Getting ready for the holiday? Choosing gifts? Looking for affordable options? Make Christmas crafts from bumps yourself! They will be wonderful souvenirs for relatives and friends. Interesting ideas and methods for their implementation are presented in our review.
New Year's crafts from fir cones
Fir cones are used both in opened form and with thin candles. So that they retain their elegant shape, it is necessary to process them immediately after collection with an adhesive solution. It is good to use this material to make a New Year's souvenir tree. You can do it like this:
- Make a cone-shaped frame.
- Glue the cones in rows: from bottom to top and from large to smaller.
- Decorate the product with beads, bows, tinsel.
If you have the opportunity to prepare a lot of material, then you can build such a souvenir of any size, as long as you have enough patience.
The Christmas tree toy or a figure in the form of a hedgehog made of thin fir cones will look original. As a basis, it is better to choose a hemisphere. It is easy to make it using the papier-mâché technique yourself by sticking layers of paper onto a ball. It is worth remembering that the frame must be stable and firmly attached to any plane when the souvenir will be placed on the table. If you make a Christmas toy that will hang, it, on the contrary, should be as light as possible so that the suspension does not come off. You can also make a beautiful New Year wreath.
New Year crafts from pine cones
From this material you can make many different jewelry and souvenirs. Individual specimens are used as Christmas tree decorations. They are painted in bright colors, covered with silver and white paints to simulate snow. Golden options look good. They are even sold in ready-made sets with Christmas balls. Making them yourself is very simple.
The second option is garlands of cones. They can serve as a Christmas tree or interior decoration. Painted, in combination with beads, bows, balls in one chain, they look very original and stylish. You can also make Christmas crafts from cones in the form of animal figures, for example, the symbol of the year.
If you disassemble the bump on the scales, you can make original applications or mosaic patterns. Small particles are suitable as decorative elements for finishing any surface, as well as for full coverage of the form.
For example, in the first case, an openwork ornament is laid out on a Christmas ball of large diameter. As a second option, a postcard is made with the front part of the scales. Having painted them in different colors in accordance with the picture, they create some kind of image, for example, a Christmas tree on a background of snow. These are the original New Year's crafts made from cones. Do it yourself with your own hands any of the options.
One-cone tree
If you need to make many small inexpensive souvenirs, use the following method:
- Harvest the required number of large spruce cones. If there is little snow, and you did not have time to collect the material in advance, this can be done right in December. When they are warm, they will open even if you find them in the form of thin candles. Before they gain volume, do not process them.
- Fix each cone on a solid base: glue it to a wooden stand, fix it in a small pot.
- Paint the bumps green or white to simulate snow.
- Decorate the scales in any way. You can sprinkle with beads, previously smearing the scales with glue. They also use colored cereals: colored to create the effect of Christmas balls and garlands, white - to simulate hoarfrost.
- On top of the head, install a small star or any other decorative element.
See how varied crafts are from cones. New Year's photos with such souvenirs perfectly demonstrate this.
How to make a ball
To cheaply, quickly and originally decorate a Christmas tree, you can make a decor of cones. Collecting the ball is not at all difficult.
It is enough to do the following:
- Find the base (tennis ball, for example) and make a shape using the papier-mâché technique.
- Stick the cones onto the resulting paper sphere. Try to choose even and equal in size copies.
- Fasten the ribbon for the suspension. You can make the usual loop, the free ends of which go inside the sphere.
- Decorate the resulting souvenir of your choice.
As you can see, Christmas crafts from a cone in the shape of a ball are very simple to make. The easiest option is to simply paint the collected material with colored pearl paint and attach the pendants. Christmas toys are ready.
Animals from cones
DIY Christmas gifts from cones with your own hands (photo below) are made very easy. You can collect a teddy bear, fox, hare, sheep, snake.
You can combine different types and sizes of cones in one object. All elements of large figures are best mounted on a wire frame, papier-mâché. If one cone is a paw or an ear, then it itself serves as a base.
Topiary
It is a mini-tree of spherical shape in a pot. This is not a Christmas tree or a Christmas toy, but just a universal souvenir for any holiday. Made of cones and decorated with artificial decorative hoarfrost, it will definitely be associated with winter.
Such a gift is made in the same way as a Christmas ball. The difference is that instead of hanging it, it is fixed on a rod that is installed in a vase or pot. Topiary is even made from one big cone of a beautiful shape. Even the children can make New Year’s crafts out of cones with their own hands (photo above and below).
Story composition
Children will always be pleased if their New Year crafts made of cones decorate the interior of the house. To make the kid interested in creating a souvenir, try to offer him this in the form of a game. Make several figures together. Take part in the creation of crafts. Talk about the heroes of your composition, winter, the upcoming holiday.
If the lesson is held in a group, it is interesting to make different animals, a snowman, a Christmas tree. After that, arrange an exhibition, and not just a static one, but, for example, in the form of a short performance, where everyone will speak on behalf of his hero-craft. Children will enjoy such entertainment. It will help to interest the process of creating souvenirs from natural material.
Scale Applique
You can make different Christmas crafts from cones with your own hands . You have already seen many interesting ideas. Another, very simple one is to make a postcard where cone flakes are used as decor. So, from the particles of one copy you can make a great beautiful souvenir. Depending on the amount of material you have, ideas may vary. If you are limited in the number of cones, use elements to add volume and sophistication to the postcard. One flake can represent a Christmas toy on a painted Christmas tree. When you have a lot of cones, the scope for creativity opens up very large. From the green colored scales, as from a mosaic, a Christmas tree is laid out, from white - snowdrifts or a snowman, from brown - an owl, tree trunks, from red - Santa Claus. Everyone can make such Christmas crafts from a cone with their own hands. It is very simple, and the result is original and beautiful.
In addition, the scales are combined with any other materials: cotton, cereal, beads, ribbons, bows, plasticine, finish with a brush. Such original Christmas crafts from cones will definitely please their owners. In addition to postcards, with an applique of scales, you can decorate a bottle of champagne, lay out a pattern on a wine glass, a vase, a chest and any other interior item.
You have learned how to make Christmas crafts from bumps. Choose your favorite idea, procure everything you need and start the exciting creative process of creating a souvenir. Children will be happy to attend.