A child’s birthday is a joyful and expected day for the whole family. Kids are waiting for a fairy tale, and parents are trying to make this day unforgettable.
You can arrange a festive atmosphere by decorating the venue of the event. Make it easy and simple, in this article a huge number of examples of festive decor for children's parties will be considered.
Craft a garland for a child’s birthday with their own hands is a pleasant and interesting activity. Parents will be happy watching the children react to their labors. Below you will find instructions and tips on how to make DIY garlands for a child’s birthday.
Create a fairy tale atmosphere
A garland is the easiest and multivariate way to decorate a room for a holiday. It can be made quickly and easily. If there is enough time, it is worth making more complex and spectacular decoration options.
You can craft colorful ribbons with your child. The manufacturing process is simple, monotonous and does not require much attention. But parents will have the opportunity to spend time with the child, talk and teach him the simple skills necessary in any needlework.
The best DIY garland ideas for a child’s birthday
Garlands can be used in a variety of ways. This can be an ordinary thread with flags and circles, or jewelry with more complex shapes, as shown in the photo below.
The thread itself can be hung vertically. This technique is used by professional decorators when it is necessary to visually divide a room into several zones, for example, to separate the playing space from the festive table.
It is necessary to show imagination by making garlands for the birthday of a child with their own hands. Room decor ideas are practically unlimited. True, parents will have to spend a little time to create such a decor. Decoration can also be used as part of an entertainment program for children.
Garlands allow you to create whole compositions: combining several different types of decorations, you can make clouds with rain or a starry sky with the moon and other planets.
What materials are garlands made of?
The most common option for decorating a room for a child’s birthday is a garland of paper. Do it yourself is very simple. This will require universal materials for creativity such as paper, cardboard, glue, stapler, etc. To create a garland, you can cut various figures. They can be glued, painted, decorated with sequins and beads, folded in the form of origami models, fastened with a stapler and even stitched.
Garlands are made not only of colored paper, some craftswomen use napkins for this. You can make very beautiful balls out of them. For the manufacture of garlands, it is better to use pressed napkins.
In fact, the decoration elements can be made from any materials at hand. Perfect for this:
- food foil;
- medical cotton wool;
- trimmings of multi-colored fabric;
- candy wrappers from sweets;
- corrugated paper "cups" for cupcakes or any other corrugation;
- Balloons.
The choice of materials depends on imagination and skill.
Original and non-standard garlands
Even food can make a garland. For this, the rings and pads of ready-made breakfasts, chips, nuts, dried and candied fruits, marmalades and soufflés are suitable. Handle such a garland carefully so as not to spoil its appearance. It is necessary to store the jewelry in the refrigerator, and use it no longer as a decoration, but, for example, for holding a competition.
Below is a photo of a garland for a child’s birthday (with his own hands), which is made of popcorn and ringlets of a prepared breakfast.
Such a garland is not suitable for those who have animals in the house. In an effort to taste the delicacy, they can not only spoil the decoration itself, but also the decorated surface.
Decoration from yarn is another simple version of a garland for a child’s birthday. How to make balls with your own hands from knitting threads, everyone knows. The photo below shows what a wonderful result you can get.
How to make do-it-yourself flags for a child’s birthday party quickly and easily
Make an element - a checkbox can be done using ordinary scissors and a pencil. You just need to draw the necessary shapes and carefully cut them. Then the flags are either fastened with glue or a stapler, or broadcast on a thread.
Such a simple manufacturing method takes a lot of time, and the process itself is monotonous and boring. You can simplify your task by purchasing a figured hole punch. Handicraft stores sell many of these devices, with various shapes and sizes.
Even the simplest and most famous garland-ring can acquire a second life. Hole punch knives are so complex that they can carve real patterns, not just geometric shapes. The following photo is an example of what can be done using a figured hole punch.
A simple device will significantly reduce the operating time. You will no longer need to draw and carefully cut along the lines, just bring the sheet and press the pen.
Helpful hints:
- You can make a garland-ring by buying a finished paper ribbon with a printed pattern. It will only be necessary to cut it into strips and glue it.
- For fabric flags, it is better to take felt, then you will not need to process the curly edges left by the hole punch.
How to securely pin flags in a garland
You can collect the garland on a thread attached to the surface. If the elements need to be hung, then it is worth doing this before fixing the base in place. Flags can be connected to each other using glue or a stapler without thread.
You can save time by stitching items with a sewing machine. Only thick paper / cardboard or fabric tags are suitable for this. You can use the most common threads or find metallic shine on sale. Thick paper figures will need to be placed under the claw of the machine one by one, without gaps. An example of work is shown in the photo below.
Garlands sewn in this way will last longer. They are easier to store, faster to make, and they look no worse than purchased decorative items.
We make a garland of candy wrappers for a birthday
Such a product will turn out beautiful only from whole, unbroken candy wrappers. If they are torn, you can make base flags from cardboard and just stick candy wrappers on them. For a garland of candy wrappers you will need:
- many different candy wrappers;
- strong thread is the basis;
- glue or stapler.
Sci-fi need to choose the most identical in size. If they are colorful and shiny, you can simply roll them in half, drop a little glue in the center and hang them on the base. If the wrappers are large enough and they depict beautiful scenes, you can gently bend one edge and glue the wrapper to the thread as a regular flag or fasten with staples.
This is a very simple and quick way to save time and get great results. Children will be interested in looking at wrappers and sharing their impressions about which of the sweets tastes better.
Note: parents should take care of the presence of those same goodies on the festive table.
We make a flower garland of colorful napkins
Paper flowers can refresh the atmosphere no worse than real ones. The photo below shows an example of decorating a table with flowers from napkins.
You will need napkins or thin multi-colored wrapping paper, scissors, threads, glue, wire. It is necessary to cut the napkins into strips and fold them with an accordion. You need to trim the paper accordion from the edge with one of the methods suggested in the photo below and expand it. Then the strip is twisted and wound tightly from one end with a thread. You can dip the base of the flower in glue and put the bud on a thin wire for easy attachment to the base of the garland.For large flowers, it is better not to take napkins, but special paper for florists. It comes in many different shades and has an interesting heterogeneous texture.
Create a garland of balls
Paper balls coming down from the ceiling on threads of different lengths look very impressive, but also in a tight bunch, balls are a great way to decorate the space. You can verify this in the photo example below.
The easiest way to make such balls is to buy ready-made ones in the store and thread them. Their manufacture is a very painstaking task. You need to cut a large number of circles of colored double-sided paper. Then fold the circles in half and glue them one by one. The more circles, the more voluminous and "full" the ball will be.
The presence of partitions depends on the way the halves of the circles are glued together. Finished balls must be collected on a thread (warp) and attached to the surface.
Such beautiful garlands can be made not only from paper, but also from threads and glue. It is necessary to inflate the balloons, generously coat them with glue and wind the threads. Workpieces must be set aside until the glue dries. Then take the needle and burst balloons. The result is fashionable and interesting jewelry, for example, as in the photo below.
The final form of the product will depend on the method of winding the threads and their thickness. Instead of threads, you can take thick twine or thread from twisted napkins or newsprint. Then the finished balls will look like in the next photo example.
You can also take at least 10 sheets of paper, fold them one to one, fold them with a small accordion and bandage in the middle. Then spread the accordion separately for each sheet. The result is a voluminous and beautiful ball, as in the photo below.
How to make unusual flags - hearts, bows and lanterns
Interesting elements will come out if you cut the tape into strips of different lengths and fasten them in a special way. In more detail, the process of creating hearts can be seen in the photo below.
Element - voluminous bow, perfect for girls' birthday. It is not difficult to make it, but you will have to draw and cut the details manually. For a bow, you need to cut and fasten 3 parts. The manufacturing method is shown in the photo below.
The flashlight element is very similar to a ball, but it is even more difficult to complete it. They do not need to be made large, the smaller they are, the more they attract the eye and delight others. For the manufacture of flashlights you will need cardboard and scissors. First you need to cut a large number of blanks, and then just fasten them with glue or with the help of cut out hooks.
As you can see in the photo, the jewelry is very beautiful. Such bulbs are called flashlights because during the manufacturing process they can easily insert an LED bulb.
Summarize the experience, or Complex constructions of garlands
When decorating premises, it is worth combining several types of garlands and various elements, this option will be the most advantageous. Clouds with rain from garlands have already been mentioned, the photo below shows an example of such a design.
You can also string long strings with small pieces of medical cotton wool and paper stars. By attaching them to the ceiling at short intervals and allowing them to fall to the floor, you can get a fabulous curtain and separate it with the resting place of parents and children. On the garlands, you can hang small surprises and gifts for the kids.
Even the alternation of very simple garlands creates room for the decorator. On the flags, you can put letters, make up the name of the child or a whole congratulation with pictures.
The easiest way to create a festive decor is a garland for a child’s birthday, assembled with 1 hand on 1 thread. It is easy to do, and it does not take much time.
No matter what parents come up with to decorate their child's holiday, both adults and children will be able to get a lot of pleasure, as well as preserve happy memories of time spent together. One very unusual garland can be created throughout life. It is necessary to hang a thread on the wall and attach photographs of family celebrations and joyful events to it.