When there are large puddles in the streets and playgrounds and you are arrested by the weatherman – or Peter sends a frosty weather, where even the boys with red ears and noses look for a place to stay in the warm room – then tinker with us!
Steffi, Heiner, Roland, Michael, Karla and Ute show you, like you from empty matchboxes, Candy cans, Shoeboxes, Plywood scraps, Rolls of twine and spent matches on a railroad with a locomotive, Tender, goods- and passenger cars, the funny puffball game and the marble cage, or even make a carousel for small dolls.
In addition to our work material bra, we initially borrowed all-purpose glue, such as Duosan-Rapid, Kittifix or a similar product of the same quality, a scissors, For me, Hammer and a small hand drill as well as an ink box with a brush, Colored pencils and colored paper.
As far as other auxiliary tools are required, this is particularly pointed out in the handicraft instructions themselves.
Browsing through this site you will first find handicrafts made from matchboxes, the, as you all know, usually consist of thin boards of wood. You can cut the boxes with scissors, so, how the pieces are used. But please don't take mom's good tailor's scissors with them. You can drill holes for wheel axles on vehicles with a small hand drill. Do not pierce with the point of a scissor, otherwise the wood will split.
You can find lots of ideas for small gifts and practical things in woodwork made from twisted rolls and plywood. Twist rolls are sawed with a foxtail, Plywood or other thin wood, on the other hand, with a fretsaw. Holes are made by hand – or drill bit drilled. Uneven saw surfaces are smoothed with a file. We join the individual wooden parts together by nailing or gluing. To prevent thin wood from shattering, beat her before nailing m:Don't use the hammer lightly on the tip of the nails. Our woodwork is painted with watercolors. When they have dried up well, we apply a thin layer of colorless varnish with a perfectly clean brush. Do not forget, also to paint and varnish the saw edges. Small Hooks, such as the key holder, are only then screwed into the wooden parts, when holes have been pre-drilled.
We decorate the matchbox holder or the back of the calendar with burnt-in patterns (Fire painting), which we draw out beforehand with a pencil. An old metal knitting needle is used for firing, On which we threw a cork to hold onto when it was glowing. For the Easter decorations, clean shells are used from raw, blown eggs used. Heavily soiled eggs should only be rubbed with a feudite cloth or vinegar. Any other treatment with plenty of water and soap will make the eggshell take the water color badly. You know too, how to blow out eggs? With a strong darning needle a hole is pierced in the top and bottom of the egg and across ‘ vigorously blown out of a vessel.
Please note when doing handicrafts made of fabric, that the fabric remnants used for this purpose are well ironed out before cutting. The machine seam must be at least 0,5 cm away from the edge of the fabric, so that it doesn't burst.
We now want to chat in detail about the Vinidur crafting material.
Vinidur is a plastic, which our chemical industry produces from coal and lime and which, thanks to its good properties, has a wide range of uses. The well-known candy boxes are also made from Vinidur. Soon we will be more interested in the cans than their sweet contents. We use them to make beautiful toys and games.
Let's take a closer look at the cans, in this way we can distinguish between solid and light doses. The light cans have - in contrast to fixed cans – Embossed reinforcements in the bottom part. Vinidur is soft and can be cut with a sierre. Each can can have a wide base rim, a round bottom part, a narrow lid edge and a round lid part are cut. We drill the holes required for our handicrafts with the small hand drill. We generally connect the individual parts by about 1 mm width and 5 cm long Vinidur strips, which we cut from round lid parts from light cans. These strips are fed through pre-drilled holes and twisted tightly together several times on the back.
When we glue vinyl judgments with wood every now and then, use, we use our tried and tested all-purpose glue.
Most of the craft parts will, so that they get a better stiffness, too angle- or bent U-profiles. To do this, you use combination or flat-nose pliers, with the help of which you fold the material along the lines pliers width by forceps width. Wheels can also be made from Vinidur. If your material is not enough, you can buy wooden wheels for a few pennies. Thin wooden sticks can be used for the axes, just as good but also strong wire. To color the handicrafts, collects candy jars in the colors red, White, yellow and brown. Because Vinidur does not accept water colors, you can cover the handicrafts with colored paper, Incidentally, a pattern sheet is included with the book, on which, above all, the technical parts for the Vinidur work in the correct size ratio (so to scale) are specified. So, and now to work, plus a lot of joy and success!