We decorate the outdoor Christmas tree toys with their own hands

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In this article we will describe how to make Christmas toys with your own hands on the street tree using the available items. Everything ordinary is quite possible to turn into something beautiful and magical. Decorations for the New Year's beauty from which they just do not: foam, cardboard, cones, pieces of wood, and even bottles with light bulbs are used. And after all, each craft is unique in its own way. Look at the photo. These balls are made by hand from foam.

It is important to know one important detail. On New Year's Eve, the weather is not always good, it rains often. Therefore, your crafts should not have what is washed or soaked. When the tree is in the house, there already use whatever you want.

Foam Crafts

The material is easy to handle and by itself. It will not crack, will not break and will not hit anyone if it suddenly breaks off a branch. You can make Christmas tree toys from foam with your own hands in any form and in different ways.

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Getting ready for work

We will need materials and tools:

foam;
knife;
soldering iron;
paint;
glitter;
needle with thread;
adhesive;
sandpaper.

Do not forget that you are making decorations for the outdoor Christmas tree, so the glue with paints must be resistant to water and frost.

With a knife, we will process the foam piece. The knife should have a thin sharp blade, because the treatment should not be too rough. The same applies to the emery cloth, choose "nulevka".Sandpaper is needed for final processing: we will remove irregularities( burrs, excess hillocks).With the help of paints, we will paint our craft, and then lightly cover with sparkles. We will make a hole with a needle and thread the thread from which the loop will be obtained.

Choose strong threads, as a strong wind can easily tear the decoration!

Soldering iron, if desired, you can apply recesses in the form of patterns. Glue is needed if you want to attach to the toy, for example, a beautiful ribbon bow.

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Observe safety precautions when working with a soldering iron! When processing foam with this device, toxic smoke that can cause cancer will be emitted. Keep this in mind, work in a well-ventilated area. It is advisable to use a mask or respirator to protect the respiratory system.

Making beautiful balls

It is best to do Christmas-tree decorations made of foam balls with your own hands. They are very often found in handicraft stores. Such an option is proposed because of the usual foam wrappers you can not make the ball. We will need balls of large size, as we will hang them on a street tree. The larger the tree, the bigger and brighter the toy!

So, we take a clean foam ball and prepare a flat foam stand. We paint it in any color with permanent indelible paint. In order not to soil your hands and do not grease the paint with your fingers from the ball, use two toothpicks and stick them into the ball, as shown in the photo. Paint can brush or spray. We stick toothpicks with a ball into the stand and wait for drying.

After the ball dries, you can apply patterns with other paint or stick something beautiful to it. You can apply patterns with the tip of the soldering tip, for example, in the form of snakes. There already play your fantasy. Then take a needle with a thread in the ear and pierce the part of the ball that you think is the top. The figure shows how to pierce a toy.

Many people use arcs from paper clips as a suspension, simply sticking them into a ball, and then they tie a thread. In our case, this option will not work: a strong wind will calm the ball from the suspension. The simpler the design, the safer it is!

We tie both ends of the thread into a knot, and hide the knot itself. Finished crafts will look like a plastic shopping ball for the Christmas tree.

Figures from foam

Christmas tree toys from foam can be made and flat, in the form of various figures. You will need foam plates. First, with a pen or felt-tip pen, we make a drawing on foam plastic. Then gently begin to cut. Sandpaper need to grind rough surfaces, otherwise the craft will not look so beautiful.

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For example, we want to make a beautiful snowflake. We draw it on foam plastic, then we start cutting out the internal spaces.

Always start by cutting out the inside spaces. It is much more convenient, and the risk of breaking a toy is significantly reduced.

Now proceed to cutting out the snowflake itself from the foam sheet. It will look beautiful and without painting. It is better, of course, to paint in silver, golden or metallic blue. Hole should be done from the upper ends, so that the snowflake on the Christmas tree was turned to face the viewer. If you pierce directly on the plane, the snowflake in limbo will turn to us an edge.

Do not limit yourself to flat figures. Cut volume crafts in the form of bells, birds, Christmas trees, and so on. By the way, such Christmas tree toys can be made of foam balls. For example, a snowman. You need balls of different sizes. One is big, the other is smaller, and the third is even smaller. Carefully glue them together with strong glue. It is not necessary to paint such an article, because a snowman should be white anyway. Draw his mouth, eyes, nose and buttons with indelible markers. You can sew him a little hat.

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plastic bottles There are a lot of options, both simple and complex. Plastic Christmas tree toys are perfect for street Christmas beauty. They also do not get wet, have a small mass and are easy to manufacture.

Only large bottles of 1.5 or 2 liters will do. Toys from small bottles will be hardly noticeable on the street tree.

Interesting, useful and simple

Let's do our own hands make a Christmas tree toy from a plastic bottle that will carry the function of bird feeders. We need accessories:

plastic bottle of 2 liters;
scissors and awl;
paint;
strong kapron thread;
tinsel, ribbons, etc.

In this embodiment, it is a big bottle that will make it easy for the birds to eat in it.

We take the bottle and begin to paint it in any bright color, together with the cap. Painting with a spray does not take much time. We are waiting for the paint to dry. We decorate the bottle with ribbons, for example, we knit a bow and fasten it with glue. Stickers can also be used. Then we cut a small round window( diameter 8 cm) in the bottle so that it is as close as possible to the bottom. The photo shows interesting options for bottles of feeders, where the upper parts are made in the form of a roof.

First you need to paint the bottle, wait for drying, and only then cut the window for the bird. The paint should not get where the feed will lie. An animal may inadvertently swallow a piece of dry paint and get poisoned.

Now unscrew the cork and punch a small hole in it. We take the thread and make a loop. It is better to make a small knot large( tie several times).Shove the end of the loop so that the knot rests on the bottom of the cover. Simple and useful toy-feeder ready. We hang it on the Christmas tree, pour food and admire the birds.

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A bottle-flashlight and delicate bells

A very simple option, familiar to everyone from childhood. Such Christmas toys from plastic bottles are also easy to manufacture and process. We will need all the same as for the feeder. Only now we will cut vertical stripes on the walls.

A sharp, thin knife or scalpel is perfect for this procedure. Razor blade is better not to use, because they can easily get hurt.

Cut the strips, the gap between them should be about 5 mm. The length of each strip - 15-20 cm, depending on the size of the bottle. Now we need to squeeze the bottle so that all the bands are arched in different directions. We start painting and decoration. You can put something bright and shiny in the inner cavity of our flashlight.