In the disco under the ceilings there are always disco balls that shimmer under the bright multi-colored rays of the spotlights and cast glare on the dancing youth on the dance floor. If friends often gather at your place and you like to dance, then a disco ball is an irreplaceable thing for you. Buying such a ball is very disadvantageous, but easy to make do it yourself.
In this video you can see the process of creating such a ball, and read its detailed description below.
For work, we need to prepare:
- old CDs;
- scissors;
- glue gun;
- adhesive tape;
- flask;
- a newspaper.
In order to make a disco ball, we take any unnecessary newspaper and begin to crumple it, forming a ball. You can make a ball of any size, it all depends on your personal desire. Just remember, for a large ball you will need a lot more newspapers and CDs. The ball must be as dense as possible, so do not spare your energy and newspapers in order to prepare a high-quality base.
It is necessary to wrap the resulting ball from newspapers with tape so that it holds its shape and does not spill. In addition, this is necessary in order to take the next steps to create a disco ball.
As a result, you must make a solid and sturdy ball. It doesn’t matter if it is slightly not very even, it will be imperceptible after all the actions that we will do with it.
The resulting ball is wrapped with foil. Carefully smoothing it to the ball with his hands. So that there are not too noticeable large pieces.
We put our ball blank to the side and take a CD.
The disk is cut into narrow strips. Then we cut these strips into squares and rectangles. It doesn’t matter if they are of different shapes, this is only at hand.
After the necessary number of various figures from the disk has been cut, it is time to start the most jewelry and painstaking work - I paste the pieces on the ball.
Using a glue gun or ordinary glue of the moment, we begin to glue our pieces step by step. Apply glue to each piece separately on the non-shiny side. We lay out the pieces on the ball, trying to arrange them as densely as possible to each other.
After pasting the entire surface of the ball, you can evaluate the result of your work by bringing the disco ball to the sun. It will shimmer with colorful shades and at the same time scatter the glare around the room.