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.
Embroidery on fabric and bead decorations
Sequins are used to create not only paintings on a solid base, but also compositions on clothes, bags and shoes. This type of hobby can be enjoyed not only by women, but also by little fashionistas. The elements are sewn to the fabric using hidden stitches, backstitch, continuous and chain stitch.
To make an Indian head decoration you will need: a pendant, beads, sequins, fishing line with a diameter of 0.2 mm, scissors, a needle. Master class on creating tiki:
- Head measurements are taken.
- A sketch of the decoration is prepared on paper.
- Sequins and beads are selected according to color preferences.
- A pendant is attached to the fishing line.
- Beads with sequins are strung on both sides, and the fishing line is secured with a knot.
Earrings, beads, brooches, hairpins, pendants and bracelets are created using beads. Petal-shaped sequins look original in combination with round beads in pearl shades. You can experiment and show your imagination in creating original crafts from sequins with your own hands.
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.
Why dry glitter is inconvenient for children's creativity
In my opinion, the most inconvenient ones for children's art are dry glitter. To apply them to a craft, its surface is smeared with glue, then sprinkled with dry glitter, wait until the glue dries, and then shake off those glitter that did not stick.
The inconvenience is that when working with dry glitter, it scatters everywhere, as soon as the child makes a careless movement, sneezes or even breathes close to the glitter. And what if an open jar falls!
These sparkles may continue to fall off the finished craft. They stick to your hands if you take a craft.
My daughter and I used dry glitter when we didn't have anything else. Now we use glitter in the form of glue (gel) in convenient tubes. Coloring pages with fairies and witches, postcards and crafts with it become more impressive.
To work, just apply the glue directly from the tube to the craft and wait for it to dry.
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.
Recommendations for application and design
This type of makeup is not easy to use. To make applying glitter enjoyable and meet your expectations, you need to remember some nuances:
- If this is not some kind of thematic image, there should not be too much glitter. As a rule, the face focuses on one thing. These could be eyes, lips, cheeks or cheekbones.
- To avoid overdoing it with a shining fragment, choose pastel textures for the remaining areas, keeping shine and shimmer to a minimum.
- Choose decorative elements carefully. For example, large parts may not stick firmly to the face.
- Don’t forget about the base for the glitter: for the eyes - primer or cream shadows, lipstick or gloss is suitable for the lips, apply cream or makeup base on the cheekbones.
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- If the base has a color, it should be combined with sparkling particles. For example, golden glitter looks good with brown or coffee shadows.
Now about the technical part of the question:
Applying glitter is not that easy. It is better to take care of the tools in advance. Brushes, sponges, and napkins should always be at hand. Dry glitter easily falls off the brush and is difficult to remove from the skin. If you apply particles to the upper eyelid, place a napkin under the lower eyelashes.
Choose a flat brush, because round and fluffy ones will scatter glitter in all directions.
Take care of your eyes. Loose particles can ruin the whole process if they suddenly get inside the eye.
Glitter is very difficult to wash off; your cosmetic bag must have a two-phase product and hydrophilic water with oils. Only they can remove decorative makeup efficiently.
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.
Buy glue (gel) with glitter
Glitter glue, glitter gel or glitter are sold in craft stores, stationery stores and online stores, for example, on Aliexpress.
Does your child like to decorate drawings and crafts with glitter?
I suggest looking at other articles from the “Kits and materials for creativity” section, for example:
- Decorative adhesive tapes for creativity
- Figured hole punchers (composters)
- Lightweight, self-hardening modeling compound
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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.
What is glitter gel for face
Glitter in a thick gel that adheres well to the skin adds brightness and personality to the look. Fashionable looks with glitter gels are varied and attractive. Glitters are applied to the eyebrows and under them, on the hair or just on its roots, on the cheekbones and cheeks. But the matter is not limited to the face. If your clothes are open, you can apply face glitter to your body: shoulders and décolleté. Such noticeable additions to the image will be appropriate for informal celebrations (quite a few), as well as evening outings and club parties.
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.
Snow globe with lanterns, lighting and retro scene
What do you need
- Base with glass dome;
- figurine with a couple skating;
- a garland with toy lanterns or individual lanterns (sold in the same place where miniatures for doll houses are);
- LED garland;
- foam grains or large artificial snow;
- glitter;
- stand for a toy (small plastic jar or matchbox);
- heat-resistant transparent glue without acetone;
- blue glue (sold, for example, here).
How to do
Glue mini-lanterns to the base.
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Glue the toy stand. You can also wrap extra wires around it.
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Place the second garland in the center of the composition and secure with glue.
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Cover the base and wires with foam grains, masking the garland and stand. Level the center of the composition so that you can “fill” the skating rink there later.
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Apply a thick layer of glue to the foam (you can also use clear silicone sealant at this stage), sprinkle with glitter, outline the outline of the skating rink and let it dry completely.
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Apply blue glue to the center of the composition and attach the figurine to it.
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Fill the part of the composition where the skating rink is intended with blue glue, hiding the base of the figurine in the resulting “ice”. If there is no glue of the desired color, the skating rink can be made from polymer clay.
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If desired, you can grease the skating rink and lights with colorless glue and sprinkle glitter on top. Cover the composition with a glass dome.
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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!
Easy crafts for kids: Chinese bells made from keys
- several old keys (in this example, they are
- 1 stick or branch
- strong thread or fishing line
- acrylic paint (if desired)
1. First, you can paint a dry branch (on which the keys will then hang) in different bright colors.
2. Paint your keys different colors.
3. Tie a rope to each key.
* You can also paint the ropes.
*Tie the keys close together so they can jingle when they swing.
4. Tie strings to the ends of the branches so that the craft can be hung.
