Do-it-yourself cotton wool toys for the Christmas tree: general features of making toys, cotton kids, cotton wool snowman, cotton bullfinch and cat.

New Year's Eve is a favorite celebration of adults and children. He is waiting for a whole year and carefully conduct preparatory activities. One of them is buying and decorating a Christmas tree. For festive attire, a variety of garlands and toys are used. The easiest way is to purchase them in a store, but it’s much more interesting to make your own jewelry. So you will receive not only a beautiful Christmas-tree outfit, but also give your tree an original and extraordinary look.

What do you need for cotton toys do it yourself

The easiest option for jewelry made on your own will be a cotton product. These figures decorated the tree in the old days. For various figures: vegetables, animals, birds or fish, as well as numerous fairy-tale characters, you will need the following materials:

Vata.
Wire. It should be stiff enough, but at the same time bend without difficulty.
PVA glue.
Foil. You can use chocolate packaging or foil for baking.
Paper. Notebook or album sheets, newspaper, sheets for printer printing.
Paints. Acrylic or gouache.
Scissors and brushes.
Decorative elements: sequins, sequins, beads.

IMPORTANT! Do not use PVA in its pure form. For use, dilute the adhesive with boiled water in a ratio of 2 1.

General features of making cotton wool toys

Before you begin to work, you need to decide on the type of future product. To do this, it is advisable to depict your idea on paper. Next, you need to prepare the materials and tools necessary for creating. Then you can go to the manufacturing process.

No matter how difficult your craft is, there are a number of common features for creating them. This is the manufacture of the frame and the provision of sufficient volume.

Frame manufacturing

This is the initial stage for creating complex toys - various figures with several details: human figures, animals or birds.

In this case, the work is performed as follows:

Create a picture of the future product.
Highlight on it the lines of the foundation of the future design. For example, for a man it will be the body, arms, legs.
Twist several pieces of wire along the resulting pattern.
Wrap the frame with foil so that the workpiece does not have sharp edges.

ATTENTION! For greater strength and adhesion of the elements to each other, it is better to fold the wire in several layers.

Giving volume

When creating a decoration from cotton, it is worthwhile to familiarize yourself with the technique of adding volume to your product. To do this, you can use the following methods:

Wrap the workpiece with a sufficient amount of cotton wool, periodically gluing the layers and forming the desired contour using a strong thread banner.
Make a base from several layers of soft crumpled paper. For example, having crumpled a paper napkin into a compact ball and wrapping it with foil, you only have to put a check on a small layer of cotton wool and the round billet will be ready.

Variants of cotton Christmas tree toys

Using this technique, you can build a huge number of different decorations for the Christmas tree. These are toys in the form of various characters from fairy tales: a bun, a snowman, and various figures: children, a cat, a bullfinch. You can also make many imitations of fruits and vegetables: mushrooms, radishes, carrots. All that is enough for your imagination and creative impulse. Let's take a closer look at a few manufacturing examples.

Guys

Christmas decoration in the form of men is the most popular option. To create it you need to perform the following steps:

form, as described above, the frame of the figure;
wrap the base with paper, to give volume in the right places, and foil;
grease the base well with glue solution;
in a spiral, apply layers of cotton wool and, using a knitting needle or toothpick, give the workpiece the desired shape;
saturate the workpiece with starch solution, then let the base dry;
paint the figures with paints and cover with acrylic varnish on top.

REFERENCE! Toy little men can be decorated with various decorations: sequins, beads, beads and ribbons.

Cotton wool snowman

What a New Year's festival without a cheerful snowman. This permanent hero and constant companion of Santa Claus is simply necessary to decorate the forest beauty.

To implement, you will need a toothpick, cotton wool, glue and some decor.

Execution process:

roll three thick balls of different sizes from cotton;
treat the surface of the balls with adhesive solution and fix them on a toothpick;
build with the decor handles, a scarf and a snowman's hat;
paint the product with paints; you can sprinkle the character with pearl sequins;
coat the product with acrylic varnish.

Bullfinch

This adorable bird is one of the symbols of winter. Therefore, as a Christmas tree decoration, the image of this bird is the most popular.

It is performed as follows:

we form bird bodies from cotton wool as shown in the photo;

further, we make a bird's beak;

treat the surface with glue solution and, after drying, paint with paints;

We cover the finished figure with acrylic varnish.

Boletus mushroom

Below, in the above way, you can build not only boletus, but any other fungus, changing the color of the product.

First, take a cotton swab and on it with the help of cotton wool we form the leg of the mushroom. Then, using paper, we make a blank for the hat and glue it to the leg. The resulting workpiece is covered with a layer of cotton. Next, paint our fungus and after drying, cover with acrylic varnish.

Cat

This process will serve as a guide for making toys in the form of any animal.

To get started, draw a cat on paper. Then follow these steps:

bend the wire frame;

wrap the blank with paper to give volume;
wrap the resulting workpiece with foil;
glue the base with cotton;
paint the product with paints and cover with acrylic varnish.

Carrot and Radish

Jewelry made from imitation fruits and vegetables look extraordinary and add bright colors to the New Year tree. For example, we took carrots and radishes.

Execution process:

to create a base you need to build a ball for radishes, for carrots an oval made of cotton;
stretching a little piece of cotton wool on one side, and twisting it into a tight tourniquet, you will get a tail of vegetable;
paint the blank;