To create a festive atmosphere on the eve of the New Year, it is not necessary to set a chic table, dress up in carnival costumes and give a lot of gifts. To help guests catch a certain mystery in anticipation of a miracle will help the appropriate interior design. Even small but unusual little things will surprise you with their originality and will set you in the right way. Make, for example, paper fir-trees different in appearance. Let's consider several options for how to make this accessory with your own hands in simple ways and using the origami technique.
Color selection
Agree that it’s more common to see traditional green Christmas trees made of paper, cardboard or fabric. But products of other shades are quite interesting and very stylish. This, of course, is not about, for example, the purplish-red color scheme. White, light lilac, pale blue - amazing and delicate in appearance crafts with such a color scheme will fit into the most extravagant or classic interior. There is no limit to fantasy. Try to combine several shades to create a smooth transition, or create a composition from changing contrast strips. The products described below, made in a green color scheme, can be freshened up with new ideas, putting into practice at least something unusual from the above.
How to make voluminous paper Christmas trees
Christmas crafts can be done in completely different ways. But in order for the product to be voluminous, the assembly principle can be applied. We list the main of the possible manufacturing options using various paper craft techniques:
- Modeling from cut contour details. The simplest way to assemble parts.
- Simple origami. Crafts are made by folding from a whole piece of material.
- Modular origami. Assembling (complex models according to schemes) from many mini-parts of the same or different types is carried out.
- Quilling. Assembly of original products from small blanks, which are obtained by folding thin paper strips in the form of ornamental patterns.
Volumetric Christmas tree made of paper: assembly of several tiers
Perhaps this method of making crafts is the simplest and available for development, even for a child. To work, you need colored paper, a pair of compasses, scissors, a pencil, glue and a straw for a cocktail.
- Draw on a paper with a compass several circles of different diameters. Suppose the largest one is 12 cm wide, the next 10 cm, then 8 cm, etc.
- Fold each circle diagonally in half several times so that the workpiece turns into a ribbed "umbrella".
- For clarity, draw a ruler around the edges of the folds.
- Spread all the circles - you get the tiers of the future Christmas tree.
- Carefully make a hole in the center of each workpiece with a plastic straw.
- Wrap the tree trunk with brown paper tape, slightly moistened with glue.
- After the straw has completely dried, string the tiers on it, having the widest one below.
- After complete assembly, decorate the top of the product with a large bead or cut out star, and tiers with any finishing materials.
Origami crafts
To add a more complex original craft, you must be guided by a detailed instruction. After all, even with a finished result before your eyes, it is simply impossible to accurately recreate all stages of the work. After all, the art of origami provides a clear step-by-step design. As a rule, for the manufacture of the simplest models take a single piece of material. A completely different approach to modular modeling. Volumetric crafts amaze with the complexity of assembling from many small parts, each of which is folded separately before that. Origami Christmas tree made of paper can be done in the simplest ways. For example, make a small gift accessory - bookmark.
New Year's mini-craft
Any gift Christmas tree made of paper for the New Year will be a great surprise. Make a mini origami in the form of a modular chain.
- Fold the square cut out of paper in half with the fold line at the top.
- Bring both upper lap angles onto the main canvas towards the midline. The lowered edges will protrude slightly beyond the lower edge.
- Turn the corner parts under the bottom so that you get a triangular contour.
- Fold the workpiece vertically in half so that the lower gates are inside, and the middle part with joints is outside.
- Do a few of these parts. Usually 6-7 modules are enough for one bookmark.
- Once the mini-origami is ready, proceed with the assembly. To do this, insert the corner of one folded triangle into the "pocket" side of the other.
- Build a paper Christmas tree chain from the modules.
- Fold the trunk of a small souvenir tree from brown material in the form of a rectangle, and then insert it into the craft from below.
- Garnish with rhinestones, sequins, small beads. The bookmark is ready!
In that case, if this craft is equipped with an upper loop, and the modules and the barrel are attached to each other with glue, you can use the product to decorate the interior or the Christmas tree.
Imagine and invent new ways of making paper crafts, surprising with creativity and novelty!