In the New Year and Christmas, it is traditional to exchange gifts. We offer a selection of ideas for making souvenirs for the New Year 2024, which you can do with your own hands. Step-by-step instructions and photos will help you create unique original gifts for loved ones and decorations for a festive interior. Materials for such crafts can be found in almost every home - colored paper, jars, cones, tinsel.
Dragon
A cute craft with the symbol of the upcoming 2024 can be easily made with a child - you get a voluminous souvenir toy.
Required:
- colored paper in two colors (for example, green and yellow);
- eyes;
- scissors;
- glue.
Step by step instructions:
- Cut out the torso and paws from the paper of the main green color.
- Cut a sheet of yellow paper into two parts.
- Cut out a trapezoid from one and fold it like an accordion.
- Find the center and fold the piece in half to make wings.
- Cut the second part of the yellow sheet in half again.
- From one part we cut out a wavy crest-ridge according to the template.
- The second one is folded with a small accordion.
- Glue the spine between the two halves of the body.
- Paste the yellow accordion breast.
- Glue the parts of the head and glue the eyes.
- Glue the paws.
- Make a slot in the body for the wings.
- Insert and spread the wings.
Our gift dragon is ready.
Christmas card
You can make a greeting card with your child for the winter holidays. Let the kid choose or draw the plot for her.
The following materials are required:
- colorful buttons;
- double-sided cardboard sheet or cardboard base for a postcard;
- glue.
Making a postcard:
- Take a ready-made base for a postcard or fold a sheet of cardboard in half.
- On the front side we outline the contours of the figure - it can be a Christmas tree, a snowflake, a snowman, a New Year's ball.
- Glue the figure.
- Lay out the pattern with colored buttons like a mosaic.
- Supplement the card with details from ribbons, beads, rhinestones.
- Let the glue dry.
It remains to write warm wishes.
Red-breasted Bullfinch
An unusual voluminous bullfinch can be made from ordinary threads (woolen, acrylic, any mixed yarn will do).
For crafts you will need:
- thick yarn in black, gray and red;
- elongated black bead (or big seed);
- two black beads (or two plastic eyes);
- scissors;
- Glue Moment or Crystal.
Work step by step:
- Cut the threads with skeins about 30-35 cm long.
- We take a skein of red threads, and put black ones on them.
- Drag in the center and tightly tie with a black thread.
- Bend the black yarn to the opposite - you get the head of a bird.
- We knit black yarn - we get a ponytail.
- Put a skein of gray yarn under the free ends of the red skein.
- Bend the red yarn down and tie it with the red and black around the ponytail.
- Put the ends of the gray yarn on the ponytail and tie.
- Trim the threads, remove the excess.
- Gently glue the beads - beak and eyes.
Fluffy red-breasted beauties are ready.
You can add a ribbon and hang it on the Christmas tree or glue a small clothespin at the bottom and seat the bullfinch on a branch.
Handmade soap
A handmade gift can be not only original, but also useful - for example, a beautiful fragrant soap.
You will need:
- soap base (transparent, colored or white);
- silicone mold for Christmas trees, snowflakes, etc.;
- dyes, mother-of-pearl and glitter for soap;
- any soap flavors;
- alcohol in a spray bottle;
- silicone board;
- knife;
- glass.
Step by step instructions:
- Cut the bar of soap base into medium-sized pieces.
- We heat the base in the microwave or in a water bath until completely dissolved.
- When the base becomes liquid, add a few drops of perfume for fragrance, dye and mother of pearl. Stir quickly.
- Pour the first soap base into the mold, sprinkle with alcohol.
- Tap a little on the edges of the mold to remove air bubbles. The surface of the soap can be sprinkled with alcohol.
- Carefully transfer the form to a cool place and leave until the soap base is completely hardened.
- Turn the mold inside out and carefully remove the soap.
- Rubbing with mother-of-pearl.
- It remains to place the finished soap in a gift box or wrap it in transparent wrapping paper.
Magnet "Fragrant Christmas Tree"
Small original fragrant magnets are suitable for a New Year's gift to friends or work colleagues. You can also decorate the refrigerator with them.
Required:
- cardboard;
- jute thread;
- coffee beans, dried orange slices and zest;
- magnet;
- glue-moment.
Work order:
- Cut out a Christmas tree from cardboard (you can choose any other shape).
- Apply glue to the blank.
- Wrap with jute twine - the coils should be laid tightly to each other.
- On the front side, lay out a pattern of coffee beans and glue it.
- Glue a magnet on the reverse side.
- Let's dry well.
The fragrant souvenir is ready.
Champagne Pineapple
Another option for a beautiful and original gift is a sweet candy bouquet in the shape of a pineapple.
List of required materials:
- yellow-wrapped sweets (for example, "Golden Lily" ), about 65-70 pieces;
- corrugated green paper;
- champagne bottle;
- yellow felt or sisal fiber;
- glue gun.
Step by step:
- Cut squares of yellow or orange felt (slightly smaller than candy).
- Glue each candy onto pieces of felt to hide the tails.
- Glue the felt squares with sweets on the surface of the champagne bottle.
- For the manufacture of leaves, cut out blanks from green corrugated paper (about 12 cm long and 3 cm wide).
- Then glue them layer by layer on the neck of the bottle.
- Twist the ends of the leaves a little.
- Decorate the junction of leaves and candy scales with ribbon.
Bright pineapple will be a good gift for friends or colleagues and a real decoration of the holiday table.
Christmas lamp from a jar
A beautiful elegant candlestick can be made from the simplest materials. Any glass container will do (the shape of a jar or glass can be any). You can take a purchased decor or use small twigs of spruce, cones, pieces of burlap.
Materials:
- glass jar of any shape;
- coarse table s alt;
- masking tape;
- PVA glue;
- wide tassel;
- Christmas decor;
- twine.
Creating Instructions:
- Rinse the glass jar thoroughly, remove all labels and degrease.
- Stenciling on masking tape snowflakes, Christmas trees, winter forest, etc.
- Cut out the images and paste them on the jar.
- Apply glue with a brush to a small area (from the bottom to the thread for the lid).
- Pour coarse s alt into a flat plate (you can take colored bath s alt).
- Put the jar in a plate with s alt in the area where the glue is applied and press it tightly.
- Spread the next section of the jar with glue.
- Dip in glue.
- So we cover the whole jar with frost from s alt and let it dry well.
- Remove the adhesive tape - you will get curly windows.
- Glue the neck of the jar with glue, wrap it with twine and add decor-snowflakes, beads.
- Insert the candle into the jar.
The lamp is ready - this Christmas decoration will look good on the festive table and decorate the winter garden.
Christmas wreath
Another idea for a souvenir is a Christmas wreath, which will be a good gift or home decoration. It can be hung on the front door or decorate the holiday table. A variety of materials are suitable for making - dried orange slices, cinnamon sticks, cones and nuts.
Required:
- wire;
- spruce or pine branches;
- bumps;
- dried orange slices;
- sprigs of mountain ash and wild rose with berries;
- tangerines;
- cloves;
- cinnamon sticks;
- glue gun.
Work order:
- We fold the frame of the future wreath from the wire - we turn it into a circle of the desired diameter. We do a few turns. If you plan to hang the wreath on the door, you can immediately make a loop.
- Fix coniferous branches, mountain ash and wild rose on the frame with wire.
- Complement the wreath with cones, slices of dried oranges and cinnamon sticks. Glue with a glue gun.
- We stick clove buds into tangerines or medium-sized oranges and fix them on a wreath, a stunning spicy aroma will spread throughout the apartment.
- Additionally, you can decorate the wreath with a ribbon or artificial snow.
Such a Christmas wreath can be hung on the front door or placed on a festive table with candles or a vase of fruits and sweets.
Herringbone bushings
If for some reason you did not install and decorate a traditional live or artificial Christmas tree - make a Christmas tree from the simplest materials. For example, from sleeves from disposable kitchen towels or toilet paper.
For the Christmas tree you will need:
- 22 sleeves;
- paint;
- glue gun;
- balls for decor.
Work order:
- We paint the bushings from the outside and inside. It is convenient to use spray paint for this. Choose the color to your liking - traditional green, white, golden or silver. Let dry well.
- Fold the sleeves in a slide and fasten them together with a glue gun or stapler.
- Attaching the "legs" of the Christmas tree.
- Decorate the Christmas tree with balls and snowflakes by placing them inside the bushings.
This impromptu Christmas tree can be placed on a coffee table or mounted on a wall in a children's room. You can put a small surprise gift or a comic wish in each sleeve.
The article contains several ideas for New Year's souvenirs that you can make yourself. All these crafts can be easily made with children. They will be happy to help cut and glue, choose decorations and decor elements for crafts.
