Long before the new year, all family members begin to prepare for the long-awaited holiday. Moms, dads and kids can while away winter evenings with creativity, coming up with original New Year's hand-made crafts. Now the stores offer a wide selection of all kinds of holiday decorations, but it is much more pleasant to make home decor, Christmas tree decorations and symbolic gif.webpts for grandmothers, grandfathers, as well as other relatives and friends with your own hands.
What can be done for the New Year 2019?
To make New Year's crafts, just look into the drawers and dressers at home. Surely you have a large assortment of multi-colored buttons, beads, lace, pieces of felt and other fabrics, threads and braid. What else can you use for crafts:
- Natural materials: cones, acorns, chestnuts, twigs;
- Burnt out light bulbs;
- Scraps of fleece, burlap, pieces of cotton fabric with a New Year's pattern;
- Cotton wool, cotton pads;
- Clothespins, wooden sticks, wood cuts, and much more.
What crafts can be done by 2019:
- Christmas trees. What a New Year without a decorated Christmas tree? You can make a small Christmas tree from scrap materials: bottle corks, pasta, multi-colored knitting threads, green felt. A craft in the form of a Christmas tree will decorate any surface in the house: a coffee table, a chest of drawers, bedside tables. Be sure to put a few small Christmas trees in the nursery.
- Snowmen. The winter period is a time when both adults and children enjoy spending a lot of time outside: sledding, skiing and skating, playing snowballs, making snowmen. Let funny snowmen settle in the house, which can be made from any available materials: cotton wool, cones, candles, threads, buttons, fabric, unnecessary socks.
- Christmas balls. DIY toys will look spectacular on the Christmas tree. For making, old Christmas balls are used, in which you can put family photos or pour multi-colored dragees. Balls made of threads or hand-painted toys also look beautiful.
- Piglets. In the house for the year of the Pig, there must be handicrafts made by yourself. The hostess of the coming year loves home comfort, and the pigs made with the kids will delight her very much.
Crafts with the symbol of the year
It is impossible to imagine crafts made for the new year 2019 with your own hands, without cute pigs and pigs. Please the symbol of 2019 by making the owner of the coming year, the Yellow Pig, together with the kids.
The easiest craft option that even a small child can handle is a figurine of a pig, molded from plasticine. It is better to use salted dough with a small amount of dye added.
The salty dough recipe is very simple. You will need:
- 250 grams of fine salt;
- 250 ml flour;
- 100 ml of cold water;
- Several tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- Pink food coloring.
All ingredients are mixed, as a result of which a plastic mass is obtained, from which you can sculpt figurines of pigs. Insert black peppercorns instead of a peephole. Let the figurine freeze, after which you can decorate it with a festive satin bow.
Your favorite cartoon character - Peppa Pig, sewn from felt, can become a good idea for New Year's original crafts.
Another option is Christmas pigs made of woolen pink pom-poms. Glue two eyes to the pom-pom (you can buy “eyes” in a creative store or use accessories from unnecessary broken toys).Sew the felt ears to the pompom, and the pink buttons will become the patch. The hooves can be sewn from felt.
Crafts from candies for the new year
New Year's sweet crafts made of sweets with your own hands will delight everyone, without exception: kids, adults, and grandparents.
Children will be delighted with the Christmas tree made from kinder surprises. What you need for a sweet Christmas tree:
- 3 standard chocolates;
- 9 chocolate eggs;
- Thermo gun;
- Colored cardboard;
- Multi-colored tinsel;
- New Year's decor.
How to make a sweet Christmas tree:
- We put three chocolates in a house, glue them with a thermo-gun.
- We glue a cardboard blank to the back of the triangle for structural strength.
On a note! To make the Christmas tree look like New Year's, use multi-colored shiny cardboard. It is advisable to choose a color that will be in harmony with the chocolate wrappers at the "walls".
- Glue the chocolate eggs in a checkerboard pattern to the inside of the “Christmas tree” with hot glue.
- In the end, we decorate the "Christmas tree" of kinder surprises with multi-colored tinsel and any other New Year's decor.
On a note! You can pack any candy in Santa Claus 'caps, knitted striped socks, decorative glass jars to which the piglets' faces will be glued.
From ribbon, beads and fabric
Each needlewoman will definitely have different pieces of fabric, multi-colored ribbons and beads. Use these materials to create unusual New Year's crafts.
Beaded crafts made for the New Year look truly New Year's, bright and spectacular. For example, you can make stars from beads and decorate a Christmas tree with them. For the stars, you will need thick cardboard, a glue gun, beads of several colors and pieces of satin ribbons, with which the stars can be hung on the Christmas tree. Cut stars out of cardboard, glue the beads with a gun so that there is no free space on the figure. It remains to glue a ribbon in the form of a loop to one of the rays near the star, and a beautiful Christmas tree toy made of beads is ready.
From a satin ribbon, you can make an original Christmas tree, which is glued to the blank for a holiday card. In the middle of the postcard, starting from the top, carefully begin to glue the Christmas tree "branches" in the center. Each new tier should be slightly larger than the previous one to end up with a green ribbon cone.
On a note! The tape does not need to be cut. Make eights from the tape, gluing in the middle. Finally, glue the red buttons in the center of the tree with a glue gun.
New Year's unusual crafts made of fabric are popular. You can sew a cute pig, a few snowmen, or Christmas mittens from pieces of fabric with New Year's motives. Such crafts can be done with the children, which they will take to school for the New Year holidays.
From light bulbs
When another light bulb burns out in the house, do not rush to throw it away. You can make crafts from light bulbs with your own hands for the new year.
Burnt out light bulbs will make cute snowmen or pigs. Crafts can be made in the form of Christmas tree decorations and decorate the forest beauty with them.
On a note! If there are small children and animals in the house, hang toys from light bulbs on the very top of the tree, out of reach.
The technology for making a Christmas tree toy from a burnt out light bulb:
- First you need to paint the light bulb. Gouache, acrylic paints, watercolors will do.
- The pig's face can be painted with acrylic paints after the applied base coat is dry.
- To make the face of a snowman, glue the beady eyes, a carrot nose sewn from red felt, and draw the mouth and blush on the cheeks with a marker.
- Decorate the finished figurine as you wish. For example, tie a knitted scarf around the snowman's neck, and dress the pig in a Santa's cap.
Figures made from burnt out light bulbs can become original New Year's crafts for kindergarten. Only make the craft together with your child, without leaving him alone with the glass material.
Christmas crafts made from natural material
Interesting hand-made crafts for the New Year holidays are obtained from various natural materials: cones, acorns, wooden cuts, branches. Astrologers say that the Yellow Pig is supportive of natural materials, so you will not only decorate your home, but also win over the hostess of the upcoming 2019.
How to make a Christmas tree from cones:
- In an open area (balcony, veranda, street), coat each cone with a shiny spray.
- While the cones are drying, build the frame of the future tree from durable cardboard, securing it with super glue.
- Begin to glue the bumps underneath with super glue, picking up larger pieces. With each new round, choose smaller buds, so the Christmas tree will look more impressive.
- When the glue is dry, you can start decorating the finished tree. Use multi-colored "rain", serpentine ribbons, decorative snowflakes as a decor.
You can make wood crafts for the New Year's holiday. As you know, the symbol of 2019 is the Yellow Wooden Pig, so any wooden crafts will be appropriate for the holiday. For example, you can glue the frame of a snowflake from wooden sticks and glue multi-colored buttons to each "ray". Unusual snowflakes will decorate the Christmas tree, and they can also be hung on the walls as a festive decor.
Interesting crafts for the new 2019 year can be obtained from ordinary wooden pallets. You can paint a Christmas tree on a pallet with green paint, and use a glue gun to glue colorful pom-poms instead of Christmas balls. The original image of the Christmas tree can be placed against a free wall or decorate a home garden with a craft.
From paper
There are many options for paper crafts that you can make for the new year. The easiest option is a cardboard Christmas tree. Cut a circle out of green cardboard, roll it into a cone, secure with super glue. Use stars and balls cut out of colored shiny paper as decoration. At the top, "put on" a star, which can be cut out of thick red cardboard.
It is a little more difficult to make origami crafts for the New Year's holiday. Practice folding Santa Claus, a pig or any other character out of multi-colored paper. If you follow the step-by-step instructions, of which there are many on the Internet, you will get an amazing craft for the holiday.
Recently, crafts using the quilling technique, which can be made in the form of a postcard for the new year, have gained wide popularity. With the help of quilling, various paper curls (modules) are obtained, which are collected into a single composition. To create crafts using the quilling technique, you will need a large number of paper strips of different widths and colors, as well as a special device with which the strips are twisted into modules.
On a note! To learn how to create paintings using quilling, watch master classes on the Internet. The masters will tell and demonstrate in detail how the modules are created, as well as suggest ideas for New Year's cards using the quilling technique.
You can make crafts for the new year not from ordinary, but from corrugated paper. From corrugated multi-colored paper unusual Christmas trees, skirts for snowmen and pigs, Christmas tree toys are obtained.
From felt
Crafts made of felt for the New Year holidays are always relevant. Make a muzzle of a pig out of pink felt, for which you need templates for the head, ears and a patch. Cut out the details of the future pig from felt, sew them together with a decorative seam.Glue black beads instead of a peephole, and small buttons instead of nostrils. You can attach a magnet to the back of the figurine and hang the felt Christmas pig on the refrigerator.
You can also sew a penguin, Santa Claus, a snowman and other New Year's characters from multi-colored felt. Prepare felt in several colors, draw patterns for all the details, put the patterns on the felt, circle the outline with chalk. It remains to cut out every detail, sew them together with decorative seams. Inside, you can put cotton wool or foam rubber for volume. It remains to decorate the New Year's figures as you wish.
Christmas crafts from cotton pads
Using cotton pads, you can make an original craft for the new year, which can be taken to kindergarten. For example, make a New Year's picture with your baby. Cut a rectangle out of thick blue cardboard. Frame the painting with white cardboard. At the bottom, glue a strip of white decorative paper that will simulate snow. Stick three cotton pads on the "snow" - it will be a big snowman. Glue two cotton pads next to it - this will be a smaller snowman. Glue small orange pom-poms instead of the nose, black beads instead of the eyes. Cut out buckets from brown felt, which you also glue on the "heads" of the snowmen.
Molding
Children for the new year will happily take on crafts made of plasticine. Sculpt with the kids characters from your favorite cartoon "Peppa Pig", a Christmas tree with toys, Santa Claus with the Snow Maiden. A composition made of plasticine, made by the hands of a child, will decorate a nursery and will delight not only the baby, but also adults.
Polymer clay crafts for the New Year holidays will be a pleasant gif.webpt for relatives and friends. It's so nice for the New Year to get a magnet in the form of a funny character, which they did with their own hands with love and care.
To work with polymer clay, you will need the following tools:
- Smooth board;
- Stationery knife;
- Toothpicks;
- Wet wipes;
- Accessories for decoration;
- Disposable gloves.
Polymer clay must be thoroughly kneaded in your hands before you start sculpting a figurine. The finished craft should be baked in the oven.
What other materials can I use?
To make unusual home decorations, you can use unnecessary things that for some reason were not thrown away. For example, you can make crafts from unnecessary disks for the new year.
From disks
What is needed for the craft:
- 12 unnecessary CDs;
- Multi-colored tinsel;
- Glue gun;
- Thin wire;
- Thin awl;
- Pliers.
Making a New Year's ball from disks:
- Draw a 5-sided pattern on cardboard. Each side of the pentagon should be 6.5 cm long.
- Attach a cardboard template to each disc and mark with a marker where the vertices of the shape are.
- Using an awl or a drill with a thin drill, make holes in all discs along the points marked with a marker.
- Connect all discs with pliers and a thin wire. The result should be a ball.
- Hot glue the multi-colored tinsel along the contour of the discs.
The finished shiny ball will decorate your living space, and you can also hang it outside as a New Year's decor.
From threads
There are many options for beautiful New Year's crafts made from threads. The easiest option is to glue a colored thick thread for knitting on a cardboard cone in a spiral. You will get an unusual Christmas tree that can be decorated with any decor: buttons, multi-colored pom-poms, a miniature garland.
From plastic bottles
From plastic bottles for the new year, you can make funny crafts in the form of Christmas deer. Glue the eyes and red pompom nose to the bottle. Tie a knitted scarf on the neck of the bottle, and glue the wire horns to the lid. Surprise guests on New Year's Eve by serving drinks with deer faces on the festive table.
Styrofoam
From foam, wonderful crafts are also obtained for the new year. Make small snowmen that only need a few Styrofoam balls, pieces of felt, and decor. Connect the balls with a thin wire or glue. Sew hats and scarves for snowmen from soft multi-colored felt. Draw the eyes, nose and mouth with a thin marker, and glue multi-colored buttons in the center of the balls. Snowmen will decorate the house for the holiday and bring New Year's mood.
With the help of simple things and your imagination, you can make very beautiful New Year's decorations. Gather the whole family in the living room, come up with unusual craft ideas and start creating using materials that can be found in the house. The creative process of children will especially delight: kids will be able to independently make a New Year's decoration and give it to grandparents, or take it to a matinee in kindergarten. Take your time, because New Year's Eve days have a special magic, and it is better to spend them with a creative lesson with your family.
