Santa Claus with his hands from a bottle: a master class

Do you want to beautifully decorate the table and interior for the New Year's Eve? The traditional hero of the holiday is Santa Claus. With your hands a bottle of champagne can make an original souvenir. Read the tips, take ideas. All of them are very simple and understandable. Even a beginner can perform such a product.

Materials and Tools

In order for you to get a beautiful and original hand-made article "Santa Claus and Snow Maiden", it is enough to take available tools or buy them. They are inexpensive, but they will make it possible to make a very decorative exquisite thing. So, you need the following:

• The basis, which is suitable for any bottle, glass or plastic. You can use the unnecessary empty or arrange champagne, which will be served to the table on New Year's Eve. From small bottles or jars of yogurt or baby food do Christmas decorations, and from a five-liter bottle of water perform a full figure for the interior.
• Decorative materials. The choice depends on what is available at your fingertips or at the nearest needlework store. It can be: satin ribbons, oblique bake, fabric, cotton wool, sintepon, tinsel, sequins, beads, buttons, lace, braid, snowflakes, paper, foil - in short, whatever your imagination wants.
• Scissors, glue, needle and thread, paints with brushes.

The necessary tools are determined in the way that you will make the craft.

Father Frost (with his own hands) from a bottle of champagne

You will actually make packing or clothing for the base, that is, it should be removed. This gives some advantages:

• Allows you to use several times (next year).
• Suitable as a separate gift to relatives (they will buy champagne themselves).
• Such a souvenir can be made for sale.

The work of Santa Claus with his hands of champagne is done in different ways. The methods can be:

• Creating a suit from ribbons or oblique beiki with subsequent decoration.
• Sewing or knitting garments for figurines.
• Staining and decoration of the surface.

Choose the method that you most understand. Try a few or perform from what is available at home.

Sew a suit

Santa Claus with his hands from the bottle is very easy, if you make a separate outfit, and then just put champagne in it. You are not a fashion designer, and here you do not need the convenience of clothing. The main thing is that she looks beautiful. Coat Santa Claus can be sewn from two halves (for the transfer and the back). This is done like this:

1. Draw on a sheet of paper or immediately on the fabric contour like a shirt or gown. Sleeves make one with the front or back. Here it does not make sense to cut the armhole and sew them separately. Simplify everything. Both parts make the same.
2. Sew the resulting parts from the wrong side of the machine or by hand.
3. Turn out and decorate at your own discretion with any white trim (lace, braid, ribbon, frill, tinsel).

The sleeves of the costume can not be done, but if you want the Santa Claus to look more realistic, not only sew them, but fill it with something (cotton, sintepon or other stuffing). The bottom is to be sewn and perform something similar to mittens. Make a hat or cap.

We tie a bottle

In this way, Santa Claus can be made from plastic bottles or glass bottles. It is better to do this work by crocheting. The easiest way to create a tight fitting red suit, and white decor to sew on top. It can be either knitted or any other. They do, of course, and immediately embroidering another color, but this is more difficult. If you know how to work only with knitting needles and you have them, make a red "pipe" on four spokes or circular according to the principle of a conventional sock.

We use tapes and slanting bake

Smart Santa Claus with his hands from the bottle is done by gluing tapes on the base or directly on the bottle. It is better to use the first option, so that the costume is removable. Why do this, it was said above. So, do the following:

1. Buy the right amount of red tape and white. The length can be easily determined by wrapping the bottle, for example, with a sewing centimeter. The width depends on the size of the bottle. For champagne tape is suitable for one centimeter, for a five-liter plastic bottle it is better to take a wide braid as for braiding. If possible, it is better to purchase not an ordinary red satin ribbon, but an oblique bake, since it will be easier to wrap the bottle with it. Do not forget about the decor.
2. Get to work. Make a base of paper in the form of a cylindrical surface according to the dimensions of the bottom of the bottle. Put the workpiece on top of it.
3. Begin winding the tape from the narrow part, that is, from the neck, gradually moving to the base with the paper layer. Glue each row of tapes by half or on the edge of the previous one. Instead of winding, you can connect pre-cut pieces of tape. Do this at both an angle and strictly horizontal rows. On the same principle, make a hat.
4. When the red base is ready, decorate it with white ribbons or any other elements.

In the same way they make the Snow Maiden, only the colors of the ribbons are taken by others, and instead of the caps perform a kokoshnik.

We paint a bottle

If you do not have time, use other simple methods. The artwork of Santa Claus from a bottle can be made with the help of usual surface painting. To do this, perform the following:

1. If possible, it is better to soak the labels off the bottle, although this is not necessary. The same applies to degreasing the surface.
2. Take a red paint and a sponge or a broad brush. Cover it with the surface of the bottle. In the case of champagne to the upper golden label. Well falls on acrylic. You can buy a jar of white paint and tinting (red for Santa Claus, blue for Snegurochka). Perhaps, it is necessary to make not one layer, but it is even better to first be primed with white or a special compound. In a word, try to achieve an even color surface.
3. After drying, do the decor: glue white trim of ribbons, lace, tinsel. You can even use the elements of decoupage, that is, ready-made napkins with decor, stencils.
4. Complete the finished product with transparent lacquer to give shine and more durability.

Plastic bottles-crafts: master class

This material is usually for everyone. Depending on the size of the bottle you can make both a Christmas tree toy and a full decoration for the interior. To create such a souvenir, any of the technologies listed above will do.

You can try another quick way. In order to make you beautiful and accurate Santa Claus from plastic bottles, you need to do the following:

1. Take the bottle, pasted it with paper. So it's easier to work in the future.
2. Wind the bottle with a cloth or a red bag, and together with the lid, fix it with glue.
3. From the wadded flagellum, you finish the coat and hats.
4. Draw a face on the cardboard and paste it on the base.
5. From the rectangles of the fabric, make a hand. Bottom decorate with cotton in the form of cuffs. Glue the elements to the bottle.
6. It remains to make a beard and accessories. A bag for gifts is usually sewed, and the staff is made of a pencil, rod or stick, wrapped in satin ribbons. The beard is usually made of cotton wool, but it can be made even from plastic spoons.

By the same technology, you can make any figure or even create a story composition. So, the handmade "Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden" will take a worthy place on your festive table or under the tree.

With great pleasure, children will be engaged in such a thing. If a bottle of champagne for a festive table, you may not trust the baby, then plastic "waste" with pleasure will give for creative research.

So, you have learned how the handmade Father Frost is working with his own hands from improvised materials. All the options are very simple. Even a child can cope with such a task, so you can turn preparations for decorations and souvenirs for home and gifts into an exciting family activity.