If your home has accumulated a large amount of bright transparent wrapping paper, do not rush to get rid of it.
From it you can make a beautiful ball that can decorate the room not only for the New Year, but also for any other holiday. You can also instruct a teenage girl to make such a craft if she is already familiar with sewing skills. To do this, you will need 20-25 large circles cut from such paper.
It can be of different colors - from this craft will only become more beautiful. If you do not have transparent paper, then such a ball can be made from corrugated paper, as well as from any elastic paper that does not crease too much. The size of the ball will correspond to the diameter of your prepared circles. Prepare a sharp thin needle with a long thread and paper clips: you will need twice as many of them as blanks. Fold the circle in half and fasten with a paper clip. Since folds are poorly visible on shiny paper, the folding principle is shown on plain colored paper.
Mark the middle on the fold, but do not iron. Put your finger in the middle, grasp the edge of the semicircle at the fold and lift it to the top with a paper clip, while pushing the edges of the workpiece apart. You will get two of these folds.
Without removing your finger from the middle, bend the second side of the workpiece as well. Fasten the workpiece below with a paper clip, capturing the beginning of the folds, so that your folded workpiece does not open.
Also fold all the circles.
Take a needle with a thread and start sewing with one two stitches all the blanks to each other, gradually making a circle. Do not tighten the thread when sewing, otherwise it will tear the paper. As you sew down the folded circles, remove the paper clips from sharp corners.
When you fix all the folded circles, pass the needle and thread through the entire craft two times (forward and backward), thereby finally fixing all the details. Make a knot so that sewing does not disperse. Do not tear off the thread - it will serve as a loop for hanging the ball.
Now remove the paper clips from the edges of the folded circles. The craft itself will recover and will take the form of a beautiful ball.
