Hello friends. Christmas is almost here and I always like to make some kind of decoration for those dates. In fact, I've always wanted a nutcracker, but I've never been able to buy one since they are really expensive. So I thought I could make my own nutcracker. Although I thought about it too much since I don't have many materials, I practically had to improvise and make a pink nutcracker since I didn't have red foam, which is the most traditional color for nutcrackers, haha. I suffered a lot making this nutcracker. I really thought it would be easier, but I did the best I could. Despite all the difficulties, it turned out quite cute. By the way, I was about to give up in the middle of the process because I realized I didn't have much hot glue left, but I fought to get every last drop out and be able to finish, haha.
Cartón de caja de cereal
Rollo de papel higiénico
Silicon caliente
Foami de los colores que prefieras
Tijeras
Escarcha
Pegamento blanco
Cereal box cardboard
Toilet paper roll
Hot glue
Foam in the colors of your choice
Scissors
Glitter
White glue
It looks pretty easy, right? For me, it was a nightmare because I didn't have all the necessary materials, haha. To start, the ideal would have been to have two rolls of toilet paper, but I only had one, so I had to improvise the other using a cereal box. I molded it into a cylinder using the toilet paper tube as a guide. I glued it with silicone, and then joined the two rolls together.
I looked for red foam, but I didn't have any, so I had to use a pastel pink foam with which I made the nutcracker costume, first I glued it completely to one of the tubes and then I looked for skin-colored foam to glue the face part and guess what? I didn't have any either, but since we never give up here, I glued the white foam and then I painted it with a skin-colored acrylic MARKER, but I did that later, let's continue with the present tense. After gluing the white foam, I took a black frosted foam and covered the last part of the tube that would be the hat, I also covered the top by gluing the hat with more black foam and then cutting off the excess.
Now that everything was glued down, I painted the entire face in skin tones. My acrylic marker almost died in the process, but it fought until the very end. Then I made two smaller tubes and lined them with pink foam. I lined each end with white foam to mark the sleeves and shoulders. They were quite uneven, but there was no turning back. I did all of this while squeezing my glue gun with a pencil. I also glued white foam to the body to make the strap and the neck of the suit.
For the legs I repeated the same process as before, except the tubes would be a little narrower this time. I glued them together and then assembled the entire body of my nutcracker. I felt like the costume was missing something; it just looked too simple, so I decided to apply white glue.
And on top of the glue I used pearly white glitter, I didn't have much so this glitter only covers the front of the nutcracker haha, I took more white foam and made some stripes on the suit, I also made the belt buckle with silver glitter. Finally I started making the face for which I used the little white foam I had left, luckily these details are small and I had enough material to make the nose, eyebrows, eyes and mustache. To detail the eyes I used blue and black acrylic paints and after 4 hours of suffering I finished my cute nutcracker.
Now that I think about it, it would have looked better if I glued some cotton balls to the sides to simulate hair, but at that moment, I couldn't think anymore. I literally spent the entire afternoon making this, and honestly, it turned out better than I expected. I didn't have one bit of faith in myself, haha. I made this nutcracker mainly to put it in the entrance of my house, where I plan to decorate it soon with lights and other Christmas details.