Often glitter is needed to make various crafts. Especially when it’s time for holidays, fun parties, and New Year’s parties. Many people wonder how to make glitter at home with their own hands. After reading our article, you will know the most common and easy ways to make glitter from multi-colored foil, Christmas tree tinsel, even salt. There is no need to buy special materials; we will make do with only the most necessary ones, which are always at hand and available in every home. These are scissors and a hole punch. If you decide to start making handmade toys for sale, you will have to purchase the necessary materials, but we will talk about glitter, which you can use at home to create a festive mood or beautiful, bright toys for the Christmas tree.
Using tinsel
If you are seriously thinking about how to make glitter at home, we can recommend using sharp scissors and New Year's tinsel. You can buy packages of direct rain, as in the photo below, or you can use terry garlands, old decorations that no longer look good on the tree. You can use any shiny items.
Before you make small sparkles at home, you need to put a sheet of clean paper on the table, take a pack of even rain and hold it tightly in your left hand. Then, using scissors, retreating 1-2 mm from the edge, cut into small squares.
These little sparkles can be made in different colors. Chop golden scraps onto one piece of paper, silver scraps onto another, and if necessary, cut colored ones as well.
Children's New Year's crafts. Decorating Christmas tree toys
- strand (for stuffing)
- simple plastic or glass balls (without drawing or pattern)
1.
Fill the ball with a strand.
2.
You can color the New Year's ball as you like. In this example, a penguin was made from a ball.
3.
To draw a penguin, you need to completely paint one half of the ball with blue paint, and paint the other half as shown in the picture (leaving space for the face and eyes).
4.
Draw the eyes. Use thin brushes. Wait for the paint to dry and make your eyes sparkle by adding white paint.
5.
Draw the beak (small orange triangle drawn with the top of the head facing down).
6.
For the paws, draw one more triangle, but larger.
* You can also draw a snowflake.
Using small glitter
Many girls use small glitter for manicure. The cut squares are mixed with varnish and spread on the nail plate. It can be done differently. First, a layer of varnish of the main color is applied, then glitter is sprinkled on the nails, and the excess is shaken off back onto a sheet of paper. Then a layer of colorless varnish is spread over the glitter so that the pieces do not fall off.
If you know how to make glitter at home, you can create your own Christmas tree decorations. These can be figurines of Father Frost and the Snow Maiden, cardboard crafts of animals, stars or bells. Any toy will look beautiful if you add sparkles cut from tinsel to its surface. It's easy to do. The finished toy is coated with PVA glue and sprinkled with glitter. Press down a little with your hand and shake off the excess back onto the table.
You can decorate attributes for the New Year's holiday - a crown for a princess, a kokoshnik for a girl in a Russian national costume, a headdress for the Snow Queen or the Snow Maiden.
Classic snow globe with water, glitter and teddy bear
What do you need
- Jar with lid;
- a bear figurine or other waterproof toy;
- glitter;
- waterproof glue;
- water;
- clear hair gel or glycerin;
- silver acrylic paint;
- brush;
- ribbon;
- scissors.
How to do
Paint the outside of the lid with silver paint.
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Pour glitter into the jar.
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Glue the toy to the lid of the jar from the inside. Be sure to let the glue dry completely.
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Pour cold water, and into it - gel or glycerin in a proportion of about a tablespoon per 200 milliliters of water. Stir and see if the “snow” swirls smoothly enough. If not, then add the gel drop by drop until the movement of the glitter in the liquid becomes slow.
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Coat the neck of the jar with glue to prevent water from leaking from the finished decoration.
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Screw the lid on tightly and invert the jar.
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Decorate the neck with ribbon.
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What other options are there?
Also, instead of a toy, you can put a laminated photograph in the ball:
And even a whole decorative composition:
If you want to complicate the task a little, then create a ball with music:
Sequins made from multi-colored foil
From thin and crisp foil of different colors you can cut glitter into any shape. For example, we will tell the reader how to make heart-shaped glitter at home. You buy red foil, fold it in several layers and cut out a heart shape.
It turns out that there are many elements at once. Such details can be used for pasting, for example, “Valentines” for Valentine’s Day, designing a wedding album or Christmas decorations made of papier-mâché or cardboard. For boys, you can cut out small Christmas trees or blue cars from green foil.
What it is
Sequins
(glitter, shimmer) are decorative elements designed to create a manicure.
They can be in the form of dust, sand
or large elements
.
Each type is good in its own way and has characteristic features.
For example, dust or sand will have to be applied to the nail plates with a sprayer.
This manicure suits everyone. It will perfectly complement your everyday look and go well with a formal evening outfit. It all depends on the chosen design.
Types of glitter
- Glitter
- metallized elements, usually made of foil, measuring one millimeter or more. - Yes
- the diameter of the particles does not exceed one millimeter.
The glitter base is selected depending on the desired effect. Bright colors are suitable for holidays and parties. It’s better to design a daytime manicure in calmer colors.
Figured hole punchers
Nowadays there are special hole punchers on sale that punch holes of different shapes. You can buy a whole kit for cutting out different figures. If you don’t know how to make glitter at home, then purchasing such convenient devices will solve the problem in no time.
Shaped hole punches can also be used in making paper crafts. Children love to paste small parts made using these machines into appliques.
This is much more convenient than cutting out a figure by hand. For example, you are unlikely to be able to cut out stars evenly, but you can squeeze out a whole pack of them with a hole punch in a minute.
Simple hole punch
There is another good option for making glitter at home. This is cutting out beautiful even circles from multi-colored foil with a simple hole punch. The material is thin, so you can fold the sheets in several layers. It will be quite quick to cut into slices.
This shiny confetti can be used to decorate your Christmas tree decorations. To do this, take a plain or transparent ball and coat it with PVA glue. All that remains is to sprinkle it with shiny circles and hang it by a thread to dry.
You and your child can glue a garland of flags on a string and sprinkle each flag with glitter. After hanging it on the wall or under the ceiling, the flags will sparkle beautifully in the light of the lamps.
How to make glitter from CD?
To make shiny colorful balls for your Christmas tree or to decorate your room, you can use old, unwanted CDs. They need to be carefully broken into small fragments; you can also break them with a hammer or use pliers.
Then each piece is smeared with glue and attached to the ball. The product reflects light rays well, as it has a mirror surface. If such a ball hangs on a tree branch, the lights of the garland will sparkle even brighter.
Crafts for children: New Year calendar with gifts
- cardboard toilet paper cylinders (in this example there are 24 of them, but we will need 31)
- plain or wrapping paper
- thick thread (string)
1. Place a sheet of plain or wrapping paper on a flat surface. Place a toilet paper cylinder on top of the sheet (round base down) and trace around the base to create a circle.
2. Draw 30 more circles.
3. On each circle, write a number with a felt-tip pen (a day in December) - the numbers will go from 1 to 31.
4. Cut out all the circles.
5. Using a glue stick, glue each circle to one side of the cardboard cylinders.
6. Place a small (not heavy) gift on the back of each half-closed cylinder.
7. Prepare a sheet of cardboard. It must be large enough to accommodate all the cylinders. Apply glue to the edge of each cylinder (the side opposite the closed side with the numbers) and glue it neatly and evenly to the cardboard sheet.
8. You can make a roof like a house in the village. This can also be done using cardboard and glue. A pipe can be made by cutting one cardboard roll accordingly.
9. Tie the thread to the cardboard so that the calendar can be hung.
Salt sparkles
Finally, we'll look at how to make your own glitter from salt crystals. For this work you will need a kilogram of coarse table salt. It is advisable to choose a salt so that the crystals are shiny. To color the salt in different colors, you can either use simple watercolor paints or buy food coloring. You can also use natural dyes by taking beetroot or carrot juice, using brilliant green or potassium permanganate.
For each color, select a bag or any other container. Dishes can become stained with salt, so it is best to buy thick bags.
Dyes are dissolved in water, watercolors are also prepared by adding water. Then a small amount of coloring liquid is poured into the bag and the bag is shaken thoroughly so that all the salt crystals are colored. Then the bag is opened to allow air access and the salt to dry. After complete drying, the salt can be poured into containers convenient for crafts and used to decorate New Year's toys for the holiday.
In the article, we talked in detail about all the methods for making glitter at home. It’s not difficult to do it yourself, the main thing is to want it. Good luck!
On what parts of the face and body is glitter applied?
Eyes
Glitter can be applied dry or liquid. Just apply eye makeup and add shine. The most common option is a highlight in the center of the upper eyelid.
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If you want something special, let it be a colored glitter liner along the upper eyelashes, a liner along the crease of the upper eyelid, a stripe along the lower eyelashes, or covering the entire upper eyelid.
Lips
There are techniques for creating radiant lips:
Shimmer over lipstick. Protect the skin around your lips with a tissue. Apply lipstick (not matte, glitter doesn’t fit well on it). Using a brush, fill the contour with shimmering particles.
Wet technique. Everything is the same, only the brush is moistened with water or a fixative spray. The layer will be denser and the makeup will be more durable.
Mixing glitter and lip gloss. Pour glitter into the glitter and the product is ready. There is no need to apply several layers; it is better to apply the mix with a brush.
Using a primer. It resembles a colorless gel. The good thing about this technique is that you don’t have to select shades to match the base.
Day. I slightly tinted my lips with liquid lipstick in light shades. Using a fluffy brush, I lightly powdered glitter particles in the center of my lips. You will get delicate lips with a highlight, an element quite suitable for daytime makeup.
Cheekbones
Replace the usual light highlighter with golden, silver or multi-colored shiny particles.
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Some interesting ideas for evening makeup:
- tears from glitter;
- a mask drawn over the eyes;
- eyebrow projection;
- imitation of freckles;
- geometric shapes on the temples.
Body
Images on the body can be very different. Starting from discreet single figures to designs with multi-colored sparkles. There are examples of applying permanent glitter like a tattoo. The images on the body are very impressive. You can powder your shoulders and décolleté. There are images that require almost complete coverage of shimmering particles.
For a more durable coating, it is enough to treat the areas with a primer or light cream.
