Often for the manufacture of various crafts need sparkles. Especially when it's time for holidays, fun parties, New Year's parties. Many people think about how to make sparkles at home with their own hands. After reading our article, you will know the most common and easy ways to make sequins from multi-colored foil, Christmas tree tinsel, even salt. You don’t have to buy special materials, we will get along with the most necessary ones, which are constantly at hand and are available in every home. These are scissors and a hole punch. If you decide to make handmade toys for sale, you will have to buy the necessary materials, but we'll talk about the sparkles that you can use at home to create a festive mood or beautiful, bright Christmas tree decorations.
Use of tinsel
If you are seriously considering how to make sparkles at home, we can advise you to use sharp scissors and Christmas tinsel. You can buy packages of direct rain, as in the photo below, or you can use terry garlands, old decorations that no longer look on the tree. You can use any shiny product.
Before you make small sparkles at home, you need to put a sheet of clean paper on the table, take a pack of even rain and hold it tightly in your left hand. Then, with scissors, 1-2 mm from the edge, cut into small squares.
Such small spangles can be made in different colors. Crumble the golden trimmings onto one paper, silver trimmings onto the other; if necessary, cut the colored ones.
The use of small sparkles
Many girls use small sequins for manicure. Sliced squares are mixed with varnish and spread on the nail plate. It can be done differently. First, a layer of the varnish of the main color is applied, then the nails are sprinkled with sparkles, the excess is brushed back onto a sheet of paper. Then a layer of colorless varnish is spread on top of the sparkles so that the pieces do not fall off.
If you know how to make sparkles at home, then you can create your own decorations for the Christmas tree. It can be figures of Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, cardboard crafts of animals, stars or bells. Any toy will look beautiful if you add spangles cut from tinsel to its surface. It is easy to do. The finished toy is coated with PVA glue and sprinkled with sparkles. With a little pressure on the hand, the excess is shaken back onto the table.
You can decorate the attributes for the New Year holiday - a crown for a princess, a kokoshnik for a girl in a Russian national costume, a headdress of the Snow Queen or the Snow Maiden.
Multicolor Foil Sequins
From thin and crispy foil of different colors, you can cut sparkles of any shape. For example, we’ll tell the reader how to make heart-shaped sparkles at home. Buy red foil, fold it in several layers and cut out the shape of a heart.
It turns out many elements at once. Such details can be used for pasting, for example, “Valentine's” for Valentine's Day, decoration of a wedding album or Christmas toys made of papier-mâché or cardboard. For boys, you can cut small Christmas trees or blue cars from green foil.
Curly Hole Punches
Now on sale there are special hole punch punched holes of various shapes. You can buy a whole set for cutting different figures. If you do not know how to make sparkles at home, then the acquisition of such convenient devices will solve the problem in two ways.
Figured hole punch can also be used in the manufacture of paper crafts. Children love to stick small parts made with the help of such machines in applications.
This is much more convenient than manually cutting some figure. For example, you are unlikely to succeed in precisely cutting stars, but you can squeeze out a whole packet in a minute with a hole punch.
Simple hole punch
There is another good option on how to make sparkles at home. This is cutting beautiful smooth circles out of colorful foil with a simple hole punch. The material is thin so that sheets can be folded in several layers. Cut the omen of the circles quite quickly.
You can decorate Christmas balls with such brilliant confetti. To do this, take a solid or transparent ball and coat it with PVA glue. It remains only to sprinkle it with shiny circles and hang by a thread to dry.
You can stick a garland of flags on a thread with a child and sprinkle each flag with sparkles. After you hang it on the wall or under the ceiling, the flags will sparkle beautifully in the light of lamps.
Shattered glass toys
If you have not yet decided how to make sparkles at home, then we can offer the option tested by many Soviet women. They take an old Christmas tree toy, but always a glass one (in a box with toys you can always find a cracked or broken one) and, putting it in a dense plastic bag, beat it with a hammer in the dust. Then you can use such small sparkles in the manufacture of papier-mâché toys.
How to make sparkles from a CD?
To make shiny colorful balls on a Christmas tree or to decorate a room, you can use old unnecessary CDs. They must be carefully broken into small fragments, you can also break it with a hammer or use mites.
Then each piece is smeared with glue and attached to the ball. The product reflects light rays well, as it has a mirror surface. If such a ball hangs on a tree branch, then the lights of the garland will sparkle even brighter.
Sequins from salt
In the end, we will look at how to make spangles of salt crystals ourselves. For this work, you will need a kilogram of coarse salt. It is advisable to choose a salt such that the crystals are brilliant. To color the salt in different colors, you can use either simple watercolor paints or buy food coloring. You can also use natural dyes, taking the juice of beets or carrots, using brilliant green or potassium permanganate.
For each color, pick up a bag or any other container. Dishes can stain along with salt, so it’s best to buy tight bags.
Dyes are dissolved in water, watercolor is also prepared by adding water. Then a small amount of coloring liquid is poured into the bag and the bag is thoroughly shaken so that all salt crystals are colored. Then the bag is opened so that there is air access and the salt is dry. After complete drying, the salt can be poured into containers convenient for crafts and used to decorate New Year's toys for the holiday.
In the article we talked in detail about all the methods for making sequins at home. Doing it yourself is easy, the main thing is to want. Have a good work!