New Year is a magical and fabulous time, the advent of which children and adults are looking forward to. By the holiday, it is customary to beautifully decorate their homes, and this can be done using not only toys purchased in the store. With your own hands you can make a variety of and very beautiful crafts, for example, a decorative winter house.
Snow-covered hut of Santa Claus
Decor from natural material looks very impressive. Try to make a snow-covered hut. Collect in advance a sufficient number of medium-thick twigs, rinse and dry them well. Prepare the base - glue the walls of the house from cardboard or use a box of a suitable size. Windows and doors can be cut through or done using the applique technique. Glue the prepared frame with twigs, vertically or horizontally, cutting a suitable length. Make a roof separately from two identical rectangles or one bent in the middle. Go to the decor: the winter house should be all snowy or at least covered with hoarfrost. Use white paint, styrofoam, cotton wool or sparkles for this. If you don’t have twigs at hand, you can replace them with ice cream sticks or a
bamboo napkin.
New Year's house from waste material
You may be surprised, but in fact, you can make interesting crafts from the most banal materials that can be found today in any home. Empty plastic bottles and food trays, cardboard boxes from products - all this we throw away every day. The beautiful
hand- made article "Winter
House of Santa Claus" with your own hands can be made precisely from such waste material. As a basis, take a cardboard box of milk or kefir, the bottom part of a plastic bottle or a small square container is also suitable. An interesting idea is to use toilet paper bushes or wallpaper tubes for the manufacture of house walls. If necessary, cut the selected workpiece, then glue it with white paper or paint it. When the facade of the future "building" dries, you can make a roof, windows and door. Your winter house will turn out to be more interesting if you combine several design techniques at once and use various materials for decoration.
How to make snowdrifts?
How to make winter houses with our own hands, we figured out, now it’s worth talking about the decoration and decor of crafts. Souvenirs that are “noticed” or covered with snow on the sides look interesting. How to make such snow caps at home? This is easier than it might seem at first glance: pour PVA glue into some container and moisten a thin layer of cotton wool in it. Squeeze out the excess and spread a piece of mass on the base, gently pressing. Thus, you can decorate the entire roof, the stand on which the house stands, or form real snowdrifts near the walls and porch. In a similar technique, you can try to create
artificial snow from thick white paper napkins.
Craft "Winter House" can be snowed in another way. Coat the base with clear glue and sprinkle liberally with sugar, salt or semolina. After creating the snow cover, leave the craft to dry for at least 4 hours, and even better - for the whole night.
Important Composition Details
A snow-covered decorative house will look spectacular if you install it on a stand and decorate it with decorative elements. As a basis, you can use a piece of cardboard or a cover from a cardboard box with sides. Ready winter house must be glued to the stand, and then proceed to create the surrounding landscape. Make snow using one of the techniques described above. The composition can be supplemented with a Christmas tree or a snowy tree. You can also make a beautiful veranda, ladders, benches, maybe even sledges or skis. Any decorative elements can be cut out of cardboard and painted as you wish. The snow house with a yard can be supplemented with figures of snowmen, fairy-tale characters. Try to make figures from cotton wool, fabric and cardboard. If you have enough free time and patience, you can even build a whole winter town and populate it with magical characters.
A souvenir or a useful item?
Minimalism is in fashion today, and many people try not to acquire too many beautiful decorative objects that are unable to fulfill some practical function. Can the “Winter House” craft be not only beautiful and decorative, but also useful? Why not? Do not be too lazy to make the roof removable and beautifully decorate the inner space of the base box - and you will get an unusual box or even a small secret box. An interesting idea is to design a "house" for tea in the New Year style. This craft is easy to make from a liter package from kefir, milk or juice. All you need to do is wash the workpiece well and dry it, and then decorate it to your liking. It’s not difficult to make such a winter tea house with your own hands. The craft is designed to store tea bags and is a worthy alternative to factory boxes. At such a house, the roof should be removable, and below it is necessary to cut through and nicely decorate the window. Accordingly, bags can be loaded through the top, and it is convenient to get them through the bottom if necessary.
How to make a candlestick in the form of a house of Santa Claus?
On New Year's holidays, it is customary to decorate your home with garlands, candles and light figures. If desired, it is easy to make the New Year’s house luminous. The easiest option is to place part of the garland inside the craft and think about connecting to the network. You can also use an electric candle or any other luminous element on batteries. You can make a full candlestick. However, if you have a winter house made of cardboard, you should pay attention to fire safety. Use the smallest “tea” candles; they can be placed in a figure made of flammable material only in heat-resistant glass cups. A candlestick makes sense to do, focusing on the size of the candle and stand for it. The souvenir figurine itself should be larger in size and not heat up.
cat house
With your own hands you can make not only small decorative objects, but also quite useful things. You may be surprised, but the DIY "Winter House of Santa Claus" do-it-yourself can be made as a real home for our smaller brothers. In the New Year's Eve you can arrange, for example, a street bird feeder. Of course, decorating with paper and other water-afraid materials will have to be abandoned. But you can always use waterproof paints for painting or make a feeder of an unusual shape.
An interesting idea is to make a winter house for a cat. Many animals living on the street feel the need for warm and dry shelter in the cold. A house for a cat can be made of various materials - a wooden beam, unnecessary boards, chipboard and plywood. Make a box of suitable size, insulate it from the inside, and decorate it from the outside to your taste. The most beautiful house will turn out if you decorate it with a stylized gable roof. If you wish, you can paint such a house outside under a Russian hut or a fabulous tower. Do not be afraid to create and do a variety of crafts using familiar and such cozy images!