We always look forward to the winter holidays, this is a unique atmosphere of magic and mystery, an anticipation of miracles. Making original interior decorations for a house or apartment for the New Year 2024 with your own hands can become a wonderful family tradition. Joint creativity with children will help you immerse yourself in a fairy tale on long winter evenings.
Felt dragon
In the festive interior there must be a figurine of the symbol of the upcoming New Year 2024 - the Green Wooden Dragon, for example, a toy for the Christmas tree. Children will be happy to make a bright beautiful craft with the help of their parents.
Required:
- felt of different colors (you can take foamiran);
- beads, sequins and rhinestones;
- narrow ribbon or braid - 20 cm;
- scissors;
- hot gun;
- image of a dragon.
How to make:
- Print any image of a fairy dragon from a children's coloring book or a book of fairy tales.
- Cut out the contours of the main parts from colored felt.
- On the body (front part) of the dragon, stick paws and eyes with a hot gun.
- Sew or glue beads and sequins with hot glue (you can make dragon scales out of them).
- Glue on the wrong side the ends of the loop from the tape on which the toy will be hung on the Christmas tree.
- Glue together the two parts of the torso and let dry well.
The main part of the body must be cut out twice (front and back - back).
Vintage balloons
You can make unique and stylish Christmas decorations in vintage style using decoupage technique.
Required:
- Christmas tree plastic ball;
- three-layer patterned napkin;
- PVA glue;
- alcohol;
- white acrylic primer;
- art acrylic paints;
- varnish;
- glitter;
- tape or braid;
- sponge;
- brush.
Work order:
- Degrease the surface of the toy.
- Use a sponge to cover the workpiece with 1-2 layers of primer and let dry.
- Cut out the desired pattern from the napkin.
- Iron the napkin with a hot iron and carefully remove the top layer.
- Put the pattern on the ball and align it.
- Cautiously cover the drawing with a brush with a layer of PVA glue diluted with water (1:1) and let it dry well. Then you can apply a second layer of glue and dry.
- Draw the details with acrylic paints, add sparkles to emphasize the details.
- Now the final step is to cover the toy with 1-2 layers of varnish.
The base of the finished ball can be decorated with a tied bow of ribbon or braid.
3D snowflake
Snowflakes of various shapes and sizes have been the most popular Christmas decoration for many years. For the manufacture of volumetric paper crafts, only paper is required. You can take an ordinary white office or a special color for crafts with glitter, it will turn out especially beautiful. Snowflakes collected from music paper or old magazines will look unusual and vintage. Thin kraft paper is suitable for eco-style jewelry.
Required:
- six squares of paper of the same size;
- stapler (or glue gun);
- scissors.
Work order:
- Fold the square of paper in half into a triangle.
- Make cuts at regular intervals from sharp corners to a straight line. Do not cut to the end, leave 0.5-1 cm.
- Unfold the square and fasten the strips with a stapler through one.
- Turn the square to the other side and fasten the remaining strips together. It turned out one snowflake petal.
- Fasten the petals together at the central parts.
It turned out a beautiful voluminous craft. But one openwork beauty will not make the Christmas mood - it is better to open a “snow workshop” together with the children and cut out several dozen. Such snowflakes are suitable for decorating walls, doors and windows, they can be connected into long garlands, hung one by one or in groups from the ceiling, cut in the same size or different.
Lamp made of garlands and balls
Even without special skills and abilities, you can create a beautiful original lamp from a LED garland and Christmas balls in half an hour.For such a composition, they can be of the same color or vice versa of several contrasting shades - it all depends on the imagination and the general style of the interior.
Required:
- christmas balls;
- LED garland;
- glass, transparent vase or bowl (wide or tall and narrow).
Work order:
- Lay a few turns of the LED garland on the bottom of the container;
- Then randomly distribute Christmas balls and garland thread.
Effective lamp for the holiday is ready. You can put it on the table in the center of the New Year's wreath or simply add spruce branches (live or artificial).
Clove orange for New Year's flavor
New Year's and Christmas days from childhood are associated with the enchanting aroma of oranges, sweets, as well as subtle, spicy notes of cloves and cinnamon. Orange balls with patterns of carnation buds can be hung on a Christmas tree or spread around the house by adding to coniferous compositions.
Required:
- orange;
- sachet of spiced cloves (need whole buds);
- pill-candle.
Process:
- Cut at the top of the orange (where the stalk is attached) a round hole the size of a pill candle.
- Insert a candle.
- Stick carnation buds into an orange - this can be done in random order or "draw" a certain ornament.
The orange lamp with a wonderful Christmas scent is ready.
Fairytale Christmas Village
If there are small children in the family, you should definitely make a Christmas village. It can be placed on the windowsill, on the table or under the spreading paws of spruce. And with the backlight of LED lights, such a town will look just magical. You can buy ready-made ceramic or wooden houses, or choose another option - create a small fairy-tale land with your children and come up with your own unusual Christmas story.
Required:
- cardboard (you can take white or regular boxes);
- glue;
- white acrylic paint;
- cotton wool or synthetic winterizer;
- LED garland;
- scissors;
- tassel.
Process:
- Cut blanks for houses, Christmas trees, figures of animals and people from cardboard using templates.
- Glue the houses.
- Paint with white paint. You can completely cover all houses and Christmas trees with paint or just “sprinkle” with snow frost (this option is suitable for an eco-style interior).
- Arrange the figures in the right order, spread a garland between them and decorate with snowdrifts of cotton wool.
Christmas tree from palms on the wall
Another very interesting idea for decorating a children's room.
Required:
- green paper of different shades (or whatman sheet and green gouache);
- scissors;
- double sided tape.
Process:
- Make hand patterns for all family members - for this you need to circle the hand of each on whatman paper (this important task can be entrusted to the baby).
- Cut out spruce paws according to the pattern.
- Assemble a Christmas tree on the wall from separate "branches" and stick it on double-sided tape starting from the base.
- Under some palms you can hide small gifts and surprises for children.
Here are simple ideas for decorating houses and apartments for the New Year 2024 with photos and step-by-step master classes. Making such a New Year's decor with your own hands does not require special skills and complex tools. Which crafts to choose and what material to use largely depends on the overall style of the interior - wood and paper decorations are suitable for a restrained Scandinavian style, decoupage toys for a vintage one.For eco-style, you can choose natural crafts from cones, fragrant tangerines with cloves and fir branches.
