How to make a snowman out of wire?

On the eve of the New Year, many seek to decorate the home interior with various garlands, decorative stickers or themed toys to create a festive atmosphere inside the house. A few years ago a tradition appeared to decorate private houses with garlands from the outside. And LED figures of traditional New Year's heroes (for example, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden) are usually placed on the territory of the house.

Of course, the prices of luminous figures are quite high. But if the desire to decorate the house outside is higher than any price, then you can, especially without spending money, try to make a sparkling Christmas figure with your own hands. The easiest way to make a luminous snowman.

The most difficult task in the process of making a New Year's snowman is to prepare the necessary material. The tool that you will need to work on the manufacture and installation of the planned figure is available in every house - a hammer and nippers.

But the material is more complicated. To purchase it, you will have to contact hardware stores, as well as visit the fair, where New Year's merchandise is sold. You can even visit the scrap metal collection point (you can find wire there).

To make a snowman figure, reaching a height of 1 meter, it will take several hours of free time and the following materials:

• steel wire 10 meters long;
• two LED garlands 2 and 5 m long with autonomous battery-powered power supplies;
• nails
• Scotch.

Before embarking on the process of making decorations for the street, it is necessary to prepare the work surface and assemble the garland diagram. Batteries should be installed in the garland power supplies and their functionality checked. After that, you can begin to make a figure of a snowman.

All work will consist of several stages.

1. Measure and bite using wire cutters two pieces of wire with different lengths: 7 and 2 m.
2. On a large length from one edge, measure 2 meters and put a mark.
3. The remaining length of the same piece of wire is divided into 4 equal parts.
4. To make the body of a snowman, it is necessary to twist a piece of wire, the length of which is 7 meters, in the form of a spiral consisting of 5 turns. Only 5 m of wire should be used up on the body.
5. To prevent the spiral from turning, in the place of the last turn it must be fastened with a short length of wire.
6. Then, without cutting the wire, you need to make a coil in the opposite direction so that you get a head.
7. Then you can start making hats. To do this, give a section of a hat with a length of 2 meters.
8. With the remaining pieces of wire, attach the hat to the snowman's head.
9. Take a garland 5 meters long and entangle the entire body of the snowman, starting from the smallest coil of the spiral. So that the edges of the garland do not hang down, they must be fixed with tape.
10. With a shorter garland, you need to decorate the snowman's hat.

To make the figure beautiful and durable, during manufacturing, you need to pay attention to simple recommendations.

• If the wire from which the figure is supposed to be made, too soft and poor in shape, 2 segments can be twisted together in the form of a bundle, thereby increasing the strength of the material.
• Wire frame having darkening or rust, Before winding the garland, you need to clean and paint with white paint.
• To make the snowman look more elegant for his head and body, you can choose a garland with white bulbs, and for a hat - with multi-colored.

As you can see, it’s not difficult to make a luminous snowman figurine yourself to decorate the facade of the house for the New Year holiday. The use of inexpensive materials will save you from buying expensive jewelry in the store, thereby saving the family budget.

You can watch the brief process of making a snowman out of wire with your own hands in the next video.