How to create a tangerine tree with your own hands?

Recently, topiary have been gaining more and more popularity among needlewomen. In this article, we will tell you about how to make a tangerine tree with your own hands. You may need a variety of materials: flower pots, pebbles, polystyrene, cotton wool, glue, artificial leaves, felt, tangerines, foam balls, paints, wire, teip tape, beads, rhinestones and other decor items.

DIY tangerine tree (master class): create the foundation

First you need to make a base for the tree. Buy a flower pot, pebbles, and a piece of polystyrene. To make the tangerine tree created with your own hands stable, pour pebbles into the pot. Then cut the foam so that it can be put in a pot. Trim the edges. Then gently place the foam in the pot. For greater strength, you can fix it with glue.

Then you need to make a strong and strong trunk, which does not bend under the weight of the decor. To do this, take a few thick wires from forty to fifty centimeters long and at least two millimeters in diameter. It is better to take a stiff wire, since it is less amenable to external pressure.

Fasten the pieces of wire with threads or a thinner wire, the diameter of which does not exceed half a millimeter. Deepen the middle wire into the foam. Fix it with glue. For greater stability, take paper and PVA glue. Tear the paper into small pieces and glue it with the base of the barrel and the foam itself. Wait for the product to dry. And now let's get down to the most interesting part - creating a crown and decor.

Create a crown of artificial leaves

To make the crown, direct the wire in different directions. To make additional branches, screw the wire to the trunk. For convenient fixing of parts, you can use either self-hardening plastic or papier-mâché. As you can see, it’s quite easy to create a tangerine tree with your own hands, a photo of which can be seen in this article.

To make a crown that looks like a real one, buy teip tape, artificial leaves on wire and tangerines. First, wrap the trunk with brown tape and the branches green. If necessary, teip tape can be tinted with acrylic paint. Then screw the leaves and tangerines to the tree. Make sure that the tangerine tree made by yourself has remained stable.

By the way, leaves made of corrugated paper look very beautiful. True, it will be difficult to take care of such a product, since it will not be possible to wipe it with water.

And another manufacturing option is leaves made from foamiran. This material can be heated, stretched and painted. From foamiran you can get a very realistic and beautiful tangerine tree. It is advisable not to tint the leaves with dry pastel, as it easily crumbles.

Crohn felt

Making felt crown harder. You will need to buy a hard felt with a thickness of not more than two millimeters. Cut felt out of felt. About one tangerine tree, created with his own hands, will take about fifty leaves. Then take a wire with a diameter of no more than half a millimeter and cut it into pieces ten to twenty millimeters long. Connect the felt and wire. It is simple enough! Just pass one end of the wire through the felt, and wind the other to the tree.

Make fruits also from felt and filler. To do this, take rectangular pieces of felt and sew them with short sides. Then thread one side, fill the mandarin with filler and tighten the other side. Plant the fruit on the wire and also attach to the tree. Then wrap the trunk and branches with tape tape. Touch the tree with acrylic paint if desired.

Decor for tangerine tree

So you learned how to make a tangerine tree with your own hands. What about the decor? If you want to decorate your product, then you can use the following materials:

1. Beads. You can sheathe felt. In addition, you can make leaflets completely from this material. The work will be very painstaking, but the result will be amazing.
2. Sequins. They can be combined with beads. Felt leaves trimmed with sequins look very nice.
3. Braid, ribbons and net. You can decorate a tangerine tree, hand-picked, lace or, for example, ribbons. In addition, flowers made of paper in silence will look beautiful in the product .
4. Paint and sparkles. You can paint the leaves with acrylic paint with a pearlescent effect. In addition, the tree can be decorated with sparkles that will give it a festive look.

How to care for a tangerine tree?

If you made leaves from foamiran or used ready-made ones, then you can wipe the wood made with your own hands with a damp cloth. If you collected it from corrugated paper, then you can carry out only dry cleaning. But with felt a little more complicated. A tangerine tree made with this material from your own hands will have to be disposed of sooner or later.