How to make one for a year with my own hands? One piece from napkins, from balls, from paper

On the first birthday of the baby I want to cook something special, so that this day will be remembered forever. A bright detail of the festive decor will be a figure in the form of number 1, made of napkins, balls or other materials. A edible unit can be served at the festive table.

How to make one for a year with your own hands from napkins

The most popular figures in the form of numbers are created from corrugated, tissue paper or ordinary colored napkins. Before making a big one, you need to prepare the necessary materials:

• Cardboard or expanded polystyrene;
• marker;
• centimeter;
• scissors;
• Thin galvanized or floristic wire;
• Paper napkins;
• Painting Scotch tape;
• A stapler;
• Glue gun.

To create the product, a large cardboard box is suitable: from it, you will get a volume unit. From a sheet of expanded polystyrene, you can cut out a flat figure and decorate it in the same technique.

Cut out the blank from the cardboard:

1. Note the height of the figure - 90 cm. The width of the bottom should be about 30 cm, the pillars - 8 cm.
2. The width of the figure in the middle is 15 cm, in the upper part - 12 cm, and the height of the "tail" - 25 cm.
3. Cut two parts with these parameters.
4. It will take another long strip of cardboard about 15 cm wide to fasten the workpieces together and get a three-dimensional figure.
5. Assemble the product with a paint tape and glue gun.

How to make flowers from paper

Now it's time to prepare a decor for one from napkins. If you use cigarette paper or corrugated paper, take 2-3 rolls. Napkins will need a few packs, depending on how voluminous you make the flowers.

1. Take the napkins and fold them several times. The more layers, the fuzzy the bud will be.
2. Cut a circle with a diameter of 2.5-3 cm. You can increase the size of the flowers, but you should focus on the width of the figure so that the workpieces can be placed in even rows, but this is not necessary.
3. Fix the circles of napkins in the center of the stapler. If instead of cardboard you use expanded polystyrene, the center of buds should be fixed not with a stapler, but with thin floristic wire. Its edges are twisted on the reverse side and serve to fix the flower on the figure.
4. If desired, trim each layer, shortening it to 2-3 mm, to make the flower smooth.
5. Start to tighten the edges of each layer of napkins to the center, one by one, moving in a circle. Should get a fluffy bud. Make the necessary number of colors, focusing on the dimensions of the carton billet.

It remains to paste the buds to the base. You can use different shades of napkins and combine them, creating different patterns. Now you know how to make one for a year with your own hands with flowers from napkins. But there are several other options for the design of such crafts.

Edinichka for the boy

Many parents are interested in how to make a little boy. Men's shades are the representatives of the blue scale. But sometimes it's better to focus on some specific topic, for example, marine. If the flowers seem too unsuitable for you, you can use one layer of paper, folded up by a tube, for a single piece of napkin. These blanks are glued to the base tightly to each other using the same technology as the flowers. When using corrugated paper, it is cut into identical strips, and then one side is stretched to give shape and volume, and folded with a tube. The edges of the strips can be made uneven using the curved scissors.

Other ways of registration odinichki

Napkins are the fastest and most economical way to decorate a festive decor in the form of a single. But there are other options for how to make one for a year with their own hands, using improvised materials. Here everything depends on your imagination. You can use even ordinary colored paper: if you cut the same circles from it and glued it, according to the scales principle, you can get an unusual decoration for the holiday or an item for a photo shoot. Another option: twist the paper strips in a spiral and decorate them with a blank, covered with white paint.

Single decoration in scrapbooking technique

As one of the ways to decorate the workpiece, you can suggest decorating with colors used for scrapbooking. To buy such an ornament in the store will be too expensive, therefore it is better to make it yourself using usual wet wipes. Only before use they must be dried.

For work you will need:

• Stencil cardboard in the form of a flower with five petals;
• scissors;
• Dried wipes;
• Glue gun;
• candle;
• Artificial stamens;
• paint.

First, on the stencil, cut out several blanks for the petals. Using stencils of different sizes, you can make flowers very similar to natural ones. Do not try to make the edges perfectly smooth - so buds will look more natural. Then dilute the paint in a small container, and, having achieved the desired color, lower the workpieces one by one into it, squeeze them and completely dry. To accelerate drying, use a hairdryer. Before assembly, scorch the edges of the petals over the candle to bend them to the center. Use the center of the flame to not burn the edges and not to spoil the flowers.

Flower assembly and decoration

When all the petals are processed, cut a hole in the center of each billet and, after collecting 2-3 billets together, place the stamens in the center and spread them apart. Make the right amount of colors. It is not necessary to stick the cardboard base completely with them. If you prime the workpiece and cover it with white paint, you can make a composition of flowers for scrapbooking in the center, and decorate the rest with the same technique, but with other objects. Use for this purpose paper with a bright print, unusual cotton fabric, wooden and metal elements, ribbons and beads.

A unit of balloons

Another popular type of decor for the holiday - decorations from balloons. A lot of agencies offer their services for making any figures from this material. But how to make one from the balls with your own hands? It's not as difficult as it seems.

Prepare the following materials:

• Pump for balls;
• scissors;
• About 100 small balloons of the right color;
• Fishing line.

The basic element for assembling a figure is called a "four" - it is a set of 4 balls of the same size. To make the balls the same, you can use a calibrator. Blow out the necessary number of balls and connect them to the "four" with a fishing line, and also fasten the parts together. For the longest part of the construction, about ten "fours" are needed, the base consists of nine, and the "nose" - of three.

Edible unit for the holiday

On the first birthday of the baby you can make and various delicacies in the form of one. There are several options for how to make a cake "Edinichku." The basis is always ordinary rectangular cakes, from which the desired shape is cut. Inside and on top of them they smear with cream. Most often for the design of sweets use mastic. It also produces various figures that are used as decorations. Another way how to make one for a year with your own hands is to bake gingerbread and paint them. To give them the desired shape can be a special device in the form of a figure or a conventional knife. Delicacy can also be decorated with different animals from mastic.