Do you want to beautifully decorate the table and interior for New Year's Eve? The traditional hero of the holiday is Santa Claus. With your own hands you can make an original souvenir from a bottle of champagne . Read tips, take ideas. All of them are very simple and understandable. Even a beginner can make such a product.
Materials and Tools
To get a beautiful and original crafts "Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden", it is enough to take available means at hand or buy them. They are inexpensive, but will make it possible to make a very decorative exquisite thing. So, you need the following:
- The base, which is suitable for any bottle, glass or plastic. You can use unnecessary empty or arrange champagne, which will be served at the table on New Year's Eve. From small bottles or jars of yogurt or baby food make Christmas decorations, and from a five-liter bottle of water, complete figures for the interior are made.
- Decorative materials. The choice depends on what you have at your fingertips or in the nearest craft store. It can be: satin ribbons, oblique edging, fabric, cotton, synthetic winterizer, tinsel, sequins, beads, buttons, lace, braid, snowflakes, paper, foil - in a word, everything your fantasy wants.
- Scissors, glue, needle with thread, paint with brushes.
The necessary tools are determined by the way that you will make the craft.
Santa Claus (do it yourself) from a bottle of champagne
You will actually make packaging or clothes for the base, that is, it must be removed. This gives some advantages:
- Allows to use several times (next year).
- Suitable as a separate gift for relatives (they will buy champagne on their own).
- Such a souvenir can be made for sale.
DIY Santa Claus do it yourself from champagne is done in different ways. The methods may be as follows:
- Creating a costume from ribbons or slanting inlay with subsequent decoration.
- Sewing or knitting clothes for figures.
- Painting and decorating the surface.
Choose the method that you most understand. Try a few or do what is available at home.
Sew a suit
It’s very easy to make Santa Claus out of a bottle if you make an outfit separately and then just blow champagne into it. You are not a fashion designer, and the convenience of clothing is not required here. The main thing is that she looks beautiful. Coat Santa Claus can be sewn from two halves (for the front and back).
This is done like this:
- Draw on a sheet of paper or immediately on the fabric contour like a shirt or dressing gown. Do sleeves in one piece with the front or back. It does not make sense to cut out the armholes and sew them separately. Simplify everything. Make both parts the same.
- Sew the resulting parts from the inside out on a typewriter or with your hands.
- Turn and decorate at your discretion with any white trim (lace, braid, ribbon, frill, tinsel).
You may not need to make sleeves near the costume, but if you want Santa Claus to look more realistic, not only sew them, but also fill them with something (cotton, padding polyester or other stuffing). The bottom should be sewn up and perform something similar to mittens. Make a hat or cap.
Tie a bottle
In this way, Santa Claus can be made from plastic or glass bottles. It’s better to do this work crochet.
The easiest way to create a tight-fitting red suit, and sew white decor on top. It can be either knitted or any other. They do, of course, and immediately knit a different color, but it is more difficult. If you know how to work only with knitting needles and you have them, make a red "pipe" on four knitting needles or circular according to the principle of an ordinary sock.
We use ribbons and a slanting inlay
Elegant Santa Claus with your own hands from a bottle is done by sticking tapes on the base or directly on the bottle. It is better to use the first option to make the costume removable. Why do this, it was said above. So do the following:
- Buy the right amount of red ribbon and white. It is easy to determine the length by pre-wrapping the bottle with, for example, a sewing centimeter. Width depends on the size of the bottle. For champagne, a tape of one centimeter is suitable, for a five-liter plastic bottle it is better to take a wide one, as for braiding a braid. If possible, it is better to purchase not an ordinary red satin ribbon, but a slanting inlay, since it will be easier to wrap the bottle around it. Do not forget about the decor.
- Get to work. Make a paper base in the form of a cylindrical surface according to the size of the bottom of the bottle. Put the workpiece on it.
- Start winding tapes from a narrow part, that is, from the neck, gradually moving to the base with a paper layer. Glue each row of tapes half or to the edge of the previous one. Instead of winding, pre-cut pieces of tape can be joined. They do this both at an angle and in strictly horizontal rows. In the same way, make a hat.
- When the red base is ready, decorate it with white ribbons or any other elements.
The Snow Maiden is made in the same way, only the colors of the ribbons are taken by others, and instead of the cap, they make a kokoshnik.
Paint the bottle
If you don't have time at all, use other simple methods. Craft Santa Claus from a bottle can be made using conventional surface painting.
To do this, do the following:
- If possible, it is better to soak the labels from the bottle, although this is not necessary. The same applies to surface degreasing.
- Take red paint and a sponge or a wide brush. Cover it with the surface of the bottle. In the case of champagne to the top golden label. Acrylic lays well. You can buy a can of white paint and tinting (red for Santa Claus, blue for Snow Maiden). It may be necessary to make more than one layer, but even better first primed with white or a special composition. In a word, try to achieve an even colored surface.
- After drying, do the decor: glue the white trim from ribbons, lace, tinsel. You can even use decoupage elements, that is, ready-made napkins with decor, stencils.
- Finish the finished product with transparent varnish to give shine and greater durability.
Plastic bottles-crafts: master class
Everyone usually has this material. Depending on the size of the bottle, you can make either a Christmas tree toy or a complete decoration for the interior.
To create such a souvenir, any of the above technologies is suitable.
You can try another quick way. To get a beautiful and neat Santa Claus from plastic bottles, you need to do the following:
- Take a bottle, glue it with paper. It’s easier to work in the future.
- Wrap the bottle with a cloth or a red bag, and together with the cap, fix it with glue.
- From cotton flagella, finish the coat and hat.
- Draw a face on the cardboard and stick it on the base.
- Make hands out of the rectangles of the fabric. Decorate the bottom with cotton in the form of cuffs. Glue the items to the bottle.
- It remains to make a beard and accessories. A gift bag is usually sewn, and the staff is made of a pencil, a rod or a stick wrapped in satin ribbons. The beard is usually made of cotton, but can even be made of plastic spoons.
Using the same technology, you can make any figure or even create a story composition. So, the article "Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden" will take its rightful place on your holiday table or under the tree.
With great pleasure, children will do this. If you may not trust the baby with a bottle of champagne for the festive table, then you will gladly give away the plastic “waste” for creative research.
So, you learned how to do Santa Claus do it yourself with improvised materials. All options are very easy to do. Even a child can cope with such a task, so you can turn the preparation of jewelry and souvenirs for home and gifts into an exciting family activity.