Everything you need to know about foamiran toys

Foamiran (fom) is often used to create growth flowers and interior floral compositions. Few people know that this material was widespread in the creation of toys. Today we will give several workshops on making the most original crafts.

To start, a little more detail on the features of the material. Foamiran is an artificial fabric resembling suede, which is why it is more often called “plastic suede”. It is made of soft elastic and porous rubber. The fom is easily cut and can react by changing the shape even to the slightest heating. Due to this property, the material acquires an important quality - compliance. When heated, it can be pulled, folded and rounded.

It comes on sale in the form of thin and soft layers of various shades, while thin sheets with a thickness of about 1-1.5 mm are most often used in needlework.

You can make a wide variety of toys from foamiran, from dolls to flat pendants. All products are very realistic and stylish, each can be used as a memorable gift to a loved one.

The top of the skill are dolls made from Thomas. They are much cheaper than traditional versions of porcelain, wood and acrylic.That is why the material has become widespread in theatrical circles. But even outside the theater, such dolls have the right to life - they become children's toys or souvenirs. The childhood industry everywhere uses foamiran to create educational puzzles, soft designers, Christmas toys and many other products.

Bathtub toys occupy a special place, due to their high porosity, foamiran seems to stick to the tile. Plastic figures made of it delight kids while bathing, make water procedures more fun. And so that children do not tear and eat such products, they are made of thickened sheets of Thomas.

When working with children, it is not at all necessary to limit oneself only to cutting beautiful forms. You can come up with stylish and practical crafts, these can be various mosaics, fridge magnets, as well as frames for children's drawings. Widespread demand was foamiran for the manufacture of New Year's toys. From it make Christmas trees, garlands, Christmas balls and even cones. The material is indispensable for the manufacture of realistic masks for the children's New Year's carnival.

Making toys will require a number of materials.

1. Directly foamiran. A significant number of various varieties of foma are presented on the modern market. The most popular among needlewomen are Iranian, Korean, silk, as well as marshmallow.
2. Work with foamiran is unthinkable without an iron - This is an indispensable tool that allows you to give the foamiran the desired shape. During heating on the iron, the foamiran becomes thinner and becomes very malleable.
3. Most often, fom is sold in light shades - white, creamy or pale green. That is why it needs to be additionally painted - it is impossible to achieve realistic toys without tinting. Each master has his own individual preferences - someone works with paint, someone likes wax crayons, but most often a pastel (oily or dry) is used. Foamiran can be tinted with oil paint - it will last for many years, but the cost of a set of dyes is quite high, so a similar decor will cost a needlewoman “a pretty penny”. You can use acrylic - it costs an order of magnitude cheaper. However, keep in mind that when applied to fom, any acrylic paints form a thin film. In the case of grinding, it simply begins to crumble from the surface of the toy. Therefore, acrylic paints can only be used for coloring the thinnest elements, which, according to the author’s idea, will be in a static position.
4. Scissors are required for cutting patterns. For large parts, the most common tools are suitable, but for the study of small elements it is better to use manicure models with curved blades.
5. In order to give the elements the necessary textures, you can use molds - most often they are cast from plastic. They have a rather rough and rough texture. If you don’t have the necessary tool at hand, then use the usual embossed structured button.
6. Hole punchers will also be irreplaceable assistants in performing small works. You can use both stationery models and scrapbooking products. They are optimal for the manufacture of the smallest elements, but you should not get carried away with them in order to avoid the same crafts.
7. The creative process will require the use of glue. Most often, needlewomen choose an adhesive thermal gun, or Moment superglue, designed to work with plastic and rubber.

The simplest toys from Thomas can be created with your own hands based on a number of patterns. The proposed material will be a good help for any beginner needlewoman and her activities with children.

One of the most popular Christmas tree decorations is the Star of Bethlehem. For work, it is necessary to prepare a foamiran of green, blue, white or blue. You will need a braid or a decorative tourniquet, as well as a set of standard tools (scissors, a glue gun and a pencil).

The work includes several stages. Consider the topic step by step.

• First, a star blank is drawn on cardboard, after which it is carefully cut out. The size of the template can be any, while it is used to create a path, and as a basis. The blank is placed on the back of the foamiran plate, then two times are drawn around with a pencil - from the outside and from the inside.

• Then the resulting figure is cut out with scissors and glued to a sheet of foamiran of a different color. You need to do this as carefully as possible and apply glue pointwise so that it does not protrude over the edges.

• After that, the foamiran is cut off along the upper edge of the workpiece. On the reverse side, you can add glitter radiance, which will refresh the perception of the product. Two figures of snowmen are drawn on a white foamiran, and they are fixed in the center of the resulting New Year's toy from both sides.

At the end of the workshop, you can decorate the star of Bethlehem. To do this, lay a decorative tourniquet along the edge of the product. By the way, this measure will additionally interconnect different elements of the star. Part of the braid can be used to form a loop - for it the toy will be hung on a Christmas tree.

Even the youngest needlewomen can make such a tree. You will need foamiran, several shades (among them must be green), as well as scissors and a conical paper blank. The work involves several steps.

1. Primarily blank is cut, they wrap the cone and fix its edges with glue.
2. Then with the help of a decorative hole punch, you can also manually cut various decorations for the christmas tree - it can be balls, snowflakes, hearts or stars. All figures are fixed on the product.

This is a fairly simple craft, but it looks very harmonious in any New Year's decor.

To make a bump a little more difficult, you will need a brown foamiran, a rounded stack, glue, scissors, paint, and also a foam egg. The work involves several steps.

1. For starters, circles are cut out of foamiran - you can use the hole punch.
2. Circles lightly heat on the iron, then push through the rounded stack so that the elements become rounded. Thus, you can get scales for cones.
3. After that, it remains only to fix them on the foam egg. Fix the details in a circle so that each subsequent row overlaps the previous one.

Most of the toys made from foamiran do-it-yourself, usually have a flat shape. Thanks to this design, the figures can be placed on the refrigerator, attached to the bathtub or decorated with a small panel.

Volumetric crafts look no less impressive. Very often, fom is used to create Christmas toys for the New Year, they are decorated with shiny sprinkles and hung on a Christmas tree.

Invariably stylish and spectacular look dolls from foamiran. However, when creating them, complex schemes are used, therefore, only skilled craftswomen can do such work.

Foamiran is often combined with felt.

On the Internet, you can find many interesting MK to create toys made on the basis of a combination of these two materials.

The following video presents a master class on creating a New Year’s toy from foamiran.