Detailed master class for making Christmas tree decorations from light bulbs
New Year is just around the corner, it's time to think about decorating the interior and a forest beauty - a Christmas tree. The best decoration is one made with your own hands. In addition, there are a lot of variations on this theme. Wondering what to take for the update? Why not make Christmas tree decorations from light bulbs? Is it funny? Why not? Now we will dispel all your doubts.
Benefits of a lamp masterpiece
The advantages of toys made from waste material are a lot:
- You give life to burned out light bulbs. And believe me, very bright and long-lasting.
- The toys you have created together with children will bring a lot of new emotions and impressions.
- If you are a great artist, making Christmas tree decorations can become not only your hobby, but also a business.
- This will significantly save your budget. Now they mainly use plastic toys. It's cheap and forever. Glassy, chic variations are very expensive. And here you kill two birds with one stone: you do not throw out the glass, and create masterpieces no worse than the factory ones.
Necessary materials
Making Christmas tree toys from light bulbs is not at all difficult. And almost any materials from home will be used. You may need:
- Actually, the bulbs themselves are used up.
- Glue ("super", PVA, from a heat gun).
- Pliers, awl, drill, protective gloves if you will be removing the lamp base and insides.
- Any scraps of fabric, lace, ribbons, braid.
- Acrylic paints of different colors.
- Scotch tape, scissors, pencil for marking and drawing.
- Threads, yarns.
- Various decor. They can be sequins, buttons, sequins, beads, rhinestones, beads and other small things.
- Perseverance and fantasy.
Christmas toys from light bulbs: master class
There are a lot of options for creating masterpieces. Let's consider some of the most interesting ones.
A scattering of gloss
Perhaps this is the easiest and fastest way to change a light bulb and Christmas tree decoration:
- Using a brush, a layer of glue is evenly applied over the entire surface of the base.
- Glue the sequins on carefully. Make sure there are no empty islands. The best option is to hold the light bulb over the container with one hand and simply sprinkle it with the other.
- A loop is made of decorative braid or cord, for which the toy will be hung.
- An unsightly base also needs to be decorated. To do this, it can be pasted over with colored tape, thereby hiding not only the metal part, but also the ends of the tape.
Work quickly so that the glue does not dry out. You can cover part of the light bulb with glue, sprinkle it with sparkles, and then tackle another area.
By the way, if you connect several of these toys together, you get a beautiful garland for decorating a Christmas tree or room.
Snowball
Remember this funny souvenir: a sphere with a winter landscape filled with snowflakes: turned it over several times, and shiny snowflakes swirled in the ball. Very nice. And you can easily make such a Christmas tree toy from a light bulb yourself (a detailed photo is presented).
The filament must be removed from the light bulb before starting work. The photo below clearly shows how to do this simple manipulation.
Next, they start filling the cavity.
- Select a suitable size mini Christmas tree and install it on a weight, for example, a piece of cork.
- Push the tree into the light bulb and place it in the desired position.
- Sparkles fall asleep.
- A piece of wire is soldered or two holes are made in the base and the tape is passed through them. That's it, the ball is ready.
Decoupage
This option for decorating light bulbs is no different from decoupage, say, a bottle or a casket.
For the convenience of work, the light bulb must be held by the base or installed on a lid of a suitable size (as an option, some kind of stand).
Decorating process:
- First, degrease the bulb with alcohol.
- After they are primed, so that it is convenient to work in the future. For this step, use an acrylic primer, which is applied with a foam sponge, since it does not leave streaks like a brush. Leave the light bulb to dry.
- The next step is to apply a layer of white acrylic paint and dry for half an hour.
- Choose a pattern that will be applied to the surface. Keep in mind that there is little room for work, so you should choose small drawings or inscriptions.
- The selected motif is cut out of a napkin, the place of gluing is determined. Having attached a fragment, apply a thin layer of glue on it from the middle to the edge and wait until everything dries well. If folds form during work, you can lightly wipe them with sandpaper.
- Paint on the background with paint and a sponge so that it captures the edge of the fragment and brightens the transition line.
- Further, if desired, decorate the light bulb, for example, by applying sparkles or a drawing.
- A glossy acrylic varnish is applied in several layers, which will prevent cracking and peeling of the painting.
- Attach a loop from the tape or simply wrap the base with thread and leave a little for hanging.
- You can decorate the base with an acrylic contour applied in the form of icicles.
That's it, your masterpiece is ready.
Openwork magic
From a skein of beautiful yarn or thread, you can create an elegant "clothing" for a light bulb. This version of a Christmas tree toy made of a light bulb with your own hands is distinguished by creativity and originality - you will have an exclusive Christmas tree toy. They use both monochromatic and multi-colored threads, or you can weave beads or beads.
Fashionable design
Now let's look at how to make a Christmas tree toy from a light bulb using sewing. Can't you? Not a problem - you need a minimum of knowledge (you know how to hold a needle - great). In addition, you will need fabric for making hats, yarn for hair and plasticine for carrots.
The fabric can be taken in any color, preferably bright and multi-colored. If you know how to handle polymer clay, you can replace plasticine with it.
So let's get started:
- Small triangles are cut from the fabric. At the same time, they are cut out so that the large side is slightly larger than the diameter of the lamp (margin for gluing or seam).
- From the base of the triangle, pull the threads about 0.5 cm, thus obtaining a fringe. After that, the cap is sewn into a cone (as an option, glued together).
- Using yarn, pom-poms are wound from them on hats as decoration. Braids are also braided, which are then glued on the sides to the inside of the cap. Additionally, the caps are decorated with berries, twigs, braid, beads and other decor.
- Attach a ribbon or thread to the tip of the cone, for which it will be convenient to hang the toy. Glue the cap itself to the light bulb so that you can still draw the face.
- Using orange plasticine, roll up a carrot nose and glue it to a light bulb. If you are using clay, be sure to paint it.
- Draw funny faces or faces for snowmen. If you wish, you can add some more decor.
The result is impressive - such a snowman is not inferior even to a factory glass toy.
Additional variations
We will mention a few more options for creating Christmas tree decorations from light bulbs with our own hands (the photo shows the simplicity of these methods):
- Fast coloring. You only need to create a background and draw a beautiful face. You can wear a bow for decoration.
- A light bulb, wrapped in paper or cloth, looks like a "bag" looks very nice.It remains only to tie a beautiful ribbon and attach an elegant decor.
- Grease with glue and glue the braid, beads, sequins, beads. If you glue the entire surface of the light bulb like this, the effect will be amazing.
- Open the base of the light bulb, remove the filament and pour beads, beads, sparkles into the cavity, or put some kind of figurine. Do not forget to decorate the plinth, attach a ribbon and decorate it with a bow.
- The easiest option, so to speak, "quickly and beautifully, is to paint the lamps with spray paint and stick the tape in the form of a bow.
As you can see, making Christmas tree toys from light bulbs is not only very simple, but also interesting and exciting. This is a great option for interior decor or a Christmas tree. It can also be a great gift option.
Give your light bulbs a new, beautiful life!