Paper Christmas toys are the easiest and most economical way to decorate your home for the holiday. Using one of the simple schemes or instructions, even a beginner in this type of creativity can make cute jewelry.
Content:
- Conventional does not mean ugly
- Crafts from strips with your own hands
- Beautiful garlands
- We decorate the doors
- Paper toys by templates
- Paper as a pretext for fantasy
Stereotyped does not mean ugly
One of the easiest ways to make paper crafts is to cut out decorations according to certain patterns or patterns. Even graceful ornaments or silhouettes simply attached to the window will become a real decoration of the interior, the templates of which can be found in the stencils section and printed. A similar decor is attached to the window using scotch tape, klester or water - after the end of the holidays, no traces will remain on the glass.
When working with templates with a large number of small parts, the cutting of which will require filigree precision, it is better to use a breadboard knife, and place the template itself on a special rigid base that protects the work surface from damage.
Crafts from strips with your own hands
New Year's toys made from pieces of paper will turn out to be graceful and airy. Colored paper, cut into strips of different lengths, will become the basis for creating a variety of different decorations. Traditional Christmas lanterns, Christmas tree pendants, romantic hearts are very easy to make with your own hands.
For a Christmas tree decorated in bright colors, as well as for creating a New Year's interior in a romantic style, hearts made of paper strips are suitable. To make one heart about 10-11 cm high you will need:
- red, green and orange paper stripes 20, 25 and 30 cm long and 1.5 cm wide;
- stapler;
- glue stick.
Progress:
- Bend each strip in half.
- Place the bent segments so that their folds coincide, and they themselves are located from larger (outside) to smaller (inside).
- First glue the ends of all three strips on one side, let dry a little and glue the ends of the strips on the other side. Allow to dry.
- Fasten the glued ends with a stapler. If necessary, give the heart a rounded shape.
As a New Year's compliment to a colleague or as a cute addition to a gif.webpt, homemade Christmas trees are perfect, which in just a couple of minutes can be made from green or any other paper.
It will take a little more time to create another spectacular craft. To create a round flashlight you will need:
- multi-colored paper cuts 30 cm long and 1.5 cm wide;
- 2 mug of colored paper (diameter 3 cm);
- Needle and thread matching the color of the paper strips;
- Decorative beads or balls.
Manufacturing:
- The paper strips should be placed on the surface in the desired order.
- Bend each in half.
- Fasten a bead or ball at the end of the thread.
- String all the segments in accordance with the selected color order from one end, then, without cutting off the threads, thread the strips from the other end, choosing the length of the thread so that the strips are bent.
- Thread a bead or ball over the strips, fasten the thread and make a loop out of the remaining thread so that the toy can subsequently be hung on the Christmas tree.
- The middle of the stitched strips should be separated, placing them in the shape of a ball.
If you need a needle and thread to make the previous craft, then the next toy can be made right at the school or office.To create a beautiful New Year's pendant, you only need a few colored paper pieces of different lengths and a stapler, which will need to fasten all the strips, first from one end, then from the other. They should be arranged in such a way that the shortest is in the middle, and the longest are at the edges.
Paper garlands
By fastening multi-colored fragments together, you can make another traditional New Year's decoration - a garland. Even small children can connect the segments with each other in the form of a chain, so making beautiful garlands so often becomes a joint New Year's Eve leisure in kindergartens and elementary schools.
In addition to chains, garlands can be composed of any images: repeating or united by the same style or color scheme.
Manufacturing workshop
To make Christmas toys in the form of corrugated balls, you have to work hard, but the result will exceed all expectations. Garlands of paper balloons will decorate any celebration, and pink balloons are perfect for celebrating the New Year. The manufacture of such balls is a very laborious and complex process that requires strict adherence to the scheme. Another step-by-step guide that does not require special training is suitable for beginners.
To create a simple garland you will need:
- 1 roll of corrugated paper of the desired color;
- scissors;
- glue.
Progress:
- Cut off part of the roll so that the width of the cut part is 3 cm. Do not unfold the roll before doing this.
- From the resulting mini-roll, you need to unwind a small amount of paper, while twisting the strip every 3-4 cm. You should maintain the integrity of the tape, not allowing it to break.
- The paper between the places of the curls should be straightened and given a slightly convex shape.
- Repeat the required number of times until the desired length of the future garland is achieved. Glue or glue the joints of large fragments.
Here are other examples of beautiful Christmas lights.
We decorate the doors
The custom of decorating your home with New Year's wreaths is becoming more and more popular. On sale you can find both decorations made from real needles, and various options from artificial materials. Traditionally, the Christmas wreath is attached to the front door, which is associated with some inconvenience, since the purchased wreaths are quite heavy and difficult to attach to the usually metal front door, into which it is impossible to drive a nail or drill into it. Christmas wreaths made of paper are very lightweight, so they can be fixed to the door surface even with tape.
How to do it?
You can make and decorate a New Year's wreath yourself. This will require:
- sheet of double-sided green paper A4;
- pencil and ruler;
- scissors;
- glue;
- decorative elements.
Manufacturing:
- Bend the sheet in half.
- Draw lines from the fold with a pencil so that the distance between them is 1.5 cm, and the 2 cm lines themselves do not reach the edge opposite to the fold.
- Without unbending the sheet, cut through each line, starting from the fold.
- Expand the sheet and glue the edges along the long side of the sheet (its uncut parts).
- Connect the ends of the resulting cylinder to each other and glue.
- Decorate the wreath with beads, sequins, bows. You can also use decorations cut from paper of other colors.
The process of creating a wreath from a cardboard plate will become very easy. Cut out the bottom of the plate, and glue the remaining rim with green paper strips of the same or different lengths.
Fabulously beautiful toys for children
The creation of beautiful fairy-tale figures will become a fascinating pre-New Year's activity for children. One of the many layouts of paper toys should be printed, cut and glued in the places indicated on the template.If the child is still too small to be cut with scissors, then adults should cut out the details of the toy in advance so that the child can glue them later.
Paper as a pretext for fantasy
The appearance on sale of a large assortment of paper for needlework with the widest choice of not only colors, but also textures, allows modern craftsmen not to limit their imagination. A huge number of techniques, as well as the availability of patterns and patterns of products for every taste, paved the way for almost daily creation of small masterpieces that carry not only the elegance of execution, but also the warmth of their master.
A festive interior decorated with handicrafts becomes very homely and cozy. Often, hand-made Christmas toys become real family heirlooms.
