We offer new ideas and step-by-step master classes with photos of a variety of Christmas balls that are easy to make with your own hands for the New Year 2024. For creativity, you can use old Christmas decorations, complement them with decor and create new ones from a variety of materials - from ordinary paper and bright shreds of fabric to pine cones.
Christmas decoration from cupcake liners
Such funny balloons will be happy to make even kids with a little help from their parents.
Required:
- 16-20 colorful paper cupcake liners;
- glue stick;
- cord or braid.
How to make:
- Spread paper cupcake cups and flatten a little. For crafts, it is better to choose molds of several bright colors.
- Fold each piece in half with pattern inside.
- Connect the parts together after lubricating them with glue.
- Glue a loop of braid.
An unusual bright ball is ready. By gluing 10-15 pieces you can assemble a beautiful garland.
Tissue Paper Christmas Decorations
Using thin wrapping paper, you can create great vintage-style Christmas crafts.
Required:
- preform made of polystyrene (or polystyrene) with a diameter of 12-15 cm;
- tissue paper in several colors;
- beads for decoration;
- scissors;
- Moment glue.
How to:
- Cut tissue paper into strips 3-5 cm wide and twist long flagella.
- Roll them into flat snail roses, their number depends on the size of the ball.
- Glue the folded flagella close to each other.
- Decorate the finished craft with beads.
Such delicate romantic decor will complete the look of a vintage-style spruce.
Stylish plastic bottle balloons
Even ordinary plastic bottles make bright Christmas decorations.
Required:
- clear plastic bottle;
- stases, sequins or sparkles;
- thin braid or ribbon;
- glue gun;
- stationery knife.
How to make:
- Cut rings 0.7-1 cm wide from a plastic bottle using a clerical knife.
- Decorate the strips with rhinestones or sequins (they can be glued with hot glue or use Moment glue). You can also apply glue to the outside of the rings and sprinkle with sparkles.
- Fold the strips into a ball and fix with glue at the top and bottom connection points.
- Cut off a ribbon or ribbon about 20 cm long, fold in half and fasten to the toy.
A bright original craft is ready - it can be hung on a Christmas tree in the house or in the yard. This decor is not afraid of winter weather.
Christmas tree cone decor
For an interior in an actual ethnic style, a New Year's composition is suitable, which uses the most common natural materials.
Required:
- pine cones;
- spruce or pine branches;
- newspaper or paper from an old magazine;
- sword (or thick thread);
- artificial snow in a can;
- braid or ribbon made of burlap, lace;
- glue gun.
How to make:
- Crumple the newspaper into a tight ball.
- Wrap the twine so that the ball is shaped like a sphere.
- Glue the cones on the surface of the ball, placing them tightly to each other.
- Glue spruce branches between the cones.
- Decorate with sprigs with berries and nuts.
- Fix the string for hanging.
- Sprinkle the finished product with artificial snow and decorate with a linen or burlap bow.
Pine cones decor can be designed as an original New Year's composition, which will be a real home decoration.
For such crafts, both live spruce twigs, rose hips, nuts, and artificial ones are suitable.
Christmas tree decoration in Japanese technique kimekomi
If you want to try something new and create a unique Christmas decoration - it's worth mastering the "patchwork without a needle" .
Required:
- preform made of polystyrene (or polystyrene) with a diameter of 12-15 cm;
- bright shreds of fabric;
- pencil or pen;
- tracing paper;
- pins;
- scissors;
- stationery knife;
- decorative braid or cord;
- beads and sequins for decoration;
- glue.
How to make:
- If there is no finished blank, you can cut a sphere from a foam bush or take a wooden one.
- Draw a pattern on the surface of the toy with a pen or pencil.
- Trace the outlines of the parts on the tracing paper, adding 0.5 cm allowances on each side.
- Cut out the detail templates, transfer the pieces of fabric and cut them out.
- With a clerical knife make cuts to a depth of 0.5 cm along the lines of the pattern.
- Put the patches on the ball, according to the pattern, and fix with pins.
- Gently tuck the fabric sections into the slots with the back of a utility knife.
- Decorate joints between parts with cord, beads and sequins.
For the first experience of making a product using the kimekomi technique, it is better to choose simple geometric patterns with large details.
Such an unusual thing will decorate the forest beauty.
Christmas tree toy with dragon
On the eve of 2024, the symbol of which will be the Dragon, you can make a very beautiful Christmas tree decor with a dragon figurine.
Required:
- solid ball;
- dragon figurine;
- can of gold or pearlescent paint;
- alcohol or alcohol wipes;
- Moment glue.
How to:
- Degrease the surface of the toy with alcohol or wipe it with alcohol wipes.
- Cover the dragon figurine with gold paint from a spray can (you can also use paint of a different color with a mother-of-pearl effect). Let dry well.
- Glue the dragon figurine on the ball.
The original craft with the symbol of the coming year will not only be a stylish interior decor, but will also serve as a wonderful gift.
Christmas shabby chic toy
It's not difficult to make a bright Christmas decoration from old beads - beads can be taken in the same color and different sizes or bright multi-colored ones.
Required:
- beads of different sizes;
- long sewing pins;
- preform of foam or polystyrene;
- narrow ribbon, lace or braid;
- glue gun.
How to:
- String several beads of different sizes on the pins.
- Stick the pins into the foam sphere tightly together.
- Glue a loop of thin tape with hot glue.
Smart pearl hedgehog for the Christmas tree is ready.
Making balls and various crafts for the Christmas tree can become a good family tradition that will help create a cozy festive atmosphere in the house and give a lot of joyful emotions.
