To create a New Year's mood, before the holidays they decorate a Christmas tree, hang garlands, and arrange candles. When windows decorated with carved snowflakes, drawings, colorful lights are visible from the street, an indescribable, magical feeling of a holiday appears. How to create compositions on the windows for the New Year 2020, what stencils to use, how else to decorate the room - we will tell you about this in our article.
Symbols of 2020
The coming year according to the Eastern calendar will be held under the auspices of the White Metal Rat. To win the favor of the totem animal, it is advisable to use the following colors in the New Year's decor:
- silver;
- white;
- grey;
- lactic;
- ivory;
- cream;
- asphalt;
- ashen;
- creamy.
The rat appreciates family traditions and the New Year classics, so she will also like the combination of red and green in jewelry. Still, it is better to focus on shades of gray and white. It may seem that such decor will look boring and monotonous. In fact, there are many ways to create a festive mood using silver and white.
What else does the symbol of the upcoming 2020 Rat love - read in this article.
You can use ready-made decorations bought in the store, but homemade decor elements will help create a truly cozy festive atmosphere. The industrious White Rat will appreciate your efforts, then the whole next year will patronize and help.
For the New Year 2020, use beads with a shiny surface, garlands, white and silver tinsel, snowflakes from different materials as additional accents in the decor of the room. But it is better to refuse jewelry made of fur, otherwise you run the risk of angering the totem animal. It is advisable to make homemade decor from environmentally friendly raw materials: wood, foil, paper, cardboard, textiles, natural materials.
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New Year's figures are suitable for decorating windows: Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, snowman, sleigh team. Of course, the main symbol of the coming year - the White Rat - should be present in the decor of the room.
Christmas decorations on the windows
Designers recommend paying special attention to the decor of window openings. The decorated window in the children's room will be especially appreciated by kids who are looking forward to the arrival of the New Year. According to Feng Shui, windows are essential in bringing positive energy into the home. If the window openings are beautifully decorated, streams of good luck and success will rush through them. And there is also such a popular belief: through the windows, changes for the better come into the house.
It is advisable to keep the decor of the room in the same style so that the design of the house is harmonious and stylish.
Immediately you need to decide what the emphasis will be on in the New Year's decor. If there is a Christmas tree in the room, decorated windows, walls and doors should complement the decorated tree. To emphasize the beauty of the decorated Christmas tree, it is enough to make a modest background on the windows: place shiny pendants, decorate with several Christmas balls, print, cut and paste paper snowflakes.
If the window is located on the west or north side, you do not need to overload it with decorative elements so that the room does not become too dark due to lack of light.
How to decorate windows:
- snowflakes made of paper, glue, foil;
- original stencils;
- garlands;
- pendants;
- Christmas tree decorations;
- stained-glass windows;
- posters;
- Christmas wreath;
- bulky paper compositions;
- candles;
- figurines;
- decorative gif.webpts;
- spruce branches and cones;
- stickers.
Vytynanka
New Year's vytynanka is one of the most popular ways to create an amazing fairy tale in the house with your own hands. They belong to decorative applied art, which is cutting out figures, patterns and even whole New Year's plots from paper. As a child, we cut paper snowflakes and glued them to the windows. Now on the Internet you can find a large selection of stencils that are printed, cut out, and then glued to a glass surface.
What protrusions can you decorate the windows with:
- Santa Claus with the Snow Maiden;
- snowman;
- reindeer team;
- herringbone and stars;
- Nutcracker;
- cartoon characters;
- winter hut;
- cute Rat.
Several templates:
You will find even more ready-made Christmas cutout templates on this page.
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Paper jewelry in different techniques
Paper is the most popular and affordable material for various crafts. It is possible to make amazing decorations for windows from it, using all kinds of techniques: applique, quilling, origami, etc. Using the quilling technique, original snowflakes can be obtained that can be hung on windows as a decoration. The twisted paper modules are glued together to create a patterned snowflake.
Christmas wreaths made of colored paper made using origami technique will become a beautiful decor. If you follow the step-by-step instructions, you will get an unusual decoration that you can hang on a ribbon and decorate a window with it.
It is possible to create a beautiful hanging decor from paper, for example, use voluminous snowflakes, which are attached with threads at different heights. If you cut circles out of colored paper and sew them in the center, you get an original garland for the window opening.
With little children, you can make decor from multi-colored paper. Cut strips of the same width, glue the rings, fastening them together, decorate the window with a garland. Figures cut out of craft paper and then strung on a ribbon or rope will also look beautiful.
Stencils for drawings on the windows
If you don't know how to decorate the windows in the house in an original way, cutting stencils with various figures and patterns will come to the rescue. Since the hostess of 2020 will be the White Metal Rat, she will be delighted if her image is used in the decor.
Stencil Ideas:
- a small rodent in a Santa hat;
- a rat eating a piece of cheese;
- a mouse that holds New Year's gif.webpts in its paws;
- a rat with a herringbone;
- rodent with a Christmas tree ball in its paws.
What other stencils are suitable for festive decor:
- Santa Claus sitting in a reindeer sled;
- Grandfather with a staff and a bag of gif.webpts;
- Christmas tree;
- snow hut;
- snowman with snowflakes;
- cartoon characters;
- Christmas balls;
- numbers;
- winter patterns;
- congratulatory inscription.
Children can watch the frosty patterns on the window for a very long time, but you can make fancy pictures yourself using toothpaste and special New Year stencils. How it's done:
- Print the drawing you like on a printer, cut it out with sharp scissors or a stationery knife.
- Moisten the paper template with water, straighten it, glue it on the glass.
- Pour water into a container, add a white colored paste without additives to get the consistency of thick sour cream.
- Using a spray bottle, moisten the drawing from a long distance, and then dip the toothbrush in the paste. Run your fingers over the bristles to spray onto the design.
It is necessary to apply the paste to the glass from a distance of at least 30 cm.If you come too close, the drops will begin to drain, then a beautiful pattern will not work.
After the holidays, you can remove toothpaste from glass with clean water and a sponge without much effort.For this reason, this is the most optimal decoration option.
New year posters
You can decorate the glass with a New Year's wall newspaper, in the creation of which children will be happy to take part. But please note that the poster should not occupy the entire area of the window, otherwise sunlight will not penetrate into the room.
So, in front of you is a blank sheet of Whatman paper. First, come up with a rough plan: where large elements, inscriptions, drawings, applications will be located. After that, proceed with the following steps:
- Tinted paper on both sides. This can be done in several ways: spray paint with a toothbrush, put “stamps” with a rectangle of foam rubber dipped in gouache, leave “snow” traces with a brush dipped in paint. You can combine several techniques to make the poster original and unusual.
- Next, glue or draw an image of the 2020 hostess on a Whatman paper. It can be a mouse in a Santa Claus hat, with gif.webpts, an elegant Christmas tree, toys.
People with a well-developed sense of humor will appreciate the picture in which a cheerful Rat sits on the Pig's back and drinks champagne.
- Find a place on the poster for the main characters of the New Year holidays - Santa Claus and Snow Maiden. Glue or draw a Christmas tree on a Whatman paper, which you can decorate with balls and beads. To make the tree shimmer and shine, use glitter paint, glitter, rhinestones, beads, sequins.
- Glue the finished poster with tape to the glass. To create a New Year's mood not only for those who will admire your work from the street, but also for the household, on the back side also place figures of a cute Rat, Santa Claus with the Snow Maiden, a festive Christmas tree. The tree can be decorated with balls with glued photos of all family members.
If you don't have time to create a wall newspaper, use ready-made templates that can be found on the Internet and printed. Draw white and black drawings with the children, and colored copies are suitable for busy people who want to decorate the room, but cannot find free time for this.
New Year's compositions
Options for festive compositions on glass:
- Print your favorite picture on thick paper, cut along the contour. Degrease the glass surface, glue the template with masking tape, draw the outline with black gouache. After the paint is completely dry, peel off the picture, paint with thick paint so that it does not flow out of the border.
- Artificial snow is also suitable for glass painting. For complex compositions, use a stencil and a spray can.
- Acrylic paints are used for painting glass because they last longer than gouache. Working with acrylic is more difficult, but the composition will be more reliable.
- The windows in the house can be decorated with colored cones. Cover them with spray paint or fake snow in advance, and then attach each bump to tape or thin fishing line.
- A Christmas wreath can decorate not only the front door, but also the windows in the house. It is made from coniferous twigs (artificial or live), and then decorated with a ribbon, Christmas decorations, bows, wooden figurines, dried citrus pieces, cinnamon sticks. The spruce wreath will look harmonious in a spacious room with large window openings.
- Foam balls covered with silver acrylic paints and artificial snow will become a traditional New Year's decor in any room.
How to decorate a windowsill?
New Year's window decoration is not limited to glass decoration. You can beautifully decorate the windowsill, curtains, cornice. Holiday candles in a composition with tinsel, silver rain, Christmas decorations will look on the large windowsill. To create a magical mood in the nursery, place a small handmade Christmas tree on the window.
What else can you decorate the windowsill with:
- spruce cones painted in silver paint;
- interior toys: Santa Claus with the Snow Maiden, a cute Rat;
- a vase with a New Year's composition of fir branches, shiny balls, tangerines;
- children's crafts made from natural materials;
- a living spruce twig in a glass vase, decorated with toys, rain, tinsel, bows;
- felt tree.
On the windowsill, you can create a whole New Year's composition. For example, lay out fir cones, Christmas balls, put several hand made Christmas trees made of beads and beads, supplement with small candles. It remains to complete the decor with a small garland that can be hung on the glass.
Ideas for kindergarten and school
New Year's decoration of windows in kindergarten and school will create a magical holiday atmosphere, because already from the street, children and parents will admire snowflakes and drawn stories. Usually, for decoration, educators, teachers, students use simple handmade decorations: paper figures, snowflakes, stencils, drawings, garlands made of paper, natural materials.
Ideas for New Year's plots:
- Openwork snowflakes cut out of paper are glued on both sides of the glass to create “curtains” of snowflakes. In the middle, you can glue figures of two mice and several small stars.
- On top, glue a paper "snow-covered" branch on which the paper balls will "hang".
- In the middle of the glass is a Christmas tree made of delicate snowflakes. Two mice are sitting under the tree next to the gif.webpts.
You can decorate windows in a childcare facility in different ways:
- Print out stencils, carefully cut and glue to glass using soapy water.
- Pour water into a container, add a little white toothpaste, mix thoroughly. Put some mass on a toothbrush and spray it on the glass to create New Year's patterns.
- Draw a festive plot with colored paints (it is better to use gouache). It can be a snow-covered hut with bunnies, an image of a White Rat, a snowman, Santa Claus with a Snow Maiden, cartoon characters.
- You can use ready-made stickers with New Year's characters and motives.
- At school, students themselves can make a garland of cones that will look beautiful on the eaves.
- Volumetric snowflakes, hanging paper figures, New Year's compositions from Christmas tree decorations and twigs will also decorate the classroom and help create a festive atmosphere.
It is important to remember that all decor in preschool and school facilities must be safe. This is especially true for young children in kindergartens, who will definitely want to taste bright paint from glass or touch a Christmas tree glass toy. That is why it is better to choose high-quality, natural paints, and it is strictly forbidden to use glass toys in the decor that can break, candles, LED garlands.
It takes a little imagination and creativity to create a New Year's mood. But on the glass will appear snow patterns, thematic drawings, and the window will shine with colorful lights. Thanks to this, the festive mood will be ensured!
