Not only children, but also adults are looking forward to the New Year holidays. From the beginning of December, store shelves are filled with colorful balls, tinsel, beads, original bows. The created scenery can be supplemented with a piece of soul, Christmas decorations made by yourself. Make memorable trinkets from any material at hand. It can be paper, fabric, plastic and much more.
Christmas decorations - an integral attribute of the holiday. They have come a long way of development, which has an interesting history. The first to decorate houses on the eve of the New Year are residents of European countries. Then branches of coniferous trees, fruits were used. People tried not to advertise their actions, because the tradition was not encouraged by the authorities. The Catholic Church considered it a pagan heritage.
The classic rules for decorating the main Christmas beauty have not changed over time. A huge difference are only Christmas toys. Previously, each element of edible decor was symbolic and carried a certain deep meaning, mainly with religious overtones. Sweet waffles reminded of unleavened bread used for communion, apples were associated with the forbidden fruit.
Since the middle of the eighteenth century, New Year’s honey gingerbread has been replaced by Christmas tree decorations, which vaguely resemble modern ones. Most families made them with their own hands from eggshells, cones, paper, various sequins. Craftsmen began to create figures of angels and fairy-tale characters from coinage and brass.
The first Christmas balls appeared in 1848 in Thuringia, the city of Lausch. These were heavy glass products. The weight was imparted by a lead coating used on the inside to create a shine. Multi-colored jewelry was very expensive, ordinary people could not afford them.
After almost 20 years, in 1867 the technology for creating balls changed. This was the opening of the gas plant. From glass mass, brought to a high temperature, neat thin-walled products were obtained. Plastic material made it possible to make toys of various shapes.Mirror gloss was achieved by adding silver nitrate.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, Lausch was the only exporter of Christmas-tree decorations. Then technologies were adopted by other countries, including Christian ones. After the events of 1917, for the Soviet people, the celebration of the pagan event stopped, the production of jewelry stopped. Only in 1935 newspaper headlines were full of calls to decorate the tree only for children, and in 1937 the New Year's beauty even adorned the columned hall of the House of Unions.
In accordance with the events of history, the semantic load and appearance of the toys changed. In the 70s, Christmas decorations lost their personality. Production was put on stream. The same colored balls and figures filled the counters. In the 21st century, handmade toys became fashionable.
Cones - original and beautiful decorations on the Christmas tree
Fir cones can be considered the second unofficial symbol of the New Year. Available natural material exudes a pleasant aroma, the smallest needlewomen can work with it easily and safely. The material can be used as the main element in the creation of Christmas decorations, and as an addition to the whole New Year's composition. From cones funny animal figures, flowers, houses, baskets are obtained. To crafts, simply attach secondary material.
Master class - angels from cones
For crafts, you need beautiful smooth cones, a ribbon, pieces of felt and wooden, plastic balls. So that the natural base does not lose shape due to a change in temperature, the cone can be lowered for several seconds in a container with carpentry glue. After drying, it will not lose shape and will always be closed. The following workshop will help you create simple angel figures:
On the ball, draw a felt-tip pen on the face - this will be the head;
We attach the head of the figure to the prepared cone with PVA glue;
You can draw or create a hairstyle from tow, artificial wool, fabric, dry grass and other materials;
Glue the hair or press it with a hat from the upper part of the acorn;
We tie the ribbon with a bow and fasten to the back. For better fixation, you can use a felt belt;
Hands can be made of thick fabric or wire.
Salt Dough Toys
The ingredients for the base are flour, salt and water. Christmas tree toys made from natural ingredients are very simple to make, they can be stored for a long time. You can create figures using cookie cutters or simply cut with a knife according to the sketch. A beautiful relief pattern is obtained by imprinting various leaves, twigs, and coins. For the decor of the original hanging toys, paints, beads, rhinestones, powders are suitable.
Coloring crafts can be done in several ways - after drying and in the manufacture of the base. In the first case, the coloring will take place with gouache, acrylic, oil paints, and in the second, it will be necessary to add food coloring at the stage of kneading dough.
After complete drying, New Year's crafts are decorated with any elements (ribbons, buttons, beads, rhinestones). If you make holes in the center of the toys, you can create a bright, original garland.
So that a Christmas toy from salt dough can be hung on a Christmas tree, in its upper part you need to pierce a hole for the thread. Make it easier until the product freezes.
Cardboard Gift Boxes
Creating gift wrapping boxes is especially important on the eve of the New Year holidays. DIY products made from simple materials will complement the surprise with a mysterious anticipation. To make smart and functional boxes of any design and size, you will need a minimum of material: cardboard, knitting needle, glue, scissors, decoration elements.
Before starting work, it is necessary to prepare special templates for cutting blanks. The box for packaging can be of any shape, the method of fastening the lid and gluing, folding the sides. The scheme can be increased to any size.To fix parts of the cardboard box, it is better to use PVA glue or double-sided tape.
New Year's gift boxes, after performing their main function, you can decorate the symbol of the holiday. Cardboard products are made in the form of snowflakes, Christmas trees, boxes for sweets. Download the template from the Internet, adjust the sizes on paper. Then we transfer to the base and cut out on a dotted line. We bend intended for this place, coat with glue and collect the box. For decoration, you can use any decorative material.
Acorn ball
New Year holidays are the perfect time for creative evening activities. Many professional craftswomen and just lovers of exclusive New Year's toys prefer to work with natural materials. From ordinary acorns you will get original and simple Christmas-tree decorations. They can be assembled into a hanging composition by simply painting the hats in golden color, or making a beautiful mixed garland with the addition of small cones.
Whole hats from acorns will come in handy to create an interesting Christmas ball in a trendy eco-style. Such an article mentally transfers to the very thicket of the winter forest and makes one believe in a real miracle. The basis of the toy will be a foam blank. You can buy such an item in any needlework store.
We paint the prepared core in brown and glue the hats with tails to the ball. Fill the space as tight as possible. The place of one hollow element will be taken by a hook fastening from a wire. You can decorate a toy with silicate glue and sparkles, beautiful beads inside hats, ribbons.
Textile toys
New Year's toys from textiles will not only decorate the Christmas tree in a country style, but will also fill the interior with warmth and a festive mood. Thematic crafts can be grouped into compositions or create single exclusive copies.Any fabric is suitable for creating textile masterpieces, but materials that retain the shape of a toy (felt, fleece) are more preferable. You can also use acrylic or cotton yarn. To create such products will require a minimum knitting skill. If there is no such talent at all, you can make beautiful dense frames of any shape from threads.
From yarn
These Christmas decorations are truly homemade. They can be made flat or voluminous. Looks beautiful flat products based on the ring. To do this, the cut edge of the plastic cup and any dense yarn are suitable. If desired, you can put any New Year picture in the center. If you have experience crocheting, the basis can not be used. For a thing to hold its shape, it just needs to be starched.
Christmas trees can be made flat out of yarn. First, we knit several green squares of different sizes. We bend one of the corners of each part to half and fix it with a button. It turns out beautiful triangles. Then we fasten all the products in the form of a Christmas tree and sew on a knitted or textile leg of brown color.
Volumetric balls are easier to knit on five knitting needles, according to the sock pattern. Vintage-style balls with jacquard patterns look very creative. You can also create an exclusive toy of threads with a hook using the technique of alternating the number of loops. The filler can be cotton wool, synthetic winterizer, any fabric.
From felt
Flexible, plastic material can serve as the basis for any crafts, including Christmas tree decorations. The colorful felt is soft and pleasant to the touch. Products from it have no statute of limitations. They will always remain vibrant, unique and fashionable. You can create a real zest, a symbol of the New Year, without having sewing skills and experience working with patterns.
The simplest Christmas toys are flat. These are ordinary carved figures, decorated on one or two sides. Using a marker, transfer the template to felt, cut out.You can make a beautiful Christmas tree, the muzzle of any animal, for example, mumps. Reverse side for strength reinforced with cardboard.
If you need a voluminous Christmas tree toy, then two blanks are immediately cut according to the template. Then pieces of the whole are decorated and connected with threads. The following seams are used:
"Basting." The easiest seam. There are gaps between the stitches. It is used to connect small parts in a cut;
"Back the needle." The stitches are smooth, beautiful;
"Assembly". Use when connecting volumetric, openwork toys. It is carried out in the “forward needle” technique, but with a strong thread tension;
"Over the edge." Reliably fixes the cut line, prevents the exit of individual hairs. Stitches at the same distance at an angle;
"Looped". Practical inconspicuous loops go along the edge of the cut.
Snowman socks
Handmade decorative toys are always original. They are like nothing else, suitable for a gift, as they are made with a soul. A simple, simple option is a snowman made of socks. To make the craft, you will need one knitted, cotton sock, several buttons, pins, 1 kg of rice.
The toe must be cut in two in the heel area. The upper half will serve as the basis for the crafts, the lower half will be used for decoration. Turn the blank inside out and tightly tie one end with a thread. We hide the knot and return the sock to the front side. We fill the toy with rice until it acquires the desired shape, but retains plasticity. We form the correct trunk and tie the upper edge. The snowman's head should be highlighted with a thread.
Now it remains to decorate and dress up a kilogram blank. You can draw a face with a felt-tip pen or embroider with beads. A piece of colored fabric in the form of a scarf will mask the threads on the neck. The rest of the sock will be a cap. The body is decorated with colored buttons.
Snowflake and stars from threads
Stylish Christmas snowflakes and stars will be made of yarn and glue. To create such Christmas-tree decorations will take no more than half an hour. To create Christmas toys with sharp corners, you will need a special machine or an improvised carnation made of carnations.
We draw a star or a snowflake on a plate. Then we put a cling film so that the toy does not stick, and drive in nails in the corners of the figure. The next step is to separate part of the threads from the ball and coat them with glue. Without waiting for the hardening of the material, you need to quickly wrap it on the frame. In some places, knots should be made so that the toy does not separate after drying. The central pattern of snowflakes or stars can be made by anyone. After 12 hours, the craft will completely harden, there will be no trace of glue.
Balloons
From ordinary woolen threads, you can create round mesh toys for the Christmas tree. For work, you will need small balloons, threads and PVA glue. We inflate a ball of a suitable size and tie its tail with the end of the thread. Starting from the same edge, we wrap the shape tightly and in random order. Threads of yarn should not be close to each other.
Then we lower the workpiece into a bowl with a mixture of water with glue and turn until all the textile elements are well saturated. It will take at least 24 hours to dry. After a day, we pierce the balloon and remove it through the gap. Finished balloons can be decorated with sequins, beads, bows.
Kinusaig ball decoration
The art genre of creating paintings and other products arose in Japan on the basis of austerity. The main objective of the kinusaig was to dispose of old kimonos. Modern needlewomen use this technique of decoration to create designer Christmas decorations.
To make a ball using the kinusaig technique, you will need a round foam blank, the same type of rags of different colors, decorative braid and beads for decoration.First of all, mark the base into four slices. Then, in the places of the dotted line, we make shallow cuts. The edges of the flaps will be placed in these grooves.
Prepared fabric rectangles must be applied evenly to the slices and hide their edges in the grooves. You can push the material with any flat object. After completing all sectors, you can proceed to decorating. We hide the seams under the tape or braid, wrapping the ball diagonally around the material. From the remains of the cord we form a loop.
Button Toys
Original button designs complement the New Year theme. You can make a craft of absolutely any shape, but it is better to start with a simple Christmas tree. For work, you will need multi-colored buttons of any size, a sheet of cardboard. You can fasten elements with a glue gun or sewing pins.
We turn the paper into a cone and fix the edges of the workpiece with tape. We make the bottom even and stable. Now we randomly distribute the buttons on the surface of the future Christmas tree, starting with the largest. We place small buttons in the remaining spaces. We decorate the craft with beads, bows. A Christmas toy can be put in the lobby or in the children's room.
Using bulbs to decorate a Christmas tree
Creating original toys from waste material, such as blown bulbs, has many advantages. This is a significant savings on traditional jewelry, the ability to create an original design for the New Year's beauty. You can simply paint a light bulb in any color or create interesting curly Christmas tree toys.
Snowman made of light bulbs
The basis of the snowman will be a simple light bulb. Before use, it must be painted white. It is better to use a piece of sponge or foam to avoid remaining strips and uneven strokes. To make the coating more dense, the paint must be applied repeatedly. From a piece of knitted fabric we make a hat. For decoration, you can use a pompom or just a bright ribbon.
Eyes and nose can be cut out of cardboard in appropriate colors or any suitable material can be used. We decorate the body with buttons or any other decor. Hands can be made from yarn, cotton spirals, twigs. Any of the elements must be attached with a glue gun. To turn a snowman into a Christmas tree toy, you need to make a fastener for the thread. It is necessary to thread a beautiful lace into a bead and fix it in the middle of the cap.
Snowball Toy
Europeans can make a traditional Christmas present with their own hands. The snow ball assembled in parts from improvised materials will give joy, faith in a miracle to adults and children. The base of the toy can be any jar with a tightly screwed lid. The filler will require plain water and a few drops of glycerin.
Before you start, you should come up with a composition. It can be single toys from Kinder, products from fabric, plastic and other trifle. We glue the parts with waterproof glue on the inside of the lid and fill it with a mixture of water and glycerin. Then we fall asleep the sparkles and twist the lid well. The more antifreeze, the slower the imaginary snow will sink to the bottom of the jar. The final touch is the processing of the joint with glue.
Metal products placed in a liquid run the risk of rusting. Therefore, before use, they should be treated with colorless varnish.
Light decoupage
Glass Christmas toys have always been considered especially beautiful and individual. On the shelves of modern stores you can hardly find them. Such products have gradually replaced more practical and similar plastic analogues. Fortunately, such toys can be made independently from improvised means. The old glass bulb is perfect for this purpose.
For decor using decoupage technique you will need a special napkin with a picture, a photograph on a thin sheet, music strips, pieces of newspaper or other paper elements.First, the bulb must be wiped with alcohol and painted in any color you like. After the workpiece is completely dry, we cut out the patterns from the napkin and glue it to the light bulb. The edges should be well spread and crushed with a dry towel. To add shine, and to protect the coating from external factors, you can use a thin layer of colorless varnish.
You can decorate a nondescript metal base with paint, foil, beautiful ribbons. We fix the rope, for which the toy will be suspended, in the upper part of the bulb, just wrapping the base several times.
We draw faces and put caps on the lamps
The best idea of how to decorate an unattractive lamp base is to hide it under the heading of the selected hero. To create simple and original figures you will need multi-colored paints, some fabric and decor in the form of beads, beads, ribbons.
It is better to draw the background with a piece of foam with careful movements so as not to disturb the brightness of the color and not leave stains. For clear lines of the face, thin brushes are suitable. You can also complement the image of the hero with clay or artificial wool elements. This can be a mustache for Santa Claus, a bang of a shy lady, and more. A hat can be made of absolutely any material. Thin fabrics are best pre-starched or made for them a cardboard frame.
Citrus Ornaments
Christmas crafts made from oranges and tangerines will create a real holiday mood in the house. Citrus fruits are easy to find at any time of the year, working with them is a pleasure. They make magical decorations that fill the house with amazing New Year's aromas. You can add a little orange by making one of the following Christmas tree crafts:
Fragrant balls. In the peel of a fresh orange, pierce the holes with a skewer and place the clove branches there. Holes can be chaotic or create complex patterns. Such a creative ball will look great on a Christmas tree, front door, on a kitchen cabinet;
Orange garlands.Through the fruit, it is necessary to pass a metal wire and twist its ends in the shape of a snail. We tie a beautiful ribbon to one end and hang it on a Christmas tree. You can leave them natural looking or cut spiral stripes, any patterns;
Pendants from the peel. The products cut out using the cookie mold can be used as a Christmas tree toy, decor for gift wrapping;
Golden wreath. The main detail is orange slices. They can simply be mounted on a wire or pre-spruce branches laid.
Gingerbread and cookie decorations
Edible decorations began to appear on trees less and less. But some modern design styles still accept this way of decorating the holiday. You can revive a wonderful tradition by hanging delicious Christmas trees and snowflakes from cookies on a Christmas tree.
On New Year's Day, Christmas is usually cooked with gingerbread and crumbly cookies. The recipe for cooking is very simple, you only need to have special curly shapes. You also need to remember the need for holes in the top of the toy.
There are a lot of design options for edible flour decorations. The constant rule is the presence of multi-colored glaze. You can hang cookies on the tree as separate toys or create garlands from them.
Paper toys
Do-it-yourself Christmas tree decorations are much more appreciated than conveyor plastic balls. The process of their manufacture itself gives a lot of positive emotions, enhances the anticipation of the holiday. The most affordable and simplest material for Christmas toys is paper. You can create a real masterpiece from the most ordinary-looking, at first glance, piece. Work does not require special skill. You need only imagination, patience and some improvised means.
Master class "paper cones"
Cones should be present on any Christmas tree. Paper crafts of this form will be very useful. There are several ways to make a toy yourself.To do this, you must strictly follow the recommendations of the following workshops:
Spiral bump without a base. For work, you will need several multi-colored sheets of cardboard and a detailed gear scheme (can be printed from the needlework website). The details are cut out of cardboard. You should get 16 elements with teeth and a circle. Glue the ends to the round base, combining the colors. We collect the craft. Each element should go in grooves for the previous one.
Bump on the base with triangular scales. As the frame, you can use foam or paper form. Glue a circle to the top. While the workpiece dries, proceed to the manufacture of scales. We will do them in the modular origami technique. We cut out squares from color paper - 2 cm, bend two ends to the middle. Now we fasten all the elements in a circle in a checkerboard pattern to the round top.
Bump on the base with round scales. To keep the toy in shape, an egg-shaped frame is required. Its design will be similar in type to the previous version, only we will use circles, not triangles. Cut out 150 round elements. The ideal option is to make them a hole punch of a suitable diameter. Paste the form in a checkerboard pattern.
Felted wool toys
Felting from wool is a simple and exciting activity. Volumetric figures are light and soft. This will require pieces of synthetic winterizer, a skein of wool yarn. For beginner needlewomen it is better to give preference to simple forms of Christmas toys.
Cut the blanks in 2 copies (hearts, circles). Elements must have a diameter twice that of the desired toy. Using a needle, we assemble the contour along the outer edge (according to the type of basting), leave the thread free, without knots. Fill the resulting bag with a synthetic winterizer, tighten and tie. Parts of a different shape can simply be sewn.
Now the blank must be covered with wool. We pull out the locks and wind on the base in different directions.They must be fixed with a felting needle so that bald spots do not form. The simplest remains. We place the future toys in a nylon stocking and send it to the washing machine for the standard washing mode. After drying, we get neat lumps. You can decorate with beads, braid, bows and other cute little things.
Conclusion
The tradition to decorate the New Year tree with the whole family was invented for a reason. At this moment, every child and adult feels their need and benefit. Memorable toys made with one's own hand not only serve as an original decor, but also remind of happy moments. Practical Christmas decorations can be stored for many years and can be passed from generation to generation.
Not only children, but also adults are looking forward to the New Year holidays. From the beginning of December, store shelves are filled with colorful balls, tinsel, beads, original bows. The created scenery can be supplemented with a piece of soul, Christmas decorations made by yourself. Make memorable trinkets from any material at hand. It can be paper, fabric, plastic and much more.
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The history of Christmas toys
Christmas decorations - an integral attribute of the holiday. They have come a long way of development, which has an interesting history. The first to decorate houses on the eve of the New Year are residents of European countries. Then branches of coniferous trees, fruits were used. People tried not to advertise their actions, because the tradition was not encouraged by the authorities. The Catholic Church considered it a pagan heritage.
The classic rules for decorating the main Christmas beauty have not changed over time. A huge difference are only Christmas toys. Previously, each element of edible decor was symbolic and carried a certain deep meaning, mainly with religious overtones. Sweet waffles reminded of unleavened bread used for communion, apples were associated with the forbidden fruit.
Since the middle of the eighteenth century, New Year’s honey gingerbread has been replaced by Christmas tree decorations, which vaguely resemble modern ones. Most families made them with their own hands from eggshells, cones, paper, various sequins. Craftsmen began to create figures of angels and fairy-tale characters from coinage and brass.
The first Christmas balls appeared in 1848 in Thuringia, the city of Lausch. These were heavy glass products. The weight was imparted by a lead coating used on the inside to create a shine. Multi-colored jewelry was very expensive, ordinary people could not afford them.
After almost 20 years, in 1867 the technology for creating balls changed. This was the opening of the gas plant. From glass mass, brought to a high temperature, neat thin-walled products were obtained. Plastic material made it possible to make toys of various shapes.Mirror gloss was achieved by adding silver nitrate.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, Lausch was the only exporter of Christmas-tree decorations. Then technologies were adopted by other countries, including Christian ones. After the events of 1917, for the Soviet people, the celebration of the pagan event stopped, the production of jewelry stopped. Only in 1935 newspaper headlines were full of calls to decorate the tree only for children, and in 1937 the New Year's beauty even adorned the columned hall of the House of Unions.
In accordance with the events of history, the semantic load and appearance of the toys changed. In the 70s, Christmas decorations lost their personality. Production was put on stream. The same colored balls and figures filled the counters. In the 21st century, handmade toys became fashionable.
Cones - original and beautiful decorations on the Christmas tree
Fir cones can be considered the second unofficial symbol of the New Year. Available natural material exudes a pleasant aroma, the smallest needlewomen can work with it easily and safely. The material can be used as the main element in the creation of Christmas decorations, and as an addition to the whole New Year's composition. From cones funny animal figures, flowers, houses, baskets are obtained. To crafts, simply attach secondary material.
Master class - angels from cones
For crafts, you need beautiful smooth cones, a ribbon, pieces of felt and wooden, plastic balls. So that the natural base does not lose shape due to a change in temperature, the cone can be lowered for several seconds in a container with carpentry glue. After drying, it will not lose shape and will always be closed. The following workshop will help you create simple angel figures:
Salt Dough Toys
The ingredients for the base are flour, salt and water. Christmas tree toys made from natural ingredients are very simple to make, they can be stored for a long time. You can create figures using cookie cutters or simply cut with a knife according to the sketch. A beautiful relief pattern is obtained by imprinting various leaves, twigs, and coins. For the decor of the original hanging toys, paints, beads, rhinestones, powders are suitable.
Coloring crafts can be done in several ways - after drying and in the manufacture of the base. In the first case, the coloring will take place with gouache, acrylic, oil paints, and in the second, it will be necessary to add food coloring at the stage of kneading dough.
After complete drying, New Year's crafts are decorated with any elements (ribbons, buttons, beads, rhinestones). If you make holes in the center of the toys, you can create a bright, original garland.
Cardboard Gift Boxes
Creating gift wrapping boxes is especially important on the eve of the New Year holidays. DIY products made from simple materials will complement the surprise with a mysterious anticipation. To make smart and functional boxes of any design and size, you will need a minimum of material: cardboard, knitting needle, glue, scissors, decoration elements.
Before starting work, it is necessary to prepare special templates for cutting blanks. The box for packaging can be of any shape, the method of fastening the lid and gluing, folding the sides. The scheme can be increased to any size.To fix parts of the cardboard box, it is better to use PVA glue or double-sided tape.
New Year's gift boxes, after performing their main function, you can decorate the symbol of the holiday. Cardboard products are made in the form of snowflakes, Christmas trees, boxes for sweets. Download the template from the Internet, adjust the sizes on paper. Then we transfer to the base and cut out on a dotted line. We bend intended for this place, coat with glue and collect the box. For decoration, you can use any decorative material.
Acorn ball
New Year holidays are the perfect time for creative evening activities. Many professional craftswomen and just lovers of exclusive New Year's toys prefer to work with natural materials. From ordinary acorns you will get original and simple Christmas-tree decorations. They can be assembled into a hanging composition by simply painting the hats in golden color, or making a beautiful mixed garland with the addition of small cones.
Whole hats from acorns will come in handy to create an interesting Christmas ball in a trendy eco-style. Such an article mentally transfers to the very thicket of the winter forest and makes one believe in a real miracle. The basis of the toy will be a foam blank. You can buy such an item in any needlework store.
We paint the prepared core in brown and glue the hats with tails to the ball. Fill the space as tight as possible. The place of one hollow element will be taken by a hook fastening from a wire. You can decorate a toy with silicate glue and sparkles, beautiful beads inside hats, ribbons.
Textile toys
New Year's toys from textiles will not only decorate the Christmas tree in a country style, but will also fill the interior with warmth and a festive mood. Thematic crafts can be grouped into compositions or create single exclusive copies.Any fabric is suitable for creating textile masterpieces, but materials that retain the shape of a toy (felt, fleece) are more preferable. You can also use acrylic or cotton yarn. To create such products will require a minimum knitting skill. If there is no such talent at all, you can make beautiful dense frames of any shape from threads.
From yarn
These Christmas decorations are truly homemade. They can be made flat or voluminous. Looks beautiful flat products based on the ring. To do this, the cut edge of the plastic cup and any dense yarn are suitable. If desired, you can put any New Year picture in the center. If you have experience crocheting, the basis can not be used. For a thing to hold its shape, it just needs to be starched.
Christmas trees can be made flat out of yarn. First, we knit several green squares of different sizes. We bend one of the corners of each part to half and fix it with a button. It turns out beautiful triangles. Then we fasten all the products in the form of a Christmas tree and sew on a knitted or textile leg of brown color.
Volumetric balls are easier to knit on five knitting needles, according to the sock pattern. Vintage-style balls with jacquard patterns look very creative. You can also create an exclusive toy of threads with a hook using the technique of alternating the number of loops. The filler can be cotton wool, synthetic winterizer, any fabric.
From felt
Flexible, plastic material can serve as the basis for any crafts, including Christmas tree decorations. The colorful felt is soft and pleasant to the touch. Products from it have no statute of limitations. They will always remain vibrant, unique and fashionable. You can create a real zest, a symbol of the New Year, without having sewing skills and experience working with patterns.
The simplest Christmas toys are flat. These are ordinary carved figures, decorated on one or two sides. Using a marker, transfer the template to felt, cut out.You can make a beautiful Christmas tree, the muzzle of any animal, for example, mumps. Reverse side for strength reinforced with cardboard.
If you need a voluminous Christmas tree toy, then two blanks are immediately cut according to the template. Then pieces of the whole are decorated and connected with threads. The following seams are used:
Snowman socks
Handmade decorative toys are always original. They are like nothing else, suitable for a gift, as they are made with a soul. A simple, simple option is a snowman made of socks. To make the craft, you will need one knitted, cotton sock, several buttons, pins, 1 kg of rice.
The toe must be cut in two in the heel area. The upper half will serve as the basis for the crafts, the lower half will be used for decoration. Turn the blank inside out and tightly tie one end with a thread. We hide the knot and return the sock to the front side. We fill the toy with rice until it acquires the desired shape, but retains plasticity. We form the correct trunk and tie the upper edge. The snowman's head should be highlighted with a thread.
Now it remains to decorate and dress up a kilogram blank. You can draw a face with a felt-tip pen or embroider with beads. A piece of colored fabric in the form of a scarf will mask the threads on the neck. The rest of the sock will be a cap. The body is decorated with colored buttons.
Snowflake and stars from threads
Stylish Christmas snowflakes and stars will be made of yarn and glue. To create such Christmas-tree decorations will take no more than half an hour. To create Christmas toys with sharp corners, you will need a special machine or an improvised carnation made of carnations.
We draw a star or a snowflake on a plate. Then we put a cling film so that the toy does not stick, and drive in nails in the corners of the figure. The next step is to separate part of the threads from the ball and coat them with glue. Without waiting for the hardening of the material, you need to quickly wrap it on the frame. In some places, knots should be made so that the toy does not separate after drying. The central pattern of snowflakes or stars can be made by anyone. After 12 hours, the craft will completely harden, there will be no trace of glue.
Balloons
From ordinary woolen threads, you can create round mesh toys for the Christmas tree. For work, you will need small balloons, threads and PVA glue. We inflate a ball of a suitable size and tie its tail with the end of the thread. Starting from the same edge, we wrap the shape tightly and in random order. Threads of yarn should not be close to each other.
Then we lower the workpiece into a bowl with a mixture of water with glue and turn until all the textile elements are well saturated. It will take at least 24 hours to dry. After a day, we pierce the balloon and remove it through the gap. Finished balloons can be decorated with sequins, beads, bows.
Kinusaig ball decoration
The art genre of creating paintings and other products arose in Japan on the basis of austerity. The main objective of the kinusaig was to dispose of old kimonos. Modern needlewomen use this technique of decoration to create designer Christmas decorations.
To make a ball using the kinusaig technique, you will need a round foam blank, the same type of rags of different colors, decorative braid and beads for decoration.First of all, mark the base into four slices. Then, in the places of the dotted line, we make shallow cuts. The edges of the flaps will be placed in these grooves.
Prepared fabric rectangles must be applied evenly to the slices and hide their edges in the grooves. You can push the material with any flat object. After completing all sectors, you can proceed to decorating. We hide the seams under the tape or braid, wrapping the ball diagonally around the material. From the remains of the cord we form a loop.
Button Toys
Original button designs complement the New Year theme. You can make a craft of absolutely any shape, but it is better to start with a simple Christmas tree. For work, you will need multi-colored buttons of any size, a sheet of cardboard. You can fasten elements with a glue gun or sewing pins.
We turn the paper into a cone and fix the edges of the workpiece with tape. We make the bottom even and stable. Now we randomly distribute the buttons on the surface of the future Christmas tree, starting with the largest. We place small buttons in the remaining spaces. We decorate the craft with beads, bows. A Christmas toy can be put in the lobby or in the children's room.
Using bulbs to decorate a Christmas tree
Creating original toys from waste material, such as blown bulbs, has many advantages. This is a significant savings on traditional jewelry, the ability to create an original design for the New Year's beauty. You can simply paint a light bulb in any color or create interesting curly Christmas tree toys.
Snowman made of light bulbs
The basis of the snowman will be a simple light bulb. Before use, it must be painted white. It is better to use a piece of sponge or foam to avoid remaining strips and uneven strokes. To make the coating more dense, the paint must be applied repeatedly. From a piece of knitted fabric we make a hat. For decoration, you can use a pompom or just a bright ribbon.
Eyes and nose can be cut out of cardboard in appropriate colors or any suitable material can be used. We decorate the body with buttons or any other decor. Hands can be made from yarn, cotton spirals, twigs. Any of the elements must be attached with a glue gun. To turn a snowman into a Christmas tree toy, you need to make a fastener for the thread. It is necessary to thread a beautiful lace into a bead and fix it in the middle of the cap.
Snowball Toy
Europeans can make a traditional Christmas present with their own hands. The snow ball assembled in parts from improvised materials will give joy, faith in a miracle to adults and children. The base of the toy can be any jar with a tightly screwed lid. The filler will require plain water and a few drops of glycerin.
Before you start, you should come up with a composition. It can be single toys from Kinder, products from fabric, plastic and other trifle. We glue the parts with waterproof glue on the inside of the lid and fill it with a mixture of water and glycerin. Then we fall asleep the sparkles and twist the lid well. The more antifreeze, the slower the imaginary snow will sink to the bottom of the jar. The final touch is the processing of the joint with glue.
Light decoupage
Glass Christmas toys have always been considered especially beautiful and individual. On the shelves of modern stores you can hardly find them. Such products have gradually replaced more practical and similar plastic analogues. Fortunately, such toys can be made independently from improvised means. The old glass bulb is perfect for this purpose.
For decor using decoupage technique you will need a special napkin with a picture, a photograph on a thin sheet, music strips, pieces of newspaper or other paper elements.First, the bulb must be wiped with alcohol and painted in any color you like. After the workpiece is completely dry, we cut out the patterns from the napkin and glue it to the light bulb. The edges should be well spread and crushed with a dry towel. To add shine, and to protect the coating from external factors, you can use a thin layer of colorless varnish.
You can decorate a nondescript metal base with paint, foil, beautiful ribbons. We fix the rope, for which the toy will be suspended, in the upper part of the bulb, just wrapping the base several times.
We draw faces and put caps on the lamps
The best idea of how to decorate an unattractive lamp base is to hide it under the heading of the selected hero. To create simple and original figures you will need multi-colored paints, some fabric and decor in the form of beads, beads, ribbons.
It is better to draw the background with a piece of foam with careful movements so as not to disturb the brightness of the color and not leave stains. For clear lines of the face, thin brushes are suitable. You can also complement the image of the hero with clay or artificial wool elements. This can be a mustache for Santa Claus, a bang of a shy lady, and more. A hat can be made of absolutely any material. Thin fabrics are best pre-starched or made for them a cardboard frame.
Citrus Ornaments
Christmas crafts made from oranges and tangerines will create a real holiday mood in the house. Citrus fruits are easy to find at any time of the year, working with them is a pleasure. They make magical decorations that fill the house with amazing New Year's aromas. You can add a little orange by making one of the following Christmas tree crafts:
Gingerbread and cookie decorations
Edible decorations began to appear on trees less and less. But some modern design styles still accept this way of decorating the holiday. You can revive a wonderful tradition by hanging delicious Christmas trees and snowflakes from cookies on a Christmas tree.
On New Year's Day, Christmas is usually cooked with gingerbread and crumbly cookies. The recipe for cooking is very simple, you only need to have special curly shapes. You also need to remember the need for holes in the top of the toy.
There are a lot of design options for edible flour decorations. The constant rule is the presence of multi-colored glaze. You can hang cookies on the tree as separate toys or create garlands from them.
Paper toys
Do-it-yourself Christmas tree decorations are much more appreciated than conveyor plastic balls. The process of their manufacture itself gives a lot of positive emotions, enhances the anticipation of the holiday. The most affordable and simplest material for Christmas toys is paper. You can create a real masterpiece from the most ordinary-looking, at first glance, piece. Work does not require special skill. You need only imagination, patience and some improvised means.
Master class "paper cones"
Cones should be present on any Christmas tree. Paper crafts of this form will be very useful. There are several ways to make a toy yourself.To do this, you must strictly follow the recommendations of the following workshops:
Felted wool toys
Felting from wool is a simple and exciting activity. Volumetric figures are light and soft. This will require pieces of synthetic winterizer, a skein of wool yarn. For beginner needlewomen it is better to give preference to simple forms of Christmas toys.
Cut the blanks in 2 copies (hearts, circles). Elements must have a diameter twice that of the desired toy. Using a needle, we assemble the contour along the outer edge (according to the type of basting), leave the thread free, without knots. Fill the resulting bag with a synthetic winterizer, tighten and tie. Parts of a different shape can simply be sewn.
Now the blank must be covered with wool. We pull out the locks and wind on the base in different directions.They must be fixed with a felting needle so that bald spots do not form. The simplest remains. We place the future toys in a nylon stocking and send it to the washing machine for the standard washing mode. After drying, we get neat lumps. You can decorate with beads, braid, bows and other cute little things.
Conclusion
The tradition to decorate the New Year tree with the whole family was invented for a reason. At this moment, every child and adult feels their need and benefit. Memorable toys made with one's own hand not only serve as an original decor, but also remind of happy moments. Practical Christmas decorations can be stored for many years and can be passed from generation to generation.