How to make a ball of paper for interior decoration

Original paper crafts are a wonderful way to decorate a house or office on holidays and weekdays. Today, I will share with readers in several ways how easy it is to make paper balls with your own hands. At once I will clarify that these instructions are quite versatile and with their help you can easily make decorative elements for interior decoration, Christmas toys and even elegant lampshades.

Of course, without drawings and diagrams explain how to make a ball of paper, it will not be easy, so I specially picked up not very complex designs.

A cute ball for decorating the room can be made from postcards, magazines, colored paper, ornamental cardboard. In order to glue the ball, we need the modules in the form of a circle. You can make them according to a template of any size. After you cut the figures, draw them in such a way that a square appears inside the circle. Then, along the marking line, bend the segments of the circle face up. To get a three-dimensional ball, it is necessary to glue together all the modules along the folded sides from the inside.

The exact number of modules is difficult to name, because it depends on the size of the finished ball. If you want to complicate the design a little, you can paste one flower from the paper into the center of each circle, taking only the core of the paper with glue. The petals can be freely bent.

The following instruction will be on how to make a ball of paper in silence. For those who do not know what it is, I will explain. Tishju is a special kind of thin paper, somewhat similar to a tracing paper. 6 balls are required to make the ball.

We start with the fact that we add all the sheets in half in the middle. Then from one end we turn all the sheets of the accordion so that the edge is no more than 2 cm in height.
Intercept the resulting "fan" in the middle of the wire and immediately fix the tape on which the finished ball will be hung. From both ends, cut the edges at an angle, so that the finished construction looked more natural. Strictly speaking, our design is almost ready, it remains to carefully spread the paper. We lift the first layer almost perpendicular, the rest we distribute evenly. Six layers of paper will form the upper hemisphere and the same, respectively, the lower hemisphere. Such balls of paper look like giant chrysanthemums. They can perfectly serve as a decoration for a house or a summer residence.

Perhaps some of you already know how to make a ball of paper, using volumetric elements in the form of a cone. However, since this design is extremely simple, I will give its description.

To make such a ball, we need two-sided paper. Using a template, cut out the circles and cut them into two halves. Note that the diameter of the future ball depends on the radius of the base element. Fold each half of the circle into a cone and glue along the seam. Then we connect the cones with each other. Do not forget to attach the eyelet so that the ball can be hung on the Christmas tree.

With this technology, you can easily make Christmas decorations in the form of fruits or berries. To do this, it is enough to attach to the ball the leaves of a suitable shape, and now the apple or blackberry is ready.

There are many ways to make a ball of paper, and here's another one. In general, it differs little from the papier-mache technique, but in this case we use a balloon as a blank. Instead of glue, it is best to take flour flour paste. To start with a layer of paste, we spread a balloon. Paper type newspaper (thicker does not fit) tear into small pieces and each of them glued to the surface of the ball as tightly as possible to each other. After the first layer dries, add a second, then a third and so on until the desired thickness. This work is laborious and not fast.

After the last layer has dried, it is possible to release air from the balloon and decorate the finished structure at your discretion.

I hope, recommendations how to make a ball of paper, you will be useful and will become a good basis for creativity. Due to simplicity, even children can easily use these instructions.