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DIY coffee tree. Master class with step by step photos
Demeuova Dinara Akhmetovna, teacher of additional education, State Autonomous Educational Institution JSC Higher Professional Education AISI TsDNTT (State Autonomous Educational Institution Astrakhan Region of Higher Professional Education "Astrakhan Engineering and Construction Institute" Center for Children's Scientific and Technical Creativity)For teachers, educators and parents.
Purpose: interesting gift with your own hands and original decoration interior
Target: Making a Christmas tree from coffee beans
Tasks:
Educational: teach how to make and decorate topiary.
Developmental: develop imagination, imagination and fine motor skills.
Educational: to cultivate perseverance and accuracy
Work progress:
Hello, dear teachers, educators, parents and all those who visited my page. In my blog I suggest detailed master class on creating a topiary in the form of a Christmas tree. What topiary is has long been known to everyone. And, I think, every needlewoman has made it at least once. And when you make one tree, you want a second and a third - it’s addictive. So I decided New Year make a topiary Christmas tree like this.
I advise you to try to make this tree of happiness, even if it seems impossible to you. Everything will turn out to be very simple in the end.
You will need the following materials:
-glue gun and glue “Moment”
-scissors
- twine (string)
-threads
- black cardboard
-coffee beans
- sushi chopsticks or skewers
-cup
-beige paper (recycled)
-newspaper
-pencil
-gypsum mixture
-wire
For decoration:
-cinnamon
- sisaplast
We print the template on A4 format. Cut it out and transfer it to cardboard. I have black cardboard, you can use dark brown or paint it with gouache dark color. This is necessary so that the gaps between the coffee beans are not visible.
You need to form a cone out of cardboard and immediately insert the wire there. I had thin wire, so I folded it 4 times. You can adjust the length yourself, whatever you like.
Now, starting from the bottom of the cone, we paste it with coffee beans, leaving a little space at the top. Try to glue carefully and close to each other.
We wrap the top of the head in a circle with twine or twine, applying a sufficient amount of glue. Smoothly move on to the wire. The transition must be careful.
Typically, the tree should have a star decoration on the top of its head. Since we have an unusual tree, we will make a ball at the tip. It is based on an ordinary newspaper. Tear off half the sheet.
Give it a round shape.
Wrap tightly with thread.
Cover with coffee beans, flat side inward.
Using a glue gun, glue the finished coffee ball onto the tip of the wire. You can bend the wire in any direction.
Now we’ll make a trunk for our tree. On black cardboard we draw a circle equal to the width of the cone.
Cut it out
We take sushi chopsticks and pierce the circle with them. Pour glue into the hole formed. Now your sticks will not fall and will hold tightly.
We need to compact the newspaper into the cone. This will give strength to our future tree.
Now we need to make a pot in which the miracle Christmas tree will stand. We take a broken cup, which is no longer useful for its intended purpose.
And cover it with recycled beige paper.
Pour the gypsum mixture into the resulting pot and connect all the components together. Decorate with cinnamon and sizaplast. Here it is - a New Year's miracle.
This tree will serve wonderful decoration interior and will fill your home with the aromas of coffee and cinnamon.
People make all kinds of Christmas trees for the New Year: from cardboard, and from candies... In general, all you need is imagination, skillful hands and patience, and you can make any Christmas tree you want. Those who love coffee and the aroma of coffee beans will surely love the coffee tree. Such a Christmas tree will be beautiful, and most importantly incredibly fragrant. New Year's decoration or a gift.
Coffee tree - master class
So, before we move on to describing the process of making a Christmas tree from coffee, let’s figure out what materials you will need in
- work:
- coffee beans (the number of beans depends on the size of the Christmas tree you are going to make);
- cardboard (quite dense, but flexible);
- threads;
- double-sided tape;
- hot glue (glue gun);
- scissors;
- trunk for a Christmas tree (this can be a branch, as in this master class, but you can also use bamboo sticks tied with ribbon and other options that you have enough imagination for);
- decorations for the Christmas tree (beads or large beads, sparkles, etc.)
Now, having decided on the materials, let’s move on directly to making a Christmas tree from coffee beans.
Step 1: First, roll a cone out of cardboard, securing it with double-sided tape. Trim its edges if necessary. Then, to further secure the cone, wrap it with thread.
Step 2: Now you need to be patient and cover the base of the tree with coffee beans. Glue the grains using a glue gun at an angle of approximately 70-80 degrees. You need to start gluing from the base of the tree, not from the top. After the tree is covered with its “clothes”, it needs to be decorated, because christmas tree made from coffee without decorations is uninteresting. Beautiful beads, bows, sparkles - whatever you can think of - are suitable for decoration.
Step 3: The last step the tree will be strengthened. In this master class, both the base and the trunk are wooden. It looks very stylish, but if suddenly you don’t have a piece of wood on your farm for a base, then you can decorate plastic cup, and for the trunk find a stick on the street. You need to fix the trunk inside the tree using a glue gun.
Your Christmas tree made from coffee beans is ready. All that remains is to rejoice and inhale its wonderful aromas.
Recently, they have become increasingly popular various types DIY crafts. A special trend is topiary, decorative trees made from coffee or other scrap materials. Today I want to show you how to make a herringbone coffee topiary. It's very easy, even easier than regular coffee topiary. And so, let's get to work, or rather, to prepare materials.
To create a coffee tree you will need:
coffee beans can be bought in packages or by weight,
hot glue,
a cup or glass for the base of the Christmas tree,
ribbon for decoration,
twine,
cardboard,
acrylic paint brown.
First, we need to prepare the base for the Christmas tree - it will be a cone. The cone can be made from cardboard. Or make from plain paper and using the papier-mâché technique, compact the cone. It all depends on you, I have a papier-mâché cone. 
We paint the cone with brown paint, since the coffee beans are not ideal and do not have the same structure, the base of the cone may be slightly translucent, so we prime the surface acrylic paint brown color. We begin to glue the grains. I glued them starting from the bottom. The grains were glued with the flat side down. Since we will be gluing the coffee in two layers, we will be gluing the second layer with the flat side up. 
And so, row by row, we get a cone blank covered with grains. 
We do not cover the top with grains, leaving room for decoration. This is the first layer of grains. 
We glue the second layer on top of the previous one, trying to fill all the empty spaces so that the base is not visible. 
Now let's make decorations for the Christmas tree. This will be a bow. I simply folded the ribbon beautifully in the shape of a bow and secured it with special wire. 
We insert the decoration into the top. You can fix it with hot glue. The Christmas tree is already so beautiful. You can make a base and leave it that way, but it won’t be topiary. And we will make a leg for the Christmas tree. 
Now we are preparing a pot for our tree. You can take any cup with a coffee theme, or take a paper glass, you can cover it with twine. We glue it with PVA glue, then your cup will look neat. 
You can use a tree branch or wooden skewers as a trunk for topiary.
The weighting agent in our cup will be pebbles from the sea, or you can simply fill everything with plaster, whichever is more convenient for you. Attach the base of the trunk using hot glue 
We seal our Christmas tree with paper. 
We cover the cardboard with coffee. 
Attach the Christmas tree to the base. 
Here our Christmas tree is ready. It turned out to be a beauty. 
You can attach coffee beans to the pebbles. 
This is how a miracle happened for me. Try it, I'm sure you will succeed too.
This tree will decorate your kitchen or living room.
Happy creativity! 
Posted by acja
New Year traditionally smells of tangerines and Christmas trees. However, you can add variety and add a little coffee, cinnamon and vanilla. Christmas trees made from coffee beans in the interior delight with their appearance, as well as the aroma of warmth and comfort.
Making a Christmas tree from coffee beans is very close to the technique of creating topiary, but has its own nuances.
To create New Year's decor with your own hands we will need:
- foam cone
- small glass jar
- wire
- alabaster + water
- glue gun for crafts + 3-5 glue sticks
- jute twine
- coffee beans
- dried citrus fruits
- floral moss
- sackcloth
- decorative elements
How to make a Christmas tree from coffee beans
We connect the glue gun for needlework, since we will work with it first of all, and while it heats up, we work on the base for the Christmas tree.
Take a foam cone and wire. We make a hole in the cone and carefully insert the wire into it.
We take jute twine and wrap it around the base of the Christmas tree.
We fix the twine with a glue gun. To make it look neat, we do it pointwise.
As a result, we get a Christmas tree like this.
Take a thin wire. Fold it in half and twist it together.
We thread the twine into the “eye” that we have made and tie a knot, then wrap the wire with jute along the entire length.
We insert the wire into the base of the Christmas tree. We ended up with a playful ponytail, which we fixed with a glue gun.
The leg of the Christmas tree should also be wrapped with twine.
Let's start working with coffee beans.
On the base of our Christmas tree we glue coffee beans individually.
We start with the sharp edge at the base of the Christmas tree.
Then we cover the bottom with grains...
And the whole Christmas tree.
We try to place the grains as close as possible.
Making a pot for the Christmas tree.
Take a glass jar and burlap.
We make a jar in a bag (according to the diagram in the picture).
To prevent the bag from unfolding, we fix it from the inside with glue.
We “plant” our Christmas tree using any method available to you (we use alabaster) and make a “green meadow” from moss.
We decorate our Christmas tree with threads, ropes, an orange and a bronze pendant.
Our Christmas tree is ready.
If you don’t have moss, it doesn’t matter, you can replace it with the same coffee beans.
Happy holidays everyone!
A homemade Christmas tree made from coffee beans is a great New Year gift for every coffee lover. Such topiary can become not only a cute table decoration at home or in the workplace, but also a kind of flavoring agent: many coffee lovers love the smell of coffee beans. The advantage of this gift is that it is very inexpensive: to make it you will need simple available materials, many of which can be found in almost every home. But its value is not in the cost, but in the fact that you put your soul into such a gift, painstakingly creating a future tree with your own hands, grain by grain.
- Actually, coffee beans are approximately 150-200 grams.
- Thick cardboard or paper - A4 size sheet.
- Glue (it is better to take transparent “Moment” and PVA).
- Thick threads, such as jute twine.
- Scissors.
- A small pot for flowers.
- Sackcloth.
- Plasticine or plaster to fill the pot.
- A wooden stick for the trunk of the future Christmas tree (for example, a pencil, a sushi stick or a skewer).
- Cotton wool or newsprint.
In addition, you will need various decorations for the future Christmas tree. Here you can give free rein to your imagination, for example, make balls from shiny beads, snow from semolina or cotton wool, decorate the Christmas tree with braid, miniature snowflakes, or cover some of the grains with gold paint.
Gallery: Christmas tree made from coffee beans (25 photos)
Making a Christmas tree out of coffee with your own hands: job description
The first step is to prepare base, on which our Christmas tree will be held. We take a small flower pot (you can buy it at a regular flower shop) and wrap it in burlap, securing it with glue. We fill the pot with heavy contents (plaster or plasticine) so that the Christmas tree stands quite stable.
Now you can start making the Christmas tree itself. Cut out two circles from cardboard or thick paper. One is large, its diameter should be the same height as the crown of the tree. From this circle we roll and glue a cone. The second circle should be slightly wider than the base of the resulting cone, with allowances for gluing along the edges. You need to make allowances of about a centimeter and a half, make cuts in a circle and fold them over. You also need to make a small hole in the center of the base: a tree trunk will be inserted into it.
When the glued cone has dried, we trim its edges from the bottom so that they are as even as possible. Then the cone must be filled with contents so that it is light enough, but at the same time does not bend under the weight of the coffee beans glued to it. For this purpose, you can use cotton wool or cut and crumpled newspaper sheets. We also insert a stick into the middle of the cone - the future trunk.
By the way, the trunk does not have to be straight: you can make it from rolled wire and give it an interesting curved shape, only in this case the main thing is to make the finished structure stable.
Apply glue to the edges of the cone and the allowances on the small circle and glue the “bottom” of the future Christmas tree. Wait again for the glue to dry.
If you don’t want to cut and glue, you can purchase it at a craft store foam cone, which can also become the basis for a Christmas tree.
Using glue, we attach a jute thread to the trunk of the tree and begin to carefully wrap it with threads - in one layer, but quite tightly. We do the same with the cone, having previously coated it with PVA glue so that the threads do not fall off. Why wrap a cone? The fact is that coffee beans have oval shape, and no matter how tightly you glue them, there will still be small gaps between them in which the base will be visible. Jute thread will look much neater and more beautiful as a base than regular cardboard. In addition, if you glue the grains directly onto smooth cardboard, there is a risk that they will fall off.
The tree leg does not need to be wrapped completely: we leave part of it and insert the future tree into a pot with a base just up to the point where the thread wrapping begins. Now our tree is standing firmly, and we can start gluing it with grains.
We will stick the coffee beans onto the tree from the base and from the bottom up, in two layers. Apply a thin layer of glue to the base (here it is better to take transparent “Moment” so that it is not visible) and glue the grains onto the base with the flat side, in a checkerboard pattern. At the same time, it is important to arrange them so that there are as few gaps as possible between them - this way the Christmas tree will look more neat. We glue the second layer of grains outwards with the flat side, so as to close the gaps remaining in the first layer as much as possible.
Possible another option for gluing grains: Flat side up and at a slight angle. Then they will resemble real paws of a spruce tree, and our Christmas tree will not be so smooth, more like a living tree.
Decorating a Christmas tree from coffee beans with your own hands
Decorating a future Christmas tree is not limited by anything except your imagination! Can be used the following ideas:
Remember that each next stage of decoration must begin only after glue dried on the previous one so that nothing falls off during the process!
