Not a single holiday event, family holiday or youth party is complete without fun and humorous competitions and games. Any game is played with the aim of identifying the winner and receiving a valuable gift or reward. An excellent option for a symbolic gift can be medals.
You can order medals for guests and participants in entertainment and gaming programs from specialized companies that produce cups, figurines and medals.
Or you can make medals with your own hands. By the way, homemade medals can be made from a variety of materials: fabric, paper, cardboard, cookies, candy, etc. The news portal “Vtemu.by” wants to offer in this article several easy options for making medals for guests with your own hands.
Paper medals
You need to fold an accordion out of colored paper. Then connect the ends of the accordion to each other (this can be done with glue). Unfold the paper accordion to get a kind of flower. Glue a cut out circle of paper into the middle to mask the joint.
Cut a circle out of thick cardboard and glue tape to it. Now everything can be connected into a single whole using good glue (see photo). On the front of the paper medals you can write prizes, names of guests, etc.
How to make a fish from foil
This fairly simple foil craft is suitable for involving children in the process.
To create the effect of sea waves, paint a sheet of paper with blue watercolor paint, sprinkling it a little with blue. While the paper is still wet, sprinkle it with salt.
The sky can be painted on a separate sheet: use blue paint and drops of a darker shade. If you rub the leaf with a napkin, it will look more realistic. You can put a grid under the foil. If you run your fingernail over it, a pattern resembling fish scales will appear.
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The fish can be decorated with felt-tip pens. Use your imagination when choosing colors. Next, we cut out the fish with scissors, glue them onto a sheet with the sea and add a sheet with the sky.
Ribbon medals
To make these colorful medals you will need colorful ribbons, scraps of fabric, buttons and cardboard.
Choose the widest ribbon, it is on this that you will sew thin ribbons of different colors. After you create a multi-colored wide ribbon, you will need to stitch it several more times in different directions to give it density.
Now cut out a circle from thick cardboard and decorate it with ribbons, buttons or beads. Using a safety pin, connect everything into a single composition.
How to make a bunch of grapes from foil
To make the craft even easier, you can purchase a ready-made kit for making a bunch of grapes in advance at a craft store, which will have everything you need. But it’s much more interesting and exciting to create something yourself.
First of all, study the manufacturing technique and purchase foil for crafts or chocolates in such a wrapper. The latter will require about twenty pieces, so it is more practical to purchase a roll of foil for baking.
Prepare two templates: stems and berries (grapes). In order to make the latter, you need to form balls from foil with tails of two to three centimeters. To make a stem, twist the foil into a tube ten to thirteen centimeters long.
Twenty such blanks must be made of each type. Next, we tie together four or five grapes around one stem, thus forming a bunch. Make bunches from all available blanks, and then tie them into one large one.
To create leaves, you need to fold a star with five ends from foil tubes, the rays of which are also made from pre-prepared elements. Here you can show your imagination and create leaves of any desired shape. The main thing is the similarity to real leaves.
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Next, we combine all the prepared elements together and get a beautiful bunch of grapes that will undoubtedly decorate your interior.
The same method is suitable for making a large bunch of grapes for the dacha, under which you can hide from the hot sun. You can easily find photos and diagrams of large foil crafts on the Internet.
Cookie medals
Are you making cookies? We are sure yes! If so, prepare your favorite cookie dough recipe. Cut out circles and make holes in them for ribbons.
Using colorful sweet icing or chocolate, decorate the finished cookies and thread beautiful ribbons through them.
Such medals would be very appropriate at a children's party or children's birthday.
How to make a sprig of leaves from foil
Next, we will tell you how to make a craft from foil, namely a sprig of leaves, with your own hands. Prepare three paper clips, foil and a leaf template (for example, from a real plant). Place the foil on a piece of paper, smooth it out and make six copies (two for each side). We carefully cut off all unnecessary, ugly, protruding parts with a knife or scissors.
Then we unwind the prepared paper clips and make a twig out of them. The two sides of the leaves are glued together and a straightened paperclip is placed inside. Next, we connect all the elements and get a beautiful and neat foil branch with three leaves.
We make gifts for dads with schoolchildren
Of course, there will be congratulations and wishes on this day, so I suggest elementary school students make a postcard out of paper, using interesting material. For example, you can tastefully decorate a disposable paper plate.
Or create a real masterpiece postcard from very unusual materials in the plasticine style.
We will need:
- white paper A4 - 1 pc.
- printed text in the form of poems
- pencil, ruler, plasticine
- cocktail straws
- fireworks or sparkles
- PVA glue
Stages of work:
1. Fold a sheet of white paper in half. Draw a vertical line like this.
2. Then cut along its contour with special decorative scissors.
4. Lay out a flag from plasticine and decorate the numbers.
5. Then cut the tubes of different colors finely and stick them into the plasticine. Glue the fireworks, and then let the glue dry. This is such a wonderful postcard, one might say it turned out to be a souvenir, all that remains is to include congratulatory wishes.
You can also, if you didn’t like the previous option, use the art of quilling for high school students.
Crafts made from CDs, the most ordinary CDs with holiday symbols, look very bright and impressive.
Impressive, simple and looks quite creative.
You can resort to this method, it is more suitable for children aged 5-10 years, you will need glue, paper and scissors. This is the well-known shirt and tie.
You can complicate the task a little and make an origami style tie.
A popular school children's craft can be a boat made of cardboard and paper.
An original gift would be a photo frame, and you need to cut out a frame from an ordinary hard box, and then use woolen threads to decorate it and decorate it with stars. You can use stickers, rhinestones and scrapbooking materials.
You can make a medal for your grandfathers from plasticine balls.
