On the eve of the New Year 2017, a competition of New Year's toys for the Christmas tree began in our kindergarten. And so my eldest son and I decided to take part in it. We spent a long time choosing which New Year's toy we should make. In the end, we decided on a Christmas tree ball made of threads. When I was at school, we made these in the Skillful Hands club.
To make our Christmas ball we will need the following:
- balloon;
- yarn or thick threads;
- PVA glue and super glue;
- glitter;
- tinsel;
- sequins;
- needle with a wide eye;
- fat cream;
- ribbon.
1. First you need to inflate the balloon to the size we need. Remember that the size of the ball directly determines the size of the future toy.
2. Then we lubricate our inflatable ball with rich baby cream. It’s even better to lubricate it with Vaseline, but, unfortunately, I don’t have it at home. This is done so that the threads with which we wrap it will easily come off the ball after drying.
3.Next, we insert the thread into the eye of the needle and pierce the bottle with PVA glue, approximately in the middle, so that the thread of yarn gets wet as it passes through it.
4. Now we begin to carefully wrap our balloon. First, leave a large distance between the threads of yarn. Then we gradually reduce this distance. As a result, our balloon should be well wrapped and look a little like a cocoon. We cut the thread and glue it to the top of the ball.
5. While the threads are not dry, you need to sprinkle the ball with glitter, which you can make yourself from tinsel or rain. But you can do without it. My son and I decided to sprinkle it to make our Christmas tree ball brighter and more beautiful.
6. That’s it, now you need to leave it to dry for about a day.
The next day, we carefully pierced the ball with a needle and removed it from the workpiece - the “cocoon”.
7. Now comes the fun part, namely decorating the toy.
We make flowers from ribbons - simply by twisting them. We had blue ribbon available at home, so our flowers are blue. And carefully, using super glue, glue them to the “cocoon” ball in a chaotic manner.
8. We only have silver sequins, so we glue them on, also with super glue, so that they end up between the flowers.
9. On top of the “cocoon”, where the balloon was tied, it didn’t turn out very nice, so we simultaneously disguised and decorated this place with a twisted narrow ribbon and a large shiny button.
10. And so that our ball toy can be hung on the New Year tree, we also make a loop from a ribbon, only green, so that it does not merge with the flowers, and decorate it with a small piece of tinsel. The size of the loop should depend on the size of the toy.
eleven.So that our ball could not only be hung on the Christmas tree, but also used as interior decoration, we glued a little green tinsel to the bottom. And this is what we got.
We don’t yet know whether our ball toy will take any prizes at a competition in kindergarten, since the competition is not over yet. But my eldest son said that we made the most beautiful ball, he had never seen such a beautiful one. And for me this is the best praise.
Happy New Year 2017 everyone!!!
