Christmas tree toys are sold in almost all stores. On the shelves you can find very simple decorations and exclusive balls made by famous designers. Recently, more and more people prefer to make Christmas tree toys with their own hands. Such crafts look cute and touching, they contain a piece of the master's soul. It is especially interesting to make New Year's toys with children. If you want to introduce your kids to the creativity, then the two options for homemade toys, which will be described below, will come in handy.
Making a Christmas toy in the form of snowmen
Christmas tree toys can be made from almost any materials at hand. For example, iron bottle caps make funny snowmen.
To make one New Year's toy, you will need:
- 3 iron lids for soda or beer;
- White acrylic paint;
- Gouache, for her we will draw the face of a snowman;
- Thin brush for painting;
- 2 thin ribbons of different colors;
- Glue gun;
- Scissors;
- Bright button.
A Christmas tree toy in the form of a snowman is made according to the following scheme:
- Take the prepared lids and paint them on both sides with white acrylic paint. Dry it. If the first layer of paint could not paint over the pattern on the covers, then repeat the manipulation. Apply paint until the pieces are completely white.
- Take one of the prepared tapes, use a gun to glue the three caps to the back, positioning them as tightly as possible to each other.
- Wrap the free edge of the tape and glue it to the top cover so that you get a loop.
- Armed with a thin brush, paint the snowman's face on the top cover. On the middle one there are 3 buttons, and on the bottom cover you can depict legs. Leave the product to dry.
- For beauty, you can wind a ribbon between the first and second covers - this will be a scarf, and glue a small button on top of it. That's it, the Christmas tree toy is ready.
This craft will appeal to children. They will be able to make snowmen on their own and decorate the Christmas tree with them or donate their products to grandparents. Adults will surely appreciate homemade Christmas toys.
Making cute penguins
Let's make beautiful Christmas tree toys using used bulbs. For crafts, you need pear-shaped lamps, energy-saving ones in the form of a spiral will not work.
If you are planning to make Christmas tree toys with children, then be careful. The glass from which the lamps are made is fragile, watch out. So that the kids do not get hurt.
To make a funny penguin from a lamp, you will need:
- Used incandescent lamp;
- Black and white acrylic paint;
- Blue and orange gouache for painting;
- Brush;
- Thin rope;
- Glue gun;
- Material for penguin dressing.
Stages of making a Christmas tree toy:
- With white acrylic paint, paint a pear-shaped spot for the penguin's tummy. Dry the paint.
- Cover the untouched part of the lamp with black paint - this is the body of the penguin. Dry the product.
- Using gouache, draw a penguin's face: eyes, mouth, nose. Let the toy dry.
- Armed with a glue gun, attach the string to the base of the lamp to form a loop. For her, in the future, you hang the toy on the Christmas tree.
- Now you can decorate the penguin to your liking. For example, put a scarf and a hat on it, make a festive cap out of colored paper, etc. After all the manipulations, the New Year's toy is ready, you can hang it on the tree.
Funny penguins, made according to the scheme proposed above, may well replace the usual New Year's balls. On the lamps, you can depict not only a penguin, but also a dog, a minion, and, in general, everything that your imagination suggests.
