The craftsmen learned to make decorative trees from a wide variety of materials: paper, fabric, coffee beans, artificial flowers, and even pasta. But still few people know that such crafts can be made from bird fluff and feathers. We invite everyone to get acquainted with this particular direction in needlework. This article provides readers with information about how to make a tree of feather. If you have all the necessary materials for work, each of you will be able to make such a souvenir yourself at home.
Master class "Christmas tree from feather". Preparation stage
To create a decorative tree, you will need the materials indicated in the following list:
- natural feather;
- white, thick paper (A-3 format);
- a sheet of cardboard;
- narrow tape;
- PVA glue or thermal gun;
- double-sided tape ;
- soft paper (notebook sheets, napkins, newspapers);
- beads of golden or silver color;
- narrow satin or kapron ribbon.
A pen can be purchased at a creative goods store. But if you have an old pillow that you were about to throw away, then the material can be taken from it. Take away the whole beautiful feathers, wash them with shampoo or soap, rinse and blow dry. Thus prepared material is quite suitable for work. If you want to make a Christmas tree of green or any other color, then the feather can be processed with food colors, and then dried and fluffed.
Description of the process of making crafts
Work on the creation of such a souvenir as a tree of feathers begins with the implementation of the basics. We will make it from thick paper. Fold a cone from a sheet of paper, secure the edges with tape. Trim the bottom edge so that the cone is level on the table surface. Crumple soft paper and fill it with the inside of the product. This is necessary so that the cone does not bend during decoration, and the feather tree keeps its shape well. Next, you need to close the bottom. Place a blank on a sheet of cardboard and circle it. Cut the resulting circle not clearly along the contour, but 1 cm from it. As a result, you will get a bottom part with a diameter slightly larger than the circumference of the lower part of the cone. On this cardboard blank, make cuts of 1 cm (to the intended line). Bend them inward and grease with glue. Attach the bottom to the cone by wrapping the incisions inside the product. Leave the craft to dry.
Go through the pen in the meantime. Take long specimens in one pile, medium in the other, and small in the third. Glue a bead on each feather in the middle or from the bottom (lush) edge. Now we begin directly the stage of decorating the Christmas tree. Tape the bottom edge of the product with a strip of double-sided tape. Fasten long feathers to this place in a circle with the fluffy edge down. Glue them close together, filling the entire space. The paper cone should not be visible through the ball of the pen again. After the lower tier is completed, complete the next one, moving up. To create the upper layers of the tree, use small feathers. The tips of the formed twigs can be tinted.
Product design with decorative elements
Such a tree made of feather looks very original and beautiful. But on the eve of the New Year holidays it can be decorated. Keep in mind that the feather is lightweight material, so you can’t even hang toys on it, even small ones. We recommend that you use light bows as a decoration. You can run them from a narrow nylon or satin ribbon. Tie small bows, apply a drop of glue to their wrong side and attach to fluffy twigs. Follow this procedure very carefully so as not to damage the craft. That's all, the master class is over!
Instead of a conclusion
You learned how to make a tree of feathers. The graceful decorative tree looks magnificent. The white feather on such a product resembles snow, and when you look at it, associations with winter and New Year holidays immediately arise. Creative mood for you!