Crafts from waste material are a separate direction of needlework. What is especially nice, this type of creativity is available to everyone and is not limited to anything but the wizard’s imagination. We bring to your attention an interesting idea. A herringbone made of napkins ( it’s not difficult to make it with your own hands ) can be made even by a child in a minimum amount of time and from materials that can be found in any home.
Christmas tree made of lace napkins
If you have accidentally found round lace napkins for desserts and pastries, you can make an interesting Christmas tree. From a cardboard, build a cone of a suitable size, glue it or fasten with a stapler. Take the napkins and cut them in the center of the circle so that they can be easily put on the workpiece. If desired, decorative “skirts” can be painted with paint or left in their original white color. Your Christmas tree made of paper napkins will look more interesting if you take blanks of different sizes and arrange the largest on the bottom and the smallest on the top. Gently stick the paper lace to the base cone. How many napkins do you need to make a Christmas tree? It all depends on how magnificent you want to make it. It will be enough 3-5 pieces, depending on the height of the cone. But you can stick a lot more, placing them close to each other.
Do-it-yourself fluffy Christmas tree from napkins: learning to make paper flowers
A very beautiful and interesting Christmas tree can be made of paper flowers. For the manufacture of such crafts, napkins for table setting, as well as toilet or corrugated paper, are suitable. Find a round object of suitable size, a standard juice cup or a jar of cream is ideal. Once the template is selected, it's time to prepare the paper. If you have multi-layered napkins for table setting, you can start cutting. Corrugated or toilet paper is folded in 8-12 layers.
How to make a Christmas tree from flower napkins? Everything is quite simple - we circle the selected circle on paper, fasten its center with a stapler, and then cut it out in a circle. Then begins the real magic. You have to carefully fluff each layer of paper. As a result, you should get a flower-ball, similar to a carnation. Now be patient and do a lot of such preparations.
How to assemble a Christmas tree from flowers?
Once you have made enough flower balls, you can start assembling the Christmas tree. Make a cone out of cardboard or thick paper and start gluing it with paper blanks from below. Try to arrange the flower balls as close to each other, so that the base is not visible. Useful advice: the fir-tree will look more beautiful and original if to arrange elements from a napkin in rows in a checkerboard pattern.
Accordingly, the closer you get to the top, the less paper flowers you will have in one row. A herringbone made of napkins made using such a technique can be additionally decorated with sparkles and miniature toys. Do not forget to make a beautiful top for the Christmas tree, and if you want, you can put the crafts on a beautiful stand.
Christmas tree made of napkins for the little ones
Craft "Christmas tree" from paper napkins can be a great idea for children's creativity. Very small children are unlikely to be able to collect a tree from flower blanks. Have the child glue the cardboard cone with paper strips at random. You can also make a no less interesting and original Christmas tree if you cut a paper fringe from a napkin and glue it in even rows. In addition, you can glue the blank with whole large pieces of paper, forming pleats and interesting draperies to your liking.
How to decorate a homemade Christmas tree?
Christmas tree should be elegantly and festively decorated. If your Christmas tree (you can build a real masterpiece from napkins with your own hands, you just need to show a little patience and give free rein to imagination) made of paper flowers, you can do without additional decor. Just make the balls colorful and alternate them when assembling crafts. Small beads look very gently on home-made desktop Christmas trees. They can be glued in bulk or arranged in garlands. Take foil or shiny paper, cut out small stars and circles and stick these “toys” on your Christmas tree.
Craft "Herringbone" from napkins, assembled from individual paper flowers, can be made on the basis of a large cone. If desired, even a workpiece 1-1.5 meters high can be glued with such balls, just make sure the structure is stable. Such a large Christmas tree can be decorated with purchased New Year's toys and shiny rain or tinsel. Try to make several different
Christmas trees, experimenting with decor and size, and decorate the whole apartment.