Photos of DIY Christmas crafts amaze with the expanse of imagination and skill of execution. The result of creative work can be not only a wonderful craft.
If you do this with your child, it contributes to spending time together, family cohesion, the development of fine motor skills and imagination. You can come up with an image for creating crafts both independently and take ready-made ideas as a basis. The main thing is the result.
Brooch tiger
DIY New Year's craft ideas 2022 should be associated directly with the symbol of the year - the tiger. Therefore, a brooch is made in the form of this animal.
For crafts, you need a minimum of materials:
- Orange and black felt;
- Buttons to make eyes and nose;
- Glue;
- Thread and needle.
Stages of work:
- Using a stencil or drawing by hand, you need to cut the muzzle out of the fabric;
- Strips for the cheeks and head are cut from black felt;
- Eyes and a nose are glued to the muzzle. You can also sew them on for reliability;
- Black stripes are glued to the cheeks and top of the head;
- With the help of a black marker, a mustache, muzzle and mustache points are drawn;
- You need to glue a pin on the back.
Christmas tree toy
DIY New Year's felt crafts can be made in the form of Christmas tree decorations. Repeating the "tiger" theme, we will again take the pattern of this animal as a basis.
For crafts you will need:
- Pattern of toys;
- Orange and black felt;
- Threads to match, a needle;
- Scissors;
- Filler;
- Buttons or beads for the eyes.
Stages of work:
- The pattern is transferred to felt and all the details are carefully cut;
- Black stripes must be sewn onto the body of the tiger;
- You need to start sewing the toy itself from the head. First of all, the ears are stitched, filler is added;
- Then you need to design the muzzle, sewing on the nose, embroidering the eyes, mustache;
- Now you can sew the head further;
- The next stage of stitching is the tail. Filler is also added to it;
- After that, you need to sew the body, also gradually filling it with filler;
- The last step is to sew on the eyelet. After it is sewn on, the toy can be hung on the tree or presented as a gif.webpt.
Paper garland
DIY Christmas crafts for kindergarten should be simple, because they are intended to be done together with children.
A paper garland is very suitable for this, which you can not only bring to the kindergarten, but also decorate the group with it.
For crafts you will need:
- Bright paper or not very thick cardboard;
- Scissors;
- Glue;
- A thread to string on all the figures;
- Ruler and pencil to measure out equal lines.
Stages of work:
- Each geometric figure must be three-dimensional, therefore, for cutting and gluing them, you first need to prepare a stencil;
- The template can be found anywhere, you can try to draw with a ruler and a pencil;
- Then you need to transfer the templates to paper or cardboard and carefully cut them out;
- The figure is glued together at the seams. You need to thread a thread through each so that they turn out to be strung on a thread;
- When the required length of the garland has been reached, a sufficient amount of empty thread should be left on the edges on both sides so that the ends can be fastened.
A master class on making New Year's crafts with your own hands can be even simpler:
- A large number of circles of different diameters and different colors are cut out of colored paper;
- A long thread is taken and all circles are sewn with it at some distance from each other. You can also sew them on a sewing machine, if there is one;
- The garland is ready. It can be hung both along something, for example, on a window, and across, for example, stretching along the perimeter of a room.
Salted dough tree
What holiday would do without making a Christmas tree, and even with your own hands? Making it is not as difficult as the other options, it only takes a little more time to bake.
For crafts you will need:
- Cardboard base in the form of a cone;
- Salt, flour and water for kneading the dough;
- A sharp knife or scissors to form the needles;
- Paints, brushes, various decor.
Stages of work:
- Glue the cone out of cardboard. Its size should be the same height you want to see the craft;
- For the dough, you need to take the ingredients in the following proportions: a glass of water, a glass of salt and 2 glasses of flour. Knead the dough;
- Now the finished dough is applied by hand on a conical base, the thickness should be a centimeter, maximum one and a half. You need to leave a small amount of dough for the top;
- With a knife or scissors, you need to create an imitation of needles around the entire perimeter of the craft;
- Now you need to mold a star from the remnants of the dough and fix it on the craft with a toothpick;
- Then the craft is baked at a temperature of 180 degrees until the dough hardens;
- It is removed from the oven, cooled, and only after that you can start painting and decorating. Paint will adhere well to the salted dough, beads and beads will hold perfectly.
Herringbone magnet
DIY Christmas craft ideas are full of a variety of materials. For example, a herringbone fridge magnet may only need four things: cardboard, thick rope (you can use jute), glue, and the magnet itself.
Stages of work:
- From the cardboard base, you need to cut a craft stencil.
- It can be either classic, consisting of three triangles and a hemp at the bottom, or more varied, of a larger size;
- Then a thread begins to wind on the cardboard. They start from the leg and continue to wind in a spiral to the sharp top.
- When the entire base is completely filled with thread, it is fixed with glue;
- A magnet is glued to the back;
- The front can be decorated with coffee beans, satin ribbons, beads and more.
- You can leave it without decoration, then you get a Scandinavian-style magnet.
New year angel
Usually, souvenirs are made for each year, which are timed to the symbol of the coming year. For example, do-it-yourself New Year's crafts pig for the year of the pig.
You can also make an option that will not be confined to a specific symbol, but simply create a New Year's mood. And an angel will become such a craft.
For crafts you will need:
- Paper flat plate;
- Paints;
- Glue;
- Cardboard.
Stages of work:
- The plate must be cut into three equal parts. One is useful for the body, and the other two for the wings;
- The wings are glued behind the body in such a way that they appear to be open;
- The entire craft is painted in the desired color, for example, silver or white;
- A round head is cut out of cardboard and glued to the sharp part of the body;
- The face of an angel is drawn;
- From above, you can tie a thread or ribbon to hang a New Year's toy.
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