The organization of any holiday is accompanied by the preparation of a tasty and satisfying table, the selection of exciting contests and entertainments, as well as the elegant decoration of the room. The most appropriate and original decoration located on the ledge, on the wall of a room or a banquet hall, can be a garland of flags. For the New Year, the garland will look good on the Christmas tree. Flags can be made with your own hands, and children can be involved in making simple options, for example, from paper.
What you need for work
Flags for a garland can be of any shape that you like. Basically they are made from colored paper or fabric. Instead of colored sheets, bright magazines, wrapping paper for decorating gifts, foil, a roll of beautiful wallpaper will fit. The fabric material can be taken with a pattern and cut individual coupons. A garland of flags can be combined. For the manufacture of flags you will need scissors and a template, preferably from thick cardboard. With it, you can quickly draw any number of details. You will also need a rope, to which later decorate elements, glue for gluing paper and fabric, a simple pencil and a small ruler. The front side of the flags may be multi-colored, may contain drawings, inscriptions, may have applications or embroidery on the fabric. In any case, you will get the most original and exclusive garland.
DIY flags with kids
The easiest way to make flags, in which even first-graders can take part, is colored blanks with fairy-tale characters. These parts can be bought at New Year's fairs or printed from the Internet. A flag looks like a long rectangle with a mirror image located on each half. The part should be folded in half along the short side, hang on a rope and glue the sides together. These actions with pleasure will be done by the child. The main task of mom will cut coupons with scissors.
This option can be taken as an example and use colored paper. And since each sheet is monophonic, instruct the child to stick letters or cut animals from magazines on the flags. Children are very fond of drawing, so you can instruct them to depict snowmen, Santa Clauses and Snow Maidens on the flags, as well as various symbols of the New Year. You can not glue the parts, but make holes using a hole punch and thread a cord through them. In addition, they can be not only rectangular with a cutout characteristic of the flag, but also triangular in shape. And, of course, the more elements you prepare, the longer your garland of flags will be.
Fabric decoration for the holiday
The principle of creating a garland of fabric is more complicated than that of paper. Here you need skills on a sewing machine and manual sewing. To make a garland, you need to take shreds of fabric, braid and a pre-prepared triangular pattern of solid material. Next, two different pieces of fabric are folded with their faces to each other, and a template is drawn around with the pencil. Triangles can immediately not be cut, but sew two sides on a typewriter. Then cut off the excess, cut the upper corner near the line for smooth straightening and unscrew the part. In order for you to get a neat and even garland, fabric flags and oblique trim must be ironed. Next, wrap all the details with a tie and secure with pins. It remains to sew a garland on a typewriter. Identical to the decoration of the rectangular pattern.
Flag applications
Combined garland in which both paper and fabric is used looks very unusual and attractive. On the front of the flag from paper, you can cut out a New Year's symbol using a stencil, and inside, place a gasket made of fabric that is in harmony in color. You can use metal cookie cutters for baking cookies as a preform.
By the same principle, you can create an inscription, for example: "Happy New Year!" Each flag will have one letter.
Original ideas
A garland of flags has many ways of execution. The article already mentioned a hole punch for creating holes; those who sew garlands of fabric are advised to make holes in the flags from grommets. They can be removed, partially replaced or interchanged, so the decoration for each holiday will be updated. If you knit well, then, finding a pattern, you will create a unique decoration for your home. Another original Christmas garland, the flags of which are sewn from linen and have cross-stitch.
In conclusion, I want to say that by connecting fantasy to the creation of a New Year's garland, you will get the most unusual, unique and extraordinary decoration of a holiday celebration, which can serve as an original gift not only to your Christmas tree, but also to friends and relatives.