The magic mascot is a money crane

Maybe you saw someone at home such an unusual craft, like a floating cup with coins pouring from it. Most people she enthralls, and many do not even understand how it was done. In fact, this article - the crane money - is simply made with your own hands and looks like a golden inexhaustible source. Such product acts simultaneously as a symbol of wealth and prosperity, as well as an object that brings success to its owner, a successful streak in life and attracts real money in large quantities.

Pleasant souvenir

You can make money crane yourself as a gift to friends, relatives, colleagues, superiors. Such crafts will be a wonderful gift for a birthday or a wedding. In general, this souvenir can not be properly used in one situation. Naturally, simply giving money in an envelope is a very trivial decision. The most optimal option is to make an odd job out of monetary bills.
You can believe in the magic properties of this craft or treat it with healthy skepticism, but, however that may be, such a decorative thing can become an original decoration of any house or apartment or act as the main accent in the interior of the room. So, it's time to talk more about which components can be used to make the crane money with your own hands. Next, we will tell you about the main stages of manufacturing. And you can be sure that there is nothing complicated in this.

Main Components

To produce a floating source, we need:

• Money - it can be real bills or coins or some artificial paper.
• Bowl as a traditional part of the craft. The originals can replace it with an ordinary water tap.
• A metal cord, the so-called wire.
• Adhesive tape and glue.
• Cardboard.
• Elastic foam or foam rubber.
• Skewers made of wood or aluminum fork.
• Golden paint.

Money crane. Master class on souvenir making

To begin with, we'll make a bowl holder. To do this, we combine six skewers, and between them place the wire in such a way that its part protrudes a few centimeters above the wooden sticks. Then attach the skewers with adhesive tape and bend some of the remaining wire from the outside at about an angle of 120 degrees. After that, thanks to the resulting design, we fix the cup. Often instead of skewers a fork is used, the teeth of which are bent forward and attached to the saucer, and the bent end of the handle is glued to the inside of the bowl. Then comes the turn of the can with golden paint, which we paint details, imitating a money crane of gold.

Before you start painting, you need to treat the product with alcohol, which will remove the fat. It is recommended to paint on the street or on the balcony. If the procedure is carried out in a room, it is worth remembering that with this process, a darkish dust is released, which covers all the surfaces that are nearby. It is necessary to apply at least three layers. To dry each of this layer takes about a quarter of an hour or more. Selecting the coloring material, you need to consider that in the end it will have a darker color than the sample shows you.

Then we construct a pedestal. Classic is a saucer, corresponding to the bowl. But in fact, you can make a polygonal pedestal with as many corners as you like. From the outside, this pedestal can be edged with coffee beans or coins. After that the rack of the product is wrapped in bills, so we get, so to speak, the rod of the money jet of the crane. Then attach this rod to the pedestal. It is important that the money crane produces the effect that money is being spilled from it. Glue along the entire core of the bill, swirling into a bag. This is the final stage of the work, and now we can say that the manufacturing of the crane is completed.

Coins and banknotes

In addition, the saucer can be decorated with coins. For these purposes, the usual penny, which for you no longer represent value. Also, some people use coins and tokens made of decorative materials when working on a money crane. As for the notes, both "fake" tickets and real money can be used.