How beautiful to decorate a foam ball. Making a Christmas tree toy - a paper ball. Decorating a glass ball with beads

The eve of the New Year is a time filled with pleasant chores. You need to prepare gifts, decorate the apartment beautifully, and most importantly, decorate the Christmas tree. IN Lately very fashionable original decoration of Christmas trees: creative design, handmade toys. This fills the process with creativity, makes it possible to show imagination and involve the whole family in an interesting business. Let's talk about various ways make Christmas balls with your own hands and decorate them beautifully.

All you need for creativity is a rich imagination, a little free time, simple tools(scissors, glue, adhesive tape, any small spherical objects or old Christmas decorations), as well as all those things that are stored at home for the reason “what if it comes in handy”: fabric scraps, old magazines, unnecessary disks, ribbons, ropes, buttons, etc. .

The easiest way is to make bright paper balls. To do this, cut out 8 identical circles from thick paper of a suitable color, each of which is then folded four times, and 2 smaller circles. 4 folded large ones are glued onto a small circle, then the same is done with another circle.

The glued quarters are straightened, their adjoining edges are glued together, and each design becomes a half of a three-dimensional ball. It remains only to fasten the 2 received halves, and beautiful toy ready!

Another way. Cut out 12 paper circles different colors. Bend each of them in half and put into each other. Along the fold line, the circles should be fastened together (with wire or a stapler), then straighten them and give the shape of a ball. With droplets of glue, connect adjacent halves (from one adjacent top and the other below). It will turn out beautiful voluminous ball with original colors.

For creating Christmas balls Newsprint will also come in handy. It needs to be torn into small pieces and with a brush stick on any ball (glass, plastic or foam). After the glue dries, you can start decorating: it can be beautiful inscription or a drawing of a New Year's theme, black and white colors will look more effective.

A very good technique is paper tube balls. You will need a foam ball and several sheets thin paper. You can borrow old newspapers and magazines. From paper you need to twist tight tubes. Put glue on the ball and attach the beginning paper tube. Next, wrap the entire ball with tubes in a spiral, fastening the ends of the tubes with glue. It will turn out a very original Christmas tree decoration.

Christmas balls made of fabric

Take thin fabric suitable colors, preferably small rectangular patches. Wrap the ball in fabric, tie the edges with a beautiful braid, you can decorate with a bow, small cones or needles, artificial snow around the edges will also look good. It is important that the color of the fabric goes well with the braid and the rest of the decor.

If the house has a lot of small shreds or scraps of fabric, you can also make creative Christmas balls from them. The same foam ball or any round object (even a bag stuffed with rags) is taken as the basis. You can decorate it with patchwork ruffles or sew small pieces of fabric tightly. Taking a plain fabric or experimenting with colors is a matter of taste for everyone. You get a fluffy and shaggy Christmas toy.

If there is felt, you can cut out small figures from it (round, in the shape of hearts or snowflakes, as fantasy tells) and glue or sheathe a ball with them.

A Christmas ball made of satin ribbons and decorated with paper flowers looks very stylish. To do this, we wrap the foam base ball satin ribbons beautiful color.

We cut out several small openwork flowers from paper of the same shade and attach to the ball with safety pins- it is possible over the entire surface of the ball, or you can lay out patterns. We fasten one of the satin ribbons in the form of a bow. The ball is ready!

Christmas balls from threads

By the same principle as the ball was previously pasted over with paper spirals, you can decorate it with decorative threads. And to make it even more beautiful, you can add a thread with beads, beads or sequins. Looks very elegant and festive.

Dense woolen threads that remain, for example, after knitting, are also suitable. winter sweater. The ball is wrapped around them in a chaotic manner and becomes like a ball. Decor can be two wooden skewers or Chinese sticks.

To create an openwork ball of threads, you will need balloon, dense thread, preferably plain, and PVA glue. Inflate the balloon a little (the size of a Christmas tree decoration). Wrap the threads smeared with glue in a chaotic manner and let the structure dry. Then pierce the ball with a needle and extract what is left of it.

It turned out tender openwork decoration, which can be decorated with an elegant bow or beads. For greater effect, you can cover the product with sparkles.

A similar decoration can be made by taking lace instead of threads. It looks very gentle and gives the impression of home comfort.

Christmas balls from other improvised materials

Such a ball will sparkle on the Christmas tree with all the colors of the rainbow, especially if you highlight it with a garland. To make it, you will need unnecessary computer disks. They need to be cut into small pieces of arbitrary shape and glued onto a base ball. This decor will look better on a transparent glass ball.

A ball glued with multi-colored buttons looks bright and original. Such work will take only a few minutes, even children can handle it. You can alternate buttons of different colors, large and small size. The composition will be complemented by a bow made of dense thread. Instead of buttons, you can stick gold-plated pasta or ordinary coins.

Suitable and natural materials. Take a white or transparent ball, attach small coniferous branches, a couple of cones and acorns to it. You can cover the composition with artificial snow or sparkles, decorate with a red or golden ribbon bow. Decoration is ready!

To make beautiful Christmas decorations, absolutely any materials are suitable, and not just those listed above. The main thing is more imagination and creative thinking!

Decoration of ready-made Christmas balls

You can come up with many ways to decorate Christmas balls with your own hands. It all depends on personal inclinations and talents. Someone likes painting, someone likes decoupage technique, and someone perfectly embroiders and crochets. It is also good to attract children to decorating balloons: they will definitely like such an activity, and they always have a lot of bright ideas.

An ordinary transparent glass ball can be "revived" by making a beautiful painting. For this, any paints and thin brushes are suitable. Come up with an interesting story or peep in a colorful book. It could be new year story, fairy tale characters or just beautiful patterns. Suitable for painting and a special gel with sparkles. They can make more subtle patterns or decorate a drawing made with paints.

creative design glass balls can be made using paints and children's fingers. Fingerprints and palm prints on the balls can be transformed into any figures and patterns, and then complement the decor with sparkles, ribbons or natural materials.

Decoupage on Christmas balls done with white acrylic paint, glue and napkins. First, the ball is completely covered with paint with a sponge, which must dry. Then fragments of napkins with the desired pattern are glued. After that, the ball can be given any shade of color. You can also use painting on decoupage balls: they perfectly complement each other.

Embroidery can also become part of the decoration of Christmas balls. To decorate them, you need to make small embroidered fragments in advance, of course with a New Year theme, and then stick them on the surface. Well complement the embroidery in the decor of the ball beautiful painting, decoupage or decoration with ribbons.

Christmas balls tied with knitting needles or crocheted look very cozy and warm at home. The pattern can be absolutely anything, and if knitting according to the pattern and knitting the figures seems tedious, you can just take melange threads and enjoy the play of color.

Christmas balls with artificial snow look festive. You can make it with semolina, white paint and liquid glue mixed in desired proportion. You need to cover the ball with the resulting mass, let it dry, and then decorate it using sparkles, beads or decorative snowflakes. Bright red or golden ribbons will look spectacular on snow-white balls.

Answers

Factory Christmas decorations are in almost every home. They are definitely very pretty and good combination with other decorations in the house can cause a worthy aesthetic effect. But just buying Christmas balls is boring. Uniqueness can be achieved only by making the decor of Christmas balls with your own hands.

Christmas balls from threads

The method of making balls from threads has long been used. Products are spectacular, amenable to additional decor. It is possible to vary the size.

For manufacturing, you will need: threads (with a large percentage of natural fibers in the composition for good impregnation with glue), PVA glue, a disposable cup, round balloons.
Manufacturing steps:

Prepare glue for work. Strongly thick dilute to a state of sour cream density.
Inflate the balloon to the extent that the size of the toy is planned.
Soak 1 m lengths of thread in glue.
Wrap in a "cobweb" way so that free holes do not exceed a diameter of 1 cm.
Allow the glue to dry (12 to 24 hours).
Remove the ball from the product, carefully bursting it and taking it out through the hole in the ball.
Decorate the product. To do this, use: glitter, paper cuttings different shapes, sequins, beads, half beads, etc. Thread products can also be dyed with balloon paint or acrylic. Watercolor and gouache are not suitable, as they can soak the product and lead to its damaged appearance.

Having made Christmas balls of different diameters, they can decorate any corner of the house: a Christmas tree, candlesticks, compositions in a vase, on a windowsill, etc. The decor of the balls can be done like this: put a light garland on a tray, put it on top of the product different sizes but one color. When the garland is on, they will be highlighted and create an interesting effect.

From beads

Balls made of beads will look very beautiful and impressive on the Christmas tree. In this case, the foam spheres of the blanks will be decorated. In addition to the foam blank, you will need beads, pins (sewing needles with hats, like on carnations), ribbon.

The manufacturing method is very simple:

String one bead onto one pin.
Attach the pin to the foam base.
Repeat the steps until there is no free space left on the basis.
At the end, attach a ribbon loop for hanging the decoration.

It is advisable to take beads of the same size in order to avoid empty spaces on the base. The color scheme is chosen both in one tone and in different ones. It all depends on individual preferences and the general style of decorating the room.
Instead of foam core you can use plastic factory balls. Only here the beads will be fastened in this case not on pins, but on hot glue.

From buttons

Button balls will look no less original and unique on the Christmas tree. Old unnecessary buttons do not have to be picked up in one color scheme. After all, they can always be repainted and achieved desired shade. They look spectacular in gold, bronze, silver shades, as well as all colors with a metallic coating.

To make such a decor for Christmas balls, you will need: buttons (it is possible with through fastening and hidden), hot melt adhesive, foam or plastic blank, tape.

Apply to inside buttons a small amount of hot melt adhesive.
Attach a button to the base.
Repeat step 2 until the entire surface is covered with buttons.
Attach a ribbon so that the ball can be hung.

When placing on a Christmas tree, you need to make sure that there are not too many of them concentrated in one place. It is better to dilute such decorations with others.

From paper

Original Christmas balls can be made simply from paper, without using any base.

colored paper ball

To do this, you need thick (about 120 g / m2) paper, scissors, clips, tape. Making your own is very easy.

Cut paper into 12 strips 15 mm x 100 mm
Fasten all the strips on one and the other side with pins, stepping back from the edge by 5-10 mm.
Spread the strips in a circle, forming a sphere.
Attach the ribbon to the base of the ball.

Strips can be cut not straight, but with other uneven lines. You can use curly scissors.

Corrugated paper

Corrugated paper will also come in handy. It is made from pom-pom balls. For this you will need: corrugated paper, glue, scissors, tape.

If the paper is new and packaged, then 5 cm must be measured from the edge and cut off. Then again measure 5 cm and cut off.
Cut two blanks with a “comb” with an interval of 1 cm strips without cutting to the base of 1.5 cm.
Dissolve one blank and start twisting the “flower” in a circle, gradually gluing. It turns out fluffy pompom. Repeat the same steps with the second piece.
Connect two pom-pom blanks with glue at the place of gluing. It turns out lush ball. Attach the tape-loop to the place of gluing. Fluff the resulting pompom.

Double sided colored paper

You can also make a ball out of double-sided colored paper. To do this, you need: colored paper, scissors, glue, a round object (a cup, for example), tape.

Circle the cup on paper 8 times. You will get 8 equal circles. Cut them out.
Fold each circle in quarters.
Cut extra circle smaller diameter.
Glue the blanks to it with the corners to the center on one side (4 pieces will fit), and on the other side it’s the same.
Open each fold and glue at the junction with each other. Get a ball with "petals".
Attach tape.

Paper balls usually do not last long and are used for one season. It is not worth placing them in large numbers on the Christmas tree; it is better to “dilute” them with other decorations.

From fabric

If there was an old blouse in the closet that it is a pity to throw away, then refusing to dispose of it was the right decision. You can make a cute Christmas toy out of it. For manufacturing you need: knitted fabric, scissors, sewing needle and thread, cardboard, tape.

cut as much as possible long strips from a fabric 1 cm wide, stretch each strip so that it twists the edges.
Cut a 10 cm x 20 cm piece of cardboard.
Wrap the resulting strips on the cardboard in width.
In the center on one side and the other, connect the strips with a needle and thread. Pull out the cardboard.
Cut the formed loops along the edges.
Fluff up and attach the ribbon.

There is another way, which involves decorating a foam or plastic blank with a cloth. Any fabric needed different color), hot glue, scissors.

Cut the fabric into rectangular pieces, 3 cm x 4 cm in size.
Fold them like this: turn the two upper corners to the center of the bottom.
Glue to the workpiece in rows, bending inward starting from the bottom.
Cover the entire ball. Attach tape.

Fabric applications can be made in a variety of ways, using additional improvised means - beads, braid, rhinestones, ribbon.

With embroidery

Decorating Christmas balls with your own hands is also possible in this way. A new trend has become the design of decorations for the Christmas tree with embroidery. To do this, use a pre-embroidered image. You also need a fabric, a blank made of foam or plastic, hot melt adhesive.

Attach the embroidered image with glue.
Decorate the rest of the ball with a fabric appliqué.

Instead of appliques, you can use the same fabric on which the embroidery was made. Alternatively, you can make a pattern out of fabric, where one of the parts will be embroidery. You can also decorate each part of the pattern with separate embroidered images and secure. After these steps, you can additionally add beads, rhinestones, sparkles, sequins as decor.

with filling

Such specimens will look spectacular both on the Christmas tree and as part of compositions from balls. For the manufacture of fancy balls you need to stock up on plastic transparent blanks.

By opening the hat-holder, you can create various compositions inside:

Pour inside acrylic paint of different colors, shake the ball so that all the inner walls are painted, let dry. The pigment will color the workpiece inside and it will acquire a unique color.
Fill the inside with small colored feathers and beads.
You can also fill the inside with confetti of different colors.
Pieces of old tinsel are used for filling.

Favorite photos are also placed inside. To do this, you need to twist a small photo into a tube (look at the diameter of the ball) and straighten it inside. Top with confetti or sequins.
The inside is filled with colored cotton wool and complemented with beads. You can choose different colors. It is better to paint in acrylic paint. fill in after complete drying cotton wool.
Multi-colored sisal can be placed inside and enjoy the color and originality of the decoration.

Fantasies about filling transparent ball may be different. All of them relate to personal preferences and mood during needlework.

With various decorations

You can attach anything to the blanks. Here are some ideas:

Tapes. Various patterns can be made from ribbons (geometric themes, monograms, stripes, etc.). Attach them with hot glue.
Sequins. Sequin braid is wound around the circumference and fastened with hot glue. You can choose several colors to combine.

Braid. Various braid from any material is also suitable for decorating Christmas balls.
Lace. It can be supplemented with semi-beads or rhinestones. The organza ribbon will also go well with the lace.
Paper cuttings. Various figurines made with figured hole punch will decorate any ball.
Felt cuttings. Attached cutting-figures of various subjects will be conveniently placed with glue from a thermal gun.
Old jewelry. Lost earrings or unnecessary brooches in combination with other decorative elements will add a special glamor to the jewelry.

Results

Everyone can buy ordinary Christmas balls for decorating a room for the New Year. But it will be just decorations, like everyone else. Only decorating Christmas balls with your own hands can bring a slice of uniqueness and sincerity to the interior. To do this, you just need a desire and some materials that are sure to be found in every home.
Making Christmas balls with your own hands is not only pleasant, but also fashionable. "Handmade" for last years gained even more popularity. Therefore, creating Christmas balls is not only popular, but also useful for your own home.

It may surprise you, but knowing how to make a christmas ball, and putting this knowledge into practice, you will get a decoration several times better and more beautiful than the one you can buy in a store. The advantages that are made using numerous methods include the fact that you can choose them perfectly in color, size and texture for your planned holiday concept. But it’s still worth going to the store - for everyone necessary materials and, first of all, various bases.

How to make a Christmas ball with your own hands

round base the right material is already half the success of our global task, how to make a Christmas ball with your own hands. If you look at the difference in price between foam, ceramic, glass " clean sheets", and exactly the same in size, but decorated with several elements winter application, then it becomes clear where and on what it is best to save. Choose the base based on what application, painting, decoupage, modeling technique you want to use. So, a polished tree is suitable for decoupage, since it needs a perfectly flat surface to make the pattern look the most advantageous, a foam blank is suitable for wrapping with threads or fabric, for which the correct spherical shape is important. And if you choose the way to decorate the appliqué with beads, buttons, even painted pasta, then you can get by with a tightly folded wad of foil.

If we take an example from a large-scale one, then it is worth noting that for such crafts, scale is more important than fine jewelry work. In this case, to learn how to make a big christmas ball, you can use the science of a thread frame, for which balloons become the basis. It is subsequently removed, after the frame dries from the glue and you can put everything you see fit inside. Interesting work are obtained on a large soft base, when the foam blank is divided into segments, cuts are made on it and the edges of the fabric are pushed inward. It turns out elegant and simple toy which, moreover, is lightweight, unbreakable, absolutely safe for families with babies or overly active pets.

You can easily find master classes, how to make a christmas ball out of paper, paper can be both a base material and a decorative layer. But the strength and durability of such a toy, with the possible exception of the papier-mâché technique, is a big question. But in the previous photo you can pay attention not to wire weaving, in which beads are an additional decoration, ornamental stones and other decor. The advantage of such crafts is that you are not limited in their size, the main thing is that there is enough colored flexible wire. You need to put stones on it, fix them and wrap the base (the same balloon). It will be great option on, not only a Christmas tree, but also chandeliers, ceiling elements, wall lamps.

How to make a Christmas ball of thread

We have already mentioned in passing the simplest way, how to make a Christmas ball of thread. Indeed, for it you will need stationery liquid glue and harsh threads, you can also take woolen or jute, which could absorb the adhesive composition well. Most good way to do the job carefully is to take the glue in a soft bottle, pierce it through with a gypsy needle so that the thread passes completely through the glue, and wind it around the surface of the rubber ball.

Thin threads will need to be wound tightly enough, it is due to the many layers that the necessary elegant texture is achieved. And with threads of greater density, you can literally walk several times along all sides of the warp, it’s better to add to finished work some appliqués and decor. You can also use in this technique not only clean threads, but also already crocheted patterns to also add the desired winter mood handicrafts. Then the connected elements are pre-immersed in glue, and then gently straightened on a rubber surface to get an even pattern. Lace balls can be whole, inside you can put candles or place garlands. Of course, it is better not to kindle a fire, the threads, and even well saturated with glue, will perfectly support combustion.

However, openwork hollow jewelry is not the only way for those who want to use threads for decoration. Today, during the incredible popularity of eco-design, balls have become an integral part of fashionable decor, whose surface is completely covered with woolen threads, cords, ropes. You can see examples of such applications in the photo above. You can make pairs - solid and openwork balls together as a set. Or you can add a thread texture with beads, satin ribbons, and so on. With such jewelry, yours will immediately acquire a fashionable, relevant look.

How to make a Christmas ball at home

Continuing the eco-theme, one cannot help but recall another material and method, how to make christmas ball at home. And this material is fabric, and not every fabric is well suited for the effect we need. Choose a natural canvas, linen or cotton, with a textured surface in light beige, gray shade. Very often, designers use burlap and combining it with homespun lace, it turns out a very interesting contrast.

You can find easy lessons how to make a Christmas ball with your own hands, video with which is in the public domain. In addition to the fabric itself, you may also need skills in embroidery and drawing on the fabric, and you will also need to be able to beautifully combine several varieties of this material together in a separate work. This is not as elementary as the same option with threads, but if we are in a similar vein, then we simply cannot do without such toys.

Lace can be used as a set with linen and burlap, or separately. You can even stick it on the surface and then completely cover everything shiny paint by soaking it with a sponge. You will get such an interesting stucco effect, which you can see in the photo above.

The following options can also be called creative, which will allow you to get a much better effect than make Christmas paper balls with your own hands. For example, using toothpicks for decoration is not such a new idea, but if you stick it into the base carefully, at the same distance (for this you need not only mark points on the surface, but also mark the immersion depth on the toothpicks themselves), and then cover the entire work with shiny spray paint, it will turn out very exquisite decoration. Lovers of crafting with beads can weave a bohemian mesh that decorates absolutely any base, even an ordinary children's rubber ball. The same can be said for silver beads, which create a trendy futuristic effect.

Another original and fashionable craft is to make Christmas tree pendants in the form of a balloon, the real one, with a basket, net and all mandatory elements. At the same time, the balloon itself can be either a plain Christmas tree decoration, or, for example, old light bulb incandescent, which absolutely does not worsen the appearance finished crafts.

How to make a Christmas toy ball

It can look even more beautiful than a real, large spruce, if you decorate it with non-banal Christmas decorations, including balls decorated according to last word fashion. To give the interior more shine, chic and glamour, use simple tricks apps to learn how to make a Christmas ball.

There is no particular difficulty in appliqués with sequins, beads, beads or ordinary buttons, so you will not need any video how to make a christmas ball. Here, the value of the finished craft is achieved not by complex and painstaking work using sophisticated technology, but by the fact that the decor is taken as valuable in itself. For example, balls decorated with crystal, glass, pearl beads always look elegant. They don't even have to be hung on the Christmas tree, they can be used for serving. holiday table or desktop compositions.

Shines in the room will definitely add sequins, which are applied to the surface of the workpiece in even rows, resembling scales as a result. For work, it is best to take not individual sequins, which are sold in bulk, for embroideries, but a special braid in which all the shiny circles are connected in a chain, it will be easy to apply, stick, and without even cutting off pieces from the braid. Glitter crafts are sure to decorate in a modern style.

And another way that will help you make both a brilliant decoration and use improvised materials is associated with the use of multi-colored and assorted clothing buttons. In every house, a large number of such trifles accumulate, so why not use them all for a useful cause? Buttons are attached with glue, on special sewing pins with bright plastic heads, to get the most attractive appearance of such toys. In the photo you see what will turn out beautifully, and if you use multi-colored objects, and if you choose buttons of the same (white) color, but of different sizes. Such an application will turn out to be no worse than the one that uses expensive beads.

How to make a Christmas ball with snow

The latest ideas we'll cover are - how to make a christmas ball with snow. For work, we will definitely need glass blanks, it is best to buy the most inexpensive balls of transparent, white glass without patterns, carefully remove the contents, if necessary, and fill the ball again. But this time with artificial snow, feathers, white sand.

An ideal New Year's landscape is unlikely to fit in the limited space of the ball, but still, you can easily place some of its elements, such as a Christmas tree, a branch with berries, a tiny toy house inside.

Someone before the New Year goes to the store to restock Christmas decorations or update the Christmas tree "wardrobe" in accordance with the latest fashion trends, others prefer to create all kinds of toys and Christmas balls with their own hands. The skill of some craftsmen can be envied, the decorations that came out from under their hands are so spectacular and original. But some of them favorably share their developments in master classes, which allows us to try to create something similar, having mastered a couple of interesting techniques. And there are actually a lot of techniques for creating Christmas tree decorations, even if we talk only about New Year's balls.

Thread products: knit and glue

One of the simple master classes shows how you can make a ball of thread. Probably, many have seen such toys, large and small, in shop windows, they like to decorate Christmas trees with them. shopping malls. Let's try to make a ball of thread and glue, especially since it is very simple.

You will need:

balloon;
PVA glue;
brush for glue;
scotch;
Knitting thread.

	Inflate the balloon first right size. Tie the end into a knot.
	Tape this protruding tip with tape so that the ball is round.
	Wrap the ball with knitting threads. There is no special technique here. Just wind the threads in a chaotic manner to the desired density.
	That will be enough.
	Now you need to grease the ball with glue. Pour some water into the jar. Add PVA glue. The consistency should be easy to apply.
	Lay something on the table and start lubricating the ball with diluted PVA glue. Try to miss all the threads. At this stage, you can sprinkle the ball with sparkles if you wish.
	Thread the string and hang the ball to dry.
	When the glue is dry, pierce the inside of the balloon.
	Pull it out through the hole between the threads. Ready ball can be decorated with felt, ribbons, paper flowers.

But that is not all. The ball is not only hung on a string, it can serve as the basis for a wonderful table composition. Inside the ball, if you make a larger hole, put tinsel, ribbons, crumpled paper and even sweets.

And if you take an ordinary skein woolen thread and knitting patterns, then it is easy to crochet or knit an openwork or tight ball with a crochet or knitting needles.

Video: lace balls - knitting technique

Video: Christmas ball on knitting needles

We put here a few interesting schemes for knitting:

Christmas tree ribbon balls: kanzashi and other techniques

To make a ball of ribbons, you will need a round base. It is most convenient to use foam balls for this purpose. They are sold in shops for needlework and creativity such as Leonardo. If you recall seeing items for embroidery, soap making or beading in one of the stores, chances are there will be Styrofoam balls of various sizes.

Let's try to wrap the ball with a thin ribbon of two colors and decorate it with artificial spruce branches and natural cones.

Prepare:

foam ball;
blue ribbon and purple(length depends on the diameter of the selected ball);
artificial spruce branches;
several pine (spruce) cones;
glue gun.

	This will be the result of the work done.
	Set the glue gun to heat up. Take a styrofoam ball in your hands.
	Squeeze out some glue.
	Glue the end of the tape to the ball.
	Start winding the ball, crossing the layers.
	Every few rows, if necessary, secure the tape with glue.
	When you're done with one color of ribbon, cut it off and glue the end.
	Apply glue again and glue the tip of the tape in a different color.
	Layers next color you will have to glue more often, because a protrusion has formed at the intersection, from which the tape is slipping.
	After wrapping the ball, cut the tape with a margin for a loop.
	Use glue to make a loop for hanging the toy.
	It remains only to decorate the ball with decor. Glue it on with a heat gun.

Balls made of ribbons made of small segments look interesting. The layers of ribbons make them look like a bump.

Video: making a bump ball

You can also make a ball using the kanzashi technique from ribbons. Craftswomen who work in this technique know how to fold pieces of ribbon in the form of petals, and then collect flowers from them. To make such Christmas balls with your own hands you will need:

rep ribbon of two colors;
candle;
glue gun;
beads;
tapes;
foam ball with a diameter of 10 cm.

	We cut off a square of tape 4 × 4 cm and form a round kanzashi petal from it. Fold the square diagonally.
	Then we bend the corners to the middle.
	Fold in half along the middle line, as shown in the photo. We cut the tip a little, process it with a candle flame.
	Then we cut the back of the petal, process it. We straighten the petal.
	White petals need 90 pieces. Glue 5 petals together.
	Glue a bead to the center. You will get 18 flowers. We do not glue a bead in the middle of one of the flowers.
	From narrow tape 20 cm long, make a loop and glue it to the middle of the ball.
	From wide tape cut off 5 segments of 10 cm each. Fold the segments, gather the edge and spread it with glue.
	We glue all five blanks in a circle on the ball next to the loop.
	We take a flower without a bead, stretch a loop tape through the middle. We smear the wrong side of the flower with glue and glue it to the ball.
	Glue the rest of the white flowers in a circle.
	We make flowers from a lilac ribbon in a known way. 115 petals are needed. You will get 23 flowers. We fill free place flowers.

Perhaps a ball with roses will seem more attractive to you. It is assembled in the same way, it is only necessary to master the technique of making roses.

Video: a ball with ribbon roses

See what gorgeous balls from tapes you can do it yourself:

From paper and cardboard kusudama and pom-poms

Making paper balls is even easier. Paper and cardboard keep their shape better, they can be used to make different compositions with children.

Pompom balls will enliven the interior. They are made from thin cigarette colorful paper. In addition to it, you will need scissors, a pencil and soft wire.

	Prepare everything you need. Sheets of tissue paper should be as wide as the diameter of the future ball.
	For one pompom you need 8 sheets. Place them carefully in a pile.
	Then fold everything together with an accordion, cut off the excess.
	Take a piece of wire about 10 cm long and fasten the accordion in the middle. Use a pencil to make a loop out of the wire. Wrap the free end of the wire around the base of the loop.
	Trim the edges in a semicircle. Irregularities can be removed with small scissors.
	Bend and straighten each sheet.
	The more carefully you straighten the sheets, the fluffier and neater the ball will be.

Did you know that you can make a ball out of paper strips? Yes, even they can be given round shape if you know how. In fact, there is nothing particularly tricky here. To make such a product, you will need:

thick paper or cardboard;
thread;
two beads;
awl;
scissors.

	Keep in mind: the shorter the stripes, the smaller the ball will be.
	Cut 10 identical strips.
	Take an awl and make a hole in paper strips from one side and the other. Pass the thread through the hole.
	Then thread the thread through the bead, tie it into a knot.
	Insert the thread into the hole from the opposite end.
	Attach another bead.
	Here is the ball. If you want to make a ball of a larger diameter, take longer strips. The width and number of stripes can be chosen at your discretion. Such toys are decorated with ribbons or left without decor.

Even from book pages, carelessly torn into strips, New Year's balls are collected. And it turns out very cool and stylish.

The technique for making balls according to the patterns is similar, which you can see below. Having cut out the vytynanki, it is enough just to collect the details on the thread and slightly pull the edges to each other, giving the toy the shape of a ball.

Try to collect these paper balls.

You will need templates to make them. You can print them in any size.

After cutting the blanks, the middle will need to be connected in the form of rays diverging from the center and glued paper circles on top and bottom. Then simply bind the pieces of paper together. The form will form itself.

Paper balls from modules differ significantly in techniques. There are modular origami balls that are assembled from small modules. They are quite difficult to perform. But if you still want to try, watch the video tutorial.

Video: herringbone modular ball

Below we give a master class that even a child can use.

A lot of balls are also made from paper, for example, Chinese or Japanese. The technique for making a Chinese ball is quite simple, but you will have to carefully monitor what the master is doing.

Video: Chinese paper balls

But kusudama balls are very difficult to manufacture. It depends on the folding technology base element. We have selected two relatively simple master classes.

Video: making a kusudama ball

Video: simple kusudama ball

How original Kusudama can be, judge for yourself:

What to make from a foam blank and fabric?

Balls made of fabric are very popular among lovers, especially those made using the artichoke technique. This specific technique allows you to make the balls of the most various shades, dissimilar to each other. How to make such balls is not easy for a beginner to figure out, so you need step-by-step instructions.

To make a ball you will need:

fabric of different colors;
foam blank (in this case a ball with a diameter of 8 cm is used);
pins with a hat (similar to carnations);
ribbons for decoration;
lighter;
marker.

	You get a ball trimmed with a fabric with a jagged ornament.
	The first step is to mark the ball so that the fabric lies flat. There is a technological line on the ball, it divides the ball in half. Stick a pin into this line anywhere and measure the circumference with a measuring tape. Divide the resulting number in half, so you will find the opposite point. Measure this value and stick a second pin into the ball. Duplicate the circle line with a marker.
	To measure the horizontal circle - the “equator”, you need to divide the first value by four and set aside along the circle line on one side and the other of the pin. Attach a measuring tape to the points and draw a second circle. Now it remains to set aside along this circle again the same distance (the circumference divided by four) and draw a line. We divided the ball into 8 equal parts.
	The fabric must be cut into square shreds with sides of 7 × 7 cm. The first layer will require 10 shreds, the second and third - 16 shreds each. Each piece must be folded in half and ironed. This will greatly facilitate the subsequent work.
	First of all, we make the substrate. We take one piece. We fix the center with a pin and stretch the corners, pinning them with pins.
	Then we take another shred, stick a pin into the center, fold the fabric in half so that the pin's head is inside, as in the photo.
	We stick a pin in the center of the ball. We remove the pin fixing the center of the substrate.
	We bend the corners to the middle, fix with pins. The middle line should exactly repeat the line drawn with the marker.
	In the same way, we fix the flap opposite.
	Then add two shreds-triangles between. We pull the corners, but not all the way, and fix them with pins. It is recommended to immediately repeat the steps on the opposite side of the ball.
	Now we mark with pins where the tops of the triangles of the second row will be. We measure one and a half centimeters along the line formed by different details. We stick pins.
	We fix 4 blanks with pins.
	Then we measure one and a half centimeters along the lines of the midpoints of the triangles white color and stick the pins in again. Fill in the gaps with triangles of red fabric.
	In the same way, we make a row of green fabric. Don't forget to repeat the rows on the opposite side.
	Then we measure the circumference of the ball. It will be slightly larger than when measured foam ball through layers of fabric. We cut a strip of fabric 3.5 cm wide, the length according to your measurements plus an allowance of 1 cm. We bend the edges by half a centimeter, iron. We pin the beginning with two pins in the corners, wrap the ball, covering the edges of the shreds, bend the end of the tape and pin it up. The main work has been completed. Now you can decorate the ball as you wish.

And it’s also worth making balls for the green beauty with stuffing the fabric in the foam slot - kimekoni. Everyone can master the principle of manufacturing. From the materials you will need:

foam ball;
a little fabric, you can trim;
paper;
narrow tape.

From tools:

pencil or marker;
scissors;
ruler;
pins;
glue gun.

	Take a styrofoam ball.
	Draw the desired ornament. In our case, the ball was simply divided into sectors.
	Wrap the ribbon around the ball. Thus, measure the circumference and cut off the excess.
	Cut the tape in half. Measure with a ruler.
	Find the midpoint of the segment. Measure the length to the middle.
	Draw a template on paper. Consider the allowances that will refuel. The length of the template should be slightly longer than the length of the piece of tape. Find the middle. Measure the sector drawn on the foam ball at its widest point. Add three millimeters on each side and, according to the measurements, make a template.
	Cut out of fabric right amount"petals".
	Make cuts on the foam ball along the lines.
	Attach patches with an overlap. At the intersections, secure with pins and drown them in the slots.
	If necessary, use a flat tool to thread the fabric.
	Take the ribbon until cut off from the skein. Glue the tip with a glue gun.
	Close the seams of the fabric. use glue if necessary. Cut the tape.
	Make a bow out of ribbon.
	It can be small, modest or lush.
	Glue a loop of tape.

You can fill the fabric without pins. How to do this is shown in the video:

Thus, you can make a ball with any ornament.

Video: kimekomi ball with a complex ornament

Other balls: rhinestones, sequins

It is impossible not to mention other ways to make beautiful Christmas tree decorations. For some of them, a foam ball is again used as the basis. For others - glass or plastic balls. Continuing the theme of decorating foam balls, we suggest looking at how to decorate a ball with lace and rhinestones.

Video: a ball of lace ribbon and rhinestone ribbon

You can make a ball with sequins. Insert the pin through the hole in the sequin and then into the Styrofoam ball. If you have sequins with an overlap, you get such a beautiful ball.

And if you combine several techniques: kimekomi, decoration with ribbon and sequins, then such a miracle can be created.

Handmade from beads and beads

If you really like to work with beads, then try to weave a "cover". It can be solid or cover the ball only from above. But this work will take a long time. If you want to make several balls, it is better to start well before the New Year. It is best to make such a ball as a gift, the efforts will fully justify themselves.

Dense covers are made using the crochet technique. The middle is stuffed with padding polyester. In principle, it’s simple, but the main thing is not to make a mistake with the count of beads if you are knitting a pattern, otherwise you will have to dissolve it.

Video: one-piece bead ball

Openwork covers are made with a needle and fishing line. Here, too, it is easy to make mistakes in the calculations. For this work, you will also need a one-color Christmas ball - plastic or glass.

Video: beading a Christmas ball

By the way, the beads can be simply glued. Then something like this will happen.

Look at the intricate bead decor the craftsmen do.

Simple and complex decoupage

Incredibly beautiful balls made using decoupage technique. Of course, much is determined by skill and imagination. But now there are many really original decoupage cards on sale. In addition, you can use a regular printed picture. For next master class will need:

glass balls;
sandpaper of varying degrees of graininess;
acrylic primer;
acrylic paints;
acrylic lacquer;
brushes synthetic and natural;
a piece of foam rubber;
image;
one-step craquelure;
decoupage glue;
potal;
glue for potali;
glue Moment-Crystal;
scissors;
file;
Toothbrush.

	This work is admirable.
	For work, we use pre-primed glass balls.
	We paint the place under the picture with white paint using a piece of sponge. We dry.
	We varnish the printout in three layers. Each layer must be applied in a perpendicular direction to the previous one. Dry well.
	Cut out the picture and place it face up in the warm water for about 30 minutes.
	We process the dried ball with a medium-grained sandpaper.
	We spread out the printout. The tip can be picked up with a needle.
	The place where we will stick the picture is covered with decoupage glue.
	Attaching a picture. We smooth out the wrinkles on the main details of the picture as much as possible.
	We dip our finger into the glue and draw it from the center to the edge, simultaneously gluing and expelling the air from under the image.
	The folds are sanded with a medium-grained sandpaper.
	We cover the image with varnish.
	After the varnish has dried, we pass with a fine sandpaper.
	We paint over the damage with paints. Let's dry.
	Then we paint the back section of the ball in golden color. This color will show through the cracks in the craquelure.
	Sand with a fine sandpaper after drying.
	Apply with a brush one-step craquelure. We dry.
	Cover with paint with a sponge.
	Varnishing the ball.
	Glue lace on Moment-Crystal glue. We dry.
	We paint in the desired color.
	We apply glue for sweating.
	We glue the potal. Smooth with a brush.
	We varnish the potal.
	Now you can varnish the entire ball. Decorate with lace and ribbons.

The edges of the lace can not be glued, but left free.

They also do decoupage with snow: balls are decorated with ordinary salt.

Of course, you can limit yourself to just a picture, without craquelure, lace and other details.

But if you stick half-beads in the form of toys on a Christmas tree on the ball, then it will look more original.

By the way, you can completely limit yourself to lace. The lace ornament on the Christmas balls looks amazing.

felted wool balls

Even if you've already tried different techniques making balls, be sure to try to felt a wool ball. This is an environmentally friendly technology. It doesn't even use glue. All you need is wool, felting needle and thread. Felted balls are made in the technique of wet and dry felting.

Video: red and white roses - wet felting technique

Video: dry felting technique for Christmas balls

The easiest way is to make a ball, and then decorate it with beads and beads, or sew on an appliqué made of felt:

When you fill your hand, take on the manufacture of balls with complex patterns:

Decor option: polymer clay

If you have the skill of sculpting with polymer clay, then you will definitely like the idea of decorating balloons with this material. There are several techniques: from using multi-colored circles of clay to sculpting convex plots.

Painted curls. Is paint work just for artists?

In stores, sometimes there are balls with beautiful hand-painted. They are very beautiful, but they are prohibitively expensive. Making such a ball at home is not only easy, but also not burdensome for the wallet. You will say that for this you need to be able to draw well ... It is not necessary at all. On the Internet, you can download any ornament or pattern you like, transfer it to a ball, then draw the borders with a special contour and fill in the gaps with acrylic paints.

View a selection of photos of hand-painted Christmas balls:

Snowstorm at home

One of the options for Christmas balls is not to hang on the Christmas tree, such a ball is used as a table decoration. It's about about a ball of snow.

Let's try to make it.

	For the manufacture of snow globe you will need a jar and a figurine. You can take any jar that you like in shape. If there are traces of glue on the jar that are not washed off with water, try washing them with sunflower oil. The fact is that such glue is most often fat-soluble.
	We try on the figure to the lid. It should not cover the thread that secures the lid to the jar, but should freely enter inside.
	To make the figurine look good inside the jar, you need to put it on a dais.
	To do this, you can use plasticine. Blind a small mound on which you put the figure. The figurine inside the jar can also be made from plasticine, but wax should not be taken. The disadvantage of plasticine is that sparkles stick to it, so it is advisable to cover such a figure clear varnish for nails.
	When the mound is ready, squeeze the glue from the glue gun onto the inside of the lid. Glue the pedestal.
	Attach the figurine on top with a glue gun. By the way, good for snow globes figurines from kinder surprises.
	Try on how the figurine fits into the jar.
	If the plasticine prevents the lid from twisting, remove the excess.
	We prepare the liquid with which we fill the jar. We take glycerin and pour a quarter, a maximum of a third of the can. The more glycerin, the thicker the liquid will be. And the slower the glitter will move inside. Now add distilled water to the jar. Please note that the figurine will displace some water, so do not fill the jar completely. In addition, you need an air bubble inside, which will mix the sparkles. Mix everything well.
	Add glitter, you can take more pieces of white plastic. these materials are easy to purchase in a store that sells everything for manicure. Don't overdo the glitter. Stir the liquid again.
	Take a tissue and wipe dry the neck of the jar. Coat the neck with Moment-Crystal glue and screw on the lid.
	If desired, decorate the neck of the jar, for example, with lace. Cut off the desired piece and use a glue gun to attach it to the lid of the jar.

We wish you successful preparations for the New Year. And let the process of making Christmas balls bring pleasure to you and your loved ones!

Our site publishes materials for those who want to make Christmas and New Year a real holiday for their children, a holiday that they will remember for long years. Here, to help parents, we publish articles and materials on the preparation and conduct of the New Year holidays. Including this New Year's master classes on making original Christmas toys and Christmas decorations with your own hands. If you start making Christmas decorations, Christmas decorations and gifts for friends and relatives in advance, then by December 31 your house will turn into a real New Year's fairy tale! We offer to make Christmas balls for the Christmas tree. You will learn how to make a Christmas ball with your child with your own hands, get acquainted with the schemes of Christmas paper balls, photos of Christmas tree decorations.

1. Christmas ball do it yourself (option 1)

To make this Christmas decoration, you will need colored paper, thin wire, a stapler, and glue. The balloon you see in the photo above was made from three different colors of paper (pink, blue and light blue).

Work plan

1. Take a small glass or glass (glass) and circle it on paper with a simple pencil 12 times. You should have 12 circles (4 circles of each color). Cut out the circles with scissors.

2. Fold each circle in half and stack them together as shown in the picture below. We use paper in three colors (A, B and C) to make this Christmas ball. Stack the mugs in next sequence— ABBCCAABBCCA. If, when making a New Year's ball, you used paper of two colors (A and B), then in this case the circles should have been folded in the following sequence - ABBAABBAABBA.

3. Fasten the circles of paper together with a thin wire, wrapping it around them along the fold line. Twist the ends of the wire together. If you do not have wire, then you can fasten the circles with a regular stapler.

4. Spread the circles and glue the adjacent halves of the circles to each other. Each half must be connected to one adjacent at the top, and with the other - at the bottom.

2. DIY Christmas balls (option 2)

Cut out three circles of the same size but different colors from colored cardboard or thick paper. In the first of them, cut a cross (fig. a), in the second circle, make a horizontal cut in the middle and perpendicular to it two cuts in the direction from the circle to the center of the circle (fig. b), and in the third - four cuts in the form of a cross, also along direction from the circle to the center (Fig. c). Pass the circle "c" into the circle "b". In circle "a", bend the corners formed as a result of its incision; you get a square hole. Pass circles “b” and “c” into it, having previously folded them. Then straighten the corners again (fig. d). Attach a thread to the resulting ball.

3. Christmas paper balls (option 3)

From old postcards or colored paper, you can make such cute Christmas decorations - Christmas balls.

You can print ready-made colored circles for making a colorful Christmas ball using this technique.

4. Making a Christmas ball (option 4)

Very easy to make Christmas paper ball. To make it, you will need colored paper and glue.

Work plan:

1. Cut out eight identical circles from paper of different colors. Although, in fact, the number of circles can be any, but not less than three.

2. Bend each circle in half, front side inside.

3. Glue the halves of the circles together as shown in the photo below. Glue is applied to the wrong side of the halves of the circle.

4. Before final sealing christmas ball, thread a thick thread or ribbon through it. You can also make amazing Christmas garland from a large number paper balls.

Note: this Christmas decoration can be made not only in the form of a ball, but also in any other shape. To do this, use different stencils.

5. DIY Christmas ball (option 5)

To make these wonderful Christmas lanterns, you will need to cut colored paper into strips of the same length and width. The length and width of the strips depends on the size of the flashlight you want to make. To make one paper lantern you will need an average of 14-16 strips of paper

When making Christmas balls, you can use strips of paper of different colors and beads to decorate Christmas toys with your own hands.

If the strips of paper are bent in the middle, then you get such a New Year's decoration.

6. How to make a Christmas ball (option 6)

We suggest you make such a cute and easy-to-make New Year's craft from old postcards with your child.

1. Using a small glass or wine glass, draw and cut out eight identical circles.

2. Using another object with a round base but smaller in diameter, draw and cut out two small circles.

3. Fold each big circle in half, and then in half again.

4. Stick four folded large circles on one small circle, the remaining four on the other. As a result, you will get two halves of your future Christmas ball.

It is very IMPORTANT to correctly place the quarters of the large circles on the small circle. Try to carefully straighten the "pockets" of the folded circles and in advance, before gluing, estimate the correctness of their location. At the same time, focus on the very first photo, which shows a finished ball.

5. Now you just have to glue the two finished halves together and, when the glue dries, straighten all the pockets. Christmas ball is ready!

7. Do-it-yourself ball of threads (spider web balls)

Thread balls look very attractive, do not require special skills and money. Many did them at school in labor lessons. And the use of these gossamer balls is limitless: just as an element of decor, and as a lampshade, and as New Year's toys. From several of these balls of thread, you can make all kinds of toys: snowmen, birds, fish. In general, everything that is enough for imagination.

Making balls from thread:

1. You will need: scissors, balloons, fat cream (Vaseline), any yarn, PVA glue, a bowl.
2. Dilute PVA glue with water, approximately 3:1.
3. Inflate the balloon to the desired size, give it a round shape, tie it with a thread.
4. Rewind required amount yarn, put it in a bowl and leave for 5 minutes.
5. We spread the ball fat cream and wrap it with yarn, for starters leaving a large distance between the thread.
6. Gradually reduce the distance between the threads until the whole ball is wrapped with yarn and resembles a cocoon.
7. Cut the thread and glue it to the ball. Leave it to dry (at least a day).
8. Gradually untying the balloon, gently blow it off, and then remove it from the thread cocoon; tie a rope to the thread ball on top for fastening.

When making a ball, you can use yarn (threads) of any color or paint with any paint or sparkles (spray). Especially for the New Year, you can decorate this thread ball with tinsel and stars. Hang small balls on the Christmas tree, decorate the room with large ones. Fantasize more!

If you are unable to wind the glue-soaked thread around the ball, you can wind the dry thread, and then carefully soak it with glue with a brush or sponge.

Instead of glue, you can use sugar syrup or starch paste. To prepare the paste, take 3 teaspoons of starch in a glass of cold water, mix thoroughly and bring to a boil. Instead of a thread, you can take a thin copper wire and also wind it around the ball.

Old Christmas balls can be updated by wrapping each of them in a shred beautiful fabric and tied with ribbon.

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