Polyfoam balls can be bought at many craft shops or made by hand at home. It is a wonderful material for children and adult creativity. What kind of crafts can be made on the basis of ball-shaped blanks of foam plastic?
We produce billets at home
All master classes for crafts made of foam balls begin the same way: take the right amount of balls. But where can I find them? The easiest way is to purchase ready-made blanks in handicraft goods stores. But if you want, it's easy to cut the balls yourself out of a suitable piece of foam. For this we will produce a special device. Take the tube: a cardboard tube from a linoleum or a tin cylinder, cut from a package from some liquid / spray, will do. On the one hand it is necessary to cut half by two lengths from the desired diameter of the ball. Inward glue sandpaper-zero, on both sides of the tube. We take a piece of foam and cut out the cylinder with the help of the resulting device. Then turn the resulting workpiece and give it a spherical shape. The final stage is to roll the ball along the cut side of the cylinder-tool in all directions. As you can see, a foam balloon with your own hands is quite easy to make. Once the grinding is complete, you can start making crafts.
Christmas tree toys
The simplest piece of artwork from a foam piece is a Christmas ball on a Christmas tree. It is more convenient to first make a fastener for the rope, and then go on to decorating. Polyfoam Christmas balls can be decorated with various materials in a variety of techniques. Try to draw ornaments, patterns and whole pictures inks. One of the simplest variants of the decor is to coat the entire workpiece with glue and dip into a scatter of sparkles. The balloons, covered with cloth, embroidered with braid and fringed, decorated with beads and ribbons, look original and in a special cozy way. Try adding bright sequins and rhinestones. You can use for the decoration of toys and very unusual materials - colorful beads, pieces of mosaic. Children are encouraged to glue foam balls in cereal, figured pasta, and the finished toy can be painted on top with paint from a can.
Topiary - magic trees
Literally a few years ago in our country the fashion for "trees of happiness" began. Most often such handicrafts are called topiary. There is an ornamental tree from the "crown" - most often this is the right ball, adorned in some special way, a curved beautiful leg and a pot, in which the design is installed. In handicraft shops, they often sell blanks for such handicrafts. Think of a theme and style for your topiary. Decorate the ball with ribbons, artificial flowers, sweets, coffee beans or some other interesting materials. Next, you only need to decorate the wire for the trunk and fix the whole structure in the pot. Topiary are considered not only stylish elements of the interior, but also original amulets. Such crafts can be given to friends and relatives with the best wishes.
Decorative balls - not only in the new year
If you do not like ornamental trees or you do not know where they can be placed, try using polystyrene blanks in the interior differently. Decorate the foam balls for topiary, but do not fix them on the trunk. Instead, hang the workpieces in the room, fold them in a decorative vase or make a garland of them. Such decorations can be changed on seasons - for example, to do in the spring and summer of the flower balls, and in the autumn make up compositions of berries, nuts and colorful leaves. If you have smoothly polished blanks - they can simply paint, draw on them faces with different facial expressions, images of fairy-tale characters or muzzles of funny animals. This idea is especially good for decorating an apartment for a holiday. Polyfoam is an inexpensive material, and you can make balls for all the holidays and parties.
Snowman made of foam balls - original hand-made by the New Year
Of two or three balls, differing in diameter, you can make an original winter figure. Select the blanks for the snowman on each other. For a better bonding, cut off each figure from one side. Connect the elements using a universal adhesive. Check the figure for stability, if necessary - cut off the base a little more. Attention: for the work with polystyrene the usual clerical knife perfectly fits. When the glue dries, you can go to the most interesting part - the decor. Sew or tie a cap or cap, you can make a scarf. From the scraps from the balls you can cut two hands - rectangular parts, for them, you can also make mittens. Do not forget to draw a face, you can glue or paint the buttons on the body. A snowman made of foam balls can hold a broom, a gift or a small pouch.
Styrofoam dolls
The spherical shape is convenient for tightening with cloth, painting and other decor. Many masters use foam balls to make collectible and playful dolls. Such a preparation can be attached to a rag softly stuffed body. Perfectly suitable foam balls for making dolls-gloves, put on hand when playing in the theater. To make such toys, wrap the ball with a cloth. Embroider or draw a face, sew a hair and a hat. Separately build a body of a suitable type. In this technique, you can make a variety of characters - boys and girls, representatives of some professions and even fairy-tale heroes. Based on the foam balls, you can also make animals - drawing the appropriate muzzles, gluing ears, horns, filaments and other characteristic elements.
What else can be made of foam balls?
Due to its availability and low cost, polystyrene is an excellent basis for children's creativity. Experiment with this material can be infinite. Try to make the figures of the Smeshariki or the caterpillar. Collecting several blanks together, you can get different animals and fairy-tale characters. Small foam balls can be used to make jewelry. Try to tighten them with a cloth or shake with paints. Finished elements can simply be threaded or sewed together. If you have very many very small balls, you can use them as a filler for pillows and anti-stress toys. Crafts of foam balls can be done every time different, training your imagination and mastering all the new techniques of needlework.