I am relatively new to the Masters Fair, not to say that I am a great master, but I have really fallen in love with my work - artistic sawing. I’ve been doing sawing for 2 years, since childhood I dreamed of learning :) I finally decided to do a master class, especially New Year's competition master classes happened. This is my first master class, so please don’t throw slippers.

So! Master class on making a beautiful and simple Christmas tree from plywood! I made 3 different Christmas trees: the first one was for me, my husband asked for the second one to be painted using the dot painting technique (we often complement each other in our creativity), and my daughter asked for one Christmas tree to be painted.

Well, let's begin! What do we need?

Materials and tools:

1. Product drawing - the drawing of this Christmas tree is freely available on the Internet. Using simple manipulations, I slightly edited the drawing to suit my taste - I added the inscription 2017, stars and a slot in one Christmas tree. By the way, by downloading and printing this drawing, you can make the same Christmas tree! Only the size of the slot will need to be measured and the Christmas tree fit into the stand. In my case the slot is 6 mm.

2. 6 mm plywood, it is advisable to use 2/4 or 2/2 grade plywood.

3. Glue stick.

4. Hand jigsaw or jigsaw machine- in my case it’s a jigsaw, but for those who don’t have one, you can use a regular hand jigsaw.

6. Thin files.

5. A screwdriver or drill with a thin drill bit.

6. Sandpaper and files for grinding.

7. Acrylic paints and contours, acrylic varnish, brush.

Stages of work:

1. Print out the drawing of the Christmas tree. Cut and glue to 6 mm plywood regular glue pencil.

2. Drill holes.

3. We cut out the outer and inner contours of the Christmas tree and the Christmas tree stand.

4. Now that all the internal and external contours have been cut out, you can remove the remaining paper from the plywood and carefully sand the product. We sand with files and sandpaper.

5. In the end, we got these cute Christmas trees!

6. Coloring!

For creating New Year's mood, it was decided to apply a rather simple design on the Christmas tree, but at the same time capable of inspiring nostalgia for childhood. Even a beginner who has picked up a brush for the first time can draw it.

To ensure the paint adheres well, prime the Christmas tree. acrylic primer. And let's start choosing the color for the future decoration.

A deep and rich indigo color and a silver outline will look great.

The snowflake is ready! The number and size of snowflakes is unlimited!

It's your turn reverse side Christmas trees. Here we will again remember what beautiful pictures the frost painted on the windows for us! Just as there were no similar drawings on the window, when drawing our assistant will be improvisation and rich imagination :)

7. We cover the final result acrylic varnish.

You can decorate them as your heart desires! We made three Christmas trees for gifts - I painted one Christmas tree red, the second one was decorated by my daughter :) Well, the third one was painted using the dot painting technique by my wife - Alfia, by the way, is an excellent artist and master in her field! It turned out very beautiful!

I would like to remind you that you can cut this Christmas tree out of plywood with an ordinary pioneer jigsaw or cut it out

from cardboard, transferring the drawing through carbon paper! And you can color it however you like!

We wish you pleasant creativity!

Happy New Year 2017!!!

PS: If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them! I can tell you where to get good sawing files :)

On New Year It is customary to give each other gifts. The master provides you with detailed instructions on how to make a Christmas tree as a gift with your own hands. An unassembled gift takes up little space and can easily fit in a small bag or envelope. The wooden craft was made from a photograph of one online store where you could buy this miracle self made priced at $37...

How to make a Christmas tree as a gift with your own hands

Materials and tools

To make this craft you will need a small piece of three-layer plywood. The master, as always, makes your work easier and offers to download a gift template for cutting. Tool for work:

1. Hand jigsaw for figure cutting
2. Scissors and glue for cutting out the Christmas tree template and gluing it to the workpiece
3. Sandpaper. You can sand it manually with your own hands or using .

Step-by-step instructions for making a gift

1. Download for cutting with a jigsaw. The template is prepared for printing on an A4 sheet of two types of Christmas trees. You can change the scale and print the content in other sizes.
2. We cut out the template with scissors and glue it onto a piece of plywood using glue. It is important to place the tree and crossbar along the fibers of the plywood to maintain appearance and strength. The author also used a piece of OSB sheet as a base, the result is also excellent. See photos and videos.
3. We cut out two parts of the gift along the contour of the template. Pay attention to the width of the assembly groove on the tree and crossbar.
4. Remove the template paper and sand the parts with sandpaper.
5. At this stage, work can be stopped, but still it is better to protect the Christmas tree gift from influence external environment varnish, wax or oil. The author covered the parts with 2 layers of varnish. In principle, you can paint a gift on a Christmas tree, cover it with glitter and even place it on it. Christmas decorations. Everything is at your discretion or desire.

Grinding tool Sanding the details of the gift

New Year's crafts are always nice. Let's start decorating the Christmas tree decoration made of plywood. The main materials for work are a decoupage napkin with images of gnomes and New Year's gifts, plywood blank in the shape of a ball, kitchen openwork napkin. All this can be purchased at special craft stores.

What options for creating Christmas tree decorations with your own hands on the eve of the holidays cannot be found on the Internet. These are products made from paper, from threads and glue, from felt, from corrugated paper and old newspapers. In general, there are a lot of materials for making such crafts and, if you have a specific diagram at hand, then in the end everything will be done quickly and easily. In this material we will give options on how to make New Year's toys from plywood; templates will help you make beautiful New Year's decorative elements with your own hands.

If you want to make stylish and beautiful New Year's toys from plywood, you should find high-quality templates and download them in advance. A large number of different templates that are suitable for these purposes can be found directly in this material and immediately downloaded to your computer from here, so that you can then print it on a printer for work or transfer it directly from the screen to a piece of paper. Such wooden decor it looks original, and the design is interesting and unusual.

To date wooden Toys for decorating a Christmas tree - this is rather a rarity. But once upon a time, these were the types of decorations that were most often used for Christmas decorations. Unfortunately, wood was replaced by plastics, but even now, despite all the diversity possible options New Year's crafts, plywood toys still occupy their own special niche.

Advantages of plywood for making toys

Ready-made drawings of plywood toys can be downloaded from this material, but if you are still wondering why you should choose this particular material, then it’s time to cite important advantages. First of all, Christmas decorations made of plywood are extremely rare today, which means they are stylish and incredibly original. This Christmas tree decoration will definitely not be found anywhere else and will be one of a kind.

I would also like to note that wooden Christmas tree decorations allow you to decorate the Christmas tree to your liking. Even a child can practice such skill, and the process itself, not to mention the result, brings a huge amount positive emotions and vivid impressions. This decor will be relevant for many years in a row. It is suitable not only for decorating a New Year's beauty, but also for doors and windows, as an independent exclusive gift to loved ones.

Another advantage of this decor, which cannot be ignored, is its durability. Do-it-yourself plywood toys do not break when hit or dropped. They retain their shape even in the most difficult conditions. stressful situations, where plastic or glass would have failed long ago.

What you need for needlework

This is not the most common type of handicraft, as already noted, so you need to carefully prepare for the work in advance. In particular, you need a sheet of plywood (you can buy it, you can take scraps of cut sheets that were used in construction).

Also, to work, you must have a jigsaw, manual or electric, on hand. You will also need a drill with a set of drills and sandpaper. Plus, to bring the toy to life, you need to buy acrylic paints and acrylic varnish in advance. As additional decor, you can safely use paper, scraps of tinsel, satin ribbons and even ready-made New Year and Christmas images.

Master class on creating a toy

First, we prepare the blank for decoration. Take the white one acrylic paint POLYCOLOR and a large foam sponge. Dip the sponge into the paint and smooth movements tampon the workpiece. The paint should be applied evenly to both sides of the plywood. If necessary, apply two or three coats of paint.

When the surface is dry, sand the plywood with a piece of fine-grit sandpaper. The workpiece must be absolutely flat - this is the main condition for decorating a Christmas tree decoration.

Remove from napkin upper layer and tear out the fragments with the gnomes. There should be a white paper field around each figure.

Now you can do decoupage on the prepared plywood surface. Place a piece of napkin with a gnome on one side of the ball. Using a small brush with soft bristles, dip into acrylic varnish (HOBBY LINE was used), and then gently brush over the top on a napkin. The varnish will quickly saturate the paper and it will stick to the workpiece. So, the varnish will perform two functions: both decoupage glue and protective varnish. After the varnish has dried, glue the fragment to the other side of the workpiece in the same way.

Next, we create lace details on the plywood Christmas tree decoration. We place a kitchen openwork napkin on top of the decoupage so that you can visually imagine where to make the drawing (you can move the napkin until you like the location). Acrylic contours various colors Place dots in the holes of the napkin.

Choose the color of the contours to your taste, taking into account compatibility with the overall composition (HOBBY LINE, MARABU, and DECOLA were used). Such a dotted ornament can be placed over the entire surface of the Christmas tree decoration, or only along one edge.

When the dot painting is dry on both sides, open the decoupage with glossy acrylic varnish. Apply several layers of varnish and dry each thoroughly.

Place a ribbon or thick thread into the hole in the blank and hang the plywood toy on the Christmas tree. Dwarfs with gifts rush to the New Year with

The tree decorations were the first of their kind. Later they learned to make glass products, and plastic came into use relatively recently. Despite the diversity modern materials for production, Christmas tree decorations do not lose their relevance and return to New Year's trees.

Why you should get a plywood toy for your Christmas tree

Home collections are predominantly filled with modern plastic decorations, which are bought every year, or antique glass balls and figurines that our mothers and grandmothers used to decorate New Year’s trees in childhood. Christmas decorations made of plywood are almost never found.

Why you should get a couple of toys made from plywood sheets:

• Original handmade jewelry will not be found anywhere else;
• Possibility to decorate the Christmas tree to your liking;
• A reason to practice crafts and make a toy with your own hands, an opportunity to keep your child busy and spend time together;
• A new product every day;
• A lot of positive emotions from the result.

Christmas tree decorations do not lose their relevance for several seasons: they are not only used to decorate a tree, but also hung on walls, doors, and given to each other. Crafts can also be made specifically for gifting or selling to those wishing to receive exclusive New Year's attributes.

Making crafts with your own hands

As already mentioned, making your own jewelry is much more valuable than acquiring ready-made standard toys. This is a very simple process, all you need to do is get necessary material, a tool and use your imagination.

Why do we choose plywood sheets as a material for Christmas tree decorations:

• You can use old scraps of sheets used for construction;

• Crafts can be of any size;
• Christmas tree decorations made of plywood do not break or break, and can be safely given to children.

So let's get started.

Preparing the workplace and tools

In order to do Christmas decoration on the Christmas tree with our own hands, we’ll use small workbench or as a last resort kitchen table, previously covered with thick oilcloth. To avoid damaging the tabletop, we recommend placing it on plywood sheet .

For cutting you will need:

• Manual or electric jigsaw(whatever there is);
• Drill with a set of drills;
• Fine sandpaper;
• For reliable fixation fragments, it is ideal to use hot melt glue from an electric gun. As a last resort, prepare wood glue and PVA;
• Acrylic paints and clear varnish for fixing from the same material;
• Decorations: paper, beads, polyethylene crumbs, scraps of tinsel and satin ribbons, foil, ready-made images of New Year and Christmas themes - this item is limited only by your imagination.

Option 1: regular Christmas tree decoration

Ordinary Christmas tree decorations made of plywood are flat, in the form of various fairy-tale characters, traditional New Year's attributes and heroes. To accurately and accurately cut out the desired outline, prepare image templates in advance. They can be drawn on paper or downloaded from the Internet, printed and cut out.

1. Transfer the image to a plywood sheet - trace the template.

1. Armed with a jigsaw, cut out the toy along the drawn contour. There are no problems when working with an electric tool; the process goes smoothly even for an inexperienced student.

WITH with a hand jigsaw more difficult: the file must be directed strictly along the contour so that the hand does not tremble and the blade does not jump off and cut off excess. For mechanical tools, prepare replacement files in advance.

1. Use a drill to drill a hole in the top of the toy.

1. Use sandpaper to sand the cut areas, focusing on the resulting chips.
2. Now for the artwork. If Christmas tree decorations are supposed to be items of natural wood color, then skip this point. If you want to create a completely decorative effect, cover the workpiece with white acrylic enamel– it will become the background for future decorations. When the layer is dry, paint the main design.

1. If you don’t want to paint the craft yourself, glue a finished picture cut out of paper or cardboard to the blank. For fixation, use PVA glue diluted with water in a ratio of 1:1.

1. Volumetric decoration stage. Beads, decorative snow, tinsel, foil come into play - everything that your imagination can handle. Fix these decorations with hot glue or transparent wood glue. Finally, cover the surface of the craft with acrylic varnish to fix the result.

1. Thread a satin rope into the hole and tie a knot or a beautiful bow - the toy for decorating the spruce is ready.

Option 2: Volume decoration

By this concept we mean Christmas tree decorations made of several parts or those that can be placed.

Making composite Christmas tree crafts with your own hands is no more difficult than flat ones; on the contrary, the process becomes more exciting.

1. We take the same base material and transfer the template to it.

1. For complex products, we mark the holes according to the diagram.
2. We cut out the outline and clean up the edges.
3. We connect the fragments. If the toy is flat and composite, we use ribbons or nylon threads for connection, which we tie into strong double or triple knots. If the toy is on a support, we work with the blanks according to the instructions, for example, we insert the parts into each other.
4. The decoration of individual fragments can be done immediately after preparing individual elements or after assembly. In any case, the workpiece is subject to the same processing as a flat toy: enamel, picture, drawing, three-dimensional decor, varnish fixation.

Volumetric Christmas tree decorations made of plywood can be used not only for hanging on New Year's trees, but also as an independent toy for a child as a gift.

A homemade item, especially one made of wood, can keep a child occupied for a longer time than modern expensive toys, and interest in it remains for a longer time. This is another argument in favor of the fact that it is useful to make products from plywood.

Garland

Christmas tree beads are an element as important as the toys themselves. This also includes elegant garlands for a tree or room. They can also be made from plywood using the same principle as described above.

Some tips:

1. The garland for the Christmas tree should be made in a simple form so that the decoration fits organically into the overall composition. Choose from checkboxes, circles and more simple shapes. This will help save time - there will be a lot of elements for cutting and decorating.
2. Use satin ribbons and decorative ropes to connect the elements so that appearance products remained solemn.
3. To fix the fragments on the rope, tie knots at the location of the element. This way it will maintain its position no matter how inclined the thread is.
4. Make loops at the ends of the rope to make it easy to hang the garland.

What are the results

A couple of hours of work, satisfaction from the perfect process and pleasure from the result - all the emotions in a plywood toy. Add the attention of household members and guests to a hand-made product and success is guaranteed. Handmade products never go out of fashion; they are passed down from generation to generation, carrying with them a piece of memory. Have you ever seen such a set of values ​​and emotions contained in a mass-produced plastic toy?