Mini Horns
Cute, cheap and awesome. I was bored to I made these, brilliant if you are on a budget and looking to be creative, they are also unique (trust me it is a pain in the *ss to try and get two the same)
Following this guild and you will create 2 similar looking horns and possibly loss of sanity*.
(*sanity loss not guaranteed)
You will need:
2-3 toilet roll tubes (the extra tube will be used if you; muck up, need extra rings and for the horn tips)
Sellotape
Sellotape
Masking tape (lots of)
Marker pen
Scissors
Paint (optional)
Patience
Method
1. Take the the 2 tubes and cut a line down the center then cut into approximately 1 cm strips. Keep the strips in separate piles for each horn.
2. With sellotape tape at the ready (lots of little strips, lots) take the segments of tube and make rings slowly getting smaller, you might need to get the other tube and make a few more strips.
3. Once you have made your rings, put them inside each other, to check if they fit, you can have them fitting snug, but i think it looks better chunky so there are gaps make sure you put the rings on an angle so they form a curve.
3. Once you have made your rings, put them inside each other, to check if they fit, you can have them fitting snug, but i think it looks better chunky so there are gaps make sure you put the rings on an angle so they form a curve.
3. Once you have them in the form that you want, start with the largest ring working smaller and smaller, taping each ring to the next, you'll end up with a malleable horn that will bend, make the last part- a cone shape you might want to measure it against the smallest hole. and tape it into place.
4. As you lose you sanity and start to despair with the last little fiddly horn nodule, make a coffee or have a nice calming bath with a cuppa tea.
4. As you lose you sanity and start to despair with the last little fiddly horn nodule, make a coffee or have a nice calming bath with a cuppa tea.
5. Back to work, now once you have the horns in the -sort of- shape you are after, frantically stick it all together with masking tape from the inside, take out that frustration!! fixing it from the inside will make it more rigid so make sure it is in the position you want it to be in.
6. With masking tape go around the horns on the outside, it doesn't need to be perfect.
7. You can now smooth out the bumps, the heat of your hands will do that quite a bit, so just keep handling it for a while and with your nail or other blunt pointy object press in on the crevices and horn nodes so define them.
8. Now you have horns, if you want to further add to your despair, I suggest painting them with a few coats of the chosen color and to define the horn nodules you can painstakingly draw a nice straight* outline.
*wobbly as ****
As to where the idea came from, I have no idea, I saw some horns on a cosplay and thought "loo roll would be good" so I tried it and made it! There are probably more tutorials better than this online, but if the only thing you have is loo roll tubes, you're in the right place!!
I will show you my finished product in a separate post.
Enjoy.
