Simple New Year's paper crafts and decorations are good because you can do them with your children. Agree, very often in the pre-holiday chaos and constant household chores we forget to devote time to our family.
And now the holiday is approaching, so it’s time to get together and start creating paper decorations: this and Christmas decorations made of paper, and lanterns, and paper garlands.
DIY paper Christmas tree
Small Christmas tree, example one
A decoration for a real Christmas tree in the form of a three-dimensional hanging Christmas tree can be made from ordinary cardboard.
To create we need:
- multi-colored cardboard;
- glue;
- awl;
- threads;
- scissors.
We draw the most primitive children's Christmas tree with splayed branches, the main thing is to maintain symmetry, cut it out, then trace exactly the same Christmas tree on another sheet of cardboard and get a second blank. We bend the workpiece along vertical symmetry and glue it together. You can decorate our paper toy with rhinestones. Then use an awl to pierce a hole in the upper part and thread it through. The decoration is ready.
A cardboard craft that you can either put on your desktop or hang on your Christmas tree.
Another Christmas tree, option No. 2
Another example of paper crafts. At the heart of such a Christmas tree - cardboard cone. To create we need:
- multi-colored paper;
- glue;
- scotch;
- scissors.
Manufacturing procedure:
- We cut out a large number of strips of the same length and width from colored paper. We glue each strip with glue so that it looks like a loop, then we glue all the loops with tape.
- We apply layers of tape onto the cardboard cone, to which our strips are glued.
This is the Christmas tree we got:
Bright Christmas tree can decorate any room Christmas tree from a magazine
Unusual, but Very easy craft origami. Every home will definitely have an unnecessary magazine - so you can make an original Christmas tree from it.
In the magazine, we bend each page like this: the upper right corner towards us at forty-five degrees, then we bend the sheet diagonally in half.
Our bottom corner has gone beyond the boundaries of the magazine, so we turn it up.
We put all the pages together like this.
Like this original craft it worked out. As you can see, nothing complicated, but a lot of pleasure because you were able to make it with your own hands.
New Year's paper lanterns
We made a Christmas tree, now it’s time to make our own paper lanterns. Let's look at several simple options on how to make paper lanterns with your own hands.
Lantern made of stripes
To create such a flashlight, you need to cut strips of colored paper of the same width and length: the longer the strip, the larger the flashlight will be. Average length the strips will be 15 cm.
Your little one will love creating with you. unusual crafts We fold the strips and pierce holes at both ends. We fix the end of the lace on one of the sides and secure it so that the lace does not jump out. Then we thread the lace through another hole and pull it tight. The strips will curve in a semicircle.
We straighten the flashlight so that the stripes form a ball shape. The flashlight is ready.
Chinese lantern
How to make a Chinese paper lantern with your own hands? To create such a craft you will need:
- scissors;
- strips of colored paper (18 pieces);
- glue;
- two paper circles with a diameter of 4 cm;
- thread with a needle.
We bend the strips in half. Using a needle, first string a circle onto a thread, then one side of the strips, then the second and last circle. It will look like a spiral.
DIY Chinese lantern, photo We tighten the thread so that the strips form a ball and straighten it. You can decorate the top and bottom with beads. Glue the loop. Our Chinese paper lantern is ready, it can be hung on a fluffy beauty - a Christmas tree.
sky lantern
How to make a sky lantern out of paper with your own hands? To create a craft you need to take a sheet of colored paper measuring 24x60cm. We bend the sheet in half, then fold it like an accordion.
We unfold the sheet and along the central fold we make triangular creases on all the folds of our triangular accordion.
Sky lanterns can be made colorful We make the same creases along the bottom and top edges of the sheet. Glue it into a cylinder. Sew a loop on top.
Advice. This lantern can be made from any paper, but preferably in bright and saturated colors. Abstract drawings or oriental motifs will look very good. Before creating such a craft, you can pre-paint the paper to your taste.
Paper garland
How to make a paper garland with your own hands? We suggest you do it decoration from paper balls .
Photo of a paper garland of homemade multi-colored balls To make such a garland, we will need strips of equal length and width. To make it more convenient to fasten them with tape, we make the upper and lower parts pointed. You will need 4 strips per ball, preferably if they are of different colors.
We braid the strips until they form into a ball. We take two strips, glue them with tape and start braid a pigtail. As you weave, the braid will twist and turn into a ball. When the ball is ready, you will need to hide the loose ends between the weaving. It's worth doing this action until the ball is completely formed.
To create long garland You will need to twist a lot of balls.
Then we string each ball onto a colored thread. The garland of paper balls is ready: you can decorate both the Christmas tree and the room with it.
Volumetric paper toy for Christmas tree
Our next craft is . What needs to be done?
This is what a finished volumetric paper star looks like 
Christmas ball ready!
New Year's angel made from napkins
You can decorate a table, a Christmas tree with this angel, or make it as a gift for your family. To create you will need: scissors, glue, thread and ordinary table napkins.
The angel is ready!
New Year's snowflake
Let's make beautiful paper snowflakes for the New Year. How to cut a beautiful three-dimensional snowflake? A paper snowflake can be cut out according to a pattern or made using the quilling technique. The instructions for making paper snowflakes are simple: prepare paper blanks and make a finished snowflake out of them. Glue the parts together.
This paper snowflake is made using the origami technique. To create such tender and air crafts All you need is office paper. Twisted in a special way, they look like real snowflakes. First we will prepare strips of paper. To create a curl, a strip of paper must be twisted tightly on a skewer. After winding it, we straighten the paper curl and remove the “washer”.
Snowflake blanks
We need to come up with a pattern for our snowflake. The number of rows can be from one to four. The main thing is that the patterns allow all the parts to be glued together.
First row– glue six “drops” on the sides;
Second row– six “arrows”;
Third row– six “squares”;
And here is the result of a snowflake example:
You can get creative and make various applications on glass or thread a shiny thread into a snowflake and hang it on the Christmas tree.
As you can see, you can make a great variety of Christmas decorations from paper with your own hands. We have shown you only a small part of what can be made from paper. These New Year's crafts, paper decorations, toys and origami snowflakes will perfectly highlight the festive New Year's decoration of both the Christmas tree and the interior.
Time runs inexorably forward and now white flies are flying outside the window, slowly falling to the ground and covering everything around with a snow-white fluffy blanket. However, despite the cold, my soul is warm and joyful. And all because suddenly appearing snowflakes herald the coming of the New Year. Most main holiday The year is already very close, which means it’s time to think about New Year’s decor, gifts and, of course, crafts.
The days are getting shorter and the evenings are getting colder and longer. What to do with yourself, and even more so with your little fidgets, when for street winter fun Is it too dark already? Well, of course, crafts. New Year's crafts can be made from the most unexpected materials: cocktail straws and much more. But there are also more traditional materials, such as paper. In this article we have collected for you more than 60 step-by-step master classes on making paper crafts on New Year. If you still think that only appliqués can be made from paper, then drop everything and carefully look at our article! Well, for those who are looking for something unusual and know what miracles can be created from ordinary paper, we can only advise them to immediately begin the creation process New Year's crafts from paper according to our diagrams and templates.
One of the simplest New Year's paper crafts can rightfully be considered a garland. We all remember well from our childhood how we decorated the Christmas tree with such paper garlands not only at home, but at school or kindergarten. Making a paper garland is very simple: colored paper is cut into strips of the same width, the first strip is glued into a ring, and each subsequent one is threaded into the previous ring and also glued. This paper craft is ideal for 4-5 year olds.
If the task of entertaining children is not important, but you need to decorate the house, then here is another option for a paper garland. It is even easier to do than the previous one, but you will need sewing machine. So, to create such a New Year's paper craft you will need: many circles of different diameters (the number depends on the size of the garland), a sewing machine. Sew circles through the center using a machine and hang the garland. Such a garland will “come to life” from any gust of air.
So, if you have decided that the issue with garlands is closed and there is nothing more to come up with here, we hasten to upset you - this is only the very tip of the iceberg. Simple paper garlands are an activity for beginners. Professionals prefer more complex tasks, For example, volumetric crafts from paper. Below is a master class on making a three-dimensional garland in the form of light bulbs.
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If you are still interested in a paper Christmas tree, but want to make something unusual, then take advantage of this master class.
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#17 New Year's paper crafts: making a moving card with wishes
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You can make a wide variety of flowers from paper, the whole secret is in cutting out the ends.
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A very themed New Year's craft made from crimple paper. This paper cone looks very natural and is quite difficult to distinguish, especially if it is used as decoration. With our master class you can easily cope with such a paper craft.
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You can make very special crafts from paper using the Japanese origami technique. Our step-by-step master class will help you create a New Year's ball out of paper, which can be used to decorate both a room and a Christmas tree.
Step-by-step diagram for creating an origami star with your own hands. You can decorate the top of the Christmas tree with such a star, you can simply create a festive atmosphere in your home, or you can combine it into one large garland.
You can make the base yourself, as in the first picture. Or you can download a ready-made pentagon blank and depending on the size of the pentagon the size of the finished star will change.
At your service step by step diagram manufacturing volumetric snowflakes from paper. Follow the instructions and you will definitely get such a miracle.
#34 Decorating the apartment with pine cones: do-it-yourself New Year's paper crafts
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Continuing the question of gift wrapping, we want to offer you another budget, but very charming option. You can make such a gift elf with your own hands using our master class.
Here's another option for you original packaging DIY New Year's gift.
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#59 DIY Christmas craft paper ball “Mistletoe”
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#64 New Year's cutting patterns: a great photo shoot for the New Year
Pay attention! The templates are very large and of good quality, so downloading may take some time.
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You can make a simple and original Chinese lantern with your own hands using our ready-made diagram.
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It's quite hard to imagine New Year's decor without all sorts of variations on the theme of stars. In this master class you will learn how to make a three-dimensional double-sided star out of paper with your own hands. You can download the finished diagram below.
#70 New Year's paper masks
The list of New Year's paper crafts must include carnival masks. Well, what kind new year party can we do without masks? That's right, none! In fact, there are a lot of options for making paper masks, and if you use your imagination, you can make a lot of wonderful crafts!
New Year is perhaps the most important holiday for adults and children! They prepare for it for a long time: they decorate the home, decorate the Christmas tree, buy gifts. And they celebrate it on a grand scale - throughout the big country and even abroad. Children really enjoy creating decorations on their own or with adults. In this article we will try to analyze the simplest and most interesting ways of making jewelry from the most simple material, which is in every home, is made of paper.
Making decorations for the Christmas tree
Making jewelry with your own hands is not only an exciting activity - joint creativity brings parents and children closer together. Christmas tree decorations made of paper are good for their lightness: even the thinnest branches will not sag under their weight!
The most suitable decoration for a fluffy New Year's beauty is voluminous balls. They are easy and simple to make, and even the smallest family members can do it under the guidance of adults. For this you will need:
- thick paper (you can use watercolor paper, cardboard, colored paper, white, even old postcards);
- stationery glue or glue stick;
- ruler;
- scissors;
- compass or circle template (you can simply trace a cup or round lid).
To begin, cut out 20 circles from paper. The size of the future toy will depend on their size. Inside each circle we draw an equilateral triangle, the corners of which should touch the sides of the circle. We make folds along the lines of the triangle - these will be the “edges” of our volumetric ball.
The next stage is assembly. Let's take five blanks and fold them with the sharp ends of the triangles towards the center - we get a circle. We immediately place a thread-loop in the center, on which we will later hang our decoration, glue the blanks with the “ribs” outward - we get the top. The bottom of the ball is made in the same way. We glue the remaining 10 blanks into a strip, connect it into a ring, and glue the already dried parts of the top and bottom on top and bottom.
So, we got a beautiful voluminous ribbed ball! By changing the size of the blanks, the color and texture of the paper, you can get many unique toys for decorating the Christmas tree and the interior. It’s easy to hide a small souvenir or gift inside the ball, give the balls to guests or arrange a fun game.
Another way to make a volumetric ball is similar to the previous one, but much simpler. We cut out several circles or any other shapes from paper or cardboard, for example, stars, hearts, Christmas trees. The figures must be identical and symmetrical. You can print them on a printer or use a template. We bend the figure in half exactly in the center, and perform the manipulation with the rest of the details. All that remains is to glue it together, for which we coat half of each piece with glue and connect it to the other half. This way we glue all the figures together. The latter is connected to the first, and a three-dimensional toy is obtained.
An exquisite decoration can be made using foam blank.You will need the following tools and materials:
- coated paper in pastel colors;
- figured hole punchers “Flowers” in two sizes: one larger, the other smaller;
- pins with bead heads.
If you don't have hole punchers, no problem! Draw patterns of four-leaf flowers on cardboard and cut them out. The flowers should be folded in pairs (larger at the bottom and small at the top), pierced in the center with a pin and attached to a foam ball. Repeat until the entire surface of the foam sphere is covered with flowers. Then glue a loop and hang it on the tree.
Decor for the Christmas tree that children will certainly enjoy are cones with gifts. They are simple but exciting to make. From beautiful double-sided paper, such as origami paper, cut out an even circle, find its center and cut out a small wedge. We roll the resulting part into a cone shape and carefully glue it together. Using a hole punch, we make two holes on the sides opposite each other (they are needed to secure the thread).
The result was a cone with a handle for fastening, similar in shape to a fire bucket. The possibilities for decorating it are literally endless: lace around the edge, beads, sequins, openwork border and much more. You can put a small souvenir or candy inside and hang it on the Christmas tree! It should not be placed very high so that little guests can reach a treat or gift.
Paper New Year's heroes
One of the most simple jewelry New Year's room or apartment - paper garland. For New Year and Christmas it will be relevant to perform it in the form of angels, deer, snowmen, Santa Claus, a Christmas tree or snowflakes. The classic version is people holding hands. Very beautiful garlands come from colored and corrugated paper, but plain white is also suitable for angels and snowflakes.
We will need:
- paper of the selected color or white;
- scissors;
- pencil;
- glue.
We glue several sheets of paper together to get a long strip. The longer the strip, the longer the garland will be, but you should not make the strip too long - it will be difficult to cut out the shapes. Then we fold the paper strip like an accordion and draw the selected character on the top sheet (you can use a stencil). Next, we cut out the figure, but not completely, but leaving uncut areas at least 5 millimeters wide at the folds on the left and right.
Now all that remains is to unfold the accordion and secure the ends of the garland in the chosen place. And now angels are fluttering under the ceiling, their wings touching, or snowmen are dancing in a circle!
It is also easy to make unusual toys from paper strips, for example, a snowman. We cut 10 equal strips 15–20 centimeters long and 1–2 cm wide and lay them out in the shape of sun rays, and fasten them in the middle with a stapler. We collect the free ends in the same way and also fasten them with a staple or glue - we get a sphere. Let's make another smaller one - this will be the head of a snowman. We connect the parts and decorate to taste: glue eyes made of paper or beads, put on a hat or glue small paper mittens to the body of the snowman.
You can also make Santa Claus out of paper. To do this, you need to make a cone out of red cardboard - this will be the body of our hero. Then cut out two small ovals from white paper and glue them to the bottom of the cone - we get feet. Glue a circle of white or cream paper on top of the cone, draw or glue eyes, a nose, and a beard from strips of white paper curled with scissors. Next we add details: hands, buttons on a fur coat, a cap on the head.
So the main character of children's winter fairy tales is ready - Grandfather Frost.
Holiday snowflakes
New Year is primarily associated with snow. Decorate the room for New Year's holiday accepted by snowflakes. Decorating a window at home couldn’t be easier: cut out a snowflake stencil from a sheet of office paper, apply it to the window and sprinkle it with artificial snow. The stencil can be used several times; artificial snow can be easily washed off the window glass after the holidays.
A way to decorate a home, familiar from childhood and beloved by everyone, young and old.– cut out snowflakes from a napkin or thin paper. To do this, square sheets should be folded in half so that a triangle is formed. Repeat the manipulation two more times. Cut off the sharp top figuratively, and randomly cut out curved lines on the left and right, without cutting through the folds to the end. When unfolded, you get a fancy snowflake with a unique pattern.
Regular paper snowflake can easily be turned into something special when placed on a ballerina figurine template. Draw the silhouette of a dancer on an A4 sheet of paper and cut it out. A hole should be made in the center of the pre-made snowflake into which to thread the template. The result is a ballerina in a snowy openwork tutu!
If you hang it from the ceiling, it will rotate with every movement of air.
How to make a garland?
Making a New Year's garland is not at all difficult. For the simplest classic way you will need:
- colored paper;
- glue stick;
- ruler;
- regular pencil;
- scissors.
We cut the paper into strips 2 centimeters wide. We close the first strip into a ring and glue it together - we get the first link of the chain. We thread the next strip into the resulting link and glue it too. We carry out these simple steps in stages, alternating different colored strips until the chain reaches the desired length. We decorate the Christmas tree with the resulting garland.
Craftswomen involved in scrapbooking suggest diversifying the “old-fashioned method” by using modern tools for working with paper: cut the paper with curly scissors, and make snowflake-shaped holes in the strips with a special hole punch.
There is a second way. Using a color printer, we print Christmas prints on regular office paper. We cut out the rhombuses and fold them in half, resulting in triangular flags. Next, you need to pull a strong thin thread in the place where you would like to place the garland. We coat each diamond from the inside at the bend with glue and hang it on a thread - the garland is ready!
This is a great, quick and easy way to decorate an office space, but you can also use it for holiday decor in your apartment.
The third method is for ladies who love to sew. You will need:
- dense double sided paper with a pattern or just colored;
- sewing machine;
- threads;
- scissors.
We cut out the silhouettes of a New Year tree from paper (can be the same, or can be different). On sewing machine you need to set the largest stitch. We sew the first figure in the center. Without cutting the thread, we also sew the next Christmas tree in the center and continue this until the garland reaches the desired length. It turns out to be a very original and stylish decoration!
To make another type of garland, we will need:
- strong thread, equal to length garlands (you can also use fishing line or yarn for lint-free knitting);
- glue;
- thick colored paper or cardboard.
Using a hole punch or by hand, you should make a circle with a diameter of 5–7 centimeters from thick paper or thin cardboard. We bend each circle in half and put it on a thread, gluing the edges. We glue the next element in a similar way so that the semicircles are located close to each other. You can hang the garland!
The next idea for making a garland is fans! Fold the rectangular strip like an accordion, bend it in half and connect it with glue or a stapler - when unraveled, you get a semicircular fan. From two such fans we assemble a circle, glue them together, and make the required number of such fan circles. We connect the circles to each other with a stapler or attach them to a thread. Magic decoration can be used!
And another simple garland made of corrugated paper. To make it, we fold wide strips of corrugated paper and cut thin fringe on the sides. Twist the strip slightly in a spiral, and gently paper decoration ready!
No matter how old we are, the New Year remains for us a little fairy tale awaited by the whole world, a little hope for something new, white and clean, with a winter atmosphere, snowballs, the smell of tangerines and fireworks. To the bright, magical family holiday Every family begins to prepare in advance, planning guest lists for loved ones. Home decor, decorating and planning the Christmas tree, the symbol of the holiday, is an equally important activity in preparing for the upcoming holiday. A successful combination of New Year's decorations and a good mood are the key to the New Year's atmosphere in the house. By the way, if you don’t have a New Year’s tree yet, we know.
Many housewives prepare gifts and decorations with my own hands, and for this they will need a dose of inspiration and a box of time. If your plans are to decorate your home in an original, atmospheric and cozy way, then take on this important task right now.
Prepare a notebook and plan your actions, add sketches of future decorations, notes, a list of things you need to prepare, and then take out all the materials you have at home, and start immediately preparing the most original New Year's decorations for your home.
By the way, here are a couple of ideas that you can easily implement:
New Year's wreath: how to make a New Year's wreath with your own hands
To let your guests feel the New Year's atmosphere from the very threshold, decorate your front door with a wreath. It will be as easy as shelling pears to make, and you will need very little to create it: spruce or pine branches, pine cones, glue, and various satin ribbons.
You can easily create a base for a wreath from cardboard, foam rubber, and even a bent pine branch or thuja on a wire will be an excellent future Christmas wreath. Arrange cones of different sizes, add bright sequins, bows, small Christmas balls, bells, give free rein to your imagination, but most importantly, do not overdo it. And for the snowy effect of your wreath, cover it with silver spray paint; artificial snow has never been canceled. The finished wreath can be hung not only on the door, but also above the fireplace, above the door in rooms, on walls and shelves, even on windows: give passers-by an atmosphere of a holiday and a fairy tale.
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New Year tree: making Christmas tree decorations with your own hands
Whether you put up a real spruce or an artificial one, decorating the forest guest beautifully is probably the most important thing in preparing for the holidays. If you plan to focus on any color in your home decor (this year it’s red, brown, gold, but you can choose other colors), or you have a prepared style (country, retro) for decoration, choose in advance decorations, Christmas tree toys. An important point in the decoration of the Christmas tree is the direction in which the toys are placed. There are several ways to choose from: vertical, spiral and filling free branches. Try to arrange the toys evenly, do not cover them with a huge amount of rain and garlands, add lights, artificial snow or cotton wool. Don't forget to respect the symbol of the coming year by placing the rat figurine under the New Year's beauty.
An excellent idea for decorating a coniferous guest is a smooth flow of colors, placing christmas balls from one color to another, you will show not only your originality, but also your sense of style. This arrangement of toys is popular in high-tech style.
Spruce in the style of minimalism has also not been canceled, but nothing can replace bright, fluffy Christmas tree with a thousand sparkles and lights.
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DIY garland: decorate the house with New Year's garlands
An equally important attribute that brings a festive mood are bright New Year's garlands, they can also be made from scrap materials, the same pine cones of different sizes and a strong thread can turn into an original New Year's decoration that will look great on shelves, above the fireplace and on the window . You can decorate the cones as a carbon copy, or each one in a different way, for example, add shiny sprinkles of different colors to each cone. You can diversify the garland with candies, small balls, twigs or deer figurines.
Do you remember how to make a garland chain? Since the time primary school, you must remember that colored paper and glue can instantly turn into an attractive decoration. But try using satin, silk ribbons or braid instead of colored paper. A great decoration for an evergreen guest in the house!
You can always use old ones to decorate a new garland.
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Candles: DIY New Year's candle decor
Burning candles in New Year's Eve a symbol of warmth, and if you don’t have a fireplace, then a burning candle is an integral decor for the upcoming holiday.
Again, cones can become a beautiful candlestick if you cut out their tops, make room along the diameter of the candle, and decorate the remaining scales with sparkles.
What smell do you associate with the New Year? Spruce? Tangerines? Cinnamon! Of course, it is no less important; this spice can be added not only to New Year's cake. Try gluing the sides of the candles with cinnamon, you will be guaranteed a pleasant smell! Tie a bow or string around the candle, and don't forget some bright glitter or sprinkles.
Knitted muffs for candles can also be a cozy decor for a holiday; they can also be diversified with drawings or embroideries with deer, Christmas trees and other New Year's attributes, but be careful and do not forget about fire safety.
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New Year's socks for gifts
Craftswomen who are not afraid of thread and needle can easily sew New Year's socks in the American style, hanging them over the fireplace. Their original design(snowflakes, lace, frills, bright shades and varied shape) will attract the views of guests and add a fabulous atmosphere. Socks with pointed toes, shiny, with a border and frill, molded from different pieces of fabric, from circles and squares will become a bright decoration.
You can please your kids by putting treats in their socks or gifts from Santa Claus.
By the way, you can find templates for felt socks in this one.
Obviously, cutting out snowflakes and silhouettes from paper is one of the simplest home decorations. But what about origami made from colored paper? With a few folds and cuts, red, white and green sheets can be turned into balls, Christmas trees and other themed decorations with which you can decorate everything, right down to the tree itself.
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New Year's windows: decorating windows for the New Year with vytynankas
The Internet and printer will help you get beautiful silhouettes of Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, sleigh, Christmas tree or New Year's symbol.
This beautiful window decoration will never go out of date.
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You need to create a festive atmosphere not only inside the house, but also outside, so that everyone around you, even those who are not going to decorate the New Year tree, can feel the approach of the most fabulous night of the year! However, decorating the front door is a responsible matter. You can decorate from the outside or from the inside. By the way, you can use the most unexpected materials as decorative elements! How exactly to decorate is up to you. And we have collected the coolest ideas for you that you can use!
Not only a delicious New Year's table: New Year's table decor
You can decorate the New Year's table not only with tablecloths, napkins and beautiful dishes, candles and so on, although this is no less important. A decoration that will delight your visitors is New Year's leg warmers for the table. A huge advantage of New Year's leg warmers for the table is that unusual decoration will make the table silent. During the holiday it will have to be moved more than once.
You can look for such beauty in stores, or you can sew it yourself using bright threads and felt fabric. The shoes can be stuffed with foam rubber or cotton wool.
Speaking of tablecloths and napkins, napkins with New Year's drawings You can buy them in stores and embroider simple, uncomplicated patterns on fabric ones. For example, Christmas tree toy, a twig or wishes for the New Year. The same applies to tablecloths; store shelves are full of variety, but don’t be afraid to try to decorate the table decoration yourself.
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Of course, the most important thing on the New Year's table is a bottle of champagne. Raising glasses and sparkling wine to the chimes of the capital, desire, shine and good wishes. Decorating a boring bottle will add brightness to a small but important tradition. Multi-colored beads, sparkles, sequins, sprinkles and glue add variety to the main holiday drink.
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Chair decorations
No, no, you don’t need to change the decor and furniture for the holiday, it’s unaffordable! But a little change would not be bad. For example, the chairs on which guests will sit during the celebration. Hats on the backs can serve as an excellent decoration. Santa's hats will look very touching, and they are very simple to make, just cut out a couple of triangles and tie them on the backs. But don’t limit yourself, if you have time, then in addition to hats, you can try to make Christmas trees, gift boxes, deer, and so on. Your imagination will tell you where to stop.
Both tasty and beautiful: New Year's table decoration
Registration holiday dishes may play an equally important role. After all, it’s not every day that we pay attention to decorating our food, so on a holiday, food has the right to please not only the tummies of your guests, but also the eyes. Decorating even the simplest dishes, perhaps ones that have become boring after a year, can make them attractive and appetizing.
The New Year is wonderful not only with the opportunity to spend time with your loved ones, but also with the opportunity to enjoy the thrill of preparing for the holiday, creating the New Year's mood and comfort in your home with your own hands. This article presents ideas for DIY New Year's decorations that will help you easily and happily transform your home into the personification of fabulous coziness and get into the New Year's mood to the maximum.
To create a New Year's interior, it is not necessary to use ready-made and expensive store-bought toys. A little time, patience and good mood household members - and DIY New Year's interior decoration will appear in all its glory, even with the help of available materials at hand.
Craft ideas for creating a New Year's interior:
- Snowman from an ordinary can. To prepare it, you only need a jar, dry branches and unnecessary buttons. All this is easily glued to the jar using Moment glue. This New Year's accessory can serve as a piggy bank, a container for sweets, artificial snow, pine cones and much more that your imagination is capable of.
- Do simple Christmas tree decoration possible from regular bottles made of plastic. You can decorate the cut out bottoms of bottles using acrylic paints, as shown in the picture.
- To create funny penguins You will only need a few bottle bottoms, stacked one on top of the other, as in the picture. We also paint with acrylic paints.
- If you have peanuts in the house, you can make very simple and fun little people. For coloring we use a marker, paints, various beads and everything we want that is at hand.
- New Year's decoration made of multi-colored threads. To prepare it, you need to wrap the bent wire strong thread and glue it together. Then we wind several more colors of knitting threads along the diameter. The shape of the decoration can vary depending on desire: from a regular circle to the shape of a Christmas tree or a star.
- Snowflakes with wire beads. For this decoration, we fold several wires into the shape of a snowflake, pin beads on them and glue them together.
- Snowflakes made from cotton swabs. Make a ball from cotton wool or a cotton pad, roll it in glue and salt and attach it cotton swabs. You can take a regular ribbon for a snowflake and pin it to the ball with a pin.
- New Year's decoration made from bottles. First you need to clean the bottle of excess labels. You can paint the bottle in any color of your choice with spray paint, then dry it thoroughly and roll it in glue and salt. You can add decorations with cones, ribbons and other decorative elements.
DIY paper Christmas decorations
Paper is one of the most versatile and cheapest materials for handmade crafts, and the variety of decoration options can satisfy even the most demanding interior designer.
Paper garlands
- Cut strips of the desired width and length up to 15 cm from multi-colored paper
- We make rings from the strips and glue them along the edges, winding each next strip onto the already formed ring
Garland of stripes
- For this decoration, cut colored paper into thin strips.
- Sew all stripes in the center
- You can also make the shape of a square, triangle, circle
Garland in the form of a snake
- We glue cut colored paper of the same size together according to the photo instructions
paper ball
Print ready-made templates and cut out blanks for the ball. You need to cut with an oblique line, as in the photo instructions. We form a ball from the cut-out blanks.
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New Year's paper candles
New Year's decorations: DIY snowflakes
The most popular and easiest to prepare is decorating the interior with snowflakes cut out with your own hands from plain paper.
- To make them you need only two things: scissors and thin sheets of paper of the desired size.
- You can use stronger paper, but it will be much more difficult to cut when folded. If a child takes part in making the craft, it will be too much for him to cut out a snowflake.
- Ordinary napkins can also be an alternative to thin paper. different colors and thin fabrics. To make any snowflakes, a sheet of paper is usually folded the same way; they differ only in the shape of the cutting at the final stage.
How to fold a sheet of paper for snowflakes:
- Fold a sheet of paper into a triangle shape, trim the excess edges with scissors. When unfolded, the sheet should be in the shape of a square; if it is initially like this, this step is skipped.
- We fold the resulting triangle into an even smaller one at the far corners.
- Once again fold the triangle into an even smaller one.
- We make a blank from a triangle, as in the photo. We cut off the excess edges.
- On the resulting blank we draw contours with the pattern of snowflakes presented below. We make a cut along the drawn lines and unfold the finished snowflake.
DIY Christmas decorations “Snowflakes”: templates
DIY Christmas window decorations
You can also create a New Year's mood using a popular method - decorating windows to match the holiday style. In addition to the usual garlands hung on windows, there are many simple and affordable decoration options. Let's look at some of them.
Decoration in the form of paper snowflakes cut out
Schemes and stages of work on creating snowflakes are provided above. To glue a paper snowflake to a window, you need to lightly soap it on the fastening side, straighten all its edges and attach it to the glass.
You can form various compositions from snowflakes, for example, a Christmas tree:
Decorating windows with toothpaste and soap
To do this, we need regular toothpaste and a piece of foam rubber, rolled into a tube and secured with tape. Dip toothpaste into foam rubber and smear it on glass or mirror. You can draw anything: from Christmas tree branches to animals.
You can come up with drawings yourself or buy ready-made or cut-out paper stencils. After the paste has dried, make the contours of the image clear using a pencil.
Another method of decorating windows with toothpaste is snowflakes in negative image. To do this, glue a snowflake cut out of paper onto the window and wait until it dries. Dilute in a container toothpaste with water and using a toothbrush, spray it on the glass near the snowflake. After drying, remove the snowflake from the window.
Drawings on the window made with ordinary soap. To do this you need a little imagination, desire and creative inspiration.
Window decoration with New Year's toys and ribbons
We attach the balls to the window at the required length using threads or ready-made tapes. The length, number, shape of the balls can vary depending on your imagination and wishes.
Decorating with New Year's drawings using ready-made stencils
- Fill the purchased blank with a layer of PVA glue
- Waiting for it to dry out a little
- We remove it and hang it wet on the window.
Volumetric snowflakes can be made using purchased volumetric paint.
DIY Christmas window decorations: stencils
You can also decorate the window using stencils printed on A4. We cut out the finished images with scissors and glue them onto the window, moistened with soap or PVA glue.
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DIY street Christmas decorations
Residents of private houses have the opportunity to make it a reality winter's tale not only in the house, but also to create extraordinary comfort and New Year's mood by decorating it from the street. After all, returning after exhausting work or important tasks to a place where there is a festive mood already from the street is much more pleasant and fun.
- Funny snowmen made from wooden stumps
- Decoration with large bows. You can buy ready-made bows for holiday packaging, or you can make your own. These decorations will look great anywhere: on doors, stairs, fences, etc.
- Decorating trees with outdoor garlands. Multi-colored garlands can transform gray and dull trees without leaves into the personification of magic and celebration.
- Decorating the yard with Christmas tree branches. The Christmas tree is a symbol of the New Year. You can place Christmas tree branches anywhere, while also decorating them beautifully. You can also weave a wreath from them.
- Snowmen, snow castles. This method of decoration will not only give the yard a festive mood, but will also allow the whole family to have fun and useful time.
- Ready New Year's compositions with garlands
- Large decorations in the form of gift boxes
- New Year's wreaths made of pine cones, Christmas trees or threads
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DIY Christmas decorations from ribbons
Christmas tree made of ribbons using the kanzashi technique - will decorate perfectly New Year's interior, and can also find its place on festive table. This craft will definitely not go unnoticed, as satin ribbons reflect light very beautifully and brightly, creating romance and a fairy tale.
Required materials:
- Green satin ribbons up to 3 cm wide
- Scissors, matches
Manufacturing:
- First you need to make the petals for the bottom of the Christmas tree. They should be slightly larger in size than the top ones
- To do this, cut the satin ribbon into squares, then fold them into triangles
- Bend them a few more times
- Along the edges of the tape you need to burn it with fire so that the threads do not come out
- For the topmost petals, take a square piece and fold it horizontally. Fold each corner in the opposite direction. The number of petals depends on the volume of the selected cone for the Christmas tree.
- We fix the petals to the cone using a glue gun. Ready!
Ribbon ball decoration
Such a ball will be an excellent accessory for both windows and the Christmas tree, it will please the eyes of you and your guests and create a festive mood.
Required materials:
- Satin ribbons of different colors up to 3 cm wide
- Glue, threads, beads
- Ball as a base for decoration
Manufacturing:
- Cut out squares with a diameter of 3 cm from the ribbons and fold them into triangles.
- We attach the square to the ball with glue in the middle and edges.
- Fold the folded triangles in half again. We form the first layer from four blanks, folding them into squares, as in the instructions.
- The next layers should contain four elements. We fix each detail in the middle of the first row. We fasten the next part among the parts so that all the parts below are at the same level.
- Using similar instructions, we attach all subsequent layers of a different color. Before attaching the last layer, cover the free space with a piece of ribbon, as in the first stage. Fix all other layers.
- For the top we take a ribbon, collect it on a thread and tighten it. We attach the resulting part to the ball. We fix the suspension mount in the center.
Remember that no one else is capable of putting the holiday spirit into your head except you. The most affordable and proven way is to start carefully and happily preparing for the holiday with your whole family, creating New Year's decorations with your own hands for the home. Then the feeling of the upcoming holiday will fill your hearts especially brightly and create extraordinary sensations from the approaching winter fairy tale.
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