“And the snowdrops bloomed...” Master class with step-by-step photos
DIY holiday gifts. Snowdrops made of corrugated paper
The master class will be useful for children of middle and high school age, educators, and teachers.
Target: learn to create crafts with your own hands.
Tasks:
- development of fine motor skills of the hands;
- learn to work with corrugated paper and glue;
- cultivate aesthetic taste and accuracy in work.
Snowdrop is the very first spring flower. So tender and fragile and at the same time so strong and strong, it breaks right through the snow. Such a miracle of nature could not help but attract the gaze of poets.
N. Zhelezkova
On a forest thaw
A small flower grew,
Tender and fluffy,
White-silver.
We didn’t pick the flower,
We took a photo of him,
And now it's framed
On mommy's table.
1. Snowdrops in a basket.
2. Materials and tools.
We will need:
- corrugated paper – white, green;
- wire (you can have two or three wires);
- semolina, colored yellow;
- glue stick, PVA;
- cotton wool;
- scissors;
- pliers;
- gouache, yellow watercolor paint.
Progress
Designed for 1 flower.
3. Using pliers, cut the wire into 12cm pieces. If you have a wire (two or three-wire wire), remove only the general protective winding. (You can take sections from 10 to 13 cm so that the flowers are of different heights.)
4. Dip the end of the wire about 1 cm into PVA glue and wrap it with cotton wool. Now apply PVA glue to the tip of the resulting roller and immediately lower it into the colored semolina.
5. Cut white corrugated paper into pieces for the petals.
a) 5cm (height) x 12 (length) cm – 2 segments, outer petals;
b) 3.5 (height) cm. x 4cm(length). – 1 segment, inner petal.
We glue the 5 cm x 12 cm pieces together with glue - a pencil, so that the petals hold their shape well. Carefully but quickly apply glue to the first section along the corrugation, place the second on top and carefully press without stretching. If the paper is professional crepe paper, then there is no need to glue it.
6. We arbitrarily cut the edge of a 3.5cm x 4cm segment with a wave and tint it with yellow paint. Then we stretch the middle.
7. For leaves, cut green paper into 5 pieces measuring 7 cm (height) x 2.5 cm (length)
! We cut the height of the segment along the corrugation to stretch the paper.
Similarly to the segments for the petals, we glue together 2 segments of green paper.
We fold the white paper like an accordion into 3 layers. Cut out the petals in the shape of a drop.
8. Petal diagram.
9. And we put the green pieces (all) in a stack and in half lengthwise. We cut the sheet into a semi-oval - from one fold corner to the other.
10. These are blanks for a flower.
11. Glue the inner petal to the wire around the cotton wool. We use glue - a pencil.
12. Now the petals, one by one. The second and third petals are from the middle of the previous one.
13. Here all the petals are glued.
14. Cut the green corrugated paper into a strip, the width of which is == 5 mm, the length is 2.5 times greater. Then cut off the excess. Starting from the petals, we paste this strip over the wire, gluing the leaves one by one.
15. Our snowdrop is ready.
16. Flowers can be placed in a vase. Or you can add it to your cart like mine. To do this, cut out a circle from foam plastic with a diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of the basket. Instead of foam plastic, you can use ceiling tiles. We cut out circles of the required diameter, then glue them together. Cover the resulting blank with green corrugated paper. Dip the tip of the flower stem in Titan glue (or similar) and stick it into the foam blank.
Primroses are modest flowers that fight the snow at the very beginning of spring, sprouting in forest thawed areas and in parks. They seem so defenseless that you want to take them home and warm them up. But, of course, you shouldn’t pick delicate snowdrops; melted snow and damp earth are their natural habitat. If you really want to see a beautiful bouquet on your table, make it yourself from corrugated paper. The flowers will turn out to be as delicate and touching as real ones. In addition, it will be very interesting to make such a craft with your own hands, especially for children. If the question is what to give your mother or grandmother on March 8, then homemade snowdrops are just the thing.
To make unique artificial primroses, prepare:
Corrugated paper of cream or white, green colors - 2 rolls;
- the wire is quite rigid, but one that can be bent to create stems with drooping heads;
- white thread or elastic band;
- beads or cotton wool;
- glue for paper;
- scissors.
How to make snowdrops from corrugated paper with your own hands
Delicate flowers peek out from under the snow, which barely had time to sprout. Their heads are modestly lowered down. To make each stem, take a piece of wire and bend it randomly into a half-arc. Cream-colored corrugated paper will make beautiful buds, green paper will make leaves, and you also need to cover the stem from beginning to end with greenery, the wire must be hidden.
Cut several strips of cream paper and divide into rectangular pieces. The length of the segments should be approximately 3 cm and the width – 1 cm. Snowdrop petals will be made from these segments. It is necessary to expect that each bud will consist of 5 petals. Gather all the pieces together.
Cut out all the petals at once. They should be oval and oblong. Usually they cut the paper lengthwise, creating similar details, so that later it will be possible to stretch the petals or leaves. Then they take on a more malleable and believable form.
Additionally, cut out squares of paper of the same color for the centers. Prepare beads or cotton wool. Place beads inside each square, one at a time.
Gather the ends of the paper, leaving a bead inside, as if in a bag. Before doing this, insert the end of the wire into the hole, then wind the threads on top to fix the middle.
Attach 5 petals to each flower on top, creating delicate buds. Also wrap the parts with thread or use rubber bands.
Cut a long green strip of paper. Lubricate the end with glue. Wind it around the wire, forming a thin stem. Apply glue to the opposite side as well.
Tulips, snowdrops and crocuses made of corrugated paper. Bouquet of sweets. Master class
Candy bouquets are the perfect gift for any age. And it turns out that they are not at all difficult to make with your own hands. We have prepared a simple and understandable master class on making flowers from candies and colored paper, from which you can then put together a bouquet, an interesting composition, or decorate a box of birthday chocolates by March 8 or by September 1st.
To work you will need:
- Box of chocolates (or cookies)
- Chocolate candies 5 pieces “Hazelnuts in chocolate” or “Almonds in chocolate” (you can use other candies of the same diameter - to your taste)
- Floral crepe paper in 3 colors: white, light green and green
- Light green tape (to match the green crepe paper)
- Floral wire (you can use any wire you find, but preferably not very thin)
- Thread or tape
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Hot glue gun (it can also be replaced with thin tape)
Cut strips of crepe paper as follows:
For 5 flowers we will need 5 strips of white paper 2 cm wide and 50 cm long (the length of a roll of crepe), 5 rectangles of light green crepe paper 5 cm long and 4 cm high and 2 strips of green crepe paper 1.5-2 cm wide and also 50 cm long. If you want to change the number of flowers, then cut a larger or smaller number of pieces in proportion to the number of flowers.
We glue the candies onto the wire using a glue gun as follows: drop a drop of glue onto the tip of the candy wrapper and, before it cools down, dip the tip of the wire into the glue and wrap the edges of the candy wrapper around the wire.
This can be done using tape - just wrap the edge of the wrapper around the wire and wrap it with tape.
ATTENTION! We do not pierce the candy with wire!
Next we prepare the inside of the flower. We take a rectangle of light green crepe paper and use our thumbs and forefingers to make a wavy edge along its entire length and repeat this with all five rectangles.
After that, we pull out each rectangle with our thumbs from the center to the edges to create a recess for the candy.
Now we will make the top leaves of our flowers.
To do this, take white strips of paper and divide each into 3 equal lengths, the size of each will be 2 cm in width and about 16.5 cm in length (50 cm divided by 3) - these will be 3 petals of our snowdrop.
Next, we bend each piece of paper along the floors in order to determine its middle and, at the bend, wrap half of the strip along its axis 360 degrees. And we do this with each segment (in our case, 15 pieces).
Then we fold the twisted strip along the floors and with our thumbs we again bend the middle of the petal from the center to the edge, giving the petal a convex shape.
Let's start assembling our snowdrop. First, we wrap the light green center around the candy with wires and fix its (middle) tip with threads or tape, then we collect the white petals around the light green center, slightly overlapping them with each other clockwise or in the opposite direction - as is convenient for you.
We fix the petals with thread or tape around the flower.
In order for the transition from flower to stem to be smooth, we cut the tips of the petals at 45 degrees (approximately) to the stem.
When all the flowers of our composition are ready, we bend the wire a little, figuring out how the decoration will be placed on the box of chocolates - you can show your imagination and arrange the resulting flowers in any shape.
Let's start making leaves for decoration.
We take the last 2 pieces of green crepe paper and divide each into 4 parts, in total you will get 8 leaves (the number can be changed at your discretion). And from each segment we cut out a leaf.
After all the leaves are ready, we bend each of them, running our thumb along the back side.
Let's start wrapping the flower stem with tape. The tape is sticky enough, so you don’t need to glue its tip, just wrap it twice around the base of the flower.
Having wrapped the wire with tape at a distance of about 4-5 cm from the base of the flower, we insert the leaf, having first dropped a drop of glue from a thermal gun onto its tip for better fixation on the wire (but you can do without glue if you wrap the leaf deeper at the base of the stem tape). After all the flowers are wrapped with tape, we collect them into a single composition by tying a bouquet with tape and cutting or hiding the ends of the wire stems. And now, the decoration is ready! A bouquet of flowers can be decorated with beads.
The resulting composition can be attached to a box of chocolates using a thermal glue gun, dropping a small drop in several places on the stem or using double-sided tape (but you need to be careful with the composition, because it will not stick as well as in the case of thermal -glue).
The skills presented in this master class can be used to make other bouquets. For example, make a bouquet of snowdrops in a basket
Or make a bouquet of tulips
Or a bouquet of crocuses
Snowdrops made of corrugated paper- a master class on making beautiful and familiar snowdrops to decorate your home or put together a beautiful bouquet.
Materials and tools:
- white and green (olive) corrugated paper;
- scissors;
- PVA glue;
- wire (preferably special for floristry);
- cotton wool;
- watercolor paints;
- semolina.
Step 1
We cut out rectangles from corrugated paper: from white 3 x 4.5 cm, from green 5 x 4.5 cm. Fold in 3 layers.
Then we cut out leaves from the green one, and petals from the white one - the dimensions in the photo.
Step 2
We make a stem: we bite off a 12 cm piece of wire, cut a strip 3-5 mm wide from green corrugated paper; Using PVA glue, wrap the wire with a strip of paper.
Now let's make the core of the bud. Dip one end of the wire into PVA glue and wrap a little cotton wool.
Take semolina and paint it with yellow watercolor paint, mix it with regular (white) semolina.
Apply glue to the tip of the cotton wool and dip it into colored semolina.
Step 3
Cut out the inner petals. Take a sheet of white paper and cut out a strip 25 mm wide, making one edge with waxy cloves.
Paint the side with the teeth with paint (see photo). Wrap the strip around the cotton wool core.
We give a convex shape to the outer petals and glue them on top of the inner petals.
Step 4
We cut off a strip of green corrugated paper and wrap it around the bottom of the bud and then the entire stem, using PVA glue to fix it.
Cut out a rectangle of green paper 50 x 25 mm. Roll it up and twist one end tightly, then cut it off. The result is the top leaf, which we glue to the stem.
Finally, glue two more leaves below.
So, to make paper snowdrops we will need:
- white corrugated paper for creating petals;
- green corrugated paper for creating petals and processing the stem;
- wire;
- heat gun with glue stick;
- scissors.
Paper snowdrops: Step 1
We begin work by creating a snowdrop stem. Let's prepare a piece of wire, the length of which is approximately 10 cm. We also cut off a strip of green corrugated paper.
We stretch the tip of the corrugated strip until the folds disappear.
The stem is ready, let's move on to creating a bud!
Paper snowdrops: Step 2
Cut a green strip 7-10 cm long.
We form folds on one side of the strip, stretching the paper.
Then we fold the workpiece like an accordion, apply glue on top and attach it to the tip of the wire.
Paper snowdrops: Step 3
We give them a three-dimensional shape by stretching out their middle.
Paper snowdrops: Step 4
We begin to glue the white petals to the base. We place the parts just above the inner petals.
Paper snowdrops: Step 5
Using a green piece of corrugated paper, we wrap the receptacle of the flower.
Paper snowdrops: Step 6
Then we cut out a miniature leaf, which should be in the upper part of the stem, next to the receptacle. When we glue the top leaf, bend the peduncle.
Give the stem a realistic bending shape.
Paper snowdrops: Step 7
We also cut out the main leaves, which should be at the bottom of the stem, from green corrugated paper. The shape of the leaves is quite ordinary without curls or denticles.
Before connecting the leaves to the stem, stretch their middle a little and roll the ends with your fingers.
That's all, the wonderful early flower is ready!
If you make more snowdrop branches, you can put them together into a beautiful bouquet. You can place it in a small wicker basket or in a sisal bag of a neutral shade. They can also be used as interior decoration. To do this, paper snowdrops do not have to be packaged or placed in a basket. You can simply place them in a miniature transparent vase. For a more decorative and complete look, add small colored pebbles or beads to the vase.