Making window decorations in New Year's style is both an important and enjoyable task, especially if there are children in the house. They will help adults create the New Year’s atmosphere and comfort in the house, learn how to do something new with their own hands and will be happy with their own creations.
Decorating windows for the New Year will not only bring you and all family members a good festive mood, but also will delight and make those who pass by smile.
How to make snowflakes to decorate windows with your own hands
The simplest and most common way to transform the house for the New Year is to decorate the windows with snowflakes cut out of paper.
If you don’t know exactly or have forgotten a little how to cut them, use the simplest method:
- First of all, take a piece of paper. The finer it is, the easier it will be to cut out the decoration in the form of a snowflake.
- On the finished sheet, put a round plate or other round object at hand, circle it and boldly cut along the contour. In this case, you need to choose the diameter of the circle, depending on what size you want to get a snowflake.
- Then you need to fold it in half, then half again in half and a quarter also in half. As a result, you should get the eighth of the circle.
- On both sides of the resulting folded figure, you need to draw a pattern and cut it out with scissors.
- You need to expand the circle. So we got a finished snowflake. In order to level it, you can just iron it with an iron.
Types of snowflakes for decoration
In order to make a beautiful and original window decoration for the New Year, you can not only use ordinary snowflakes from white paper, but also make something more unusual:
- Layered decorations look beautiful on the windows. To do this, take a few snowflakes of different sizes and colors and fasten them with glue or a stapler.
- You can also cut beautiful foil decorations. Just need to take into account the fact that it can tear, so you should put the working material between two pieces of thin paper. Put all 3 balls together and cut in the standard way.
- In order to create an original and unusual six-pointed snowflake, you need to take a sheet of paper and use the protractor to draw the main line and angle of 60, 90 and 120 degrees. Then place the square folded in half on the base and bend its corners in the middle of the line at 60 and 120 degrees. Then draw the cut lines and carefully cut with a clerical knife.
The resulting patterned decoration can be painted with paints, felt-tip pens or glued white pompons on it.
Decorating windows with snowflakes
There are some interesting ideas on how to create an original window decoration with snowflakes.
- You can stick them ready in the form of a snowman, garlands of eights with the help of whole and separate parts. Snowflakes can be cut out not only white or from colored paper, but also from wrapping, newspaper and pages from old magazines.
- There is an option to create a mobile. To do this, you need to take a metal round frame and hang ready-made snowflakes on the strings.
- A wreath as a window decoration will also look unusual and original.
- You can lay out a beautiful Christmas tree or a hare of different sizes, as well as from individual parts of the snowflake.
- Use the ready-made templates of dancing ballerinas, make a pack of homemade jewelry and hang them on a string - you will get ballerinas fluttering in the air. You can also string the figures of ballerinas in the rain, you get a beautiful and original garland.
- It will look beautiful on the window, and just do it if you stick a white snowflake on the base of colored cardboard.
- You can make a wreath by gluing snowflakes on a round cardboard base.
How to glue snowflakes on a window?
Here you are ready for the beautiful decoration of windows for the New Year, made with your own hands. The only question remains is how to stick snowflakes so that after a happy holiday there are no long scraping and damaged glass. To do this, you need to take a simple soap and moisten a sponge in a soap solution, grease paper decorations and, leaning against the window, squeeze it well - they will hold firmly. But when they need to be removed, you can just grab the edge and pull - the snowflakes can easily peel off, and you simply rinse the window with water.
A simple way to decorate a window with toothpaste
Original, simple and proven over the years is decorating windows with paste. If you chose this method of decoration, you can beautifully paint the windows of your home. To do this, you must:
- Take a piece of foam and roll it into a tube in the form of a brush with adhesive tape.
- Squeeze out the required amount of toothpaste on a flat surface (for example, a plate) and dilute it a little with water.
- Dip the foam brush in the paste and draw a drawing thought out in advance in the size of the window. The simplest is pine branches on which Christmas toys hang, they can be drawn using ready-made stencils (bunny, snowman, squirrel, etc.).
- After the paste dries a little (a few minutes), you can make a thin stick with needles on branches and other little things on Christmas tree decorations.
Negative images on your windows with toothpaste
You can use such an unusual and beautiful way as decorating windows for the New Year in the form of negative images of toothpaste. To do this, you need to perform some fairly simple steps:
- Cut one or more snowflakes (based on the composition you intended) and moisten it with a little clean water so that it sticks to the glass, then carefully remove the excess liquid with a dry cloth.
- Squeeze out the required amount of white paste from the tube and dilute it with water.
- Then, using a toothbrush, gently spray small dots around the snowflake. The first few drops are best shaken off, since they are obtained in large dots.
- Next, you need to wait a few minutes until your composition dries, and remove the snowflake.
A few more simple ways to decorate the window for the New Year
In addition to snowflakes and compositions drawn with toothpaste, you can do:
- Using a regular bar of soap, a beautiful window decoration. A photo of this option is presented below.
- You can choose Christmas toys of different shapes and sizes and attach ribbons of different colors to them, but suitable in width so that they are not too wide, but also hold the toy.
- You can make a window decoration in the form of butterflies. To do this, 2 wrappers need to be folded accordion and sew them together in the middle with threads. The resulting butterfly must be attached to the curtain with threads or double-sided tape to the glass.
- Make a decoration with lace. To do this, cut off the lace fabric of the required size and glue it using special glue on the window.
Christmas window decorations made from PVA glue
Despite all the beauty and tenderness, decorating windows for the New Year with your own hands using PVA glue can be done quickly, simply and cheaply. To do this, you only need a bottle of PVA glue, a file, stencils, a medical syringe and a glue brush.
The advantage of such decorations is also that PVA glue:
- non toxic
- if you make snowflakes and other decorations in a thick layer, then they can be used more than once;
- peeling off and attaching to windows and mirrors such window decoration is very easy.
In order to create such jewelry of any shape and size, you need to perform a few simple steps:
- We put the selected and printed stencils in advance into a transparent file. In this case, you need to choose large and simple samples for work.
- With PVA glue, you need to fill the syringe without a needle or other suitable container.
- Gently apply a thick layer of stencil along the lines. After all, thin jewelry can break, and thick enough will last several years.
- After finishing work, you need to postpone your crafts for a day in order for them to dry.
- Remove the transparent decoration obtained from the film and attach it to the window.
The main thing is that such a window decoration for the New Year day is transparent and does not interfere with the penetration of light, and at night it glitters beautifully and is illuminated by the night lights of the city.
Paper patterns on the window
Undoubtedly, the decoration of windows in a kindergarten or in a house with the help of protrusions (cutting out patterns from paper) is beautiful and original. For this type, you need white xerox paper or Whatman paper. You can cut out patterns with a sharp clerical knife or nail scissors. Those who are a true master of the art of carving and who have no problems with imagination can come up with various decorations on their own. For those who do not even know how and what can be done, there are many ready-made examples and stencils in the form:
- New Year's toys;
- angels;
- herringbone;
- Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, snowman, deer;
- winter landscapes (houses, winter forest) ;
- bells, candles, children, stars and the month.
With the help of protrusions in the house, you can create a real atmosphere of miracle and magic by pasting finished decorations on windows and mirrors. You can even make a kind of mobile by hanging the strings of the moon, stars and angels.
Winter tale on the windowsill
There are a variety of ideas for decorating windows, but the most warm, warming and original is the decoration of the windowsill in the form of a winter fairy tale with lighting.
In order to create such a miracle on your windowsill, you need to take cardboard, foam rubber, scissors, glue and a garland and do the following:
- Make a cardboard or thick paper base with low sides for the entire window sill.
- Lay the foam in the middle of the base and make a hole for the garland.
- Put a garland on it, turning all the bulbs up.
- With the help of templates or independently cut out the figures of a winter fairy tale (deers, Christmas trees, Santa Claus with the Snow Maiden, squirrels, etc.).
- Attach carved figures to one of the sides of the base and, turning on the garland in the evening, enjoy the New Year's miracle of a fabulous house.
Good luck with your ideas, wonderful New Year decorations and a fabulous mood!