Very soon New Year, so I suggest you make Christmas tree toys with your own hands. In this lesson on foamiran, we will make several toys at once: Santa Claus and the symbol of the coming year.

DIY Christmas toy - Santa Claus from foamiran

In that step by step master class we will make a toy of Santa Claus from foamiran.

To create a New Year's toy from foamiran, you will need:

• white terry foamiran;
• glitter blue and red foamiran;
• red Iranian 2 mm;
• second glue;
• black foamiran 1 mm or ready-made eyes.

Pattern for Santa Claus Christmas toy from foamiran

Using this pattern, we cut out blanks from foamiran for making a toy.

Cut out the main blanks for the toy from white terry foamiran.

Christmas tree toy from foamiran: symbol of the year Yellow Dog, step-by-step master class

This is such a toy, a symbol of the New Year, that should turn out in a master class.

To create a doggie from foamiran you will need:

• yellow terry foamiran;
• synthetic winterizer;
• black acrylic paint;
• beaded wire;
• second glue;
• brown dry pastel.

I found the pattern of this dog on the Internet and I really liked it.

Using this pattern, we will make a yellow dog from foamiran.

We cut out blanks of dogs from yellow terry foamiran, it is unforgettable that one pattern needs to be turned over.

We lightly process the patterns of the dog on an iron at a silk-wool temperature. Applying the pattern to the wrong side.

We begin to glue the dog with small parts and fill the small parts with padding polyester.

Advanced needlewomen have long been familiar with such material as foamiran. With the proper skill, these plastic sheets can be used to make unique and extremely beautiful things: bouquets for brides, children's toys, New Year's decorations. Despite the convenience of using foamiran, very few people are familiar with it. We propose to figure out what kind of material it is, how to work with it and what can be done from it.

Foamiran: what is it?

Foamiran, also called foam or revelor, is soft foam rubber in the form of sheets, which is easily processed when exposed to even low temperatures. Therefore, the material can be easily handled. Foam producers are most often Chinese or Iranian breeders.

Revelor has many processing properties:

Porous rubber comes in several varieties. The choice of this or that type of material should be determined by the type of craft or composition that you want to get. For example, for making flowers and bouquets use glitter foam or thin silk from Iranian manufacturers. It is airy, soft and pliable.

Chinese rubber sheets are stiffer and not suitable for making colors. This type of revelor is useful for needlewomen who are fond of scrapbooking. The Katai foamiran can be of different thickness, has characteristic smell rubber.

How to work with material

To learn how to work with foamiran, you can take special courses or attend a master class. On the Internet, you can also find many options: training videos, online courses, master classes with step by step photos... Creating crafts and compositions from foamiran is a fascinating activity that will appeal to creative people. To work you will need:

• foamiran sheets;
• scissors;
• patterns and patterns;
• hole punch (for cutting out small parts);
• iron;
• glue gun.

Depending on the chosen craft, decorative elements, blanks for creating bouquets may be useful to you.

What can be done from foamiran

From foam, you can make anything that you have enough imagination for. The most popular crafts are flowers. In this regard, a popular direction of creativity from foam is wedding decoration similar colors and decorations. These are: bridal bouquet, candle decor, decorations on festive table, arch for newlyweds.

Scrapbooking masters often do not bypass foamiran. From it, you can cut figures with a punch, give them a shape. The most professional option is, of course, flowers. Scrapbookers use them to decorate album covers, decor for photo frames, and decorate postcards.

Experienced craftswomen make from revelor hair ornaments, wall panels, headbands and hairpins, bracelets and earrings, children's toys, Christmas tree decorations, etc. Let's take a closer look at how you can make flowers, a doll and Christmas decorations from a foam.

Flowers

Flowers are the most simple craft for beginners. Let's consider an algorithm of actions for performing a bouquet of roses. For this you will need floral wire, foil, iron... Beads and ribbons can be useful for decoration. So:

Doll

To make a doll, you will need foamiran black, flesh and red... A printed revelor and 3 foam balls with a diameter of 40, 50 and 75 mm will also come in handy. So:

New Year decoration

In making New Year's decorations from foam, the following technique is often used: take a wreath of spruce and decorate it with flowers from foam. How to make flowers out of revelor with your own hands is described above. They can be used to make not only a bouquet, but also a similar New Year's decoration. Together with flowers you can make fir cones... The technique of their implementation is practically no different from the technique of performing flowers.

In addition to the New Year's decoration, the Christmas tree itself can be made from the revelor. Let it be small, but handmade. The sequence of work is as follows:

• foamiran leaf Green colour cut into strips about 2 cm thick;
• make cuts along each strip so that you get a fringe;
• heat the strips with an iron and bend the fringe to one side;
• make a cone out of cardboard and fasten it with a stapler;
• glue the strips onto the cone in a circle. You should get a Christmas tree;
• decorate the tree with colorful beads and ribbons as desired.

As you can see, making a craft or composition from foamiran is not difficult at all. This exciting creative activity for children and adults can give you various decorations and a pleasant pastime for a reasonable price.

What can be made from foamiran

Christmas decoration from foamiran: candlestick (master class with photo)

In this master class, I will show and tell you how you can make a wonderful candlestick from a wine glass. Such a candlestick can be presented for the New Year to your loved ones and friends, or you can decorate your festive table.

To make a candlestick, I needed the following materials:

• foamiran brown, green, blue;
• scissors
• sequins of different colors;
• unnecessary disk;
• wineglass;
• acrylic lacquer;
• symbol of the year;
• button;
• candle;
• brush;
• glue moment;
• office paper.

Here are the basic materials we'll need.

We put the glass on office paper, so it will be easier for us to shake off the glitter and reapply it on the glass. Covering the glass acrylic varnish making uneven strokes with a bone. And sprinkle with dark blue sparkles. Shake off the excess. Sprinkle the glitter unevenly again.

Then sprinkle with sparkles of a different shade.

While the glass itself dries up, we also process the stem of the glass. At the beginning, we apply varnish, sprinkle with sparkles in one color, shake off the excess. Then sprinkle with the second color.

While the glass dries up, take the disc and the blue foamiran, cut out 2 circles, one to the size of the disc to glue the disc with back side... The second is slightly larger than the 3.5 cm hole on the disk to seal the hole.

Gently apply the glue a moment to the foamiran, spread it all over the circle, let it dry a little and press it well.

We glue the small circle onto the hole in the disk with glue for the moment, as well as the large circle.

Then we glue the symbol of the year on it.

Then we varnish the entire glass in some places and sprinkle with white sparkles.

We take the button and glue it on top of the leg in a dimple. But if the button is large, like I cut it off a little or bite it off with nippers. A button so that the candle that we will place on the glass holds tightly.

This is how I glued it into the dimple on the glass.

Then we glue the glass itself. But so that everything would be like New Year's, we will make pine branches from foamiran and glue it to a disk around the glass. Here we have such a wonderful New Year's.

Christmas decoration from foamiran: pine branch with a cone (master class with photo)

We continue to make New Year's. If you are preparing gifts for children, then this version of a New Year's pine branch made of foamiran with a cone, inside which a surprise is hidden, might suit you. The idea of ​​creating such a gift and patterns were developed by the foamiran master Elena Semanova.

Here is such a pine twig with a cone, a surprise, I propose to make today at the master class.

Required materials for the twig:

• green and brown foamiran;
• white oil pastel;
• iron;
• second glue;
• brown teip tape;
• scissors;
• wire 1.2mm:
• acrylic lacquer.
• cone blanks (plastic egg).

The workpiece must open. Egg size 10 cm. * 5 cm.

Pine twig pattern from foamiran and cones with a surprise

Step-by-step master class on making a pine branch from foamiran

According to cut out two petal circles from brown foamiran with a diameter of 8 and 7 cm.

Cut out the strips to form the bump. The first strip is 2.5 cm wide and 19.5 cm long and we cut out 13 scales on it, each 1.5 cm wide. The second strip is 3 cm * 80 cm wide and cut out 40 scales on it. The width of each scale is 2 cm. The third strip is 3.5 cm wide. * 100 cm It also has 40 scales 2.5 cm wide.

Take white oil pastels and tint the edges of the petal circles.

We also apply tinting to the edges of the cut strips. We shade the tinting well.

Then we process the petal circles on the iron, heating the silk-wool at a temperature so that the scales rise slightly.

We also process the strips on the iron, apply them in small parts to the iron.

We take lower part blanks and fasten the stem of the cone. If you have a workpiece, like mine, then we take the wire, make a loop at the end and insert the workpiece. From the inside we glue it with foamiran and thicken the stem with paper to save the tape.

Let's start forming the cone from the top of the cone. We take a strip with small scales and cut off 6 pieces, each scale separately. And we begin to glue to the top of the workpiece, closing it.

Stepping back a little, we begin to glue a small strip, glue the scales in a checkerboard pattern, tighten the strip if necessary.

Stepping back a little, glue the next strip. We glue the scales with an overlap and in a checkerboard pattern. We cut off the excess.

This is how we glue the rest of the scales.

This is how we pasted over upper part blanks.

We put on the lower part of the workpiece and just above the edge we glue the scales and also overlap. Tightening the strip a little.

We glue the subsequent scales, already making a little fold, since the workpiece has begun to round out. We glue the flakes overlapping.

We take the petal circles, thread them through the stem and glue them to the base. Also by staggering the scales.

We also glue the second petal circle.

We open the cone and cover each blank separately with acrylic varnish so that our cone does not stick together. Let it dry well.

We take a strip of green foamiran 5 cm wide. The length depends on which branch you will make. I took 2 strips 5 * 70 cm.

Cut the fringe 1-1.5 mm wide.

We take wire and tape. We make a loop at the end of the wire and process it with tape.

We put on the slanting cut fringe and glue it and begin to twist the fringe around the wire, gluing it from time to time.

I processed 15 cm of wire with a fringe and secured a twig with a cone, wrapped the tape with tape.

So I made three branches and fastened them together with a tape with a tape at the place where the cone joins.

The stem was treated with brown tape and tinted with green oil pastels. Here's a twig with a cone we got. You can put any gift in the cone and give it for the new year. You can decorate the twig with snow or flock powder, as if sprinkling it with snow.

Christmas decoration from foamiran: snowflake (master class with photo)

Christmas snowflake from foamiran, photo

If you want to make a snowflake from foamiran, then you will need:

• foamiran white;
• blue or light blue dry pastels, as well as wet wipes and cotton swabs;
• sequins and stick;
• iron;
• second glue;
• scissors;
• acrylic glossy varnish and a brush;

Step-by-step MK: How to make a snowflake from foamiran?

According to the pattern, we cut out blanks from white foamiran.

We cut holes on the workpiece making the workpiece more beautiful.

We take blue dry pastels and wet wipe and toning the butt end of the workpiece slightly going over the edge of the workpiece.

We take six petals and tint the holes on the workpiece with blue dry pastel, using cotton swabs for this.

We process all the workpieces on an iron, heating them with an iron at a wool-silk temperature. And we wrap six blanks in a small bag.

We heat the rest of the workpieces on an iron and leave to leave.

We take half-beads and decorate the blanks a little, which were formed in a small bag.

I decorated like this. You can according to your taste.

Then we glue the bags at the bottom.

And glue 6 blanks together, in the middle.

Then we glue the rest of the blanks from below, glue in a circle, not much overlap each other, and begin to glue the second row between the blanks of the first row.

Glue the bead in the middle. You can take a piece of white foamiran, cut out a circle with a diameter of 3 cm with zigzag scissors and tint the edges with blue dry pastel, iron it and glue it to the center under the bead.

We process the snowflake with acrylic varnish where we want to decorate with sparkles. Drops of glue can be used instead of acrylic.

Now our foamiran snowflake is ready. The snowflake can be glued to an elastic band or hairpin.

Also try to make your own hands the symbol of 2018 -

Foamiran - comparatively new material for creativity. It is flexible, easy to model, unpretentious in maintenance and much more practical than products made of fragile polymer clay... The material is so easy to use that even preschoolers can be involved in making foamiran crafts for the New Year.

Such creative activities bring the family closer and develop creativity in the child.

Foamiran New Year Gift Ideas

Almost any can be made from foamiran New Year's craft, but for joint creativity with children, choose simple products that do not require special skills or dangerous processes.

Attention! Do not trust babies with heating devices and do not leave them unattended for a minute. Before starting work, give a short briefing on safety measures and how to handle hot and sharp objects.

Foamiran herringbone

The herringbone is a beautiful elegant craft made of bright foamiran, which is very easy to make and can be given to friends and relatives for the New Year.

You will need:

• sheets of green Iranian foamiran of different shades;
• transparent good glue: Moment Crystal or glue gun;
• cardboard;
• ruler;
• compass;
• large and nail scissors;
• decor.

Progress:

1. Using a ruler and a compass, draw a cone pattern for the future Christmas tree on cardboard. Cut it out and glue it.
2. Cut out long, narrow strips of foamiran. It will be more beautiful if they are all green, but in different shades.
3. Cut fringes of equal thickness into strips. Use manicure lines.
4. Heat the strips with a hot iron through cheesecloth or paper. Under the influence of high temperature, the “needles” will bend beautifully.
5. Glue the cone with blanks, placing them in a spiral from bottom to top. At the base, wrap darker ribbons, at the top - light ones. It is not at all necessary to make a smooth transition: the main thing is that the tree looks harmonious.
6. Decorate the tree with tiny beaded Christmas tree balls, bows and rain. Mask the seam at the top with a large bead or Christmas star.
7. Glue a cardboard circle of a suitable diameter to the base of the tree for stability. On it you can write wishes for the New Year, indicate the name of the addressee and the date.

Pine branch patterns with cones

Would you be interested in making such a craft with your child?

YesNot

To make a realistic Christmas tree Christmas craft in the form of cones and a pine twig, you will need all the same tools as for a tabletop tree, you just need to buy foamiran Brown, a floral brown ribbon, a piece of thick, soft wire, and a piece of styrofoam.

Step-by-step master class on making a pine branch from foamiran

1. Slice long thin fringes into strips of green foamiran.
2. Spiral them around the wire, securing them with glue.
3. From the base of the greenery, wrap the wire tightly with floral tape. Make some of these branches.
4. From a piece of styrofoam stationery knife or with a scalpel, cut out a ball or egg shape.
5. Pine cones can be made in two ways:

1. The frost effect can be simulated by applying a little white paint with a sponge or sponge to the tips of the buds.
2. To create a beautiful new year composition Twist a few spruce twigs together and wrap them tightly with floral tape. Remove unnecessary edges with pliers.
3. Glue in a bump and add decor: beads, bows, bells, etc.