With the approach of the New Year holidays, not only children, but also adults are waiting for miracles and gifts. Everyone can create a magical atmosphere in their home, and for this you don’t need to go to the store for New Year decorations, you can create them yourself.
Toy Snow Maiden and Santa Claus can be seated not just under the Christmas tree, but in sledges made of cardboard. In addition, Santa's sleigh can be an original idea for wrapping gifts or a stand for sweets and fruits. It is not difficult to make them, and time for their production will take quite a bit.
Do-it-yourself cardboard sledges
This craft can be made together with a child, he will be delighted with New Year's preparations and spending time together. There are many workshops on making cardboard sleighs. Some of them are suitable for working with young children, and there are those that can be offered to perform older children.
Cardboard sleigh of Santa Claus: step by step
To create the craft, such materials and tools are useful: multi-colored thick cardboard, foil, scissors, paint, glue and various decorative elements.
First you need to cut out the details from which subsequently the child will collect the sleigh of Santa Claus. The template for such crafts in most cases has a standard look.
They make two identical parts from blue and white cardboard and glue them together. After that, the paper blank is folded along the marked lines and the sled is glued.
The crafts can be decorated with foil. From it you just need to cut two parts in the shape of the sidewalls, only a little less, and stick to the base on the sides. You can decorate the sled with the help of paints, stickers in the form of snowflakes, etc.
Such sledges are not the limit, a beautiful stand for fruits can be made using thick cardboard, corrugated paper and synthetic winterizer.
First you need to find a suitable template, circle it on cardboard and cut out two details. Corrugated paper should be glued to one of the copies and cut off the excess along the contour. Two parts are glued in the same way on both sides.
The next step is to cut out the bottom of the sleigh. A rectangle of the desired width is cut out of the cardboard, adding a centimeter on each side for indentation. The part is bent, divided into three parts: the base of the sled and two backs (small and large). Indentations also need to be bent, smeared with glue and glued to the side parts.
Two strips should be cut from the synthetic winterizer and glued to the sides, simulating snow and covering the not glued edges of the cardboard. You need to wait until the sled is dry, and fill them with sweets or fruits.
Sweet christmas sleigh
It is easy to make such a sleigh of Santa Claus with your own hands. This small candy gift will appeal to any child. It is simple to create a sweet souvenir, and its cost will be low, so you can please all the children you know with such a New Year's surprise.
Two caramel candies in the form of a cane, one flat chocolate bar, candies, a glue gun, a ribbon and a bow for decoration are useful for making one sweet gift.
Step-by-step instruction
Following the instructions, the sweet sleigh of Santa Claus can be done quickly and without any problems.
- The first step is to create the foundation of the sled. To do this, a large chocolate bar is glued to caramel canes with a glue gun. It should be noted that very little glue is used in this work.
- Four flat candies are glued on top of the chocolate in a row.
- The next layer will already consist of three candies.
- Next on top you need to glue two more candies. Completes the resulting "pyramid" one candy. To make the sleigh neat and beautiful, you need to pick up candies of the same size, while the wrappers should be bright and varied.
- At the end of the work, a sweet gift should be decorated with a ribbon and a gift bow.
Original packaging enhances the effect of gifts. Santa's sleigh is an original idea for New Year's sweets and souvenirs. It’s not difficult to do them, the work will take little time, but the effect will be irresistible and will surprise everyone. You can complete this craft together with your child in order to present a joint gift to your loved ones for the New Year. Moreover, creativity favorably affects the development of babies.