Looking for original gift ideas for March 8? Ever been touched by the tenderness of yellow spring fluffy balls? A sprig of mimosa with your own hands is made very easily. Choose any of the methods described below, prepare materials and begin an interesting creative process. Creating such souvenirs can be an exciting family activity.
Interesting ideas
The beauty of the spring holiday always wants to keep longer. This will help the manufacture of sprigs of mimosa from various materials. Such a souvenir will be a pleasant gift for mom or grandmother on March 8 or just a beautiful home decor.
There are a lot of manufacturing options. Some are made in the form of a relief on a plane, others are voluminous floral compositions. Even preschoolers can easily do something, but there are technologies that only adults can handle.
So, in what ways and from what you can make a bouquet of yellow balls, you can find out by looking at the following list:
- plasticine, polymer clay or other modeling mass;
- wrinkled paper or napkins;
- quilling and embroidery technique;
- Crochet;
- the manufacture of small pompons from threads;
- obtaining round billets using a hole punch;
- cotton wool;
- foam balls;
- millet;
- beads;
- buttons.
Use any idea, and you will get a wonderful mimosa with your own hands. A master class with photos, which are placed in the appropriate sections, will help you learn this interesting lesson. Each method will be interesting for children. Choose the scheme of work according to the age of the child and spend time co-making gifts.
Materials and Tools
So, today you will have made a sprig of mimosa with your own hands. To do this, you need to prepare the following:
- yellow and green paint or materials of the corresponding color;
- wire;
- scissors;
- glue;
- paper (design, wrapping, corrugated);
- what the flowers themselves will be made of (depending on the chosen technology): plasticine, cotton wool, napkins, buttons, polystyrene balls, threads, beads, etc.
All that you need is likely to be in your home. You can start manufacturing with the method for which you have components.
Do it yourself forever blooming mimosa:
spring gift workshop
Simple and quick ways that even children can use on their own are most in demand. Favorite material - plasticine. As modern substitutes, polymer clay, modeling mass, granular plasticine in the form of small balls are suitable.
To make such a souvenir, you should prepare the composition of green and yellow flowers. Manufacturing technology will be as follows:
- Roll the balls.
- Cut the wire into small pieces.
- String elements onto wireframes made in the second step.
- Dip each ball in yellow powder.
- Connect the frame according to the type of branch, wrapping the wire with a green plastic mass, rolled out in the form of a strip, or wrapping paper.
An even simpler option is to perform a relief composition, when the elements are simply glued to the base. A cardboard blank, plywood, and a plate are used as the background. This option can be made not only from plasticine, but also from thin paper, and preferably napkins. Of these, it is easier to roll balls with a flat surface. It is enough to moisten the material with water.
Another opportunity that even a preschooler can easily take advantage of is making an applique from blanks-circles. They can be prepared by adults using a hole punch made of colored paper. Leaves can be easily cut from a strip of thin sheet or made from plasticine.
Buttons are used instead of paper circles. If you do not have so many yellow elements, use staining.
Bouquet using quilling technique
It is always a pleasure to make souvenirs with your own hands. Mimosas are easy to make from thin strips of yellow paper, twisted into rings or circles.
First, you need to cut a lot of strips with a width of not more than 5 mm. The length is determined experimentally and depends on what diameter of the circle you want to get. Then the strips are wound on a stick. You can use a needle, a toothpick, a knitting needle. The tip should be glued. The blanks are glued to the base. Leaves are made using paper scissors.
Greeting card with mimosa
Any of the above methods allows you to make a relief image, which can be used in the form of a panel, framed. In addition, such a blank will make a good Mimosa postcard with your own hands. It is enough to glue the cardboard with the relief on the front side of the sheet folded in half, and write a wish inside. A gift for mom or grandmother is ready. And if you attach a magnetic layer on the back, you will get an original decoration for the refrigerator.
How to make mimosa from cotton wool
The manufacturing technology of this souvenir is complicated only by the fact that the source material will have to be painted. As a pigment, watercolor, gouache, batik sets or acrylic in tubes are suitable. Preparation of materials will take a lot of time, since painted parts must be allowed to dry. As you can see, a do-it-yourself mimosa twig from cotton wool is also made simple. It is easier to paint the cotton wool first and then roll the yellow balls. Leaves and frame can be made using any technology.
Mimosa: do-it-yourself flower workshop
It is good to use foam balls. They can remain on the farm after the manufacture of the bean bag chair or updating the filler in it. To give smooth granules the natural appearance of inflorescences, you will have to not only dye them, but first roll them in semolina or finely chopped wool for felting, after dipping them in PVA glue.
Millet is used to create miniature compositions. A do-it-yourself mimosa postcard can be made with it. Croup is often used without additional staining. A more expensive, but also effective option is yellow beads. Both that and other substance are easily applied on sticks or pieces of wire, dipping them alternately in glue and decorative structure.
You can make mimosa with your own hands using small pompons. The technology is detailed in the photo material:
1. In the first step, the threads are wound around the base (in this case, scissors).
2. The resulting object is shifted to the sharp edge of the scissors and pulled in the middle with a thin wire. It is an element of the frame and at the same time forms the ball itself. On the sides (lateral parts) of the scissors, the skein is cut lengthwise.
3. Make as many balls as necessary for the bouquet in this way.
4. Wrap the wire frame with corrugated or wrapping paper.
5 - 8. Then each flower is connected to the neighboring one. So each branch of mimosa is done with their own hands, after which they are all twisted into a single whole. Further leaves are executed.
9. Green paper is cut into strips of several centimeters (if the bouquet is made on a 1: 1 scale). The tape cuts with the smallest possible distance.
10. Adhesive is applied to the solid side and the strip is curled.
11. Do as many blanks for leaves as your bouquet requires.
12. Connect everything together.
Twigs are grouped into a bouquet and set in a vase. It is worth choosing a pot or container that will look harmoniously combined with mimosa. He should not pay too much attention to himself. The main thing in a floral sketch is flowers.
Volumetric composition with the number 8
You can make a sprig of mimosa with your own hands not only as an independent part, but also by designing it into a 3D flower fantasy. If you need to make a souvenir by March 8, feel free to take the eight as the basis. The method of manufacturing a framing bouquet, choose at your discretion. Perfectly suitable quilling technique, foam granules, polymer clay.
You saw how a sprig of mimosa is made with your own hands. Having mastered any technology, you can quickly make unfading floral arrangements. And having a little imagination, be sure to create postcards and other decorations for the festive spring mood.