New Year is a special holiday associated with a carefree childhood, a miracle, gif.webpts under a decorated Christmas tree. Unfortunately, with age, the feeling of New Year's magic disappears, and adults expect the holiday in a completely different way than children. To bring back an unforgettable atmosphere, try making a Christmas tree garland with your own hands. A fascinating process will remind you of childhood, and you can also involve young children in making jewelry, who will gladly plunge into preparations for a wonderful family holiday with their parents.
How and from what to make a garland?
There are many ways to collect Christmas decorations using materials at hand. You can decorate with homemade garlands not only Christmas trees or pines, but also door and window openings, walls, furniture. Decorative items can be hung on the fireplace or decorate the trees in the garden.
What materials can be used to make a Christmas decoration:
- paper, cardboard;
- natural materials: fir cones and branches, sticks, acorns, chestnuts, nuts, flowers, leaves;
- sweets: sweets, gingerbread, cookies;
- felt;
- beads, beads;
- orange peel;
- Christmas balls and tinsel;
- tapes;
- wood;
- socks;
- threads;
- napkins;
- family photos;
- clothespins;
- plastic bottles.
Every family will surely find handy materials from which it is possible to create a New Year's garland, and such a hand-made decor will become an unusual decoration of a festive home.
Ideas for what Christmas garlands can be:
- The simplest option is the colored rings familiar from childhood, which are cut out of colored paper and glued together. The result is a long chain that can be used to decorate the Christmas tree.
- A sewn garland of paper strips or figures looks festive and very elegant. First, strips / figures are cut out of colored paper, then sewn using a sewing machine or by hand. It is better to hang such jewelry vertically, and attach a small weighting agent from below: a bead, a button.
- Advent calendars are especially popular in Europe. Children especially love them, because every day they find small gif.webpts or sweets in pockets, envelopes or bags. The Advent calendar can be made for a children's room in the form of a garland: it will simultaneously become a New Year's decoration and will delight the kids all the days before the holiday.
- A product made of knitted socks or mittens is hung not only on the fireplace, but throughout the house.
- You can make an unusual decoration from carved wooden figures (deer, stars, snowflakes). A garland on which wooden figures alternate with felt ones will also look beautiful.
- The original decor will be obtained from curly gingerbread cookies. Bake a fragrant, tasty product in the form of New Year and Christmas symbols (Christmas trees, stars, snowflakes, Santa Claus sticks, bells), which then needs to be strung on a thread or ribbon. You can add candied fruits, candied fruits, cinnamon sticks to the liver.
What can be used to create a New Year's decoration:
- balls of cotton threads;
- woolen pom-poms;
- voluminous paper snowflakes;
- crocheted figurines;
- Christmas trees made of satin ribbons;
- colored buttons;
- plywood toys.
From paper
The most affordable and easy-to-use material is paper. Children will be happy to join the work, so be sure to involve toddlers of all ages.
With your own hands, you can make colored lanterns familiar from childhood out of paper:
- For one flashlight, we cut out two parts from medium density paper: 180x100 mm and 180x120 mm.
- We bend the large part in half and make cuts on the side of the bend. It is important not to cut the paper completely, but to leave 1 cm at the edge.
- We glue the smaller part into a tube.
- We wrap the resulting accordion around the cylinder, fix the edge with glue.
- We also connect two blanks from above and below in a circle with a strip of glue.
- It remains to attach a string on which the flashlight will be held.
- The rest of the lanterns are made in the same way, and then attached to a ribbon or rope.
Another interesting and very easy to make option is a garland of paper circles. Cut more multi-colored pieces of colored paper. If there is a figured hole punch, the decoration will be even more original. Connect the prepared circles together using a sewing machine. You can sew more than one mug, but fold several tightly pressed blanks together. In this case, you will get a voluminous multi-colored product.
From the branches
The coniferous garland will create a unique holiday atmosphere thanks to the stunning spruce scent. Especially this decoration will appeal to those who prefer to put artificial Christmas trees. Decorations made from evergreen trees are suitable for windows and doors, wall shelves, walls, and it is also permissible to use a garland as a decor for a festive table.
To get started, prepare a few pine or spruce branches, you can also use thuja or fir branches. Cones, Christmas balls, ribbons, bunches of winter berries are suitable as decoration. As a rule, a garland of branches is made in two traditional New Year's colors: green and red, with the addition of shiny gold or silver.
What materials will be needed for work:
- coniferous twigs;
- decorations;
- colored wire;
- scissors for cutting;
- cord or strong wire.
Spruce garland making workshop:
- Make a loop on the cord or wire and tie the first twig along the cord. Wrap the cord several times around the twig for a firm hold.
- Place the second branch on top so that it slightly covers the first. Secure with cord or wire.
- Continue attaching the rest of the branches in the same way until the desired size of the finished product.
- Leave the ends of a cord or wire free on both sides so that you can attach the jewelry to a door or staircase.
- Check if there are any empty spots on the garland.
- Add pine cones, Christmas decorations, tangerines, gingerbread cookies, ribbons, or any other decor to the twigs.
If a Christmas tree bazaar is located next to the house, you can always find fresh coniferous cuttings there, which are suitable for creating a decoration.
Of balls
A bright, unusual garland can be obtained from woolen pom-poms. How it is done in stages:
- Cut out two rings from thick cardboard with a diameter that should be for future balls.
- Take two rings together, wind the woolen thread so that there is no gap left on the cardboard.
- Cut the wrapped threads along the outside of the rings.
- Pass the end of the thread between the cardboard templates, pull tightly, tie on a strong knot.
- Ring blanks can be removed and used to make the rest of the pom-poms.
- Finished wool balls are connected with a thread or fishing line.
Pompons can be multi-colored, solid, the same or different in size.
From an old artificial tree
If for some reason you still haven't thrown away the old artificial Christmas tree, use its twigs to create a Christmas garland.
Getting started:
- Fold the branches together.
- Wire them together to make a garland.
- When the garland is ready, you can start decorating. To do this, use satin ribbons, bows, silver-plated or gilded fir cones. Christmas balls look beautiful, just choose plastic toys that will not break.
- To surprise guests and family, decorate the sprigs with handmade gingerbread cookies, and on New Year's Eve, distribute sweets to everyone present.
In the house, such decorations will look festive on the walls, curtains, stair railings. You can use LED bulbs to make the garland glow and shimmer. For the street, moisture resistant lights are suitable - a garland will decorate the front door and help create a New Year mood from the very threshold.
Often the decor made of artificial branches is complemented with candles. In this case, you need to take care of fire safety: place candles in candlesticks, lay out the garland horizontally and constantly monitor the situation. If there are small children or animals in the house, the use of burning candles should be avoided.
DIY LED garland on the Christmas tree
The Christmas tree should sparkle and sparkle, which is why it is often decorated with LED garlands. But the offered specimens, for the most part, are identical and impersonal, and you really want something unusual, magical, amazing. We offer to create an LED garland at home according to your own design.
What you need to work:
- soldering iron;
- pliers;
- roulette;
- screwdriver;
- scissors;
- Power Supply;
- insulating tape;
- 10 LEDs;
- twisted wire;
- plug for connecting the garland to the outlet.
How to make an LED garland with your own hands:
- First, make a diagram of the future decoration.
- Cut the wire into 9 equal pieces, each 50 cm apart, except one 150 cm long.
- Strip the ends of the wires with a special tool.
- Use a long piece of wire to connect the electrical plug.
- Then connect the wires to the bulbs using a soldering iron. It is best to use a parallel connection: if one light fails, the rest will continue to glow. Unscrew the sockets from the bulbs, connect in one circuit, then screw the sockets back.
- In order to connect the LED decoration to a 220 volt outlet, you will need a power supply.
- When everything is connected, it remains to connect the garland to the network.
It is better to use small LED bulbs that do not get very hot and consume less electricity. Make sure that there are no exposed wires in the areas - this is very dangerous, because the jewelry is energized.
From other materials
A Christmas garland of pictures or photographs is an unusual decor that will appeal to all family members. Take a colored tourniquet, strong rope or electric garland as a base. Attach family pictures or fairytale characters using decorative small clothespins. You can put photos and pictures in homemade frames made of colored cardboard and decorated with sequins, beads, beads.
If you collect pictures with the most pleasant memories and events that happened in the outgoing year, you can create a new family tradition: every year, photographs from the outgoing year will be added to the garland.
A cozy, cute garland can be made from ordinary wool. Take a small amount of natural material in the palm of your hand, wet it under running water, and lather well. If you can't roll the ball, try changing the temperature of the water. Put the resulting ball to dry - it should become hard. Children are great at felting wool, so you can entrust them with doing this interesting job. String the dried balls on a strong thread until a garland of the desired length is formed.
Another option that kids will surely like is a decoration made from white plastic plates. Let the kids draw funny faces of snowmen on each of them, and you just have to make holes in the plates and hang them on the rope.
Needlewomen, who are engaged in sewing at home, will surely find pieces of multi-colored felt suitable for making a bright New Year's garland.
What you need:
- the cloth;
- round templates;
- scissors;
- needle;
- threads.
Getting started:
- Cut out circles of different diameters from colored pieces of felt. Can be completed with figures of stars, snowmen, hearts.
- We sew all the circles in the center so that the parts are connected with a single seam. It is better to use a sewing machine, but you can also do it by hand.
- Sew loops at the ends so that the decoration can be fixed.
Garland for a street tree
To create a New Year's mood, you can decorate not only the room inside, but also live Christmas trees that grow on the site or street. In frosty weather, decorate the trees with ice garlands. To make them, take curly ice molds, pour water into them, add a couple of drops of paint to each cell. Lay out a long piece of rope in the molds, as if sinking deeper. Put the molds in the freezer and wait for the water to freeze, and then you can decorate the street tree with an unusual garland.
We offer another simple, but tasty and sweet decoration option. Prepare lollipops in a bright wrapper, pin them to each other with a stapler. When you have a long chain, you can hang it on the tree.
How to make a garland of cones:
- You can use only spruce or pine, but a prefabricated decoration with the addition of cedar and larch cones looks much more impressive.
- Paint the natural material with spray paint, grease the sides with glue and sprinkle with glitter.
- Apply wood glue to the tip of each bump, glue to a strong rope or twine.
You can use pliers to screw a small hook into the tip of each bump, through which the rope will remain to be threaded.
Christmas tree garland templates and stencils
Making a garland for the New Year with your own hands is not at all difficult, the main thing is to connect your imagination and find some free time. Use the materials at hand, experiment, invite children to participate in the pre-New Year's preparation, and a festive atmosphere will appear in the house long before the new year.
