They do not prepare for a single holiday and do not decorate their home as they do for the New Year. In addition to a fluffy Christmas tree, windows, doors, walls, open shelves and even ceilings are beautifully decorated. This is dictated by the fabulous atmosphere of the upcoming celebration. Of course, in almost any store you can find festive decor for every taste and budget, but you can make original Christmas decorations with your own hands. They will be in no way inferior to the purchased ones, while they will be unique and inimitable in their own way.
In this article decorating:
- From paper
- Salted dough
- Cones and natural materials
- From buttons
- From felt
- From fabric
- From threads
- Cotton wool
- From ginger dough
- From cans
Paper tale
It is not at all necessary to run to a craft store to buy materials and tools for creating a decor, because in every house there is a sheet of white paper, scissors and glue. This will be enough to make Christmas decorations for the whole house. After all, you can make garlands from paper, cut out snowflakes and protruding windows, as well as a winter composition from paper Christmas trees.
Garlands
This paper decoration can be hung not only on the Christmas tree. A waterfall of snowflakes, Christmas trees or stars in a doorway or on a wall will look beautiful. For work you will need:
- various colored paper or cardboard;
- long thread, thin rope or satin ribbon;
- scissors;
- additional decor - for example, beads.
The workflow is extremely simple:
- Cut out garland elements from paper or cardboard. It is better to do this according to a template so that they are all even and the same. It can be snowflakes, Christmas trees, stars, hearts, and more.
- Fasten the finished elements on the thread, alternating them or using the same ones. On the base, paper blanks can be glued, sewn, threading through them or pinned with a stapler.
- After that, the finished garland will only have to be hung in its place.
Not always for such a decoration you need a base in the form of a thread. You can assemble a garland only from paper elements: rings, small paper fans. Here are some more ideas for paper garlands.
Snowflakes
What a winter without snow, even paper? Paper snowflakes are perhaps the most popular hand-made Christmas decor. It is not difficult to cut them out and you can use them in many places, for example, to assemble a garland from them or use them as a decoration on the window.
A large voluminous snowflake will perfectly decorate your veranda or front door.
Vytynanka
Beautiful winter scenes on the windows can be created from paper vytnanki. It is better to make them from paper with a density of 200 g / m22… The image you like is printed on it, and then cut out with a sharp paper knife along the contour, placing a special rug or a clean wooden cutting board under the sheet.
The finished cutouts are glued to the windows, as usual, using ordinary soapy water. So, after the holiday, they can be easily removed, and the glass on the window can be washed. Such a New Year's decoration looks very impressive during the day, but even more beautiful at night, when the light from inside the room and the darkness on the street create beautiful shadows.
Here you can find other ideas for winter crafts with kids.
Herringbone cones
For decorating open shelves of Christmas trees made of paper or cardboard cones. They can be simple or consist of several parts. If the cone is openwork, and you place an LED candle or a light bulb inside, then an original night light will come out. You can decorate such a Christmas tree with ribbons, beads, bows, crowned with a star made of cardboard or paper on top.
Salted dough jewelry
Those who do not like to cut and glue can sculpt New Year's decorations from salt dough.Moreover, everything you need for work can be found in every home. So, for a portion of the mass for modeling, you will need to take flour and fine salt in equal proportions. Water should be added to this free-flowing mixture to obtain an elastic mix.
To create with your own hands unusual pendants on a Christmas tree from this material, it is enough to use a rolling pin, cuttings for cookies and paint. The dough must be rolled out not too thinly, cut out of it with molds, dried in the oven or at room temperature, and then painted.
Christmas decorations are usually quite bright, so it is better not to add paints to the dough during kneading, but to paint the finished products. For a glossy shine and greater durability of toys, after painting, you can open the decor with acrylic varnish.
Original decor from natural materials
The most popular natural material for creating eco-style winter decorations is fir cones. From them you can make beautiful pendants for the Christmas tree, collect a garland or a Christmas wreath on the door. Even an ordinary glass jar decorated with pine cones can turn into a stylish New Year's candlestick.
A very beautiful and original spruce can be assembled by pasting a cone-shaped base with cones of different sizes. Thick cardboard is suitable for such a blank. The cones should be glued to the "Dragon" type polymer glue. The finished product can be left in its natural color or painted, glitter and more can be added.
In addition to cones, interesting elements of New Year's decor can be created from cinnamon sticks, star anise stars, walnut shells, natural coffee grains, acorns, dried orange slices of their peel and other berries.
Button Christmas Decorations Ideas
Original decorative elements can be made from simple materials at hand, such as buttons. The simplest such craft is a Christmas tree made of green buttons collected in a pyramid. If you string the buttons on a wire, twisted into a ring, you get a miniature Christmas wreath.
Christmas balls decorated with buttons are very popular. By the same principle, you can make a herringbone-cone or a large New Year's wreath.
For work you will need:
- base in the form of a foam ball;
- buttons of various sizes and colors;
- pins with bead heads;
- satin ribbon.
How to make a beautiful ball:
- Make a loop of the required size from the satin ribbon and fasten it to the ball with a pin or glue.
- Then, threading the pins through the holes on the buttons, stick them into the ball to decorate its entire surface. If necessary, in some places, you can fix the buttons with glue.
It is not at all necessary to make a toy or decorative element entirely from buttons. They can be used as bright accents when working with fabric, felt or colored cardboard.
Felt New Year
From felt, you can make the same New Year's decorations, both from paper and from fabric. It is enough to cut out various New Year's figures (snowflakes, angels, stars, etc.), fix them on the ribbon, and the garland is ready.
You can sew beautiful volumetric pendants. To do this, the necessary parts are cut out of felt, folded together and sewn with an overlock seam, not forgetting to fill them with holofiber and sew on a loop.
How to sew fabric jewelry?
For those who are seriously interested in sewing, after sewing a particular thing, there are always small scraps of fabric that are a pity to throw away, but it will not work out especially well. They can be used for sewing New Year's decor.
One of the possible options:
- Draw by hand or use a ready-made Christmas tree pattern.
- Cut it out from the available patches.
- Sew the parts together in pairs and fill with filler.
Such soft toys can be assembled into a garland, used to decorate a spruce or a wreath, give a New Year's topiary, or add as a souvenir to a gif.webpt for a loved one.By analogy, you can sew and apply stars, bells, candies, and more.
Examples of using threads
You can make many simple, but at the same time very effective crafts from threads that will decorate the holiday. The process of making them is quite simple and even a child can handle it.
For such a decoration you will need:
- frame-base - it can be made of cardboard, foam, and to get an openwork balloon, an inflated balloon is suitable;
- glue - depending on the selected technology, you will need PVA glue or polymer glue;
- threads - when choosing them, you need to pay attention not only to the color, but also to the composition, cotton or other natural fibers should prevail in it, since they are more porous and are better absorbed with glue;
- additional decorative elements - beads, lace, stases, pom-poms.
Sequence of work:
- Buy (for example, a foam ball) or prepare (cut out of cardboard) the frame of the future toy.
- Then paste over it with threads: tightly closing the base completely or in a chaotic manner, leaving gaps between the turns. In the first case, they are glued to polymer glue, in the second, PVA is used.
- After drying, if necessary, carefully remove the frame of the toy and decorate it, as imagination suggests.
In addition to the proposed options, pompons can be made from multi-colored woolen threads, which are then assembled into a garland. For a pompom, the thread needs to be wound in a circle around two rings of cardboard, then cut the yarn between the rings and tie, and remove the base from the cardboard.
Christmas toys of our grandmothers made of cotton wool
In the photographs of the 60s of the last century, you can see beautiful Christmas tree decorations and it is hard to believe that they are made of cotton wool, but this is true. Those who are interested in the process of creating something with their own hands will like the idea of making new toys for the 2022 meeting using this old technology.
For work you will need:
- cotton wool;
- 250 ml of water;
- 30 g of potato starch;
- wire - for the frame;
- satin ribbon for the eyelet;
- paints and brushes;
- PVA glue.
Step-by-step master class:
- In order for the cotton wool to acquire the desired consistency, it must be impregnated with a paste, for which a tablespoon of starch is brewed in 250 ml of boiling water. After the mass has cooled down, you can start working.
- For the simplest Snowman toy, cotton wool is dipped into a paste, balls of different diameters are formed from it, which are strung on a wire frame.
- The workpiece is allowed to dry, then additional elements are attached with the help of PVA glue, for example, buttons, a scarf. After that, the toy is painted with paints.
Toys in the form of people (Snow Maiden, Santa Claus) used to be sculpted with papier-mâché hands. Now they can be made from salted dough or papier-mâché using molds that you can buy or make yourself. For a homemade print, dust the face of a small doll with starch and put a piece of cold porcelain on it. After hardening, carefully remove and can be used.
Edible Christmas decor
Edible Christmas tree decorations have existed at all times. Candy, pretzels and gingerbread, tangerines were hung on it. You should not deviate from this tradition even now, because there is nothing tastier than a gingerbread plucked from a Christmas tree.
Usually such decorations are baked from ginger dough. You can make it yourself or use a ready-made mixture (we have a proven recipe for gingerbread dough). You can shape the products using special cuttings or simply by cutting with a sharp knife on a cardboard stencil.
After they have cooled, they paint the finished gingerbread with icing of powdered sugar and egg white. If the imagination or talent of the artist fails, you can transfer the finished image to the gingerbread. To do this, the picture must be printed on a printer, and then transferred through a carbon copy to cooled baked goods. Do not worry about carbon paper paint, there will be so little of it that it will not affect your health in any way.
On an open shelf, you can create a beautiful New Year's composition with a gingerbread house. Its parts are also baked from ginger dough, fastened together and decorated with glaze. You can also bake small houses that will decorate a cup of hot chocolate.
With very young children, you can make an edible garland of popcorn and dried cranberries together. Such a design of a forest beauty will not only be beautiful and tasty, but will also help kids in the development of fine motor skills.
Winter in a glass jar
Now the candles have ceased to fulfill their direct function. These are rather decorative elements that make the home more comfortable, which is what you want so much in winter, especially on the eve of the New Year. Not always, it turns out to find a decent decoration for candles. It is much easier to do it yourself from a simple glass jar.
There are several ways to decorate a glass jar in the form of a candlestick:
- Cut a vytynanka out of thick cardboard (a snow-covered city, a spruce forest, etc.) and glue it on the outside of the can.
- Cut out a drawing from masking tape (snowflake or spruce), glue it to the jar, and then paint the entire container with paint. Remove the tape after drying.
- Paint a colored glass jar with acrylics in the form of geometric ornaments and patterns, as in antistress coloring pages.
- Wrap the jar with lace or openwork knitted fabric.
- Fill the container by a third with natural materials (cones, spruce branches, pebbles, berries) or decorate the outside of the jar with them.
An important point! In some cases, in order to avoid a possible fire, ordinary candles in cans should be replaced with LED ones. Also, when using wax and paraffin candles, do not leave them unattended.
With age, it becomes more and more difficult to immerse yourself in the feeling of a fairy tale, which is so familiar to every child. New Year's decorations will be able to help return the atmosphere of magic, namely the process of their creation and the subsequent decoration of the room. The main thing is not to get lost in the variety of proposed ideas.
