How to make a crescent moon with your own hands. Hanging Christmas Ornaments: Snow Moons

Do you want to receive unusual decoration out of nothing? It's easy to do!

How to make a paper moon and other interesting ideas

The Paper Moon will be useful for an interesting photo shoot, decorating a children's room and a romantic evening. The moon is so easy to make that it will be a fun activity for a child too. And what child doesn’t dream of his own Moon?

Step by step instructions

First, draw a month on cardboard and cut it out. Since we will be making a volumetric month, we are making two such parts. We also cut out strips for the side parts of the Moon. We assemble the structure using tape.

Now we cut the paper into strips. We cut each strip across, getting “shaggy” parts. We make a large number of such strips and glue them from bottom to top for a month, each one overlapping the previous one. The more such stripes there are, and the stripes have cuts, the more fluffy and beautiful the month will turn out to be.

Surprisingly light, graceful, airy New Year decorations You can do it yourself in a minimum amount of time.

Snow Moons give the room a stunning volume, making the interior “winter”, New Year’s, even mysterious and fabulous. I came up with these incredible New Year's snowflakes magnificent designer Natalia Tikk.

You will need:

Snowflakes of different sizes - plastic (now sold everywhere) or hand-cut from thick white paper or cardboard.

Cardboard or thin plastic for the moon.

Strong thread or fishing line for attaching jewelry.

1. First you need to make a base - the moon (more precisely, a crescent). Cut out from thick cardboard or soft thin plastic. Interior The diameter of the moon should be slightly smaller than the diameter of a large snowflake.

2. If you have a hot gun, use it to glue the rays of a large snowflake to the crescent. If you don’t have a gun among your tools, glue like “Moment”, “Titanium”, etc. will help.

3. Attach the middle ones to the large snowflake on both sides. And to them - small ones. Can be glued, can be tied with strong white thread, wire, fishing line.

4. As a result, an openwork pattern is formed volumetric snowflake with many rays.

When putting one Moon on a fishing line, it is better to secure it with a knot so that it does not move in the garland. If these New Year's decorations are made in sufficient quantity, it looks as if large snow flakes are falling on top. A very interesting feeling.

But it is not necessary to hang New Year's decorations with garlands from the ceiling. A New Year's tree made using this technique will look original.

MORE NEW YEAR'S

Lamps in the shape of the moon have become a real trend in recent times. And this is quite understandable: just imagine what a mysterious and magical atmosphere reigns in a dark room in which its own full moon is burning.

We found a way to make this magic at home yourself. Now the dream is come true, let's get started!

You will need:
round balloon(you can also use a thin rubber ball)
PVA glue
paper towel
marker and plastic utensils
lamp with socket
brush
voluminous sponge with rough texture
acrylic paint in ocher and ivory colors

Work progress:
1. First, inflate the balloon and use a marker to mark the area around the knot as shown in the photo. The ball must be exactly round shape, not oval.


2. Cover the ball with white glue, after diluting it with water in equal proportions. You can dip the ball in glue, as shown in the photo, or paint it with a brush.


3. Using a brush, cover the entire ball with pieces of paper towels. This technique is called "papier-mâché". When finished, carefully brush the surface of the ball to remove all irregularities and roughness. Repeat the paper pasting procedure two more times. This will make the ball hard and opaque.


4. Once the ball is dry, paint it with ivory acrylic paint or any similar shade. You can mix, for example, white with ocher to get this color.
5. Find a sponge with large pores, since the effect of simulating the surface of the moon depends on them. After soaking the sponge in ocher paint, carefully print it over the entire surface of the ball. Of course, in some places you will need stronger pressure, in others a double layer - “copy” the moon from photographs on the Internet in order to achieve a more realistic effect.


6. When the moon is dry, use a knife to cut the area around the knot that you outlined with a marker, and use tweezers to remove the balloon itself. All that will remain is the paper with the design. Place a lamp with a socket inside or put the moon on a floor lamp as a lampshade - it’s a matter of your taste.
Turn off the lights. Now you can enjoy the warm ocher glow of your own moon!