A popular souvenir in the form of a bowl with falling snowflakes can be easily remand in the autumn handicraft so that instead of snowflakes inside the toy, painted beautifully and fell yellow and red leaves. The center of attention in such a product will be a tree that you also prepare with your own hands. How to make a glass ball yourself either with children, look next in step-by-step instructions.
Materials
For the manufacture of the autumn glass bowl, you will need you:
- Glass jar with a twisting lid;
- tree twig;
- decorative leaves of yellow and red color;
- water;
- glycerol;
- chopsticks of hot glue;
- Thermopystole.
The leaves in this craft are curly sequins the size of a little more standard. We recommend to take them for the product, as they are lungs, repeat the shape and color of autumn leaves and shimmer a pleasant pearlescent gloss, which will add the charm to your autumn ball.
Step 1 . Wash and clean the bank from the label. Glass foundation for this product Take the simplest, without engraving. Note, the cover must be spinning very tight. Give the bank to dry and wear it from the inside and outside.
Step 2. . Prepare a broken twig. Because it will be in a tree handicraft, try to choose the maximum branched tree branch or bush without leaves. Wash twig from dust, dry it with a towel, and a broken end sign or cut so that it is smooth. Be sure to check the branch in the neck of banks.
Step 3. . With a drop of hot glue, you attach a trained twig to the lid. When twisting, it must be inside the glass foundation.
Step 4. . To splitting on a branch with hot glue, glue several leaves.
Step 5. . At the base of the improvised tree, you can glue small stones by imitating the earthen embankment. Take for this purpose glue, intended for solid materials and resistant to moisture. Ordinary hot glue of such a load may not withstand and gradually stones or small pebbles will disappear.
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Step 6. . Fill the can with a mixture of glycerol and water. Before close the product, be sure to check the density of the resulting liquid. To do this, send the leaves to the jar if they fall too quickly, add another glycerin, but if, on the contrary, they hide the solution for a long time in the solution, some water.
Step 7. . Having achieved the desired consistency of the solution, pour out some more decorative leaves into the bank and close it tightly with a lid.
Autumn glass ball ready.