Decorative ornaments for the new year with their own hands. DIY Christmas decorations

New Year is a special holiday. And in the pre-New Year's turmoil, the second most powerful, after the desire to quickly sit down at the table, is the desire to make unique New Year's toys with your own hands. It is not customary to reckon with the expenses for the New Year; the holiday industry, we must pay tribute to it, strives to satisfy demand in every possible way and does not prescribe insane markups: the product is in demand, profit will be so. But the variety is so great that do not expect originality from the purchase, somewhere the same is still for sale. So I want something from my own hands and with a piece of my soul.

This article is a part, however, quite extensive, of the boundless sea: how to make and decorate Christmas decorations with your own hands. Let's touch on a very popular wreath on the door and styles of decorating the Christmas tree. Of course, there are more than enough New Year themes for home craftsmen with craftswomen and their little helpers: room decoration, holiday table, homemade Christmas tree, and much more. It is not difficult, for example, to make a lush and fragrant Christmas tree on your own, and living trees remain on the vine, and do not go under the axe. But you can’t immediately embrace the immensity like that. Therefore, for now, we will limit ourselves to Christmas tree decorations. But! Take a look at fig. Part, and most, of all these Christmas tree decorations are homemade. Including the bell at the top right next to the red apple. See? It used to be a glass of yogurt. Like? Then, as they say, you are here. We will do no worse.

The material is designed primarily for New Year's do-it-yourselfers who do not own complex technologies and do not have a home workshop at their disposal. To make the Christmas decorations described below, you will need scissors, an awl, a sharp knife with a thin blade (scalpel or mounting), thread, a sewing needle, nail clippers or side cutters, and tweezers or small pliers. Also - PVA glue, superglue (cyanoacrylate instant) and, in some cases, "Moment" or its analogues. For certain types of toys - some other small household tool or household utensils. What other materials will be needed, simple and affordable, we'll see along the way. All the work can be done on the table, covering it with a film or covering it with cardboard.

Miscellaneous tricks and tricky differences

No workflow is possible without the right technology. We don’t need workshops with robots, we need to make do with what is at hand. In order for homemade New Year's crafts to please both the hands at work and the eye ready, you need to learn a few simple ways to prepare blanks and materials for Christmas decorations and rules for their use.

Shine

Now, for some reason, almost everything shiny for the New Year is called glitter; in Russian - shine. Reading the manuals, sometimes, and with considerable personal experience, it is difficult to figure out what is meant: sequins, colored laminated paper, thin shiny plastic film, metallic paint, or some new product in general.

We'll start with the glitter; can't do without them. Sequins for Christmas decorations are inexpensive, but in the outback they may simply not be on sale. In this case, a manual noodle cutter (see the figure on the right) and a foil baking sleeve will help out. The noodle cutter needs to be manual; the powerful motor of the food processor does not feel the unusual material, and the nozzle will immediately become clogged, or even broken. Manually, the work goes well:

• From the roll, the sleeves are cut off with a knife, a part about 10-12 cm wide.
• Gradually unwinding the aluminum tape, pass it through the machine.
• Then, and it is possible in the course of work, if there is an assistant, they finely chop the “noodles” with scissors. The kids like it if there are not enough scissors for everyone, not far from the fight.

Instead of foil, you can also use glitter, which is a shiny colored plastic film. And another note: do not try to replace shredder assistants with mechanization in the form of a meat grinder. “Noodles” instead of sequins will turn into pellets, and you won’t clean the meat grinder later.

Toys usually “shine” by sprinkling a surface covered with dry PVA, varnish or paint. But you can “shine” with spots; if there are multi-colored sequins - multi-colored. To do this, a portion of the sequins is collected in a straw of the desired diameter, from a very thin one for juice to a hose under 2 cm in diameter for a smoothie or shrimp cocktail, and the desired area is gently blown with sequins. Having adapted to blow, you can also display patterns. In any case, to blow out the stripes (see. Fig.), Long training is not required.

colored varnish

Transparent colored varnish is prepared on the basis of nitro solvents 646, 647, etc. Dye - paste for ballpoint pens. OK. 50 ml of solvent is poured into a glass cup (in a ventilated room!), a writing tip is pulled out of the rod with pliers (carefully, do not get dirty!), And the paste is blown into the solvent. The tone of the paste is very dense, so more than 1 rod is unlikely to be needed. The finished varnish is poured into a vial with a gas-tight stopper and a lid. Pharmaceutical vials from hydrogen peroxide are well suited, they do not need to be washed. The glass (beaker) is washed from the remnants of varnish with the same solvent.

Blanks for balls

In shops and departments "Skillful Hands", "Everything for Creativity", art, and on New Year's Eve and in gift shops, foam and transparent plastic blanks for balls are sold. Transparent balls are most often filled with something colorful, see fig. on right. For decoration, it is better to take plain ready-made balls, they are cheaper and are sold everywhere. We'll see what we can do with them.

In the meantime, let's see where to get away from the centers with a large trade turnover and how to prepare very convenient foam balls for work, we will also deal with them for the Christmas tree. The first question is solved simply: there will surely be some kind of fishing and hunting shop within reach. And in it - cheap floats for fishing rods and nets from the same foam balls different sizes. Are they perforated? So what, it will be easier to attach the suspension loop.

However, the foam corrodes almost any paint and varnish. Almost the only thing that definitely does not spoil it is PVA. Here is PVA and you need to cover the foam blanks before letting them go further into work. Better - twice, with the complete drying of the 1st layer before applying the next. PVA film is quite resistant and will accept painting well.

Note: PVA is also desirable to process inflatable gel balls in those places where the pattern will be applied. And if it was drawn with a gel pen, then it would be nice to protect the drawing in the same way from accidental smearing with wet hands.

Papier mache

Sticky semi-liquid paper pulp - papier-mâché - is indispensable in the manufacture of New Year's toys in many cases: knobs are made from it, they mold the basis of funny faces, etc. Usually, for the preparation of papier-mâché, it is advised to take old newspapers, but due to the admixture of printing ink, the tone of the product then comes out dirty. For papier-mâché, it is better to buy clean white newsprint (not glued) paper at the stationery store. Cigarette and mica are no good! Papier-mâché is made like this:

1. The sheet is passed through a noodle cutter or finely cut with scissors.
2. Spread the trimmings in a glass, crushing tightly.
3. A full glass is poured with boiling water and left for 3 hours. Absorbed boiling water must be immediately topped up to the top of the settled paper!
4. The mass from the glass is poured into a bowl and kneaded until the dough or plasticine is thick, gradually adding PVA; should take about 2 tbsp. spoons of glue.
5. The finished papier-mâché is laid out in a jar with a tightly screwed lid; shelf life in a canned vegetable jar lasts up to 6 months.

old light bulbs

Burnt out incandescent light bulbs are an excellent basis for Christmas decorations. However, if you want to fill the flask with something (see Fig.) or cover it with transparent varnish, the question arises: how to separate the flask from the base, open and remove the stem with internal fittings?

The base is separated by boiling: the bulbs are placed in a saucepan with cold water, heated over low heat until a slight boil, and boiled for up to 10 minutes. The fallen off base will not fall to the bottom, it will hang on the wires. After the lamp has cooled down, they are bitten off with side cutters, the tips of scissors or manicure tongs, thrusting them deeper into the socket of the stem.

Next, an emery bar is placed in a large bowl or small basin and water is poured to cover it. Then with light pressure, smooth in a circular motion wash the side of the flask until the stem falls out; takes 1 lamp up to 5 min. The base, if needed, is glued back with superglue.

Note: you need to work with light bulbs in cotton household gloves, which are used, for example, when cutting fish. Glass is a dangerous material! The second important thing is that only incandescent lamps can be disassembled! In the light tubes of housekeepers - mercury vapor! A negligible amount, but still - mercury is mercury, it is not excreted from the body.

Salty dough

Excellent Christmas decorations can be made from salt dough, see fig. From its thin layers, figures are cut out with cookie stamps (pos. 1.2), cut out with a thin sharp knife by hand (pos. 3) or according to templates (pos. 4.5). Salt dough is not edible, but it will take any paint with varnishing very well and will allow you to cut very thin contours.

The composition and method of preparation are as follows:

• White wheat flour - 200 g.
• Fine table salt - 200 g.
• Refined sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. spoons.
• Water - 125 ml (a little more than half a glass).

Salt is mixed with flour, then butter is gradually added, kneading all the time. Then water is added also with continuous kneading until the consistency of clay or plasticine. Spread the mass in plastic bag, and put it in a jar with a tight lid and store it in the refrigerator in the vegetable compartment, up to six months.

In a layer 3-4 mm thick, the dough is rolled out with a round rolling pin. The cut figures are placed on a baking sheet, a sheet of tin, galvanized iron, etc., and dried on a radiator. It is impossible to dry quickly in the oven or just on the table without heating! Drying takes several days; completely dried figures are painted, painted with gel pens, varnished. They, with careful storage, will be enough for more than one New Year; salty dough- The material is strong enough.

Note: You can learn more about Christmas toys from dough from the video below:

Video: Christmas toys from dough

Decoupage

Decoupage, simply - decals - is widely used in New Year's decor. However, not everyone is suitable for Christmas toys. Christmas tree toys need to be decorated with plastic decoupage, which lies on curved surfaces without wrinkles. It can be distinguished (sellers do not always know what they are selling) from the usual one by its protective coating: in this case it is not a film, but a porous napkin. Moisturize and remove before use. The picture is superimposed on the base, unlike flat "translations", in the center, and carefully, in smooth circular motions, smooth to the edges. The best base- a slightly rough layer of PVA applied with a foam swab, or the same layer of white nitro paint.

Note: children decouple most accurately - their fingers have not yet become calloused.

Popcorn

Small popcorn glued with PVA or superglue can in many cases replace papier-mâché. It, like the latter, before use, it is desirable to process the PVA in the same way as the foam, and for the same purpose.

Christmas tree decorations

Snowflakes

The first and simplest way to decorate both the Christmas tree and the whole house is snowflakes. Probably everyone knows how to cut them; just in case, we give a diagram (fig. below) how to cut snowflakes with gaps in the rays.

However, in reality, water crystallizes in a hexagonal pattern, i.e. real snowflakes have 6 rays. Cutting them out in the same way will not work: if the sheet is folded three times, it will not turn into a snowflake, but six times - you get 12 rays. Therefore, if you do not feel sorry for the work of real snowflakes, we give a diagram of the crystallization of water, see fig. on right. It can be used to compose an uncountable set of figures, and for inspiration, or as samples for templates, in fig. below are photographs under a microscope of real snowflakes from a real snowfall. Is it true that human imagination is far from nature? Experts say that 2 identical snowflakes have not yet been seen.

A word about boxes...

Preparing for the New Year in advance, do not throw away small warranty boxes that are no longer guaranteed. They make excellent toys, see fig. Yes, and with surprises can be done. It is interesting then to observe what kind of barter negotiations the “high contracting parties” then start, having discovered that he got a baby doll, and she got a model car.

... about eggs ...

Also excellent toys come out of bird eggs, see fig. below. It is best to take goose or turkey eggs, they are large and strong. At the poles of the eggs, with a gypsy needle or awl, holes are carefully turned and the contents are blown into a cup or bowl; on an omelet or scrambled eggs, in dough, cream, etc. it suits well. And the shell is treated with PVA, like foam, painted, varnished, sprinkled with glitter, rag fragments are glued on, etc. The pink "bump" in the center, for example, is pasted over with dyed popcorn.

… and about nuts

One of the oldest types of Christmas decorations - wrapped in foil walnuts. The thread of the suspension loop was passed along the seam between the shells; now you can just glue it on. Neither is a hindrance to eating. Especially for this, the Nutcracker was placed under the Christmas tree, about which P. I. Tchaikovsky wrote ballet music, which was then used for the opera.

balls

Christmas balls - an immense world in the vast world of Christmas decorations. And in the vast world of Christmas balls there is an immense world of paper balls, if we consider the body of rotation in a smoothly curved surface and regular polyhedrons as a ball. We will deal with all this immensity in the immensity in the immensity now, remembering: everything should be within the power of the child, and in order to do it it was possible at home on the table.

From blanks

First, let's try to change the monotonous finished balls in our own way. The technique is simple, see pic:

1. We select plastic balls cheaper, with a matte dull surface;
2. We paint with white nitro paint;
3. After complete drying, we decouple;
4. Well, how? How much is this in the store? Under the New Year?

Note: and if you don’t feel sorry for the money for a glue gun, and there’s nowhere to put old beads, glass beads, artificial pearls, then here’s another option in the pic .:

Now let's get to the foam. Here the options are much more diverse, see fig. below. Pos. 1 - you will need a figured hole punch from the same craft store. If from the Internet, then order ahead of time; how parcels go on New Year's Eve is known. Next - pins with bead heads, pos. 2 and you're done. The suspension loop is fixed with a piece of a toothpick or a match and a drop of PVA.

Suddenly there is no curly stamp for paper, but there are pins and beads, it turns out a ball-colored hedgehog, pos. 3. Beads are strung on pins, and the tip of each, so that it sits tighter, is dipped before being stuck in PVA. And pos. four? Guess! Chupa Chups with sticks bitten obliquely (to make it easier to stick in). You can eat directly from the Christmas tree, if adults do not mind. Or quietly, on the other side.

For pos. 4 and 5 already require a glue gun and a workpiece protected by dried PVA. Finishing materials - cord and glass beads or artificial pearls.

From light bulbs

Light bulbs, as mentioned above, blanks for Christmas decorations are difficult, but grateful, see fig. Low-power lamps with a narrow “minion” base and a frosted embossed bulb, pos. one; it is considered that the finished balls. Light bulbs - "candles" are also not bad, but if you do not remove the stem, they must be immediately after painting / varnishing, until the paint / varnish has dried, sprinkle thickly with gloss, pos. 2. Burnt-out housekeepers of low power in double flasks-“cones” are made on purpose for the New Year: all that remains is to decouple, tie a loop on the base, close it with papier-mâché, and you’re done (pos. 3).

From ordinary light bulbs, you can also do a lot of New Year's things. The easiest way is to get penguins (pos. 4): here you don’t need to be able to draw at all. Barbosov-Shreks can also be made without art education - the shades on the background are broken through with a small foam rubber swab, and the line drawing is drawn with gel pens. In the same way, toys are created that require, in addition to talent, and sufficient skill, poses. 5 and 6. In general, a matter of taste and imagination.

Gossamer balls

Thread balls are all the rage right now, and in this case, she didn't go crazy. There are several varieties of them. The first one (pos. 1 in the figure) is an ordinary cheap ball, on which a plastic mesh is stretched, in which garlic and other trifles are packaged in supermarkets. Let's add another bow from the ribbon - already something. Just like the same cheap balls decorated with tulle or organza trimmings, pos. 2.

"Real" gossamer balls are made from glued colored threads, pos. 3, 4. It is best to take threads for satin stitch embroidery, but simple ones will also go with additional decor. The technique is simple: the thread is pulled through the PVA and immediately wound onto an inflatable template lubricated with petroleum jelly. After the glue dries, the template is blown off or simply pierced and removed.

For small Christmas balls-spider webs, the template can be inflated, perhaps, only from a medical fingertip: it has a roller that allows you to hold the workpiece against the lips when inflated; nothing will come out without a roller. Gel and latex balloons are not suitable: so that they do not slip under the thread, they need to be inflated to too large a size.

There are plenty of devices for pulling a thread through glue; one of the simplest ones is shown in Fig. The glass allows you to economically spend glue, and the tray does not let its excess onto the table. The glass is pierced with a needle and thread, glue is poured, pulled, wound. It is only necessary that the assistant hold the “broach”, otherwise, if the thread gets hooked, the glue can turn out onto the table, knees or chair upholstery. An alternative to the helper is a piece of double-sided tape, with which the tray is attached to the countertop. You need to wind dexterously, because. PVA impregnated thread dries quickly.

More about yarn balls

Beautiful thread balls can be made not only in the "spider" technique. The method of making one of the oldest Christmas tree decorations from threads - a pompom ball - is shown in fig. To pos. 5: cut the thread along the rim with a sharp knife or a safety razor blade. Pompom balls look especially impressive if the ends of the threads are tinted with silver, bronze or metallic paint in a contrasting color.

Paper balls and more

We now proceed to the immensity in the immensity - Christmas tree decorations made of paper. It's a whole big world; for example, masters modular origami they create creations from it that clearly confirm: paper is one of the most wonderful materials invented by man, see fig. But we will leave these difficulties for later, and let's deal with what can be done, as they say, with kondachka, and which also looks spectacular.

How to make a simple paper ball for a Christmas tree is shown in fig. Material - thick colored paper, PVA. It is not forbidden to paint, varnish, sprinkle with glitter. If the ball is made of glitter (laminated paper, plastic), you need to glue it with "Moment" or superglue.

Openwork

Next in terms of ease of manufacture, but not in appearance - openwork paper balls; of them, in addition to the Christmas tree, a magnificent decor of the room is obtained. The larger the openwork ball, the easier it is to make and the better it looks. The technique is simple, an example in Fig. deliberately very rough was chosen to show how tolerant the openwork balls are to the neglect of the material and flaws in the work:

1. Paper circles are quilted with a thread or (worse) sewn with a stapler in diameter. Their even or odd number is taken depending on the gluing scheme, see below;
2. They are glued together in pairs in a checkerboard pattern until the entire “book” closes into a ball;
3. A loop is glued;
4. The ball is decorated.

And now about what can be achieved from an openwork ball if you do it carefully, patiently and with understanding. First, the generating figure can be any body of revolution. The main thing is that the workpiece should be bilateral, i.e. its right and left halves should be mirror images of each other; quilt a stack of blanks along the axis of symmetry.

Secondly, the places of gluing must also be accurately marked on the “booklet”, by striking with handles along the edge of the foot. Handles - because the places of alternating gluing are marked with 2 different colors. And finally, you need to glue it carefully, putting a drop of glue on each joint. Squeeze to setting not with paper clips, but with your fingers through a plastic wrap. What can be achieved in this way is shown in Fig. on right.

Some stereometry...

Regular polyhedrons are often taken as the basis of a Christmas ball: they look great with skillful decor, and gluing them out of paper is easy if you know how. The very polyhedra suitable for the Christmas tree, without "impurities" of other flat figures, are made up of equilateral triangles and pentagons. Since not everyone knows the basics of stereometry and planimetry, we give their templates inscribed in circles, see fig. The segments (wings) of the circumcircles are not cut off, but are bent and glued together. The balls are glued with the wings out, and the plafonds of the lanterns are inward (see below, about garlands).

The simplest regular polyhedron is a tetrahedron, a trihedral pyramid. However, the ball, which is already a ball, is an octahedron: two 4-sided pyramids glued together with bases without bottoms. How to assemble it can be seen at the top in fig. Even more spectacular are the regular 20-sided triangles of the icosahedron and the regular 12-sided dodecahedron of 5-gons. Many ways of gluing icosahedron balls have been described; dodecahedrons are ignored for some reason. However, if there are templates inscribed in circles and printed in right size, it is easiest and most accurate to glue according to the patterns, below in fig. Coloring, decoration, of course - to your taste.

Note: regular 3- and 5-gons can be used to form polyhedra with any, up to infinity, number of sides.

… and topology

Curved, complex shapes are already dealt with by another science - topology. Not without its application to Christmas decorations. Most of the "topological" decorations, however, are quite difficult to make, so we give only 1, but a very beautiful ball that can be woven without special knowledge and experience. First you will need to print a pattern of blanks on colored paper (see Fig.) And cut them out.

The next step is the layout for gluing according to the template, see next. rice. It is better to draw the template yourself (radii - after 30 degrees), using a compass and a protractor, and a larger size so that you can make balls of different sizes. The sidewall blanks are laid out so that their spouts touch the center and the corresponding radius.

Then, on the center of the “octopus”, more precisely, the twelves, carefully, so as not to knock down the calculation, stick a circle, pos. 1 next. rice. In the same way, they glue the second centipede, turn it over, put the first one on it and intertwine the “tentacles”, pos. 2 and 3. As a result, a ball is obtained such as in pos. four.

Note: if the "centipedes" are assembled not in one color, but from blanks of alternating colors, then the finished ball will turn out not from rhombuses, but from spiral stripes.

hedgehog and vice versa

A compass with a protractor will also be needed in order to make a papillot ball. It is called so because its "horns" look like paper hair curlers, which curled the style of the past. In fact, this ball looks like a hedgehog. How to do it is shown in Fig:

• Cut out 10 circles and divide into 2 equal piles, 5 in each.
• The circles of each pile are cut along 8 radii at 45 degrees, pos. 1 in fig: 1st half, last 5/6 of the radius; intermediate - gradually increasing the depth of the incision. You need to cut accurately, so it’s better to immediately draw smaller circles on the circles - markers.
• The petals are folded into papillotte cones and glued along the seam.
• Each pile is folded in order of increasing incision depth, with the “needles” displaced along the circumference, pos. 3, and pull it together with a thread in the center so that the “needles” flutter.
• The two halves of the “hedgehog” are folded with their bottoms and finally pulled together with a thread, pos. four.
• The ball is painted, the ends of the needles are gilded, silvered, sprinkled with sparkles, etc.

Good balls on the same principle can be obtained in a simpler way. To do this, many papillots are folded from circles separately; better - from a silver or golden plastic film. The diameter of the blanks may be different. Then they are placed on the table and leveled in height, trimming the tips. The next step is gluing to the base (large bead, foam or ping-pong ball) with the points inward. It turns out a “hedgehog inside out”, or an anti-papillot ball, see fig. on right. Paper can still be decorated, but shiny is already good.

More paper

The basis of the next series of Christmas tree decorations is an accordion or a paper fan. A small part of what can be done from them is shown in Fig:

The craft on the top row will fit the old buttons and a little help from an ordinary clerical hole punch, and for the one below, you will need another scotch ring, etc. However, the ring can also be glued from several layers of paper on a mandrel from a bottle, can, etc. In this case, the mandrel must first be wrapped with plastic wrap so that the ring does not stick. And to make it easier to remove, the paper tape must be wound onto the mandrel not tight and closer to the bottom or neck.

Note: a ring with small additions and coloring will go on jewelry by itself, see fig. on right:

You can also stick Chinese lanterns from paper for the Christmas tree and for the whole house. This theme is also boundless in the boundless; for example, we give the simplest, see fig. below. Best of all, these look made of multi-colored glitter, which in this case is colored glossy paper or plastic film.

Cones, icicles, bells

Spruce and pine cones are often advised to be turned into Christmas decorations by painting and pendants, on the left in the figure:

But traditional New Year decorations made of cones look much more impressive: the edges of the scales are tinted with bronze or aluminum powder (silver) and a bow, beads or small balls are added, right there. Such decorations, in addition, according to all beliefs, are a full-fledged replacement for bells on a New Year's wreath, see below.

Good icicle toys are made from salt dough dyed with silver. The blanks are cut out of the layer straight or slightly swollen in the middle, with pointed ends, or in the form of a spearhead elongated in length. Then twisted into a spiral; hang to dry.

Bells other than plastic cups, obtained from small PET bottles, e.g. from ketchup. On fig. on the right - the original product, a blank for decoration from it and how the tongue of the bell is arranged. The “spindle” (thread for smoothing) is pulled through the dispensing spout of the cork and fixed with a standard cap. You can also pierce it with a needle, but the cap, as if on purpose, is made under a papier-mâché face. The whole body of the bell hangs freely on the top button. Of course, a bead would have gone better on a beater, but it was not at hand.

Garlands and beads

The simplest of the New Year's garlands - the so-called. English, see fig. She needs the same paper accordion. On it they draw, with some protrusion beyond the edges, the desired figure. First, internal holes are cut out with a scalpel (better) or a mounting knife. To tear the paper, at their corners and, with some intervals, at the sides, holes are punched with a hole punch, and jumpers are cut with a knife. Let's unfold the accordion - we get a tape like the one on the upper right in Fig. Below it are several patterns of stars suitable for an English garland.

The simplest of glued garlands is a chain of rings, at the top in fig. on right. But glued garlands of paper fans look much more magnificent, two poses. under it, double (interception in the middle of the accordion) and single. Fan garlands are best made from corrugated thin paper, and from dense - chain, two poses. at the bottom. It is clearly seen there that the blanks for them must be bilaterally symmetrical (bilateral). They are cut out from a sheet folded in half, this is like 1 element of an English garland.

Corrugated paper will also go well for "shaggy" garlands. How to do them is clear from pos. below: the roll is unwound, stretched (stretch), folded into an accordion stack (fold), then one side is cut with scissors along the corrugation to almost half (cut halfway through fold), turned over and the other side is also cut (flip + cut halfway on the other side). Then the accordion is unfolded and folded into a spiral. In order for the “corkscrew” to hold, you can, after securing its ends, sprinkle a little, literally a little, with water from a perfume spray bottle. It dries up and stays that way. But, if the water is transferred, it will spread.

There are also garlands strung. One of the simplest can be assembled from small ball-books like openwork, only without gluing the sheets. How is clear from Fig.

The strung quilling garland is also simple and effective, see next. rice.:

Christmas garlands, as you know, are luminous. Modern from microbulbs allow you to supply yourself with shades. The simplest ones are made from ping-pong balls: holes are turned with the tip of a knife and light bulbs are inserted inside. Fix by inserting a sliver or a piece of toothpick between the wires. This work is quite safe, unless the garlands are homemade for 220 V. Then - let the master manufacturer ennoble.

Very beautiful shades are obtained from polyhedral balls, but glued with wings inside. What for? And from the wings on the sides of the ceiling, bizarre shadows will fall from the inside. Finally, plafonds for a luminous garland can also be made using the classic origami technique. By the way, many Japanese do not recognize modular origami, with gluing elements, considering it an invention of armless Euro-Americans. Real origami, they say, should only be folded out of paper. How to make origami shades, shows fig. below.

Translation of explanations:

• Repeat on the opposite side - repeat on the opposite side.
• Repeat on the other 3 corners - repeat on the other 3 corners.
• Repeat steps 11-13 on remaining 3 flaps - repeat steps 11-13 on 3 flaps where required.
• Blow in the opening to inflate - inflate into the hole to inflate.

Christmas tree beads, which look like factory ones (on the left in the figure), can be made from aluminum foil, salt dough and colored plastic tubes.

First, the foil is cut into squares from 10x10 to 20x20 cm, depending on the desired size of the beads. Bead blanks are rolled into balls between the palms, on the right in fig. Next, circles with a diameter slightly larger than the size of the beads are cut out of the salt dough, they are wrapped around the workpieces and smoothed. The beads are dried on a newspaper, painted with bronze or silver, or colored metallic. It remains to string mixed with tubes, and you're done.

Rain and tinsel

The old-fashioned silver rain on the Christmas tree can be made on the same manual noodle cutter as the sequins, but you no longer need to shred the “noodles” with scissors. The rain will be less confused and will last longer if you put on it not a baking sleeve, but silver or gold, or just colored, shiny plastic.

But the “shaggy” home-made tinsel is made just from an aluminum baking sleeve, like a garland of corrugated paper. Then the ribbons twisted into a spiral will not unfold themselves. As for the tinsel-"sausage", it is still better to buy it. Without special equipment, long pieces cannot be made, thin strips interlock and stick together. You can make short cuts for the branches of a table tree, but this is another vast in the vast.

Wreath

New Year and Christmas wreath over the holiday New Year and older than any of the current reckoning. His lineage is lost in druidic antiquity; it is only known that the ancestor was made from mistletoe and holly branches with red berries, and the meaning of the wreath of the Druids was such that it would not be said by night.

In Russia, the New Year is celebrated relatively recently. Before Peter the Great, the years were counted “from the creation of the world” (now, according to the Orthodox Slavic calendar, 7524 JS, there is also the Orthodox Byzantine; according to the Hebrew - 5775. In what.); the beginning of the new year fell on March 1st and this day was not distinguished by anything special. For the first time, by decree of Peter, "with great noise and revelry" and "decorations from branches and trees of pine, spruce and juniper", was celebrated on January 1, the year 1700 from the Nativity of Christ.

The Christmas wreath entered the festive life of Russia just a few years ago. None of the world religions attaches sacred significance to the branches of coniferous trees; all the beliefs associated with the New Year's wreath are pure folk art. In general, it is believed that the wreath should contain small red balls (a hint of holly berries), and it should be crowned with a bow with bells, see fig. above. 2 bells - for the family, 1 - for bachelors and unmarried people (who, nevertheless, can celebrate the New Year by no means and by no means alone); a couple of different sizes - for divorced and single mothers.

All this, of course, is pure convention. From what only New Year's wreaths are not made, see fig. below. The use of a wreath is not forbidden and in the most frivolous way, see fig. on the left above, and the goblin with kikimors of swamp actions seem to be not satisfied with it.

As for a real wreath-amulet and a talisman, it is not difficult to make it with your own hands: spruce branches, natural or artificial, cones, wire frame, balls, bells, bow, and - go ahead, see fig.:

Learn more about how to make a wreath spruce branches- in the video below:

Video: a wreath of cones and spruce branches

If the wreath is large, with many symbols of abundance and happiness, then a light frame may not be enough, and the blank is needed more impressive. In such a case, see the video:

Video: blanks for New Year's wreaths

An original and popular craft for the New Year is a wreath of pine cones. It is also easy to make, see next. rice. Tinted cones are provided with loops, pos. 1. For this, special sets are also sold, pos. 2, but you can get by with clips bitten by side cutters. The holes under their legs are pricked with an awl, and, having inserted a loop, superglue is dripped under them. It remains to string on a cord or wire, pos. 3, roll the thread into a ring, pos. 4 and decorate the wreath with a bow, pos. 5.

About Christmas Tree Styles

Designers, of course, do not pass by a decorated Christmas tree. But with the style here is a complete mess. Obviously, the same style is called each in its own way, or exactly different - by the same name. However, there is still something in common; especially for small artificial Christmas trees on a conical base. They are very thick, so they decorate them in a minimalist style: 3-4 types of toys of approximately the same size. The canons of style do not concern decorations, they can be arbitrarily pretentious. There are 2 trends in Christmas tree minimalism: “warm”, in fig. on the left, and "cold", in the same place on the right. The choice of one or the other is determined by the general style of the room; finally, just the taste of the owner or customer.

Decorations for the new year: snowman

You will need:

Large and small foam balls

toothpicks

PVA glue

Styrene foam (you can salt or other small white granules)

pins

1. Take a small ball and insert a toothpick into it.

2. Cover the ball with glue.

3. Dip the balloon in a container of styrene foam or salt and leave to dry.

4. Insert two pins that will act as eyes.

5. Repeat steps 1-3 for the large balloon.

6. Insert three red pins into the large balloon. Which will play the role of buttons.

7. Using a toothpick, connect the balls.

8. You can use ribbon to tie a scarf for the snowman.

How to make decoration for the new year: deer

You will need:

brown yarn

Any red berry or button (for spout)

Small branches from a tree or bush

Pieces of felt (white and brown)

Decorative light bulbs or other decorations for the toy

PVA glue or hot glue

pins

Styrofoam ball or small ball (tennis)

1. Tie a ball or small ball with brown yarn.

2. Glue a red berry or button on the place where you want to make a nose.

3. Glue two small branches to the ball, which will play the role of horns.

4. Cut out circles from white and brown felt - large white and small brown.

5. Glue white circles in place of the eyes, and brown over white circles in place of the pupils.

6. Wrap the toy with a decorative garland or tinsel. You can secure the decoration by tying it to the horns.

Decoration ideas for the new year: Christmas ball of beads and beads

You will need:

Styrofoam ball

Beads and beads

wire cutters

Fine wire or pins

PVA glue

1. Put a large bead on a piece of wire or on a pin, and a small bead on top of it.

* The length of the free part of the pin after this should be long enough to insert the pin into the ball and keep it firmly.

2. Before inserting the pin into the ball, apply a little glue to the tip of the pin.

3. Cover the ball with similar blanks, and you will get a beautiful Christmas decoration.

4. You can add a ribbon that can be secured with a pin threaded through it - this will allow you to hang the toy on the tree.

Christmas tree decoration: Christmas ball decorated with handprints

You will need:

Simple christmas ball(no picture) - glass or plastic

White acrylic paint

tassel

Markers (felt-tip pens)

Decorations to taste (sequins, tinsel, etc.)

1. Carefully paint your children's hands with white acrylic paint.

2. Let the children carefully take the balls with the colored handles. Do not move your fingers so as not to smear the print.

3. Use markers to complete the drawing. Add a scarf, hat, buttons, spout, handles.

4. Write your child's name and age on each balloon.

Now the toy can be hung on the Christmas tree.

Decorations for the new year (photo): cardboard snowflake and rhinestones

You will need:

Cardboard cylinder from toilet paper or paper towels

PVA glue or superglue

Hole puncher

Jewelry (rhinestones, sequins, etc.)

1. Press down on the cardboard cylinder to make it flatter and cut out several rings of the same width.

* It is better if you measure the distance between future strips with a ruler before cutting.

2. Arrange the rings the way you want them to look and start gluing them one by one.

3. Add the decorations you want to make the snowflake even more beautiful.

4. Make a hole anywhere on the snowflake and thread a ribbon through it so that the toy can be hung on the Christmas tree.

Decorations for the New Year from paper: a snowflake from old postcards

You will need:

old postcards

Scissors

stapler

PVA glue

Decorations

1. Collect all your old New Year cards and cut them into equal strips (same length and width) to make the snowflake symmetrical.

* The number of stripes depends on the snowflake you want to make - it can be an even number or an odd number. In this example, there are 16.

2. Divide the strips into groups, depending on the color scheme.

3. Connect the ends of each strip and secure them with a stapler. In the image you can see that the red stripes are bent in three places - in the middle, on the left and on the right at a distance of 1-2 cm. This is a little more difficult to do, but the snowflake will have more diverse rays.

* You can first connect several strips into one group (in this example there are 4 of them) and then connect all the groups (since 16 strips are used in the example, 4 in a group, which means there will be 4 groups). Then all 4 groups are simply connected together with glue.

4. You can decorate the snowflake with rhinestones by adding some glue and placing the decoration on it.

5. Add some ribbon so the snowflake can be hung on the Christmas tree.

New Year's ball and its decoration with your own hands

You will need:

Glass or plastic Christmas ball without a pattern

Scissors

Rhinestones (optional)

PVA glue

1. Cut a sheet of felt into thin strips.

2. Put the strips into the ball.

3. If desired, you can glue the rhinestone to the ball.

4. Tie another ribbon around the balloon (you can attach it to the balloon with glue) and tie a bow.

5. For a felt hat, you need to make a small cone. Check out our article:How to make a cone- by the same principle, a cone can be made from felt. You can also glue the hat to the balloon.

DIY Christmas tree decorations: New Year's deer from wine corks

You will need:

Several wine corks (can be purchased separately)

toothpicks

PVA glue or superglue

Toy (plastic) eyes

Brown fine brushes or thin wire

wire cutters

Pompoms, plasticine or crumpled threads

Jewelry (bell, button)

1. Prepare corks. The four pieces that will serve as the paws of the deer must be cut off on the sides so that they are narrower. It is worth noting that these corks are sold separately and in different sizes - so they do not have to be cut.

2. Use one cork as the body and glue four narrow corks to it.

3. Take another cork. You can also reduce it a little in diameter (but not necessarily) - this will be the head of a deer.

4. Use a toothpick to connect the head and torso. If necessary, you can shorten the toothpick so that the neck is not too long.

* You may need to make holes in the plugs with a separate toothpick in advance and only then connect the head and torso.

* If you don't want to make holes in corks, you can use superglue and a match - break off about 3/4 of the match and put on it superglue the ends, then glue the match to the head and body of the deer.

5. You can make a nose out of a small pom-pom and glue it. Instead of a pompom, you can use plasticine or crumpled thread.

6. Glue the toy eyes.

7. From a thin brown brush or wire, make horns - for this, you need to cut them with wire cutters into several pieces of the same length. Use superglue to glue the horns to the head.

8. Add decorations - hang a bell or a button.

9. You can add string to hang the toy on the Christmas tree, for example.

Decoration for the new year in kindergarten: bright Christmas tree decorations made of foil

You will need:

Felt pens (markers)

PVA glue

Glue stick

Thread or braid (to hang the toy)

1. Cut out the shape of a future Christmas tree toy from cardboard.

2. Prepare a sheet of foil and fold it into one thin strip. Secure the strip with glue.

3. Make several of these strips.

4. Use markers to color the strips in different colors and leave to dry.

5. Cut each strip into small squares.

6. Start gluing the squares to the cardboard form.

* Make some toys of different shapes.

7. Glue a ribbon or thread to hang toys on the Christmas tree.

A universal selection of gift ideas for every occasion and occasion. Surprise your friends and loved ones! ;)

Hello everyone. It's no secret that it is often more pleasant to be in a beautifully cleaned room than in it in its usual state. That is why in this article I will tell you about DIY Christmas decorations that will be relevant in 2020 and beyond.

Everyone knows the classic decorations for this holiday - garlands, balls, etc. But today we will plunge into the world of original solutions for this case.

DIY Christmas decorations for 2020: 100 simple ideas

If you want to properly prepare for the New Year, then for this occasion I have prepared 100 interesting ideas, which can easily be done very quickly, but also use the most affordable materials.

What and how to decorate

As a bonus, I will give you a plan for decorating. It sounds scary, but it doesn't mean anything terrible at all.

This is the order I suggest:

1. Doors. Classics of the genre - Christmas wreaths. But in Russia, this is more of an adopted American tradition than a traditional New Year's decoration. In this case, you can decorate the door handles with pieces of garlands and lay out interesting patterns using them.
2. Window. Garlands on them, of course, can also be attached. But it is better to purchase special stickers for windows, or cut out traditional snowflakes by gluing them on soap. You can also make so-called vytynanka from paper - beautiful patterns and paper figurines (snowflakes are a subspecies of this ancient Slavic art form). They can also be used for cabinets, especially with glass inserts.
3. Other passages and transitions. Once upon a time, curtains in transitions were popular, forming an air cascade of threads. Here and on New Year you can remember this good old fashion trend and make a kind of rain - hang a few garlands or threads with flowers, animals, toys, made by yourself or purchased.
4. Walls. It is impossible not to remember them) Of course, the garlands will serve well here too.
5. Ceiling. We also include chandeliers.

Decorations for the New Year from paper: master classes and photos

The first material for creating decorations for the New Year is, of course, paper and cardboard. After all, they are in every home, and it is quite simple to acquire an additional volume of this pliable material.

Paper decorations for windows with templates

Various types of window decorations are very popular in paper winter creativity. In the coming year, its symbol, the White Metal Rat, will play a special role. To decorate windows with these animals, I suggest you look at these patterns.

Want to bring good luck to your home? Cut out rats from white paper and add silver sparkles.

Here are the templates for the rest of the protrusions (namely, this is the name of window-winter paper art). Among them you will find snowmen, bluebells, snow-covered expanses with fir trees and much more. Cut with pleasure!

Paper cubes-boxes with Santa, Christmas tree and snowman

In fact, there will be even more of these original and creative cubes! Along with them, you will find little elves and a reindeer from Santa's cart. In these you can put small surprises for children or use as an independent decoration of the apartment.

Here is such a cheerful Santa.

Reindeer Rudolph, without which Santa Claus is nowhere.

Snowman looking forward to the New Year.

Decorated Christmas tree.

And finally, the elves helpers - three kind kids.

These boxes were created by a wonderful girl under the nickname hello happycrafts. Thanks to it, you can download the scans of these holiday boxes in a large extension, which will allow you to experiment with the sizes of the finished decorations:

Download box scans

Of course, it is best to print them on a color printer, and then cut them out. But if this is not possible, then you can stick elements of colored paper on a black and white printed scan.

Other paper and cardboard interior decorations

If you have heavy metallic cardboard, some rhinestones, glue and ribbon, then create a deer pendant as shown below. The laconic design will appeal to those who do not like the abundance of details.

To make a whole interior composition, stock up on several deer of different colors and sizes. Fix them with zaponlak (in case of absence - PVA), sprinkle with sparkles.

From the same series patterned new year star. You can cut out both decorations if you save each of the options to yourself, and then print.

It is easy to make a fascinating garland out of cardboard. To do this, you just need to cut a few hundred circles and sew them on a sewing machine, connecting them in series.

If there is no typewriter or there is no confidence in the result, then slowly glue the circles to the thread to get the same garland as below. As a hanging ribbon, use a satin ribbon or a regular cord.

Another version of the garland with stars. The do-it-yourself technology is exactly the same as the first one.

A few snowflakes made using the quilling technique can complement the garlands. With such it will be easy to decorate not only the room, but also the school, classes. You can even devote a couple of labor lessons to the creation of such snowflakes. primary school! After all, you only need to twist strips of paper, sometimes squeezing the edge, and glue them together.

Don't know how to bake Chinese fortune cookies, but really want to try your luck? Make them look like double-sided cardboard or thick paper. You only need to cut out a circle and fold it in a special way, putting a wish or prediction inside.

A small crepe paper decoration can be made by folding three green and red rhombuses into an accordion, and then connecting them with a ribbon.

If you want to make street lanterns, then I offer two options at once.

In the first of them you will need to fold the box using the origami technique. Such boxes can then be placed on a diode garland, creating an unusual diffused glow effect.

Fans of the exotic are waiting for the Chinese New Year's lantern. For him, prepare red and gold cardboard, floss threads, a gold marker and scissors with glue. Cut out the blank, as shown in the photo below. Circle the edges with a marker, make a floss tassel and gold cardboard cylinders on top and bottom of the lamp.

Such lanterns will decorate your garden or private house, becoming a highlight in the holiday decoration.

We decorate the house, kindergarten and school

You can decorate the room for the holiday with the most different ways, starting with a wreath on the door and ending with snowmen from cans with a variety of contents.

Made of felt and fabric

The most durable jewelry is obtained from these materials. Decorate the door with a winter wreath. It can be made from a base ring, terry yarn and felt elements chosen to your taste. Felt wreath details below:

• three oak leaves
• birdie,
• three double flowers
• three snowflakes,
• cat,
• additional accessories: snowflake sequins, satin ribbon, buttons, feathers, artificial twigs.

Funny deer made of fabric will turn out to be much more attractive if their legs and horns are made from twigs wrapped in threads.

When we talk about New Year's toys, we think only about Christmas toys. But these photo ideas are actually cute winter toys. Deer, bear cubs and penguin are made of fleece.

Insanely simple Christmas tree, the patterns of which can be removed directly from the photo. This can be sewn in just a couple of hours, and in a couple of days you can fill up the whole house with plush Christmas trees! Decorate it with braid, embroidery, buttons, rhinestones and more.

Burlap angels are even easier to make, they literally consist of two parts sewn together. It turns out interesting decorations in the "rustic" style, especially if you add natural material as a decor (dried leaves, flowers, etc.).

Launching satin ribbons

A very large number of New Year's decorations of a very different plan are created from ribbons. And both as an additional element, and in the main role.

The next option is suitable both for decorating a doorway and as an independent decoration (in case you have a large photo frame). You will need satin ribbons and empty transparent balloons that you can fill with whatever you like. The frame can be painted to enhance the festive effect.

The next wreath is suitable for both home and office space. In the latter case, you can choose a muted range of colors. To make one yourself, take two colors of satin ribbons and then follow the simple step below.

A small stylish Christmas tree that can be used as a hanging decoration in the car. A thick cord is taken as the basis, onto which ribbons are alternately tied.

For another Christmas tree, beads are also used. Lay the tape in loops, interspersed with beads and do not forget to put the entire structure on the thread.

Experimenting with other materials

Home decor knows no mercy! If you have a little imagination and patience, then the most unexpected masterpieces can be born.

To create such snowmen, you will need several jars (preferably plastic), which you can fill as you wish.

Do not connect banks to each other. Fill the snowmen with treats and stack one on top of the other. Now from such compositions you can help yourself.

Create snowflakes from plastic cans. Cut off the bottoms of a few pieces and paint them with acrylic paints. At the base, make fasteners so that these decorations can be hung above the windowsill or under the ceiling, or hung on a cardboard frame to get a Christmas tree.

From a wooden blank, you can quickly make an interesting decoration in the form of a snowflake by painting the tree with acrylic paints.

Crafts with embroidered elements always look unusual. To make the decorations below, you will need a plastic canvas that can be covered with a felt insert at the back. The scheme is easy to remove from the photo.

To create a ball with buttons, take a foam blank and all the decorative elements. Make a loop out of the string and glue everything else.

Beads and wire are great companions. With the help of them, with your own hands, you can create seemingly simple, but such cute pendants with which you can decorate windows and, in general, the entire space of the apartment. It is easy to make them - put on a piece of wire a sufficient amount of beads of the desired colors and bend into the desired shape.

An original idea for exotic lovers - a winter-style dream catcher.

Christmas tree decoration

Again, you don't need any special materials. As they say, everything that is at hand (well, maybe a little more).

Christmas balls

It turns out that Christmas decorations like a ball can be made from a large number different components. For example, take a foam base and attach sequins to it with small pins.

Or finally get rid of the annoying disks and split them into many small parts, which are then glued to a transparent plastic base.

A ball of foil and cardboard also looks interesting.

Take a closer look at the New Year's ball of pompoms.

Without textiles, nowhere - it is easy to create a masterpiece from it with the help of simple patterns.

Plastic balls - a huge scope for creative imagination. They can be covered with a thread frame or sprinkled with sparkles or sequins.

I'll show you how to make a Christmas tree with your own hands - there are not many of them for the New Year.

Take the mesh, PVA glue, paper, pins and glowing garlands. Make a paper cone. Soak the mesh in glue and wrap this cone, securing the mesh with pins. Wait until dry, pull out the paper base. Everything, you can light inside the garland

For light bulb penguins, prepare old light bulbs, eyelet tape, acrylic paint, and a pencil to draw the outlines for this.

In general, all you need to do is paint the bulbs as you wish, attach loops and additionally decorate with various sequins, knitted and sewn elements, rhinestones, etc. Ready

The only negative of this idea is the need to get light bulbs somewhere.

Stars, stars

Prepare for the star thick paper, glitter (available in woven), tape for fastening and PVA glue. All you need to do is cut out a star, apply glue to it, attach a ribbon loop and sprinkle with sparkles.

What could be more pleasant on New Year's Eve (except for receiving gifts, of course) than to congratulate your relatives and friends beautifully? To do this, prepare felt, a base stick, glue, sequins, synthetic winterizer and threads with a needle. For wishes - beautiful paper and a pen.

Cut out two stars, from one of which cut off the edge. Sew a star along the edge, without sewing up the cut edge, stuff it. Decorate with sequins. Insert the rolled-up wishes into the hole left. Sew a stick at the bottom, sew up the hole.

Another variation of the star is from tree branches.

Macaroni will also serve as an excellent material.

And thread options.

We take another basis

Felt will help you create the most fabulous decoration. To do this, cut out the animals according to the pattern, which you can take from the photo, and sew along the edge.

If the feathers are covered in sparkles, you will get a cool decoration that is easy to hang anywhere in the apartment by a thread tied to the base.

A few more ideas for your creativity.

Decorations for the New Year's table

Of course, I also did not forget about the table for the New Year. Here are some ideas for you as well.

To do this, prepare a tin can, double-strand braid and braid with roses. Pins, glue and additional decorative embellishments will also come in handy. Wrap the jar with ribbons, fasten. Decorate with a bow.

To create a Christmas tree, you will need several woven or paper napkins. All that is required is to fold the napkins in four and fold them in accordance with the photo.

For decoration-candles, take simple candles and sequins. Sprinkle sequins in a candle, you can melt it a little for this.

For lamps from balls, a well-known technology is used by many. For her, you will need an inflated balloon, PVA glue and threads (preferably thick ones).

Draw a circle on the ball in the tip area (you will need it for the hole). Gradually wrap the ball with threads soaked in glue without closing the hole. When the structure is dry, pop the balloon and remove it.

Even More Ideas New Year's crafts you can find in this article.

Food is the main decoration of the festive table. She can become cakes with winter patterns.

If you prepare a New Year's cake in the form of a big gift, then there will definitely be no limit to the joy and surprise of the guests.

Snowmen and cookie ornaments can be both decorations for a spruce tree and a festive table.

Small cakes with the simplest winter pattern - what could be better?

Christmas tree can be delicious too! If it is from macaroons or cookies)

A separate topic is New Year's champagne. You can decorate it indefinitely, but I will show you three cool options: with sweaters, satin ribbon and sequins.

Thank you for your attention! See you soon, friends! Welcome New Year 2020 to the fullest!

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Sincerely, Anastasia Skoreva

The time of miracles, magic, unexpected surprises and expected gifts is the New Year. Preparing for it gives you the opportunity to be a bit of a wizard. With your own hands, turn the house into a fairy-tale palace, the home of Mother Winter or the halls of the Snow Queen.

What is needed for this? Available materials, the desire to create, perseverance and patience, a rich imagination and a little ... New Year's magic. Preparations for the holiday begins, it's time to get to work!

Magical secrets and little tricks of home decoration for the New Year

Before you start decorating your home for the upcoming winter holidays, you need to think through all the details and little things. They create a unique charm and new Year mood. No corner of the house should be forgotten.

Particular attention should be paid to the color scheme and the choice of a single style, idea. All elements of decoration should be in harmony with each other, create and maintain the chosen style, a special atmosphere of winter holidays.

Consider the interests and tastes of your household. They are different, you have to find compromises.

For kids' rooms, you can choose funny decorations, "settle" fairy-tale characters, heroes of New Year's cartoons to them. The bright colors will appeal to children.

living room where New Year's table the whole family will gather, it should be not only beautiful, but also comfortable, cozy. For serving a festive table, napkins with themed pictures, a beautiful tablecloth, plates and glasses with New Year's ornaments will be appropriate.

Compositions of coniferous twigs, candles, cones will complement the table setting. Near the appliances you can put small surprises and gifts for your family and friends.

Citrus fruits can be used as candlesticks: lemons, oranges, tangerines.

The kitchen, where New Year's treats will be prepared, also deserves attention: gingerbread houses, compositions of tangerines and apples, bright poinsettia flowers.

Oriental aromas will fill the kitchen if festive candlesticks are made from cinnamon sticks.

The front door is where the homemade New Year fairy tale begins: traditional Christmas wreaths, twinkling garlands, animal figurines.

Decorating windows and window sills is back in vogue - movable modules, carved figures, paint drawings.

Involve your children, spouses, grandparents in the creativity. Creating New Year's compositions is a laborious task, extra hands will not hurt. Joint creativity will not only bring joy to everyone, but also unite the family, give the opportunity to all household members to be together.

If you have never done needlework, do not despair - choose a simpler jewelry option. Mastery comes with practice. If you want to change the composition, peeped on the Internet, feel free to do it. A little improvisation, a little imagination - and you will get an author's decoration.

The most interesting spectacular and creative decorations can be made from simple and affordable materials: paper, cones, twigs, fabric, felt. Preparing for the holiday, making jewelry takes time. Don't put everything off until the last day. New Year's chores should bring joy.

cutouts

The cut-out (vytynyanka) technique has been known for a very long time, but over the past few years it has been experiencing a rebirth. Cuttings are easy to make, the technique is quite simple. The result exceeds all expectations - on the window panes bloom Frost patterns, cartoon characters, fairy tales appear.

You can make modules from cut out figures. Volumetric snowflakes, lanterns, Christmas toys made of paper sway, turn from the slightest movement of air. You can cut out a whole city or a snow-covered forest from thick paper. Lighting brings the composition to life. I want to look into the windows or under the Christmas tree, to see who lives there. And come up with magic New Year's fairy tale.

Lamps, lamps, floor lamps can become magical and change their appearance. Any pattern and plot can be cut out of paper. You can turn the most ordinary glass jar into a lamp.

Christmas toys-cuttings openwork patterns decorate the Christmas beauty. Handmade toys create a special atmosphere.

Any New Year's picture you like can be turned into a template for cutting out on your own. To do this, you need to enlarge the picture using any graphic editor, transfer it to a worksheet using carbon paper. Good for cutting stationery knives. In order not to cut the table, use special rugs.

The advantages of cuttings are the availability of materials and the simplicity of the technique itself. To perform complex compositions will require patience and perseverance.

Christmas garlands

Garlands for home decoration are the most popular option. Store-bought and self-made, electric and natural materials. Paper, fabric, tinsel and glass toys, traditional and original - the choice is huge.

With electric garlands, you can decorate not only the Christmas tree, but also the facade, windows of the house, stairs, entrance and room doors, and a mantelpiece.

Compositions with LED garlands are not difficult to create. Glass flowerpots of simple or complex shapes are suitable for them. Ordinary glass jars or bottles can be used to create original lamps. Experiments with the shape of cans and bottles, with color and light, give a great result.

Christmas tree from electric garlands? Unusual, but very beautiful. You can attach it using transparent tape or buttons with a wide hat.

The usual interior becomes mysterious, mysterious, when garlands are lit in the houses. The most ordinary things become magical. The lights, reflected in the old mirror, beckon to a New Year's fairy tale.

The most ordinary garland can be made original. A little imagination, glass Christmas balls - and the decoration for the windows is ready.

LED garlands go well with paper or fabric garlands. Made by hand, they fill the house with warmth and love. Ordinary paper snowflakes strung on a string turn a room into a winter home of Blizzard or Snowstorm.

Multi-colored Christmas trees, golden stars, white circles, snowmen, penguins, mittens, socks - any New Year's figurines are suitable for a garland.

Fabric or felt garlands are plain, but so warm and homely. Christmas gingerbread and candies, gingerbread houses and a Christmas deer, a bearded Santa - making figures for a garland is easy. They can be voluminous and simple. Bright figurines made of felt will original decoration New Year's table or a good gift guests.

The most creative New Year decorations are learned from natural materials. Apples, citrus fruits, nuts, cones - the basis for garlands.

Variations New Year's decor incredibly many. Choose what will bring you and your loved ones joy, a sense of a magical holiday. Remember comfort and safety.

Unusual Christmas tree options

Who said that the Christmas tree in the house should be one? There are not many trees. Surprise your family and friends with handmade Christmas trees. Funny and elegant, small and not very. From what you can make an unusual Christmas tree: from books and cookies, pasta and paper, from pillows and logs, cones and Christmas tree tinsel.

The most "smart" Christmas tree will come from books. An option suitable for students is affordable and inexpensive, easy to make, quick to disassemble.

Multi-colored buttons of different diameters are needed to make a button Christmas tree. Buttons look like Christmas decorations - round, bright, shiny.

The coffee tree is the perfect decoration for the kitchen. Coffee beans will fill it with the aroma of roasted and freshly ground coffee.

A gingerbread tree is not only a decoration, but also a delicacy. You will have to cook it often if there are small and large sweet teeth in the house.

Unusual Christmas trees will not replace the beauties from the forest, but will complement the home interior. Come up with your options merry Christmas trees, create!

DIY home decorations for the New Year

From an old light bulb

For traditional or unusual Christmas trees, decorations and toys are needed. Let's make them with our own hands. To do this, we need old burnt out light bulbs, primer and acrylic paints, acrylic varnish, brushes, sponge.

We wipe the surface of the bulb with any degreasing solution.

Cover with primer. If not, paint twice

On top of the white base we make an inscription with blue paint. With a sponge, apply blue paint around the inscription, slightly shading it

The inscription is outlined in gold or silver outline

With a contour, we write out patterns on the surface of the light bulb - snowflakes, frosty patterns (you can first draw them with blue or blue paint)

When the paint and outline are dry, cover the toy with acrylic varnish. It will protect the toy from mechanical damage - scuffs and scratches.

Having tied a shiny thread to the plinth, we cover it with acrylic varnish

DIY Christmas tree decorations do both adults and children, because it is unusual an exciting activity which allows you to showcase all your Creative skills. Check out our selection of tutorials and ideas as soon as possible.

DIY Christmas tree decorations - ideas

sequins

Glitter is a great idea for decorating man-made, it can be noted that it is one of the most popular. Glitter can be purchased at a craft store, or you can make your own at home with a homemade noodle cutter.

Coat the surface of the blank for the Christmas tree toy with PVA glue (you can also take paint or varnish). Dial a small amount of sparkles with a tube of a certain diameter (you can take a tube for juice or smoothies - they will vary in diameter. Carefully blow through the tube, blowing the glued area with sparkles. The first time, perhaps, what was conceived and will not work - for training, choose simple strips, and with the growth of skill, even intricate patterns can be applied to the surface.

Textile

Another common material for do-it-yourself Christmas decorations is fabric. Sewing will be the most simple option making decor, while it is preferable to use a fabric such as felt - it is very pleasant to work with it. You can sew and fill Christmas trees, snowflakes, figurines of Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, snowman with filler. Be sure to call on your imagination to help and sew something unusual and original. By the way, even single-layer felt toys will look very worthy.

If there is absolutely no free time before the holiday, but you want to decorate the Christmas tree, then the fabric will come to the rescue. Simply tie bright bows on coniferous paws (just cut a piece of fabric into ribbons).

The fabric will also be useful if you have already purchased Christmas balls, but now they seem rather boring or inappropriate in color to you. In this case, you should sew beautiful colorful covers and insert balls into them. Be sure to also sew bags for souvenirs - you can put sweets or tiny figurines of the symbol of the year in them, and then hang them on the branches, a lot of fun and pleasant surprises are provided for your guests.

Knitting

Experienced knitters (however, beginners too) can decorate their Christmas tree in an original way. To knit small snowflakes, boots, hats and simply circles, you will need quite a bit of yarn, and the result of the work will make the interior of the house extraordinarily cozy.

In addition, you can tie blanks for balls with dense wide threads, you can also add beads or beads to the yarn - it will look even more unusual.

DIY Christmas tree decorations made of paper

Paper should be called a simple and very accessible material for creativity, we are all used to cute lanterns and garland chains, but in fact, unusually original toys can be made from paper. You can make both flat and voluminous decor, you can also add ready-made decorations with paper.

Flat decorations include a variety of carved snowflakes or other thematic figures, such as boots or deer.

By the way, a garland of many such elements will look very nice. As for the volumetric options, then, first of all, most often we are talking about the origami technique and quilling. You can also cut out several identical flat elements and transform them into a three-dimensional one. Paper can decorate ready-made Christmas balls, for example, paste over their surface with pieces of newspaper or beautiful pictures.

Do-it-yourself Christmas tree decoration for the New Year - quilling

To make a quilling snowflake, you need to prepare several paper strips. different lengths, as well as a special tool for creating curls (it can be successfully replaced with a thin knitting needle or an awl).

The central element of the craft will be a circle folded from a strip 15 cm long. The strip should be tightly wound onto the tool, then loosen it slightly. Remove from the tool, and secure the tip with a drop of glue.

Take 4 strips 7.5 cm long and transform them into a droplet quilling element. To do this, after gluing the roll, it is necessary to bend it in this way with two fingers so that the roll acquires a teardrop shape.

Also twist 4 leaf elements (strip length 5 cm) - after the roll is glued, it should be squeezed from opposite sides to make a leaf.

For "hearts" take 4 strips of 15 cm each, fold each in half, then use the tool to wrap the ends in such a way to make a heart.

For the rays of the future snowflake, make 4 blanks - prepare 8 strips for them, each 7.5 cm long. Using a tool, twist the ends of the strips towards each other, make 1 or 2 turns. Please note that the wrapped ends of the strips must be the same, as well as the distance between them.

Glue the blanks in pairs. Glue four rays to the central circle, a heart in the center between them, carefully unwind the side rollers of this element and attach to the rays.

Glue a drop in the center of the heart with the tip up, attach the side rollers of the heart to its tip. Repeat the same manipulation in the remaining sectors of the snowflake. After the craft has dried, it will need to be hung on a decorative thin ribbon, if desired, it can be sprinkled with sparkles. made!

How to make DIY Christmas tree decorations

New Year's toys from postcards are very beautiful - to make them, you need to draw 20 identical circles on two postcards (on the wrong sides). For this purpose, you can use a compass or a small plastic cup. Cut out the shapes carefully with scissors.

On the reverse side, enter an equilateral triangle in each circle to make it easier for yourself, you can make a cardboard triangular template in advance. Then, on all twenty copies, it is necessary to bend the edges along the lines of the inscribed triangle. The folds will be the most even if you use a ruler.

The top and bottom of the Christmas decor will be lilac, which is why it is necessary to take five lilac parts to make the top and glue them together by the bent sides. Make the bottom in the same way. The remaining ten green parts will be useful for making the middle - glue them in a row with PVA glue, and then loop them.

To make a hanging loop, insert both ends of the ribbon into the center of the upper part, tie a couple of knots from the inside. The length of the ribbon should be approximately 20 cm.

Now it remains only to glue together all the components and decorate the toy with sequins, rhinestones or beads.

You will certainly enjoy the manufacturing master class.

DIY Christmas tree decorations - photo

The first step is to make the Christmas balls themselves using the papier-mâché technique. In this, you should take two dishes - in one place toilet paper torn into pieces, and in the other - torn napkins. Pour water into both bowls and leave to soak.

Crumple newspaper sheets and form a pair of dense spherical blanks of different sizes so that they do not unwind, wrap them with thread. While you are wrapping, do not forget to fasten the ribbon loops with which the finished decorations can be hung on the Christmas tree.

A well-soaked paper mess, pour PVA glue and knead the "dough". Stick around the newspaper blanks with the resulting adhesive mass so that even figures are obtained. Leave the blanks to dry for two days.

Can be used for crafting different techniques. So, to decorate the largest copy, you can use the "decoupage" technique. Paint over it with white acrylic paint, while the layer of paint should be impressive. Set it aside to dry for now.

The second copy can be decorated voluminous application, for this, a technique that all children adore called "facing" is useful.

From rolls of corrugated paper, cut strips about 1 cm wide, cut into squares. Do the same with candy wrappers.

Insert a sushi stick into the center of the paper blank and wrap it around a square - you should get a kind of tube. Lubricate the end of the resulting figure with glue and glue it to a spherical blank. Decorate the whole craft in this way.

You can make another small ball from the remnants of papier-mâché, wrap it in a candy wrapper and fix it with a stapler, of course, not forgetting to attach a ribbon.

By this time, the paint on the largest copy will dry. Cut out a beautiful thematic fragment from a decoupage napkin, remove excess white layers and attach to a painted surface - use PVA glue and a brush to fix it.

On the eve of the holidays, make and