It is already November, which means that there is very little left before the fabulous holiday. But you still need to buy a Christmas tree, and decorate accordingly not only the green beauty, but the whole house.

To make toys you will need:

• Beads, pendants, beads different sizes, sequins, pendants
• Glue
• Scissors
• Needles or pins
• decorative ribbons, braid
• Plastic balls, Styrofoam balls, or seashells found on the coast

Before work, it is worth marking rows on our plastic or foam ball. The step width here is the sequin height. And then everything is as easy as shelling pears - we take a sequin with tweezers, dip the tip into the glue and adapt it to its place on the ball.

And in the center of the sequins, you can stick one bead at a time, alternating them with small beads. So our ball will turn out to be more voluminous.

With shells it's even easier. It is enough to take a thread with beads strung on it and wrap it along the curls of the shell itself. Everything seems to be simple, but look what an elegant toy has learned.

And here are some more vivid examples of New Year's toys made of beads, sequins and any materials that come to hand.

MASTER CLASS - 2

Kit necessary materials remained unchanged:

• Styrofoam balls
• sequins
• Carnation pins
• Glue
• Ribbon (or wire) for hanging the ball

Please note that sequins are not only the usual round shape, but their shape can be very diverse. By using different types sequins can create real masterpieces.

And you can also use beads, bugle beads or beads, planting beads on studs. There is a huge scope for imagination!

First, we will see what sequins are, except for round ones. Look at the photo: there are sequins with New Year theme, Christmas trees, snowflakes and stars.

Check out our selection of photos of New Year's crafts - sparkling sequin balls, we hope it will inspire you to make your own masterpiece. Note that in balls - hedgehogs, the sequins are located not only on the surface of the foam ball, but also rise above the surface of the ball with the help of glass beads.

MASTER CLASS №3

What we need:

• Styrofoam ball(balls)
• Sequins of different colors
• pins
• Glue
• Tape (or other device) for hanging the ball

What we do:

1. Glue the ends of the tape to the surface of the ball to make a loop.

2. We begin to decorate the ball. We take a sequin, string it on a pin to the very head of the pin and stick it into the ball. With the first sequins (3-4 pieces), we additionally fix the tape for strength.

3. We continue to string sequins on pins and stick them into the ball, gradually covering its entire surface.

4. We admire the result! The ball can be hung on the Christmas tree, can be used as Christmas decoration interior.

The ball doesn't have to be small. Ball bigger size you can also decorate with sequins, but there should be a lot of sequins and pins, and you will have to be patient. If you decorate a large ball with only silver sequins, you get a real disco ball - a disco ball. A large ball can be hung from the ceiling next to a light source - and the New Year's festive mood will be provided to everyone, and especially to children!

To hang the ball, you can use not only the tape. For example, it can be a loop of thin wire, a loop of wire with tinsel, or even a screw with a ring wrapped in thread for beauty, as you can see in the photo below. By the way, the tape can also be used differently - narrow or wide, or you can use a beautiful cord.

Sequins on the ball can be arranged in the form of an ornament. In order to get such an ornament, as in the figure below, you must first “lay out” the “belt” around the circumference of the ball with sequins of the same color. Further, close to the first row, we make the second row - of a different color, and so on.

• If you don't like having to use pins (and if you want to work on the balloon with a small child, then this is especially true), just grease the surface of the balloon with transparent glue and glue the sequins.
• If you are using glue instead of pins, be sure to hang the finished ball somewhere so that it can dry completely.
• If you are using small balls, then please note that the length of the pin should not be larger than the diameter of the ball.
• If you want the ball to really sparkle, then choose beautiful shiny sequins so that they reflect light well.
• If you want more sparkle, then choose pins with a small head so that they cover the surface of the sequin less.
• You can choose sequins of any color, the ball can be multi-color and one-color or with an ornament, but it will sparkle in any case!

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 buy christmas balls it's boring. Uniqueness can only be achieved by decorating 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, Balloons round shape.
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 of various shapes, sequins, beads, semi-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 as follows: put a light garland on a tray, put on top products of different sizes, but of the same 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 a foam base, you can use factory-made plastic 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 achieve the 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 a small amount of hot glue to the inside of the button.
• 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. Get a fluffy pom-pom. Repeat the same steps with the second piece.
• Connect two pom-pom blanks with glue at the place of gluing. Get a fluffy 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. For 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 an additional circle with a 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. Place them in in large numbers it is not worth it on the Christmas tree, it is better to “dilute” with other decorations.

From fabric

If there was an old blouse in the closet that it is a pity to throw away, then the refusal to dispose of it was 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 long as possible strips of 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. To make unusual 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 color in acrylic paint. Fill after complete drying of the cotton wool.
• Multi-colored sisal can be placed inside and enjoy the color and originality of the decoration.

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

How to make spectacular Christmas balls with your own hands? Easy! Nothing super complicated, everything is elementary.

It will take quite a bit of starting materials - foam as the base plus sequins.

Many people have a question - how to attach (maybe stick) the decor to the ball? Secure with pins or just glue.

But the first option is preferable - the decor holds better, looks more interesting in my opinion.

DIY Christmas ball toy - mini master class

In the picture below you see both all the items necessary for work, and the actual master class of New Year's decorations. It is so simple and accessible, the photo speaks for itself, that more is not required.

The advantage of this method is the availability, as well as the low cost of materials, the simplest technique, the balls do not beat, leaving fragments.

So, I'll list it again. All you need is:

• Styrofoam balls (or other shaped objects)
• Pins with a flat or round head (depending on the desired result)
• Sequins (single or different colors)

All this is sold in such round and square packages, as seen in the photo. It is not necessary to make everything plain, but it also looks good, more elegant.

Sequins should be tried to attach close to one another so that there are no gaps. Then the entire surface will shine glossy, and the craft itself will look almost like a real glass shiny New Year's ball, to which we have become accustomed since childhood.

For hanging, before you start working, you can fasten a thin cord to the ball, for which a Christmas toy will be hung on a Christmas tree or somewhere else. This is best done before you start, and it will be more convenient to hold the ball when you pin the sequins.

But this is optional. If you make a large ball, then it is not necessary to hang it on a Christmas tree, it will look good separately, as an interior decoration, on a table or windowsill. especially if there are several different sizes. You can choose the color scheme, the diameter of the ball yourself according to your taste, desire and based on specific goals. It's up to you.

Such a ball will serve as a small New Year's gift acquaintances or an addition to it for relatives.

Styrofoam - the basis for creativity

On sale you can find many options for foam figures of different shapes and sizes, which are quite suitable for this technique of creating New Year's Christmas decorations. These are snowflakes, cones that can be arranged in the form of a Christmas tree, decorated in a spiral with a garland (sequins of a different color), bells.

I already had a similar master class, very simple and doable even for small children to create Easter decorations with your own hands. The only thing that must be taken into account if you are working with children is that pins can get lost, and this is very dangerous. Therefore, follow this very carefully, and I also advise you to get a special magnetic stand for small metal objects (paper clips, etc.), which will keep all the pins necessary for work in one place. The likelihood that one will be accidentally lost will be much less.

Making Christmas decorations is now fashionable, using natural natural materials. Cones - spruce, pine, even alder - can easily be found in the forest, you just need to take care of this in advance - collect them in the summer at the dacha or in the fall for walks in the parks. Harvested, they are stored for a long time in a dry form, until it's time to make crafts.

Original huge or very small balls for the New Year can be made using completely unnecessary things that we get for free. Separately, two halves of approximately the same size are made with glue, which are then combined into a single whole - a sphere that looks more than unusual due to non-standard materials.

Absolutely the same option, only these are not hand-made New Year's balls, but testicles - only the shape is different. Sequins with pins are fixed alternately on the foam, which serves as the basis. The only difference is not New Year's decor. Here you will find many different colors and other nuances that can also be applied to Christmas balls.

Christmas decorations should be especially bright and colorful - most of us will agree with this statement. Looking for interesting material, which can be used for crafts, I stumbled upon the sequins and was amazed at the variety that the assortment of hardware stores offers. All kinds of shapes and colors give scope to the imagination. As a result of a trip to this store, interesting idea, which attracts not only with its simplicity of execution, but also with a strikingly attractive result. So, we begin our master class on making Christmas decorations from sequins.
In the process of work, we will need: sequins of various shapes and colors, needles with a hat, foil, a ball of construction foam, the manufacture of which was described in one of the previous master classes.

For my toy I took sequins white color in the shape of snowflakes, purple sequins - flowers, convex pink sequins, purple foil and needles with pearl heads. We will mount all this on a workpiece - a ball of construction foam, 6 cm in diameter.

First of all, wrap the workpiece with foil and level it. Then we start a set of sequins on the needle, while placing our sequins in the following sequence: first a snowflake, then a pink sequin, and then purple. It remains only to attach the pin to the ball as it is done in the photo above.

Carefully fill the entire surface of the ball, while trying to keep the gaps to a minimum. You can, of course, go with one set of straws to another, but then you should make sure that all snowflakes are at an equal distance from each other.

Here we are ready Christmas tree decoration. Isn't it so simple?!

We all know what a wonderful effect is obtained from a mirror ball on which light falls and which slowly rotates, turning a darkened room into a starry sky. An ordinary hall or room is completely transformed in the moving light of many "stars". Such a sparkling ball can be easily made by yourself.

Depending on the size, it can be a decoration for a Christmas tree or an object. New Year's decor, or maybe a real disco ball (from the English Disco Ball), which will become an ornament new year holiday.

Making such a ball (small or large) is a great activity for children, both small and older. Glitter balls - excellent New Year's souvenir for adults and for children.

What we need:

• Styrofoam ball(s)
• Sequins of different colors
• pins
• Tape (or other device) for hanging the ball

What we do:

1. Glue the ends of the tape to the surface of the ball to make a loop.

2. Let's start decorating the ball. We take a sequin, string it on a pin to the very head of the pin and stick it into the ball. With the first sequins (3-4 pieces), we additionally fix the tape for strength.

3. We continue to string sequins on pins and stick them into the ball, gradually covering its entire surface.

4. We love the result! The ball can be hung on a Christmas tree, can be used as a New Year's interior decoration.

The ball doesn't have to be small. A larger ball can also be decorated with sequins, but there should be a lot of sequins and pins, and you will have to be patient. If you decorate a large ball with only silver sequins, you get a real disco ball - a disco ball. A large ball can be hung from the ceiling next to a light source - and the New Year's festive mood will be provided to everyone, and especially to children!

To hang the ball, you can use not only the tape. For example, it can be a loop of thin wire, a loop of wire with tinsel, or even a screw with a ring wrapped in thread for beauty, as you can see in the photo below. By the way, the tape can also be used differently - narrow or wide, or you can use a beautiful cord.

Sequins on the ball can be arranged in the form of an ornament. In order to get such an ornament, as in the figure below, you must first “lay out” the “belt” around the circumference of the ball with sequins of the same color. Further, close to the first row, we make the second row - of a different color, and so on.

• If you don't like having to use pins (and if you want to work on the balloon with a small child, then this is especially true), just grease the surface of the balloon with transparent glue and glue the sequins.
• If you are using glue instead of pins, be sure to hang the finished ball somewhere so that it can dry completely.
• If you are using small balls, then please note that the length of the pin should not be larger than the diameter of the ball.
• If you want the ball to really sparkle, then choose beautiful shiny sequins so that they reflect light well.
• If you want more sparkle, then choose pins with a small head so that they cover the surface of the sequin less.
• You can choose sequins of any color, the ball can be multi-color and one-color or with an ornament, but it will sparkle in any case!
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