Often an attribute of a New Year's holiday is a bell. In the form of such an object they make Christmas tree decorations, decorate a spruce wreath that is hung on the door, and the bells decorating the lamp look beautiful. How to make a bell out of paper with your own hands? This question worries many masters. In fact, there are quite a few options.
As a Christmas tree toy, you can cut out the bell shape from cardboard, glue it with colored paper, sprinkle the smeared contour with cut golden rain and hang it on a branch on a rope. This is the easiest option that a preschooler can do.
If the child is already 4-5 years old, then you can offer him the option of volumetric crafts. Before you make a bell out of paper with your own hands, you need to draw a template. Then circle several contours on colored paper. You can use paper of the same color, but you can make different. Then each bell cut out according to the pattern needs to be bent in half and glued the halves together. Get a voluminous Christmas tree toy. It remains only to pierce the hole on top and tie the rope.
Craft from paper disposable cups
Further, we will also discuss how to make a bell out of paper with your own hands. Ideas can be taken different. It’s easy to make toys out of white paper cups. To do this, you must first punch a hole in the bottom with an awl and thread a rope. Then the glasses are stained with gouache paints in different colors.
You can immediately pick up solid colored ones in the store, then the finished toys will be even brighter. After drying the paint, you can cover the surface with PVA glue and sprinkle with finely chopped rain, glue it with cotton balls, make an application. You can decorate in different ways, here is already a matter of your imagination. Then the bells on a bright ribbon are hung on a branch. You can bundle several toys at once and tie a large satin bow on top.
Quilling
If you are fond of quilling technique , how to make a bell out of paper with your own hands, you will understand after viewing the photo below. You will need:
- strips of two colors - yellow and brown;
- hook for quilling;
- template;
- PVA glue.
Start making pictures with a brown twisted circle (bell tongue). Glue it on the bottom of the cardboard sheet. Next, you need to twist the same loose circles on the template and, having glued the edge of the strip to the last turn, press down with two fingers, creating the shape of a leaf.
It is necessary to make such details a lot. Then we begin to create an object form from individual elements. It’s better to make a bell out of paper with your own hands before drawing, draw a contour with a simple pencil. You can arrange the “leaves” in different ways, but the main thing is that they touch each other without leaving voids on the cardboard.
The last step in the work is to make a stick, for which the bell is held. It is made from brown stripes. To create it, it is enough to twist the same size two "leaves", placing them vertically.
Craft from disposable plates
It is very easy to make New Year's calls from paper plates. It is desirable that their edges were curly, then the finished toy will look more spectacular. Each plate needs to be rolled up with a cone and smooth the edges with a ruler. You can put a metal round bell tied to a beautiful rope in the middle for beauty. Then the bells hung on the door or on the Christmas tree will be able to make beautiful melodic sounds.
You can paint the plates in any color, but preferably golden, yellow or silver. If you cover the product with sparkles, then in the light of a garland the bells will beautifully shimmer.
To prevent the ends of the plate from diverging, you can fasten the edges with a stapler before making a bell of paper with your own hands (see photo above), since the glue may not hold tight edges. If you have an adhesive gun, then you can use it.
Ribbed bells
To make such ribbed bells from cardboard, you will have to draw a template and cut 5-6 separate elements on it, which then need to be glued together.
Here is what the pattern is:
- We draw an isosceles triangle.
- From the corners of the base we lower down parallel two lines of any length, depending on the size of the bell, and connect them together. It turns out a rectangle.
- It remains to draw a trapezoid from below. This will be the bottom bell extension.
So that the parts can be glued, an additional 0.5 cm of paper must be left on each side, on which glue will be applied. Then all the wedges are put together. After complete drying, it remains only to paint the product beautifully and hang it on the Christmas tree.
Papier mache
Master class on how to make a bell out of paper with your own hands using papier-mâché technique, read on. You can take a real metal bell for gluing. And you can pick up a similar cup or glass in shape. You will need:
- paste;
- vegetable oil;
- old newspapers or scribbled notebooks;
- water;
- colored or white napkins.
Recall how to make papier-mâché:
- The mold is lubricated with vegetable oil so that the product is well removed after drying. Make it a fleece.
- Then the first layer of torn paper is applied without a paste, and just dipped pieces of paper in a bowl of water.
- The following layers should already be dipped in a paste and layered in layers. There should be at least 4 layers.
- Then they put the mold in a warm place to dry.
- When the bell is completely dry, it can be painted or pasted with a compressed napkin, as in the photo.
- Then a small hole is made in the upper part and a bow or rope is tied.
Bouquet of bells
Now you know how to make a bell from paper with your own hands. A flower of the same shape is also easy to make. It is enough to cut a rectangle from tissue paper and cut one edge into semicircles.
Then you just need to roll the paper. The bottom of the cylinder adheres to a wire wrapped in green paper. After making 3-5 flowers, you can put a bouquet of bells in a vase.
As you can see, creating masterpieces is easy. So attract children to manual labor. This perfectly develops the child, and brings him closer to his parents.