On the eve of the New Year, I want to create a special atmosphere. At this time, it is customary to prepare gifts, as well as make decorations. And you can even make them from tinsel on the wire. From the material in this article you will learn about the best ideas and recommendations for their manufacture.
Tools and materials
When making crafts from wire tinsel use different materials and tools. Their choice depends on the type of product itself. For example, it can be wire and tinsel, cardboard, organza, small New Year's balls, newspaper, pine cones, kitchen napkins. In addition, you may need glue, braid, scotch tape, scissors, nylon ribbons, nuts, artificial flowers, pliers.
Glue for work take different, such as PVA, the option "Second" or hot glue. And also when performing Christmas crafts from tinsel, fir branches, beads and polystyrene basics are often used. They can have a ring-shaped or spherical shape.
When working with small tinsel, you can use glue and shiny sequins.
Interesting ideas
You can make different decorations for the New Year holiday from tinsel on the wire. For example, it could be:
- snowflakes of various shapes;
- Christmas balls and lanterns;
- Christmas caps with pompons;
- snowmen, stars, magic wands;
- Christmas wreaths on the door;
- Santa Claus deer, gnomes;
- Christmas trees, bows with bells, bells;
- Christmas angels, mittens;
- rims with crowns and stars;
- Christmas gift baskets;
- Christmas figures in the form of Snow Maidens.
Crafts made from tinsel on wire are easy to perform. Even a child can make them with their own hands. Such toys are often made together with children, developing hand motor skills and accustoming children to work. The work uses a different type of tinsel, which, in addition to shiny, is thin chenille.
If desired, you can make pumpkin, kittens, tiaras, any animals and even insects from wire tinsel. From it make beautiful foxes, raccoons, mice, rats. It is suitable for creating pegasuses, unicorns, roosters, as well as Christmas tree tops. In addition, characters from her favorite cartoons are created from it. Such products can be given not only for the New Year, but also for other holidays.
Headbands and crowns
The easiest way to make corona rims from wire tinsel. As a rule, thin shiny gold or silver tinsel is used for this. If desired, they can be combined with each other. For work, they often use various auxiliary decorations (for example, stars).
The essence of the work is wrapping the central part of the rim with tinsel with the creation of air loops. Moreover, they should be located symmetrically with respect to the center. At the final stage, the central (largest) loop is decorated with a shiny star.
Crowns are created according to a similar principle. To make the form visible, use a thin wire. A rounded base is bent from it according to the size of the girth of the head, after which double oval or pointed loops are bent in front. Attachment points can be masked with colored wire in contrasting colors or with decorative braid.
Figures of animals and birds
For the manufacture of such products requires a frame. It will save on wire tinsel, make the size of toys larger, give the products the desired shape. In the work using chenille tinsel wire type. Someone does not use the frame, bending the figure on the principle of a spiral, pulling it to the desired shape.
However, crafts with tinsel, tightly wound on a frame, look better. They are more stable. After creating a fluffy base, plastic eyes or other decor are glued.
Sometimes the bulk base is decorated with blanks-paws and muzzles. They are made from the same tinsel by sticking it on thick cardboard.
New Year decoration
Numerous workshops on making Christmas decorations are very diverse. For example, snowflakes can be easily twisted from wire tinsel, and they can be either loop-shaped, or pointed, cut by wire cutters or scissors. Snowflakes twist looking at the pattern. This work does not require much effort, for fixing you can use special glue.
Fir-trees are often twisted according to the principle of spiral turns of different diameters. In other cases, they first prepare a metal or other base, and then expand the branches. Moreover, they are not only wound, but also glued, achieving maximum fluffiness and similarity with real spruce. After that, crafts decorate with a variety of decor.
It’s easy to make a Christmas wreath step by step. To do this, take the base, then wrap it with shiny or chenille tinsel, and then decorate it with the existing decor. It can even be dried orange slices, cones, buttons and small Christmas toys.
Recommendations
When working with wire tinsel, it is necessary to adhere to a number of recommendations.
- Performing a toy animal of complex shape, they first wrap the paws, and the head is engaged in the body after them.
- You need to choose the decor for decoration correctly. He should hold well and be noticeable.
- Head jewelry should not be too heavy; thin tinsel is used for it.
- Winding tinsel on the base must be optimally tight, especially in the manufacture of hats.
- To make the product look more aesthetically pleasing, it is better to use templates in your work.
- The materials used must be combined with each other in color and texture.
- In the course of work, it is necessary to observe safety regulations. If you use glue "Second", it is better to work with gloves.
- In order not to stain the work surface with glue, it is necessary to lay a newspaper or unnecessary paper.
See how to make bells from tinsel in the video below.
