How to make a tree of napkins with your own hands: a master class. Tree of Happiness, a floral tree of napkins

A cozy home is everyone's dream, but this does not always require large investments. Something you can do yourself. For example, if we are talking about how to make a tree of napkins with your own hands. The cost price of it is very low, and the result will be stunning. Such a tree you can do with the child, accustoming him to creativity, or as a gift for any holiday. So, we understand how to make a tree of napkins.

Introduction

Such flowers are also called topiary. They are made not only from napkins, the course can go like ribbons, fabric flowers, and coffee beans, beads, rhinestones and so on. Such a tree can stand on the floor or on a pedestal (depending on its size). It is believed that it brings comfort and peace, filling the atmosphere of the house with harmony and warmth. It is superfluous to verify this, so let's start creating our own topiary from improvised means.

Source materials

So, to make a tree of napkins with your own hands, try to look for the following in your stocks:

1. Multicolored three-layer napkins. They can be monophonic, but they must be in harmony with each other. It will not be very nice if they are all the same color.
2. Newspaper and scissors.
3. Glue PVA and glue gun.
4. The wire is about 40 cm long, so thick that it can hold a shape.
5. Gouache, acrylic lacquer and flower pot.

It turned out not so little, but all these components are easily found in almost every house. Having collected everything, you can already start creating your masterpiece. For the master class, we will choose the most economical version of production - from napkins. Such a topiary is a little uncomfortable with its impracticality, because dust settles on it, it is afraid of water, but it can easily be decorated with a holiday. Moreover, it does not last long, and does not require financial investments.

Wood from napkins: master class

1. Let's start with the base of our flower. To do this, we roll the ball out of old newspapers, and to keep it in shape, we will wrap it with threads as tightly as possible. You will not get a smooth ball, no matter how hard you try. Therefore, we apply papier-mache technique. We will tear newspapers or napkins into small pieces and glue the diluted PVA glue to the ball. This will help at least a little, but smooth out the roughness. To quickly drier the ball, it can be put on the battery.
2. Let's move on to the wire. If it itself is thick, then it does not need to be processed. Give it a spiral shape, wound on a rolling pin or other suitable diameter cylinder. If the wire is small, then it will need to be zadekorirovat. For this purpose, a variant with a newspaper and an adhesive tape is suitable, after which the wire is wound with a beautiful ribbon. Or it can simply be wrapped in a decorative thick cord. It will also look beautiful.
3. Now you need to attach the ball to the trunk to get a real tree. To do this, make a hole in the ball. With a stationery knife, this will be much faster. You can use a wooden skewer. We fix the ball in the base on the hot glue.
4. Let's start painting. If we remember, now it looks like a newspaper. You can cover it with acrylic primer. Such a soil is often white, less often black. If you do not have a special coating, you can replace it with a normal gouache of dark color. Top with a layer of acrylic lacquer. This will give shine to our foundation. Although, it should be noted, it is almost impossible to see it.
5. If we talk about flowers on the tree of happiness, then here the scope for imagination is so great that it is difficult to advise. We will deal with them in detail a little later. So, at this stage we prepare everything that we decorate our tree.
6. Now we collect the tree from napkins with our own hands. We paste the flowers on the glue gun. We alternate colors the way we like it. Now fill the empty space with leaves from green napkins. You can do this in the technique of "facing". To do this, green napkins are cut into small squares. Each square is put on the base of the pencil, dipped in a glutinous mixture and pressed against the ball. Fill all the free space.
7. Now it remains to root our tree of happiness from napkins. To do this, put it in a pot and fill it with gypsum. In order not to hold the tree until the gypsum is dry, we fix the tree differently.
8. The surface of the gypsum is masked with paint.
9. We can additionally decorate the tree with rhinestones, pearls, paillettes.

Let's talk about flowers: roses

Technology of creating flowers from paper or napkins - a great many. For example, roses are made very simply. You can cut napkins into strips, fold these strips in half, without forming any creases, and spin them into rolls, forming a rosebud with hands. A tree made of roses from napkins is the most frequent variant of such works, but it is by no means the only one.

A few more options

You can make a chamomile tree. For him, you take white and yellow napkins. Cut them into strips, and then cut the strips themselves with small noodles. It remains to twist the strips into a roll, and then straighten them so that they spread out wide. Seredinku do likewise, but from yellow napkins. Peonies and other flowers with large leaves are made the longest. Napkins should be cut into leaves, which are then collected in a flower. Doing such flowers will have the longest. The fastest and most neutral way to make such a tree is when you do without flowers at all. To do this, just bend the napkins with triangles, fan the ends and glue them to the middle of the tree. To make such a tree of napkins with your own hands looked beautiful, you need napkins of the brightest colors and a lot. However, this option fits into the modern youth interior.

Children's crafts

You can use the manufacture of such crafts as a tree of happiness from napkins, as a developing child's occupation. Your child will not only be involved in useful work, but will also be involved in the creative process. At this time, he will develop a small motor skills, thinking and aesthetic feelings. With kids, you can do more simplified versions, using instead of napkins plasticine and coffee beans, pumpkin seeds and so on. If you are doing such a tree with a baby, who is not yet a year old, then even at this age he can make a hand in building. He can tear napkins into pieces, and you will glue them on the glue "Moment" to the base. This is a useful lesson for the child, and will allow you to take him for half an hour at least.