How to make a wire snowman?
On the eve of the New Year, many strive to decorate the home interior with various garlands, decorative stickers or themed toys to create a festive atmosphere inside the house. Several years ago there was a tradition to decorate private houses with garlands also outside. And LED figures of traditional New Year's heroes (for example, Santa Claus and Snegurochka) are usually placed in the local area.
All light installations necessary to decorate the facade of the building and the adjacent territory can be purchased at the New Year's fair or at any of the chain stores.
Of course, the prices for glowing figures are quite high. But if the desire to decorate the house outside is higher than any price, then you can, without spending too much money, try to make a sparkling New Year's figure with your own hands. The easiest way is to make a glowing snowman.
Tools and materials
The most difficult task in the process of making a New Year's snowman is preparing the necessary material. The tool that will be needed to work on the manufacture and installation of the conceived figure is available in every home - this is a hammer and nippers.
But with the material, everything is more complicated. To purchase it, you will have to go to hardware stores, as well as visit a fair where New Year's paraphernalia is sold. It is even possible to visit the scrap metal collection point (where you can find wire).
To make a snowman figure, reaching a height of 1 meter, you will need several hours of free time and the following materials:
- steel wire 10 meters long;
- two LED string lights 2 and 5 m long with self-contained power supplies powered by batteries;
- nails;
- Scotch.
Manufacturing scheme
Before starting the process of making outdoor decorations, you need to prepare a work surface and assemble a garland pattern. Batteries should be installed in the power units of the garlands and their performance should be checked. After that, you can start tinkering with the figure of a snowman.
The whole work will consist of several stages.
- Measure and bite off with a pair of pliers two pieces of wire with different lengths: 7 and 2 m.
- On a large segment, measure 2 meters from one end and mark.
- Divide the remaining length of the same piece of wire into 4 equal parts.
- To make the body of a snowman, it is necessary to twist a piece of wire, the length of which is 7 meters, in the form of a spiral consisting of 5 turns. Only 5 m of wire must be used on the torso.
- To prevent the spiral from unfolding, in the place of the last turn it must be fastened with a short piece of wire.
- Then, without cutting off the wire, you need to make a turn in the opposite direction so that you get a head.
- Then you can start making the hat. To do this, shape a hat with a length of 2 meters.
- Using the remaining pieces of wire, attach the hat to the snowman's head.
- Take a garland 5 meters long and entangle the entire body of the snowman, starting from the smallest turn of the spiral. To prevent the edges of the garland from hanging down, they must be secured with tape.
- A shorter garland should be used to decorate the snowman's hat.
You may need a hammer, nails, and pieces of wire for the fasteners.
Recommendations
To make the figure beautiful and strong, when manufacturing, you need to pay attention to simple recommendations.
- If the wire from which the figure is supposed to be made too soft and does not hold its shape well, you can intertwine 2 pieces in the form of a bundle, thereby increasing the strength of the material.
- A wire frame that is tarnished or rusty before winding the garland, it must be cleaned and painted with white paint.
- To make the snowman look more elegant, for his head and torso, you can choose a garland with white lights, and for a hat - with multi-colored ones.
As you can see, it is not difficult to independently make a luminous snowman figurine to decorate the facade of the house for the New Year's holiday. Using inexpensive materials will save you from buying expensive jewelry in the store, thereby saving the family budget.
You can watch a brief process of making a snowman from a wire with your own hands in the next video.