The New Year and Christmas celebrations are based on the idea of bringing together family members, relatives and friends. A general creative activity is a good opportunity to interest adults and children, and making New Year's toys from paper with your own hands. On the eve of the holidays, enjoy spending time with your family and decorating your home beautifully before the clock strikes 12 times.
DIY paper Christmas decorations can be hung on the Christmas tree, walls, or ceiling. The bright colors of toys and garlands will fill the house with a festive atmosphere and give good mood V last days outgoing 2017.
New Year's decorations made of white paper (master classes)
A simple and affordable material for creativity is white paper. The color fully matches the New Year's theme. Decorations are associated with fluffy snow, frosty patterns on windows, and snow-white frost. Snowflakes are cut out of white paper, funny figurines and angel figures are made; decorations can be used to decorate a room, windows, or decorate a Christmas tree. The master class on making such products is quite simple; adults and children can successfully handle the work.
Snowflakes
Classic Christmas decoration- an ordinary bulky snowflake. White products look beautiful on windows, especially if you make snowflakes of different sizes with unequal patterns. The main thing is to fold paper snowflakes correctly.
Manufacturing process:
- Take a sheet of A4 paper and fold it in half diagonally.
- Cut off the excess part, leaving a triangle.
- Connect the corners, fold the paper, repeat.
- Fold the straight corner of the workpiece towards the edge.
- Cut off the excess paper and transfer the pattern diagram.
- Cut out a white snowflake and unfold it.
It is more convenient to glue simple white snowflakes, made like napkins, onto windows. They are easy to fold, apply a sample pattern, and cut out. You can take ideas for patterns from the photo below or come up with your own.
6 options of snowflakes with different patterns Vytynanka
Volumetric figurines with many holes can be given as a cute New Year's present, hung on a Christmas tree, or you can decorate a window with them. To create a craft, you need white paper, a template, a stationery knife, glue, and a cutting board (a cutting board will do).
How to make a vytynanka:
- You need to print a figurine template from the Internet.
- For a three-dimensional figure, print 2 copies.
- The paper is placed on a board and all the patterns are cut out with a knife.
- A strip of paper is left at the bottom of the drawing for gluing.
- The cut out designs are glued together at the top.
- The lower strips are formed into a clasp ring and glued together.
The figure turns out voluminous and stable, so paper decor looks beautiful in the room. You can use the Christmas tree template in the photo below as a basis.
Download this picture and print it on your printer Angels
Paper angels perfectly match the New Year and Christmas theme. Traditionally, they are made from white paper, flat or three-dimensional.
Several options on how to make angels:
- Print the template using a printer, cut out the figure, decorate with sparkles, rhinestones, and hang on shiny threads.
- Cut out a three-dimensional angel, elements from paper: two truncated cones, a head, a halo, sleeves, wings. The cones are rolled up, glued together, and the remaining elements of the figure are attached to the dress.
- Craft according to your own drawing. The sheet is folded in half, a figure of an angel with wings and a halo is drawn on one half, the craft is cut out, unfolded - the figure is ready.
If you thread strings through an angel's halo and prepare several figures, you will get interesting decoration for the chandelier.
House
For New Year's decorations, you can prepare fairy houses and decorate some parts of the craft with sparkles. The houses themselves can be made from old postcards, cardboard, and unnecessary boxes. There are many options! A template for making New Year's decorations from paper can be downloaded and printed.
Template example Next, the diagram is transferred to paper. Cut out the house according to the template, bend the paper along the fold line (you get a box). The roof, smoker, and windows are cut out separately. All elements of the craft are glued to the finished box and decorated if desired.
Of these New Year's paper decorations You can create a whole composition with your own hands, decorate the window sill with it, add figurines of fairy-tale characters, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden.
New Year's decorations made of colored paper (master classes)
You can make beautiful and unusual New Year's decorations from colored paper with your own hands in advance of the holiday. Such bright crafts used to decorate a room, hang on christmas tree. Even a small child can make a simple chain garland.
You need to prepare scissors, glue, several sets of colored paper for crafts, and, if desired, choose beautiful beads, seed beads, rhinestones, sparkles, and colored ribbons. Simple New Year's decorations made with your own hands from paper turn out to be interesting and relevant.
Simple garlands
The simplest New Year's garland- chain. For it, paper of different colors is chosen in order to alternate links with each other. Blanks of any length and thickness are cut, then all the strips are glued together - first, make the first link, thread a paper strip into it, glue it again and repeat the steps until you get a garland of the required length.
Another interesting option decorations - a chain of colored hearts, and connecting the elements is much easier with a stapler. By analogy with the previous master class, the required number of narrow strips are cut from colored paper. Take the first two strips, fasten them with a stapler, turn them inside out (as if opening them), connect the two free edges, add two new strips to them and then fix them with a staple. The result is an unusual decoration that looks elegant in the decor of the room.
More complex decoration - volumetric garland made up of multi-colored paper balls. Additionally, to make crafts you need sewing machine, but if it is not there, you can do the work manually.
How to make a garland from paper balls:
- Cut out 6 circles of the same size in different colors from colored paper.
- Prepare several sets of circles along the length of the garland.
- Sew a stack of blanks on a machine, then the next one and until the end.
- Carefully wrap the fragments at the seam, forming bright balls.
For crafts, you can use crumpled or non-plain paper - the craft will be more fun. Garlands are hung from the diagonal corners of the room, decorated with them on the Christmas tree, walls, and ceiling.
Garland of flags
A popular New Year's decoration for the home is a garland of colorful multi-colored paper flags. On colored paper draw the shape of a flag with a fold line in the middle and cut it out. You should get a double-sided element. Flags of a different color are prepared in the same way. Each flag is opened, glue is applied to the fold line and a strong thread is glued until the required number of paper parts for the garland is collected.
Alternatively, checkboxes can be made triangular shape, gluing the free corners of the products. Sometimes scraps of colored fabric are used for such decoration. After the New Year, you can hang garlands with flags to decorate a children's party.
Christmas trees
What's New Year without a Christmas tree? You can decorate this festive beauty with your own crafts made from colored paper. To make a three-dimensional hanging decoration, you need to take paper, scissors, cardboard, glue and tape.
We make the Christmas tree in this order:
1. Cut multi-colored narrow identical strips and make a cone out of paper.
2. Glue the edges of each strip together like a loop.
3. Glue the blanks to the cone starting from the bottom using tape or glue.
4. Decorate the top of the Christmas tree and the loops with any decor; you can also hang decorations on the Christmas tree.
As an option from paper Christmas trees They assemble an interesting garland - the figures are sewn to a bright ribbon or secured above and below (chaotically) on a colored cord.
Christmas balls
One of the most popular Christmas tree decorations is balls. Colorful, bright, shiny toys make the Christmas tree more beautiful and fun. New Year's balls can be made from colored paper.
From paper strips
To make a simple ball, cut out thin paper strips(minimum 18 pieces, more stripes, more beautiful toy) and two small circles. Select a large bead, insert a thread into it, and thread both ends of the thread into the eye of the needle.
After this, a paper circle and all the prepared strips are threaded onto a needle along one edge. The next step is to string the second edge of each strip, the second circle and another bead in order, and draw out a loop. If you loosen the thread, you get a beautiful ball-shaped toy that can be further decorated.
From circles
Woven paper balls
Can be used to make balls ready-made diagrams New Year's decorations and make them out of paper with your own hands or weave complex toys. Curly stripes and a small circle are cut out using the templates. Lay out the parts in the shape of a flower and glue a circle in the center. Next, the strips need to be woven like a braid from many strands.
To prevent the structure from falling apart and to make it convenient to work, the strips are fixed with ordinary clothespins. By the end of the weaving, a ball will be formed, the edges of the figured strips are again fastened with a circle and a loop of shiny thread is threaded.
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Option 3 On video: New Year's ball from colored paper.
Magic lamps
Lanterns made of colored paper look unusual and original on the Christmas tree. Decorations are easy to make, even children can handle the job. The lamps symbolize warmth, wealth, prosperity and good luck. There are several simple master classes on how to make Christmas decorations with your own hands from paper in the form of lanterns for a Christmas tree.
The most popular option: take two sheets of different colors, glue a tube from one - the middle of the lantern, and fold the second sheet in half, step back 1 cm from the edge, draw a line. Then cuts are made from the fold to the drawn line. The cut sheet needs to be opened, wrapped around the cylinder tube, glued the edges and made a loop-handle at the top of the flashlight.
Lantern made of stripes
To make beautiful toy, you need to cut many thin strips of colored paper - all parts of the decoration should be the same in size, approximately 15 cm long. The strips are folded edge to edge, each piece is pierced in this place with a needle, and a lace or thread is pulled through them.
The free edge of the lace is pulled through the hole on the other edge of the strip and gently pulled to form an arc - an elongated loop. The upper part of the lantern (where the edges of the strips) are glued with a thin strip of paper in a circle, and the rounded loops will hang freely, forming a pear-shaped lantern from thin strips.
Chinese lantern
The Chinese are the inventors of paper, they learned how to make interesting decorative items from it. A Chinese New Year lantern will decorate the holiday tree. To work, use a diagram; you can draw the segments of the flashlight yourself. The size of one part is on average 10 cm; according to the diagram, there are circles at the top and bottom of each segment for attaching a flashlight.
How to make a decoration:
- Transfer the drawing onto colored paper.
- The flashlight is made of six segments.
- Cut out the workpiece and glue the edges.
- Form the top and bottom of the flashlight.
- Sew the lower circles with thread, then the upper ones.
- Make fastenings and a loop. A cute Chinese lantern is ready.
Use this template to cut out the lantern segments sky lattern
The decoration will be made on the principle of a flying lantern, but there is no need to launch it into the sky. The decoration is made from bright colored paper. You need to prepare a large sheet - 24 by 60 cm. It is folded in half, and then in the shape of an accordion. Next, the sheet is unfolded and triangular creases are made in the center (along the fold line). The same creases are made at the top and bottom. A figurative triangular cylinder is glued from the blank, and a bright loop is glued.
Ded Moroz and Snegurochka
The New Year is unthinkable without the main characters of the holiday - Father Frost and Snow Maiden. They are quite simple to make using colored paper in cyan (blue), red, white, yellow color to cut out the elements of New Year's figures yourself.
A circle is cut out of blue paper for the Snow Maiden, and from red paper for Santa Claus. The circles are cut to the middle, rolled into a cone and glued together to form the bases of the figures. Separately, a flat kokoshnik is cut out for the Snow Maiden, small slits are made on the cone and the resulting element is inserted into them. First, the figure’s face, drawn on a white oval, is glued onto the kokoshnik, and a yellow braid is glued to the back. For greater realism, you can make small cone-shaped hands and decorate the bottom of the Snow Maiden’s coat with white fringe.
Santa Claus's face is drawn and glued to the base cone. Then a small red cone is cut out. A mandatory element of decoration is a thick beard; if desired, you can make a bag with gifts.
To make the figures of the main New Year's characters more durable and voluminous, you can use colored cardboard instead of paper. For making fringe or beard white paper cut into thin strips, each strip is wound around a pen or pencil - it will turn out three-dimensional. You can decorate the finished figures at your discretion with snowflakes, stars, and pieces of cotton wool.
New Year's wreath
In jewelry for New Year's holidays a wreath is used to symbolize prosperity, longevity, hope and happiness. The wreath serves as a kind of amulet family hearth from various troubles. Traditionally, the decoration is hung above the front door. To make a very simple construction paper wreath, you need more green sheets. IN creative process Be sure to include the child.
Master class on making New Year's door decor:
- Choose a large plate, trace its outline on a sheet of colored cardboard (the wreath will be stronger) - this is the base.
- In the center of the large circle, a smaller circle is cut out under the saucer, resulting in a wreath ring resembling a donut.
- On green paper, trace the child’s palms with a pencil and cut out many fragments - the more, the prettier the decoration.
- The “palms” are glued onto the ring, partially overlapping each other. It’s okay if it turns out messy – it’s more interesting that way.
- Bright decorations are glued to the top of the “palms” - bells, bows, ribbons.
Volumetric paper decorations (master classes)
New Year's decor always looks more interesting if the decorations are voluminous. Making them is more difficult than flat toys, snowflakes or garlands, but everyone can do it. For creativity, they use paper of different colors, additional decor, bright ribbons, laces, shiny threads.
Volumetric crafts - stars, snowflakes, balls, garlands - are hung on the Christmas tree or on the ceiling. With a little imagination and patience, you can create original toys, elegant and voluminous New Year's decorations made from paper.
Volumetric pointed balls
This interesting decoration made from white paper is quite simple to make. To make a craft you need sheets, glue, a pencil, scissors, a small saucer, a coin, beads (rhinestones, sparkles), and fishing line.
How to make balls:
- Place the saucer on the paper, circle 4 blanks.
- Draw the outline of a coin in the center of each circle.
- Cut out paper circles (don't touch the middle yet).
- On each circle, draw eight lines with a pencil, not reaching the central circle.
- Insert a pencil into each sector, fold the edges, and glue them together.
- For each ball you need 4 blanks, they are allowed to dry.
- The elements are connected with the inner sides, a hole is made with a needle, and a fishing line is pulled through. The original New Year's decoration looks beautiful on the Christmas tree and in the garland.
3D star
A popular toy for Christmas tree is a pointed star. It crowns the top of the tree and gives the decoration a complete look. To make the product look more realistic, you can make a three-dimensional 3D star from colored paper.
Completing of the work:
- Cut out two identical squares - arbitrary size and color.
- The blanks are folded in half twice, and diagonally two more times.
- Unfold a fragment of the toy – the fold lines are clearly visible.
- Each corner is folded inwards towards the fold (like a children's airplane).
- The edges of the corners are glued together according to the principle of paper bags for volume.
- The second fragment of the toy is performed similarly.
- Connect the blanks with the inner part to each other crosswise and glue them together.
It turns out volumetric sprocket with pointed rays. A ribbon or cord is attached to it and the toy is hung on the Christmas tree. To simplify the work, the loop can be placed between the star fragments before gluing.
In the video: a three-dimensional star made of paper.
Volumetric snowflakes
White snowflakes are used to decorate windows and decorate the area near the fireplace. If you stretch a silver thread through the products, you can hang garlands of snowflakes in the room. New Year's decorations made of white paper look interesting when the snowflakes are of different sizes with unequal patterns. To make snowflakes with a voluminous middle, you will need white paper, a pencil, and scissors.
Operating procedure:
- A sheet of A4 format is folded in half and cut into 2 parts.
- Each piece is folded diagonally and the excess is cut off.
- The resulting squares are again folded in half and diagonally.
- The core of a snowflake is made from the blanks by making two cuts.
- The cuts are made from edge to corner, without cutting the workpiece to the end.
- A shaped cutout is made in the upper part to create petals.
- The product is unfolded, the inner petals are glued to the center.
The second part of the snowflake is performed in the same way. After this, the parts are glued crosswise together. The result will be a double-sided volumetric snowfield, with a flower in the center on one and the other side.
New Year's decorations made of cardboard (master classes)
Cardboard is often used to make toys and Christmas decorations. Thick paper holds its shape well and allows you to create beautiful three-dimensional figures, cardboard ideally makes four-sided Christmas trees and cones for making Father Frost and the Snow Maiden.
Volumetric balls
Decorating a New Year tree is not complete without decorations in the form of balls. Large and small, plain and multi-colored toys are hung on the tree in a chaotic manner.
Volumetric balls made of colored cardboard or colored paper and white cardboard look interesting. They are easy and quick to make:
- Circles of the same size are cut out of thick colored paper - 20 pieces, radius 3.5 cm.
- Separately, make a template of an equilateral triangle so that it is clearly inscribed in the circle.
- A triangle is drawn on the inside of the blanks; its sides will be where the circles are folded.
- Under the ruler, carefully make folds on each circle, turning the paper to the front side.
- Take five fragments, lubricate the resulting valves of the circles with glue, connect the blanks - the top of the ball.
- Use an awl to make a hole, insert a lace into it, and in the same way make the bottom of 5 other blanks, but without the lace.
- From the ten remaining blanks, glue the strip valve to valve, close the ring, connect the top, bottom and middle of the ball.
To make three-dimensional balls, you can use old postcards or colored cardboard. The toys are decorated with small decorations, sprinkled with sparkles and chopped rain.
Cardboard trees
An option for a New Year's decoration or toy is a Christmas tree made of colored cardboard. A very ordinary Christmas tree is drawn on a thick sheet of paper, trying to maintain the symmetry of the spruce paws. Using this blank, they make a second similar piece, bend the Christmas tree vertically, glue the blanks together and decorate them with small circles of colored paper, stars, beads, rhinestones, and beads.
In order not to glue the figures together, you can make cuts (cut one blank from the top to the middle along the fold line, and the second from the bottom to the center) and insert the parts into each other. Thanks to the density of the cardboard, the figures will not fall apart.
How to decorate a Christmas tree with paper decorations
To make the New Year's tree, decorated with your own crafts, look beautiful, you need to hang paper toys and decorations correctly. There are several options for placing decorations - in a pyramid, in a spiral, vertically or horizontally. Each method is interesting; you need to pay attention to the shape, size and color of homemade paper toys.
Options for decorating a New Year's beauty:
- The top of the spruce tree is decorated volumetric star golden hue– the colors of the Earth Dog.
- In the coming Year of the Dog, the spruce tree is decorated with medium-sized figures of restrained colors. It is especially important to use jewelry made from natural materials- paper, wood, burlap, pine cones and twigs.
- You can place a dog figurine in the central part of the tree to attract good luck and prosperity.
- Garlands of golden, brown, yellow, green, red, purple, and beige colors are used.
- Paper beads, chains, flags connected into a garland are hung in one direction - horizontally, spirally, vertically, from top to bottom.
- Medium-sized balls are attached to the tree in a chaotic manner; the toys can be the same or different.
- They complement the decor with figures of Father Frost, the Snow Maiden, angels, and pinpoint several voluminous snowflakes.
Before decorating the tree paper toys and crafts, a garland with light bulbs is hung on a tree. You can use a little sparkling rain or complement the design with fluffy “snowball”.
The spruce is decorated to your liking, but in the coming year the decor should be chosen natural, discreet, in a brown color scheme (all shades), with unobtrusive bright accents– several red bows, burgundy bells, paper cones decorated with beads. Then 2018 will definitely bring good luck and prosperity to your home.
New Year's origami crafts (2 videos)
Useful tips
To decorate on New Year a tree, a table or a house, it is not necessary to purchase various toys and decorations - many different original New Year's crafts you can do it yourself.
You will only have to purchase a few simple things (paper, cardboard, skewers, ribbons) and tools. You may already have many of these at home.
Read also:How to make a beautiful SNOWFLAKE
Here you will find interesting ideas and instructions for creating beautiful crafts for New Year:
Easy crafts for the New Year: candy canes
Even though the instructions are long, this craft is very easy to make.
You will need:
Felt in different colors
Hot glue, super glue or PVA glue
Ribbon or string (to hang the decoration)
Toothpicks, skewers or other parts that will act as lollipop sticks.
1. Cut one strip from each sheet of felt. You can choose its dimensions yourself, but in this example the length of the strips varies from 17.5 to 30 cm, and the width is 1 cm.
* For one lollipop you will need 6 strips. In this example, 2 stripes are used for each of the 3 selected colors.
2. Place all 6 strips on top of each other. Remember that as you roll the strip into a tube, some will start to stick out and you will need to trim them. The strip that is inside the tube will be the shortest, and the outside will be the longest.
* You can cut the strips with scissors as you twist them, or you can cut the necessary strips in advance (approximate length of each strip: 17.5, 20, 22.5, 25, 27.5, 30 cm).
3. Start rolling the strips, adding a little glue between them. Finally, make sure that the outer strip is longer than all the others. Glue the ends of the strips together.
4. Using hot glue, glue the stick to the resulting candy. If desired, you can paint the toothpick or skewer with white acrylic paint.
5. Glue or sew ribbon to the back of the candy so it can be hung on the tree.
Crafts on the New Year theme: Christmas tree made from wine corks
To get the right amount wine corks, you don’t have to buy wine, you just need to order corks on the Internet or in a store.
You will need:
Wine corks (26 corks were used in this example)
* Instead of corks, you can use cardboard or wooden thread spools.
* If you replace the plugs with bushings from toilet paper, then by painting them, you will also get the necessary material for the Christmas tree. In this case, the Christmas tree will turn out larger than a Christmas tree made from corks.
PVA glue
Hot glue or superglue
Paints or glitter (to paint plugs or bushings)
Twine and a cardboard toilet paper tube (for the stump on which the Christmas tree will stick).
1. Paint the corks with acrylic paint or, best of all, apply PVA glue and sprinkle glitter on top.
2. After painting the corks (reels), glue them together in a pyramid (see image) using hot glue or superglue.
* It is advisable to glue one row of corks first, then another, and so on until you have the required number of rows. After that, simply glue all the rows together.
3. Cut part of the cardboard tube from the toilet paper, start wrapping it with twine, adding PVA glue to help the twine stick better. You've got a stump.
4. Using hot glue, glue the stump to the tree.
You can glue a button, ribbon, toy or paper star or arc a small suitable object.
Crafts for the New Year (step-by-step photo instructions): snowflakes from clothespins
You will need:
Regular wooden clothespins
Little ones decorative clothespins(optional)
Medium clothespins (optional)
White acrylic paint
Sponge brush
Glitter, fake snow or salt
PVA glue
Thin wire.
* In this example, 6 clothespins of each size are used to make one snowflake. Therefore, purchase the required quantity and better with a reserve.
1. First, get rid of the spring mechanisms on the clothespins.
2. Paint all the clothespins.
3. Using hot glue or superglue, glue large clothespins together to form a snowflake (see image).
4. Glue medium ones on top of large clothespins, and stick small ones on top of medium ones.
5. Cover the resulting decoration with PVA glue and sprinkle glitter, artificial snow or salt on top. You can also use decorative snow (spray).
6. Thread a wire or ribbon through the hole in the clothespins to create a loop to help hang the clothespin.
Crafts for the New Year on the Christmas tree: patterns from puzzle pieces
You will need:
Small parts from old puzzles
Acrylic paint (in this example red, green and white)
Tassels
PVA glue or hot glue
Twine or thin ribbon
Small bell (optional)
Various decorations (optional).
You can create several variations of wreaths and other Christmas tree decorations from puzzle pieces, and here are some of them:
Puzzle candy
1. First, paint a few parts that you are going to use for the craft. In this example, 6 parts were painted red and 6 white.
2. When the paint is dry, use PVA glue to connect the parts together.
3. All that remains is to add the ribbon. If you have a hole between two puzzle pieces, insert the tape through it, and if there is none, just glue it, staple it, or make a hole with scissors.
Puzzle wreath
1. First glue all the parts together to make a circle (wreath).
2. Paint the parts in the desired color.
* If desired, after the paint has dried, you can paint some details in a different color.
3. You can attach a bell to the wreath. Thread the ribbon through the bell and then through the wreath and you can decorate your Christmas tree.
The best crafts for the New Year: New Year's candles
You will need:
Cardboard rolls for paper towels and toilet paper
* In this example we used: 3 bushings of 30 cm, 2 bushings of 20 cm, 3 bushings of 15 cm, 2 bushings of 10 cm, 1 bushing of 5 cm. But you can use other sizes by cutting some of the bushings.
Electrical tape or tape
Hot glue
Spray paint or acrylic paint
Battery-powered electric candles
Sequins
PVA glue.
1. Glue the sleeves together to form one large candlestick.
2. Using electrical tape, duct tape or tape (preferably double-sided), attach the spark plugs to the bushings.
3. Use hot glue on the sleeve to imitate candle wax. Squeeze the glue to create large and small drips of wax.
You can make several layers of “wax” - first apply one, wait until it dries, and then apply the second one on top.
*You will need a lot of glue.
*Hot glue may create unwanted "threads". They can be cut with scissors or melted with a hair dryer.
4. Prepare acrylic paint and start painting the entire candlestick from cardboard sleeves. Choose the color yourself.
5. When the paint is dry, cover the candle holder with PVA glue and sprinkle glitter on top of it.
6. Apply PVA glue to the lower part of the candlestick (the lower parts of the bushings) and glue it to a paper plate so that the structure holds better.
7. Using hot glue, attach tinsel or garland to the candle holder and plate. You can add other decorations, such as a toy bird, artificial berries and flowers, ribbons, stars and beads.
Crafts for the New Year with children: New Year's lights from cardboard tubes
You will need:
Cardboard toilet paper rolls (their number depends on the number of lights)
Twine
Colored paper or colored cardboard
Hot glue or PVA glue
Scissors.
1. First, all the bushings need to be pressed down.
2. Cut each bushing into pieces (rings) 5-7 mm wide.
3. Glue the rings to the colored cardboard.
4. Trim the glued rings.
5. Now all the resulting lanterns need to be connected with twine.
To do this, the twine can be glued directly to the lanterns (with reverse side colored cardboard).
* Or you can cut out small rectangles from cardboard or paper, bend them in half and glue them to the lanterns. Next, glue twine to these rectangles, bend them and glue the ends.
Lanterns can be hung on the Christmas tree, or used to decorate your home or other objects.
Creative DIY crafts for the New Year: burlap Christmas tree
You will need:
White jute burlap (decorative, for needlework)
*You can use other fabric, such as linen.
Scissors
Double-sided tape
Cone (you can buy foam or make it yourself from paper)
To learn how to make a cone, check out our article:Paper cone .
1. Cut the fabric into wide strips - about 5 cm.
2. Using double-sided tape, start gluing the strips around the cone, from bottom to top (see image). Each subsequent strip should slightly overlap the bottom strip.
* If necessary, use scissors to shorten the length of the strips.
*Adjust the fabric to make it lie the way you like.
3. The Christmas tree can be placed on a small pot, which can be filled with artificial snow, pebbles or sand.
* You can decorate the Christmas tree by gluing it to it (using PVA glue or hot glue) various decorations- pompoms, stars, buttons, etc.
You will need:
Small spruce branches (preferably artificial)
Artificial berries
Small tray.
1. First place the tray on a flat surface. Add spruce branches to the sides.
2. Now add the pine cones. They can be placed on top of the branches.
3. Continue adding pine cones to the tray, distributing them however you like.
4. Add a few more spruce branches between the cones.
5. Now you can add a few branches with artificial berries.
*If desired, some parts can be attached using hot glue.
* You can also sprinkle this New Year's decoration with artificial snow, salt or glitter, and to make this “snow” stick well, you can lightly coat the top of the cones with PVA glue.
Homemade crafts for the New Year: elegant spruce wreath
You will need:
Wreath (you can buy ready-made or make it yourself)
To find out how you can make a wreath with your own hands, visit our articles with detailed instructions: DIY New Year's wreath and DIY Christmas wreath
Decorative snow (spray and in regular form)
* As an alternative to decorative snow, you can use salt and PVA glue. Place the wreath on the table and apply glue to the top part, then sprinkle generously with salt.
Candles (can be used decorative candles on batteries) of different sizes
Decorative branches (preferably white)
Round tray (you can use a board).
1. Place the wreath on a flat surface and sprinkle its top branches with decorative snow. After this, wait until the “snow” dries and hardens.
2. Place the snow wreath on a round tray, board or even cardboard.
3. Place candles in the center of the composition. To make candles look beautiful, try to place an odd number - 3 or 5, for example.
4. Now add white decorative branches.
5. Add decorative snow or a few piles of salt to the base of the candles.
Cool crafts for the New Year: table decorations
You will need:
Christmas balls
Superglue or hot glue
Decorative twigs and berries.
1. Remove the fasteners from the ball.
2. Apply glue to the branches in those places that will come into contact with the neck of the New Year's ball.
* You can fill the balloon with water so that you can insert a real flower or a couple of real spruce branches into it for scent.
DIY craft ideas for the New Year: a simple star made from ribbon
You will need:
Small board (plywood)
Small nails or screws
Chalk, marker or pencil
Bright ribbon
Scissors.
1. Draw a regular 5-pointed star on the board.
2. Nail or screw screws to the ends of the drawn star.
3. Starting from the top point, begin wrapping tape around the nails (screws) along the lines of the drawn star. You can tie a bow on top. Use scissors to cut off the excess tape.
Craft for kindergarten for the New Year: ice cream for the Christmas tree
You will need:
Corrugated paper or thin wrapping paper
Brown colored paper or cardboard or paper bag
Scissors
PVA glue
Thread and needle (if necessary)
Thread or ribbon (to hang the toy on the Christmas tree).
1. Make small cones out of paper or cardboard. To do this, cut out a circle (in this example, the diameter of the circle is 12 cm). Cut the circle in half and roll each of the resulting semicircles into a cone, gluing the ends together.
More detailed instructions You will find information on creating a cone in our article: Paper cone.
2. Crumple several pieces of corrugated paper or thin colored paper so that you get small balls - these will be paper ice cream balls.
3. If you want to hang your decoration, then thread a thread and a needle through the center of the paper ball. Secure the ends of the thread in place with glue and trim off the excess.
*If you want to use ribbon, just glue it to the cone and you can hang it on the tree.
4. Apply glue to the bottom of the paper ball and glue it to the cone. You can also apply glue to the edge of the cone.
The ice cream is ready and you can decorate the Christmas tree with it.
How to make a craft for the New Year (video): a snowman from a sock
You can create a New Year's atmosphere with products self made, cut out of paper. They are called vytynanki, which means “clippings.” Here you can find silhouettes of New Year's heroes: Father Frost and Snow Maiden, snowmen, gnomes, various Christmas trees, balls and bells, snowflakes, snow-covered houses, figurines of deer and cute animals.
Today we offer you stencils New Year's vytynanok various topics. Let's be inspired by the actions of masters and finished works for decorating windows, Christmas trees, postcards, New Year's scene. The given templates can be easily printed on a sheet of white paper, cut out and pasted on the window with soapy water, or fixed in other corners of the New Year's interior.
With small cutouts you can decorate a window or create a composition on a windowsill or table; larger cutouts can be used to decorate walls in a room or on a stage.
These are the images you might end up with:
Stencils for vytynanok silhouette cut Snow Maidens and Father Frost:
Choose your favorite stencil with the image of Grandfather Frost and his granddaughter. As a tool, you can use thin scissors, stationery knives, you will definitely need a backing board so as not to scratch the table.
Vytynanka Christmas tree
You can cut out the Christmas tree using a stencil as a silhouette, or you can make a symmetrical cutout by folding a sheet of paper in half. We make a standing Christmas tree in one of the following ways: glue two symmetrical Christmas trees onto an oval paper stand, or fold each Christmas tree in half and glue it together.
Snowflakes and ballerinas
Snowflakes are very different. Especially if the master uses all his imagination. So, you can cut out a symmetrical snowflake by folding the paper several times. Look what design was applied in the form of a stencil and what an unusual tip the snowflakes have.
Inside a snowflake there can be a completely independent composition. For example, a New Year's snowman or a snowy forest.
Snowflakes can take the form of light snow ballerinas. To do this, cut out the silhouette of a ballerina separately, put an openwork snowflake on it and hang it by a thread. It turns out to be a very delicate airy decoration.
Christmas balls
Christmas decorations can be cut either according to a symmetrical pattern or according to an individual stencil. These decorations can be used to complement a composition on a window, decorate a Christmas tree, or attach them with threads to a chandelier or curtain.
Bells
We make carved bells using a stencil. If you glue translucent paper, for example, tracing paper, to the inside of the cutout, then such a bell can be used with a backlight effect.
Reindeer, sleigh, cart
Another fabulous New Year's hero is the deer. The delivery of the wizard Father Frost and the Snow Maiden is associated with it. We offer stencils for cutting out deer, carts and sleighs.
Snowmen
Charming good-natured Snowmen should definitely decorate the New Year's house. It’s easy to cut out their figures symmetrically, or you can make a “family photo of Snowmen” or a composition with a Christmas tree and children.
New Year numbers
You can cut beautiful numbers New Year's Eve using these templates:
Beasts, signs and symbols
You can make a custom New Year's decoration. To do this, we cut out paper silhouettes of our favorite pets, fairy tale and cartoon characters, birds and animals in a fabulous winter forest.
Cut out the figures of the sun and moon using stencils and complete your composition.
Snowy houses
It will be very cozy if New Year's picture there will be a snow-covered house on the window. It could be a small hut or a whole palace.
Children
Who is looking forward to the New Year and Santa Claus the most? Well, of course, children! Using silhouette paper cutting, we make figures of children near the Christmas tree, with gifts, singing and dancing, in a word, we bring the true atmosphere of the holiday!
Candle
We offer options for vytynanok - candles. They can be independent or combined with balls, bells, branches and bows.
Nativity
For Christmas, you can cut out thematic patterns dedicated to the events and circumstances of this event. These can be silhouettes of Jerusalem, images of angels, shepherds and wise men. And don't forget about the Star of Bethlehem!
You can separately cut out the silhouette of the Star of Bethlehem:
The central place among the Christmas decorations should, of course, be given to the Nativity scene - the cave in which the Savior was born. The manger of the Divine Child is comfortably surrounded by hay and domestic animals.
Composition with lighting
With openwork paper cutouts you can decorate not only the window, but also create a three-dimensional panorama on the windowsill. It will be especially impressive if you put a garland or small lights inside the box.
Get involved in the design of New Year's decorations - made of paper with your children. This is not only useful for developing imagination, training fine motor skills hands, but it will also give you a lot of pleasure from joint creativity, and then from contemplating the resulting beauty!
Crazy fun activity- to celebrate the New Year, and even more fun - to prepare for it, decorate the apartment, make Christmas tree decorations, snowflakes and other crafts. Such moments are especially joyful for children, because children, as a rule, appreciate handmade crafts much more than adults. Already in kindergarten, a child can please mom, dad and teacher with a beautiful cut-out applique or applique made from colored paper and cotton pads almost without the help of adults. And in primary school A child himself can make crafts that an adult cannot do. Children, moreover, have a very developed imagination and, sometimes, they invent incredible beauty works of children's art. Here are some ideas for New Year's crafts for children, and most of them also come with master classes.
CLICK ON THE CRAFT YOU LIKE TO LEARN HOW TO DO!
Children's Christmas tree toys made of paper
Decorate New Year tree DIY toys have been fashionable at all times. After all, making these toys unites the family, everyone, young and old, helps, even wayward teenagers are excited New Year's gifts They enthusiastically rush to help their little ones :) You can look at a craft made with your own hands for hours... It seems to come to life, it breathes if it is made with love.
New Year's toys made from cones are the simplest and most original. The cone is such a magical figure that it can be turned into either Father Frost, the Snow Maiden, or the symbol of the year, and 2018 is the year of the dog.
Absolutely the same principle is used to make other crafts from cones. Glue a beard to Santa Claus on a cone, cut it and bend it. Let's draw a face. Attach the mustache. If you glue a string to the top, you can hang this craft on the Christmas tree. The video master class will open after clicking on the picture with Santa Claus.
You can also make these children’s crafts from white paper and color them:
And we can’t live without a Christmas tree, but we will also have one made from paper cones:
A little easier: stick green loops on the cone. We fold short strips of paper into a loop and glue the ends together. Glue the loops onto the cylinder, the tree is ready.
For junior group kindergarten Let's simplify the tree even more. All you need to do is stick all sorts of different stickers on the cone, and so your impromptu Christmas tree is decorated.
And let’s not forget about the angels, they will look simply lovely on the Christmas tree, and the realization that they were made with your own hands will further lift the already festive mood.
Another fairly easy to make toys from paper strips:
Another popular topic is making balls from paper circles. We cut circles, bend them in half, glue the halves together to form a ball. Let's make a snowman using the same technique:
Children's origami
The creation of origami figures develops well the motor skills of children's hands, no matter how old they are. It’s difficult to do without a diagram, but if you print out our templates and ask your child to roll according to the diagram, he’ll definitely do it. What do we have from New Year's origami? First of all, Santa Claus >>
And folding the Snow Maiden from two squares is even easier:
New Year's snowflakes for children
Nothing is more mesmerizing than the beauty of a snowflake in the palm of your hand. Its clear, precise geometric shapes, identical rays, but at the same time, all snowflakes are different and there is not a single one in the world that is the same.
It is still difficult for kindergarten children to cut out an even, symmetrical snowflake, but it is easy to make one from paper loops. We cut the paper into short strips, glue the ends together - the loops are ready. Now cut out a circle of paper and glue loops onto it.
Decorating a New Year tree or windows is not complete without snowflakes, especially since with the advent of plastic double-glazed windows in our lives, children stopped seeing fancy Frost patterns on the windows of our apartments, it’s a shame... We fill in the missing snow patterns by cutting out snowflakes from paper or napkins.
No matter how complicated it may seem, it is actually beautifully symmetrical New Year's snowflake very easy to do. A snowflake has 6 rays, and in no case 8, keep this in mind when you do it. Cut out a square from paper. Bend it diagonally. Then we bend the resulting triangle in half. We bend the left and right corners into the middle. Here is a blank snowflake with 6 rays. See step by step: how to make the correct blank for a snowflake with 6 rays from paper >> A diagram simple snowflakes by clicking on the picture:
Now, no matter what you cut out of this folded triangle, you will get a snowflake in any case. The kid will need your help here, and the schoolchild should already figure out how to bend and how to cut. If you are too lazy to come up with ideas yourself, here are the snowflake patterns >>
The more slits and cuts you make, the airier and more delicate your snowflake will be.
Children's New Year's applique made of colored paper
Give your child a sheet of colored cardboard and many different rectangles of multi-colored paper, including white (after all, it’s winter outside the window), and we are sure he will create a masterpiece applique. And the secret is simple. The rectangles resemble houses. And we tear white paper into pieces and glue it - there you have snow.
And if you add a few cotton pads to this whole set, then it will be difficult to keep you from wanting to make New Year's applique:) The discs can be replaced with paper circles, but take the trouble to cut them out for your child yourself.
DIY children's New Year cards
Well, the room and the tree have been decorated, now you need to think about your loved ones. They all need to do something New Year's card, and so soulful that on a frosty day it warms you with its warmth, when you admire it and remember the giver.
The child is still small - we make a postcard by analogy with the applique. Already in senior group kindergarten? Then he can master the skill of creating a three-dimensional postcard!
First, fold a sheet of cardboard in half, this will be the base of the postcard. Now we cut out 3 stripes from colored paper, one smaller than the other. We bend them into an accordion. Next, bend each one in half to form a fan. Glue it together. Glue it inside the card. Decorating the Christmas tree :)
And if you use unnecessary colored magazines or craft paper to design a postcard, and cut them into triangles and stripes, then we will have very different Christmas trees and none of them will be the same.
Or this Christmas tree:
And if you combine origami and volumetric applique from the loops, and also remember how to cut out snowflakes, a masterpiece will come out:
In any case, no matter what kind of craft you do with children, it is always interesting, and the result is pleasing. Don't scold your child if it's not too neat. Praise him and tell him that next time he will do even better :) Happy New Year!
To decorate your Christmas tree with “precious paper stones”, you just need to print ready-made templates, cut them out and glue Christmas tree decorations from paper.
Before completely gluing the craft together, attach a loop from the inside, using which you will then hang the toy on the Christmas tree. Finished paper stones can be coated with glitter for beauty.
Templates small size: template-1 template-2 template-3 template-4 template-5
On the same site you can download a template for another, more difficult to make New Year's paper craft - a paper diamond. It can also be used as a Christmas tree toy or New Year's decoration. Download template >>>>
Print New Year's scheme diamond on thick colored paper, cut it out. Before gluing the craft, carefully, using a ruler, scratch the fold lines (marked with dotted lines) with a needle to make the paper easier to fold. Note: if suddenly you printed the template from the link given above, but the dotted line is not visible on it, you can use this template. Everything is the same here, only there is no dotted line.
And more New Year's paper crafts from the site www.minieco.co.uk:
New Year's paper decorations
2. New Year's paper crafts. New Year's paper toys
Paper bells
3. New Year's decoration. New Year decoration
The Creative Park website from Canon, probably already known to many, will help you decorate your Christmas tree with handmade paper toys. Christmas tree toys - bells, hearts, candies, Christmas tree decorations in the form New Year's boxes- all this and much more can be found on the Creative Park website.
4. DIY New Year's decorations. How to make New Year's
We invite you to make simple Christmas tree decorations from paper, decorated with photographs of family members. To do this, you need to download the Christmas tree decoration templates from the link, cut out individual squares, bend their corners and glue them together. New Year's paper toy blue color need to trim, round corners. See photo below.
In the photo below, a New Year's paper toy with the image of Santa Claus is made in a similar way. You can download the template.
5. New Year's ideas. New Year's master class
Another interesting New Year's idea - Christmas decorations origami wreath. To make such a paper wreath you will need to cut beautiful paper into strips 4 cm wide and 8 cm long. A total of 8 strips are needed. Each strip must first be folded in half lengthwise, and then crosswise in half. Holding the workpiece with the open edge up, bend its upper corners down as shown in the photo. Cm. New Year's master class via link >>>> From the resulting blanks, assemble a New Year's wreath, inserting them one into the other.
6. Christmas tree decorations made of paper. How to make a New Year's toy
Most people associate ice cream with hot weather and summer vacation However, Christmas decorations in the form of waffle cups with a delicious delicacy look very festive and original on the New Year tree. To make these New Year's paper toys you will need craft packaging paper (for the cups) and corrugated paper of different colors for the ice cream itself.
Cut out circles from kraft paper and cut them in half. Fold each semicircle into a cone and glue it together. Corrugated paper Crumple different colors into lumps; for one Christmas tree decoration you will need two such lumps. Now you need to string “cups” and “ice cream” onto a thread, making loops on top, for which you will then hang Christmas paper decorations on the Christmas tree. See the New Year's master class at the link >>>>
7. Christmas tree decorations made of paper. New Year's schemes
In Denmark, there is a tradition of decorating the New Year tree with wicker paper baskets in the shape of hearts. The photo below shows traditional wicker paper baskets. They can be hung on the Christmas tree empty or filled with small candies, nuts, and cookies.
To make this DIY paper Christmas decoration, you need to print the following template on two sheets of paper of different colors. Cut them out, fold them in half, make three cuts. You should end up with two pieces like this.
Now you need to weave them together to make a paper heart basket. For a detailed New Year's master class on how to weave a paper basket, see the link >>>>
Here are a few more New Year's paper baskets for the Christmas tree:
With snowflakes
