Decorating your home for any holiday, and even more so for the New Year, is very simple. One has only to show a little imagination. Of course, the easiest way is to hang garlands throughout the house bought at the market or in the store, but it’s much more interesting to decorate your house with “homemade goods”. Devote a couple of evenings to this interesting activity, and your house will sparkle with new colors, and the children will finally come off the computers.
How to decorate your home on the eve of the New Year holidays
If you don’t want to go to the store, and dad is “friendly” with electricity, you can make a garland of light bulbs yourself. The DIY garland scheme is quite simple and anyone who has ever dealt with wires can easily figure it out. So that it favorably differs from the purchased option, each bulb can be decorated with improvised material.
At the same time, be sure to ensure that all of your “decorators” that you attach to bulbs and wires are made of non-combustible material. Well, for those who are in a difficult relationship with electricity or want to involve the younger generation in manufacturing - a few of the following tips.
Paper garlands
The easiest way to make garlands of paper. For the New Year, it is customary to decorate not only the Christmas tree, but the room as a whole. You can hang decorations in window and doorways, attach to the ceiling, cabinets or curtains.
The simplest garland of paper is a chain of ringlets. To make it, you will need:
- colored paper, preferably double-sided;
- scissors;
- Ruler and pencil;
- PVA glue or any other;
- glue brush;
Mark and cut the paper into small strips, measuring approximately 80x10 mm. Take one strip and glue it into a ring. Pass the next strip into the resulting ring and fasten the ends together, forming a ring again. Do the same with all other paper strips, forming a chain of the required length.
There is another easy way to make garlands on your own. Cut from paper a large number of circles, stars, Christmas trees, fish or any other figures of your choice. To simplify the work, you can use the special tools for punching, which are sold in every store for needlework. They are inexpensive, and the garland will turn out much more accurately. Using a sewing machine or manually sew all received parts in one line. Use a strong thick thread, so your garland will be much stronger.
If you don’t have a sewing machine or if you don’t know how to sew, don’t be upset. Just take two identical fragments and glue them together, laying a thread, tape or cord in the middle. Repeat the procedure until you get a garland of the desired length.
Thread Jewelry
Another very beautiful and uncomplicated decoration of any home is the “Balls” garland. Making it yourself is very simple, you will need:
- balloons of small diameter, 10-50 pieces - depending on how long you want to make a garland;
- several balls of multi-colored threads, best of all natural, woolen or cotton;
- PVA glue;
- scissors;
- string or string for stringing - the basis of a garland;
Take the balloon and inflate it to the required size. Glue a little dilute with water in a small bowl. Cut about 1–1.5 m of thread from a ball and soak it with glue mixture. Squeeze a little so that the thread does not drip. Spool the thread around the ball like a ball, leaving a gap. It should turn out a beautiful openwork ball. Fasten the end of the thread with glue and leave the structure to dry completely. After the glue has completely dried, pierce the ball and gently pull its remains through the holes.
Make as many balls as you want, and use a large needle or knitting needle to assemble them on a ribbon or rope.
Garland of felt
You already know how to make garlands of paper. For them to serve you faithfully for more than one year, replace the paper with felt. This is a fairly dense and soft material, from which it is very easy to cut a variety of figures.
If you know how to sew at least a little, you can make a garland of soft toys. Using a stencil, draw and cut two identical parts of the future garland element, for example, a Christmas tree. Sew the parts together, and in the middle place a little synthetic winterizer or regular cotton wool. If the characters of your future garland are little animals, then sew them eyes with buttons and decorate them with ribbons. When all the elements are ready, connect them together, strung on a thick thread or ribbon. The garland is ready.
We use natural materials
If you like to collect cones, acorns, leaves and other gifts of nature, then the question of how to make garlands for the New Year is completely solved. For example, you can make a decoration of cones, for this you need to cook:
- cones (the right amount depends on the length of the garland);
- special hinges - such devices from one end of which there is a hinge, and the other is a screw, in everyday life the hinge of a door hook looks like this; You can buy such things in stores for needlework;
- acrylic paints, sparkles;
- ribbon - the basis of the garland;
Paint the cones with white acrylic paint and sprinkle them with sparkles, although if you prefer natural materials, you can leave them ordinary. Using pliers, screw loops into the bottoms of the cones and string the jewelry onto the base ribbon. If you did not find any stitches, then the bottom of the cones can simply be braided with a rope or ribbon, forming a garland. In the same way, you can use acorns, branches of mountain ash and needles.
Knitted garland
For those who crochet well, decorating your home is as easy as shelling pear - for example, you can knit a garland of snowflakes. Any needlewoman knows how to knit them - this is the same as small napkins, since there are a great many schemes for them. Incredibly beautiful garlands are obtained from small amigurumi toys crocheted and stuffed with syntepon. True, it will be necessary to begin manufacturing such decorations long before the New Year. This is not so simple, especially for beginner craftswomen.
Those who do not know how to knit should also not despair - an excellent color garland will turn out from pompons. Making them is very simple - take the colored threads and start winding them around the three closed fingers of the left hand. When you get a fairly tight ring - remove the threads from your fingers and tightly tie them in the middle. Using scissors, cut the resulting loops and fluff the pompom.
If pompons are too much for you, you can do it even easier. Take a pack of cotton wool and roll small balls out of it. Color the cotton “pompoms” with old spoiled shadows or colored pencils, which lead is rubbed into fine dust. Using a needle, string colored balls on a long thread - the garland is ready.
Edible garlands "Bird's joy"
The most unusual garland for the New Year with your own hands is obtained from orange and apple circles, twigs of viburnum and other edible details. Take a small orange or apple and cut it into small circles with a sharp knife. Dip each slice into starch and place on parchment. Dry the fruit in a warm oven for 1.5–2 hours. Gather the garland on a string. To make it even more beautiful, add to the composition brushes of dried mountain ash, "beads" of popcorn and rose hip or hawthorn. You can also use rings from a cereal breakfast.
The beauty of this decoration is that when the holidays end, it can be hung on the street near the house or taken to the nearest park. All these delicacies are happy to bite birds or gnaw on proteins - because their winter diet is not so rich in vitamins.
And to please your family, you can make a garland of sweets, nuts and gingerbread cookies. Gingerbread decoration will definitely not leave your children indifferent, especially if they themselves (with your help, of course) bake its components. A variety of recipes can be found on the Internet or look at the cookbook of your beloved grandmother.
Garland with a surprise
And here is another idea how to make garlands for the holiday. If you have small children who love Kinder Surprises, you can collect “testes” from the prizes during the year. Before the holiday, use an awl to make holes in the opposite ends of the "testicles" and string them on a string in the form of a garland. Inside each, put a note with a comic assignment. In the midst of the holiday, take turns opening the “testicles” and completing the task - joy and fun are guaranteed to everyone.
If you didn’t succeed with Kinder Surprises, use regular matchboxes instead. Of course, so that they look like New Year's, they need to be painted or pasted over with colored paper.
Conclusion
As you already understood, there are an incredible number of ways to make a garland with your own hands. It is only necessary to show a little bit of imagination and perseverance. Believe me, do-it-yourself jewelry, and even in close contact with the children, will please you much more than the most "tricked out" little things purchased.
And most importantly, joint creativity will give an unforgettable festive atmosphere and provide everyone with a cheerful New Year mood.