Sculptures for the garden from polyurethane foam. "FOX"
To make figurines you will need:
Polyurethane foam
Gun for polyurethane foam.
Cleaner for polyurethane foam. (needed to wash the gun and clean your hands)
Cotton gloves, more than one pair.
To make this figurine, I used a regular empty kefir bottle.
1 Pour sand into the bottle (for gravity, so that the figurine does not blow away in the wind). Foam the surface of the bottle completely. Attention! It is necessary to foam gradually, layer by layer, giving each layer time to dry. The foam dries in about 10-15 minutes.

2, 3 To make the paws and tail, I used a tube with wire threaded through it. Insert the tail (the whole figure is supported on it), paws (tubes), set the desired bend, foam the joints. Neck: Insert tube from under toilet paper, foam. Dry



4 Foam the paws and tail.
5 To make a head, you can insert something round and foam it. Ears: Cut out of thick cardboard or soft plastic. Cut the ears into place, foam them, dry them. Mustache: Cut a thick fishing line, paint it with black paint from a can, and insert it. The eyes are rubber balls painted with the same paint.
paint foam sculptures oil paint, you can use varnish on top (if the figure is not painted with white paint, since varnish gives it a yellowish color).

Foam sculpture for the garden! "KOLOBOK"
I took the kolobok as a basis Christmas tree toy, maybe a plastic ball, something round. Foam the ball, drying it gradually layer by layer.


The handles are made of a tube with wire threaded through it. Set the bend, foam it. The scarf is also foam. “Ears” on a scarf: Cut out leaves from cardboard, embed, foam. Use a sharp knife to cut out the eyes and mouth


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Inside the legs, foam ordinary wooden blocks, setting the desired shape.


Paint over with oil paint or varnish.

Large garden sculptures look unusually beautiful and status-bearing. And everyone understands: in order to furnish the garden with even a few sculptures you needed a lot of money... What can we say when your garden is densely “populated” with various figures, wild animals and fairy-tale characters. And it’s good that many people don’t know: these figures are crafts made from polyurethane foam and made by your with my own hands...and they are very inexpensive!

Absolutely accessible to everyone, both financially and creatively. For this you will need very little.

Necessary materials for crafts made from polyurethane foam

• thin household gloves
• spray foam gun
• actual polyurethane foam in a cylinder
• sharp utility knife
• oil paint
• thick brushes
• foam cleaner
• putty
• gauze bandages

After you buy everything you need and prepare workplace, you just have to decide what you will make. You can start yours not with sculptures, but with decoration. This is a little easier, since you don’t need to create a frame for the sculpture and make calculations.

The most obvious thing is to decorate flower pot or a large vase. This way you will not only learn how to properly dose polyurethane foam, but also try to make various shaped elements and patterns.

However, you can start with just simple crafts. For example, Kolobok made of polyurethane foam or Mushrooms.

How to make a figurine from polyurethane foam with your own hands

The basis for the figures can be found in any home: an old ball or ball for the Kolobok and a plastic bottle for the mushroom. The main thing is to follow certain rules for working with polyurethane foam.

1. It's better not to skimp on foam. As practice shows, the cheaper the sample, the worse it holds its shape.
2. Polyurethane foam is not toxic, but, nevertheless, you can only work in a well-ventilated area or outside in dry weather. You need to work with gloves, because... The polyurethane foam sticks to your hands and is very difficult to clean off. True, in some cases, when you need to correct the shape of a figure, you will have to work with your hands, after wetting them with water. But you can “tweak” the foam only when it has already dried slightly and a thin “crust” has formed on it.
3. For work, use a special gun. If you just apply foam from a can, polyurethane foam figures will not work, because Only a professional gun allows you to regulate the volume of foam squeezed out.
4. The basis for polyurethane foam sculptures It is absolutely necessary to weigh it down, otherwise the product will turn out to be light and will not stand. It is best to use ordinary sand as a weighting agent.
5. If your future sculpture should have “paws” or a “tail”, you must first make a wire frame for them. And apply it to the wire required quantity foam.
6. Polyurethane foam for crafts should be applied gradually, building up layer by layer. In this case, each layer must be allowed to dry. It takes no more than 10-15 minutes.

1. You can cut shapes or their elements from polyurethane foam. To do this, you only need a sharp stationery knife - it copes well with foam. However, you can edit the figures only after they have completely dried.
2. After drying, be sure to putty the finished and dried figure. Can you do it tile adhesive. But then there is a risk that the sculpture will soon crack. Craftsmen advise using acrylic Supermastic paste with dry mortar or just acrylic putty. You can also cover the figure with gauze bandages soaked in a cement solution - they will perfectly protect the product from cracking.
3. Before painting, you need to let your foam sculpture dry for 3-4 days. After this, paint with acrylic or oil paint in several layers, allowing each layer to dry thoroughly. Spray paint for painting crafts made from polyurethane foam it is impossible, because it destroys the structure of the foam, as if “eating” it. For durability and shine, you can coat the figure with polyurethane varnish (for concrete floors).

1. You can safely place your crafts made from polyurethane foam outside. If everything is done according to the rules, they are not afraid of either rain or sun. However, for the winter it is better to put them somewhere indoors. Before you start summer season, the sculptures should be inspected and restored, if necessary: ​​repair cracks (if they do appear), refresh the paint.

You can find many interesting and amazing crafts made from polyurethane foam. I think that you will definitely want to create something for yourself. Making crafts from foam is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance; it is important to listen a little to the masters who have already created more than one work. Each master may have his own secrets for making various crafts. Therefore, if you decide to do something, take a look first and read several works on our website. After all detailed process manufacturing is not described in every article and you may not find something useful for yourself. I really like polyurethane foam, you can make anything out of it, the main thing is to use a little imagination.
After reading about polyurethane foam on the Internet, I found several interesting point and now we will sort it out for you. Polyurethane foam shrinks after leaving the can. First, the foam expands and then hardens, and only then does it shrink. If the foam loses a lot in volume, its contact ability is impaired and excess stress occurs in the joints. The amount of shrinkage is one of the main characteristics of polyurethane foam; The less shrinkage, the higher the strength of the connection. The best samples have a shrinkage coefficient of no more than 3%. In cheap foam, shrinkage will take a long time. If you don’t wait a couple of days and start creating some kind of work right away, the putty will then begin to crack due to shrinkage. This should be remembered and known. If you want your craft to serve you for a long time, then you need to wait a couple of days for it to shrink, and of course it’s better to use it quality foam not cheap. If you use a bandage on crafts, it prevents the products from cracking.
I think you took a little bit from my short story. Today we will introduce you to another master class, already familiar to us Nadezhda Gulak, this is manufacturing foam frogs. This wonderful craft will be a wonderful decoration in your garden and playground.

To make a frog we will need:
Installation penalty.
Canisters.
Bottle caps.
Scissors.
PVA glue.
Awl.
Bandage.
Tile adhesive.

Method for making a frog from polyurethane foam:
First, we will make a sitting frog, and then a lying one, you see for yourself which frog you need more))) Nadezhda also shared with us a master class on making a standing frog, if you need exactly this kind, look. We will make the frog itself from polyurethane foam, but first we assemble a frame from canisters, so that we have a sessile frog.

The height of the craft frog will be 70 cm. We spontaneously apply polyurethane foam to the frame.

When the excess dries, cut off the excess, sand it and shape it into a frog.

Then we need our frog to dry well. Let's give her time for this.

Then we paint, apply yacht varnish and the sitting foam frog is ready.

Now let's make a lying frog.

First we assemble a frame from canisters, wire and plastic bottles.

We apply mounting foam to the frame.

We begin to shape it, cut off all excess, and then process it with sandpaper.

We paint, varnish and the polyurethane foam frog is ready.

Look how cute Nadezhda’s crafts were made from polyurethane foam, plastic bottles and canisters.

Then, if you use your imagination again, you can create a fairy tale in the garden, as Nadezhda did. Nadezhda put the sitting frog in a pond and not far away she made an inch-inch out of the doll. The little one's bow and dress are made from plastic bottles; you can also make it from, for example, plastic bags. I don’t know about you, but I really like Nadezhda’s work and the main thing is that everything is done with love and imagination. Nadezhda we wish you to continue to create wonderful works for your garden and share them on our website)))

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How pleasant it is to surprise: friends, acquaintances, work colleagues or just neighbors amazing crafts in our garden.. We will make a Frog from polyurethane foam!. Speaking about the frog, it will be green and smile slightly. As for the location of the frog, it will sit by the pool next to the Swamp, where it belongs.

So, you should immediately pay attention to the fact that any summer resident can make a Frog. Also note that the first attempts to make a frog may be unsuccessful, since working with polyurethane foam requires skill and patience. The fact is that when the polyurethane foam dries, it is slightly deformed and changes its design, so the initially drawn contour (silhouette) of the frog may differ from your expectations after a few hours, which is how long the polyurethane foam dries.

Please note that the foam takes several hours to dry, so do not rush to the next step until the foam has completely dried.

Necessary equipment

1. A container of polyurethane foam;
2. An old bucket (Which we will douse with foam);
3. Green paint, as well as the paint necessary for painting the eyes;
4. Wire;
5. Brush or color (for painting).

Step-by-step instructions for making a Frog

The next step is painting our frog. But please note that before painting it must dry thoroughly in a dry room for at least 2-3 days.

Please note that the frog can be seated either on the site or near it. In conclusion, I would like to note that it is best to plant the frog under a canopy, because under the influence of water and wind, the polyurethane foam can become deformed and the paint can begin to peel off.

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There are many craftsmen in Rus' - what modern Kulibins can’t come up with! Owners of a private farmstead, country house, have a natural desire to beautifully arrange the surrounding space. Of course, you can buy any sculptures in a store or on the market, but hand-made jewelry not only pleases the eye, but gives great scope to creativity and imagination.

All you need is a little patience, spatial imagination and original crafts from polyurethane foam will take their rightful place in landscape design your garden plot.

Properties of the material used

For your information: ready-made figures are not afraid of snow, rain, or wind, but it is better to hide them from direct sunlight.

Polyurethane foam has found wide application in many areas. Recently, it has become very fashionable to make beautiful sculptures and figurines from it.

In terms of their decorative value, they are much superior, for example, to tires, plastic containers, garden decorations of which, clearly emphasize the use of these recycled materials. Foam crafts look presentable.

Let us note some properties of this material:

• Processing is not particularly difficult; even a child can easily cope with this process;
• The extra fragment can be easily removed in the same way as the missing part can be added;
• In the process of working on a figure, waste foam material can pollute the surrounding space, so work should be organized in an open area;
• The sculpture should be sculpted only when this polyurethane foam sealant is completely dry.

Attention: if you do not have sculptural experience, then immediately creating a complex craft will be problematic. Start with something simple: a bun on a stump, ladybug on a sheet. This will be a great training start. Examples of easy-to-make works in the photo below:

Operating rules

Getting started creative activity, be sure to carefully read the rules that any master needs to know:

• Cover your workplace with old wallpaper, newspapers, cellophane;
• Read the manufacturer's instructions on the cylinder;
• You should only work outside when the air temperature is above zero;
• This product household chemicals in aerosol packaging is toxic: work with rubber gloves;
• Often a frame is used to make crafts. And since foam is very lightweight material To prevent the sculptures from being blown around the garden by the wind, weigh them down with sand, crushed stone, gravel;
• Immediately prepare a solvent, acetone or a means to wash off this sticky material - it may be very necessary;
• We use only paint for painting that is intended for outdoor use;
• The finished product must be coated with colorless varnish; this is necessary not only to improve appearance, but also for resistance to adverse weather conditions.

Please note: the hardening time depends on the brand of polyurethane foam sealant. On average thin layer hardens within half an hour.

What materials will you need?

Depending on what you decide to sculpt, the selection of the necessary available materials depends.

We present to your attention a constant set of items that you will need when you make products from polyurethane foam with your own hands:

• It is much more convenient to use pistol foam;
• A stationery knife with additional blades (you have to change them often when working - they quickly become dull);
• Latex gloves to protect your hands (fabric ones quickly become unusable);
• To “sand” the surface of products during work, you need coarse sandpaper, and to polish and bring the work to perfection, use fine sandpaper;
• PF paints and brushes for exterior work (aerosol paint adheres worse, if you decide to use it, you will have to do two or three layers);
• Color for paint (to achieve the desired shade);
• A set of artistic brushes of different sizes;
• Furniture colorless protective varnish (especially if you use acrylic paint);
• A rag for cleaning the barrel of a gun;
• To make the frame of the intended craft, you will need various plastic or unnecessary plastic containers, planks, fittings, wire, pieces of old linoleum and other waste material;
• Weighting agents (foam has little weight, crafts need to be weighted with some available material). Small stones, gravel, crushed stone, and sand are usually used as weighting materials;
• Putty: very convenient for adjusting some details during the revision process.

Idea: on the eve of the New Year, disposable plastic masks of various animals and fairy-tale heroes. Their price is pennies. And you can successfully use it either as a mold for decorating the face or muzzle of your hero, or simply by attaching it to the right place.

A unified algorithm of actions when creating any craft

It is better to engage in this type of creativity on outdoors V warm time year. If you have to work indoors, make sure that the room is well ventilated. Cover the work area with polyethylene; the mounting foam will not stick to it.

After reading the instructions on the cylinder, we begin to work step by step:

• Shake the can vigorously several times. At the same time, you need to hold it with the cap down;
• Initially, the foam “sets” within an hour, and finally dries, depending on the thickness of the applied layer, within 10 hours;
• Do not apply a lot of foam at one time; it tends to fall off under its own weight;
• Place the product frame horizontally. Initially, a layer of no more than 5 cm is applied;
• An hour later, after drying, the craft must be turned over, its surface moistened and the same steps repeated;
• After drying, fill unnecessary voids with foam, and remove excess fragments with a stationery knife;
• Bring to smooth surface sandpaper. It’s better to fix it on a wooden block;
• Start decorating after complete hardening;
• We have already talked about colors above. As for additional decor, buttons, balls, colored glass, wire of various textures and cross-sections and other improvised, natural or waste materials work well in this role;

For your information: if you want the fruits of your creativity to please your household longer, use putty for additional leveling: it is not at all afraid of ultraviolet radiation.

And, of course, strict adherence to safety precautions during work comes first (pictured below).

Jack of all trades

When all required material prepared, let's get to work. There is no need to hold in your imagination an artistic image of what you have decided to breathe life into. There should be a picture or photograph before your eyes, you should see clearly what you want to get in the end.

The frame can be made not only, as mentioned above, from plastic containers. The product will be more durable if it is welded from thin reinforcement or twisted from thick wire. According to the sculptors, the manufacturing process is simple.

But if you are doing this work for the first time, you need to start from the simple to the complex:

• Try making flat images first: apply a solid spot on cellophane, and after drying, you can cut out the desired figure;
• Then try to make voluminous, small, simple figures;
• The next stage: make larger figures, based on a circle, an oval;
• Next, you can try your hand and talent in making medium-sized frame crafts;
• After all the stages have been completed, consider that you are already a master, proceed to perform more complex work, you have already acquired the necessary skills.

Well, now, to the point.

Craft No. 1

We offer you several step-by-step instructions for making crafts. We will go, again, from the simple to the complex.

Let's take a step-by-step look at how to make a Christmas tree from polyurethane foam with your own hands:

Craft No. 2: snowman

Advice: if you need to foam very small space, and a standard tube does not fit there, try using a match to carefully heat this same tube and pull it out. Just do it carefully, it breaks easily.

Let's continue the winter theme. Now let's look at how to make a snowman out of polyurethane foam step by step.

Craft No. 3: decorative tree

Apartment interior designers have recently picked up the idea of ​​decorating walls with trees. This decoration can be found not only in children's institutions, but also in offices and even in apartments.

A tree is a symbol of well-being. We invite you to familiarize yourself with step by step instructions making this decor.

Craft No. 4: Three Little Pigs

Now let's discuss the fairy tale theme. When creating your next masterpiece, you can slightly adjust the product as you work.

In order not to get dirty, it is better not to touch the raw foam, and when it is covered with a thin film, you need to cover the product again layer by layer. This way you can achieve the desired contour.

Conclusion

Making figures from polyurethane foam is a fascinating business. As you understand, from this building material You can make absolutely any shape. Think over the frame, design, image of your hero - and get to work.

We recommend watching the video in this article, which will help you clearly look again at some aspects of the execution technique. Don’t hold back the flight of your imagination, create for the joy of yourself, your friends and loved ones.