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Craft a large ball on the Christmas tree. Master class on how to make Christmas balls with your own hands: painting, decoupage, decorating Christmas balls

Text: Tarazevich Maria 28452

The approach of that very magic can be felt long before the cherished date. Especially if you get carried away with needlework: we suggest trying to make exclusive Christmas balls with your own hands. Of course, in stores today there is a huge selection of toys and jewelry, but a homemade thing will cause much more pleasant emotions and delight. So let's get started.

DIY Christmas balls decoupage

If you are a beginner, then the decor will be extremely simple for you: use thin paper and napkins that are neatly glued to the ball. And if you paint on such a ball with a brush, it will look like a unique hand-painted painting. Foam, wood or plastic can be used as starting material.

You will need:

  • balls for the tree;
  • several napkins with New Year's or Christmas pictures (it is advisable to use three-layer napkins);
  • white acrylic paint;
  • one tube of PVA glue;
  • some glossy varnish with which you can coat the ball when it's ready;
  • brush with soft bristles;
  • ordinary sponge;
  • rhinestones and sparkles optional.

Preparing the ball. Remove the wire mount from the ball before starting work. Next, use fine sandpaper: use it to clean the ball from sparkles and rhinestones. If there is paint on the ball, then it must be washed off. To do this, you can use a nail polish remover (wipe the ball with a cotton pad). Next, the ball is washed with water and again smoothed with sandpaper. Such processing will provide a tighter adhesion of the pattern to the surface of the toy.

We are priming. We use ordinary PVA glue. Mix about five milliliters with white acrylic paint (about thirty milliliters). The composition is ready, it can be applied to the ball. Keep in mind that it is best to apply such a blank using an ordinary sponge. The mixture should dry thoroughly on the ball, after which the second layer of the composition will be applied.

Decor. Consider the size of the ball when choosing a pattern. The drawing is cut out and glued to the toy. The best thing to do in this case is to use napkins. The pattern comes off the paint top coat.

Note! A torn or cut design is best done with a small notch. So the picture can take on the shape of a ball, and unaesthetic folds will not form on it.

It is best to glue the picture with PVA glue. Just do not forget to dilute it with water (equal proportions). The easiest way is to apply the pattern in the classical way: smear the ball of glue and put the pattern on top. At this stage, maximum accuracy is important so that the fragile drawing does not break. Glitters or rhinestones can be applied along the edges, which will hide possible roughness and unevenness between the pattern and the surface of the ball.

Check out some inspiring Christmas ball decoupage options:

You can watch educational videos about decoupage technique:

DIY Christmas balls from satin ribbons

This technique is called an artichoke. Its essence is that individual parts are sewn on and glued to each other. The name of this relatively new technique is simply deciphered: the fact is that the final product is very similar to the fruit of an artichoke. The technique, it should be noted, is simple. So why not master it? So, we make Christmas balls with our own hands: a master class with a photo.

We start by preparing the base for the ball. The easiest way is to use foam blanks. Today you can buy them in almost any specialty store.

Getting started with ribbons. They are cut into strips of medium thickness. Be sure to consider the proportions: let's say the width of the tape you choose is about two and a half centimeters. In this case, the length of the strip should not be less than six centimeters. A square is separately cut out of the ribbon, which is pricked onto the ball with the help of needles.

Now we take the previously prepared strip and carefully fold it in the form of a small triangle. He is pinning himself to the square. Note that the needles should be at the bottom corner of the fold of the ribbon.
Each triangle is tightly fixed on all sides of the square. After the first row is ready, you can start doing the next. The principle is the same, however, when attaching, we use a checkerboard pattern.

The ball will look more interesting if the colors of the ribbons alternate.

Thus, fasten the tapes to the ball until such time, until it is completely covered with them. The bottom-most part of the ball is decorated with the last square. For convenience, you can tie a thin satin ribbon to the ball: it can be hung on it from the Christmas tree.

Check out some inspiring satin ribbon Christmas balls:

You can watch educational videos on how to make balls from satin ribbons:

Christmas balls made of thread and glue

You will need:
  • ordinary balloons (quantity at your discretion);
  • one tube of ordinary PVA glue;
  • white thread (dense, you can knit);
  • some sparkles and rhinestones;
  • some water;
  • a small bowl.
Check out some inspiring thread and glue Christmas balls:

You can watch educational videos on how to make balls from threads and glue:
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Factory New Year's decorations can never replace the warmth and soulfulness of hand-made products, and even if home hand-made is not quite perfect, but the whole soul will be invested in it, and this is worth a lot! Today we will show you how to make Christmas balls with your own hands, so that they would not be ashamed to decorate the interior of your beloved home. In addition, you can involve children in the creative process, firstly, such work is useful for the development of children's motor skills, secondly, any common cause is very close, and thirdly, together you will have time to make much more unusual Christmas balls.

One of the legends says that the first Christmas balls appeared in Germany in 1848. In those days, Christmas trees were decorated with real apples, but 1848 turned out to be a poor harvest, and local glassblowers urgently created glass "apples", which successfully replaced the real ones. The locals appreciated the idea of ​​glass decorations, and so they gradually replaced fresh candy with apples.

Christmas balls from newspaper tubes.

We take a sheet of magazine, twist it into a bundle, if you need bundles, you can create several harnesses by gluing them together. Then we take a foam ball, glue the end of the magazine flagellum on top, and start winding around the ball's perimeter, as in the photo below, gluing each layer with polymer glue.


Christmas balls made of felt.

Draw flower patterns on paper, one larger than the other smaller. We take tracing paper, lay it on a pink felt fabric and outline a large flower, you will need a lot of such flowers, so we create the required number of them. Then we take white felt, put tracing paper on it and circle a small flower, they will need exactly the same amount as pink flowers. We cut out all the details with scissors, sew two flowers together, and glue a bead in the center. According to this scheme, we sew the rest of the flowers. We glue the resulting flowers with a glue gun to a foam ball.


DIY Christmas balls from paper flowers.

Using a curly hole punch with a flower attachment, create many purple and white paper flowers. We put the white flower in the purple one, bend the edges to the center, then pin them to the foam ball with pins with bead heads.


Christmas balls in corrugated paper roses.

We create miniature roses from corrugated paper (the process of creating roses is captured in the photo below). We tie the flower leg with a thread so that the bud does not disintegrate, cut off the long legs, closer to the threads, glue the flowers with a glue gun or moment glue to the surface of the foam ball. Fill in the gaps with large beads.


Christmas balls from sequins.

Each sequin must be secured to the surface of the foam ball using sewing pins (these are used by dressmakers). Sequins need to be overlapped.


Christmas balls decorated with beads.

On a pin of a carnation with a bead head, we string beautiful beads of different sizes, each such carnation is injected into the surface of a foam ball. Do not forget to glue or pin the pendant ribbon.

How to make paper balls.

The first way. According to the template below, we cut out a lot of parts, which we connect together as in the photo below, forming a ball.


Second way. We cut the paper into strips (4 pcs.), Lay them crosswise, connect them in the center with a nail, connect the ends together from below, forming a ball, fasten them with a stapler. From the rope we create a pendant, which we attach to a carnation.

Third way. We cut the paper into circles, bend the sides of the circles to the center, it looks like a triangle. We glue the parts together to form a ball.


Balls on a Christmas tree made of cinnamon sticks.

We cut cinnamon sticks into segments of equal length, each of which is glued on polymer glue to the surface of the foam ball.


Christmas tree balls decorated with paper scales.

With a large round hole punch, we create many circles, which, with the help of a glue gun, overlap to the surface of the foam ball.


DIY Christmas balls from branches.

Let's think of a ball (it's even better to take a thin rubber ball of a round shape, which can be blown out and inflated), cut dry branches into small pieces with a pruner, apply branches to the surface of the ball and glue them together with a glue gun. When the glue dries, blow off the ball and pull it out through one of the wide holes.

How to make a Christmas ball from threads.

We inflate the ball, wrap it with threads, then thoroughly soak it with PVA glue, hang it in a dry place to dry the glue. As soon as the glue dries, pierce the ball with a needle and pull it out through one of the holes. To make the ball of threads look more impressive, immediately after applying the glue, it can be sprinkled abundantly with coarse shine.

How to make a "chocolate" ball.

We take any unnecessary ball, cover it with glue from a gun on top, creating spectacular drips, when the glue dries up, paint the ball with paint from a spray can in a chocolate color. After the paint dries, cover the spectacular chocolate drip with a layer of PVA glue and sprinkle with a large white glitter. From above we glue red decorative berries and twigs.

How to make a ball out of rope.

We inflate the medical fingertip, tie it with a thread, soak the rope in PVA glue, wind the rope around the fingertip ball. We leave the product to dry, after which we glue the hanger on top. Details on how to create such a ball can be found in the article.

How to decorate a ball with acorn caps.

We paint the foam ball with acrylic paint brown, take polymer glue, grease the acorn cap abundantly with it and glue it to the surface of the ball, according to this scheme, we completely cover the ball with acorn caps. Finally, the gaps can be masked with beads and particles of silvery sheen.

How to make a ball of cones.

We take a dense garbage bag, put cotton wool tightly inside, tie a bag. Separate the tops from the cones, and glue them to the surface of the ball using polymer glue or a glue gun.

How to decorate a ball with cone scales.

Separate the scales from the cones with nippers. Then we take a foam ball and use a glue gun to glue all the scales overlapping to its entire surface.

How to decorate a ball with decorative balls.

Such padding polyester balls are sold in the departments of everything for creativity, we glue them to the surface of a foam ball with a glue gun, alternating between simple white balls and shiny balls.

How to decorate a ball with lace.

We cut out details from lace, for example - flowers, glue the flowers to the surface of the foam ball with PVA glue. We paint the ball with white acrylic paint, then bronze, after which we take a sponge and dab it over the surface of the ball. The surface acquires the effect of aging, it remains to glue the pendant hat and tie a beautiful ribbon.

10 ideas - DIY Christmas toys (video)

How to make Christmas toys (video master class 21 ideas):

Today we have shown how to make Christmas balls with our own hands, without unnecessary financial and time costs, such beautiful decorations will definitely not go unnoticed, and your friends will certainly appreciate all your efforts.

Long before the New Year, you can feel the approach of a magical holiday, if you captivate all household members by preparing for it, and as a manifestation of creative imagination, we suggest mastering the New Year's decoupage of Christmas balls with your own hands. A wide range of ready-made Christmas balls in a wide variety of styles is on sale. But it is always more pleasant to hear from friends and acquaintances the praise and admiration for the exclusive outfit of the forest beauty. Decoupage- a popular type of decoration, which prompted many lovers of originality to make a New Year's outfit with their own hands using this technique.

Step-by-step instructions for decoupage a ball

Decor for beginners consists in sticking a picture of napkins or tissue paper on the surface of the ball. During further processing with paints or other aids toy looks like hand painted. The source material is Christmas decorations: wooden, plastic and foam.

Preparing the ball for decoupage. At the beginning of work, remove the wire fastener from the ball, fasten it tightly to the rod for convenience. Then use fine sandpaper to clean the glitter from the toys, and wash off the paint by moistening a cotton pad with nail polish remover. Rinse with water and sand again. After such processing, the adhesion of the pattern and the surface of the ball will be better, since it is more difficult to make decoupage on a perfectly smooth base. Next, you need to degrease the prepared material.

The next stage is the primer, which is the base for the pictures. To do this, add PVA glue, about 5 ml, to 20-30 ml of white acrylic paint. Apply such a composition to the workpiece with a sponge and leave to dry, then repeat the application of the primer.

This is followed by the decor of Christmas balls using decoupage technique. Having picked up the New Year's motif in accordance with the size of the Christmas ball, cut it out and glue it to the surface. The best material in this case is napkins, in which you need to tear off the selected pattern from the top paint layer.

Advice! It is recommended to make cuts on a torn or cut out drawing, which will allow the picture to acquire the shape of a toy and avoid the formation of folds, which must be carefully smoothed out.

For gluing, you can use PVA glue, diluted with water in equal proportions. The drawing is glued in one of two ways: you can attach the image and smear it on top with a soft-bristled brush, or apply glue to the surface of the ball, and glue a festive motif to it. In both cases, care must be taken not to tear the picture.

After complete drying, the ball must be opened again with acrylic paint in order to level the line between the background and the pasted image. Everyone chooses the main color according to their wishes and depending on the color scheme of the picture.

After drying, the glue can leave rough marks that need to be slightly touched up with sandpaper. The decor at the final stage depends on the imagination. There are enough options: add sparkles, highlight the contours of the image itself with a thin brush and paint, etc. The final touch is to apply glossy varnish in several layers, each completely drying out. For greater clarity, we offer a color step-by-step instruction on how to decoupage Christmas balls with your own hands with the attached photos and videos.

Master Class

To work in decoupage style you will need:

  • Christmas balls;
  • napkins with New Year's motives (preferably three-layer);
  • acrylic paints;
  • PVA glue;
  • glossy varnish;
  • brushes;
  • sponge;
  • contours;
  • semolina.

An unusual decoration of the New Year's tree will be the do-it-yourself decoupage of Christmas balls with photographs of your loved ones. The process is the same, only instead of napkins - a photo, which is pre-soaked in warm water, and then pry off the edge with a needle and separate the unnecessary paper. There remains a thin image, and glue it. You can make a frame around from rolled up napkins. Then a little bit of fine art and, as a completion, varnish the surface.

Children will enjoy colorful toys. Decoupage of Christmas balls using foam is performed according to the usual scheme, and if you add a few strokes with glitter and apply 3D varnish to the drawings to give them a three-dimensional image, then such foam balls will replace the expected gift from Santa Claus. The training master class with the corresponding photos can be viewed on the Internet.

The use of contour painting will make even the simplest decoupage an original decoration. Or, alternatively, do-it-yourself reverse decoupage. In this case, do all the manipulations, only from the inside of the ball, dividing it into two halves, if the material of the toy allows. Process each of them step by step, as described above. The picture is glued to the inside of the hemisphere, and the general decor can be decorated in accordance with the photo of crafts using the decoupage technique.

Maybe not exactly a New Year theme, but balloons with roses are very attractive. Choose napkins with pink motifs, and ivory paint is ideal for the main background. At the end, decorate the fastening of the toy with ribbons and bows. Such a decoration will add summer colors to the decor of a winter spruce.

All of the above options for decoupage Christmas balls with your own hands are basic information, and having mastered this technique, fixing it with the watched video, you can show your individuality in each craft and make not only a decoration for the Christmas tree, but also a gift souvenir.

Useful Tips

To decorate a Christmas tree, home or office, it is not necessary to purchase a large number of Christmas balls.

Beautiful balls can be made do it yourself at home from various materials.

Just stock up on a few simple tools for making Christmas balls, and take the time to craft and be patient.

All New Year's balls are made quite simply, and even children can be involved in working on them.

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Crafts for the New Year: a ball of bows


You will need:

    glass or foam ball

    hot glue

    small ribbon bows.

* Bows can be made with your own hands or you can buy ready-made ones (usually they are self-adhesive).


Take a ball and glue it with bows.

If you are using a foam ball, then a strong thread or tape is glued to it.


Bulky balls for the New Year: a ball made of polystyrene and fabrics


You will need:

    foam ball

  • glue brush

1.Use a skewer to poke a hole in the center of the styrofoam ball.

2. Now take the tape and use a skewer to pass it through the hole. Pass the end of the ribbon through a small bead and tie the ribbon into a knot.


3. Pass the other end of the ribbon through the other bead and also tie it into a knot. You can fix the knots with PVA glue.

4. In a bowl, dilute the PVA glue and a small amount of water.

5. Cut the fabrics into several pieces of different shapes and sizes.


6.Using a brush, apply glue to the ball and begin to gently glue the pieces of fabric.


* Do not apply too much glue.

How to make a balloon for the New Year: Golden Snitch


You will need:

    thin wire

    thin paper (papyrus paper)

  • self-hardening modeling mass

    acrylic paint

    paint brush.

1. On paper, draw a sample of the wings for your snitch. Use this pattern to model thin wire wings. Tighten the ends of the wire.


2. Place a piece of tissue paper on the table and place the wire wings on top of it.

3. Apply a small amount of glue to the wire on several sides and gently fold the paper.

4. Carefully cut the paper around the wire to form the wings.

* You can paint the wings with acrylic paint.

* Glitter can also be applied. To do this, spread the wings with PVA glue and sprinkle with sparkles.


5. Glue the wings to the ball using a self-hardening sculpting compound.

* You can also use a foam ball instead of a glass ball. In this case, the twisted ends of the wire wing are simply screwed into the ball. The foam ball will also need to be decorated with paint, for example.

Christmas balls made of gummy candies for the New Year



You will need:

    foam ball

  • hot glue

    small gummies or marmalade


1. Take a foam ball and use glue to glue a piece of tape to it and thread it with a pin on top so that later the decoration can be hung on the tree.


2. Start adding glue drop by drop and glue the candy or marmalade (or marmalade pieces) to the ball.


* Instead of sweets, you can glue almost any decoration: buttons, sequins, small tinsel, etc.

Ball of acorn hats for the Christmas tree for the New Year


You will need:

    acorn caps

    acrylic paint and brush

    foam ball

    jute rope

    thin wire (floristic, for example)

    thin ribbon

    sequins (optional)

  • hot glue.

1. To paint the styrofoam ball, select a color close to that of acorn caps. You can skip this step. It is only needed to hide the white color of the ball.

2. Start adding hot glue drop by drop and glue the acorn caps. You can pierce the foam ball a little with these caps. Glue the caps as close to each other as possible, but don't bother too much - there will still be gaps, and that's okay.


3. Make a loop of the wire, twist the ends and screw them into the ball. You can now cut the rope and thread it through the loop to hang it on the tree.

4. You can also make a bow out of tape and glue it to the top of the ball with hot glue.

5. You can apply PVA glue to the outer parts of the acorn caps and sprinkle glitter on the glue.


DIY crafts for the New Year: balls decorated with thread


You will need:

    thread for knitting (the thicker, the easier it will be to fix it)

    foam ball

  • wire or pin.


1. Bend a piece of wire into a U and insert it into a styrofoam ball. The wire will help then hang the ball on the tree.


You can use a pin to pierce the thread and then insert it into the foam ball. In this case, you will need to leave a small tail at the thread (which you will then glue onto the ball) in order to hang the ball on the tree.

2. Cover half of the ball with PVA glue and begin to gently wind the thread around it.








3. When you have almost reached the center of the ball, turn it over, apply glue to the other half, and continue wrapping the thread around the ball.



DIY volumetric balloons for the New Year



You will need:

    cardboard (white or colored)

  • printer (to print the template)

* You are offered to print two versions of templates for two balls of different sizes.

* Each ball is made from 12 pieces of paper of the same size.

Paper ball templates for the New Year

Little


Big


1. Print the templates and cut them out by making cuts in the indicated locations.

2. In one cut flower, make a small hole, pass a thread through it, tie its end to a knot and secure it on the back with tape.


To make it easier to assemble the ball, consider the part with the string as the "north pole" of the ball. Add details to it until you get to the "South Pole".


3. Use the cut lines in each cut out element, fasten all the parts together to form a ball.



Beautiful balloons from paper strips for the New Year.

Option 1.

You will need:

    colored cardboard

1. Cut a sheet of colored cardboard into several equal strips.

2. Secure all strips with a stapler. First, cross two strips at right angles to each other and fasten them, then add two more strips diagonally and also fasten (you can use glue).

3. Bend each strip in turn and secure the ends.

The ball can be decorated with tinsel by cutting off a small piece and gluing it.

Christmas balls for New Year

Option 2.

At the end of the text instructions, you will find a video instruction.

You will need:

    colored cardboard (colored magazines)

  • cocktail tube

    pencil

    needle and thread (or wire)

    awl or screwdriver

  • different decorations (optional).


1. You need to cut 6 strips of colored cardboard. The stripes should not be too wide.


2. Use an awl to make a hole at the end of each strip.

3. Lay out all the paper strips as shown in the image, and make a hole in the center with an awl.


4. Prepare a thread, a needle and a bead that will need to be attached to the bottom of the future ball.


Cut the string to the desired length so you can hang the ball.

Stretch the first bead all the way to the end.

Pull the needle and thread through the hole in the center of the strips, and leave a bead at the bottom.

5. Cut about half of the cocktail tube (its length is equal to 1/4 the length of the paper strip), insert it in the center of the blank and thread the needle through it.


6. Begin to fold the strips up and pull the needle and thread through the hole at the end of each strip. It is also better to fix the bead on top.



Video instruction:

* You can use wire instead of thread.

Crafts for the new year: paper balls


How to decorate a Styrofoam ball for the New Year


Styrofoam ball cupcake for New Year

Craft from a foam ball for the New Year


Paper balls for the New Year (video)

Ball of paper strips for the New Year


Paper ball for New Year

Master class of New Year's paper crafts "Christmas balls"

New Year's interior decorations and paper trees

author: Pogozheva Valentina Petrovna, educator, MBDOU "Ust-Sertinsky kindergarten" Teremok ", p. Ust-Serta, Kemerovo region, Chebulinsky district.

The master class is designed for children of senior preschool age, school age, teachers and parents.
Appointment: The craft is a decoration for the interior of the New Year's hall, a New Year's toy for decorating a Christmas tree, and can also serve as a gift for the New Year.
Target... Teach children to create a paper ball using different types of paper, reflect the New Year's theme.
Tasks:
- Creation of conditions for creative manifestations of children, arouse feelings of joy, educate emotional and aesthetic feelings;
- develop children's creativity, imagination;
- to show the need to create beauty and decorate the house, kindergarten with it, and give it to loved ones;
- to educate accuracy in work;
- learn how to make volumetric balls.
Materials (edit)... Colored cardboard, old postcards or glossy magazine covers, scissors, pencil, glue, stencil of a circle and triangle, or compasses.

Pleasant New Year's chores is one of the most wonderful components of a winter holiday. Among these troubles, decorating the house and the New Year tree is sure to be present. Toys, garlands, and other decorations can be purchased at the store. Well, if there is a desire and a small amount of time, then you can take up the independent production of original and amazing jewelry. For example, make Christmas balls out of colored paper.
Such a multi-colored volumetric ball will decorate not only a Christmas tree, but also walls, doors and windows.
New Year is time to play
There is room for imagination.
What a wonderful decoration
Christmas balls!
You will say that the balls are familiar,
An eternal Christmas tree outfit?
This is true, but not ordinary,
Not quite a deep look.
And the cherished fantasy
Change your look:
Well these are minor planets
From another galaxy
Here accidentally happened.
To work, you need to prepare:
Colored cardboard, old postcards, scissors, pencil, glue, circle and triangle stencil.


Making a ball:
1. Take cardboard (or postcards) and draw 20 circles using a stencil.


2. Cut out our circles. In each circle we inscribe an equilateral triangle, which can be drawn by hand using a ruler and a pencil in each circle, or, from thick cardboard, we cut out a triangle template and draw it.



3. Carefully using a ruler, bend along the sides of the previously drawn triangles.


4. Take five circles and glue them so that the top of the triangles is at one point. We have got the top of the ball, which looks like a flower. At the very top we make a hole, thread the ribbon and fix it with a knot
Similarly, glue 5 fragments together. This will be the bottom of the ball.


5. Now we make the middle of our ball. We glue individual fragments into a strip and close it into a ring.



6. Now we collect all three parts of our ball into one whole: top, bottom and middle.


Photo10.


7. Well, our ball is ready, you can decorate the Christmas tree or the New Year's hall.



You can make the Christmas ball not so big, but smaller using eight circles.
1. Draw and cut out eight circles.
2. Draw equilateral triangles in each circle, then fold back the valves.
3. Then glue the first four blanks together, then the next four blanks.


4. We connect two blanks into one, we got such a small ball.


You can also make such a ball from the same blanks.:

Step-by-step workflow:

1. Cut out 8 circles from colored paper using a stencil. And you also need to cut two smaller circles.


2. Take a large circle, fold it in half, then again in half.


3. We do this with all large circles.
4. Then take a small circle and glue the folded large circles onto it.


5. So we glue all four circles on a small circle. We do the second half in the same way. We got two halves.


6.Glue the two halves together, and gently straighten the folded "pockets" of the circles.


7. Here we also have such a New Year's ball.


These paper balls can be made on a Christmas tree with your own hands.




Decorate your home, group, kindergarten with ready-made toys to create a New Year's mood.
Good mood and happy holiday!