Polyfoam balloon with your own hands

Lovers of creating designer masterpieces have long appreciated the potential that the foam ball provides in this direction. It can become the basis for any idea, it is easy in the work, you can easily attach any ornamental material to it, and the finished product is fixed on the conceived place simply. And it can be hung on the most fragile ledge: it weighs so little that it does not break even the straws (unless it carries heavy external elements on itself). A foam ball is very attractive as a basis for Christmas toys in families with young children: such an ornament can not break, which means that the child will not suffer exactly.

Master class: how to make a foam ball

It would seem that it is better to buy factory blanks for crafts. However, if you need a few balls, you can think about the costs: the foam balls in Moscow are not so cheap. Very small cost 5 rubles per piece, 8 cm in diameter - already 15, and 14.5 cm - as many as 50. The collection in several sizes will have to be seriously spent!

Folk craftsmen and craftsmen have developed several ways of how you can carve a ball of foam itself, taken from packing boxes or from building debris:

1. A cube of a strict geometric shape is cut by a hot wire. The corners are gradually melted by a cigarette lighter until the desired spherical state is obtained.
2. A rough workpiece is cut with a scalpel or a stationery sharp knife, which is brought to an ideal state by a skin: first rough, at the end - fine-grained.

However, both methods are laborious and often do not provide an opportunity to achieve perfection of form. The best way to make foam balls for needlework is self-recognized as follows:

1. A tube with a cross section of the correct size is sought, from which a fragment is cut, the length of which is equal to four diameters. The tube should be strong; Perfect fit pruning plumbing plastic pipes, especially since they have a large range in the size of sections.
2. On one side, the plastic is cut half the length; It turns out a kind of round spatula.
3. The cutout is densely glued by a pencil-nudge both from the outside and from the inside. The cutting tool is ready!

Now the cut of foam is cut off by a spatula in the form of a cylinder, then it turns over and is processed again. So, twisting material, you can quickly cut out a foam ball of perfect shape. Finally, the smoothness of the surface is checked, if irregularities are detected, they are eliminated by the same nulevka.

Beautiful Christmas balls

Beautiful Christmas toys from a foam ball can be made in a variety of ways. One of the most popular and uncomplicated is the filament. The end of the bright thread is fixed, and it begins to wind up in the opposite direction. Initially, this is done along one axis, as the surface of the ball closes, winding is conducted in an arbitrary ratio. This is necessary in order to avoid thickening anywhere. When the whole ball is closed, the tip of the thread is fixed, you can drop a transparent glue.

The resulting colored surface is decorated to the best of imagination. You can embroider patterns on it with shiny threads, glue appliqués, embroider sequins. To hang it is enough to stretch a thin string through the layer of thread.

Luxurious decoration in Japanese

Absolutely amazing is the decor of foam plastic balls, made in kimekomi technique. Initially, it was used in the making of dolls, we also got accustomed to decorating Christmas-tree toys. Just note: the work is thin and laborious, you will have to have patience.

1. On the ball lines are marked, equidistant from each other and intersecting at the poles.
2. The marking is cut (very carefully!) With a clerical knife a centimeter in depth.
3. Sector promazyvaetsya glue pencil, it is applied a piece of cloth, and its edges are gently planted in the slot gypsy needle. The tension should be uniform.
4. If the piece of matter is too large, the excess is cut so that the edges completely disappear into the cracks.
5. Similarly, all elements are tightened. Even after the decoration of all segments, the decoration looks luxurious, but it is not worth stopping there.
6. With a thin decorative cord, all the seams are glued, with slight indentation in them.
7. For rope, for which the ball will be suspended, you can buy a special cap: his needle easily pierce the foam. And to keep it better, it needs to be greased with glue. Do not want such an "official" - you can use a large bead, or paillette, or what you come up with yourself.

Drawings can be invented different and combine any fabrics. Particularly beautiful technique kimekomi looks when using velvet, satin and printed silk.

Tree of Happiness

Topiary in recent years has become almost an indispensable attribute of the scenery of a cozy home. And if earlier the term meant live cropped bushes and trees, now so-called artificial bonsai. It is believed that the topiary brings luck, mutual understanding and joy to the house, and if coins are hanging on it, then there is also wealth. As a crown for it is most convenient to use a foam ball; On it are glued feathers, or beads, or flowers from ribbons, or coffee beans - anything that only wagons into the head. Any trick can be put on the trunk: a stick, a cocktail tube, a pencil. And from the wire you can build a bizarrely bent barrel. The base is wrapped with ribbons, paper or threads in the color of the conceived ensemble. "Putting" topiary in any beautiful capacity: a small vase, a coffee cup, a beautiful glass. "Pot" half filled with something loose, then the trunk of a tree of happiness is attached, and the crown is last of all put on. For beauty over the filler shells, beads or jewels are scattered.

Author's costume jewelery

Very good foam balls for creating exclusive jewelry. They are painted in selected shades, decorated with rhinestones, sequins and varnish. For stringing, you can choose a wire, a transparent line or an openwork lace.

Other Creative Ideas

The scope of plastic balls is very large. Very festive look garlands made of elements of different sizes with alternation of other details. At the wedding, a large ball can become the basis for a wonderful composition of flowers. Under the New Year will very cheer up the snowmen from the balls, arranged around the apartment in the most unexpected places.