The most long-awaited holiday for kids and adults - New Year, which everyone is looking forward to with great anticipation. Decorating an apartment so that you feel the arrival of something fabulous and unusual is of paramount importance. Despite the fact that it is the 21st century, many are interested in how to make New Year's toys DIY for 2017. In this article we will look at various options making Christmas tree decorations for the New Year.
Rooster on the Christmas tree
Next year is the year of the Rooster, so you can create it from paper or other materials and hang it on the Christmas tree. You can make a lot of these cockerels and collect the pendants into a garland to decorate your home. If you are going to make a paper cockerel, use cardboard as a base, which you will cover on both sides. 
You will need multi-colored sheets of colored paper (you can use colored cardboard) and a sheet of cardboard. Draw the silhouette of a rooster on cardboard and cut it out.
Using the cardboard blank as a template where necessary, draw the details on colored paper (cardboard): head, torso, wings and tail - first fold the sheets in half so as not to waste time preparing blanks for the second side.
The next stage: we cut out our blanks.
Now we glue the parts made of colored paper (cardboard) onto the cardboard blank. After the cockerel has assembled into a whole picture, you can decorate it with sparkles, beads - whatever comes to mind.
Make a hole in the blank, thread a ribbon and hang it on the tree.
You can make a similar toy from felt and also use it to decorate a Christmas tree. 
Draw the pattern by hand or use any ready-made one, for example, this one: 
pillow toy
Not easy, but very exciting activity for making toys is the creation of a pillow in the form of a symbol of the year, which will delight you not only in the year of the Rooster, but much longer. You will need a pattern, fabric, filler, felt (depending on the chosen model), thread and needles. Here it's a matter of small things, we trace the pattern, sew the parts together, leaving a hole to fill the pillow with filler. We turn it inside out, put the filling inside the toy, and sew it up until the end. 
Soap figures
Soap is always useful. A little unexpectedly, soap can also be used to decorate a Christmas tree. Soap toys for the Christmas tree are made by hand. The process is simple. First, we grate the baby soap on a coarse grater, melt it in a hot bath (make sure no bubbles form), pour the liquid into a mold and leave until it hardens. 
If you want to make colored soap with a pleasant aroma, then add dyes to the base - these can be either food coloring or the juice of berries or vegetables, for example, cherries, beets, carrots. Smell can be added using perfumes or flavorings.
If instead baby soap use ready-made transparent soap base, then you can make soap with a “filler”. After you fill the mold halfway with melted soap, let it sit for 20-30 minutes, put a slice of lemon or orange on top, coffee beans and fill the mold completely with soapy liquid.
In order for the soap to also have a beneficial cosmetic effect, it is added to the base. ground coffee which will work as a scrub, various oils, lemon zest, ground oatmeal. Such a toy, which doubles as an excellent gift, will definitely not go unnoticed.
Snowmen 
Snowmen made from socks - there is nothing more primitive, but it looks very original. To do this, we fill the sock with sand, buckwheat, and with the help of threads we give it a shape and sew on buttons. A white sock can be used to make a base, and a colored sock can be used to make clothes. Cute snowmen can also be made from an unnecessary light bulb; it is simply painted with acrylic paints and decorated with cotton wool and sparkles.
Christmas tree made of candies
The New Year cannot be complete without a Christmas tree; a candy tree is not only a decoration, but also a delicious gift that you can use to please your friends or family. But even the manufacturing technology can cope Small child:
Make a cone out of cardboard, glue it or secure it with a stapler.
Using the same stapler or glue, attach the candies.
Lightly wrap the Christmas tree with tinsel.
Ready. 
A lot of toys can be made from scrap materials, the most important thing is imagination and the desire to do something unusual.
The most long-awaited holiday for children and adults is the New Year, which everyone is looking forward to with great impatience. Decorating an apartment so that you feel the arrival of something fabulous and unusual is of paramount importance. Despite the fact that it’s the 21st century, many are interested in how to make New Year’s toys with their own hands for 2017. In this article we will look at various options for making Christmas tree decorations for the New Year.
Rooster on the Christmas tree
Next year is the year of the Rooster, so you can create it from paper or other materials and hang it on the Christmas tree. You can make a lot of these cockerels and collect the pendants into a garland to decorate your home. If you are going to make a paper cockerel, use cardboard as a base, which you will cover on both sides.
- You will need multi-colored sheets of colored paper (you can use colored cardboard) and a sheet of cardboard. Draw the silhouette of a rooster on cardboard and cut it out.
- Using the cardboard blank as a template where necessary, draw the details on colored paper (cardboard): head, torso, wings and tail - first fold the sheets in half so as not to waste time preparing blanks for the second side.
- The next stage: we cut out our blanks.
- Now we glue the parts made of colored paper (cardboard) onto the cardboard blank. After the cockerel has assembled into a whole picture, you can decorate it with sparkles, beads - whatever comes to mind.
- Make a hole in the blank, thread a ribbon and hang it on the tree.
You can make a similar toy from felt and also use it to decorate a Christmas tree.
Draw the pattern by hand or use any ready-made one, for example, this one:
Homemade cockerels made using the origami technique will look original.
pillow toy
A difficult, but very exciting activity in making toys is creating a pillow in the form of a symbol of the year, which will delight you not only in the year of the Rooster, but much longer. You will need a pattern, fabric, filler, felt (depending on the chosen model), thread and needles. Here it's a matter of small things, we trace the pattern, sew the parts together, leaving a hole to fill the pillow with filler. We turn it inside out, put the filling inside the toy, and sew it up until the end.
Photos and patterns
There is also a more complex plan with fabric painting - this is batik, thanks to which the pillow will acquire a bright color. After you have traced the cockerel on the fabric, color it using special paints, they can be replaced with gouache if you mix it with PVA glue. We leave it for a day so that the paint dries and continue to finish the pillow in the shape of a rooster.
From salt dough
For competitions at school, children are often asked to bring some kind of New Year's craft. Make it from salt dough. A craft made from bioceramics can also be an excellent gift from children to grandparents. Moreover, this activity is so exciting that it quite claims to be a hobby.
Before you make a toy from salt dough, you need to prepare the dough itself. To prepare the dough, use fine table salt, regular wheat flour and water in a ratio of 2:4:2, respectively. First, mix flour and salt, and then add warm water, kneading the dough thoroughly for at least 10 minutes.
There is another recipe for making dough. In this case, take flour and salt in the same proportions, only the flour is pre-sifted. You need to take a little less than 1 1/3 cups of water. The cooking method will vary. According to this recipe, water must be brought to a boil and salt dissolved in it. Only then is flour added.
When the dough is ready, start making crafts. If you are making crafts with your child, simplify the task by using cookie cutters, for example, in the shape of Christmas trees or bunnies - you will get wonderful Christmas tree decorations. Make a toy (you can use beads or beads for decoration), don’t forget to make a hole at the top. To harden the toy, it is left for 24 hours or baked in the oven. After the toy has hardened, it is painted with acrylic paints, gouache, watercolors, allowed to dry well and covered with either clear varnish for nails, or nitro varnish for wood. Thread a thread or ribbon through the hole. So the New Year's gift is ready.
Photo ideas for crafts made from salt dough
Soap figures
Soap is always useful. A little unexpectedly, soap can also be used to decorate a Christmas tree. Soap toys for the Christmas tree are made by hand. The process is simple. First, we grate the baby soap on a coarse grater, melt it in a hot bath (make sure no bubbles form), pour the liquid into a mold and leave until it hardens.
- If you want to make colored soap with a pleasant aroma, then add dyes to the base - these can be either food coloring or the juice of berries or vegetables, for example, cherries, beets, carrots. Smell can be added using perfumes or flavorings.
- If you use a ready-made transparent soap base instead of baby soap, you can make soap with a “filler”. After you fill the mold halfway with melted soap, let it sit for 20-30 minutes, put a slice of lemon or orange on top, coffee beans and fill the mold completely with soapy liquid.
- In order for the soap to also have a beneficial cosmetic effect, ground coffee is added to the base, which will work as a scrub, various oils, lemon zest, and ground oatmeal. Such a toy, which doubles as an excellent gift, will definitely not go unnoticed.
Big toys
Using threads, you can also create wonderful jewelry of rather large size - giants. Just inflate the balloon, wrap it with a thread soaked in PVA glue and leave it for 24 hours. After drying, the ball is burst, leaving an airy New Year's toy made of threads, which, for decorative purposes, can be coated with silver or gold paint, decorated with beads, seed beads, sequins, and ribbons. Thread the ribbon and the accessory is ready. If you prepare two or three balls of different sizes, you can make a snowman.
Christmas trees are made from threads using the same principle. Use a Whatman paper cone as the base on which you will wind the thread. You can make such a toy in miniature if you take a simple sheet of cardboard instead of whatman paper. Light beads and ribbon bows are useful for decoration.
By the way, use a cone of whatman paper for the base if you are going to make Father Frost and the Snow Maiden. It is enough to glue such a cone, paint it, or make clothes from paper or fabric. The head can serve as an inflated balloon with a painted face.
Boxes from household appliances are also useful for giant toys; they can be covered with foil, colored paper, appliques, or even made into a Nutcracker.
Snowmen
Snowmen made from socks - there is nothing more primitive, but it looks very original. To do this, we fill the sock with sand, buckwheat, and with the help of threads we give it a shape and sew on buttons. A white sock can be used to make a base, and a colored sock can be used to make clothes. Cute snowmen can also be made from an unnecessary light bulb; it is simply painted with acrylic paints and decorated with cotton wool and sparkles.
Small accessories will complement your festive table. Let's paint the wine glasses with acrylic paints. If you know how to draw, then you can easily cope with this work, if not, then use stencils. Be careful because... paint may run.
Sweet decorations
The following options are clearly for those with a sweet tooth.
Caramels
The appearance of Christmas tree decorations can be deceiving, because they may well turn out to be sweet candies. It's very simple: first, mix 300 g of sugar and 100 ml of water, put on fire, stir until the sugar melts and the syrup begins to boil, acquiring golden hue. The finished syrup is poured into pre-greased molds. vegetable oil, and leave to cool completely until the caramel hardens. Then we carefully wrap the candy in crispy plastic, tie it with a ribbon and you can safely hang it on the Christmas tree. It's even easier to melt caramel in molds.
New Year and Christmas always bring with them a special pre-holiday atmosphere and a unique feeling of magic. IN last days This year we will have to complete all the work we started and prepare for a series of winter holidays. As a rule, housewives are preparing menus for the New Year 2017 and making “runs” to grocery stores and markets, trying to purchase the necessary products in advance. However, the main New Year's symbol and attribute is a fluffy Christmas tree, decorated with bright lights of garlands, shiny balls and figurines of fairy-tale characters. The modern market offers a huge assortment of Christmas tree decorations - from inexpensive “Chinese-made” balls to original products original work with hand painting. Of course, with such a purchase you can solve the problem of a festive “outfit” for your Christmas tree, and you can save a lot of time. What if you make New Year's toys with your own hands? After all, the process of making Christmas tree decorations can be turned into a good family tradition, when both adults and children together create such a small man-made “miracle”. Moreover, New Year's toys for 2017 can be made with your own hands from scrap materials: lace, fabric, paper and even light bulbs. We offer interesting master classes with step by step photos and a video on making Christmas tree toys for kindergarten. In addition, here you will find templates and patterns for sewing New Year's toys from felt - with the help of our materials you can easily create amazing products with your own hands. And since 2017 will be held under the auspices of the Red Rooster, some Christmas tree decorations will be made in a “rooster” theme. So, let's start creating masterpieces!
DIY felt New Year toys for 2017 Year of the Rooster – master class with step-by-step photos
The symbol of 2017 is Red Fire Rooster, so Christmas tree decorations in the form of this bright “bird” will be relevant for the upcoming holidays. We invite you to interesting master class with step-by-step photos for making a cute felt Cockerel - like this original toy looks great on furry ones spruce branch, attracting attention with her perky appearance. Even beginners in the “handicraft” art are quite capable of creating New Year’s toys with their own hands. A little patience and you can make your wildest creative fantasies come true!
Materials for a master class on making Christmas toys from felt with your own hands:
- felt - white(thickness 1–1.5 mm) and red
- foam ball
- checkered paper strip from a notebook
- red and white knitting thread
- glue gun
- ruler, scissors, pencil
Step-by-step instructions for the “DIY Felt New Year’s Toy” master class:
- First, a paper strip needs to be placed over the ball (as in the photo) and measured. Cut off the extra “tail”.
- Using a ruler, measure the length of the strip and “split” it into five equal segments.
- We cut the strip at the marked points.
- We wrap the ball with a strip with cuts and make marks in these places with a pencil.
- We mark the “poles” on the surface of the ball with two points, and then draw lines through them that will divide the sphere into five equal “orange slices”.
- Take a wallpaper knife and lightly cut the ball along the marked lines. Set the workpiece aside for the time being.
- If you are making your own New Year's toys for 2017 from felt or any other fabric, you cannot do without a pattern - first you need to “remove” the main dimensions from our ball. The length will be considered the distance between the central points of the sphere, and the width will be the “girth”, which is determined using paper strip with cuts. Leave approximately 3 mm for allowances.
- After marking the main points, you need to draw the shape of a leaf on a piece of felt.
- We cut out five such “leaf” blanks.
- Now you need to take the ball, attach one felt piece to it and tuck its edges into the slots. For this purpose, it is better to use a manicure file. We fasten the rest of the workpieces in the same way. As a result, each “slice” of the ball ends up in a “wrapper” of felt. The result was a body for the future Cockerel.
- Next in line are the wings and head of the New Year's toy. To obtain blanks for these parts, you will need patterns that need to be transferred to a piece of felt. Where can I get these parts? We print the finished ones onto paper, and then cut them out and apply them to the fabric. Alternatively, you can simply draw the patterns with a pencil and cut along the contour.
- Let's get to the head New Year's Cockerel– we start by making a red comb. For this purpose, take a thread of the appropriate color and fold it like an accordion, and a drop of silicone will help to hold the structure together.
- We put the comb between two felt blanks for the rooster's head and glue it (as in the photo).
- We use two textile triangles as the beak, and the eyes can be bought “ready-made” or you can take small buttons. So before you make New Year's toys with your own hands, you need to stock up on the necessary small parts. We make the beard using the same “technology” as the comb. We glue all the elements in the right places on the head. To add volume, fill the head with cotton wool and glue it with silicone.
- The wings can be decorated with red thread, which we sew around the edges of the parts.
- To make a “cock” tail, you will need red and white threads - they need to be connected together. First we wrap it 3-4 times around three fingers, then we wrap it the same number of times around two fingers and, finally, one finger (as in the photo).
- Now you need to remove the wound threads at once, thread a thread through them and tie at the top. The result is a bright tail.
- That’s it, let’s start “assembling” our toy Cockerel. The head needs to be glued to the ball body.
- Then we attach the wings and tail. Sequins or rhinestones can be used to decorate the rooster breast.
- The finishing touch will be a loop of thread - with its help we will hang our New Year's toy on the tree. So, we made the original felt Cockerel with our own hands. Such a symbolic bird will easily find its place on the branch of your New Year’s tree, reminding you of the “owner” of 2017 with its appearance.
DIY New Year's toys from scrap materials for 2017 - an interesting master class with photos
The most readily available materials are perfect for making Christmas tree decorations. With the help of our interesting master class with photos, we will make New Year's toys for 2017 from ordinary light bulbs that are found in every home. Do not forget to be careful when working with this “delicate” material so as not to get injured by fragments of an inadvertently broken light bulb.
List of materials and tools for a master class on creating New Year's toys from light bulbs:
- light bulbs – burnt out or new
- acrylic paint
- lace
- decorative elements (ribbons, buttons, flowers)
- PVA glue
- glue gun
- spray paint in different colors
Making your own New Year's toys from light bulbs - step-by-step description of the master class:
- We begin the work by tinting the light bulb with acrylic paint of a certain color, which we then wrap with a piece of lace. Glue the ends of the lace using glue gun at the base (base) of the light bulb.
- To “disguise” the base, a piece of braid or tape is suitable - wrap it around the base and also fasten it with glue.
- Take a button, pull a piece of braid through it and tie it with a knot. Now you need to glue the button to the light bulb - it makes an excellent loop for hanging on the Christmas tree.
- You can make your own New Year's toys from the most different materials, however, here it is important to beautifully design the composition - such a product will acquire completeness. To do this, you can use buttons, rhinestones, flowers and other available materials. In this master class we will try to decorate our “Christmas tree” light bulb with small clay roses. In general, there is a wide field for imagination here!
- Now you can attach a New Year’s themed inscription to the composition.
- It remains to cover the toy with a layer acrylic paint, and spray with a tint spray on top to hide the color contrast of the decorative elements.
- After drying, our light bulb Christmas tree toy is ready! Can be decorated christmas tree.
How to make Christmas toys from paper “Christmas balls” with your own hands - master class with photos for kindergarten
Beautiful bright balls and lanterns are traditionally considered the main Christmas tree decoration for the New Year. Indeed, the mysterious shine of glass balls between the fluffy coniferous branches is mesmerizing and uplifting. New Year 2017 is coming soon! But it’s not at all necessary to buy expensive but fragile decorations - you can make New Year’s toys with your own hands from multi-colored paper. In this photo master class you will easily master the art of creating paper Christmas balls, and for kindergarten or primary school You can conduct a themed handicraft lesson.
Materials for a master class on creating paper Christmas balls with your own hands for the New Year 2017:
- thick paper - white and colored
- PVA glue
- scissors
- clothespins
- silk ribbon - matching one of the selected paper colors
Guide to the master class on creating New Year's ball toys for the Christmas tree with your own hands:
- Before you start directly making the balls, you need to make blank parts - for this purpose we print out the templates. Then we apply them to a piece of paper and cut out the required number of blanks in two contrasting colors (white and colored).
- We lay out the cut-out blanks in the form of a “sun with rays”, in the center of which we glue a circle to hold the parts together. We make one “sun” blank from white parts, and the other from colored elements.
- We put one blank on top of another and begin to intertwine their “rays” with each other.
- The process is reminiscent of weaving baskets from wicker - by crossing blanks of different colors, we create a “checkerboard” pattern.
- During operation, individual strips may cling to each other and become tangled. Therefore, we fix some blanks with the help of clothespins.
- When the woven paper ball is completely ready, coat the remaining “tails” of the strips with glue, gently press them and wait for them to dry. Don't forget about the silk ribbon that is used to hang the toy from the tree - it also needs to be glued to the top of the ball.
IN similar technology"paper weaving" you can make bright New Year's toys with your own hands from "curly" strips (the photo shows different variations paper balls on the Christmas tree). Excellent holiday decoration to the Christmas tree for the 2017 Year of the Rooster!
Master class on making soft Christmas toys from fabric with your own hands for decorating a Christmas tree - with step-by-step photos and patterns
Making New Year's toys with your own hands to decorate the Christmas tree opens up wide scope for imagination. A few fabric scraps, beads, rhinestones - and you will have an original designer toy for the New Year 2017. We offer you to take an interesting master class with step-by-step photos and patterns on the topic “ Christmas decorations from fabric". You can make such cute soft New Year's toys for the Year of the Rooster and decorate a fluffy forest beauty with them. For crafts you will need simple materials at hand, and ready-made toys will last for many years and over time will become family “talismans”.
Soft New Year's toys made of fabric - necessary materials:
- felt pieces of different colors - brown, white, red
- red cotton fabric - checkered and white polka dots
- striped fabric - white stripe on a red background
- green fabric
- thin ribbons – green, olive and red
- wide red checkered ribbon
- harsh thread
- artificial filler (holofiber)
- threads to match the color of the fabric
- needle
The New Year is getting closer, and for those who know how to do DIY Christmas toys, the time for fruitful work is coming. Making toys is a tradition that arose at a time when mass production of Christmas tree decorations had not yet been established.
Today, there are plenty of factory-made toys in stores, but the tradition of making them yourself has not disappeared. This is explained simply - from jewelry and toys self made a special warmth emanates, they look homely and cozy. A nice bonus is that you can be proud that the toy you made yourself exists in a single copy.DIY New Year's Crafts
How to make New Year's toys with your own hands?
New Year's outfits for the green beauty have undergone changes many times during the existence of the tradition of decorating the Christmas tree. In stores you can still buy standard decorations - glass balls of various colors and sizes, stars reminiscent of the Soviet past, glass cones, fruits and other traditional products. You can also bring it to Christmas and new year holidays an element of creativity, and try to make New Year's toys for 2017 with your own hands.
DIY New Year and Christmas wreaths: here and here.
DIY New Year's toys from scrap materials
The choice for work is almost limitless - any available material can be used. Christmas tree decorations are sometimes made from the most unexpected materials. New Year’s creativity also has its own “leaders” - materials that are used most often:
- Wood, plywood;
- Paper;
- Beads;
- Felt;
- Textile;
- Beads;
- Natural materials - branches, vines, cones, etc.
28 New Year decorations that can be made in 10 minutes
Christmas tree toys made from salt dough
You can even make DIY New Year's toys for the New Year 2017 from flour. One of the simplest and most inexpensive materials for making New Year's toys is salty dough. There is flour in every home, the process is interesting (especially for children), and the result is a completely worthy replacement for ceramic and glass toys.
How to decorate an apartment for the New Year
To work you will need:
- Wheat flour;
- Water;
- Salt (fine);
- Paints;
- Varnish (optional);
- Leg-split;
- Oil;
- PVA glue.
Important! To give the dough plasticity, you can add a little baby oil(can be replaced with vegetable, olive).
Dissolve salt in warm water, add flour, knead the dough. To get a variety of figures, you can use dough molds. The lack of shapes is not a problem; figures from salt dough can be sculpted by hand. To add texture, you can use anything - pencils, caps from plastic bottles, lace. While the dough is still wet, you need to make holes for the rope holder.
After drying (1-3 days, depending on the thickness of the product), the toy can be painted, a pattern applied, small photos pasted and coated with acrylic varnish.
Christmas decorations made from branches
DIY New Year's toys are often made from scrap materials. A simple but effective way to decorate a Christmas tree or home for the New Year is to make toys from natural materials- for example, from branches. To make a stylish toy “Ball in eco-style” you will need wire and branches.
Lifehack! It is better to collect branches in October or November, when they still contain a sufficient amount of moisture. The vines and branches collected later may be brittle and unsuitable for making toys.
Make several (5-6) circles from the wire. Form a ball “skeleton” from them, fasten the circles together with hot glue or wire. Carefully twist small diameter branches or vines over the base. To keep the branches tightly, they can also be secured with hot glue. It is easy to thread a ring of twine or ribbon into the finished ball. The stylish eco-ball is ready!
New Year toys made of beads
You can also make spectacular New Year's toys from beads. It will not be easy for beginners to make jewelry that is massive or has a complex shape. But without any problems you can make hearts, Christmas trees, and stars. To make such a toy you will need wire and beads. First you need to string the beads onto the wire, and then form the desired shape, tightly securing the ends of the wire. You can use ribbons for hanging.
New Year's toys made from light bulbs
For those who are still puzzling over the question “How to make New Year’s toys with your own hands?” Wonderful suitable option using objects that previously had a utilitarian function. New Year is coming soon, so don’t rush to throw away burnt out light bulbs. They make charming Christmas tree decorations. A little imagination, and you won’t have to settle for the usual glass balls.
Attention! For the first (background) layer, it is better to use spray paint. It is easier to apply, and this paint goes on evenly. It is much more difficult to create an even coating with a brush or sponge.
DIY New Year's toys: patterns and diagrams
DIY New Year's toys made of paper
Paper is a universal material, and Christmas tree toys and decorations made from it are cheap, practical and simple. To begin with, you can choose flat (not voluminous) jewelry. These can be snowflakes, Christmas trees, and other themed figures.
How to do beautiful snowflakes DIY paper: templates and diagrams
Important! You should not take too thick paper or high-density cardboard: when cutting, the edges of these materials become “shaggy” and the product does not look neat.
Another affordable way- this is the use of paper to decorate ready-made toys - for example, balls. An ordinary glass ball will look much more original if you stick decorations cut out of paper on it. Or, for example, a small collage of photos.
A more complex way is to make toys using the origami technique. Using separate paper blocks, you can assemble a variety of decorations - for example, a Christmas tree.
Even children can make New Year's toys out of paper with their own hands. Most of the diagrams and patterns are simple; it will not be difficult for a child to cut out a snowflake, a Christmas tree or the silhouette of a bird. And from individual paper figures and silhouettes you can make New Year's garland for decorating a Christmas tree or room. For this you can use ready-made diagram from the Internet or come up with a design yourself. Christmas garlands can be decorated with snowmen, balls, patterns, Christmas trees, and animals.
From felt
Felt is a soft, fairly dense felt. This material is perfect for making New Year's toys. It’s easy to work with - you don’t need to process the edges; you can buy felt in almost any color and shade in the store. To make a stylish New Year's toy, only two or three colors of felt are enough. For example, the combination of red and white is classic New Year's flowers, perfect for creating simple jewelry. It is not necessary to choose complex patterns; it is enough to cut out simplified silhouettes from paper. For example, these:
You can transfer the pattern to felt using chalk or a bar of soap. Then each type of figurine must be cut out in duplicate. Large DIY New Year's toys can also be made from felt, as it is sold in sheets of different formats.
Attention! Felt lends itself well to cutting, but you need to choose sharp scissors for the job. It is better to secure the pattern on the fabric with pins to get a neat silhouette.
In the photo: DIY felt Christmas toys:
It is better to sew felt parts with contrasting threads - if the toy is red, then you can use white or beige threads. If the toy is white, the decoration with red, green, and brown threads will look harmonious.
And don't forget the buttons!
Small felt toys can be used both to decorate the Christmas tree and to make interior garlands. Bright ribbons, regular white clothesline, and twine can be used as a base.
Christmas trees, hearts and houses are traditional details of New Year's design. Recently, toys in the form of animals with which the New Year is associated - deer and elk - have become increasingly popular.
DIY felt Christmas toys look bright and festive without any additional decor. If desired, you can give them additional flavor by decorating them with buttons, sequins, ribbons, or, for example, embroidery.
Advantage homemade garland the fact that it can be made taking into account the size and color scheme of the room that needs to be decorated. To make a garland you don't need sewing machine– felt parts are sewn by hand.
Thanks to the pliability and softness of the material, making toys takes very little time - about half an hour for each. If there is a need to make the toy voluminous, it is stuffed with cotton wool or holofiber.
Important! For stuffing, you can use either cotton wool or holofiber, but you need to take into account that when washed, the cotton wool inside the toy gets knocked down and the product loses its shape. If you are going to use toys in the future, it is advisable to use holofiber for stuffing - it tolerates moisture well and the product does not lose its shape.
From fabric
To make a New Year's toy from fabric with your own hands, it is not at all necessary to have sewing skills. For example, such a ball can be made using scraps of fabric. The usual one is used as a base. Christmas ball or a foam blank.
The fabric can be tightly wrapped around the base or glued. To work with fabric, you can use any glue available, but:
Important! When drying, PVA can leave a yellowish mark on light-colored fabric. The craft glue will hold the fabric to the backing, but since it is not designed to work with textiles, the product may not last long. Hot melt adhesive - a good option for working with fabric, but it must be applied in as thin a layer as possible.
Most easy way– make a rooster out of felt or paper. To do this you will need a piece of felt, a pattern, threads, and scissors. The toy can be flat or voluminous. From thick felt you can make parts for a garland, or toys - pendants.
You can use beads for decoration, and suede or waxed cord or twine to make a pendant.
There are many manufacturing options, and the approach of the New Year is the best way to inspire creativity. It is advisable to start preparing for this holiday in good mood– toys made with a positive attitude emit special warmth.
Neither bright balls from the supermarket, nor lights flashing in different colors, nor expensive designer kits for decorating Christmas trees can compare with homemade decorations.
Of course, such decorations from the supermarket will make the evergreen guest bright and modernly decorated, but they are unlikely to be able to carry them so joyfully Christmas mood like self-made toys.
There are a lot of ways to make Christmas tree decorations, but the simplest, most attractive and not time-consuming are those made from paper. To create them, you may need very little, improvised materials that are stored in every housewife. Stock up on a little patience and wings for a creative flight of fancy.
New Year's balls
What is the most common decoration on a Christmas tree? Of course, balls! You can always buy glass and plastic ones in the store, but we will try to make them from thick paper. This includes colored cardboard, old postcards and covers of unnecessary magazines. Balls made of colored cardboard, plain, will give the tree or room that you want to decorate a single style, and multi-colored balls will bring an atmosphere of celebration, magic and a winter fairy tale.
Before you sit down to do new toy, prepare:
- thick paper;
- use old magazines, cardboards or candy boxes with bright designs;
- glue, PVA is best;
- scissors;
- a compass or any other object that you can trace to get an even circle.
Take your cardboard and draw twenty-one identical circles on it, then cut them out with scissors. Each circle must be folded as follows: bend the circle in half twice, on one side and the other, then straighten it, this will mark the center of the circle.
Fold only one side of it again, so that the edge of the circle is exactly in the intended center. Fold the two sides again, so you get a triangle. Cut out this triangle in one of the twenty circles; it will serve as a kind of stencil for the rest of the circles. All that remains for you is to place the triangle on the remaining circles, trace it and bend the edges of the circles outward along the contour.
Take the first ten circles and glue them into stripes, alternating: five down - five up. Glue the resulting strip into a ring, this will serve as the basis for the toy.
Divide the remaining ten into fives and glue them into a circle. By gluing them together, you will get two lids.
The top and bottom covers will need to be glued to the base in the same way. Consider a loop to hang the toy from.
Children can easily help you make such a New Year's toy: you will need scissors, colored paper, packing tapes.
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A great idea for a Christmas tree decoration would be a miniature paper Christmas tree. You can make it from thick paper or old postcards, and you can hang your masterpiece on a regular thread.
By the way, if you don’t have a real Christmas tree, you can make your own magic one Christmas tree. A more ideas see the article:
Large volumetric snowflake
Snow is obviously the most important attribute of winter, and a snowflake is the main decoration of the house for the New Year. A snowflake can be cut out of paper and glued to the window, as is often done. What about volumetric snowflakes? Making it is as easy as cutting it out. To create it you will only need scissors, a stapler and, of course, paper.
Cut out 6 squares of the same size, fold each square diagonally, and then in half. Make parallel cuts along the folds with scissors. Unfold the squares, wrap the inner strips and fasten them together. The resulting petals are connected to each other with a stapler, although you can also use glue. like this big snowflake You can sprinkle it with sparkles or make a garland. You can decorate it with a window, a wall, or hang it under a chandelier.
What could it be easier decoration than large, bulky paper candies? They are very simple to make, for example, from old foil or beautiful wallpaper left over from renovation. There will definitely be paper with a bright pattern. And to do this, you just need to measure out a small rectangle, twist it into a tube, and tie ribbons at the ends. If you are afraid that your toy will lose its shape, then when twisting, you can put any paper between the paper. unnecessary thing in the shape of a cylinder, for example, a cardboard toilet paper cylinder.
Toys with family photos
Some types of paper balls can be made using family photos. Such New Year's toys will be the most special, because the important and significant moments of the outgoing year will remain with you, and in the next New Year, the toy of memories will again remind you of pleasant moments. By the way, don’t forget about your pets, let them also remain on your memorable toy, because a dog, cat or even Guinea pigs We are also looking forward to the New Year holidays!
Lanterns from childhood
What about flashlights? You must remember from childhood how to make paper lanterns. With a little imagination, you can easily come up with new design for a simple flashlight. To diversify completely simple craft, you can decorate it with sparkles, make it from colored paper or printed paper, paint it with paints, add new details. Everything is to your taste.
Paper angels for the Christmas tree
What about New Year's angels? You also remember how to make them, right? Angels can be made from gold paper or newspapers, painted or added glitter.
New Year's paper cones
What's a Christmas tree without pine cones? You can decorate the Christmas tree with ordinary pine cones from the forest, but you can make your own magical ones. There are several ways to make paper cones: it all depends on your preferences, availability of free time and patience. The simplest option is a cone made from old postcards.
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Lace garland
A magic lamp can be created from a simple glowing garland; all you need is paper and small scissors, with which you can easily cut out lace snowflakes. You can find patterns for snowflakes on the Internet or print them out so that you can cut out the figures around the office. You can put light bulbs from a garland into the holes cut out in the snowflakes; hanging such a garland on a window or on a Christmas tree will be very beautiful.
A little life hack: if you don’t have time to cut out lace snowflakes, or you can’t make them even and neat, buy lace napkins at the supermarket, this will reduce your work time, and store-bought napkins will look much neater. The garland will create a bright New Year's mood. Feel free to get to work!
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Cardboard Santa Claus
You can diversify the decoration of your home and Christmas tree with the help of snowflakes, flowers and lanterns, stars and balls, but what about the most important New Year's miracle - Santa Claus? Small cardboard Santas make a fun garland, especially if you add different facial expressions to the grandfathers.
To make the job easier, you can find stencils for making toys that you just need to cut and glue.
New Year's house on the Christmas tree
You can decorate the New Year tree with a paper house. This toy looks especially cool if you put an electric candle or a garland light bulb inside. Then the windows of the house will glow, as if someone lives in it. Making paper houses is very simple; you can do without a template. You will need paper or old postcards, scissors and glue.
Stars
You can decorate the Christmas tree paper stars. They are made very simply, even kids can cope with this task, but they look very original!
A New Year or Christmas wreath is usually decorated with the front door or hung on the wall. But you can make a mini paper wreath that will look great on the Christmas tree as a toy.
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The toys that you made for the holiday with your own hands are the key to a cozy holiday atmosphere. Happy New Year!
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