Foil crafts for children and adults with their own hands: options for crafts and features of their production

Creativity is a very interesting process. Inspiration can come at any time and at the same time it does not put itself in any frames. An idea has come, so you need to bravely go into action and execute it!

In this review, let's look at the basic ideas for high-quality and interesting foil fakes with your own hands.

What you need and what you may encounter when making

Foil, a very specific material for creativity. Thanks to its properties, you can shape any object no worse than plasticine. The only peculiarity when forming foil figures is that foil does not like mistakes. That's why you should approach the idea for a gift with your own hands especially selectively.

What it takes:

Imagine what you are going to create.
Think of additional elements if one piece is not enough.
Think through the fastening if the figure contains many elements.
Get to work.

If with the first items all is clear, but with thinking through the additional elements is not enough.

For example:

You want to make some kind of animal, for example - a spider. He has a head, a body and, of course, many legs. To make this design complete clearly can not do without one sheet of foil. For the legs, which is better to make a dense tube, you need to think of a fastener. This can be done through the body of the spider, which will then allow you to spread his feet "fan", or then the whole structure will have to be wrapped back into a sheet of foil, as a scotch tape wrapped around a ball, and then the feet will again hold their shape.

The same can be done with the cat's whiskers. In this case, you can "skip" tendrils through the bottom of the muzzle, and then hide the defect by gluing the muzzle on a piece of A4 paper. Quite simple and at the same time - interesting.

Flowers

The ideas for flowers out of foil are not limited. With the same tube we make ourselves shaping twigs from foil, which easily take any shape and bend as we please.

Mosaic

Very interesting theme will be pictures of crafts mosaic of foil. Laying out a mosaic is pretty interesting. For this we need a few layers of foil wrapped on cardboard. Then you can take a pencil, but not a sharp one. Even an ordinary match will do well, the main thing is not to tear the sheet of foil.

Next, as you understand, we will draw on our foil. The outlines left behind can be painted over with paint and as a result we will get a great mosaic mural in the form of a metal "stained glass".

Figurines

As we said above, creativity from foil is unlimited. It is quite elastic and at the same time fragile material, which can be torn carelessly. The main thing is to avoid unnecessary bends if you need to keep the sheet itself smooth. In the case where you do not need smoothness and you want to achieve a chaotic glow, then everything becomes much easier.

Figures can be in the most different ways and motifs:

Flowers,
Birds,
Animals,
Letters, and so on.

Foil comes in different densities, and some is not even inferior to strong metals. It is on such a foil is best to do the carving. Thus, it is possible to create entire compositions and paintings by punching a stencil image.

Another option for forming figurines out of foil is to add a framework of wire and cardboard. By stringing a cardboard template like a "kebab" onto wire, you can create striking sculptures.

All that remains is to then wrap our figure in foil, which will create volume and give shape.

In this way, you can even hide presents inside the sculpture. You can "stuff" a large bear with candy and give it as a gift!

What figures can be made out of foil:

Dinosaur,
Bear,
Bee,
Swallow,
Rose Flower,
Box,
Foil bracelet,

If our product has a lot of additional elements, it is quite difficult to fasten them together with glue. Not every glue can reliably connect and not tear the material. An alternative solution can be a thread with a needle, which will allow you to thread the foil beads and make an interesting bracelet, for example.

So, having only a picture of the conceived figure at hand, you can easily bring it to life. All you need to do is think through the parameters of the design and estimate the cost of the material. If the figure is three-dimensional, you can always cheat.

So, for example, you can take a plastic bag, fill it with candy, give it a shape and work with foil on the basis of this form.

This way will create stunning figures with a surprise inside, which will surprise relatives and friends as an original gift.

Foil and snowflakes

If you are preparing for the New Year's Eve celebration, then enough of cutting the usual snowflakes from paper, it's time to add glitter! All you need to do is replace a sheet of A4 paper with a sheet of foil, fold it according to the snowflake template and cut it out. The unfolded figure needs to be cleaned of foil remnants. Careful, the material is very fragile and can tear, so open your snowflake very carefully. That's it! The finished snowflake can be decorated.

Foil crafts for children can become a favorite activity in this form of creativity, as children always like everything shiny and something that can be crumpled, giving the figure a shape.