The best way to prepare for the New Year with your children is to make your own Christmas tree decorations. Making a beautiful Christmas tree star is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance, but it is very exciting. And the finished decoration will charge you with positive emotions for all the holidays.
It is necessary
A sheet of corrugated cardboard, scissors, pliers, hairspray in a spray can, a small piece of cotton cloth, a little fluffy tinsel, scotch tape, paper glue, thin wire, various sparkles and a stick, about 1 - 1.5 cm in diameter
Instructions
Step 1
First, you need to wrap the stick with the prepared wire so that you get a spiral. This will be the base of the future star, based on this, we select the height of the prepared stick in proportion to the tree.
Step 2
Now let's proceed directly to making the material we need. Draw a stencil on a piece of paper - the future star. Using a stencil, two shapes of the required size must be cut out of the prepared cardboard. Fold each ray in half so that you get clear bends. Then separate the rays from each other with the same bends. You need to fold it so that, as a result, the center of the star protrudes slightly above the rays. Now you need to fold the shapes with the corrugated sides to each other, and between the folded stars, we put cotton fabric in order to get a voluminous decoration. We glue both stars together with transparent tape.
Step 3
Then you need to grease the entire surface with clerical glue, and then sprinkle with sparkles, carefully making sure that the whole star is covered with sparkles. When the toy is dry, secure them again by carefully covering the entire surface with hairspray. Glue a strip of tinsel onto the glued edges with glue, and insert the previously twisted wire. After trying on the star to the tree, bite off the excess wire with pliers.
