Christmas is a bright, joyful holiday, symbolizing the birth of Jesus Christ, the savior of all believers. This event is celebrated by Orthodox, Catholics, and Protestants. And they always prepare for it with pleasure, warmth, investing in every detail a piece of the soul. To decorate the house and as gifts for relatives, we offer to make Christmas crafts with your own hands - it is beautiful, festive and symbolic.
Classic Christmas characters
On this holiday, it is customary to decorate your home by hanging wreaths on the doors or decorating a table with them. Also, Christmas symbols are considered angels, preferably white, bells, gift socks, stars. And what a holiday without postcards. To create unusual Christmas crafts with your own hands, it is not necessary to buy expensive materials in the store, it is enough to use what is at home.
How to make a christmas angel
An angel is a symbol of purity, a kind of mediator between God and man. He is usually depicted in white robes and with wings behind his back. Of course, now a Christmas angel (craft) can have golden, silver, and blue robes - it all depends on the material that you want to use. We offer the easiest way to make a festive angel - to fold it from a paper disposable plate.
To do this, you need this item of white dishes, on which the cut lines are first applied, and then they are cut out on them. Before folding the craft skirt, drawings are applied to it, decorated to your taste, and facial features are drawn. Then it is enough to carefully roll the plate, raise the body and wings. Beautiful and easy to create craft is ready.
Of course, an angel can be crocheted, sewn from fabric, put on a rigid frame made of a net or a plastic bottle, glued from paper napkins or plain paper. Any improvised materials are suitable for decoration: for eyes - buttons, for hair - thin woolen threads, for a suit - white fabric, tulle or organza.
How to make a Christmas symbol - a star
To make an asterisk powerful and small. Children can cut a pentagonal symbol out of color cardboard or thick white paper and color it as they see fit. For example, from the base of red, you get Santa. On one corner you need to glue a face with hair, eyes and a mouth, a belt in the middle, gloves on your hands, and boots on your legs. Such a cute postcard can be presented to friends or hung on a Christmas tree.
A Christmas star looks very beautiful, sewn from fabric at home. Kids can’t cope with this, they will need the help of their parents. Choose the fabric of your favorite color, cut out two stars, fold it face up to each other and sew around the perimeter on a typewriter. Leave a small gap through which you need to unscrew the workpiece and fill it with filler: cotton, foam rubber, threads, small scraps of fabric - which is at home. Stitch the hole with a hidden seam, you can sew a loop in this place and hang a jewelry or put a star on a solid tip and set it on top of the Christmas tree. You can decorate such a “pillow” in any way: sew buttons, a pattern of beads, satin ribbons.
Classic Holiday Gift - Greeting Card
Although now you can buy postcards for any holiday, anniversary and other event, as well as personal and astrological cards in the store, it is much more pleasant to receive a handmade postcard, because it reflects the individuality of both the giver and the person to whom the gift is addressed. To create a Christmas card crafts, you need thick cardboard, glue, scissors, colored paper or fabric.
The scope for imagination is unlimited, but Christmas requires a special theme: images of Christmas trees, Santa Claus or their attributes (red hat or boots, reindeer harness, Christmas decorations), sweets and other sweets are welcome. Selected images are pasted on a cardboard rectangle folded in half, congratulatory inscriptions are applied, and a card created with all my heart is ready. In addition, even children can handle such a craft.
Christmas fabric crafts
Fabric is a very popular material for making crafts. From it you can sew pillows, stars, Christmas tree decorations, boots for gifts and much more. The most common material for creating Christmas symbols is felt. It is soft, pleasant to the touch, warm in appearance and easy to process.
A full-fledged
Christmas wreath can be sewn from felt
, and scraps of fabric can be put on parts for cards. Small Christmas-tree decorations are decorated in the form of balls, hearts, various animals (in this case they are glued to their eyes), snowmen, cookies and other symbols of the winter holiday. During the manufacture of felt crafts, it is not necessary to hide the seam, you can make neat outer stitches that will look like an element of decoration.
The process of creating a spruce wreath
An indispensable attribute of Catholic Christmas, which is now found in almost any home, is a wreath of spruce or pine branches. It is hung on the door or placed on the table as a decoration. For example, a large candle or a bottle of champagne looks good inside a wreath . If you want to make a wreath from natural branches, prepare a strong metal frame on which you will fasten the bundles with wire. Christmas crafts made in the form of wreaths of artificial Christmas trees will be simpler and more durable. For them you will need:
- newspaper;
- thermal gun or PVA glue;
- green organza;
- white paper napkins;
- artificial christmas tree ribbon;
- bumps;
- artificial fruits, leaves and flowers.
First, a newspaper ring is twisted, the details of which are glued together. Then a layer of napkins is attached, and on them is a green cloth. It can be fixed with glue from a gun or a special stapler. Then a layer of artificial Christmas tree is wound, after which the wreath is decorated with cooked elements that are attached with glue.
It’s not difficult to create DIY crafts with your own hands, it’s enough to carve out some free time and choose the appropriate option for creativity.