New Year's tree toy made from postcards

There is already very little time left before the next new year. And, of course, many residents of our country have already begun to decorate the Christmas tree in their apartments and houses. Of course, in our time in stores, no matter what New Year’s toys and decorations they sell, it would seem, buy and decorate. But it’s much nicer and more interesting to make New Year’s decorations with your own hands from scrap materials available at home.
To make one of these Christmas tree toys we needed:

• postcards 2 pcs.;
  
• scissors;
  
• compass or small glass;
  
• PVA glue and super glue;
  
• pencil and ruler;
  
• ribbon;
  
• rhinestones or sequins.

The fact is that while I was still at school, I collected postcards, and after graduation I didn’t throw them away or give them to anyone, so I have a large selection of postcards for various kinds of crafts. Since we are going to make a New Year's toy, I chose the most brilliant ones from my variety of cards, and which are not too bad to cut.

On the back of the two postcards we have chosen, with a compass or as we do, using a small glass stack, we draw 20 identical circles.

And carefully cut them out with scissors.

Our mugs turned out to be 40mm in diameter. But you can make circles of any size, the main thing is that all circles have the same diameter.

Now we need to inscribe an equilateral triangle into each circle on the reverse side. We made a template out of cardboard and traced the triangle with a pencil, duplicating it on each circle.

Then, on all 20 circles, we bend three identical sides, that is, we bend the edges of the circles along the lines of the triangle inscribed in it.
Tip: it’s better to do this with a ruler to make the folds smoother.

I decided to make the top and bottom of the toy from a lilac postcard, and the middle from green. Therefore, next we take the first five circles of lilac color and, using PVA glue, glue them together one by one by the bent sides. It should look like the following photo.

By analogy, we make the bottom of the toy ball from the remaining five lilac circles.
Next we need to make the middle from the remaining 10 green circles. To do this, we glue them together into strips with PVA glue and close them into a “ring”. How to properly glue into stripes is shown in the following photo.

You should get these three parts of the future New Year's tree decoration: top, bottom and middle.

Since we plan to hang this toy on our home Christmas tree, we need to make a loop on which we will hang it. To do this, we carefully insert both sides of the ribbon into the center of the upper part of the toy and tie it from the inside with a couple of knots. The ribbon should be about 20 cm, otherwise our toy will look ugly. That is, the length of the ribbon should correspond to the size of the toy.

Now carefully glue all parts of the toy ball together with PVA glue.
I made this toy with my four-year-old son, so at the joints of the toy, irregularities and holes are visible here and there. To hide them and add beauty and shine to our toy, we glued round silver rhinestones left over from the nursery using super glue. crafts. But you can use sequins or shiny beads instead, for example.

Here is such a wonderful and original ball-toy for the New Year tree.

But it is absolutely simple to make and even school-age children can make it.
Happy New Year to everyone!