New Year is a magical time, which is worth preparing in advance to fully enjoy the festive spirit. You should definitely dress up a house, a Christmas tree, buy tangerines, make salads and watch the best Christmas movies. You can decorate a Christmas tree with glass balls, or you can approach this task creatively and create Christmas decorations with your own hands. If you put your soul into the work, then you will get beautiful interesting toys. In addition, if you have small children in your house, then this will be a great opportunity to spend time together fun and creatively. You can not only create interesting and beautiful New Year decorations with your own hands, but also learn more about each other, get closer, and is this not the main thing in the family?
What is the beauty of hand made toys?
The first thing worth noting is a wonderful pastime. You have fun, children have fun, but is this the essence of the holidays? The second - you do something beautiful and safe at the same time, while using environmentally friendly materials. Thirdly, you do not just create Christmas decorations with your own hands, but also make family heirlooms, which, with a careful attitude, can even go to grandchildren. It will be a great memory of you!
Where to get inspiration?
You decided to create something interesting and original, but don’t know where to start? Inspire yourself with beautiful pictures of jewelry, including those presented in our article. Here you can also see patterns of Christmas decorations made of paper, made with your own hands. For example, how to create a beautiful snowflake.
Find the perfect option for toys and start creating with your child, it will be pleasant for your child to have fun with his parents and do something beautiful for the decor.
Cardboard Jewelry
It’s easy to create Christmas decorations for a house from cardboard, for this you need to stock up on some materials:
The first thing that needs to be done is to come up with the shape of the future product. It can be anything: little men, Christmas trees, snowmen, stars and so on. First, cut out the shape you need from kraft cardboard, and then cut the same shape, but smaller exactly twice, from bright colored paper. Glue a paper figure on cardboard and decorate it with sequins, bows and so on. Now make a loop from a rope or a thin rain, stick it to the figure - and voila! So you can simply create the most beautiful Christmas decorations with your own hands from paper of completely different shapes, and they will all look amazing!
Cone decoration
And what can be created from cones? You can clearly see that beautiful Christmas decorations with your own hands are created not only from paper, but also from a variety of materials, you just need to connect your imagination and stock up with various decorative components!
To make a beautiful decoration of cones, you need to stock up:
You can get all this in any sewing store or where various decorative elements for sewing, knitting and other hobbies are sold. No beads? Not scary, you can replace them with volumetric buttons or something else. The main thing is to show your imagination, to allow the creative beginning to manifest itself, and you can create beautiful New Year decorations. Of course, you can buy Christmas toys, but isn’t it more pleasant to make them yourself?
So, grease each cone flake with glue from the inside and stick a ball, bead or something else on it. When you decorate all the scales, the craft should dry, but for now, make a loop out of the rope and stick it on the handle. Voila, you're done!
Cinnamon sticks to create a festive mood
From cinnamon and beautiful ribbons, you can also create something interesting and unusual. For work you need to cook:
- tapes;
- a rope;
- buttons, sparkles;
- cinnamon sticks;
- needles.
You can make beautiful and simple Christmas decorations from ribbons, but ribbons can also be used as a decorative element that will look just fine! How to make a beautiful decoration from cinnamon sticks? Glue the needles on the cinnamon, make a beautiful rain or balls from the ribbons, use the buttons as a decorative element, and make a loop from the rope.
Paper snowflakes
Many children at home make beautiful paper snowflakes to decorate windows, houses and spruce. Do not know how to make a snowflake out of paper, and think that this is a difficult task? Believe me, this is nothing complicated, everyone will be able to create something interesting and unusual. The most important thing is to show imagination, because it is impossible to make a mistake in this matter - each bend of scissors will give your snowflake an unusual openwork shape, and it will be unique in its own way. Openwork snowflakes are the best way to decorate a room before the New Year holidays. Create a fabulous atmosphere in the house, because now you will learn how to make a snowflake out of paper.
- Take a square paper sheet, fold it in half diagonally. If you do not have a square sheet, then plain A4 paper will do: you fold it in half into a square, and simply cut off the excess with scissors.
- Fold the resulting triangle in two again. Everything is done by eye, it is only important that the side of the triangle is in contact with the opposite fold.
- Cut the bottom, and you can draw fancy contours, along which you will then cut.
Create Christmas lights
Christmas paper lanterns are a beautiful decoration that is very simple to create with your own hands. This craft was invented in China. It is believed that lanterns are not only a stylish Christmas decoration in the interior, but also an excellent amulet that scares away evil spirits and attracts good luck to the house! To create such original toys it is worth involving the whole family, especially children, because they love to do crafts and have fun with their parents. If you wish, you can even put an electric candle in your flashlight, and you will already have an interesting New Year's lamp, but do not forget about safety: use only LED lamps that do not heat up. There are a huge number of flashlights, now we’ll figure out how to make some of them.
Pendant lights
This type of flashlights is suitable for decorating the Christmas tree, it is also possible to arrange them around the room or house, or you can collect and make a garland out of them. Even a small child will cope with this task, so do not be afraid to involve younger family members in the work. Use the following instructions to make the jewelry:
- Take a rectangular sheet of colored paper, cut a strip of one centimeter wide from its edge. Set this strip aside, it will come in handy later.
- Fold the remaining paper twice in length, face inward.
- Move two centimeters from the edge of the paper triangle of the opposite fold and draw a line with a pencil.
- You need to make parallel cuts from the fold line at the same distance, do not step over the line.
- The paper triangle can be expanded, turn it on the front side, fold it with a tube. Connect the edges with tape, glue or a stapler.
- Glue the strip to the upper part, and you will get a handle, for which you will be able to hang a toy.
Create tissue paper lanterns
If you have tissue paper and you decide to create flashlights, then you should know right away that you will need to spend more time on manufacturing, however your flashlights will come out beautiful, elegant and light. Follow the instructions to make them.
- Take a couple of sheets of colored tissue paper, bend them in half in length.
- Fold the paper without fan. Stick to a 1.5 centimeter bend width.
- Unroll the sheets, turn them over with the convex side to the table.
- Reassemble one side of the paper into a fan, and through it stretch a dense thread by threading it in advance into the needle, and be sure to tie the ends of the thread.
- Perform the same manipulations for the second side of the paper.
- Gently straighten the folds, secure the edges of the paper with tape, you get a volumetric rhombus.
That's how the original flashlight is made! Crafts can decorate not only the Christmas tree, but also the desktop, windowsill and even the ceiling.
Round lanterns
This type of decoration is very simple to make, so it is worth attracting children to work. Round lanterns resemble Christmas balls in shape, so they should decorate the New Year tree. How to make a decor?
- Take colored sheets of paper, cut from them 15 strips (the length can be any) with a width of 1 centimeter. It is allowed to take papers of various shades.
- On each strip, step back along the edges of 3 millimeters and in these places make holes with a needle.
- Combine the paper strips, and insert rivets, which are sold at any needlework store, into the holes.
- Pull the strips out of the stack one by one, distribute them in a circle so that you end up with a ball. Better to start from the bottom strip.
- When the toy is ready, a thread can be attached to one of the rivets for hanging.
Circle lanterns
Flashlights can even be made from round blanks. It will take you very little time to make the craft, and as a result you will get the original toy.
- Take a thin colored cardboard and cut out 10 circles of the same diameter.
- Bend the circles twice with the colored side inward.
- Glue the blanks to each other in the places of the bend, leave only two circles intact.
- Insert a paper clip with one end straightened into the central part of the resulting circle. Fasten the part with super glue. You have a hook for hanging a toy. Instead of a paper clip, you can even use a loop from tape or braid.
- Glue the remaining circles and decorate the toy with other decorative elements.
Here you can create such interesting and original flashlights yourself if you wish.
Create a serpentine
Are you interested in how to make a serpentine? Now we will deal with this issue. Serpentine is a thin and long paper tape with which you can decorate a Christmas tree, a room. To create a decoration, you will need to immediately determine the paper: it should not be too thin, but not dense. You can get a great serpentine if you use glossy magazine covers in your work. Landscape paper will not work, it is heavy, and plain color will be just right. First, white paper should be covered with a layer of watercolor or gouache, you can make blots with a brush, stains. The surface of the sheet should be interesting to make your serpentine look beautiful. The width of your tape should be no more than a centimeter. Glued finished tapes to each other so that in the end you have one long strip. Do not make the serpentine too long (more than one and a half meters), otherwise there is a chance that someone will get confused in it. Before use, the tape can be curled by reeling on a pencil. Just glue the tail with glue or scotch tape after winding on the pencil, and let it lie down overnight. In the morning, cut the tail - and your serpentine is ready to use!