Every year, preparation for the main winter holiday begins earlier and earlier. The city, shop windows, all institutions are being transformed. And, of course, I immediately want to take a piece of the holiday home. If it's too early to put up the tree, then it's time to make paper garlands with your own hands. Connect the children and other family members, a fun pastime is guaranteed, and as a result, an interesting New Year's decor. Moreover, it is unique. So read on how to make New Year's garlands out of paper, turn on your imagination and bring it to life.
Content:
- Materials for work;
- Fringe or tassels;
- Asterisks;
- Bunnies and Christmas trees;
- Flashlights;
- Garlands of circles;
- New Year's streamers.
Materials for work
Most ideas can be realized by collecting scrap material around the house. Here's a basic list of things you'll need:
- Colored paper of different weights. If you are fond of decoupage, then decoupage sheets are also an excellent help, you can use wrapping paper;
- Cardboard;
- Glue or glue gun;
- Double-sided tape;
- Stapler;
- Scissors;
- Rope, ribbons, twine;
- Ruler or tape measure;
- Simple pencil;
- Printer.
Advice! If it is not possible to print a template, you can always display it on the computer screen in the desired size and redraw it by pressing the good old tracing paper to the monitor screen. Often this trick also works with a regular sheet of printing paper.
Be sure to prepare a good mood and a little patience!
Garlands with fringes and tassels
Fringe
Fringe looks very advantageous, especially if you make several pendants from materials of different colors with your own hands.
For example, you can take a white and brown disposable tablecloth (or any medium-weight colored paper). Choose the color scheme at your discretion - red and white, red and green, etc. Three colors can be combined. Or take two subtle colors and complement them with shiny paper.
Fold the sheet of the desired length in half, cut 2/3 of the length. Then unfold, spread the middle with glue, insert twine or tape, press down, and then fold. Now the garland is ready!
Brushes
Tassels will be a great decoration not only for the New Year 2022, but also for any other home holiday.
The initial step is the same as in fringe. Fold the selected paper in half, cut the vertical strips 2/3 of the length.
Advice! Unlike fringes, brush strips are best made thinner.
We unfold our notched sheet. Now we have fringes on the top and bottom. We roll the sheet into a tube and roll it up with a tourniquet so that a loop is obtained on top, and a brush at the bottom. We make several of these brushes and string them on a rope.
In order for the brushes not to clump together, it is better to grease the loop with glue and glue them to the rope, on which they will then hang. The main thing is that you first need to make the number of brushes, distribute along the rope, and only then glue.
We will master the principle of fringe, you can easily make many original paper garlands with your own hands.
Garlands of stars
Asterisks are an integral part of the New Year's decor, which means that they must be used in decorating an apartment.
Convex stars
For this decoration you will need cardboard or thick colored paper. Next, you need to cut out the required number of stars and draw a fold line in the middle of each ray (see the template below). The main thing is only to mark the line, but not to damage or cut the star.
Advice! If you don't have a special tool, you can use a manicure spatula or orange stick.
Then fold along the fold lines, punch 2 holes in one of the beams with a hole punch and skip the rope. The decoration is ready. Looks advantageous both in a monochromatic version and in several colors.
If you don't have time to tinker with the bulge, then you can simply use the cutting template and make flat stars, string them on a string and enjoy the result (you can download the star stencils here).
Vertical pendants made of stars
New Year's decorations will look unusual if you do not just glue the stars, but sew them on a typewriter. To do this, you harvest a lot of stars from colored cardboard, and then stitch with a thread that matches the color, it also serves as a connecting link, so we just leave a thread between the stars. Remember to leave long enough ends on both sides.
Garlands can be placed vertically on a window or in a doorway, but they can also be hung horizontally on a wall.
Volumetric Christmas garlands
Decorations from volumetric paper figures will look airy and snowy.
To make one volumetric star, you need to cut four blanks according to the template. Then, using glue or double-sided tape, stick one star in the center of the other and slightly bend the edges of the inner star. Make two such blanks. Then glue together the flat parts of the stars, having previously passed the thread for hanging. You can place 3-5 stars on one thread.
Clouds are made in the same way. And then place all the threads with the figures on one rope and look for a worthy place in the room.
Bunnies and Christmas trees
Since childhood, on New Year's Eve, we have been singing a song about a Christmas tree. And if there is a Christmas tree, then where is it without bunnies? They can also be used as New Year's decor.
Bunnies
Use a cutting template and make blanks. Glue cotton ponytails to the bunnies, or you can make real pompoms from threads. Secure with a satin ribbon or string.
Even the smallest ones can glue the tails, even if the tail ends up somewhere in the ear area.
Christmas tree garlands
Perhaps, the tree is the most "promoted" New Year's symbol, so there are a huge number of options that you can make with your own hands.
The easiest way is to take three squares of the same size, fold in half, and then connect the resulting triangles together. If you sew the Christmas trees on a typewriter, you get a nice pendant.
The original Christmas tree will come out if you fold the triangle in half and make cuts, as shown in the diagrams.
Also a great option is to cut the Christmas trees out of paper, make a hole at the top and string them on a string. The Christmas tree pendant will look different depending on the color and texture.
If there is a figured hole punch, then making Christmas trees will be easier and faster.
Instead of Christmas trees, you can attach paper figures of deer, gingerbread men or mistletoe leaves.
Flashlights
Paper lanterns look bright and festive.
Fishnet
A multitude of fishnet lanterns of different colors will instantly create a joyful mood. The secret is to glue two strips of paper at the top and bottom, leaving the middle free, and then cut according to the pattern.
Almost real
If the electric lights look dangerous, create a safe one with your own hands.
Multilayer
A stapler and a few strips of colored paper are all it takes to make another version of the New Year's lantern. Place one strip in the middle, and attach the rest on the sides. Drawing will help you.
Circles
It turns out that simple circles, if there are a lot of them, look like snow and light bulbs of electric garlands at the same time - it's hard to come up with something more New Year's, right?
Volumetric hearts made of shiny paper will help to decorate the house for the New Year.
Glazed cookies in the last place from the West migrated to us, so we take them into service.On a simple white circle, glue a pink blot with a hole inside and decorate with drops of glue with sparkles or beads - the donut cookie is ready. We string the livers on a ribbon and decorate the room with a sweet paper garland with our own hands.
New Year's streamers
We must not forget about this type of New Year's decor as stretch marks.
A few shiny paper rectangles or triangles strung on a string - and the stretch is ready. You can add the inscription "Happy New Year!" or HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Traditional snowflakes and snowmen are a simple and successful addition to your New Year's decoration. Here you can download stencils of snowflakes and snowmen.
This article is just a few of the ideas for creating Christmas paper garlands. As you can see, everything is pretty simple, but fun. Just start, and you will definitely come up with something of your own.
