Making crafts with your own hands is a unique thing. Good things come from foil. The material is inexpensive and easy to process.
You can use both rolled and wrapping foil. Products made from this material are interesting and retain their original appearance for a long time.
Foil decoration
In childhood, many made rings, small brooches from shiny material that remained in candy wrappers. And then bragged to friends. DIY foil craft has become a popular hobby.
Rolled foil balls are used to create three-dimensional paper craft. They can be used to glue over a box for storing small items. Such a craft can be presented for a birthday or holiday.
The lamb drawing will look original if shiny balls are placed on the body.
Foil snowflakes
Before the New Year holidays, preparations are going on everywhere: gif.webpts are bought, decorations are hung in apartments and houses. Snowflakes are often cut out of paper. But they can be made from foil. The manufacturing process is simple, even children can handle it.
Algorithm of actions:
- Prepare pieces of square foil;
- Bend the sheet in the same way as when creating a snowflake from paper;
- Use scissors to cut out different shapes from a folded figure;
- Further, the leaf unfolds, it turns out a snowflake.
The second way to create snowflakes
Aluminum foil toys will look good on the tree.
This requires:
- Metal baking sheet;
- Fine brush and scissors;
- Glue.
Progress:
- Draw a snowflake on a white sheet of paper.
- Then from the material, cut into narrow strips the length of a baking sheet.
- Be careful as the edges are very sharp.
- The cut plates should be applied to the lines in the figure.
- Quilling is needed here when the foil needs to be wound on a round surface of the required width.
- For example, strips are wound on a brush, and then glued together according to the pattern.
- It turns out a snowflake.
Foil weaving
Since the material is malleable in work, you can weave crafts from colored foil from it. A beautiful basket is made quickly and easily.
No special tools are needed, you just need to prepare:
- Foil;
- Cutting scissors;
- A couple of beads.
Work order:
- The soft foil is cut into rectangles four centimeters wide. Each strip must be crumpled to length.
- You should get neat, even workpieces.
- Then two rounded strips are connected together in the middle, you get a cross.
- The third piece braids the two taken in the middle in a circle. The long end comes out.
- In this way, the capacity of the basket is woven. When it reaches the desired height, three additional foil twigs are woven into the craft.
- After fixing three twigs, a pigtail is woven from them. This will be the handle for the basket. Throw its end to the opposite side. Then fix the ends.
Foil paintings
Who knows how to make a foil craft in the form of chasing understands that this process takes a long time. For such work, a dense foil is selected, then the picture will turn out to be clear and beautiful.
The process itself is not complicated:
- First, a sketch of the future painting is drawn on cardboard, and then on foil;
- Twist a paper napkin into a bundle, with which you need to circle the outline of the picture on the cardboard. It is better to glue it to paper with glue so that the contours are exactly repeated;
- The foil is placed on top of the cardboard, then the convex parts of the picture are carefully punched;
- Excess foil is folded around the edges, the picture can be placed in a frame.
In the photo you can see a lot of foil crafts made precisely by the minting method.
Floral foil products
A large number of crafts made from this material are flowers. They turn out to be wonderful. Floral arrangements always remain in trend, the fashion for them does not pass.
Foil flower craft is performed according to the following plan:
- The material is cut into strips three centimeters wide and twisted with bundles;
- Several twigs will be stamens, they should be cut into pieces and twisted into balls from one edge;
- Bend one tourniquet slightly to fix the middle of the sheet;
- Then, on each side, four blanks are fixed on the base;
- Of these bundles, by connection, a petal is created, five are enough;
- Having collected the stamens in a bunch, arrange the petals around, fix them with wire, wrapping them around.
Children's crafts
Children also enjoy working with foil. The simplest foil crafts for children do not require the use of glue. For example, creating a snail figurine. Even toddlers can handle this kind of work.
- You should also prepare a lid from a drinking plastic bottle and a piece of soft wire.
- The lid must be wrapped in foil so that its edges hang down. This will be the shell of the snail.
- The horns are twisted from wire. A piece of foil five centimeters long is bent so that the shape of a narrow tube is formed.
- It connects to the lid by wrapping the entire structure with foil.
- The final step will be to attach the wire horns.
Craft mushroom
- A large button is taken as the basis for the hat.
- Even half of the plastic part of the kinder surprise will do.
- The foil is taken larger in size to wrap the cap and remain for the leg.
- From below, the base is made wider to be more stable.
- For more similarity with a real mushroom, you need to rinse the cap a little from above.
DIY tent and dishes
Hikers may be interested in a foil tent. If you have to spend the night in nature, then you should stock up on more than one roll of foil.
- For the frame, 4 sticks are suitable, which are tied from above into a bundle. The design is like a tripod.
- It is wrapped with foil on three sides, and the fourth is left to enter inside.
- No bowler hat is not a problem. A form of a pot with a handle is created from foil, in which you can melt snow, heat water over a fire.
- Foil helps to keep warm in cold weather, as it reflects light and heat well.
Foil crafts of different quality are simple. They do not require large expenditures to create them. And aesthetically very beautiful and original.
Photo of foil crafts
