other. New Year's holidays are a time of unity and fun. Christmas tree ball made of acorns Materials:

Caps of acorns (approximately one size);
Silvery or golden paint;
Sequins;
Ball (diameter of your choice). If you have a foam ball, you need to pre-paint it;
Twine (thread);
Ribbon for decoration;
The gun is glue.

It is quite easy to make such a ball. Below are step-by-step photos, looking at which you can easily make this Christmas tree toy with your own hands.Christmas tree decorations in the form of a ball and a heart in icy silver tonesMaterials:

A twisted cord of silver or milky white color;
Polyfoam blanks in the form of a ball and a heart;
2 threads of beads (larger and smaller);
Tweezers;
The gun is glue.

If you don't have foam bases, don'tDon't be upset. You probably have old Christmas tree decorations in your house: faded with time, peeling paint or just an unsuccessful color. Use them as a base. We took a cord of one color, but several bright cords will look no less beautiful and much more festive. Experiment with the diameter and color of the beads, replace them with rhinestones or beads. Let's start decorating the ball. We "sink" the end of the cord into the foam blank. This is very convenient to do with tweezers or the sharp end of small scissors. Apply a few drops of glue next to the fixed cord. Take a thread with beads, glue it tightly to the cord and begin to lay out the cord and beads in a spiral on the surface of the ball, pre-lubricating it with glue.When you reach the end, cut off the excess and repeat again.“drown” the end of the lace in the foam. Now all that remains is to attach a loop by which it can be hung on the tree. This can be done with a needle, threading a thread of a suitable shade into it and stitching the already glued cord. We decorate the foam heart in approximately the same way. We apply glue to the side (flat) part and begin to lay out the string with beads. We moved in a spiral. The work is done in two parts. Silver and pearl beads were used for the heart.The Magic of the Brush As children, many loveddraw. At the same time, it was much more fun and interesting to create masterpieces not on drawing paper, but, for example, on the wallpaper in the living room or on a new bedspread in the bedroom. During the holidays, you can briefly return to that carefree time and try to apply your artistic skills to decorating Christmas tree decorations.There are a lot of craft shops nowvarious paints for glass and plastic. Use them and create bright Christmas tree balls. You don’t have to have the talent of Van Gogh or Michelangelo, just enjoy the creative process. You can create such crafts together with children. Young artists will definitely like them.

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Do you know how to knit or crochet?Then create bright knitted decorations or make cute "clothes" for old and boring toys. It is very easy to knit such. For beginners, we will post a diagram and a step-by-step master class on creating a Christmas tree ball from pentagonal motifs. Many diagrams are freely available on the Internet, and you can choose any pattern you like. Another pleasant moment is that you need very little thread for such crafts, so you can safely use the remains of yarn from your previous products. For those who prefer to crochet, the easiest and most convenient way is to simply create a ball.The knitting pattern is familiar to every needlewoman.First, knit a circle of the required diameter. And then use a trick! Count how many rows we had with increases while we were knitting the circle, and knit exactly the same number of rows without increases. Now all that remains is to knit rows with decreases in loops symmetrically to the increases, and the ball is ready. You can fill it with stuffing material or tie an old Christmas tree decoration in this way.We offer several photos as an example for inspiration.Here is another wonderful New Year's tree toy in the form of a crocheted Christmas tree.You will need:

Threads (you can use the leftovers) that you like;
A hook of the appropriate size;
White beads 8/0 or 10/0;
Material for packing;
Golden thread (waxed);
Needle with thread.

We start knitting the Christmas tree from the top (this is how it will lookIt is more convenient to stuff with filler). Knit with single crochets and alternating stripes of dark and light green threads. Cast on 4 ch with dark green threads and close them into a ring. First row. Knit *2 sc with one base, 1 sc*, repeat again from *. Knit the second and third rows without increases (6 sc) with dark green threads. Knit the fourth row without increases with light green threads. Fifth row. Knit 2 sc with a common base in each loop. You get 12 loops. Knit the 6th, 7th and 8th rows without increases. Ninth row *2 sc with one base, 1 sc*, repeat to the end of the row. You get 18 loops. Rows 10, 11 and 12 are knitted with dark green threads without increases. Do not tear the thread, just pull out a long loop. Sew white beads randomly all over the surface of the tree. Now we start working on the base. With a brown thread, dial 4 ch and close into a ring. Knit the leg according to the pattern of the first three rows of the top of the tree. Row 4. Knit 2 sc with a common base in each loop with dark green threads. Row 5. *2 sc with one base, 1 sc*, repeat to the end of the row. In order for our base to be more durable, cut out a cardboard circle with the diameter of our circle. Sew to the wrong side of the base. Now take our blank, already filled with stuffing material, and tie it to our base with connecting posts.And another wonderful crocheted Christmas treeYou will need to knit two pieces according to the given pattern and sew them together, filling them with stuffing material.Those who love knitting needles can also knit bright and beautiful "clothes" for Christmas tree balls. Jacquard patterns made of contrasting threads look very unusual and advantageous. The main thing when choosing yarn is to give preference to thin threads, so the products will look neater. The aroma of the holidayBright orange tangerines have long and firmly occupiedone of the leading places in the New Year's menu. Sunny and positive citrus fruits can be not only tasty, but their peel can also be used to make wonderful Christmas tree decorations. Materials:

Mandarin;
Molds (suitable for small metal baking molds);
A thick needle and golden threads.

And now the best part!Carefully peel the tangerines, trying not to tear the skin too much. Eat the tasty pulp, and cut out future decorations from the peel with a mold. Now all that's left is to make a loop from a golden thread, by which you can hang our decoration on the Christmas tree and leave until completely dry. If you want the figures to be even, you should put the blanks under a small press with air access until the peel is completely dry.

Sweet taste of the holiday

Such a wonderful time as New Year's days is notgoes without sweets. All sorts of delicious things can become not only a dish on the menu, but also a sweet decoration of the festive table. We suggest making such a Christmas tree-cookie.Necessary:

Ingredients for the dough;
Confectionery powder or glaze (we have a white color to make it look like snow);
Baking paper;
Paper for stencils;
Scissors;
Knife.

First you need to prepare the dough:

Honey liquid 300 g;
Eggs 4 pieces;
Sugar 250 g;
Ground ginger 2 tsp;
Cinnamon powder 2 tsp;
Butter 200 g;
Flour 750 g;
Vanillin at the tip of the knife;
Cocoa 2 tsp. (instead of it you can use green food color);
Baking powder for dough 4 tsp;
Orange peel 2 tsp.

From this amount of ingredients you will geta fairly large number of cookies, if you want to make a trial batch, take a portion half as much. It is not difficult to make. Mix softened butter with sugar, eggs and honey. Separately mix all the dry ingredients. Knead everything together and put the dough in the refrigerator for about 25 minutes. While our dough is “resting”, let's make a stencil. To create it, you need thick paper. You can draw a Christmas tree or trace a ready-made mold, for example, from cookies. Now let's start creating a template for the future sweet decoration. We will need three paper Christmas trees. Step one. Draw a line in the middle from top to bottom. Now draw another parallel line to the right and left of it at a distance of 1 cm. Now take the height of the Christmas tree (let's designate it as A) and divide by 3, multiply by 2 and add 0.6 cm. Divide the resulting value (let's designate it as B) by 2. We will designate this number as (B). We mark the trees on our three drawings. On the first one, we draw a horizontal line through a point at a distance of (B) and select from this line to the end of the branches. On the second drawing, we draw lines through (B) and (B) and select the areas from the top to (B) and from (B) to the end of the branches. On the third template, we need to select the area from (B) to the top of the tree (see the drawing). On all three trees, we have long and narrow rectangles in the middle of the stencils. We cut out our blanks from paper.We take the dough out of the refrigerator and roll it outlayer approximately 0.5 - 0.6 cm thick. Cut out the blanks. You need one template for each tree. Bake for 25 minutes at 180 °. When all the parts have cooled, you need to glue them together. You can use syrup or icing. Cover with glaze or sprinkles, and our deliciousNew Year's decoration is ready. Snowy New Year On New Year's both adults and children always wait for snow. And if we cannot influence the weather, then we can always decorate our house and Christmas tree with beautiful snowflakes. A variety of materials are used to create them. In the next master class we suggest making an amazing snowflake. It looks truly icy and airy. Snowflake made of silicone glueMaterials:

Silicone sealant (transparent);
Parchment;
Sequins;
The snowflakes were patterned;
Delicate procrastination;
Brush;
Acrylic paint (optional).

Before we create snowflakes we need tomake stencils. Below we have provided several schemes, but you can choose any you want. You can make such a craft together with children. Offer the kids a competition for the most most beautiful snowflake. When the winner is announced and the best snowflake is chosen, you need to transfer the drawing to parchment. If you don’t have it at hand, use regular thick paper, but cover it with film on top so that our snowflake can be easily separated later.The next step is best completed by adults.independently. Let's start making the snowflake frame. To do this, take the sealant and simply apply it along the drawn lines. If you want to make it more voluminous, apply several layers. Now wait until it dries. A thick layer of sealant will dry for several hours. You will have to be patient.When the workpiece has completely hardened, carefullyseparate it from the paper. If some pieces still stick, just wet them with water and remove them. Our blank is ready for the most interesting process – the final decoration. Here your imagination is not limited in any way.At this stage, you should glue a loop of thin wire or thread, which you can then use to hang the snowflakes on the tree.You can paint the blanks with bright colors,Cover with a thin layer of glue and sprinkle with glitter. Involve your children in this activity. Your joint creativity will bring even more happiness and warmth to the joyful pre-holiday chores.

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