New Year is an exciting and fantastic holiday. Each time I want to celebrate it in my own way, to add an original twist to the celebration of this day. To surprise and please your children, you can purchase firecrackers in the store. However, their use is dangerous, and unforeseen situations can overshadow the fun. Try to create simple and vibrant products yourself. A do-it-yourself paper clapper is very easy to do. At the same time, it will certainly become an excellent holiday decoration.
What materials will be needed?
To make a beautiful craft, you need to prepare a cardboard roll, for example, from used toilet paper, colored and papyrus paper, scotch tape, glue, threads, rhinestones for decoration and confetti. As a filling, you can use circles of bright colored paper made by a hole punch, small sweets or paper money. In general, what is enough for your imagination.
How to make a cracker out of paper?
1. Begin making crafts from the bottom cover of the cracker. To do this, cut a circle out of cardboard so that it completely covers the hole in the pipe. Glue it on colored paper to attach then the remaining ends to the workpiece.
2. Now we pass the thread through the center of our cardboard circle, fasten it inside with tape. This is the very part that you will need to pull for, so that a surprise spills out of the craft.
3. To understand how to make a cracker out of paper, it remains to pour confetti into the pipe and make the top cover. Cut a circle, cut it in radius and connect into a cone. This is the future clapper cover. It remains to glue it with a pipe.
4. Our double paper clapperboard will look original if it is decorated with colored or papyrus details on the outside. You can use rhinestones, ribbons or beads of various colors, sizes and textures. We attach all the details of the decor with glue or tape. Here's how to make a paper clapper with your own hands in just a few minutes.
How to use a cracker?
The multi-colored crackers made can be hung above the head on a rope, at a sufficient distance so that the child can reach the thread. That is why you should not use heavy elements for the filling. With an “explosion” they can get into the eyes or the respiratory tract. It is best to use light confetti. And then, pulling the rope, enjoy the charming look of fluttering paper. Confetti for surprise can be purchased at the stationery store or made independently using a regular hole punch.
Conclusion
Now you know how to make a cracker out of paper. The process of making Christmas decorations will be more interesting if you create with the whole family. Children will be happy to make colorful confetti using an ordinary hole punch. Such a cracker can be made of any size: from miniature to huge, it all depends on which pipe will be used in its basis. If you do everything correctly, then the New Year holiday will surely succeed, and guests and acquaintances will be surprised and satisfied.