Foam balls can be bought in manystores for needlework or do it yourself at home. This is an excellent material for children's and adult creativity. What crafts can be made on the basis of spherical preparations of foam?
We produce blanks at home
All workshops on crafts made of foamBalls start the same way: get the right number of balls. But where to find them? The easiest way is to buy ready-made blanks in the stores of goods for needlework. But if you wish, it is not difficult to cut the balls yourself from a suitable piece of foam. To do this, we make a special device. Take the tube: a cardboard tube from linoleum or a tin cylinder cut out from the packaging of some kind of liquid / spray will do. On the one hand it is necessary to cut half into two lengths from the desired diameter of the ball. Inside we glue the sandpaper-zero, on both sides of the tube. Take a piece of foam and cut out with the help of the resulting device cylinder. Then we turn the resulting billet and give it a spherical shape. The final stage is to roll the ball along the cut side of the cylinder attachment in all directions. As you can see, making a foam ball with your own hands is not difficult at all. As soon as the grinding is completed, you can start making crafts.
Christmas tree toys
The simplest craftwork foam blanks -Christmas ball on the Christmas tree. It is more convenient to first make a mount for the rope, and then proceed to the decoration. Foam Christmas balls can be decorated with various materials in a variety of techniques. Try to paint ornaments, patterns and whole pictures with colors. One of the simplest decor options is to glue the whole blank with glue and dip spangles into the placer. Original and especially cozy balls covered with fabric, embroidered with braid and fringe, decorated with beads and ribbons. Try adding bright sequins and rhinestones. You can use for the decoration of toys and very unusual materials - colorful beads, mosaic pieces. Offer children to glue the foam balls with cereals, curly pasta, and the finished toy can be painted on top with spray paint.
Topiary - magical trees
Буквально несколько лет назад в нашей стране The fashion for the "trees of happiness" began. Most often, such crafts are called topiary. The decorative tree consists of a “crown” - most often this is the correct ball, decorated in some special way, with a curved beautiful leg and a pot in which the structure is installed. In needle shops most often sell blanks for such crafts. Come up with some theme and style for your topiary. Decorate the ball with ribbons, artificial flowers, candy, coffee beans or some other interesting materials. Then you just have to decorate the wire for the trunk and secure the entire structure in the pot. Topiary are considered not only stylish elements of the interior, but also a kind of amulets. Such crafts can be given to friends and relatives with the best wishes.
Decorative balls - not only in the new year
If you do not like ornamental trees or youYou do not know where they can be placed, try to use foam plastic blanks in the interior otherwise. Decorate foam balls for topiary, but do not fasten them to the trunk. Instead, hang the blanks in the room, fold into a decorative vase, or make a garland of them. Such decorations can be changed by seasons - for example, to make flower balls in spring and summer, and in the fall to make compositions of berries, nuts and colorful leaves. If you have smoothly ground blanks - you can simply paint them, draw faces with different facial expressions, images of fairy-tale characters or faces of funny animals on them. This idea is especially good for decorating an apartment for a holiday. Polyfoam is an inexpensive material, and you can make balls for all holidays and parties.
Snowball made of foam balls - an original handicraft for the New Year
Of two or three balls that differ indiameter, you can make the original winter figure. Selected blanks for a snowman try on each other. For better bonding, slightly trim each shape from one edge. Connect the elements with universal glue. Check the stability of the figure, if necessary - cut off the base a little more. Attention: for work with polyfoam the usual stationery knife perfectly approaches. When the glue dries, you can go to the most interesting part - the decor. Sew or knit a cap or cap, you can make a scarf. Two hands can be cut out of the balls from the balls - rectangular parts, for them you can also make mittens. Do not forget to paint the face, you can glue or paint the buttons on the body. A snowman made of foam balls can hold a broom, a gift, or a small bag.
Foam dolls
The spherical shape is convenient for wrapping fabricmural and other decor. Many craftsmen use foam balls to make collection and play dolls. Such a blank can be attached to a soft soft rag body. Perfectly suited foam balls for the manufacture of dolls, gloves, putting on the hand when playing in the theater. To make such toys, wrap a ball with a cloth. Embroider or draw a face, sew hair and a hat. Separately build the body of a suitable type. In this technique, you can make a variety of characters - boys and girls, representatives of some professions, and even fairy-tale characters. You can make animals on the basis of polystyrene balls - by drawing appropriate faces, pasting ears, horns, chubchiki and other characteristic elements.
What else can be made of foam balls?
Due to its availability and low costpolyfoam is an excellent basis for children's creativity. Experimenting with this material can be infinite. Try to make figurines or a caterpillar. By collecting several blanks together, you can get different animals and fantastic characters. Small foam balls can be used to make jewelry. Try wrapping them with a cloth or crafting paints. Finished elements can be simply strung on a thread or sew with each other. If you have a lot of very small balls, you can use them as a filler for pillows and anti-stress toys. Crafts of foam balls can be made different each time, training your imagination and mastering all the new techniques of needlework.
