Master-class: how to make a ball of polystyrene

Of foam balls can make a lot of different interesting crafts. We suggest you learn how to make a ball of foam and where to use it later.

Why create yourself?

Why do you need to know how to make a ball of foam? In fact now in any shop for creativity it is possible to buy ready-made plastic balls. But there are advantages in making them yourself:

• Reduces the cost of making crafts.
• You can confidently say that you make a craft from the beginning to the end.
• Used foam, which eventually had to get into the trash.

Of course, there are also disadvantages:

• It takes more time to create crafts.
• Balls can not get so perfectly smooth, as purchased.
• It turns out a lot of garbage.

How to make a ball of polystyrene: a master class

There are two ways of making foam balls at home.

The first option of how to make a ball from a foam ball looks like this. Take a piece of material and a clerical knife. Careful movements, so as not to injure yourself, start turning the rounds. As a result, you will have a ball in your hands. It is worth noting that in this way you will not achieve the ideal foam surface. Therefore, this workpiece is fit, if it is fully zadekorirovat.

The second way, how to make a ball from a foam, is as follows:

1. Take a round tube of the same diameter as you want your balls to be. This can be a conventional plastic pipe, a sheath from a mounting glue and so on.
2. Draw two parallel lines along the pipe, which will divide it along in half.
3. Join the two lines of the third, stepping back from the edge by a few centimeters.
4. Cut out the contoured section of the pipe.
5. Glue the sandpaper along the entire length of the pipe with a glue gun. On one half, let it be coarse, and on the other - fine grain.
6. Take a piece of styrofoam and draw on it two identical circles.
7. With a clerical knife, cut out circles from the foam.
8. Glue together the resulting blanks.
9. The walls of the billet grind in a prepared pipe on a coarse-grained workpiece. To do this, conduct the foam plastic from top to bottom several times, constantly turning.
10. Turn the workpiece over and grind it from the other sides.
11. When the foam becomes a ball, sand it on the fine-grained part of the pipe.
12. Strice off the ball of extra polystyrene.

All is ready!

New Year's crafts

Using such a preparation, you can make stunning New Year balls of foam. The decor options can be completely different:

1. Take the sequins and insert them into the ball, filling all of its space, with special needles-studs.
2. Using a glue gun, cover the ball with beautiful buttons.
3. Pour the balloon with a cloth, and decorate the top with lace and beads.

Snowman from foam plastic

If you take two foam balls, you can make a cute snowman.

Master class on creation:

1. Connect the two balls with a wooden stick or knitting needle.
2. Apply to the entire surface of the balls mounting glue, acrylic paint or structural gel. This should be done with small brush strokes.
3. Allow the material to freeze.
4. Make a polymer clay nose-carrot and glue it on the top ball.
5. Use a glue gun to make eyes and mouth from small black buttons.
6. Put on the hat and scarf.
7. Glue the decorative buttons on the bottom ball.
8. Insert two sticks on each side.
9. From a bright fleece, cut out four figures in the form of mittens.
10. Glue the two pieces of mittens together and put them on the sticks on the sides (these will be the hands).

The snowman is ready!