- Foami rojo escarchado
- Cartulina blanca, color piel, verde y naranja
- Una tijera
- Silicon
- Una cuerda pequeña
- Marcador negro fino
- CD
Good evening guys, today I want to share this DIY that I made today.
This time I used old CDs that are almost no longer used to recycle them, this idea did not come from me, but rather from a collaboration that my son's school asked us to decorate the school with Christmas theme, in my country since October people start to get excited about this time of the year and schools from this time already begin to decorate and do activities that have to do with Christmas, I loved the idea and obviously I needed to participate, it was really easy and very few materials were used, the teacher asked for only 2 decorations per person, that's why I made only 2, but I really wanted to make more to decorate my house for Christmas, they could even be made to put on the tree.
To make this craft I used the following materials:
- Red frosted Foami
- White, green, pink and orange cardboard
- Scissors
- Silicone
- A small string
- Thin black marker
- CD
Proceso/Process
Obviously when you think of Christmas decorations, the first thing that comes to mind is Santa, snowmen, reindeer, candy canes, etc.
However, as I told you they only asked for two decorations per person, so I had to make a difficult choice between which of these elements I would like to recreate, I went for the most basic, Santa and a snowman, I wanted to make them very cute and tender, I went out to buy red frosted foami because I didn't have any at home, I could not resist, I also bought white cardboard, the rest I had at home, so I started by taking my CD and placing it on skin colored cardboard and with the help of a pencil trace the figure of the CD, this to make the skin of Santa's face, then I cut out what would be the hat but I did not like how it looked so I changed it.
I made another hat that I did like and started to cut the other parts of Santa's face, the nose, the beard, the whiskers, and the mouth I did without measuring much, just following my instinct and praying that everything was not badly proportioned hahaha.
I placed each piece in its place to see how it looked, and then start gluing, to glue it I used hot silicone, so I would have a faster result and it would stick better, after gluing all the pieces, I drew the eyes and started with the other CD that was going to be of a snowman.
And this snowman was much simpler, because he didn't have a beard haha, I did the same procedure of placing the cd on the cardboard, but this time using the white cardboard, tracing the shape of the cd and then cut it out and glue it, then I made a small carrot with orange cardboard and to make it more striking and not so simple, I made a hat with red glitter and green, I started to glue everything in place and then paint the eyes with black marker, I also went over the carrot with black marker to give it a little texture. When I thought I was done I forgot a very small detail which was to put a string so they can hang them on the wall haha, so I quickly took a strip and glued it on the back, joining it between the hats and the CD and so they were well reinforced.
Final
I loved how cute and simple it is to make such nice things to decorate our home for Christmas, it could also work for Halloween but maybe I'll try that another day 😁