On the eve of Christmas and New Year, every family tries to decorate their home to create a festive atmosphere. An elegant Christmas tree is considered an obligatory attribute of New Year's holidays, but various compositions, arrangements, bouquets will also help to create a festive mood. At first glance, it may seem that New Year's compositions cannot be made with your own hands. In fact, it's worth putting in a little effort, imagination, allocating some free time, and you will definitely get creative, festive decorations.
DIY Christmas compositions from sweets
It is boring and monotonous just to give sweets for the new year. It is much more interesting to present New Year's sweet compositions made of sweets. You can make a Christmas tree or a Christmas wreath from candies, a New Year's sleigh made from chocolate and candies, an unusual “pineapple” made from a bottle of champagne and candies in shiny packaging.
What you need for a Christmas candy wreath:
- Thick cardboard;
- Scissors;
- Glue;
- New Year's tinsel;
- Bell-shaped sweets;
- Spruce cones;
- Satin ribbon.
A do-it-yourself New Year's sweet composition of sweets is done like this:
- Draw a circle on thick cardboard, cut it out with sharp scissors or a clerical knife.
- Draw a circle with a smaller diameter inside, also cut it out along the drawn circle.
- We attach the tape on which the future wreath will hold.
- Next, we wind the tinsel all over the wreath so that the tinsel completely covers the cardboard.
- In the process of wrapping the tinsel, we glue the candies.
On a note! Sweet "bells" can not only be glued, but also attached with a stapler.
- We decorate the entire wreath with tinsel and candies, after which we decorate with pine cones, Christmas balls and any other decor.
Compositions of fir branches and cones
Compositions of cones and twigs for the New Year holidays are especially popular with florists. Try to assemble your own decorative piece using natural materials and festive decor.
We suggest making a composition with your own hands using fir branches and Christmas tree decorations.
What is required for New Year's ikebana:
- Floral sponge;
- Plastic cup for a sponge;
- Composite basket;
- Spruce branches;
- Festive decor.
We compose the composition:
- We place the floral sponge in the glass so that it completely occupies the entire container.
- We cut the required number of spruce branches of different lengths.
- We insert the twigs into the sponge, collecting the composition. Try to completely cover the sponge, but if you can't disguise it, you can hide the uncovered areas with tinsel or artificial moss.
- We place the arrangement of twigs in a basket, decorate with Christmas decorations, tinsel.
Ikebana can be hung from the window, decorated with a garland, or placed on the table instead of a small Christmas tree. Do not forget to water the sponge periodically so that the ikebana delights you as long as possible.
On a note! Florists remind that an important rule of composition is compliance with the measure. You should not unnecessarily decorate the basket with twigs, there should not be too much decor.
Create a festive atmosphere with a simple composition with a Christmas candle and fir cones of different sizes. You can pre-spray your buds with a silver or gold spray paint.
On a note! If you want the buds to bloom, hold them over steam for a few minutes. Conversely, to keep the bumps closed, thoroughly treat the unopened bumps with a strong hold hairspray.
In the creation of New Year's compositions, nobilis branches are often used - a fir plant with elegant, fluffy needles. The combination of nobilis twigs with candles, flowers, festive decor looks beautiful.
Compositions for the new year from flowers
The Christmas tree takes center stage in the living room, and the festive table can be decorated with New Year's delicate flower arrangements. Try making a simple floral decoration with your own hands, which will be a nice addition to the New Year's decor of the room.
You will need live plants:
- Pink roses;
- Ranunculus are red;
- Shrub chrysanthemums of white color;
- Spruce twigs.
Also prepare the necessary materials for creating ikebana for the New Year's table:
- Small wicker basket;
- Floral sponge;
- Stationery knife;
- Glue;
- Green waterproof tape;
- Wooden sticks;
- Artificial snow;
- Candle;
- Decor (decorative fruits, cones, rattan stars, plastic Christmas balls).
Making a flower arrangement:
- Cut off a piece of your floral sponge to fill the entire volume of your planter basket.
- Secure the sponge with tape.
- Cut off the stems of the flowers to make the desired length. Arrange the flower stems in a spiral pattern in the sponge, assembling the composition of your choice.
- Place a red candle in the center of the flower arrangement.
- With tape, attach cones, stars, plastic Christmas balls, decorative fruits to wooden skewers.
- Insert the decorated skewers into the flower arrangement.
- Decorate the finished ikebana with a layer of artificial snow from a spray can.
Florists, collecting flower arrangements for the new year, often use the poinsettia flower. It is considered a traditional Christmas plant in North America and Europe. They decorate the house with flowers, collect ikebana, hang pots with poinsettia on the windows. To create a New Year's composition with poinsettia flowers, it is enough to decorate the flowerpot with corrugated paper, decorate with coniferous twigs, tinsel, artificial tangerines and apples.
Decoration for New Year's interior made of beads
You can make amazing compositions from beads for the New Year holidays. Probably, every adult in childhood was engaged in weaving various baubles from threads and beads. Let's recall the skills from childhood and make an unusual composition that will become a real New Year's decoration for any room.
The simplest option is beaded snowflakes, which can be used to decorate a Christmas tree, hang on windows or combine with other decorative elements into one composition.
What you need for snowflakes:
- Multi-colored beads;
- Thin wire;
- Pliers.
Make a wire frame for the future snowflake. Start with five beams, and when you practice, you can make the task more difficult and make stars with more beams. String on each ray of colored beads in random order until all the rays are filled. You can hang bead stars on thin satin ribbons.
In fitness clubs, salons, restaurants, hotels and other establishments, a small beaded Christmas tree at the reception can be a suitable New Year's composition. In the coming year of the Yellow Wood Pig, it will be appropriate to use wooden beads combined with multi-colored or solid-colored beads.
The symbol of the year 2019, the Yellow Pig, will be pleased if New Year's beautiful handmade compositions are present in the house. You can make a figurine of a pig out of beads, for the manufacture of which you will need the following materials:
- Thick cardboard;
- Colored beads;
- Thermo gun;
- Decorations.
Cut a pig figurine out of cardboard, and use a thermo-gun to glue the beads so that there is no free space. Glue the eyes - black beads, make a patch of two buttons. Decorate your pig with a bow, ribbon, or any other decor.This painstaking work will take a lot of time, but you will please the hostess of 2019. Rest assured that next year will be very successful for you!
New Year's compositions Dutch houses
The original variety of New Year's compositions is the Dutch luminous houses. Making houses with your own hands is not at all difficult.
Materials for houses:
- Thick cardboard;
- Ruler;
- Stationery knife;
- White paint in a spray can;
- Newspapers;
- Glue.
How Dutch houses are made:
- Using a ruler, draw the elements of the houses of different sizes. Do not forget to draw windows on one facade. Make them large, since it is quite difficult to cut small openings with a clerical knife.
- The figurine of the house must be assembled from the following elements: 2 facades, 2 lateral rectangles, and a roof.
- Bend each piece along the drawn lines of the walls, glue the details of the Dutch house.
- Cover the surface of the table or floor with newspapers, paint all the houses with white paint.
- Wait for the paint to dry completely. Then place one plastic tea candle inside each house.
- Place the houses on a coffee table or windowsill. New Year's compositions with an elegant Christmas tree next to it look beautiful.
Christmas composition in a cup
On the New Year's table, as a decoration, you can put compositions that are collected in glassware. For example, put together a simple candy arrangement in a glass cup. To do this, pour multicolored small candy-dragees into a cup, and place a candle in the center. Tie a satin bow over the cup and you're done with your festive table decoration. On the outside of the cup, you can draw a piglet with acrylic paints or multi-colored markers, or write a New Year's greeting.
A bright composition with a candle in a circle will create a truly magical mood. To make it, you need the following materials:
- Red flat dish;
- White candle;
- Large glass mug;
- Vine vine;
- Spruce cones;
- Red beads;
- Red buds of flowers.
Stages of making a composition:
- The twigs of the vine should be soaked and then made into a wreath.
- Put the wreath on a flat dish, put a large glass mug in the center of the wreath.
- Fill the free space inside the wreath with cones, spruce branches.
- Place a low candle in the mug.
- Pour red beads into a mug so that they fill the bottom of the dish.
- We decorate the ikebana with flower buds (you can use artificial flowers).
Compositions from scrap materials
Don't be discouraged if you can't find the materials you need to craft your holiday decoration. New Year's decor can be made from the simplest materials that can be found in every home.
You can sew little New Year's piglets out of felt and decorate any composition with them. The more pigs you have in your house, the more pleasant you will be to the symbol of 2019 - the Yellow Pig. Expect pleasant surprises and surprises next year!
Pupils in kindergartens are very fond of making various New Year's crafts and compositions. Naturally, they do not have to be complicated so that the little ones can do most of the work on their own. With children, you can make a composition of several cardboard Christmas trees.
How to make a cardboard Christmas tree:
- Roll a piece of cardboard into a cone, fix the edge with glue.
- Glue decorations to the tree. It can be stars cut out of paper, beads instead of Christmas tree balls, bugles.
- Apply strips of glue with a brush and sprinkle with glitter.
Children love to sculpt various figures from plasticine. Blind together New Year's-themed compositions from salted dough.
The dough recipe is very simple: mix 300 grams of fine table salt, 300 grams of flour and a glass of ice water. Divide the dough into several parts, add food coloring to each part to make plasticine dough of different colors.
Kids can make a symbol of the coming year out of pink dough - a cute pig. You can decorate any composition with a dough figurine. For older children, offer to sculpt a New Year's picture from plasticine on a plate.
Also use foamiran when creating holiday decorations. It is a pliable material, pleasant to the touch, which easily takes any shape, is flexible, and can be easily cut with scissors or a knife. New Year's festive compositions from foamiran can be as follows:
- Festive Christmas tree made of foamiran with beads decoration;
- Spruce branches from green foamiran with cones;
- A wreath of fir cones, twigs and artificial flowers made of red material;
- Multi-colored snowflakes, collected in one composition.
Use any materials to create Christmas decorations. If you adhere to the rules for composing compositions, even simple and affordable materials will look like New Year's luxurious.
How to compose a composition correctly - professional advice
Spruce and pine branches are successfully combined with fresh flowers. Roses, carnations, spray chrysanthemums look very elegant in New Year's decorations. Freshly cut plants are placed in a vase or flower pot, which is decorated with twigs, fir cones, tinsel, and Christmas decorations. Florists advise using a special sponge that can be purchased at flower shops. With its help, cut flowers will retain their freshness for a long time if you water the sponge in time.
In festive decorations for the home, you can use a combination of coniferous branches with dried plants. It is better to give the choice to such dried flowers: yarrow, physalis, flax, cattail, astilba, and others. Sometimes florists, creating New Year's decorations, use dried flowers, and leave coniferous branches and cones in the background. Dried plants can be pre-painted with shiny spray paint to make the decoration more solemn.
You don't have to be a professional decorator to create a New Year's fairy tale. Use your imagination, our tips, available materials and make a real miracle! You yourself will be surprised how your home will be transformed with the advent of New Year's unusual compositions. Let the children help to make crafts, because the memories of the New Year holidays from childhood are the most priceless pages of our memory.
