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07/21/2018 Anastasia Prozheva
A family tree with your own hands is a very necessary and important thing for everyone. After all, family plays a very important role in our life path. A family tree is needed in order to always remember the details of relatives, visit them and congratulate them on important dates. It’s not difficult to buy such a product in a store, but it’s best to spend a little more time and make it at home yourself. You can involve children in the process, because the family tree will definitely be useful to them for kindergarten or school.
In this master class you can find the best design ideas and a lot of useful information about the “Family Tree” craft.
Family tree picture
Necessary materials for working with a picture of a family tree from photographs:
- 4 boards of the same width;
- plywood;
- frame with glass;
- hook and loop;
- paints (white and brown);
- sackcloth;
- green paper;
- glue gun or glue;
- photographs and cardboard;
- putty.
First you need to measure the frame with glass.
Then make a frame from wooden boards. You can choose the width and length yourself.
Cut the plywood to the size of the frame and attach it to it.
Then make a recess and markings on the frame for attaching the hinges.
Prime and paint the box and frame. Next, fasten the loops and hook so that you can close it.
To the bottom of the resulting box, starting from the middle, glue burlap or other fabric that looks natural.
Cut out a tree trunk from plywood or thick cardboard, apply putty to the entire surface, make rough edges and knots so that the roots look like real bark. Let dry for 12-14 hours and then paint with brown paint.
Cut out leaves from paper, fold them in half and unfold, glue them to the trunk in any order. Then cut out the photos and glue them first onto cardboard, slightly larger than the photos themselves.
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Attach the cardboard with the photo to double-sided tape in the desired order. The family tree picture is ready! Now you can hang it on the wall in the living room.
To make a family tree, you can use the basics of scrapbooking techniques, connecting the fastened branches with glued small leaves and inscriptions.
Pedigree concept
Identification of family ties, who is whose brother, wife, uncle, close or distant relatives, the transfer of genes from father to son constitutes the concept of pedigree. With the help of companies engaged in the study of genealogies, state archives, and family albums, you can compile your pedigree going back several generations.
The expression “to the seventh generation” means to know your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, his occupation, way of life. This is very honorable and highly valued both within the family and for others and serves as an example for identifying and preserving the traditions of one’s family.
Tree with hearts
In this part of the master class you can learn how to make a family tree step by step in the form of an original craft.
To make a cute family tree with hearts, you need to take wires about 30 cm long. Wrap them with tape, but leave the tails unwrapped by 5-7 cm.
Wrap all 15 wires in this way. For strength, coat the ends of the tape with hot glue.
Next, take pliers and bend the unwrapped ends of the wire with them. This is necessary so that the wires do not jump out after the plaster hardens.
To create gypsum, you need to dilute ordinary building plaster with water to the state of liquid sour cream. Pour into a jar, collect the wires into a bundle and insert them into the plaster. Do not hold it for long, the plaster will dry quickly.
Now you can leave the frame for now and start making the hearts. Draw 30 hearts using the template.
Cut out hearts with scissors.
Cut the crepe paper to the size of the hearts, leaving a slight allowance.
Cover the hearts with paper, after cutting off the tails of the crepe paper.
Make a tail out of twine and glue it to the back of the heart.
Then take two hearts and glue them together.
Decorate the resulting joints with twine.
Glue beads on top and bottom.
The red heart is included as an example; there should be photographs in that place. Size about 5x5 cm.
Wind the wires for the wood. Using pliers, twist the edges of the wire.
Hang the hearts on the formed hooks.
Now glue the leaves.
Cover the jar with crepe paper just like the hearts.
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The cute family tree is ready!
How to Create a Family Tree Chart
How to create a family tree for a student at school? Let's walk through the steps to create a family tree diagram:
- On a separate piece of paper, write down all the people you want to include on your family tree. You can start the tree with yourself (you will be the base of the tree). On a piece of paper, write down the details of your family (parents, brothers and sisters), then move on to your parents’ parents (grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, etc.). You can stop here, but you can go further. Make sure you don't miss anyone. Your family tree is an important part of your family history, so pay enough attention to it;
- Fill in the blanks about relatives by doing research. If information is missing for any relative, try doing your own research. Search for information online, ask old relatives and friends, visit local archives. It will be exciting;
- Decide what information you want to display on your family timeline. In addition to your first and last name, you can include the date of birth and death, date of marriage, place of birth, and so on. Adding this data will make the tree you create more informative;
- Consider whether you will include photos in your tree. If you have access to photos of your ancestors, you can insert small photos of them into the tree you create. The use of a photo is justified in the case of a small tree, otherwise its size together with the photographs will be really huge;
- Start drawing the tree with your generation, which includes you, your parents, and siblings. The shape of your tree is up to you. If you want to create a vertical tree with a wide top, start drawing it from the bottom on a wide sheet of paper. You can also start on the left side if you want the tree to grow to the right.
One of the possible schemes for your tree
For example, write your name below. From your name, draw a line a little higher, to your mother. Then draw another line on your behalf, to your father. Draw a horizontal line connecting your father and mother.
If you are a schoolboy and have brothers and sisters, draw lines to them from your father and mother.
In case your brothers and sisters have a pair, then write it down. Connect such a pair with a horizontal line.
If your siblings have children, write them down and connect them with lines to their parents
- Enter information about the generation of your parents and grandparents. This could be the sister (brother) of one of your parents, having a husband (wife), and so on. Connect such a pair with a horizontal line, and draw lines to their children.
For example, above your mother's name, write the name of her mother (your grandmother) and father (grandfather). Connect them with a line between you and your mother. Do the same for your father.
If your mom (dad) had brothers and sisters, then add a line from your grandparents to them. Add to such siblings the names of their couples (husband or wife). Connect such a pair with a horizontal line.
- Decide how far you can go. As the tree grows, it can become huge. Perhaps at first you should limit yourself to your close relatives (you, brothers and sisters, mom and dad, grandparents).
- Decorate your tree beautifully, making it unique. Once the text portion of the tree is complete, get a little creative and draw your tree beautifully. Take a huge sheet of drawing format, use a beautiful felt-tip pen or paint to decorate your tree. Get a little creative and make your tree colorful.
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