How to make a New Year's composition from gingerbreadhouses without using baked goods? It turns out that even ordinary cardboard milk cartons can be made to look appetizing with the help of textured paints and colorful buttons. Even children can do it! Charming gingerbread houses are one of the most touching and cute New Year's decorations. Children especially love them, sometimes so much that they eat them before the holiday even starts. Therefore, if you want to make a decorative composition that will delight you for a long time, go for a little trick: do not use baked goods. Our master class will teach you how to make a gingerbread village from used cardboard milk cartons. We warn you: if you do everything right, the cardboard houses will look no less appetizing than real gingerbread ones. Therefore, it is better to immediately involve children in the process of creating holiday decor so that they can see for themselves that it is inedible! So, to make such charming houses with your own hands, you will need:
- cardboard milk or juice cartons;
- cigarette paper;
- rectangular pieces of cardboard (can be cut from any food boxes);
- multi-colored buttons;
- decoupage glue;
- brown and white acrylic paints for creativity;
- white texture paste;
- white and black marker;
- decor (beads, stones, etc.);
- yellow colored paper;
- tools: brush, scissors, glue gun, sandpaper, scapula for plasticine.
Wash and dry the cardboard bags thoroughly.Then cut off the plastic necks. Carefully open the tops of the bags. Cut the sides of each top to form triangles (use the fold lines as a guide).
Fold all the sides of the top and glue them together with a glue gun. The base of the house is ready.
Apply decoupage glue to one sidebox and press a piece of tissue paper or napkin onto it. Carefully smooth out the surface of the paper and repeat the procedure on the other side. When the surface of each box is completely covered, the stage can be considered complete.
Now that you have given the boxes a textured surface, paint them chocolate brown. You can use a special texture paint to enhance the effect.
While the boxes are drying, make the roofs.You just need to cut out proportional rectangles from cardboard and fold them in half. Try them on the boxes. Before gluing the roofs, sand their cardboard surfaces with sandpaper. Their texture will become rougher, which means it will be easier to apply texture paste to it.
Apply textured white paste to the roofhouses should be a plasticine spatula or a pastry spatula. With their help, you can create a wavy relief surface, reminiscent of cream on a cake.
Before the roofs dry, you need to decorate them with buttons. Just press them lightly into the surface covered with paste.
Now all you have to do is decorate it yourself.houses. Here you will need imagination and additional decor in the form of buttons, pebbles and pieces of colored paper. How and where to glue them - decide for yourself. Do not forget to also use markers to draw windows and doors. To achieve the best result, we recommend first drawing a plan for decorating your crafts on a piece of paper. And as an example, we suggest you admire these charming houses.
Once all the houses are decorated, you canglue them to a stand made of wood, foam or thick cardboard and add additional decorative touches, such as a path of multi-colored buttons. Such a decorative composition can easily claim the role of the main New Year's decoration.
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