Do you know that you can make a Christmas tree with your own hands from sweets, mastic, pasta and even money? It can be presented as a gift or to decorate the New Year's table. It is better to prepare for the New Year in advance. Then on its eve there will be less hassle, and you will have time to do everything on time.
If you want to present an original gift to friends, loved ones, employees at work, then make the tree yourself. This one will help you get creative and save money. And there are many ideas for such needlework. You can make a copy of a forest beauty from paper, bottles, unnecessary newspapers, ribbons. Sweets will surely like a Christmas tree made of sweets, made of sugar fudge.
Delicious, edible tree
This attribute of the New Year will not be thrown away or removed to the mezzanine until better times after the holiday. Lovers of sweets will enjoy them with pleasure. A Christmas tree is made of mastic. Below is a recipe for a universal fondant, from which you can make any figurines: animals, cartoon characters, the bride and groom for a wedding cake.
For sugar mastic you will need:
- 1 can of condensed milk;
- 300 g of icing sugar and milk powder;
- green helium dye.
Powdered sugar should be free of lumps, like powdered milk. Therefore, first mix these ingredients and then sift 2 times through a fine sieve. Your do-it-yourself mastic will have the desired consistency, if you take good quality condensed milk - it should not be liquid. Now pour it into a bowl of sifted powder and dry milk, first knead with a spoon or spatula, and then by hand.
Now put the mixture on a board and knead until the fondant is smooth. Next, add a little dye, continue kneading until the color is uniform.
If you do not plan to use the mastic right away, then wrap it with cling film so that it does not dry out and store it in the refrigerator. When it's time to make the fondant tree, take out the mastic and let it warm up. First roll a ball out of the mass, then turn it into a cone.
Further, the workpiece can be placed on a flat dish or pierced at the bottom with a stick, previously planed and dyed brown with food coloring. Bolts are put on the bottom of the stick so that the structure is stable. They can be easily draped with a sheet of white paper, turning it into a snowdrift.
Now you will need a small nail scissors. Beginning at the top of the cone, bend small segments with them. They will turn out to be the same and a hand-made Christmas tree will look festive. To do this, pay attention that these particles do not overlap each other, but are staggered.
When the forest beauty is all covered with such impromptu twigs, gently push their ends slightly upward with your fingers. Now let the man-made miracle dry for a day, after which you can present it as a gift or put it on the Christmas table as an original and delicious decoration.
Christmas tree made of pasta
Continuing the food theme, you need to tell how to make a New Year tree from pasta. Such an activity will unite adults and children if creativity is joint. They bring similar crafts for the New Year to kindergarten. They will take a worthy place at the stand where the works of preschoolers are displayed.
Here's what you need to get creative:
- a sheet of whatman paper or thick white paper;
- pasta - rolls with beveled edges;
- PVA glue or "liquid nails";
- dye.
Cut out a circle of the required diameter from thick paper or whatman paper. Find the middle, put a full stop here. Draw a radius from it, it will be equal to the length of the side of the tree. This will help you determine the height of your future craft. Then draw a second radius not far away and cut out the resulting sector. Lubricate one of the slots of the circle with glue, put a second slot on it, glue these places. This is how you turned the circle into a cone.
Now, starting from the bottom, glue the pasta. First, arrange the first tier, then the second, thus glue the pasta to the top of the spruce. Let the product dry, then cover it with paint or varnish. A Christmas tree of green, gold, silver looks good.
You can make a Christmas tree from pasta of a different shape. Pastry products, the so-called bows, look great. They not only make spruce, but also decorate it. There should be toys on the forest beauty. For this, in addition to bows, pasta in the form of rings is suitable. They are pre-coated with paint that is different in color from the color of the tree itself.
Christmas tree made of sweets
The next master class continues the sweet theme. It will tell you how to make a Christmas tree from sweets. Such an original attribute of the New Year looks great in the office. At the end of the holiday, you can just eat sweets and not think about where to store the Christmas tree until next year.
For this craft, you will need:
- a sheet of white cardboard;
- narrow tape;
- candy wrappers;
- tinsel.
Fold whatman paper or cardboard into a bag so that the top opening is as small as possible. Secure the corner of the Whatman paper with glue or a stapler so that it does not unwind. Cut the bottom of the bag exactly with scissors so that this place is stable, and the craft does not swing, but stands well.
Attach the tinsel to the bottom of the cone, secure it with a stipener. If you do not have such a clerical tool, then you can simply glue it with tape over the top of the tinsel.
The next one from the bottom (second tier) will be made of sweets. Attach each to the cardboard base with the tail up and attach with tape. The third row consists of tinsel, the 4th row consists of sweets. Follow this principle to shape the entire cone to the top. Place 3 candies on the top of the forest beauty, making them in the form of a star.
Such a tree is made from some sweets, and only from tinsel. There are many options for making such a tree. It is best to take round candies, but, in the absence of such, rectangular ones are also suitable. The main thing is that they are wrapped in a candy wrapper with tails - with one or two.
Fluffy herringbone
But such a snow-white beauty will turn out from ordinary cotton pads. After all, a hand-made Christmas tree can be from different materials. If you want it to be about 50 cm high, then take a Whatman format A 2. In addition, you will need:
- 4 packs of cotton pads, 120 each;
- glue gun;
- stapler;
- scissors.
To make the snow-white beauty neat, cotton pads must be stitched along the edge, so get just these. Make the cone as described earlier in the article on the candy tree. Now take a cotton pad, fold it in half and then in half again. To prevent the workpiece from opening, fasten its corner with a stapler. The video shown at the end of the article will help you see in more detail how to make a Christmas tree with your own hands. It shows how to fasten cotton pads so that the necessary blanks are obtained from them.
Take the first one, grease its side of the double fold with glue, attach to the bottom of the cone. Attach the second workpiece in the same way, it should be close to the first. This will shape the bottom of the cone, then move on to the second row above the first. The higher you stick the cotton pads, the less they are required. When the cone turns into a fluffy snow-white beauty, decorate it. For this, shiny sequins are glued - round or in the form of stars. Decorate the top of the tree with tinsel or insert the leg of a five-pointed star into the small upper hole of the cone.
Christmas tree made of money
This option will be an original win-win gift and will please any person. Depending on the donor's income, you can make a small or larger tree. It is not necessary to attach high denomination bills. You can buy or print banknotes on a copier yourself and thus decorate the New Year tree. Now napkins are on sale, on which a drawing of dollars is applied, so you can make Christmas trees with your own hands like this. From napkins without a pattern, you will also get a fluffy and beautiful tree for the New Year.
The base to which you will attach the money can be purchased at a florist store. They sell cone-shaped foam blanks. Or make a cone yourself - from thick cardboard or foam. The banknotes must be new and look good.
Take the first one, fold its two small sides together so that the bill is folded in half, but do not mark the place of the fold. Attach the workpiece to the cone at the corners with two sewing pins. Pin the second bill next to it. Having made the tier of the lower row, arrange the banknotes of the second in a checkerboard pattern relative to the notes of the 1st row.
So decorate the whole tree. To secure it, pierce the bottom of the foam or polystyrene cone with a sharp wooden skewer. At the bottom of your decorative flowerpot, place a round piece of foam cut out. Insert the second end of the skewer into its center. Next, you can decorate the craft as you like. But such a money tree looks great anyway. It is enough to attach a star to its top, and the creation is ready.
To make a New Year's star, cut out 2 identical blanks from colored cardboard. Lubricate their seamy sides with glue, put on one toothpick. Fold the blanks with the glued sides to each other. Once the star is dry, it will be easy to attach it to the top of the tree with a toothpick.
If you are using not real money, then you can glue it to the base, attach it with tape. How such a Christmas tree is made, the photo demonstrates clearly. Choose the option you like the most from the suggested ones and get down to creative work.
Roll up each bill in the form of a bag, fasten it with a stapler, the excess part of the banknotes can be cut off. Starting from the bottom, glue the tapered blank with banknotes up to the top. A Christmas tree is made from paper napkins in the same way.
To implement the next option, take a bill, put it horizontally in front of you, pinch its left edge with your fingers. Starting from here, drive on the money with a lying pencil. It will soon become swirling on this side. Then attach the bills to the base of the tree (to the cone) with the same edge by which you held the bills when curling.
These are the ones you can make Christmas trees out of money, and then present one of them to the boss, put it in the office, as a symbol of the company's wealth and prosperity in the future. A tree made of cotton pads, pasta can be attributed as a craft to a kindergarten, to an elementary school. A Christmas tree made of sweets and mastic will decorate the table, and its elements will be eaten with pleasure, like a dessert during the New Year celebration.
Video on how to make an elegant Christmas tree with your own hands from cotton pads:
