Good afternoon. Today I have prepared an article filled with children's crafts in New Year theme. This magical holiday is coming soon - schools and kindergartens will announce about do-it-yourself New Year's craft competitions. This circumstance will force you to go online in search of a suitable idea for your future school masterpiece - and this is where my article will give you Family Bunch of New Year's ideas for 2019.
And we will have a lot of crafts - enough for kindergarten, school, and as a gift for mom, dad, grandparents . To make it convenient for you, I divided all the crafts into groups- according to the materials from which they are made. That is, I introduce the material and technique - and then show how this technique looks on real New Year's children's crafts in bright photo ideas.
In our article you will find…
- Crafts-characters from cardboard cone
- crafts from paper strips in the New Year theme
- crafts for the New Year - from disposable plates
- Christmas toys made from cardboard egg cassettes,
- toys from toilet paper rolls
- voluminous New Year's applications from paper fans
And also on our website there are crafts and drawings for a competition for school or kindergarten
– in the article
So let's start our New Year Boom 2019 with your own hands.
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New Year's crafts from CONES.
Here is a simple paper craft for children for the New Year - Santa Claus from a cardboard cone. It’s very easy to do it yourself if an adult helps you twist and staple a cardboard bag.
Paper cone rolls up from a regular SEMI CIRCLE made of cardboard- or not even from half the circle, but from its third ( the smaller part of the circle we take under our cone bag, the thinner and more elongated the silhouette of the cone turns out).
Glued onto the finished red cardboard cone white paper overlay in the shape of a beard (triangular shape– right photo, or oval fringe with a long cut – left photo). After gluing the beard on top, glue it face oval(add a mustache appliqué on top of the face if necessary) – draw eyes, nose, cheeks. You can glue the legs of Santa Claus to the cone.
Such New Year's crafts are convenient to do with children in kindergarten - if you prepare red cones fastened with a stapler in advance. Give children decorative options, details, glue scissors and let them turn a red cardboard cone into Santa Claus.
Here are a few more design options for the same paper craft on New Year. In the first case, the beard is one semicircular piece of paper. And in the second case, the beard is several oval layers of paper ( and each oval is shorter than the previous one) and the edges of each oval are cut into fringe strips. Come up with your own design - with your mind and imagination - and bring it to life with your own hands.
And here is a DIY version of Santa Claus, which can be folded right away of three cones.
FIRST lower red cone(this is Santa Claus’s coat) – we glue appliques of Santa Claus’s hands onto the sides of this lower red cone.
SECOND medium white cone(this is the beard of Santa Claus) - glue his face and mustache onto him.
THIRD upper red cone(this is Santa Claus's hat)
From the same THREE cones of different sizes you can make a Christmas tree for children.
And here is Santa Claus, made of two cones - the lower COAT and the upper FACE WITH HAT.
Craft template You can copy directly from your monitor screen if you place a piece of paper directly on the screen and trace the translucent image with a pencil. To enlarge the image screen - you need to press the Ctrl button on your keyboard, and with your second hand roll the mouse wheel forward.
And if the theme of Santa Claus and his Reindeer is to your liking, then on our website there are just such heart-warming article-lessons with master classes and templates
Well, we will continue, about the topic of cone crafts. In such crafts the cone can only be the BODY of the future character- and his FACE can be inserted into the slot on the top of the cone - as was done on the New Year's snowman craft in the photo below. A good and simple craft for kindergarten classes (for secondary and senior group- children 4-6 years old).
And here original craft where a New Year's holiday couple is made from cones - Father Frost and Snow Maiden. Our mothers made this craft with their own hands on the forum. Very talented and skillful.
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New Year's crafts made from cardboard
You can use regular school cardboard. Cut out details of New Year's characters from different colors cardboard and glue them together. Make a SUPPORT at the back so that the figures stand vertically. Or instead of a support is it possible to back wall glue a box (of tea or cookies), cover it with colored paper, and fill it with sweets if desired.
The craft in the photo below has a bag of sweets glued to the back of the snowman. Due to this, the figure does not fall.
You can use patterned paper in the craft - the kind that gifts are wrapped in. This way your craft will be even more elegant - with polka dots or flower patterns, like the New Year's penguin in the photo below.
Here is a compact Santa Claus made of red cardboard. You can use formiam or hard thick felt instead of cardboard.
Here's an interesting way to make Santa Claus out of cardboard - an easy-to-make children's craft
You will find many more ideas with applique in the form of Santa Claus in a special article
You can make a three-dimensional cardboard pendant for the Christmas tree using other techniques. We form a New Year's character from cardboard and colored paper. And then we glue a belly to it, which in turn we decorate with rhinestones. A semicircular tummy can be made by cutting it in half foam ball, or make from salt dough, then bake or dry.
You will find a template for such silhouette crafts in our special article
And here is a beautiful craft for the New Year in the kindergarten - a Christmas tree made of coated white cardboard. We glue two sheets of glossy coated cardboard together. IMPORTANT!!! — glue sheets of cardboard using dry glue (glue stick, double-sided tape), without wet PVA glue, otherwise the cardboard will rise and go in waves.
You can glue two sheets, or even three.
As a result, we will get a solid white plate. We transfer the Christmas tree template onto it. Trace the template with a pencil and cut it out. We sew a fluffy green garland along the edge of the Christmas tree with thread or glue it on. We attach New Year's balls to the legs of the Christmas tree, hang glass beads and satin ribbons, you can decorate it in different ways, at your discretion. We fix the Christmas tree in a stand. To ensure that the Christmas tree stands well, we weigh down the stand with plasticine, a wooden board, or a book.
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New Year's crafts FROM Ribbons.
And here are crafts made from textile ribbons. You can use stiff ribbons of coarse, dense material and force the craft to hold its shape (as is done with the flower craft in the left photo below). There, solid red beads also act as a rigid frame and hold the ribbon petals in a clear shape.
You can use a soft ribbon and string it onto a thin wooden skewer to create the silhouette of a Christmas tree. A very simple and quick DIY craft for the New Year.
The same idea of a Christmas tree made from ribbons can be developed and transferred to other New Year’s characters - as was done in the children’s crafts in the photo below. You yourself, with your own mind and your own hands, can create new versions of this idea - and use any creative idea from this site only as a STARTING POINT for your own AUTHOR'S IDEA.
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New Year's crafts
FROM PAPER STRIPES.
And here are ideas for New Year's crafts, where the basis for creative thought is a base in the form of a ball folded from strips of paper of the same length. The balls are glued to each other - we get a base in the form of a HEAD and BODY. And then the work goes on - gluing the face, hands and other elements of personalization of the craft.
In the example below, we see that two balls make Santa Claus if you glue an applique of a beard with a face and a mustache to the front ball, glue hands in mittens and fur cuffs to the sides of the body, and crown the top of the craft with a white cotton wool pompom.
And here is an example of a children's DIY craft made from strips of paper where two balls turn into a snowman due to the eyes and nose of a carrot. Two round hands and an applique of a broom and shovel.
And a cheerful New Year's deer can be made from ONE ball. Please note that next to the deer there are flat stars - they are made according to the same principle - the strips are folded into a ball - and then flattened along the equator line of the ball.
And here is the master class itself, showing how to make such a New Year's from strips of paper volumetric ball. Strips are cut. On each of them we find the MIDDLE POINT. We thread the thread into a needle - attach a bead to the end of the threaded thread and use a needle to pierce the MIDDLE POINTS of each strip.
We move the pierced strips apart with rays in different directions - and then we pierce the ends of each strip again with a needle at a height - at the top of the ball. We secure all this with a bead on the top and then all that remains is to decorate the ball for the character or craft toy we need.
Using a similar principle, we can create such a children’s craft-toy for the Christmas tree from strips of paper (as in the photo below).
And here are alternative designs of strip technology. You see penguins that are made up of stripes but are connected into a ball according to a different principle.
And in the example with the polar bear from the photo below, we see that the head part of the craft can be a ping-pong ball or a foam ball. And in the middle, beads can be strung on a thread (this will make the craft look more elegant). Think with your head, dream with your soul - and do it with your own hands.
A beautiful New Year's team for a competition in kindergarten or school.
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New Year's crafts
FROM ROLLS.
You can make a lot of beautiful New Year's crafts from toilet paper rolls. You can make elegant Santa Clauses like in the left photo below. Please note that the beard on this craft is made of white lace. And the cap on the head is sewn from fabric (you can use colored crumpled crepe paper).
But the snowmen (in the right photo below) - you can make headphones from fluffy wire brushes. Scarves are made from pieces of fabric, and real buttons are glued on.
But the craft is an angel. Very delicate and easy to make. We cover the roll with paint of two colors - pink gouache at the top, white at the bottom. For the wing we take lace paper napkin(in the absence of one, you can simply cut out an openwork snowflake from paper), fold it in half and glue it to the back of the angel.
The most interesting thing is the angel's hairstyle - it only looks complicated, but in fact - the upper part of the hairstyle is ordinary circle of yellow paper , which are around the circumference fringed– these fringes fall to the side of the roll in the form of a circular bang. And then On the sides we add strips of paper, first we twist the lower part of each strip onto a pencil (or run the blade of scissors along them so that they twist themselves into a tight curl). A lot of ideas paper angels you will find in our article
You can also make elegant Christmas trees and crafts from toilet rolls.
Here is an interesting idea for a round Christmas tree cut from a roll. We take the roll, flatten it into a plane, draw the legs of the Christmas tree on the sides of this plane, cut them out, and then flatten the roll back into a circle. Glue on rhinestones and a star.
Or the roll can only be used as a stand for a flat cardboard Christmas tree.
Rollo also makes excellent penguins. – the rolls must be covered with thick black gouache before making the craft. And so that during application the children’s hands do not get dirty with black paint and do not contaminate other parts of the craft, we must COVER our BLACK ROLLS with HAIR SPRAY - this will make the paint shine and stop staining your hands with black soot.
You can draw familiar features of your favorite cartoon character on rolls (as was done with the snowmen from the cartoon Frozen).
Or you can decorate the craft with additional cutting elements - as was done in the example of the deer in the right photo below. Here we cut out the crotch between the deer's legs (so that these legs, in fact, appeared). And we also cut top part roll - leaving a tail-neck - we will glue the silhouette of the head onto this bent tail.
We can come up with our own designs of familiar New Year's characters. It's so interesting to pick up a gray, unremarkable external roll-sleeve and turn it into a piece of the New Year's holiday.
But here is a children's craft made from rolls, but already cut into pieces. This can be made from ordinary flat cardboard, if you roll it into a tube using a stapler and cut it into the lengths we need. A simple and interesting three-dimensional craft for children for the New Year.
And also from rolls - you can fold it like this such a beauty - big christmas tree . It will look good in the office and in a kindergarten group. True, the rolls need to be assembled in advance and then painted for quite some time. There won't be enough gouache - it's better to buy a liter jar of white facade paint and a bottle of green color. Pour the color into white acrylic, stir and paint with a wide brush or sponge.
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New Year's crafts
FROM BARPLE.
But here are New Year's crafts, which are made from a cheap and very convenient texture material - ROUGH BARP.
Dense burlap starches well and takes on a rigid shape. It can be painted any color and folded into the rigid shape of craft parts.
You can cut out petals from starched, dyed burlap and fold the flower. You can glue the burlap onto cardboard and cut out the silhouette of an owl - add appliques of wings and eyes with a beak.
From inconspicuous-looking burlap you can make very delicate beautiful crafts for the new year. For example, this mitten has acquired a New Year's chic thanks to lace, beads, bells and pine branches.
A simple piece of gray fabric can sparkle in your imagination. And turn into a deer with twig antlers or a cute New Year's bird.
You can cut out stars from rough canvas simply by gluing them onto cardboard (as in the left photo below).
Or by folding diamond-shaped rays into modules from burlap and making a star out of them (as in the right photo below).
You can cover an ordinary toilet paper roll with a piece of burlap and decorate it with a red cardboard edging and an applique of colored paper. And we will get a cute craft-basket for the New Year tree. A simple and interesting work for a competition in kindergarten.
You can stretch burlap like a canvas onto a picture frame and draw a New Year's picture on it. You can safely take such a New Year’s children’s craft to a competition at school or kindergarten. It will decorate any exhibition of New Year's children's works.
And even more idea for New Year's paintings, painted with paints on canvas or paper, I collected in a special article
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New Year's crafts
FROM BOXES
And here are crafts made from ordinary boxes. SMALL boxes of tea, cookies, toothpaste, cream, medicine are suitable. For large crafts LARGE juice boxes, shoe boxes or office paper boxes will do.
A nose, a shaggy Christmas tree, ears made of colored paper, horns made of thick tree branches - and here in front of us New Year's craft deer. Or stick a nose, eyes, buttons on a box covered with white paper, tie it with a scarf and put on a hat - you get a simple snowman craft.
Using the same principle, any rectangular surface of the box can be decorated as Santa Claus, a penguin, or any New Year's character.
You can turn the box into a toy snowy house.
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New Year's crafts HATS.
And here is the most simple ideas New Year-themed masks and hats. Deer, snowman, Santa Claus - any holiday character can be embodied from ordinary colored paper.
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New Year's crafts APPLICATIONS.
And here are applique crafts for the New Year. You can make small shaped appliques on rolled cardboard - as pendant toys for the New Year tree.
The simplest applique for school or kindergarten is a snowman. But it doesn’t have to be done using traditional techniques. You can show your imagination and make a snowman from non-standard materials - gypsum plaster diluted in water, or from finely chopped crumpled paper.
Children's New Year's applique craft can be multi-layered. And it doesn’t have to be done on a rectangular sheet of paper. On the contrary, a children's craft will look more elegant if done on a round sheet of cardboard. And cover the edges of the sheet with paper lace cut from a large paper snowflake.
And here are more examples of volumetric convex applique crafts. Any character that has a muzzle or face can be made in the form of a voluminous applique if a triangular DOT is provided on the silhouette of the face. You can see these darts on the templates in the picture below.
We simply cut them with scissors (we make a cut on only one side of the dart) - and then we glue the side of the dart under the cut (hiding the dart in the gluing).
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New Year's crafts NAPKIN HOLES.
But here are New Year's crafts that can decorate your festive table. The fact is that the Santa Clauses we see below are attachments for table napkins.
In the first case (in the left photo below), we make a bag out of spare paper, glue a beige face, a white mustache, and a white edging on the hat onto it (but do not make a beard). Next, we take a white napkin, fold it like a beard and put it inside the bag - part of the white napkin sticks out of the bag, reminiscent of the beard of Santa Claus.
In the second case (in the right photo below) we cut out a white circle from thick white paper (or cardboard). On top side circle, draw a face, a nose, and glue on a mustache. AND MAKE A SLIT over the straight line of the face. We fold a large red table napkin into a sharp triangle and insert the sharp end of the triangle into the slot - pull it through and get... at the top (above the slot) part of the napkin looks like a red cap... at the bottom under the beard, part of the red napkin looks like Santa Claus's fur coat.
A simple craft that your children will really like, especially since you can make several of these crafts for all the guests invited for the holiday. New Year's table.
And here are the napkin holders, which are made from cardboard toilet paper rolls. Also a simple solution and a fun children's craft - for a garden or school on New Year's Eve.
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New Year's CRAFTS-WINDINGS.
And here are ideas for simple children's crafts, where a cardboard silhouette is wrapped with colored threads or thin ribbons bright colors. So you can wrap a triangle with threads, sew a couple of rhinestones or beads on it and we will get an elegant Christmas tree craft.
You can pull the threads through the holes (punctures with a hole punch) - like in the snowflake craft from the left photo.
Or thread the threads through the slits - like on the round Christmas tree decoration crafts from the right photo below.
Any New Year's idea connect to the receiving thread winding. And get original and simple crafts for children. For example, this is implemented on crafts with a NEW YEAR'S DEER from the photo below.
The brighter and richer the color of the threads, the brighter and more festive your children's craft will be. Bright ribbons, adhesive rhinestones and stars cut out of thick foil will only add completeness to the thread craft.
And if the mother or grandmother in your family loves to crochet, then you can make crocheted New Year’s crafts - small or even large.
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New Year's crafts PENDANTS.
For a competition in a garden or school, you can make a larger-scale craft. For example, a beautiful New Year's pendant.
The general meaning of such a craft is that there should be a large holding part at the top and smaller elements of the overall craft design should emanate from it on strings.
You can hang a variety of pendant crafts on a lamp or on a window ledge. Make them from openwork paper napkin for confectionery (as in the photo below) - very simple and fast.
Even from pages of scrap paper you can make bright New Year crafts and pendants. If only I had the desire and a little time. It's really not difficult. And even from the photo it’s clear how these are made paper modules and how they are assembled onto one central round piece - just with glue.
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NEW YEAR'S WREATHS.
And here is one of my favorite themes for children's New Year's crafts. Children simply jump with pleasure when you offer them such a serious craft. They love the donut-shaped format and love that the result is that their work can be used as a real Christmas decoration that hangs on their family's door year after year.
In this article I will give just a few ideas to get you started. But in the future I plan to make a separate article on children’s crafts-wreaths for the New Year, and then the link will work here.
In the meantime, let's look at the basic ideas for creating the basis for New Year's wreaths. We will make the base in the form of a bagel. A standard A4 cardboard sheet will be too small in circumference. Therefore, the base for such a wreath can be cut from large leaf corrugated cardboard packaging - a pizza box is ideal.
If there are no large cardboard sheets (especially if you are preparing such a craft for a whole kindergarten group), then you can cut out SEMI CIRCLES separately from cardboard, and then use tape to connect them into one solid ring. So that in the place where the half rings are glued and joined the flimsy fold didn't work out we must strengthen the gluing area by slipping pieces of hard cardboard under it.
And we give this ready-made, wrapped blank to the child and let him figure out how to decorate his wreath. You can offer him templates or ready-made cut out figures and decoration options.
Or you can make pretty wreaths out of double-sided green cardstock—like these—with a bright red paper bow.
You don't have to wrap the donut base if it is completely covered with a finishing applique, as was done on the Christmas children's wreath in the photo below.
Or you can not glue the wreath ring, not wrap it, but paint it over with gouache. Dry and paste over with appliques - for example, these snowmen-snowflakes.
Also, a regular paper or plastic plate can serve as the basis for the Christmas wreath ring. We cut out the bottom from it and then decorate it according to our design plan.
Wrapping a wreath can be done quickly using thick woolen threads. Or knitted threads (made from knitted fabric cut into strips. You can decorate such a wreath with natural materials, figures made of thick felt, cardboard appliqués.
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New Year's crafts made from felt.
(nice and fast).
You can make quick, bright crafts from thick felt. Here is a snowflake candlestick, it is created from flat sheet felt. I adjusted the diagram below to fit the size of a felt sheet of 30 by 30 cm. But you can reduce the picture to a size convenient for you by copying it onto a sheet of Word and pulling the corners of the image.
If you buy green felt in two or three shades of green, you can quickly make something like this with your own hands Christmas tree- a craft consisting of flat pancakes, which are slightly pulled together with a needle in the center (to form a wavy surface of the disk).
That is, in the center of the round felt, draw a small circle with chalk, follow it with stitches of thread - and then tighten these circular stitches (to create a bulge in the center (like a hat with large brims). We also make disks with a tie in the center - of different sizes , alternating shades of green. And we assemble our Christmas tree like a pyramid.
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New Year's crafts from PLATES.
From plastic plates you can make not only the bases for Christmas wreaths, but also any New Year's characters. The round shape of the plate easily turns into the face of a snowman, deer, Santa Claus, or penguin.
You can cut the plate as you wish - to suit any of your plans. If round form If you don’t create a New Year’s craft in your imagination, change this shape. Make a semicircle - and now the face of Father Frost with a sculpted beard appears.
Cut the circle of plates into quarters - and here they are unobtrusively folded into a Christmas tree. All that remains is to take green paint and colored beads.
You can cut a truncated trapezoid from the circle of the plate and turn it into the head of a Christmas reindeer.
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New Year's crafts
from an egg cassette.
And here are the ideas for the most inexpensive crafts for the New Year. Ordinary paper egg cassettes. Their convex rows of cells will help give birth to many New Year's crafts. Your imagination will breathe life into these cardboard honeycombs - and bright colors they will give new life old packaging.
If you work as a kindergarten teacher, then you can find this material on the first floor of the kindergarten; several large egg cassettes are thrown out in the kitchen every day. Chefs will be happy to become your regular suppliers of this creative material.
You can cut out several rows of cells at once from a cassette maker and turn them into a bright Christmas tree or a convex snowman.
You can cut out individual cell bottoms and use them to form a snowman pyramid.
You don’t have to cut the cassette box at all and make a team of New Year’s reindeer with a sleigh for Santa Claus from a whole one.
Even one small cell can become a cute little New Year's craft - a tiny mingguin or a little deer.
And to make the little ones look like solid children’s work, they can be surrounded by decorations - winter surroundings. Christmas trees or ice floes, as is the case with penguins. Pieces of ice floes can be cut out of foamed plastic - such liners are in your winter boots, or they are used as pads when transporting fragile goods or technical devices. Or you can just go to a hardware store (or to the construction department of the market 
a) and buy a meter of thick insulation for the walls there - it also has the same structure.
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New Year's crafts
FROM PAPER FANS.
We can also make crafts from an easy-to-design material - round fans folded from paper. The simplest design is a Christmas tree. Here we stack the fans on top of each other in a festive pyramid - we get a Christmas tree with our own hands.
Here is a visual master class showing the general principle of creating all-round fans. The main thing is to take a VERY LONG strip - so that its length when folded like an accordion is enough to round it.
If you don’t have such a long strip, you can fold 2 separate strips and then glue them into one common long accordion-snake.
And by the way, if you make a pattern on such an accordion on its edges - and on its tips - then when you turn the fan into a round shape, we will get an openwork snowflake. You can also make an independent New Year's craft with your own hands.
Paper fans can be used as decorative elements in the construction of multi-layer Christmas tree applique toys made of paper.
And you can also turn on your imagination and invent original New Year's voluminous applications from such paper fans.
The simplest thing that you can quickly and easily do with your own hands is a Christmas wreath craft. Just a base ring made of cardboard and a bunch of decorative fans to decorate the donut base of the wreath.
These are the ideas you found for yourself and your children today. Now the matter remains small. Evaluate the materials available at home. And get to work.
Making a piece of a magical holiday with your own hands is already a small miracle. And the New Year's spirit of happiness consists of small miracles.
Let your hands create happiness. Happiness for the next New Year.
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What can you give?
The troubles before the New Year are always pleasant, and you want to pay more attention to your friends and family and give them something necessary and at the same time inspiring. What are some DIY gift ideas for the New Year? List of basic handmade gift ideas:- any item with a photo (magnet, album or pillow);
- toy or trinket;
- hand-knitted accessory;
- sweet gift;
- a useful thing that you uniquely made with your own hands;
- interior item or home decor.
This is something that an absolutely ordinary person can handle if they wish, if they show a little ingenuity or find a good master class. If you have some kind of hobby related to needlework, then you can make something in your favorite style.
A person who is keen on bead embroidery will probably be able to embroider a small Christmas tree decoration or make a motivating picture for the interior, a good knitter will come up with unusual scarves for the whole family, and a wood carver will be able to please loved ones with handmade decorations.
But what to do if you don’t seem to have any handicraft skills, but you want to make a gift? First of all, use your imagination and come up with several gift options.
New Year's souvenir
New Year's souvenirs bring the spirit of the holiday, so it is better to give them a little in advance - so that the gift has time to settle down in the house and create the right atmosphere happy holiday. It could be something related to the Chinese calendar - future a year will pass under the sign of the Pig (boar), which means that any cute pig could very well be a wonderful holiday gift.You can try making decorations for the Christmas tree or give a Christmas tree made by yourself. watch an easy master class:
If this is a New Year's tree toy, then you can:
- sew a toy in the shape of a pig, for example from a sock;
- cut out several complex silhouettes of piglets with an openwork pattern from designer thick paper;
- make a pig figurine using the technique of dry or wet felting;
- weave from wire.
Pattern:
Photo gifts
This is the simplest and at the same time very touching way to give your parents a gift for the New Year with your own hands, especially considering that you don’t have to do practically anything with your own hands - the main thing is to find a good idea and spend a little time on preparation.
Gifts decorated with photographs will highlight your feelings for your parents and will remind them of you all year long.
What could it be:
- calendar;
- phone cases;
- decorative pillows;
- mugs and dishes;
- photo book.
For example, for the calendar you can choose beautiful photos of the whole family or some funny moments, or you can do a special photo session for this. By the way, a good gift a simple family photo printed on a huge canvas can be something that will not only decorate your parents’ living room, but will also keep them warm every day.
If you want to make a photo gift, then select the brightest and highest quality shots. It is not necessary that there are people in the pictures - someone will like a mug with a portrait of their favorite cat, and my husband’s mother was delighted with a wall calendar with photographs of her precious orchids, which she grows herself.
Take a closer look at a person’s daily life, pay attention to what he devotes most of his time to and try to use it somehow - then you will really like the gift!
Sweet gifts
I admit honestly, this is my favorite way to do something to someone. If you like to cook, then prepare a magical gift for your loved ones - sweets plunge each of us into childhood, and those with a sweet tooth simply cannot imagine a good holiday without all kinds of sweets.What sweet gifts can you make yourself:
- gingerbread cookies for the New Year tree;
- painted gingerbread cookies;
- chic gingerbread house;
- cake;
- cakes;
- handmade sweets.
Where is the difference between an ordinary gingerbread and a festive one? First, the dessert you prepare must be well made. If you are sure that your dough will burn, and instead of neat sand men you will get mummies, then it is better to choose another gift.
Secondly, at the first glance at such a gift it should be clear that it was made with love and for a specific person. A small gingerbread house can look very impressive and is not too difficult to assemble.
While baking and decorating a gorgeous cake is not very easy (although there are some secrets here too). And finally, thirdly, the gift must be well packaged. I'm not talking about the usual gift packaging, colorful paper and lush bows, no.
Watch the video instructions for creating a sweet sleigh:
Or you can make a Christmas tree like this out of sweets and tea:
Watch the video instructions for creating a candy tea tree:
Make a small bundle of pure, unbleached linen, tie a gift tag to a ribbon, and hang a small wooden star to highlight your gift and make it special.
If you want to give your mother a gift in the form of sweets for the New Year or Christmas with your own hands, then choose an original recipe - for example, gourmet cookies with drops of dark chocolate, ginger and pepper, cook them well, decorate and package well, and your mother will be delighted with the gift, because that your care will be felt in it.
Handmade card
, made with your own hands can be either an addition to a gift or a small independent present - for example, to a colleague or boss. You shouldn’t fall back into childhood and try to cut a postcard out of old, unused wallpaper - visit a craft store, where you can buy a blank for a postcard (specially folded cardboard), as well as the necessary decor.
It is best to watch a lesson on making a postcard with your own hands, and then buy materials according to the list - for example, this could be a blank, New Year's cutting (volumetric elements made of thick cardboard), decorative tapes (most often paper, with ornaments) and various decorations.
Some materials can be replaced (for example, colored powder for embossing can be easily replaced with any coloring pigment - including decorative shadows or glitter for manicure). Try to make the card not just beautiful, but also neat.
Handicrafts as a gift
This category includes decorative items for the home, various trinkets, and hand-knitted accessories. You can make gifts for the New Year 2019 with your own hands, even if you don’t know how to do needlework at all, but you’re ready to try your hand and you like Original gifts for the new year.What to give for the New Year, made with your own hands:
- decorative clocks;
- knitted scarf;
- sofa cushion;
- decorative panel;
- soft toy;
- any interesting trinkets.
Interior panel, clock or toy. This is where you need a good idea. The clock mechanism can be purchased at any craft store; you can use plastic or thick cardboard as a base; you can also make a clock based on a white plate, which you can decorate to your taste.
It's best to start with an idea. To give your beloved husband a gift for the New Year with your own hands, you need to at least have a little idea of what your husband will be happy about. He's interested in extreme species sports? Make him a fun wall clock in an extreme style. Are you a fan of a sports team? Instead of numbers on the dial, place the names of the players under the corresponding number.
An interior panel as a gift to a loved one is quite simple to make; you will need a large wooden or plastic frame in which you will make your panel. You can try to make a portrait using an unusual technique - from different photos or thread, from fingerprints or regular tape.
Think about what gift a guy would like to receive from you for the New Year? Perhaps confirmation of your feelings? Or something that can highlight his best sides?
Knitting or sewing
If you don’t know what to give your dad as a gift for the New Year, then try making something with your own hands from threads and nails, for example, a similar painting in the style of string art.
How to do this, see the video instructions:
If you have minimal knitting skills, then you can try to take on something really difficult - a sweater or socks, and if you are far from this type of needlework, then it is better to knit something small.
A hat, scarf or something simple. In this case, the main thing is to choose a good yarn that can hide any pattern errors and not too confident loops. By the way, a guy who is a car driver will be delighted with a funny knitted cover for the steering wheel or headrest made from fluffy yarn like a teddy bear.
Jar with the best memories
This gift is suitable for both lovers and parents or best friends. Remember and write on small pieces of paper all the warmest and brightest memories associated with the recipient, then roll up the pieces of paper, tie each one with a ribbon and put it in a beautiful jar.
Now you can choose a gift to suit your taste and make it yourself, and you also know what to pay attention to when packaging.
How you want to quickly plunge into the festive atmosphere, set the New Year's mood, touch the magic when winter comes. You can give a fairy tale to your children if you engage in amazing and interesting creativity with them. In this lesson I will show you how to make crafts for the New Year with your own hands with unique step-by-step photographs. Such crafts, made with love, will be a wonderful gift for the New Year 2019.
In winter, it’s so cold and uncomfortable outside that you want to sit warmly by the fireplace, wrapped in a blanket, and make cute trinkets with your hands. In past centuries, our grandmothers and great-grandmothers always occupied themselves with embroidery and lace making. But modern ladies also have something to do; various master classes and detailed instructions for needlewomen on making toys, souvenirs and jewelry help with this.
How to make crafts for the New Year with your own hands
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Before the New Year, we all need to make a small symbol with our own hands that will bring good luck to the whole family. There is work to be done to create a yellow pig, since it is she who will patronize us throughout 2019.
What to make such a talisman from? You can use absolutely any materials if you model crafts with your children. For example, plasticine, which is in every baby’s arsenal, is suitable.
It’s easy to make a pig with your own hands from soft yellow blocks. The pig must be yellow because next year is considered the year of the yellow pig. But we will make it truly New Year's, using several bright accessories.
This will be a red Santa Claus hat with a white edge and a red scarf that will decorate the figurine. The resulting pig can be planted under the Christmas tree, and it will celebrate the New Year 2019 with you.
To sculpt a pig you need to prepare:
- 1 or 2 bars of yellow plasticine;
- pink plasticine;
- white and red plasticine;
- a drop of blue plasticine;
- match or toothpick.
How to make a pig from plasticine with your own hands step by step
Prepare children's plasticine for work. Surely, you will find in it a convenient stack for dividing and processing blocks. Usually pigs are depicted as pink, but we will make a yellow one. Therefore, prepare plasticine of exactly this color. If you only have one yellow block, you can mix it with orange or white to create more mass to create a larger pig.
Knead the plasticine in your hands and roll a fairly large ball.
Divide this ball into pieces to create the head and ears, body and legs of the animal. For the head, make a smaller ball and squeeze it on one side. Also prepare small yellow balls for the ears and nose. To highlight all the details and make a patch, roll small beads from pink plasticine.
Turn 2 small yellow balls into flat droplets and stick pink beads on top. This way you will get floppy pig ears. Turn the pink ball into a round cake, stick a pink bead on top and pierce 2 holes with a match head. This way you will get a penny. Glue eyes with blue pupils and pink eyebrows onto the head.
Glue the patch in the center of the head, the bottom lip, and also the 2 ears on top. The pig's head is ready. You can put it aside for now, later we will put it on top New Year's hat.
Use the bulk of the yellow plasticine to sculpt the body - a large, weighty drop. Insert a match or toothpick into the sharp part of the drop.
Fasten the head and torso. Prepare a long red ribbon with white ends and striped with a stack. This will be a scarf for the pig. Also prepare a red cone for the cap. Add a white bead to the upper tip of the cone, and stick a white stripe at the bottom. Turn them into fur pieces.
Place a New Year's hat on your pig's head and a scarf on his neck. Also make arms and legs from the leftover yellow plasticine. Pink hooves are glued to the end of each piece.
Assemble the figurine completely, you can make the pig sit, then you will need to prepare a stand for it, or stand.
Crochet the pink sausage into a tail and glue it to the back to complete the pig's look.
Place your figurine on a pedestal and place it under the Christmas tree.
Beautiful snowflake made of plasticine
Plasticine modeling is always fabulous, and snow patterns can also be modeled from this soft and pliable material. Snowflakes are popular and well-known New Year's crafts. There can never be too many of them if the task is to decorate the interior before the New Year.
This lesson tells you how to make a snowflake from plasticine with your own hands. Even small weightless details are obtained if you use a soft mass. The product will turn out to be light and elegant, like a real natural object, even from large quantity plasticine.
To make snowflakes, prepare:
- blue and white plasticine;
- half pearl bead;
- tool and toothpick.
How to make a beautiful snowflake from plasticine
Prepare all suitable materials for creativity. Blue and White color a – these are the standard shades that are always used to paint frosty patterns.
Select a piece of the appropriate size to create the base. Warm up and knead in your hands, form a ball. This stage always accompanies the sculpting process.
Now crush the soft mass into a flat round cake, which will become the base of the craft. It is convenient to use a flat board. Press the hard surface on top with your palm, applying it to the plasticine. Pre-moisten the part with water so that it does not stick to the surface of the plasticine. This way, you apply equal pressure to the entire surface of the mass, and the cake will turn out uniform.
Divide the blue circle into 6 segments. These segments will later become the rays of a snowflake. Grab the plasticine on each piece with your fingers and pull it out while it is still soft. Do the work intuitively, your task is to make a figure that is as similar as possible to a six-pointed star.
Sharpen it in the same way 6 rays. This is a beautiful winter snowflake, but the work is not finished yet.
Now think about how you would like to decorate your interesting craft. The base is already ready. Make small oval petals from white plasticine and glue them symmetrically to each of the 6 rays.
Duplicate the white parts with blue ones again, but in a smaller size, to give the craft volume.
Press each ray on top with a spatula or toothpick so that a longitudinal moat remains. Make small white eyelashes for each corner. Glue them onto the tabs.
In the center, stick white threads in the form of a thin snowflake onto the free space.
Stick a white cake in the middle and decorate with a half bead.
You can also fill the empty space with small balls by piercing each one with a toothpick.
The plasticine snowflake is ready. This is just an example that you can use as a reference to show your kids an amazing creative winter themed lesson.
Now you don’t need to look for a microscope to examine a snowflake; an amazing specimen lies in front of you on the table.
New Year's decoupage champagne bottle
A bottle of champagne in itself is a good New Year gift. Such a gift is traditional, inexpensive and will never be superfluous, given that the New Year holiday lasts a long time.
What if the bottle has an unusual appearance, if it is also an original work? Such a gift will doubly please the person to whom it is intended.
The simplest thing you can do on such a bottle is decoupage. It is better to do this work on two bottles. Save time and be more productive. While one bottle dries out at each stage, there is an opportunity to move on to another.
For work I took the following materials and equipment:
- bottle 2 pcs.;
- cotton pads;
- degreasing agent (nail polish remover);
- napkins with New Year's motifs 4 pcs.;
- white paint for primer;
- colored acrylic paints;
- flat synthetic brushes;
- file;
- spray bottle with water;
- thin stick (you can use sushi chopsticks);
- PVA glue;
- acrylic varnish;
- contour for glass gold;
- gold silk threads.
Before I started decorating the bottles, I removed all the stickers. Then she carefully lifted the foil on the neck of the bottle with a thin stick. I took it off.
Then I trimmed the foil a little.
The surface of the bottle was degreased using manicure liquid.
I primed the surface of the bottle and painted it with white paint. I dried it and then covered the bottom of the bottle and dried it again.
I separated the bottom layers of the napkin. I placed the drawing fragment on the file with the picture down. I moistened the fragment with water and smoothed it out.
I applied the file with the fragment to the surface of the bottle and pressed it. Carefully bending the corner of the file, and then the entire file, while not allowing the napkin to rise.
I glued the main fragment and waited for the glue to dry.
I glued the background fragment to the other side of the bottle. Covered with varnish.
In some places I added contour drawing.
The bottle was varnished.
I put foil on the neck. The junction of the foil and the neck of the bottle was decorated with threads.
I did the second bottle in exactly the same way, only I took different napkins. Such elegant bottles are good both for gifts and for the New Year's table.
DIY snowflake and snowman
In this sculpting lesson we invite you to combine two winter looks- a snowflake and a snowman. Why not have some fun with your children and experiment by making something with your own hands using safe and affordable materials. Plasticine can rightfully be considered one of these. Perhaps even kids from the very beginning early years they intuitively feel and understand how to handle it.
We invite everyone interested in winter handicrafts to join this unusual master class. Here we tell you how to make a snowflake with the image of a snowman from plasticine. Usually children in the yard sculpt figures out of snow, but here we make a snowflake and decorate it with a unique face.
To work you need to prepare:
- plasticine bars in a set;
- stack;
- any dense material- cardboard or plastic lid;
- pencil or pen;
- scissors;
- toothpick.
How to do unusual snowflake made of plasticine
Cardboard, scissors and a pen (pencil) will be needed to make a dense base for the future craft. Since the snowflake will be made from plasticine, you need to take care of the strength of the entire structure. There is no point in pulling out each thin ray separately and attaching them together, since such a craft will be unreliable and will bend under any pressure. It is best to use cardboard or a plastic lid.
Draw beautiful carved outlines of a frosty ornament on the cardboard. The rays of a snowflake can be of different shapes. Cut out the part along the contour. And also prepare white plasticine to completely cover the surface of the base with a thin layer.
Knead small piece white in your hands, place it on the cardboard and spread it with your finger over the entire surface of the paper or plastic. Remove all excess by removing the plasticine from the edge of the cardboard. Make small yellow petals to attach 3 to each ray.
Start attaching yellow trefoil-shaped petals to each ray, adjoining the resulting structures with a small red ball and pressing it on top with a toothpick.
Make all the rays elegant. Press each small yellow petal lengthwise, and pierce the red ball with a toothpick.
When the base of the snowflake is ready, start modeling blanks for the snowman, which will become the central element. Make a blue ball, pressing it on top with your palm, make a red carrot nose and a purple scarf with white polka dots.
Glue a blue head ball with a carrot nose into the center of the snowflake. Attach a scarf with a bow to the bottom. And at the top there will be room for a festive hat.
Create a pretty face. In addition to the nose, you also need to make eyes, rosy cheeks and a mouth.
Put a bright hat with a spruce branch on your head, symbolizing the New Year holidays. No other accessories are needed. The entire interior of the craft is filled, there is no more space left.
Now you can admire the fruit of your creativity; this master class cannot be called the easiest. The snowman looks like a good wizard, and the whole snowflake, in general, looks elegant and unusual.
Mini crafts - skates made of pins and felt
Ice skating has become an increasingly popular winter entertainment. Both adults and children can be found at city skating rinks both on weekends and weekdays. Skates, like skiing, have already become a symbol of winter outdoor activities.
Well, you can make it from simple materials souvenir of these cute bladed boots. You can wear a toy instead of a keychain on your bag or decorate a Christmas tree with miniature skates - the choice is yours.
You will need:
- sheets or scraps of felt: white, cream, blue or black;
- pins (two pieces for each pair of skates);
- glue gun and Consumables to him;
- scissors;
- floss threads for laces;
- Lurex thread for the eyelet;
- Small sequins, rhinestones, and beads may be useful.
You will end up with a pair of skates, the size of which will depend on the size of the pin. I got the following souvenirs: 2 cm along the sole, 2.5 cm in height..
You can cut out a stencil from paper or cardboard, but neither one nor the other material will give you an idea of what width to cut the piece from felt. I advise you to do this: cut out a rectangle from a sheet of felt approximately the width of a pin. It is better if it is longer than necessary.
Use scissors to scratch along the fold line. Bend the workpiece and try on a pin to the fold.
If you like everything, use sharp scissors to shape the felt into a skate boot. Heat the glue gun (about 5 minutes), carefully glue the felt so that the two parts are tightly connected to each other. In the place where the laces will be, you can loosely attach the parts to each other so that the skates look realistic.
Thread three strands of floss in the color of your choice through the needle. Sew the felt crosswise to create the impression that the skates are tied with laces.
Three crosses on each shoe is best option. Tie the laces into a bow.
Make the second skate in the same way, making sure it is almost identical in size to the first.
Secure the skates with lurex thread. That's all! The cute trinket is ready. You can decorate with it not only a Christmas tree or a bag, but also an album, a mirror, a panel on winter themes, etc. Also, mini-skates will do an excellent job as corporate gifts if you want to congratulate colleagues or many friends and acquaintances.
Before the New Year, you must definitely buy and decorate a Christmas tree, so fluffy, so fragrant and so festive. This is a favorite activity for children. For this we use balls, tinsel and serpentine. Children are also attracted to winter creativity. To make a small Christmas tree, you will need a little plasticine and additional bright paste for decoration. Extremely simple model is given in this lesson.
Materials for making New Year's crafts:
- green plasticine and an additional couple of bright shades;
- brown plasticine;
- match.
How to make a souvenir Christmas tree with your own hands
There are so many interesting ways to create miniature Christmas trees with your own hands. But perhaps the easiest of them is modeling from plasticine. Yes, yes, exactly the easiest one. And if you are smart, you won’t even need to make each branch separately and show off the sharp needles. Plasticine is sold in any store, it costs a penny, as soon as children see the bars, they immediately pick them up, begin to knead them and intuitively make something.
Think with your children about what shape the Christmas tree can be, of course, cone-shaped. And such a green figurine could easily pass for a souvenir tree. And so that no one doubts that this is a New Year’s craft, the crown can be supplemented with balls and serpentine. Lightweight parts can do everything.
Initially, create the trunk itself (aka crown) - a green oblong cone. Knead the plasticine in your hands desired color, form a ball.
Press it down with your palm, apply pressure and begin to swing the workpiece with oscillatory movements. You need to ensure that the ball stretches out, but becomes not just a cylinder, but a cone. Also make a small brown stump.
Insert a piece of a match into the top of the hemp for further secure fastening of the parts. Smooth the surface immediately with your fingers, without waiting for it to harden and become hard.
Fasten the green and brown components to each other.
The cone tree itself is ready. Move on to the decor. Christmas decorations can be ordinary plasticine peas of bright color. And also pull out thin threads, which will later become serpentine.
Make a Christmas tree top right away - the famous red star. When decorating a live or artificial spruce at home, be sure to use such a bright top. The star can glow from electricity or simply sparkle and shimmer.
Randomly stick thin threads of serpentine onto the green cone, filling the space evenly. On a green background, yellow or Orange color immediately noticeable, the colors are contrasting and expressive.
Glue balls onto the empty spaces, with a star at the top. The New Year's plasticine beauty is ready. She is slim and dressed up.
Children will dance in circles at a matinee around a real Christmas tree, and toys can have fun around such a small replica. If you like this idea, then you can make a whole forest of brightly decorated Christmas trees, involving all family members, using not only green, but also other colors of plasticine.
Snowflakes only at first glance seem identical, written as a carbon copy. We look out the window or go outside, white islands flash in front of us, fall to the ground, turn into snowdrifts or immediately melt. However, each of these ice grains is unique and very beautiful. Therefore, the image of snowflakes is very often used on the eve of the New Year holidays to decorate Christmas tree decorations, to model carnival costumes and also to perform unusual children's crafts.
It is by modeling beautiful snowflake That's what we'll do in this lesson. And it will not be simple, not gold, but plasticine. It also doesn’t have to be pure white, because we are talking about a children’s craft. The New Year's flow of imagination will not dry out if you experiment with colors, patterns and additional decorative elements.
What to prepare for repeating snowflakes:
- brown and white plasticine;
- a button or shiny stone;
- stack-spatula;
- toothpick.
How to make an unusual snowflake with your own hands
To avoid repetition and make something unique, use brown plasticine as a base. And white plasticine will complement it and look beautiful against the given background. If you can find a beautiful chocolate color, the finished product will look like delicious candy or gingerbread. In general, even brown, a seemingly completely unsuitable color for a snowflake, will look very beautiful.
Knead the brown plasticine and first form a ball.
Place the ball on a hard surface. Press down around the circumference with your fingers, evenly distributing the pressure. You should get a round cake, but not very thin. A snowflake will be cut out of it later.
It is advisable to wet the surface of the board before working so that the mass does not stick to it. Even on plasticine boxes they give advice that it is better to work with the material with wet hands.
After the cuts, petal segments will remain on the cake. Press each of them with your fingers and smooth them out so that you get triangular rays.
Try to smooth the brown surface with your fingers until it is perfect. Pull the white pieces into very thin threads.
Using white threads, create a web on the six-pointed surface, interlacing longer and shorter sections. Connect opposite corners.
Additionally, make small fibers from white plasticine; they will be needed to decorate the rays. Glue a button in the center.
Symmetrically fill all the rays with lint to further decorate your New Year's product.
Add white balls to the recesses between the rays and press each of them with a toothpick; this method of decoration is also suitable.
A magical New Year's craft made from plasticine is ready. Now you need to remember poems and riddles about winter, snow and snowflakes.
How to make original craft gifts for the New Year 2019 with your own hands
Master classes - how to make.
The calendar established by Julius Caesar determined the beginning of the year on the first of January. Under the Roman Empire, this day received its meaning, later turning into a New Year holiday. As the Gregorian calendar spread across countries, the celebration became popular among many nations.
On the eve of the holiday, everyone is waiting for changes. They convince themselves that the coming year will be better. On New Year's Eve they want to believe in a fairy tale, they dream about their deepest desires. People prepare for this day, decorate the Christmas tree, and select gifts. A celebration is not complete without crafts. After all, a souvenir bought in a store cannot be compared to one made with one’s own hands, so such a gift is the most valuable.
Symbol of the year made of felt
Preparations for the celebrations begin in advance. The symbol of the coming 2019 is the pig, which, according to traditional characteristics, brings good luck. For the holiday, it is appropriate to prepare products that correspond to iconic figures. Thin felt (felt) is chosen as the main material for the toy. A homemade yellow earth pig made from felt will be a delightful gift for loved ones and relatives.
To make a three-dimensional pig, you need a minimum of tools and raw materials. First of all, you will need felt, which makes up the “skin” (outer shell), filler (foam rubber, cotton wool, unnecessary pieces of fabric), buttons to imitate eyes, threads for sewing crafts, scissors for a pattern. Flat products do not require any fillers. The craft can be made in the form of a souvenir, keychain, case, or even a panel.
To make a pig, and at the same time it turns out beautiful, you will need to use templates. They are cut out of cardboard and attached to the fabric from which the blanks are made using pins. First, the animal's muzzle is sewn together from the resulting shapes. Eyes, ears, mouth, and snout are sewn to it. The prepared product is filled with filler, preferably made from padding polyester or holofiber.
Ideas for creating candlesticks
On New Year's Eve, the lights are often turned off, leaving only sparkling garlands and flickering lights of lit candles. In this way an emotional atmosphere is created and bliss is achieved. But a naked candle looks dull. In such a situation, a candlestick will help. A handmade product gives off a feeling of warmth and home comfort.
There are a lot of ideas for creating candlesticks, as well as their frames. Let's look at some of them:
- Restoration of old factory products. If there are candlesticks left in the house that have been passed down through generations, or were once bought and forgotten, they can be given a special look by resorting to decoration. You can use fabrics, ribbons, and napkins as decorations. They can be covered with jewelry, wrapped with rope, and ribbons attached;
- Wooden logs. If you make a hole in them for a candle, it will be a unique masterpiece made from natural materials. The log can be used as a separate element, they can be assembled into a composition on stands, or decorated with branches;
- Glasses. The candle can be placed both inside and on its base. They can be decorated with ribbons and lace, played with flowers, covered with rhinestones, or installed with an interesting toy inside;
- Fruits. In addition to aesthetic appearance, such a candlestick will give a pleasant aroma.
The tradition originates from the legend of St. Nicholas, when he threw a gold bar through the chimney into the socks of three sisters on Christmas Day. The boots should hang by the fireplace, but this is not important; they can be placed above the children's bed, under the spruce tree. Those who behaved well during the past year will receive a gift.
The Christmas stocking is not only intended for gifts and sweets, but first of all it is a decorative element. Therefore, there are many options for their manufacture. First you need to decide on the fabric for the boot. Felt, fur, and cotton are more in demand. A special place is occupied knitted boots or made of leather.
Having chosen the material and sewn the New Year's boot, they begin to decorate it. Embroidery, appliqués, stripes, beads, ready-made mini-toys, and ribbons are used as decoration. Making a boot is a creative activity that the whole family can do.
What would a holiday be without sweet pleasure? And also beautifully decorated. The motives for decoration are chosen according to the celebration. Traditional images of a chocolate bar in the form of Santa Claus, twisted lollipops, candies on a Christmas tree are memories from the childhood of any parent. It is on this day that I want to convey the festive mood to children who are also looking forward to the New Year, and just a gift will not satisfy them.
Various decorations are made from sweets. For example, you can bake the most ordinary cake, decorate it with candies in the shape of snowflakes, draw a New Year’s motif from cream or chocolate, and package it beautifully. Or make cupcakes, decorating them in the shape of a snowman. Cupcakes are good to use to create reindeer. Bake cookies in the shape of snowflakes or frosty patterns.
If you use your imagination, you can even create entire compositions of sweets. These can be candy trees, additionally decorated with fabrics, appliqués, and branches. A log house made of round-shaped cookies, dipped in white chocolate to imitate snow. Ships, bouquets of flowers, sleighs, imitation fruits and many other crafts also work well.
The celebration will not be complete without the main symbol. There will always be adherents of traditional spruce or pine in the house, but even they are not alien to making additional decorations in the form of their favorite tree. Crafts are absolutely fulfilling different sizes, the product can fit on a shelf or take the place of a standard attribute.
It is impossible to combine in one expression the variety of objects and materials from which you can make an artificial spruce with your own hands. There are a lot of ideas. They are even used as raw materials plastic cups, glass jars. The most daring ideas are to make an imitation of wood from hot pepper pods, beans, springs from an old bed, spokes from a bicycle wheel, horse shoes, computer motherboards. There are a lot of options. Let's look at the most common of them:
From paper
Paper Christmas tree is the simplest and most a budget option. For production, you can take colored, corrugated paper, use old books, newspapers, cardboard boxes. Images and inscriptions on the sheet do not play a special role. The finished product can be plain or colorful. When working with a Christmas tree, any type of paper processing is used: papier-mâché, origami, collage, quilling, modeling, three-dimensional applications.
There are many master classes on creating paper Christmas trees. For example, when making a three-dimensional product, you will need a compass, which is used to draw a circle on a piece of cardboard, scissors, glue, and colored paper. The cardboard circle is cut in half and rolled into a cone. The edges are glued together, you can additionally fasten them with a stapler. The finished base serves as the base for a future toy; fluffy spirals, toilet paper balls, colored roses, and twisted strips can be applied to it. Decorate with rain, ribbons, and homemade toys.
From threads
You can literally make a Christmas tree from scrap materials. There are several ways to assemble a craft. To do this you will need thick paper or cardboard, scissors, glue, a set of threads and needles. The installation technique is as follows:
- A cone is made from a piece of whatman paper or cardboard;
- The base is wrapped in oilcloth or a polyethylene bag;
- Threads coated with glue are randomly wound around the cone, starting from the bottom;
- At the final stage, you need to dry the craft and remove the paper base.
You can decorate your Christmas tree with different components. Anything will do - candies, colored cereals, multi-colored buttons, beads, beads, sequins, lace, paper snowflakes, rain of different shades. To make the composition more original, you can place a lamp, lantern, or light bulb inside.
The product is fragile and should not be heavily loaded. It can have different heights, but the color design should be standard, in green tones.”
From forest cones
The cones do not have a solemn appearance, but you just have to use your imagination and show a little ingenuity, how natural material will turn into a luxurious spruce. Anyone can make such a decoration or a holiday gift. Finding raw materials will also not be difficult; to do this, just go for a walk in the forest or city park, planting. Trees also grow near multi-storey buildings and buildings owned by city authorities.
A simulated tree can consist of one cone mounted on a base (cork, branch, pot), or represent an entire composition. To compose volumetric product, you will need fir or pine cones, paints, paint brushes, glue, a disk or cardboard for the base, and decoration items.
Before starting work, the cones must be processed. To keep them closed, they are coated with glue; if you need open ones, you should place the raw materials in the oven for a couple of hours or boil them in boiling water for half an hour. The master class on creating a three-dimensional spruce is as follows: the first row of cones, which consists of the largest shoots, is glued in a circle onto a base made of cardboard cut out in the shape of a disk. The next row is more difficult to install, since here the cones have to be glued together. This is a very painstaking and long process, because until the previous layer has dried, you cannot begin the next one. The rows are applied to each other until the top is formed, where an elongated cone with a sharp tip would look appropriate. The Christmas tree created in this way is painted and decorated. You can use a cone as a base and glue the pine cones directly to it.
Christmas wreaths
The ancient Slavs and Germanic tribes used this attribute as a talisman, placing it on the door at the entrance. There is a story about a Hamburg Lutheran who, a month before the holiday, hung a wreath with 28 candles in it. Over time, wreaths lost their symbolic purpose and became a decorative element.
The material for the wreath can be spruce and pine branches, ribbons of different colors, dried flowers, fabrics, items of clothing, New Year's toys, jewelry, snowflakes different forms, cones, balls. To make the craft and hold everything together, you will need a base. To create it, it is better to take metal wires; aluminum is especially good. You can also use straw, cardboard, plastic, or foam as a base. The circle twisted from wire must be wrapped in newspaper or paper and secured with threads. The finished base can be decorated with fir branches of different shades and added glass balls. How to decorate an object depends on the intention of the author of this attribute.
Fairy lights
It is impossible to imagine the New Year without garlands. They are elegant, bright, elegant. They can be monochromatic or multi-colored, consist of paper, candies, threads, fabric, and have a complex structure. There are many options for creating these decorative elements. As an example, let's look at a few original ideas.
| Name | Materials | How to do |
| Twine balls | Balloons, glue, twine, needle, LED garland, cream, water | The inflated balls are coated with cream. The string is soaked in glue diluted in water and wound around the ball. After drying, the ball is bursted and removed, and a garland light bulb is placed inside. |
| Edible light bulbs | Multi-colored candies, marmalades or jelly, thread | The marmalade is cut into the shape of a small base, heated, and round or oval sweets are attached to the hot edge. Then the resulting elements are strung on a thread. |
| Salt dough garlands | Flour, dyes, molds, paints | Flour and salt are mixed and filled with water and dye. The dough is kneaded, then rolled out and pressed into shapes using molds. A hole is made with a match or toothpick. The figures are left to dry for a couple of days. After the blanks have dried, they can be decorated with a brush and glitter applied. At the final stage, the figures are strung on a thread. |
The process of decorating a New Year tree is a joyful event in which all family members participate. To do this, they use glass toys, rain showers, garlands - whatever you can buy. But it’s much more interesting to decorate a tree with handmade crafts. This decor will appeal to all household members and will create comfort. In order to create crafts for the New Year, any available material will do.
Toys can be made from yarn. Simple needlework will allow you to get a spectacular decoration. In just a few minutes, you can freely create a wire craft. A Christmas tree is formed from a ribbon and divided into layers with beads. Knitted deer, folded postcard, paper ball, hats made of thread - everything will be in place. Let's take a closer look at popular materials:
From old light bulbs
A burnt out light bulb that seems useless at first glance can be a good basis for a New Year's decoration. A painted item would be a great substitute. plastic balls. With some ingenuity, you can make:
- Snowman. To do this, you will need to paint the light bulb white and draw a cheerful face on it. Then the nose, made of porcelain and salt dough, is glued on. A cap sewn from fabric is hung on the base. If desired, you can attach hands from ordinary ones to him. wooden sticks or paper.
- Father Frost. All you need is to draw a characteristic face and costume, put on a cap, for which even a rolled-up paper tube can be used.
- Dog. A button or pebble imitating a nose is glued to the base, and a fluffy muzzle is made around it using yarn or thread. Next, glue on the eyes, eyebrows and mouth. You can wear a beautiful hat on top.
It will come out of the light bulbs good fake original glass toys, be it the Snow Maiden, a bee or a bag.”
Bigwigs
Pine cones can act as a complement to toys, or become the basis for many Christmas tree crafts. The door, shelf, window are also well decorated with decorations made from this raw material. After walking down the street and collecting the necessary material, you can safely get to work, but first you need to sort through and process them.
When creating products you will need pine cones, decoration items and imagination. From blanks you can make funny gnomes, families of penguins, birds, hedgehogs, elves, squirrels, foxes, mice, butterflies, bees, owls, snowmen on skis, angels and many other characters. You can use pine cones to make garlands, a star for a New Year tree, a miniature holiday tree, a ball, or simply paint it and use it as a separate decorative element.
Thread
Crafts can be made from the most ordinary threads. They make unique balls, stars, Christmas trees, and various flat decorations that do not need to be sewn. To create toys, there will be enough available materials in the house - threads, glue, scissors, needles.
Working with such material must begin with a template. It is cut out of cardboard or thick paper, after which a sketch of the future product is applied to it. Having ready-made templates, you can begin to implement your plans. To do this, stencils are laid out on the substrate and attached to it using needles located in all corners. Next, the glue is poured into any convenient container; if necessary, it can be diluted. The threads are dipped into a container with diluted liquid and allowed to soak. The moistened thread is pulled between the needles in a chaotic manner. That's it, the product is almost ready. All that remains is to dry it naturally or artificially, carefully separate it from the substrate and let it dry back side. The homemade product can be decorated with sparkles, jewelry, rain, and ribbons.
Snowflake is a traditional decoration. This is one of the first crafts that a child does for the New Year. A standard attribute that decorates windows in kindergarten and school. It's hard to imagine a holiday without them.
Simple products can do everything. Three-dimensional snowflakes are more difficult to make, although the materials used to create them are the same as for flat ones. They look impressive. Such a miracle is created from various raw materials, they can be woven from elastic bands, sewn from fabric, filled with cotton filler, or wrapped around a voluminous frame with threads. Let's look at the most common manufacturing options New Year's elements decor:
From paper
Paper is the most suitable material for creating a snowflake. When making it, you can use a landscape, newspaper, or cardboard sheet. The simplest scheme for volumetric crafts- accordion. To create such an element, you will need two paper sheets. The work begins with folding the raw materials like an accordion. Then, using a pencil, mark the middle on the compressed sheets. Stepping back from it a couple of centimeters in each direction, marks are made for the cutouts, and the rounding of sharp corners is also noted. Having cut off the marked areas with scissors, the accordions are carefully inserted with their ends into each other up to the first holes and tied with threads. To finish the product, all that remains is to straighten and glue the places where the two sheets come into contact.
3D snowflakes are interesting in their structure. Ornaments for an element may be different. They can be made by placing cut blanks on top of each other or gluing them from multi-colored strips cut from a sheet. The finished product is decorated with sparkles.
From foam plastic
Polystyrene foam is available in every home; in extreme cases, it can be purchased. The material is popular in handicrafts. To make a snowflake out of it, you will need a pencil for drawing a sketch, a sharp stationery knife, and glue. The main condition for starting work is the presence of a template. You can draw it yourself, download a sketch from the Internet.
A stencil cut from paper is applied to a piece of foam plastic, onto which the image is transferred with a pencil. After this, you can begin to work, the edges are cut first, then precise cuts are made. Ready craft You can smear it with glue and sprinkle it with salt, such actions will allow it to reflect light and shimmer. The work area must be covered with a tablecloth, otherwise the foam will spread throughout the house.
Creating a New Year's mood is very simple. Enough to give to friends or relatives original postcard, made independently. Children especially like to give such gifts to their peers in kindergarten. Wishes are often written inside, and figures are made to drop out.
An ordinary postcard can be made without much effort, just fold a sheet of paper in half and draw some kind of ornament on it. But New Year's crafts are something more. They are created with passion. To do this, they come up with different decors: they decorate the product with appliqués, glue various origami, create 3D compositions that appear in all their glory when opened, use quilling, and trim them with textile elements.
Topiary presented beautiful homemade tree, planted in a pot. First of all, this is an interesting craft. Like the original plant, it consists of a trunk and crown. Additional attributes are decorations and a pot that forms the base of the product. The topiary is created as follows:
- It all starts with the basics. An alabaster solution is poured into a decorated vase and allowed to harden;
- Trunk. Natural branches, wire, and plastic will work as raw materials. It is installed in a pot with a solution that has not yet hardened and fixed;
- Crown. It is made of paper (ideal for simulating a Christmas tree), thread, polyurethane foam, polystyrene foam. Attached to the trunk;
- Decor. These are all the elements that give the craft an original look.
Champagne bottle decoration options
On such a festive day, everything should be irresistible. This also applies to the table on which the main role reserved for a bottle of champagne. You can cover it with New Year's stickers by first removing the label. Sparkling wine will look good placed in a basket decorated with flowers, balls, snowflakes, ribbons, and chocolates.
There are quite a lot of interesting ideas: the bottle turns around corrugated paper, tied with ribbons, decorated with balls and flowers; a container wrapped in red felt, with the addition of decorations, turns into Santa Claus; You can cover the champagne with rain, attach jewelry and make a Christmas tree out of it.
Conclusion
New Year's crafts – creative process, in which all family members can participate. Handmade jewelry is the most valuable. They will always delight children and adults. There is an unlimited number of decorative elements and materials for creating them.
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A great gift for tea lovers. “Tea connoisseurs don’t drink sawdust from tea bags!” - you say. But who’s stopping you from packaging good, expensive tea in envelopes?
You will need:
- a cone made of foam plastic or thick cardboard;
- round cardboard box and rice for stump;
- tea packed in small paper bags (the quantity depends on the height and diameter of the cone);
- glue gun;
- star, bows and other decorations of your choice.
Cover the cone with tea bags, applying glue to the top of them. Move from bottom to top in a checkerboard pattern. It is better to use bags of contrasting colors: the tree will look more elegant.
Glue the lid of the cardboard box to the bottom of the cone. Fill the box itself with rice to make the tree more stable, and then attach it to the lid. If you don't have it at hand finished box the desired diameter, make it yourself. Take a tube from a roll of paper towels as a basis or glue it from cardboard according to this pattern.
Decorate the tree with bows, rhinestones and other decorative elements, and glue a star to the top of the head.
Tara Aveilhe/Flickr.com Girls will highly appreciate such a gift. After all, this is an individual scent; no one in the city will have such a perfume.
Before you create, find out what smells the one you want to please prefers. For example, if a girl likes citrus scents, she will need lemon or orange. To add woody notes, you need sandalwood or cedar oils, powdery ones - roses or vanilla.
Ingredients:
- ½ cup almond butter;
- ½ cup grape oil;
- 100 g beeswax;
- 1 teaspoon vitamin E;
- 60 drops of lemon oil;
- 25 drops of eucalyptus oil;
- 20 drops of lavender oil;
- 20 drops rosemary oil.
Mix almond and grape oils with wax in a separate saucepan and place in a steam bath. When the wax has completely dissolved, let the liquid cool slightly and add essential oils and vitamin E. Pour the future perfume into molds. A bottle of old hygienic lipstick, a jar of Vaseline, etc. will do.
Once the wax has hardened, the perfume is ready to use. All that remains is to package them beautifully.
A great gift for freezing girls. A pair of warm, fairly sturdy socks that you don't wear can be turned into fingerless gloves.
Additional materials:
- needle with thread;
- heart cut out of felt.
Trim and sew the sock as shown in the photos. Be sure to hem the edge to prevent fraying, and make all seams from the inside out.
Sew a felt heart on top. You can use any other decorative means. For example, embroider the inscription “Happy New Year!” or embroider mitts with rhinestones.
Another DIY gift for those who are always cold is. By heating it for 1-3 minutes in the microwave, you will get a great heating pad that also smells nice.
GA-Kayaker/Flickr.com Paracord is a cord made of nylon. Initially used as a material for parachute lines, but then paracord began to be used wherever a lightweight and durable cable might be needed. For example, stylish men's bracelets are woven from it. IN ordinary life- just a decoration, in an extreme situation - a life-saving rope.
There are various techniques for weaving paracord. Here is one of the most common.
You will need:
- 150 cm of paracord of one color and the same amount of another (it is desirable that the shades be contrasting);
- 75 cm of black paracord;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- needle and thread.
From paracord you can weave not only a bracelet, but also a keychain, or make a braid for a knife or a car steering wheel. You can easily find the diagrams on the Internet. It’s even easier - watch video tutorials on YouTube, there are many of them.
Witandwhistle.com You can not only drink from such a mug. You can leave messages on it for your household or just draw.
Materials:
- white porcelain mug without relief;
- slate paint;
- masking tape;
- brush.
Chalkboard paint is most often used to renew the surfaces of school boards. Now big choice such colors. You need one that can work on ceramics. For example, like this one.
Choose an area of the mug that is comfortable to write on, but that will not come into contact with your lips when drinking. Cover the rest of the mug with masking tape.
Degrease the untaped area and apply paint to it in a thick layer. Remove the tape and leave the mug in a well-ventilated area for a day.
Witandwhistle.com When the paint is dry, place the mug in an oven preheated to 150°C. After 30 minutes, turn off the stove, but remove the mug when it has cooled.
Now the mug can be washed in the dishwasher and put in the microwave.
Heygorg.com If you are one of those who like to give experiences rather than material things, you will love this idea. After all, it’s not only a delicious warming drink, but also a reason to go or invite you to visit.
Take some pretty glass jars and fill them about a third full with hot chocolate or cocoa powder. Add a few candies or pieces of chocolate. Fill the remaining space with marshmallows.
Decorate the jars to your liking. For example, place a piece of fabric under the lid and attach a heart made from candy canes to the top. The label can serve as a postcard; write your wishes on it.
Another variation of this gift is a set for mulled wine. Take an orange, an apple, a clove and a cinnamon stick. Pack it all beautifully, make a label with your wishes and add a bottle of good red wine.
Candles are a traditional New Year's gift. But glamorous store-bought ones are one thing, a personalized candle or a candle with a phrase understandable only to the giver and recipient, or even with a photograph, is another.
Take:
- white candles with a diameter of 5–7 cm;
- A4 size printing paper;
- parchment paper;
- scissors;
- glue stick;
Trim the parchment paper so that it is 1-2 cm wider than the A4 sheet. Glue the parchment to the printing paper, turning the edges over to the other side. Insert the sheet into the printer with the glossy side, that is, the side where the parchment is. Print out the image you would like to place on the candle.
The drawing will appear on parchment paper. Now you need to transfer it to a candle. Cut out the image, attach it to the candle, tightly wrap it with another layer of parchment on top and direct a stream of hot air onto the resulting structure. If the picture becomes lighter, it means it was imprinted on the candle. Remove carefully upper layer parchment and let the wax harden.
The gift is ready! If desired, you can decorate it with rhinestones or sparkles.
This cosmetic bag greatly simplifies the search for the necessary items, because any lock can be opened.
You will need:
- 10 zippers 15–20 cm long;
- safety pins;
- needle or sewing machine;
- threads
Sew the zippers to each other from the inside out; for convenience, you can first attach them with pins. Close the resulting fabric into a ring and sew. Also sew the zippers across in front of the dogs, and then turn the cosmetic bag inside out.
This is a gift for a person who cannot part with gadgets. Using the same principle, you can sew a phone case.
Materials:
- a piece of felt suitable for the size of the tablet;
- 2 buttons;
- sewn-in magnets;
- safety pins;
- dense thread in the color of the buttons;
- thread in the color of felt;
- needle;
- scissors.
Fold the fabric so that the bottom part is longer than the top: this is the future cover of the case. Sew along the edges and turn the product inside out.
Cut the lid into a wave or semicircle. Sew a button to the middle. Attach the second one below, to the case. Make a loop between them, as shown in the photo.
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You can also make a stylish organizer for headphones, flash drives, phones and other gadgets from an old book in a beautiful binding. Here's the detailed one.
lePhotography/Flickr.com A gift that will delight not only children, but also adults with a sweet tooth. Making Santa Claus's sleigh is very simple.
You will need:
- glue gun;
- ribbons and other decor;
- sweets: chocolate, sweets, candy-shaped candies.
Here is a detailed video instruction.
A gift for a bosom friend or colleague. Beer can come in handy on January 1st, and brown bottles can easily be styled to resemble Rudolph and friends. (Rudolph is one of Santa's reindeer, distinguished by his red glowing nose.)
Materials:
- beer in dark glass bottles;
- decorative wire;
- toy eyes;
- red pom-poms;
- ribbon and bows;
- box;
- Super glue.
Remove labels from bottles. Make antlers from wire for future deer.
Glue them to the back of the bottle. Attach the eyes and nose to the front. Tie a ribbon (to prevent it from slipping, you can fix it with glue).
Craftysisters-nc.blogspot.ru Decorate the rest of the bottles in the same way. Put them in a box and decorate it.
A gift for economical women and men who love to cook.
You will need:
- cotton fabric with a New Year's pattern;
- batting for lining;
- threads;
- scissors;
- needle.
If you have a sewing machine, the work will not take much time. Detailed video instructions - from pattern to thread cutting - are included.
Inside such a mitten you can put a spatula, a ladle and other little things useful for the kitchen.
A little more imagination, and your New Year's gift will become even more original. Attach a ring to the spatula and hang favorite family recipes printed on cards and laminated on it.
Lilluna.com Glass snow... wine glass
Balloons with a miniature figure and artificial snow inside are very popular. Life hacker already shows how to make something similar from an ordinary glass jar. Today it's the turn of wine glasses.
Materials:
- transparent wine glass;
- thick cardboard;
- a figurine that can easily fit into a glass;
- artificial snow;
- bows and other decor;
- glue.
Cut a circle out of cardboard with the same diameter as the wine glass. Glue the figure to the cardboard. It could be a Christmas tree, fawns, or, for example, a car with a Christmas tree on the roof.
Place artificial snow, finely chopped white paper or polystyrene foam. Glue the cardboard base to the edge of the wine glass and turn it over. Decorate the leg with a bow or ribbon.
belchonock/Depositphotos.com Over the past year, very large knitted blankets have been incredibly popular. Finished goods They are quite expensive, so it is more profitable to make a blanket yourself.
Merino wool is best suited for this, but other thick threads can be used. Video tutorial attached.
By hand, without knitting needles or a hook, you can also knit a beautiful Warm scarf. Life hacker has already seen how this is done.
Ourbestbites.com This gift will help you remember the best moments of the past year. Just choose the best photos and print them. Get some clear glass jars and vases. Round and cylindrical vessels work best.
Light pill candles inside the jars. The light will fill the house with warmth, and the photographs will seem to glow from within.
Iheartnaptime.net Many people have flaky skin in winter. If there are such people among your friends, prepare them a sugar-lemon scrub as a gift.
According to Chinese calendar, the symbol of 2017 is the rooster. Therefore, gifts with the image of a rooster or in the shape of roosters and hens will be especially relevant. A universal option for such a gift is a Christmas tree toy.
You will need:
- cardboard blank in the shape of a rooster;
- thick fabric;
- filler for toys;
- twine and lace ribbon;
- white outline;
- scissors;
- needle and thread;
- glue gun
The manufacturing process is shown in the following video.
You can sweeten such a gift with sweet cockerels on a stick. Many people still have their uniform from Soviet times.
Ingredients:
- ½ cup granulated sugar;
- 2-3 tablespoons of water (just to moisten the sugar);
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar(in some recipes add regular table salt or a pinch of citric acid).
You need to boil syrup from sugar and pour it into a generously greased vegetable oil form. Then stick the sticks in and wait until everything hardens.
If you know other original DIY solutions, share them in the comments.