At what age can a child be involved in creativity? The earlier the better. As soon as he learns to hold scissors and a glue brush in his hands. What you can do at an early age, light crafts for the New Year will prompt and help you get inspired.
Christmas trees made from ice cream sticks
Sticks left over from ice cream can be used to create light Christmas tree crafts. The main materials that will be needed:
- 3 or more wooden ice cream sticks;
- paints;
- glue.
Additionally, for decoration, you can use rhinestones, buttons, threads, colored pompoms and more.
How to do:
- For the first option, three sticks are glued into a triangle and painted green. The trunk of the tree can be made from stick scraps, brown paper, or a clothesline. After that, wooden sticks are decorated. For greater splendor, you can wrap a triangle of sticks with green threads.
- For another option, on a brown stick (trunk), stick across the stick from a larger size to a smaller one, decorate and attach a pendant. You can also decorate a real New Year tree with such a toy.
Easy crafts in the New Year theme from threads
From threads, you can make a wall panel on a paper plate, a pendant on a Christmas tree or an openwork volumetric Christmas tree. Absolutely any thread is suitable for crafts. This is a good way to attach leftovers and trims after knitting.
What and how to do:
- For a voluminous openwork Christmas tree, wind the threads coated with PVA glue on a cardboard cone. To make it easier to remove the tree from the base later, the cardboard can be wrapped in foil. After the work has dried, remove the thread cone and decorate with beads, rhinestones and other things. By analogy with the herringbone, you can make pendants in the form of balls and stars.
- For the panel, cut a triangle in the center of the paper plate. Make holes along its sides, into which to pry the threads. Fasten the ends of the threads with tape from the inside out, and decorate the Christmas tree itself.
- The triangle remaining from the plate can also be turned into a pendant. To do this, it is wrapped with threads and decorated like a Christmas tree.
Simple and easy paper crafts
What you can't think of out of paper: snowflakes, cards, New Year's mobile, voluminous fluffy spruce, safe candles for decorating a Christmas tree, paper garlands and much more.
These crafts are fairly inexpensive as most of them only require scissors, glue, and paper. You can use not only colored paper for creativity, but also bright packaging paper, paper towel rolls and even old magazines.
You can repeat any of the works without a description from the photo, and for children such an activity will have a beneficial effect on the development of fine motor skills of the hands.
Crafts for the New Year from strips of paper
If the child is very small and still does not cope well with scissors, you can simplify his task by immediately cutting the paper into strips, which he can then cut into pieces of the desired length.
From such strips you can make:
- postcards by gluing the pieces onto a sheet of thick cardboard (other ideas for homemade postcards are here);
- a garland, chipping the pieces with a heart-shaped stapler;
- snowman pendant, heart, flashlight and others; in this case, the parts can also be fastened with a stapler;
- a Christmas wreath made of pieces of green paper pasted around the base;
- lush spruce by attaching the pieces to a cardboard cone.
Using straws, twigs and strings in work
Christmas trees can be made from such improvised materials as cocktail tubes and small twigs (by analogy with works from ice cream sticks).
Another option for eating: thread a tube into a triangular blank made of paper by analogy with a sail. If you insert the tubes into a base ball, for example, made of plasticine, you get a beautiful volumetric snowflake-star.
Easy crafts for the New Year from felt
Resistant to spilling edges and a vibrant color palette, felt is an ideal material for creativity for children of all ages. Step-by-step work with felt is as follows:
- Find the template of the animal you like (according to this link, the symbol of the year is felt).
- Print and make patterns of individual elements.
- Cut out pieces of felt of the corresponding colors.
- Glue the parts together.
Older children can sew two flat blanks and, stuffing them with padding polyester, turn them into a voluminous toy. It is important to remember that parents should not leave their children unattended while they are working with scissors and a needle.
Simple Christmas trees from baking tins
Does your mom like to bake delicious muffins and does she have a lot of tins to bake them? With the youngest children, they can be turned into beautiful Christmas trees, for this:
- I fold the cupcake molds in half one to three times.
- These blanks are glued onto a dense cardboard base.
- Decorate the craft.
Simple crafts from decorative pompons
Plush pom poms for creativity can be used both for decoration and for creating individual pom poms. They can be glued, sewn on or strung on a thread or fishing line.
For the baby, they will be bright decorative elements. If the child is already attending school, he can make a voluminous Christmas tree out of foam pom-poms and take it as a school New Year's craft. This is a simple job, but it is highly likely that preschool children simply do not have enough perseverance to paste over the entire workpiece.
Pendants and panels from buttons
By stringing buttons of different colors and different diameters on a thick thread or thin wire, you can create cute keychain pendants. The simplest of them is a Christmas wreath or a fir tree, but if you choose the buttons more carefully, you can make a snowman with a hat and even Santa Claus.
A simpler version of button work is applique. To do it:
- The contours of the future image are drawn on thick cardboard. The simpler it is, the better.
- With the help of glue, fill the picture with buttons of the corresponding colors. You can use buttons of different diameters and textures.
If, for example, a star is cut out of cardboard and pasted over on both sides, then it can become a pendant for decorating a Christmas tree.
Simple crafts for the New Year from cones
A cone is a simplified image of a spruce, which is why it is most often used in New Year's crafts. In shops for creativity, you can buy a ready-made foam base, which you just need to glue with twine, colored or wrapping paper and decorate.
But if you didn't manage to buy a blank, you can make it yourself from thick cardboard. And two or more cones of different diameters, stacked on top of each other, will make the work more realistic.
And here are other ideas for Christmas trees from a cone.
Easy crafts from cotton pads
From cotton pads, you can create a real winter landscape with a snow-covered tree, a snowman, deep snowdrifts and snow-covered roofs of houses. For work, you will need a cardboard base, glue, cotton pads, felt for colored elements, scissors and a little imagination.
Salt dough magic
Very beautiful Christmas tree decorations can be made from salted dough:
- 1 part flour;
- 1 part fine salt;
- some water to knead a tight dough.
Dough products can be air dried or oven dried. Light crafts for the New Year can be made in a short time, but the benefits of such work will be enormous. After all, the child will have fun and usefully spend time with his parents, learn to use familiar objects outside the box, and thanks to the finished work, the house will be filled with a magical New Year's Eve atmosphere.
