The calendar set by Julius Caesar determined the beginning of the year from January 1. Under the Roman Empire, this day got its meaning, subsequently turning into a New Year holiday. As the Gregorian calendar spread across countries, the triumph became popular among many nations.
On the eve of the holiday everyone is waiting for change. Convince yourself that the coming year will be better. On New Year's Eve, they want to believe in a fairy tale, dream of their innermost desires. Prepare for this day, decorate the Christmas tree, pick up gifts. The celebration is not complete without crafts. Indeed, a souvenir bought in a store cannot be compared with a souvenir made by itself, therefore such a present is the most valuable.
Preparations for the celebrations begin in advance. The symbol of the coming 2019 is a pig, which, according to traditional characteristics, brings good luck. For a holiday, it is appropriate to cook products that correspond to iconic figures. As the main material for the toy, thin felt (felt) is chosen. A handmade yellow earth pig made of felt will be an amazing gift for relatives and relatives.
For the manufacture of bulk pigs, a minimum of tools and raw materials is necessary. First of all, you need a felt that makes up the “skin” (outer shell), filler (foam rubber, cotton wool, unnecessary pieces of fabric), buttons to simulate the eyes, threads for stitching crafts, scissors for patterns. Flat products do not require any fillers. Crafts can be made in the form of a souvenir, key fob, cover and even a panel.
To make a piglet, and at the same time it turned out beautiful, you will need to use templates. They are cut out of cardboard, with pins attached to the fabric from which the blanks are made. First, the muzzle of the animal is sewn from the obtained forms. Sew on her eyes, ears, mouth, patch. The prepared product is filled with filler, preferably from sintepon or holofiber.
Candlestick Ideas
On New Year's Eve, the lights are often turned off, leaving only sparkling garlands and the flickering lights of lit candles. Thus, an emotional atmosphere is created, bliss is achieved. But the bare candle looks dull. In such a situation, a candlestick will help. From a hand-made product comes the perception of warmth and home comfort.
Ideas for creating candlesticks, as well as their frames, a lot. Let's consider some of them:
Restoration of old factory products.If there are still candlesticks left in the house passed on to generations, or once bought and forgotten, you can give them a special look by resorting to the decor. As decorations, you can use fabrics, ribbons, napkins. They can be glued with jewelry, wrapped with rope, attach ribbons;
Wooden logs. If you make a hole for them in a candle, it will be a unique masterpiece of natural materials. The log can be used as a separate element, they can be assembled into a composition on stands, decorated with branches;
Wine glasses. A candle can be placed both inside and on its base. They can be decorated with ribbons and lace, play with flowers, pasted with rhinestones, set an interesting toy inside;
Fruit. In addition to the aesthetic appearance, such a candlestick will give a pleasant aroma.
Christmas boots for gifts
The tradition originates from the legend of St. Nicholas, when at Christmas he threw three sisters on a gold bar through the chimney into the socks. The boots should hang by the fireplace, but this is not important, they can be placed above the crib, under the spruce. Those who behaved well during the past year will receive a gift.
Christmas sock is not only intended for gifts and sweets, it is first of all an element of decor. Therefore, there are many options for their manufacture. First you need to decide on the fabric for the boot. More in demand are felt, fur, cotton. A special place is occupied by knitted boots or stitched from leather.
After choosing the material and stitching the New Year's boot, proceed to decorate it. Embroidery, appliqués, stripes, beads, ready-made mini-toys, ribbons are used as decor. Forming a boot is a creative thing that you can do with the whole family.
New Year's sweets
What a holiday would be without sweet pleasure. And also beautifully designed. Motifs for decoration are selected according to the celebration. Traditional images of chocolate in the form of Santa Claus, swirling candies, 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.
Different 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 pack it beautifully. Or make cupcakes by decorating them in the shape of a snowman. Cupcakes are good for creating deer. Bake cookies in the form of snowflakes or frosty patterns.
If you use your imagination, you can even create whole compositions from sweets. It can be spruce from sweets, additionally decorated with fabrics, applique, branches. A log house lined with rounded cookies poured with white chocolate to simulate snow. Ships, bouquets of flowers, sledges, imitated fruits and many other handicrafts also work well.
Decorative Christmas trees
The festival will not do without the main symbol. Adherents of traditional spruce or pine will always remain in the house, but even they are not alien to make additional decorations in the form of a favorite tree. Crafts are made in completely different sizes, the product can fit on a shelf or take the place of a standard attribute.
It is impossible to combine a variety of objects and materials with one expression, from which you can make artificial spruce with your own hands. There are a lot of ideas. Even plastic cups and glass jars are used as raw materials. The boldest ideas are to make an imitation of a tree from pods of hot pepper, beans, springs from an old bed, spokes from a bicycle wheel, horse horseshoes, computer motherboards. A lot of options. Consider the most common of them:
From paper
A paper tree is the easiest and cheapest 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 the Christmas tree, any type of paper processing is used: papier-mâché, origami, collage, quilling, modeling, volume applications.
There are many workshops on creating paper Christmas trees. For example, in the manufacture of a three-dimensional product, you need a compass, which draws a circle on a piece of cardboard, scissors, glue, colored paper. The cardboard circle is cut in half and folded into a cone. The edges are glued together, you can additionally fasten them with a stapler. The finished base serves as the basis for the future toy, on it you can put fluffy spirals, balls of toilet paper, colored roses, twisted strips. Decorate with rain, ribbons, home-made toys.
From threads
You can literally make a Christmas tree from improvised materials. There are several ways to assemble the craft. To do this, you 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 with oilcloth or a bag of polyethylene;
Coated with glue threads randomly wound around a cone, starting from the bottom;
At the final stage, it is necessary to dry the craft and remove the paper base.
You can decorate a Christmas tree with different components. Everything will work out - sweets, colored cereals, multi-colored buttons, beads, beads, spangles, lace, paper snowflakes, rain of different shades. To make the composition more original, you can put a lamp, a lantern, a light bulb inside.
The product is fragile, it should not be heavily loaded. "It may have different heights, but the color design should be standard, in green tones."
From forest cones
Cones do not have a solemn appearance, but you just need to connect your imagination and show a little ingenuity, as natural material turns into a luxurious spruce. To make such an ornament or a holiday gift is within the power of everyone.Finding raw materials is also not difficult, 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 the base (cork, branch, pot), or represent the whole composition. To make a three-dimensional product, you will need fir or pine cones, paints, paint brushes, glue, a disk or cardboard for the base, 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 put the raw materials in the oven for a couple of hours or cook them in boiling water for half an hour. The master class on creating a bulk spruce is as follows: on the base of a cardboard cut out in the form of a disk, the first row of cones, which consists of the largest shoots, is glued in a circle. The next row is more difficult to establish, since here the cones have to be glued together. This is a very painstaking and long process, because until the previous layer is dry, you can not proceed to the next. The rows are applied to each other until the top is obtained, where an elongated bump with a sharp tip will be appropriate. The Christmas tree created in this way is painted and decorated. As the base, you can use a cone, and glue the cones directly to it.
Christmas wreaths
The ancient Slavs and Germanic tribes used this attribute as a charm, 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 located in it. Over time, wreaths lost their symbolic destiny, became an element of decor.
The material for the wreath can be spruce and pine branches, ribbons of different colors, dried flowers, fabrics, clothing, Christmas toys, jewelry, snowflakes of various shapes, cones, balls.To make a craft and fasten everything, you need a base. To create it, it is better to take metal wires, aluminum is especially good. You can also use straw, cardboard, plastic, polystyrene as a base. A circle twisted from wire must be wrapped with newspaper or paper and secured with thread. The finished base can be decorated with fir branches of different colors and add glass balls. How to decorate the subject depends on the intention of the author of this attribute.
Garlands
It is impossible to imagine the New Year without garlands. They are elegant, bright, elegant. They can be monophonic or multicolor, consist of paper, sweets, threads, fabrics, have a complex structure. There are many options for creating these decor elements. As an example, consider a few original ideas.
Name
Materials
How to do
Twine Balls
Balloons, glue, twine, needle, LED garland, cream, water
Inflated balls are coated with cream. In glue diluted in water, the twine is soaked and wound on a ball. After drying, the ball is burst and removed, and a garland bulb is placed inside.
Edible bulbs
Multi-colored sweets, marmalades or jelly, thread
Marmalade is cut in the shape of a small base, heated and round or oval sweets are attached to the hot edge. Then, the obtained elements are strung on a thread.
Salt dough garlands
Flour, dyes, molds, paints
Flour and salt are mixed and poured with water with dye. The dough is kneaded, then it is rolled out and squeezed out with molds. A hole is made with a match or a toothpick. Figures are left to dry for a couple of days. After the workpieces have dried, they can be decorated with a brush, apply sparkles. At the final stage, the figures are strung on a thread.
Christmas decorations
The process of decorating the Christmas tree is a joyful event in which all family members participate.To do this, use glass toys, rains, garlands - what you can buy. But it’s much more interesting to dress the tree with hand-made crafts. Such decor will be enjoyed by all household members and create coziness. In order to create crafts for the New Year, any improvised material is suitable.
Toys can be made from yarn. Simple needlework will allow you to get a spectacular decoration. In a few minutes, a craft from wire is freely created. A Christmas tree is made up of a ribbon and divided into layers by beads. Knitted deer, folded postcard, paper ball, hats made of thread - everything will be in place. Let us dwell in more detail on popular materials:
From old light bulbs
Useless at first glance, a blown out bulb can be a good basis for New Year's decoration. A decorated item will be a great replacement for plastic balls. Having shown ingenuity, you can make:
Snowman. To do this, you need to paint the light bulb in white and draw a cheerful little face on it. Then the nose is made of porcelain, salt dough. A cap made of fabric is hung on a base. If desired, he can attach hands from ordinary wooden sticks or paper.
Santa Claus. All that is needed is to draw a characteristic face and costume, put on a cap, for the manufacture of which even a tube rolled up from paper is suitable.
Dog. A button or pebble imitating the nose is glued to the base; around with the help of yarn or thread a fluffy muzzle is made. Next, the eyes, eyebrows and mouth are glued. You can wear a beautiful hat on top.
“A fake of the original glass toys will come out of the bulbs, whether it be a Snow Maiden, a bee or a bag.”
Cones
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 from this raw material.Walking along 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 cones, items for decoration and imagination. From the blanks you can make funny gnomes, a family of penguins, birds, hedgehogs, elves, squirrels, foxes, mice, butterflies, bees, owls, ski snowmen, angels and many other characters. From cones you can make garlands, a star for the Christmas tree, a miniature festive tree, a ball, or simply paint and use as a separate decor element.
Thread
Crafts can be made from the most ordinary threads. They make unique balls, stars, Christmas trees, various flat ornaments that do not need to be stitched. To create toys enough improvised materials that are in the house - threads, glue, scissors, needles.
Work 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 them. Having ready-made templates, you can begin to implement the plan. To do this, stencils are laid out on the substrate and attached to it using needles located in all corners. Then glue is poured into any convenient container, if necessary, it can be diluted. The threads are lowered into a container with diluted liquid, they are allowed to soak. A dampened thread is pulled between the needles in a chaotic manner. Everything, the product is almost ready. It remains only to dry it in a natural or artificial way, gently separate from the substrate and allow the back to dry. Homemade can be decorated with sparkles, jewelry, rain, ribbons.
Volumetric Snowflakes
Snowflake is a traditional decoration. This is one of the first crafts that a child performs on New Year's. A standard attribute that adorns windows in kindergarten and school. It’s hard to imagine a holiday without them.
Simple products can do everything.Volumetric snowflakes are more difficult to make, although the materials used to create them are the same as for flat ones. They look spectacular. Such a miracle is created from different raw materials, they can be woven from elastic bands, sewn from fabric, filled with a cotton filler, and wrap the volumetric frame with threads. Consider the most common options for making New Year's decor elements:
From paper
Paper is the most suitable material for creating snowflakes. In its manufacture, you can use landscape, newspaper, cardboard sheet. The simplest scheme for voluminous crafts is an accordion. To create such an element, you need two paper sheets. Work begins with folding the raw materials with an accordion. Then, with a pencil, the middle is marked on the compressed sheets. Retreating from it a couple of centimeters in each direction, marks are made for cutouts, and rounding of sharp corners is also noted. Having cut off the marked places with scissors, accordions are carefully brought into each other with their ends to the first holes and tied with thread. To bring the product to readiness, it remains only to straighten and glue the contact points of two sheets.
3D snowflakes are interesting in their structure. Ornaments for an element may be different. They can be performed by superimposing cut blanks on top of each other or gluing them from multi-colored strips cut from a sheet. The finished product is decorated with spangles.
Foam
Polyfoam is available in each house, in extreme cases it can be purchased. The material is popular in needlework. To make a snowflake out of it, you need a pencil for drawing a sketch, a sharp clerical knife, 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 out of paper is applied to the foam blank, onto which the image is transferred with a pencil. After that, you can begin to work, the edges are cut first, then exact cuts are made.The finished craft can be smeared with glue and sprinkled with salt, such actions will allow it to reflect light, overflow. The place of work must be covered with a tablecloth, otherwise the foam will spread throughout the house.
New Year cards
Creating a Christmas mood is very simple. It is enough to give friends or relatives an original postcard made on their own. Children especially like to give such gifts to their peers in kindergarten. Inside often write wishes, make drop-down figures.
An ordinary postcard can be made without much effort, it is enough to fold a sheet of paper in half and draw some kind of ornament on it. But New Year's crafts is something more. Their creation is approached with a soul. To do this, come up with different decors: decorate the product with applications, glue different origami, create 3D compositions that appear in all their glory when opened, apply quilling, sheathe with textile elements.
New Year's Topiary
The topiary is represented by a beautiful home-made tree planted in a pot. This is primarily an interesting craft. Like the original plant, it consists of a trunk and a crown. Additional attributes are the scenery and the pot that makes up 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 solidify;
Trunk. Natural branches, wire, plastic will fit in as raw materials. It is installed in a pot with not yet hardened solution and is fixed;
Crown. It is made of paper (ideal for simulating a Christmas tree), threads, polyurethane foam, polystyrene. Attaches to the trunk;
Decor These are all the elements that give the craft an original look.
Champagne Bottle Decoration Options
On such a holiday, everything should be irresistible. This also applies to the table on which the main role is given to a bottle of champagne.It can be pasted with New Year's stickers, after removing the label. Sparkling wine set in a basket that is decorated with flowers, balls, snowflakes, ribbons, chocolates will look good.
There are a lot of interesting ideas: the bottle is wrapped in corrugated paper, tied with ribbons, decorated with balls, flowers; a container wrapped in red felt, with the addition of decorations, turns into Santa Claus; champagne can be glued with rain, attach jewelry and make a Christmas tree out of it.
Conclusion
New Year crafts - a creative process in which all family members can participate. Hand-made jewelry is the most valuable. They will always delight children and adults. There is an unlimited number of decorative elements and materials for their creation.
The calendar set by Julius Caesar determined the beginning of the year from January 1. Under the Roman Empire, this day got its meaning, subsequently turning into a New Year holiday. As the Gregorian calendar spread across countries, the triumph became popular among many nations.
On the eve of the holiday everyone is waiting for change. Convince yourself that the coming year will be better. On New Year's Eve, they want to believe in a fairy tale, dream of their innermost desires. Prepare for this day, decorate the Christmas tree, pick up gifts. The celebration is not complete without crafts. Indeed, a souvenir bought in a store cannot be compared with a souvenir made by itself, therefore such a present is the most valuable.
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Symbol of the year from felt
Preparations for the celebrations begin in advance. The symbol of the coming 2019 is a pig, which, according to traditional characteristics, brings good luck. For a holiday, it is appropriate to cook products that correspond to iconic figures. As the main material for the toy, thin felt (felt) is chosen. A handmade yellow earth pig made of felt will be an amazing gift for relatives and relatives.
For the manufacture of bulk pigs, a minimum of tools and raw materials is necessary. First of all, you need a felt that makes up the “skin” (outer shell), filler (foam rubber, cotton wool, unnecessary pieces of fabric), buttons to simulate the eyes, threads for stitching crafts, scissors for patterns. Flat products do not require any fillers. Crafts can be made in the form of a souvenir, key fob, cover and even a panel.
To make a piglet, and at the same time it turned out beautiful, you will need to use templates. They are cut out of cardboard, with pins attached to the fabric from which the blanks are made. First, the muzzle of the animal is sewn from the obtained forms. Sew on her eyes, ears, mouth, patch. The prepared product is filled with filler, preferably from sintepon or holofiber.
Candlestick Ideas
On New Year's Eve, the lights are often turned off, leaving only sparkling garlands and the flickering lights of lit candles. Thus, an emotional atmosphere is created, bliss is achieved. But the bare candle looks dull. In such a situation, a candlestick will help. From a hand-made product comes the perception of warmth and home comfort.
Ideas for creating candlesticks, as well as their frames, a lot. Let's consider some of them:
Christmas boots for gifts
The tradition originates from the legend of St. Nicholas, when at Christmas he threw three sisters on a gold bar through the chimney into the socks. The boots should hang by the fireplace, but this is not important, they can be placed above the crib, under the spruce. Those who behaved well during the past year will receive a gift.
Christmas sock is not only intended for gifts and sweets, it is first of all an element of decor. Therefore, there are many options for their manufacture. First you need to decide on the fabric for the boot. More in demand are felt, fur, cotton. A special place is occupied by knitted boots or stitched from leather.
After choosing the material and stitching the New Year's boot, proceed to decorate it. Embroidery, appliqués, stripes, beads, ready-made mini-toys, ribbons are used as decor. Forming a boot is a creative thing that you can do with the whole family.
New Year's sweets
What a holiday would be without sweet pleasure. And also beautifully designed. Motifs for decoration are selected according to the celebration. Traditional images of chocolate in the form of Santa Claus, swirling candies, 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.
Different 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 pack it beautifully. Or make cupcakes by decorating them in the shape of a snowman. Cupcakes are good for creating deer. Bake cookies in the form of snowflakes or frosty patterns.
If you use your imagination, you can even create whole compositions from sweets. It can be spruce from sweets, additionally decorated with fabrics, applique, branches. A log house lined with rounded cookies poured with white chocolate to simulate snow. Ships, bouquets of flowers, sledges, imitated fruits and many other handicrafts also work well.
Decorative Christmas trees
The festival will not do without the main symbol. Adherents of traditional spruce or pine will always remain in the house, but even they are not alien to make additional decorations in the form of a favorite tree. Crafts are made in completely different sizes, the product can fit on a shelf or take the place of a standard attribute.
It is impossible to combine a variety of objects and materials with one expression, from which you can make artificial spruce with your own hands. There are a lot of ideas. Even plastic cups and glass jars are used as raw materials. The boldest ideas are to make an imitation of a tree from pods of hot pepper, beans, springs from an old bed, spokes from a bicycle wheel, horse horseshoes, computer motherboards. A lot of options. Consider the most common of them:
From paper
A paper tree is the easiest and cheapest 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 the Christmas tree, any type of paper processing is used: papier-mâché, origami, collage, quilling, modeling, volume applications.
There are many workshops on creating paper Christmas trees. For example, in the manufacture of a three-dimensional product, you need a compass, which draws a circle on a piece of cardboard, scissors, glue, colored paper. The cardboard circle is cut in half and folded into a cone. The edges are glued together, you can additionally fasten them with a stapler. The finished base serves as the basis for the future toy, on it you can put fluffy spirals, balls of toilet paper, colored roses, twisted strips. Decorate with rain, ribbons, home-made toys.
From threads
You can literally make a Christmas tree from improvised materials. There are several ways to assemble the craft. To do this, you need thick paper or cardboard, scissors, glue, a set of threads and needles. The installation technique is as follows:
You can decorate a Christmas tree with different components. Everything will work out - sweets, colored cereals, multi-colored buttons, beads, beads, spangles, lace, paper snowflakes, rain of different shades. To make the composition more original, you can put a lamp, a lantern, a light bulb inside.
From forest cones
Cones do not have a solemn appearance, but you just need to connect your imagination and show a little ingenuity, as natural material turns into a luxurious spruce. To make such an ornament or a holiday gift is within the power of everyone.Finding raw materials is also not difficult, 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 the base (cork, branch, pot), or represent the whole composition. To make a three-dimensional product, you will need fir or pine cones, paints, paint brushes, glue, a disk or cardboard for the base, 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 put the raw materials in the oven for a couple of hours or cook them in boiling water for half an hour. The master class on creating a bulk spruce is as follows: on the base of a cardboard cut out in the form of a disk, the first row of cones, which consists of the largest shoots, is glued in a circle. The next row is more difficult to establish, since here the cones have to be glued together. This is a very painstaking and long process, because until the previous layer is dry, you can not proceed to the next. The rows are applied to each other until the top is obtained, where an elongated bump with a sharp tip will be appropriate. The Christmas tree created in this way is painted and decorated. As the base, you can use a cone, and glue the cones directly to it.
Christmas wreaths
The ancient Slavs and Germanic tribes used this attribute as a charm, 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 located in it. Over time, wreaths lost their symbolic destiny, became an element of decor.
The material for the wreath can be spruce and pine branches, ribbons of different colors, dried flowers, fabrics, clothing, Christmas toys, jewelry, snowflakes of various shapes, cones, balls.To make a craft and fasten everything, you need a base. To create it, it is better to take metal wires, aluminum is especially good. You can also use straw, cardboard, plastic, polystyrene as a base. A circle twisted from wire must be wrapped with newspaper or paper and secured with thread. The finished base can be decorated with fir branches of different colors and add glass balls. How to decorate the subject depends on the intention of the author of this attribute.
Garlands
It is impossible to imagine the New Year without garlands. They are elegant, bright, elegant. They can be monophonic or multicolor, consist of paper, sweets, threads, fabrics, have a complex structure. There are many options for creating these decor elements. As an example, consider a few original ideas.
Christmas decorations
The process of decorating the Christmas tree is a joyful event in which all family members participate.To do this, use glass toys, rains, garlands - what you can buy. But it’s much more interesting to dress the tree with hand-made crafts. Such decor will be enjoyed by all household members and create coziness. In order to create crafts for the New Year, any improvised material is suitable.
Toys can be made from yarn. Simple needlework will allow you to get a spectacular decoration. In a few minutes, a craft from wire is freely created. A Christmas tree is made up of a ribbon and divided into layers by beads. Knitted deer, folded postcard, paper ball, hats made of thread - everything will be in place. Let us dwell in more detail on popular materials:
From old light bulbs
Useless at first glance, a blown out bulb can be a good basis for New Year's decoration. A decorated item will be a great replacement for plastic balls. Having shown ingenuity, you can make:
Cones
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 from this raw material.Walking along 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 cones, items for decoration and imagination. From the blanks you can make funny gnomes, a family of penguins, birds, hedgehogs, elves, squirrels, foxes, mice, butterflies, bees, owls, ski snowmen, angels and many other characters. From cones you can make garlands, a star for the Christmas tree, a miniature festive tree, a ball, or simply paint and use as a separate decor element.
Thread
Crafts can be made from the most ordinary threads. They make unique balls, stars, Christmas trees, various flat ornaments that do not need to be stitched. To create toys enough improvised materials that are in the house - threads, glue, scissors, needles.
Work 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 them. Having ready-made templates, you can begin to implement the plan. To do this, stencils are laid out on the substrate and attached to it using needles located in all corners. Then glue is poured into any convenient container, if necessary, it can be diluted. The threads are lowered into a container with diluted liquid, they are allowed to soak. A dampened thread is pulled between the needles in a chaotic manner. Everything, the product is almost ready. It remains only to dry it in a natural or artificial way, gently separate from the substrate and allow the back to dry. Homemade can be decorated with sparkles, jewelry, rain, ribbons.
Volumetric Snowflakes
Snowflake is a traditional decoration. This is one of the first crafts that a child performs on New Year's. A standard attribute that adorns windows in kindergarten and school. It’s hard to imagine a holiday without them.
Simple products can do everything.Volumetric snowflakes are more difficult to make, although the materials used to create them are the same as for flat ones. They look spectacular. Such a miracle is created from different raw materials, they can be woven from elastic bands, sewn from fabric, filled with a cotton filler, and wrap the volumetric frame with threads. Consider the most common options for making New Year's decor elements:
From paper
Paper is the most suitable material for creating snowflakes. In its manufacture, you can use landscape, newspaper, cardboard sheet. The simplest scheme for voluminous crafts is an accordion. To create such an element, you need two paper sheets. Work begins with folding the raw materials with an accordion. Then, with a pencil, the middle is marked on the compressed sheets. Retreating from it a couple of centimeters in each direction, marks are made for cutouts, and rounding of sharp corners is also noted. Having cut off the marked places with scissors, accordions are carefully brought into each other with their ends to the first holes and tied with thread. To bring the product to readiness, it remains only to straighten and glue the contact points of two sheets.
3D snowflakes are interesting in their structure. Ornaments for an element may be different. They can be performed by superimposing cut blanks on top of each other or gluing them from multi-colored strips cut from a sheet. The finished product is decorated with spangles.
Foam
Polyfoam is available in each house, in extreme cases it can be purchased. The material is popular in needlework. To make a snowflake out of it, you need a pencil for drawing a sketch, a sharp clerical knife, 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 out of paper is applied to the foam blank, onto which the image is transferred with a pencil. After that, you can begin to work, the edges are cut first, then exact cuts are made.The finished craft can be smeared with glue and sprinkled with salt, such actions will allow it to reflect light, overflow. The place of work must be covered with a tablecloth, otherwise the foam will spread throughout the house.
New Year cards
Creating a Christmas mood is very simple. It is enough to give friends or relatives an original postcard made on their own. Children especially like to give such gifts to their peers in kindergarten. Inside often write wishes, make drop-down figures.
An ordinary postcard can be made without much effort, it is enough to fold a sheet of paper in half and draw some kind of ornament on it. But New Year's crafts is something more. Their creation is approached with a soul. To do this, come up with different decors: decorate the product with applications, glue different origami, create 3D compositions that appear in all their glory when opened, apply quilling, sheathe with textile elements.
New Year's Topiary
The topiary is represented by a beautiful home-made tree planted in a pot. This is primarily an interesting craft. Like the original plant, it consists of a trunk and a crown. Additional attributes are the scenery and the pot that makes up the base of the product. The topiary is created as follows:
Champagne Bottle Decoration Options
On such a holiday, everything should be irresistible. This also applies to the table on which the main role is given to a bottle of champagne.It can be pasted with New Year's stickers, after removing the label. Sparkling wine set in a basket that is decorated with flowers, balls, snowflakes, ribbons, chocolates will look good.
There are a lot of interesting ideas: the bottle is wrapped in corrugated paper, tied with ribbons, decorated with balls, flowers; a container wrapped in red felt, with the addition of decorations, turns into Santa Claus; champagne can be glued with rain, attach jewelry and make a Christmas tree out of it.
Conclusion
New Year crafts - a creative process in which all family members can participate. Hand-made jewelry is the most valuable. They will always delight children and adults. There is an unlimited number of decorative elements and materials for their creation.