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Good day. Most often, people decorate their interiors with flowers or decorative trees made by themselves. Today, together with you, we will make a decorative apple tree from scrap materials.
For this we need:
- Wire.
- Wire cutters.
- Fabric in brown and green colors.
- Scissors.
- Pencil.
- Cardboard.
- Glue.
- Scotch.
- Pot.
- Cement or plaster.
- Woolen threads of red and brown colors.
- Hook.

Take the wire and use wire cutters to cut off 5 pieces of 25 centimeters each and 6 pieces of 30 centimeters each. And 22 small segments of 3-5 centimeters.

Let's take the wire


Let's take one long piece and use tape to attach two small pieces to it. These will be additional branches of the apple tree. We do this with all segments.

attach two small pieces to it

attach two small pieces to it


Now we need brown fabric. I took velvet. It always looks rich and elegant. We cut the fabric into strips 2 centimeters wide, as long as possible. We wrap our branches with these strips and fix the ends of the fabric with glue. At the same time, we leave the ends (3 cm) untouched.

brown fabric

wrap the branches

wrap the branches

wrap the branches


We do the same with the remaining branches.

wrap the branches


Cut another strip of fabric 3 centimeters wide. We put our branches together and wrap them tightly with a strip of fabric.Lubricate the ends with glue. The resulting tree is “planted” in a pot. Fill with gypsum or cement solution.

We fold the branches

Fill with gypsum solution


Now we straighten the branches.

straighten the branches


Now let’s take green fabric, maybe with a pattern, it’ll be even more interesting. Let's cut out leaves of different sizes from it. To prevent the material from spreading, carefully burn the edges with a lighter. Just don't bring the fabric close to the fire, as it will melt easily.

Glue the leaves to the branches


Glue the leaves to the branches.

Glue the leaves to the branches


The tree is almost ready, all that remains is to make the apples. Let's take cardboard and draw a circle on it with a diameter of 1.5 centimeters. In it we will draw a circle of smaller diameter. There should be two such blanks.

let's draw a circle


We put two blanks together. We take red woolen threads and use a hook to wind them around the resulting ring. We wrap until the hole disappears inside the ring.

red wool threads

Wrapping


We cut the ring in a circle, push the cardboard disks apart and use a brown woolen thread to tighten our pompom. We remove the disks. The brown thread needs to be tied to form a loop.

cut

Brown thread


Cut out two leaves from green fabric and glue them to the apple.

glue them to the apple


You need to make as many of these apples as you want. I made 15 pieces. We hang our apples on the tree. Decorate the pot as you wish. So our decorative vase is ready.

Decorative apple tree


In fact, it was not in vain that we hung the apples by the loops instead of gluing them. Your tree can change at least every day. It can be with or without apples, or you can hang flowers on it. It all depends only on your imagination and mood. Goodbye.
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