Your favorite holiday is approaching - New Year 2017, and you have to choose souvenirs for your loved ones again. If this year you want to stand out and give creative gifts, you definitely need to try a little. To avoid making a mistake when choosing a gift, consider some points:
- the gift must surprise and delight;
- In order for a creative gift to be ready on time, you need to take care of the order in advance;
- an unusual gift is not only the souvenir itself, but also the way it is presented;
- The choice of gift depends on the preferences of the person to whom it is given.
Creative gift for the New Year 2017 with your own hands
If the person you want to give a gift to is dear, then you should try making a gift with your own hands. A handmade souvenir is always creative.
For the New Year 2017, give a blanket made from scraps of fabric, sewn especially for this holiday. All you have to do is make meaningful embroidery, and you will be sure that only one person will have such a gift.
If you don’t want to do such a thing personally, or don’t have enough time to make it, print a beautiful photo on a blanket and give it as a gift for the New Year 2017.
Handmade soap or an unusual candle with a New Year's theme is a wonderful gift for a loved one.
Gift with photo
Products with printed photographs are unusual, but a mug or plate with your image on it is already commonplace. It’s worth thinking about: on what subject will the photo look creative? For example, you can order a wall clock with one photo on the dial, or in place of some numbers you can place photographs of family members or friends.
Gifts with photos can be made in a variety of ways. After all, photographs are printed on completely different materials: a calendar for the next year, a refrigerator magnet, and even an umbrella.
Give emotions
In the world of gifts there is a category “gifts-impressions”. In order for the surprise to be to your liking, you need to carefully inquire about the existence of your dream. Maybe a person has dreamed all his life of skydiving or riding a dog sled. Having found out this, it will not be difficult to choose a certificate for the new year. There is now a huge variety in the world of gift certificates:
- extreme entertainment: skydiving, zorbing or flying in a wind tunnel. Snow-karting is common in winter; receiving it as a gift will be quite unexpected;
- Delicious master classes will allow you to diversify your knowledge of the cuisines of the peoples of the world, study or discover unknown dishes. Molecular gastronomy has become popular recently. How nice it is not only to try such dishes, but also to see how such delicious masterpieces are created;
- a certificate for studying dance will not only give you the delight of the opportunity to learn Latin American, ballroom or folk dances, but will also allow you to show off your skills in the future. Or maybe with such a certificate you will give a new hobby for more than one year;
- a relaxing gift: a certificate for a massage room or Spa salon will give the owner the opportunity to relieve the stress that has accumulated in the past year and enter the New Year 2017 fresh and rested.
Dinner at the restaurant
Turn a trip to a restaurant into an interesting and creative gift for the New Year 2017. In addition to the required dinner, restaurants now provide real performances or entertainment.
You can take a man to a meal with unlimited meat, because who among the men would not like such a gift.
Dinner in complete darkness will be very surprising and interesting. After all, it is impossible to see anything, only hear. And to top it off, upon leaving the restaurant you will be given a recording from a night vision camera about how the dinner went. This recording will remain a memory for many years.
Inexpensive gifts
A creative gift doesn't have to be expensive. Give an inexpensive, interesting gift. A ballpoint pen or pencil with a personalized engraving will be a pleasant surprise for your work colleagues. Those with a sweet tooth will love chocolate in personalized packaging or fortune cookies.
Fortune nuts will especially delight their owner. They will not only decorate the Christmas tree, but will bring a lot of impressions with predictions for the New Year 2017.
A hat with a beard and mustache looks creative; in cold weather it will protect your face from frost and will amuse random passers-by.
Superman or other superhero socks will prove to be the most creative gift this year.
Useful gifts
A blanket with sleeves will be an original gift and will especially appeal to a person who loves to read books covered with a blanket.
Give a pancake lover a creative frying pan with funny smiley faces. This gift will bring smiles to your breakfast every morning.
Night light projector is an interesting and useful gift. You just need to choose what it will be - a starry sky or a rainbow.
For a coffee lover, the best gift would be a stirrer mug. The question of finding a teaspoon disappears by itself, and there is always sweet hot coffee in the mug.
Give a motorist funny car seat covers in the shape of a panda or other animal.
Gift wrap
The gift has been chosen, but do not forget about the gift wrapping and presentation method. Original options for packaging a gift or turning its presentation into real entertainment will bring a lot of pleasure to everyone.
Play out a mini-scene with giving a gift, find a suitable box, fill it with pieces of foam, wrapping paper and plastic unnecessary parts from something. The main thing is that they make a lot of noise when falling. And when giving a gift, you “accidentally” drop this box. It will appear that the gift has broken. After waiting for some time, the main thing is not too long, tell them that it turned out to be a joke and give them a real gift.
You can add creativity when presenting, if you play two boxes, as in “Field of Miracles”. Having made sure in advance that they were both empty. And then pretend that there will be no gift, since the box is empty. But then admit the surprise and hand over a box with a gift.
The next New Year's celebrations are just around the corner, and these days you want to give yourself and your loved ones a little bit of magic. Like true sorcerers, you should take care of your magic wand in advance, and replace boring gatherings at a full table with a truly interesting celebration. It's time to think about how to celebrate the New Year 2017, so that both you and your loved ones will remember with pleasure the time spent together, and the year itself will be fun and successful.
Reign of the Fire Rooster - what to wear to meet the owner of the year
In 2017, the Red Monkey will resign and pass the baton to the Fire Rooster. The inconstancy and eccentricity of one is not much inferior to the activity and colorfulness of the other, so next year it will definitely not be boring. And in order for you to be lucky during this period, you need to try very hard: the vain Rooster loves when people pay attention to him and try to respect his whims.
The bird, symbolizing the next year, loves everything bright and red, so it’s easy to earn its favor with a spectacular New Year’s outfit in a scarlet, purple or burgundy hue. It can be either a fashionable dress or a stylish suit, but their flashiness and eccentricity will delight the young Rooster. However, good taste is not alien to him, and you shouldn’t go overboard with diversity: all the details need to be thought through and agreed upon.
Even a simple red dress looks impressive
But what about those who don’t like red or don’t like it? It is quite possible to wear clothes of a different color, which is among the favorites of 2017 - yellow and its various shades. It is recommended to add brightness through the shine of expensive flowing fabric - brocade, velvet, silk. It is permissible to wear even a delicate pastel dress, but then it is better to decorate it with one of the following elements:
- gold jewelry or jewelry;
- shiny bow on the hat;
- sparkling rhinestones on the train, belt, neckline of the dress;
- a fur cape and even a feather boa.
Extravagance can be added to the outfit with handmade elements - a scarf, embroidery, brooch, hair clip. It would be great if in this case they are made in the shape of a rooster. What you shouldn’t depict is predators - for example, foxes or wolves. It is also risky to celebrate the Year of the Rooster in clothes whose print will remind him of the cat family.
You need to celebrate the New Year in a chic outfit
to contentsWhat can and cannot be served at the holiday table
As you know, the favorite dishes of the feathered symbol of the year are wheat grains. Of course, there is no need to treat guests with them, but placing a beautiful bowl of rice or millet under the tree will be a symbolic invitation to the Rooster to come into this house and bestow good luck on him. As for the feast, vegetables and flour products, seafood and fish should prevail among the dishes, but it is better to forget about chicken meat and stuffed eggs.
But the fashion, which has already become a tradition, to decorate dishes in the form of a symbol of the year is welcome - the Rooster, for example, can be placed on any salad of multi-colored sweet peppers. Instead of regular bread, it is appropriate to treat guests to freshly baked cockerels with sesame seeds, and for dessert serve buns of the same shape, but with a sweet filling. In general, at least one symbol should remind everyone gathered of who will rule this year.
Cinnamon cookies for Christmas tree design
What to cook with meat if guests do not support fasting and want to properly enjoy something tasty? Recipes with pork and beef will come in handy here, but for the New Year you can stock up on a more outlandish variety of meat, which, even with the simplest processing and serving, can surprise guests with its unusual taste:
- ostrich - dark red meat tastes like young veal, and you can prepare it by just marinating it for 15 minutes in a mixture of red wine and olive oil (2 tablespoons per 250 g), baking for about 20 minutes at a temperature of 210 degrees ;
- Venison is quite tough meat, so stews made from it turn out delicious, for example, beef stroganoff with mushrooms or roast with sweet and sour berries;
- Python meat is the most exotic dish that can either entertain your guests or repel them, so you need to be careful with it, despite its delicate, refined taste.
However, if you don’t want to experiment, there is no need to treat people to unusual dishes. The rooster is a domestic creature, which means it is not picky about food, and you can put your favorite family salads on the table.
New Year's salad "in the image"
to contentsAway from the TV - how to entertain yourself and your guests
If you can’t find fault with the host’s imagination when it comes to clothing and food, then, unfortunately, when it comes to entertainment, the hosts often don’t go far enough. As a result, instead of a memorable party, you end up with another hours-long feast, interspersed with intoxicated dancing. Of course, you can always turn to professional adult animators who know exactly how to celebrate the New Year in an exciting way, but what’s stopping you from bringing a few ideas to life on your own?
to contentsUnusual New Year traditions of the peoples of the world
Human curiosity will help you come up with interesting activities right away - how are residents of other countries going to celebrate the new year 2017? In Italy, for example, it is customary to start a new life cycle lightly, and on New Year’s Eve old household appliances, clothes and furniture fly out of the windows of their houses and apartments.
What can you do with guests in the image and likeness of this custom - do not force them to do your cleaning? Write on paper what you would like to get rid of and, together with the others, solemnly burn the notes, scattering the ashes - believe me, even the most notorious skeptics deep down believe in miracles and symbolic rituals that echo them.
New Year's Eve in Honolulu
In Ecuador they believe that you can easily get rid of everything bad if you break a glass of water on the street. And nowadays in Vietnam they buy live fish to release them into the wild - this is how luck is attracted. Nepalese always celebrate the first morning of the new year - the Festival of Colors begins for them, during which they paint their faces, sing songs and dance around the fire.
Grapes in Cuba are revered as a plant that gives health and prosperity. That is why Cubans believe that New Year's wishes will definitely come true if you make them at the chime of the clock, eating a grape with each stroke. In England, adults gather early to give their children an instructive performance based on an old fairy tale.
to contentsFirst trip of the Year of the Rooster - disco bus
A very creative celebration can be organized by simply changing the venue to a bus. Of course, this should not be an ordinary minibus, but a transport fully equipped with professional sound and lighting equipment, a sort of nightclub on wheels, serviced by a DJ stewart. Although, perhaps, you yourself dream of being in his role?
The disco bus comfortably accommodates 50 people
In the so-called Party-bus, you can feel like a pop star or a dance floor guru and not be at all embarrassed by other people’s views. At the same time, you are not limited in the area of your stay: if you want, celebrate in nature, among snow-covered fir trees, and after a couple of hours have fun to your heart’s content in the city square or drive around the festive city.
The mid-size bus contains a lounge area, several bars, a dance floor with a pylon, a dressing room and toilet rooms. As a bonus or for an additional fee, the organizers can also offer a smoke machine, bubble and confetti shows. The cost of such a vacation for a large company is not burdensome, but vivid impressions from a joint New Year’s trip are guaranteed.
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If you are confident in the support of your guests, you can have fun even at home. For example, hold the meeting itself as an Oscar ceremony, where everyone will receive star status. The organization of such a party should be started long before the day comes to celebrate the New Year 2017, but the guests will definitely remember it.
Oscar-winning photo shoot of friends on New Year's Eve
The red carpet laid out in front of the house will help you immerse yourself in the starry atmosphere even before the start of the holiday. Having barely taken the first step, guests are attacked by annoying “correspondents” (this can be the hosts or those who came earlier) with typically “Hollywood” questions like “What is the recipe for your success?” or “Would you like to change your gender?”
Of course, the spotlight (camera with flash), filming against the backdrop of a huge poster and tantamaresque with images of actors will only enrich the ambience. It’s probably not worth serving hearty dishes at a party of this format. The best option is a buffet table with a “Hollywood” menu:
- canapés, slices, cupcakes, mini-burgers;
- grill menu with small pieces of meat and vegetables;
- classic cocktails - “Mojito”, “Blue Lagoon”, “Margarita”;
- mini-desserts – meringues, macaroons, sorbets.
Buffet menu for slender mega-stars
After satisfying the first hunger, you can invite guests to have fun by taking part in thematic competitions:
- “Talent casting” – several people become judges, and several more are introduced as young performers; their task is to make a lasting impression on the judges, who, in turn, try in every possible way to find curious flaws in the performance.
- “I don’t recognize you in makeup” - the invitees try to guess which famous person is “made up” using colored felt-tip pens in the photo, which were previously distributed to the team of “make-up artists”.
- “Budget sound engineer” - the participant is invited to sound a film with the sound turned off using any available objects.
The climax of the Year of the Rooster is the award for the best outfit or spectacular dance. And, of course, the best reward is rave reviews from guests about an unforgettable holiday.
The most beloved and long-awaited holiday for almost all of us is the New Year. We associate the coming of the New Year with bright hopes, magic, a new milestone in our destiny, and a push towards our goal. Both adults and children expect miracles, gifts, and make wishes. New Year for children is a holiday for which every child prepares in advance: writes a letter to Santa Claus, memorizes poems and songs, makes crafts, rehearses his role in a New Year's play at school or kindergarten. During the New Year holidays, adults evaluate and analyze the results of the outgoing year, make plans for the coming year, and prepare gifts for their children, relatives and friends. And of course, the New Year is also an opportunity for us, already mature and accomplished people, to return to carefree childhood, feel the familiar sweet aroma of tangerines and fragrant spruce in the air, taking us back to N number of years ago, ride down a snowy hill and drive round dances.
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On the eve of the New Year holidays, the shelves of souvenir shops are filled with colorful balls, shimmering garlands, shiny tinsel and other fancy decorations that are simply impossible to pass by. Every year, housewives strive to create an atmosphere of happiness and New Year's mood in their homes in order to please not only small but also adult guests. With the development of the “hand made” trend in creativity, people began to prefer handmade jewelry to store-bought jewelry. Ideas for the New Year 2018 with your own hands - an opportunity to give individuality and originality to ordinary things.
How to prepare for the 2018 meeting? The Fire Rooster, as you know, is a beautiful, proud and important bird. In addition to the brightness and richness of colors, jewelry should be sophisticated and elegant. What does it take to implement a good idea? A little strength, patience, minimal skills in needlework, a basic set of tools and quite a bit of imagination.
The list of the most popular ideas for the New Year 2018, which will decorate not only a window, door, Christmas tree or holiday table, but also the entire interior as a whole, is presented below.
Window in New Year's style
White patterns applied with toothpaste on glass will create a festive atmosphere and will tell passers-by without words that this house is preparing to celebrate the main New Year holiday with all responsibility.
The drawings on the glass look original and festive, and the toothpaste’s characteristics are not inferior to expensive artificial snow. The patterns are easy to apply, even easier to wash off, and safe dental “paint” will allow you to involve children in painting snow pictures.
To create an idea for the New Year 2018, namely the effect of flying snowflakes on glass, you will need the following devices:
- a tube of white toothpaste;
- a snowflake cut out of thicker paper;
- Toothbrush;
- small capacity;
- 4-5 tablespoons of water.
Stage 1. To make the snowflake stick better to the glass, moisten it with a little water and fix it. Squeeze a small amount of paste into a container, add water, stir until smooth.
Stage 2. Dip the brush into the resulting solution, bring it to the window, straighten the bristles with your fingers so that the splashes get on the glass and the snowflake. Spray the paste evenly onto the stencil.
Stage 3. Let the white layer dry a little, carefully separate the paper stencil from the glass by slightly pulling the edge. A “negative” snowflake will remain on the window.
Using this principle, you can create entire pictures by adding to the snowflake an image of a snowman, a Christmas tree, and even Santa Claus. For those who don't have exceptional artistic skills, there are an assortment of stencils available online that you simply print and cut out.
Pineapple bottle
You can not only decorate your home with your own hands, but also create original gifts that are guaranteed to delight the recipient. To implement one of the best and simplest New Year's gift ideas 2018 with your own hands, you will need:
- Double-sided tape or glue gun.
- A bottle of champagne.
- The foil is yellow or golden in color.
- A sheet of green cardboard.
- Some jute twine (or other similar rope).
- Round chocolates – 500-800 grams.
A sweet dessert of an original shape is made in a few steps.
Step 1. Cut the foil into fragments approximately 7x7 centimeters in size (depending on the size of the candy). Wrap each ball in foil so that the store wrapper is completely hidden. Using a gun, apply a small amount of glue to the surface of the candy and attach it to the wide part of the bottle.
Step 2. Gradually fill the entire space up to the narrow neck with golden balls. If you don’t have a glue gun on your household, double-sided tape can adequately replace it.
Step 3. Cut leaves 15-20 centimeters long from green cardboard and attach them to the base of the neck using one of the methods described above.
Step 4. At the place where the paper leaves are secured, wrap the rope in several layers.
Thus, as a unique New Year's present, the recipient will receive a bottle of champagne and a sweet dessert.
Salt dough baskets
The original way of serving sweets on the festive table will appeal to confectionery masters. In Germany and Switzerland in the 19th century, it was popular to make all kinds of twisted baskets from salt dough as Christmas decorations and interior elements. As they say, everything new is well forgotten old, so why not implement this New Year's idea in 2018?
Required materials and ingredients:
- 2 cups of flour;
- 3/4 cup salt;
- half a glass of water;
- fireproof glass bowl;
— vegetable oil (for lubrication);
- rolling pin for rolling out dough.
Cooking method.
Mix flour and salt in any convenient container, gradually add water. Knead the dough until it has a thick, rich consistency. Turn the glass bowl over and grease the surface with oil. Place the container itself on some object so that its edges rise above the surface of the abdomen by 5-7 centimeters. Roll the dough into a small ball, make a flat cake and place it on the bottom of an inverted bowl. The base of the future basket is ready.
Roll the remaining dough into flagella with a diameter of 5 millimeters. Moisten the outer surface of the cake with water, it will act as an adhesive element. Fasten one end of the tourniquet to the cake, arrange it in the form of a loop and secure the other end. To more securely attach both ends of the loop to the base, press them with your fingers again.
Moisten the outer surface of the loop with water, attach another tourniquet. The result will be a double loop. The ends of each new loop should be in the center of the previous one.
When all the loops in a circle are attached, the base must be moistened with water and small cuts made with a knife - the ends of the patterns will be more securely fixed to the base, and the bottom will be flat.
Roll another flat cake from the remaining dough and cover the first base of the basket with it. Press the circle with a little force for better adhesion to the structure.
Preheat the oven to a temperature of 120 degrees Celsius, place a glass bowl with a basket there, bake for 30-40 minutes. The salted dough should become hard and acquire a pronounced white color. Remove the structure from the oven, let cool, and separate the basket from the glass bowl.
There are many ideas for making bowl patterns on the Internet - it all depends on the skill level of the creator. The color design of the structure also varies; you can leave the natural color or add brightness with spray paint.
Thread spheres
Budget-friendly airy garlands will become an extravagant decoration for a Christmas tree or wall. They are presented in a wide range in souvenir shops, where they are called “Thai”. The process of creating large balls is simple and interesting, and their design will be truly bright and will organically fit into the New Year's decor.
Required materials and tools:
- threads of bright colors;
- Balloons;
- PVA glue;
- rich hand cream;
- long needle.
Inflate the balloon to 6-8 centimeters in diameter, tie tightly. Lubricate the surface of the sphere with rich cream (then the glued threads will easily separate from the ball).
Dilute the glue with water in a ratio of 2:1 and pour it into an empty plastic bottle (half a liter is enough).
Thread the thread through a large needle, pierce the bottle just above the bottom, so the thread will pass through the glue solution. It should be pulled through slowly so that the composition is well absorbed.
Wrap the ball in any direction. The result should be a web that leaves only small gaps.
Leave the finished ball until the glue dries completely (20-22 hours).
Pierce the ball with a needle and carefully remove it from the inside. As a result, a cavity should remain inside the sphere of threads.
The number of such balls can be unlimited. For each new one, it is advisable to select threads of a different color, or alternate 2-3 (as shown in the example below). A small rope will allow you to connect the balls into a festive garland. LED bulbs placed inside each sphere will help add brightness to your homemade miracle.
Idea for New Year 2018: ice dish
This extravagant cutlery is prepared quickly and will make the serving of any dish truly enchanting.
To create an ice dish you will need:
- two glass containers (one larger, the other smaller);
- bright berries;
- spices.
Secure the glass dishes together using adhesive tape so that there is a gap of 2-2.5 centimeters between the larger and smaller ones. Fill the resulting gap with berries (cherries, black and red currants, blueberries are suitable - housewives often freeze summer berries for the winter, if there are no such reserves, pomegranate seeds will do), spices (cloves) and fill with drinking water.
Place the dishes in the freezer until the water completely hardens (on average, 3-4 hours is enough). It was possible to easily separate the dishes from the berry bowl by applying warm water to the glass container. The finished ice dish must be kept in the freezer until it is served.
As you can see, there is nothing difficult in implementing New Year’s ideas for 2018 with your own hands. The creator will not have to spend a lot of time and money, but the result will exceed all expectations and give a lot of positive holiday emotions.
The first snow recently fell. It immediately began to be washed away by the tedious rain, but we realized that the New Year had already woken up and reminded us that it was just around the corner! Our first wet snowball has flown away, we caught the first snowflake on our tongue, and now it’s time to start preparing the first New Year’s gifts, so that later, during the holiday bustle and planning of the January “mini vacation,” we don’t miss the time and buy everyone impersonal standard sets.
We have collected 10 interesting ideas for New Year's gifts and souvenirs that you can make with your own hands. Small crafts, cute warming accessories and pleasant festive little things - everything that will help create the right atmosphere on this most magical night of the year. So, it's time to work miracles.
1. DIY commemorative Christmas tree decorations. Photo balls.
The very best New Year's gift, which will always come in handy on a festive night, and will later remain a memorable souvenir, is a Christmas tree toy. And the memory is doubly so - this is a Christmas tree toy with a photo - let's make New Year's photo balls. This is a great handmade New Year gift idea for family and friends. Print out some photos from your last New Year's celebration and place them inside clear balloons. A set of such balloons with all family members will especially appeal to grandparents.
Read how to make such a gift in the “New Year’s Photo Ball” master class.
2. Gifts from your baby
Parents of a small child probably already know the cool “Baby’s First Footprint” kits, from which you can make 3D prints of a hand or foot. For the New Year, this idea can be modernized and unusual Christmas tree decorations can be prepared - just paint the prints with bright colors.
Balls can also be made with palms
Children's hands will turn the simplest things into magical ones - for example mittens with handprints of little helpers. Also try to print small legs inside slippers for dad or grandpa. Or do T-shirt with imprinted baby hugs.
You can also make New Year cards with your baby - it’s a very fun and ticklish activity!)
3. Craft ideas. Knitted New Year gifts will keep you warm in winter.
If you still remember school lessons on labor or grandma’s instructions on knitting, then you won’t have any difficulty bringing these New Year’s gift ideas to life.
Let's start with the classics. Knitting warm and cozy DIY scarf! Both your girlfriend and your loved one will appreciate such a gift, and, of course, your parents and grandparents will be delighted!
To knit such a scarf you need to master only 2 steps - a set of loops and garter stitch. And these video tutorials will help you:
All that remains is to choose the color and thickness of the yarn and the size of the knitting needles - you can knit a light, neat scarf from thin yarn or a massive, incredibly warm and cozy coarse knit scarf.
Try changing thread colors as you knit to create stripes. You can add buttons or a small beaded pattern. Add fringe, braids, or pompoms from fluffy threads to the edges (see How to make a pom-pom from threads).
If you are confident in your abilities and have sufficient skills, then you can try tying socks or mittens. On the Internet, on specialized websites, you will find many detailed lessons and tips.
You can also sew something unusual. For example, a great gift for the New Year - heating pad in a knitted case, but knitted “clothes” - a cover for a cup will keep your favorite drink hot for a long time.
4. Fragrant Christmas tree decorations
From vanilla sticks, pine cones, fragrant spruce branches, orange slices and star anise (star anise) you can build cute Christmas trees, houses, stars and even assemble garlands from them. Even after New Year's Eve, such toys can be used as natural flavors - to decorate your workplace with them, for example, for the rest of the winter.
5. Delicious New Year's gifts
Gifts that can never be enough. Especially under the tree. Especially in a big company!
Bake something delicious gingerbread cookies according to this recipe and pack it in a beautiful New Year's box. You can make holes in it in advance and add ribbons so that it can be hung on the Christmas tree.
Very popular in the West gingerbread men- they have already become a kind of symbol of Christmas and New Year. And it’s really easy to make nice souvenirs from them, for example, for colleagues or classmates. The prepared little men can be “individualized” using colored glaze - add glasses, just like the accountant Olya, a beard, like the programmer Vitka, and a tie, like Pal Andreich, and put them in CD packaging (genius - simple!) - edible ginger colleagues are ready to please their prototypes!
If you get gingerbread men, then you can move on to the next level of culinary skill - cook Gingerbread house, just like in the fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel. The parts for it can be baked according to the same cookie recipe, then the resulting “construction set” can be assembled using icing and used to decorate the exterior of the fairy-tale building. Here is a sample diagram -
From the same series - homemade, fragrant and aromatic jam. It’s best to ask your grandmother or mother for a traditional and proven recipe, but you can also look for something exotic on the Internet. We hang tags with wishes on the jars (“Raspberry jam for coughs and winter blues”, “Jam from garden cherries and my love”, “Currants for good luck!”, “Gooseberry jam for the best dad in the world”) and wrap them in a cute colored cloth or paper, tied with ribbons. Don't forget about honey- the most important and delicious protector against winter snowstorms and blizzards.
Here's how to pack sweets for a child in an original way. Make a personalized New Year's gift from your baby's favorite treats.
6. We remember our art lessons. New Year's origami
Well, the easiest way to make Christmas tree decorations is from colored paper. You can make such souvenirs with your children. Children will be able to decorate their room or classroom at school with them.
Here, for example, are the simplest origami toys - Santa Claus from a square of red paper.
Here's another instruction Santa Claus made of colored paper.
You will find many other schemes on the Internet. The easiest way to make toys is by following video tutorials. Here, for example, is a detailed lesson on modular origami "Christmas Star".
The result is stars like this:
7. Ball “Melted Snowman” and Snowman from an old light bulb
Another unusual Christmas tree toy. Pour some sugar-snow into a transparent Christmas tree ball, throw in a mini bag of orange paper - it will be a carrot and a few black peppercorns - the eyes and buttons of a melted snowman. The winter ball is ready!
Another idea is a snowman made from a burnt out light bulb. Cute, isn't he? It’s very easy to make - read our master class.
8. Winter in miniature - snow globes
Try making these fabulous New Year's souvenirs - snow globes. Plastic toys are placed in a jar and covered with artificial snow - read our detailed master class on creating such winter wonders in a jar.
By the way, you can make Christmas tree decorations in the same way - put small Christmas trees inside a transparent ball and cover them with artificial snow -
Or you can insert real Christmas tree branches, pine cones, forest moss into the ball -
9. Decorative Christmas trees
What could be a more suitable souvenir gift for the New Year than one of its symbols, for example, a Christmas tree? Of course, it is unwise to go on a visit with natural spruce, because... Most likely, by December 31, the owners have already dressed it up, but making and giving a decorative interior Christmas tree to friends, colleagues or relatives is a great solution! We offer more than 30 master classes on making a Christmas tree with your own hands, you will probably find one that you like or get inspired by ideas and come up with your own: the one and only.
10. DIY New Year cards
Colored paper, scissors, glue, ribbons, beads, plus all your imagination - these are the ingredients for a wonderful handmade card. You can buy a ready-made postcard with a hand-drawn cheerful company and personalize it with printed photos of your friends.
Need ideas and detailed instructions? We have prepared many options for New Year's cards that you can make with your own hands - get inspired!
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2016-12-28T08:01:35+00:00 Oksanamo Master ClassThe first snow recently fell. It immediately began to be washed away by the tedious rain, but we realized that the New Year had already woken up and reminded us that it was just around the corner! Our first wet snowball has flown away, we caught the first snowflake on our tongue, and now it’s time to start preparing the first New Year’s gifts, so that later, during the holiday bustle and planning for the January “mini vacation,”...
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