How to mold a snowman from polymer clay to decorate a Christmas tree? Step-by-step description of the process of modeling with photos
Since early childhood, on New Year's Eveholidays, we begin to make various kinds of decorations with our own hands to decorate our home, as well as the main hero of the occasion - the Christmas tree. It must be said that this creative process, as a rule, is already the beginning of a festive mood, which then stretches for almost a whole month. Previously, the main material for creating such decor was primarily colored paper and foil, it was from them that we cut out bright lanterns, garlands and other paper crafts, and then used them in the decor. Today, the range of pre-New Year creativity has increased many times over and is no longer limited to paper products. Decorations made of felt, beads, threads, natural and waste materials, etc. are very popular with needlewomen. Also, decor is created from polymer clay, it is about working with it that our master class will go, in which I will tell you how to create an original decoration for the Christmas tree - a Snowman.
For work we will need
- polymeric clay of white, black and pink color;
- a wooden skewer for snacks or a toothpick;
- thin golden thread.
Description of work
1. First, warm up the polymer clay in your hands until it becomes soft and elastic. Then take the first small piece of white clay and roll it into a ball in your palms.2.Next, on a flat, clean surface (this is very important to consider, since we are working with white material), we press our ball down a little so that we get a round-shaped cake, approximately 2-3 millimeters thick and about 1.5 cm in diameter.3.Then take another piece of white polymer clay, it should be a little smaller and roll another ball out of it. In addition to your palms, you can roll the workpiece on a suitable clean flat surface.4.We also flatten the second ball, turning it, if possible, into a perfectly round flat cake slightly smaller in size than the first one, and connect both parts together, according to the principle of constructing a snowman, namely, a large circle at the bottom - like a body, and a smaller one at the top - like a head.5. Now we need pink polymer clay, we roll it into a small cylindrical piece, reminiscent of a “sausage”, approximately 4-5 cm long.6. After this, using the pads of your fingers, carefully flatten our blank so that it becomes 1 millimeter thick – this will be a scarf for the Snowman.7.To make the scarf look more like a real knitted one, we will create a large knit effect on its surface using a regular wooden snack skewer or a toothpick. We simply apply many small indentations-dots all over the surface in the form of a wave-like pattern.8.We “put on” a scarf on the Snowman’s neck, this element will not only decorate our figure, giving it a winter mood, but will also help to additionally fix both halves of the Snowman.9. Next we will make a headdress - a hat. To do this, take black polymer clay and form a fairly voluminous cylinder from it, about two centimeters long.10.After this, we flatten the blank, forming a detail resembling a hat. Please note that the thickness of the hat detail should be at least 3 millimeters, otherwise, the headdress will look bad and will not stay on the Snowman's head.11. We will also make the hat textured.To do this, as in the first time, we will use a wooden skewer for snacks, first we will apply diagonal stripes of dots over the entire surface in one direction, and then in the opposite direction.12. Let's add a small bright detail to the hat - a pink ribbon to match the Snowman's scarf.13. Let's "try on" a headdress for our snow hero, it turns out very cute.14. Now we form the eyes, for this we pinch off two tiny pieces from a piece of black polymer clay and roll each into a ball. Glue the eyes in their places.15. Then, from a piece of white polymer clay, we form a nose in the shape of a snowball, as well as a mouth. To do this, we roll out black clay into a thin strip so that we can lay out a smile.16.In order to hang our toy on a Christmas tree branch, using the same wooden skewer, we make a small through hole in the center of the top of the Snowman's hat, into which we will later thread a piece of thin golden thread or a thin satin ribbon.17.After the toy is completely molded, all we have to do is bake it according to the instructions that come with the polymer clay we used to make our decoration, so that it becomes hard and will please you for many years.