Interesting New Year's crafts can be made from scrap materials, adding them to the collection of Christmas tree decorations or making elements for interior decor. To do this, you can use familiar materials (paper, felt, threads, salted dough) or completely unexpected (socks, light bulbs, isolon, plastic bottles).
In this article:
- Christmas crafts from light bulbs
- Interesting crafts from cones
- Work from buttons for the New Year
- Christmas lights from cans
- Christmas crafts from salt dough
- Toy snowman made of sock
- Crafts-pendants on a Christmas tree from plastic bottles
- Christmas snowflake and other crafts from Izolona
- A winter's tale in a plastic cup
- Paper crafts in the New Year's theme
- Christmas tree, wreath, ball and other from threads
- Felt Christmas tree toys
- Crafts from ice cream sticks
- What can be made from pom-poms for the New Year
Christmas crafts from light bulbs
It is better not to throw out a burned-out light bulb on New Year's Eve, because you can make beautiful and bright toys for the Christmas tree out of them.
For manufacturing you will need:
- burnt out light bulbs;
- glue;
- sequins, rhinestones or a DVD disc cut into small squares;
- gouache;
- satin ribbon;
- twigs;
- felt for a hat and scarf.
How to make an interesting toy:
The easiest option: cover the glass part of the bulb with glue and sprinkle with sparkles or glue rhinestones, squares from the disk. After drying, glue a satin ribbon loop so that you can hang the toy on the tree.
For the penguin, you will need to paint the bulb of the light bulb with black and white gouache, draw a nose and eyes, and after it dries, build a scarf and a hat from small pieces of felt.
For a snowman's toy, great artistic skills are not required. The light bulb is painted white or pasted over with white sparkles. The eyes and mouth are drawn with dots of black gouache, and the nose is drawn with red. Decor elements (scarf, hat) are glued to the dried light bulb. Snowman's hands can also be drawn or made from twigs.
Interesting crafts from cones
A bright cone on a Christmas tree is already an ornament if you hang it on a string. And if you turn it over and put it on a stand, then this is a miniature street. What is needed to create such beauty?
List of materials:
- the opened bump - as a base;
- paints and sparkles for decorating toys;
- bright foam balls - for decorating a miniature Christmas tree;
- colored paper - for the asterisk on the top of the head;
- glue - to glue decorative elements;
- tape or rope - for a loop;
- salted dough - for a stand.
The sequence of creating any toy from cones is quite simple, and you can repeat it just by looking at the photo of the finished work.
Work from buttons for the New Year
If the sewing box has a lot of buttons, then you can make a New Year's keychain or a miniature pendant in the shape of a Christmas tree or Christmas wreath from them.
The keychain can be presented as a homemade gif.webpt to your mom, sister or girlfriend.
Sequence of work:
- On a bright metal cord of sufficient length, string buttons of different diameters so that their outlines repeat the silhouette of the Christmas tree. Crown the top with an asterisk button. Tie a knot on the lace so that the pendant can be hung.
- For a Christmas wreath, green buttons of different diameters are strung and closed into a ring. A ribbon bow is tied from above, and an interesting pendant is ready.
- Another option for a Christmas tree made of buttons: make a cone from soft foam rubber, paint it green and decorate with buttons with pins.
Christmas lights from cans
The soft light of candles makes New Year's evenings fabulous, but handmade lamps can betray them even more soulfulness.
To make them you will need:
- glass jars;
- lace,
- paper,
- paint;
- duct tape;
- glue;
- candles.
The candles don't have to be real. It is safer to use LED candles, which are not much more expensive than conventional ones.
The sequence of actions for different luminaire options:
- Paste a clean and dry glass jar with lace or a tourniquet, creating an interesting fabulous pattern on it.
- For the second option, sticky fly (masking tape) is glued to the jar, repeating the silhouette, for example, of a Christmas tree. Then the jar is painted with white acrylic paint, and after it dries, the tape is removed.
- You can cut out silhouettes of houses or trees from white paper and stick them on a prepared jar.
- After that, it remains only to fix the candle inside and set it on fire.
Salt dough crafts
A rolling pin, cuttings for cookies and paint - all you need to make decorations from salt dough, and for the dough itself you need to take:
- 1 cup fine salt
- 2 cups of flour;
- ½ glass of water;
- 10 ml of vegetable oil.
Preparation:
- Mix salt and sifted flour in a deep bowl.
- Pour sunflower oil to the bulk ingredients, then gradually adding water to knead the plastic dough.
In the process of kneading, you can paint the dough with vegetable juice or paints. You can store the mass for modeling for no more than a day by wrapping it in foil and putting it in the refrigerator. You can dry the finished work naturally at room temperature or in the oven at 50-75 degrees.
Christmas sock snowman toy
For a funny snowman made of socks you will need:
- 1 white sock;
- 1 bright sock;
- buttons for decoration;
- cereal;
- rope or elastic bands;
- scissors.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Cut off part of the foot to the heel at the white sock. Fill it with cereal and tie it on top with a rope or elastic band.
- Cut off the top and bottom of the colored sock. From the top, make a sweater, intercepting the body with a rope or elastic band to highlight the head. Make a hat from the bottom.
- Decorate the face and sweater with buttons, beads or other elements. Interesting examples for inspiration can be found in the selection of photos.
And by clicking on the link you will find patterns of knitted snowmen with a description.
Crafts-pendants on a Christmas tree from plastic bottles
The curly bottoms of plastic bottles can be easily turned into original snowflake pendants. To do this, you need to carefully cut them off and apply a fantasy drawing with paints. When the paint dries, make a hole with a hot awl through which to thread a loop, and you can decorate the Christmas tree.
Here you will find other Christmas toys from plastic bottles.
New Year's snowflake and other interesting crafts from Izolon
Izolon is polyethylene foam, which is intended for warming rooms, but the craftswomen have adapted to using this unusual material for their work. Large voluminous flowers are made from it, according to the same principle as from foamiar.
Isolon 2-4 mm thick is used for work. In the process, templates of individual parts are cut out of it and glued together with hot glue. It can be used to make a large volumetric snowflake or other pendant to decorate a Christmas tree or interior.
A winter's tale in a plastic cup
Snow globes with cozy houses will enchant you with their beauty. A similar thing can be done from a plastic cup, only it must be transparent.
First, a winter composition is assembled on a cardboard mug. For her, you can use small toys from a kinder surprise and artificial snow that are suitable for the topic. Cover the finished base with a plastic glass on top, gluing it well. If you make a loop on top of the cup, then it can be hung on the Christmas tree.
Paper crafts in the New Year's theme
Snowflakes are the most popular paper Christmas decorations, but they are not the only ones you can use to decorate your home. For creative paper work, white and colored paper, cardboard, cardboard rolls from paper towels are suitable.
From them you can make a pendant for a Christmas tree-spiral, a gingerbread house, a postcard, a garland, funny deer, or just fill a transparent Christmas ball with strips of paper.
Christmas tree, New Year's wreath, ball and other made of threads
To work in this technique you will need:
- multi-colored threads;
- PVA glue;
- basis for future crafts: cone, balloon, Christmas ball, etc.;
- decor elements: beads, buttons, rhinestones.
Priority of actions:
- For openwork ornaments, threads smeared with glue are wound on the base, then the base (for example, a balloon) is carefully removed, and then decorated to your taste.
- If the base is not removed, then the threads are tightly glued to it, due to their texture, very interesting crafts are obtained.
Felt Christmas tree toys
Even a child can work with this material. To sew a beautiful felt toy for the Christmas tree, you will need:
- Cut out two halves of a ball, tree or star.
- Sew them with a seam "forward needle" along the contour, fill with padding polyester.
- Then sew on a loop and embroider with threads, beads or beads.
The Blue Water Tiger will become the symbol of the New Year 2022. Therefore, we have prepared a master class and patterns for sewing a New Year's Tiger from felt.
Interesting crafts from ice cream sticks
Even sticks that are left over from ice cream can be used for Christmas toys. To do this, you only need to glue them together, turning, for example, into a herringbone. The finished work is painted and decorated.
What can be made from pom-poms for the New Year?
Thread pompons are made as follows:
- Two identical circles with a hole in the center are cut out of cardboard.
- The circles are folded together, then wrapped with thread.
- Then the threads are carefully cut along the sides.
- The circles are slightly moved apart, in the middle they are tightly tied with a thread and fluffed.
If you need to make a lot of pompons, you can use this scheme:
Ready-made pom-poms can be glued to the cone, turning it into a fluffy Christmas tree or making another craft in the New Year's theme. Commercial polyester pom poms can be used.
Making interesting crafts for the New Year with the child, parents organize useful leisure activities that bring all family members closer together, develops creative inclinations and fine motor skills of the kids. The main thing is that such creativity does not require significant financial costs, since unnecessary things are often used as materials (burnt out light bulbs, ice cream sticks, old buttons). Enjoy your creativity and happy holiday!
