Tabletop New Year's decorations made of paper "Christmas tree" and "Round dance". Craft Christmas tree dance and silver snowflakes for the New Year

We continue to prepare for the New Year and now we will make garlands. We offer a choice of garlands made of Christmas trees or silver snowflakes.

Craft Christmas tree dance

• colored paper,
• pencil,
• ruler,
• scissors.

Craft tip:

Don’t take a ribbon that is too long: the accordion will be thick and it will be difficult for you to cut out the shape. It is better to make several small multi-colored garlands and then glue them together.

Making crafts:

1. Make a ribbon about 10 cm wide out of paper.

2. Fold the ribbon into an accordion. There should be enough space between the folds for the design.

3. Draw a Christmas tree with a pencil, as shown in the picture.

4. Cut it out.

5. Start a “round dance” and hang the garland on the Christmas tree.

Craft note:

Decorate the Christmas trees: draw or stick eyes and a smile on each one, and then they will become completely alive!

Craft silver New Year snowflakes

Materials and tools for crafts:

• roll of corrugated white paper,
• sequins,
• decorative fabric for decorating bouquets,
• fishing line,
• pencil,
• ruler,
• scissors,
• glue (preferably PVA).

Craft tip:

The paper flagella must be pressed tightly against each other, otherwise they will not stick.

Making crafts:

1. Cut out 4 rectangles from corrugated paper, 10 cm long and 8 cm wide. Now, stretching them a little, twist them to form flagella.

2. Glue every 2 parts crosswise and connect the crosses with glue so that you get a snowflake.

3. Spread the ends of the paper flagella with glue and press the sequins to them.

4. Cut out a square with a side of 10 cm from decorative fabric. Glue a snowflake on it. There should be 10 squares with snowflakes.

5. Glue the squares onto the fishing line. The garland is ready!

Craft note:

Squares with snowflakes can be glued not only to fishing line, but also to silver threads of New Year's rain. This unearthly beauty will be a wonderful decoration for your room.

Good afternoon. Today we will make crafts for the New Year from paper and cardboard with our own hands. I collected the most accessible and easy-to-use crafts for children and adults. You can find here ideas for activities in kindergarten for the New Year (appliques and paper crafts). Also here you will get ideas for home decor for the New Year using paper and cardboard.

Let's start making a New Year's fairy tale with our own hands, turn paper into an elegant New Year for our family. Let's put our good mood and skillful hands to work and start a round dance of New Year's crafts.

Candlestick for New Year

(made of colored paper and white cardboard).

These cute cardboard snowman candlesticks can decorate your New Year's interior.

Each paper snowman is laid out like a regular postcard. And it can be placed vertically on its edge (like a postcard). Punched holes in the cardboard allow you to use this paper craft for the New Year as a festive candlestick. Let me tell you in detail, step by step, how to make a quick and simple cute craft with your own hands.

How to make this New Year's candlestick craft from paper.

Step 1 – on plain paper (draft paper), print or draw any graphic pattern (the one you want to pierce on the snowman’s belly)

Step 2 – cut out the silhouette of a snowman’s body from thick white cardboard (preferably glossy, double-sided). It will be a silhouette in the form of a hill with rounded edges, growing from left to right (as in the photo above).

Step 3 – we apply our draft with a pattern to this silhouette and fasten it with paper clips. Place a terry towel on the table in 2-3 folds. Place the cardboard with the draft on the towel, the patterned draft side up. Use a needle to pierce the drawing on the draft. So that the needle passes through the draft, through the cardboard silhouette of the snowman’s body lying underneath and sticks into the towel. We cut off the entire drawing in all places.

Step 4 – cut out the snowman’s oval arms and round head from the same cardboard. From colored paper we cut out a nose, an eye cap, and a mouth. We paint the hat with colored felt-tip pens or markers. We assemble the craft entirely from these paper parts. And we receive a beautiful handmade paper gift for the New Year

And from the remains of white cardboard you can make just such a folding craft for the New Year. From colored paper we make candle flames and green sprigs of holly with red berries.

It’s also very beautiful to make LAYER crafts in the form of houses and Christmas trees from white thick paper for the New Year. Placed on the edges of the folds, they will be held vertically straight - between the rows of houses you can lay out a Christmas tree garland and turn it on - the lights of the garland will illuminate the windows and highlight silhouettes.

Snowman for New Year

from paper.

You can make funny little SNEWS BALLS from white paper rounds. Decorate them with hats of different styles and tie them with colored satin ribbons (like scarves). Glue the paws and noses and use a black marker to draw a dotted smile and eyes.

This craft is suitable for middle group children in kindergarten. You just need help tying the ribbons.

You can make a snowman from three cardboard circles of different sizes. Between the layers of rounds, place a three-dimensional spacer (a thick piece of cardboard, a paper folding spring, thick Velcro tape, etc.). So the snowman will be voluminous and puffy. We attach paper paws to the first bottom layer, put a scarf on the second round piece, and a nose, eyes, and hat on the top round piece. This paper craft for the New Year is suitable for children in the older group of kindergarten.

Here's a craft idea for little ones. We attach a white snowdrift to a sheet of blue cardboard at the bottom. We paste a piece of paper with a calendar print on it (it can be printed from the Internet and photocopied according to the number of children in the group).

All the children have to do is glue the round snowman’s face and the round handles on top of the calendar sheet. Then cover your head with a hat, add eyes, a nose - draw a smile later with a marker. Decorate the blue background of the craft with paper snowflakes.

And from large sheets of paper (A2 format) you can make a beautiful craft for the window. This snowman can decorate the window frames in your child's nursery. And kindergarten workers can turn the group’s windows into a whole series of funny adventures of the snowman Vasya- here he is sweeping snowflakes with a broom, here he is performing an acrobatics act, here he is with the birds, here he is juggling snowballs, here he is sleeping under the Christmas tree. The poses are easy to form and change; all you have to do is turn the body, legs and head over - and now the snowman himself has turned around, somersaulted - oh yes Vasya!

And since we started making crafts for the New Year from white paper, let's continue. And let's see what else can be made from inexpensive landscape or office paper.

Craft - wreath for the NEW YEAR

(white paper + pizza box).

Here's a beautiful piece of work that your children can enjoy this New Year. You can make a New Year's miracle from plain white paper and an old cardboard box. Wreath with white lace New Year's silhouettes. All details are cut out separately - and from the outside it seems that this is a single large openwork cutout made of paper.

How to make the basis for a New Year's wreath.

We take a large pizza box. Place the largest pan lid (or round dish) on it. We trace with a pencil. We get the contours of the outer ring. We put a smaller plate in the center, trace it with a pencil - we get the contours of the inner ring, that is, a hole. Cut it out.

Note - to get an even-sided ring for a wreath, you need to place a small plate (for the hole) exactly in the center - so that on the right and left and above and below the plate there is the same distance to the edge of the ring.

From ordinary white office paper we cut out the details-symbols of the New Year:

• 3 large snowflakes
• 8 Christmas tree silhouettes
• 4 house silhouettes
• 1 white ring (you can use 2 halves of a ring - from two sheets of paper)

This white ring will lie on top of our round dance of houses of Christmas trees and snowflakes. AND by inner diameter this white paper ring should match the inner circle of our cardboard wreath base(which we cut out of a pizza box).

The process of assembling a New Year's craft.

On our gray cardboard ring we glue all the Christmas trees, houses, snowflakes in a circle - in any order. We make a round dance of silhouettes - without bringing them too close to the inner edge of the wreath (since there they will be covered too much by the white paper ring). The thickness of the ring should not greatly overlap the New Year's silhouettes made of paper - but only cover their lower part.

We glued the silhouettes in a round dance and then put a white paper ring on top of them - also with glue. It is better to work with a glue stick - it is drier and the cardboard does not warp from moisture and the paper does not wrinkle from dampness.

And here's a snowflake template to help you , which is perfect for this paper craft for the New Year. To reduce the size of the template, press and hold the ctrl button and at the same time roll the mouse wheel - towards you (or away from you) to change the size. Then place a sheet of paper on the monitor screen and trace the outline of a snowflake glowing through the paper.

And here are some more ideas for silhouette round appliques made from paper for DIY decorations for the New Year.

Cut out a ring from black cardboard. At the bottom we glue a semicircular white snowdrift. – we attach white silhouettes of Christmas trees to it. Using a hole punch in the shape of snowflakes or stars, we make a small scattering of stars and glue them onto the black ring. Using a cotton swab and white gouache, apply small white dots on a black background.

Or we cut out silhouette layers from white paper (a row of houses) and red paper (Santa Claus’s sleigh and horse). Stack the layers within a circular silhouette.

Carved crafts

made of paper for the New Year.

If we bend the paper slits from their cut place, we will get the effect of a voluminous paper craft. Below we see a paper Christmas tree made using this technique. A sheet of paper was folded in half along the axial vertical line. And they made oblique cuts - 2 small ones at the top, then two larger ones below, two even larger ones, and so on. Then they unfolded the paper and folded each cut section downwards - it turned out to be a carved paper Christmas tree for the New Year (left photo below).

You can only make small CORNER cuts with a paper cutting knife - and bend these corners, getting the shape of triangular teeth.

Using the same technique, you can make three-dimensional In the same technique, you can make three-dimensional 3D crafts. This is how they are made New Year trees made of paper or white cardboard.

Take a flat triangular piece of cardboard and use a knife or blade to make it vertical cuts(without touching the edges of the triangle with scissors). And then we bend these cuts - one forward, another back, the third forward, the fourth back and so on - alternating. Before you start bending, you need to fold our triangle in half along the central vertical line - then all these bends will have an even central edge - both in front and behind.

If the cut lines are made not straight horizontal (as in the left photo), but wavy or oblique like on other Christmas trees with photos, then we will get interesting silhouette volumetric paper Christmas tree crafts.

You can also turn a flat paper piece into a voluminous convex Christmas tree (3D craft) in this way (as in the photo below).

We cut an ordinary flat round piece of cardboard in a spiral - (draw a snail on it, and make a cut along the line with scissors). And then we lift the middle of this snail up and create a spiral-spring in the shape of a herringbone.

To prevent the Christmas tree from folding back, it can be supplemented with a ROD - an axis holder, so to speak (as was done in the right photo below). There, a wooden stick on top holds the center of the spiral (on glue), and at the bottom the stick is based on a piece of plasticine or another pedestal.

And note that the edges of the Christmas tree in the photo to the right are curly (with a lace border). This is achieved if the spiral snail is drawn not with straight lines, but with wavy lines, and cut accordingly along these lines.

We also have a very large and detailed article on our website. There you will find a lot of ideas for creating paper Christmas trees for the New Year.

And in this article I will give an idea for a very simple Christmas tree made from paper disks. We cut paper circles - 2 pieces of each size. Fold each paper circle in half. We put halves of the same size into each other - with a corner in the shape of a house roof. It turns out 5 corners of different sizes. And from them we begin to assemble our paper Christmas tree - first we glue the smallest TOP PAIR onto the sheet, then inside it we put a little more, then even more and so on until we assemble a Christmas tree - a great idea for the New Year from white paper, which is always in excess.

Crafts for the New Year

FROM STRIPES OF PAPER.

Here are a couple of ideas for you on how you can make original Christmas wreaths from paper cut into short strips with your own hands and with your children’s hands.

In the first master class, we cut green (double-sided in color) paper into strips 10 cm long. We fold each strip into a small bowl. Cut out a donut-shaped base ring from a pizza box. And onto this base we glue our pots of paper strips - we glue them with a jagged “comb” up (as shown in the photo below).

And here’s another idea for the New Year made from paper – also from strips and also in the form of a wreath craft. You can cut each strip on both sides into 2 cloves (like a flag). And just glue them onto the base ring for the wreath. We glue them - wrapping them around the ring and gluing the two sides of the flag together. We decorate the paper wreath with sparkles and fluffy balls,

You can roll up a SPRING from two long strips of paper - glue a bright light made of colored yellow and red paper to it - and you will get a candle.

Craft-POSTCARD

for the New Year made of paper.

For this Santa Claus clamshell craft you need two-way red paper - and a sheet of white or blue cardboard.

• We glue the red silhouette onto a rectangular sheet of paper so that its HANDS extend wide open beyond the edges of the blue cardboard sheet.
• Then all that remains is to paste on this red silhouette of Santa Claus a white silhouette of a beard, with a pompom, and in the middle of the beard, stick a pink face detail.
• Use a black marker to draw eyes, buttons, pockets. Draw a nose with a red marker. And then draw a line onto which the children will glue a chain of flags.

So I drew the outlines of all the details of this New Year's paper craft. You can trace the outline of Santa's details by placing a piece of paper directly on your glowing computer monitor. To enlarge or reduce a picture– roll the mouse wheel while holding down the CTRL button on your keyboard.

You will find even more ideas for creating Santa Claus crafts from paper and more in our special article dedicated only to this character beloved by all children.

Paper accordion crafts

for the new year.

An ordinary paper fan, which children love to fold in hot weather, can warm you with the flame of warm ideas on cold New Year's days.

You can make a multi-tiered paper Christmas tree like this for the New Year. In it, each tier-floor is a long wide strip of paper folded into a small accordion. Each accordion is glued overlapping each other - starting from the bottom, and slowly moving to the top.

And if such a strip is twisted in a circle, we get the shape of a corrugated pancake. Different sizes of such corrugated rounds will give us a pyramid in the form of an elegant Christmas tree made of paper. For the New Year, you can place a real masterpiece made by yourself in the center of the table. Tiers of colored paper can be sprayed with hairspray and quickly sprinkled with fine nail glitter.

Such a Christmas tree made of paper will look elegant and beautiful if you use ordinary gift wrapping as the paper material - it will already have a beautiful colored pattern - for example, with cheerful polka dots, as in the photo below.

You can also use these round accordion fans to make beautiful New Year’s crafts in the shape of a snowman or a decorative paper snowflake pendant.

We make a round fan from music paper (before this, we artificially age the paper, yellow it with tea or grease it with a brush dipped in coffee, dry it, and smooth it with an iron). Using hot glue from a Klim gun, place a store-bought plastic snowflake in the center of the round fan. And from an old New Year's card we cut out a round element of the picture and paste it in the center - we get a paper snowflake craft for the New Year.

Your round fan doesn't have to be in the shape of an EVEN CIRCLE. You can give the fan a patterned shape - jagged edges, openwork holes (as in the photo with the snowflake craft below).

Below I found a diagram that shows how to create such a patterned round fan in stages. Please note that the edge teeth are obtained from the fact that the fan, while still folded, is cut at an angle at one end.

The holes come from triangular slits in the side of the fan. And so that the fan itself easily assembles into a circle, we see a round hole punctured by a needle - from the opposite end of the fan - in this place all the blades are threaded through the needle and thread - and thanks to this, the fan is pulled together tightly in its center and fixes this tie with a knot of thread ends.

Of course you can get by and without thread and needle– fold a round fan from several coal fans. The photo diagram below shows how this is done with your own hands.

The shape of the fan teeth gives interesting shapes to these paper snowflakes. In the photo instructions below we see different variations of such paper crafts for the New Year. Each new pattern of cuts and cuts gives us a new interesting snowflake when unfolded.

Angels for the New Year

Made from paper and cardboard.

You can make an angel craft using the fan fold technique from white office paper. First, fold a round fan out of white paper (in the same way as above we folded it for a tiered Christmas tree - also with the center gathered on a thread). Then, on this fan circle, outline the outlines of an angel (head, wings, dress) and cut along the drawn line. You will get a paper angel craft for the New Year as in the photo below.

And for children at school you can make these simple angel crafts from a narrow paper cone. The wings are a semicircle with two cuts in the middle - the top of the cone is threaded through them (see photo below).

Then a face is glued to the top of the cone (a semicircle made of cardboard). Then we make the hair - we bend the rectangle of paper into two unequal parts - a short fold for the bangs, a long one for the back of the hair. We cut each part into a fringe.

You can make such a solid angel for the New Year from thick paper with a foil side or from shiny cardboard. For this craft, we make only one flat piece (as in the photo below). We make 2 cuts with scissors - then we bring the two sides of this workpiece back, join them and put the cuts on each other. The result is a voluminous New Year's craft Angel (as in the photo below).

And here is an angel made of paper - as a window sticker for the New Year. Below I give a diagram for cutting out such an angel for a window. You can translate a picture with a pencil directly from your laptop screen by placing a piece of paper directly on the monitor screen. If you want to enlarge or reduce the drawing diagram, you just need to roll the mouse wheel while holding down the Ctrl button on your keyboard.

If you have lace paper napkins, you can make such an elegant angel for the New Year from this openwork paper. They can be used to decorate a postcard, front door, or use as a toy for the New Year tree.

You will find even more ideas for crafts in the form of angels in our special article

Paper crafts for the New Year,

cut into strips.

And here is a packet of ideas for New Year crafts made from paper strips. From colored paper (colored on both sides) we cut out strips of the same width. And by gluing them together in a given fold position, we get shaped frames - in the form of a snowman’s hat, in the form of his body, the head of his arms. By connecting the strip frame parts with each other, we get a solid craft made of colored paper for the New Year.

For crafts made from thin frame parts, it is better to use strips of paper glued together (3-4 pieces each, or cardboard (two-color) - this way we will get a dense craft that will not deform under its own weight.

For the same technique (paper strips), you can use not only colored paper as a craft material, but also any other one. Ordinary strips of paper can be cut out from a magazine or gift wrapping - as was done in the example of the fake snowflake in the photo below.

After gluing the craft, the end edge of the flat cut can be dipped first in glue and then in nail glitter.

You don't have to be a quilling master to make an elegant paper snowflake. It is enough just to cut strips of paper of the same length, then glue loops from them (they will also turn out to be the same size). And then fold these loops in a circle (gluing in the center) - and we get a round base for the snowflake (as in the photo below). We decorate the glued loops in the center with cardboard snowflakes (or store-bought plastic ones), then with round pieces and small paper fans.

You can come up with a different pattern using paper loops of different sizes and get new results. For example, you can hang this paper star as a Christmas tree decoration for the New Year.

New Year made of paper

for quilling.

In city stores you can find kits for children's creativity using the Quilling technique - these are bags with strips of colored paper - already cut evenly. You can use these strips to make any New Year's paper crafts. There are already ready-made Snowflake patterns using the quilling technique, with a ready-made number of stripes of the desired color.

Or you can simply buy multi-colored quilling kits (without being tied to a specific craft) and create your own fantasy works from them for the New Year. You can create entire small masterpieces from paper. Look at the photo below - nothing complicated or scary - all the shapes are simple (drops, circles, curved drops). A small Christmas picture inside a single ring.

By the way, the ring can be made from a wide round sleeve of adhesive tape. Using a knife (or better yet, a file), cut off a narrow ring from the tape sleeve. Paint it white gouache, spray it with hairspray (to set the color) or wrap it with glitter tape. And then, inside this closed form, create your New Year’s picture. So you will get a DIY Christmas tree pendant for the New Year from plain paper.

You can make THICK cast crafts from quilling material. This New Year's penguin is a large winding in the shape of a droplet.

Several droplets of different shapes create the image of an angel using the quilling technique.

Using the same principle, you can make a Santa Claus craft from twisted paper.

The youngest children, who are just beginning to master the basics of quilling techniques with their own hands, will be able to try their hand at a craft in the form of a simple placement of droplets. Round. In the image of a Christmas wreath.

Non-standard quilling technique

In crafts for the New Year.

Paper strips can be laid not in round rolls, but in puff layers. The Christmas flower craft with the photo below was made using this laying technique.

You can make a similar thing using a regular comb.

In the photo below we see a master class on this craft. The paper is twisted through the teeth of an ordinary flat comb (or a special quilling comb).

Using this technique you can make elegant round decorations for the New Year tree. Or create decor for a postcard. Decorate gift wrapping for the New Year with your own hands.

These are the ideas I have collected for you today in our article.

I am sure that you will find your New Year's craft from paper and the magic of your hands. May the holiday be joyful and successful for the accomplishment of good deeds and good desires.

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Material: multi-colored paper napkins, scissors, glue, cardboard, stapler, alabaster or cement, satin ribbon.

Stages of work.

First we make cones for cardboard Christmas tree.

Then we fasten the cones with a stapler and tape.

We place a large cone on cardboard and trace it around.

This will be the bottom, I attach it with tape.

Then glue a napkin of the same color as the future one. herringbone, bend the edges onto the cone. We make a cut in the middle.

We dilute the building material with water to the consistency of thick sour cream in a cut-off plastic bottle. In the middle we place a landscape sheet wrapped in a tube, wrapped with tape so as not to get wet. We are waiting for it to harden. We cover the barrel with satin ribbon.

Cover a glass from a plastic bottle with a napkin and decorate it with snowflakes.

Children make balls from pieces of paper napkins and glue them onto small cones - they get small Christmas trees.

Then the children make snowmen by gluing previously made napkin balls onto the finished stencil.

We make flowers on a large cone in advance. To do this, fold the napkin in half twice. We fasten the middle of the resulting square with a stapler. Draw circles around the paperclip and cut them out.

Lift the top layer of the napkin with your fingers, then crumple it thoroughly. We do this with all layers. The result is a crumpled bud. Then we straighten the bud with a pencil to make a fluffy flower. We make a lot of flowers this way.

Children, under the guidance of an adult, glue flowers onto the cone, starting from the base of the cone. Fill the entire cone. Glue small flowers into the empty spaces.

Then we plant the finished Christmas tree onto a paper tube.

It turned out New Year's beauty.

We cover the cardboard lid of the shoe box with white paper. We glue tinsel onto it. We line the bottom with cotton wool and assemble the entire composition.

Like this New Year« We got a Christmas tree dance» !

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Good day, dear colleagues! Everyone, young and old, is looking forward to a wonderful holiday. It brings a lot of joy to prepare for it.

Good afternoon. Today I have prepared an article filled with children's crafts in the New Year theme. This magical holiday is coming soon - they will announce it at school and kindergarten about do-it-yourself New Year's craft competitions. This circumstance will force you to go online in search of a suitable idea for your future school masterpiece - and this is where my article will give you Family Bunch of New Year's ideas for 2019.

And we will have a lot of crafts - enough for kindergarten, school, and as a gift for mom, dad, grandparents . To make it convenient for you, I divided all the crafts into groups- according to the materials from which they are made. That is, I introduce the material and technique - and then show how this technique looks on real New Year's children's crafts in bright photo ideas.

In our article you will find…

• Crafts-characters from cardboard cone
• crafts from paper strips in the New Year theme
• crafts for the New Year - from disposable plates
• Christmas toys made from cardboard egg cassettes,
• toys from toilet paper rolls
• voluminous New Year's applications from paper fans

And also on our website there are crafts and drawings for a competition for school or kindergarten
– in the article

So let's start our New Year Boom 2019 with your own hands.

Package of ideas No. 1

New Year's crafts from CONES.

Here is a simple paper craft for children for the New Year - Santa Claus from a cardboard cone. It’s very easy to do it yourself if an adult helps you twist and staple a cardboard bag.

Paper cone rolls up from a regular SEMI CIRCLE made of cardboard- or not even from half the circle, but from its third ( the smaller part of the circle we take under our cone bag, the thinner and more elongated the silhouette of the cone turns out).

Glued onto the finished red cardboard cone white paper overlay in the shape of a beard(triangular shape - right photo, or oval with long fringe - left photo). After gluing the beard, glue it on top face oval(add a mustache appliqué on top of the face if necessary) – draw eyes, nose, cheeks. You can glue the legs of Santa Claus to the cone.

Such New Year's crafts are convenient to do with children in kindergarten - if you prepare red cones held together with a stapler in advance. Give children decorative options, details, glue scissors and let them turn a red cardboard cone into Santa Claus.

Here are a few more design options for the same paper craft for the New Year. In the first case, the beard is one semicircular piece of paper. And in the second case, the beard is several oval layers of paper ( and each oval is shorter than the previous one) and the edges of each oval are cut into fringe strips. Come up with your own design - with your mind and imagination - and bring it to life with your own hands.

And here is a DIY version of Santa Claus, which can be folded right away of three cones.

FIRST lower red cone(this is Santa Claus’s coat) – we glue appliques of Santa Claus’s hands onto the sides of this lower red cone.

SECOND medium white cone(this is the beard of Santa Claus) – we glue a face and mustache onto it.

THIRD upper red cone(this is Santa Claus's hat)

From the same THREE cones of different sizes you can make a Christmas tree for children.

And here is Santa Claus, made of two cones - the lower COAT and the upper FACE WITH HAT.

Craft template You can copy directly from your monitor screen if you place a piece of paper directly on the screen and trace the translucent image with a pencil. To enlarge the image screen - you need to press the Ctrl button on your keyboard, and with your other hand roll the mouse wheel forward.

And if the theme of Santa Claus and his Reindeer is to your liking, then on our website there are just such heart-warming article-lessons with master classes and templates

Well, we will continue, about the topic of cone crafts. In such crafts the cone can only be the BODY of the future character- and his FACE can be inserted into the slot on the top of the cone - as was done on the New Year's snowman craft in the photo below. A good and simple craft for kindergarten classes (for middle and older groups - children 4-6 years old).

And here is an original craft where a New Year's holiday couple is made from cones - Father Frost and Snow Maiden. Our mothers made this craft with their own hands on the forum. Very talented and skillful.

Package of ideas No. 3

New Year's crafts made from cardboard

You can use regular school cardboard. Cut out the details of New Year's characters from different colors of cardboard and glue them together. Make a SUPPORT at the back so that the figures stand vertically. Or instead of a support You can glue a box (of tea or cookies) to the back wall, cover it with colored paper, and fill it with sweets if you wish.

The craft in the photo below has a bag of sweets glued to the back of the snowman. Due to this, the figure does not fall.

You can use patterned paper in the craft - the kind that gifts are wrapped in. This way your craft will be even more elegant - with polka dots or flower patterns, like the New Year's penguin in the photo below.

Here is a compact Santa Claus made of red cardboard. You can use formiam or hard thick felt instead of cardboard.

Here's an interesting way to make Santa Claus out of cardboard - an easy-to-make children's craft

You will find many more ideas with applique in the form of Santa Claus in a special article

You can make a three-dimensional cardboard pendant for the Christmas tree using other techniques. We form a New Year's character from cardboard and colored paper. And then we glue a belly to it, which in turn we decorate with rhinestones. A semicircular tummy can be made by cutting a foam ball in half, or make from salt dough, then bake or dry.

You will find a template for such silhouette crafts in our special article

And here is a beautiful craft for the New Year for the kindergarten - a Christmas tree made of coated white cardboard. We glue two sheets of glossy coated cardboard together. IMPORTANT!!! — glue sheets of cardboard using dry glue (glue stick, double-sided tape), without wet PVA glue, otherwise the cardboard will rise and go in waves.
You can glue two sheets, or even three.

As a result, we will get a solid white plate. We transfer the Christmas tree template onto it. Trace the template with a pencil and cut it out. We sew a fluffy green garland along the edge of the Christmas tree with thread or glue it on. We attach New Year's balls to the legs of the Christmas tree, hang glass beads and satin ribbons, you can decorate it in different ways, at your discretion. We fix the Christmas tree in a stand. To ensure that the Christmas tree stands well, we weigh down the stand with plasticine, a wooden board, or a book.

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New Year's crafts FROM Ribbons.

And here are crafts made from textile ribbons. You can use stiff ribbons of coarse, dense material and force the craft to hold its shape (as is done with the flower craft in the left photo below). There, solid red beads also act as a rigid frame and hold the ribbon petals in a clear shape.

You can use a soft ribbon and string it onto a thin wooden skewer to create the silhouette of a Christmas tree. A very simple and quick DIY craft for the New Year.

The same idea of ​​a Christmas tree made from ribbons can be developed and transferred to other New Year’s characters - as was done in the children’s crafts in the photo below. You yourself, with your own mind and your own hands, can create new versions of this idea - and use any creative idea from this site only as a STARTING POINT for your own AUTHOR'S IDEA.

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FROM PAPER STRIPES.

And here are ideas for New Year's crafts, where the basis for creative thought is a base in the form of a ball folded from strips of paper of the same length. The balls are glued to each other - we get a base in the form of a HEAD and BODY. And then the work goes on - gluing the face, hands and other elements of personalization of the craft.

In the example below, we see that two balls make Santa Claus if you glue an applique of a beard with a face and a mustache to the front ball, glue hands in mittens and fur cuffs to the sides of the body, and crown the top of the craft with a white cotton wool pompom.

And here is an example of a children's DIY craft made from strips of paper where two balls turn into a snowman due to the eyes and nose of a carrot. Two round hands and an applique of a broom and shovel.

And a cheerful New Year's deer can be made from ONE ball. Please note that next to the deer there are flat stars - they are made according to the same principle - the strips are folded into a ball - and then flattened along the equator line of the ball.

And here is the master class itself, showing how to make such a three-dimensional New Year's ball from strips of paper. Strips are cut. On each of them we find the MIDDLE POINT. We thread the thread into a needle - attach a bead to the end of the threaded thread and use a needle to pierce the MIDDLE POINTS of each strip.

We move the pierced strips apart with rays in different directions - and then we pierce the ends of each strip again with a needle at a height - at the top of the ball. We secure all this with a bead on the top and then all that remains is to decorate the ball for the character or craft toy we need.

Using a similar principle, we can create such a children’s craft-toy for the Christmas tree from strips of paper (as in the photo below).

And here are alternative designs of strip technology. You see penguins that are made of stripes but are connected into a ball according to a different principle.

And in the example of the polar bear from the photo below, we see that the head part of the craft can be a ping-pong ball or a foam ball. And in the middle, beads can be strung on a thread (this will make the craft look more elegant). Think with your head, dream with your soul - and do it with your own hands.

A beautiful New Year's team for a competition in kindergarten or school.

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FROM ROLLS.

You can make a lot of beautiful New Year's crafts from toilet paper rolls. You can make elegant Santa Clauses like in the left photo below. Please note that the beard on this craft is made of white lace. And the cap on the head is sewn from fabric (you can use colored crumpled crepe paper).

But the snowmen (in the right photo below) - you can make headphones from fluffy wire brushes. Scarves are made from pieces of fabric, and real buttons are glued on.

But the craft is an angel. Very delicate and easy to make. We cover the roll with paint of two colors - pink gouache at the top, white at the bottom. For the wing we take lace paper napkin(in the absence of one, you can simply cut out an openwork snowflake from paper) fold it in half and glue it to the back of the angel.

The most interesting thing is the angel's hairstyle - it only looks complicated, but in fact - the upper part of the hairstyle is ordinary yellow paper circle, which are around the circumference fringed– these fringes fall to the side of the roll in the form of a circular bang. And then On the sides we add strips of paper, first we twist the lower part of each strip onto a pencil (or run the blade of scissors along them so that they twist themselves into a tight curl). You will find a lot of ideas for paper angels in our article.

You can also make elegant Christmas trees and crafts from toilet rolls.

Here is an interesting idea for a round Christmas tree cut from a roll. We take the roll, flatten it into a plane, draw the legs of the Christmas tree on the sides of this plane, cut them out, and then flatten the roll back into a circle. Glue on rhinestones and a star.

Or the roll can only be used as a stand for a flat cardboard Christmas tree.

Rollo also makes excellent penguins. – the rolls must be covered with thick black gouache before making the craft. And so that during application the children’s hands do not get dirty with black paint and do not contaminate other parts of the craft, we must COVER our BLACK ROLLS with HAIR SPRAY - this will make the paint shine and stop staining your hands with black soot.

You can draw familiar features of your favorite cartoon character on rolls (as was done with the snowmen from the cartoon Frozen).

Or you can decorate the craft with additional cutting elements - as was done in the example of the deer in the right photo below. Here we cut out the crotch between the deer's legs (so that these legs, in fact, appeared). And we also cut off the upper part of the roll - leaving a tail-neck - on this bent tail we will glue the silhouette of the head.

We can come up with our own designs of familiar New Year's characters. It's so interesting to pick up a gray, unremarkable external roll-sleeve and turn it into a piece of the New Year's holiday.

But here is a children's craft made from rolls, but already cut into pieces. This can be made from ordinary flat cardboard, if you roll it into a tube using a stapler and cut it into the lengths we need. A simple and interesting three-dimensional craft for children for the New Year.

And also from rolls - you can fold it like this such a beauty - a big Christmas tree. It will look good in the office and in a kindergarten group. True, the rolls need to be assembled in advance and then painted for quite some time. There won't be enough gouache - it's better to buy a liter jar of white facade paint and a bottle of green color. Pour the color into white acrylic, stir and paint with a wide brush or sponge.

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FROM BARPLE.

But here are New Year's crafts, which are made from a cheap and very convenient texture material - ROUGH BARP.

Dense burlap starches well and takes on a rigid shape. It can be painted any color and folded into the rigid shape of craft parts.

You can cut out petals from starched, dyed burlap and fold the flower. You can glue the burlap onto cardboard and cut out the silhouette of an owl - add appliques of wings and eyes with a beak.

You can make very delicate, beautiful crafts for the New Year from inconspicuous-looking burlap. For example, this mitten has acquired a New Year's chic thanks to lace, beads, bells and pine branches.

A simple piece of gray fabric can sparkle in your imagination. And turn into a deer with twig antlers or a cute New Year's bird.

You can cut out stars from rough canvas by simply gluing them onto cardboard (as in the left photo below).

Or by folding diamond-shaped rays into modules from burlap and making a star out of them (as in the right photo below).

You can cover an ordinary toilet paper roll with a piece of burlap and decorate it with a red cardboard edging and an applique of colored paper. And we will get a cute craft-basket for the New Year tree. A simple and interesting work for a competition in kindergarten.

You can stretch burlap like a canvas onto a picture frame and draw a New Year's picture on it. You can safely take such a New Year’s children’s craft to a competition at school or kindergarten. It will decorate any exhibition of New Year's children's works.

And I collected even more ideas for New Year’s paintings painted on canvas or paper in a special article

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FROM BOXES

And here are crafts made from ordinary boxes. SMALL boxes of tea, cookies, toothpaste, cream, medicine are suitable. For large crafts, LARGE juice boxes, shoe boxes or office paper boxes are suitable.

A nose, a shaggy tree, ears made of colored paper, horns made of thick tree branches - and here we have a New Year’s craft deer. Or stick a nose, eyes, buttons on a box covered with white paper, tie it with a scarf and put on a hat - you get a simple snowman craft.

Using the same principle, any rectangular surface of the box can be decorated as Santa Claus, a penguin, or any New Year's character.

You can turn the box into a toy snowy house.

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New Year's crafts HATS.

And here is the simplest idea for a New Year-themed mask-hat. Deer, snowman, Santa Claus - any holiday character can be embodied from ordinary colored paper.

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New Year's crafts APPLICATIONS.

And here are applique crafts for the New Year. You can make small shaped appliques on rolled cardboard - as pendant toys for the New Year tree.

The simplest applique for school or kindergarten is a snowman. But it doesn’t have to be done using traditional techniques. You can show your imagination and make a snowman from non-standard materials - gypsum plaster diluted in water, or from finely chopped crumpled paper.

Children's New Year's applique craft can be multi-layered. And it doesn’t have to be done on a rectangular sheet of paper. On the contrary, a children's craft will look more elegant if done on a round sheet of cardboard. And cover the edges of the sheet with paper lace cut from a large paper snowflake.

And here are more examples of volumetric convex applique crafts. Any character that has a muzzle or face can be made in the form of a voluminous applique if a triangular DOT is provided on the silhouette of the face. You can see these darts on the templates in the picture below.

We simply cut them with scissors (we make a cut on only one side of the dart) - and then we glue the side of the dart under the cut (hiding the dart in the gluing).

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New Year's crafts NAPKIN HOLES.

But here are New Year's crafts that can decorate your holiday table. The fact is that the Santa Clauses we see below are attachments for table napkins.

In the first case (in the left photo below), we make a bag out of spare paper, glue a beige face, a white mustache, and a white edging on the hat onto it (but do not make a beard). Next, we take a white napkin, fold it like a beard and put it inside the bag - part of the white napkin sticks out of the bag, reminiscent of the beard of Santa Claus.

In the second case (in the right photo below) we cut out a white circle from thick white paper (or cardboard). On the upper side of the circle we draw a face, a nose, and glue on a mustache. AND MAKE A SLIT over the straight line of the face. We fold a large red table napkin into a sharp triangle and insert the sharp end of the triangle into the slot - pull it through and get... at the top (above the slot) part of the napkin looks like a red cap... at the bottom under the beard, part of the red napkin looks like Santa Claus's fur coat.

A simple craft that your children will really like, especially since you can make several of these crafts for all the guests invited to the festive New Year's table.

And here are the napkin holders, which are made from cardboard rolls from toilet paper. Also a simple solution and a fun children's craft - for a garden or school on New Year's Eve.

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New Year's CRAFTS-WINDINGS.

And here are ideas for simple children's crafts, where a cardboard silhouette is wrapped with colored threads or thin ribbons of bright colors. So you can wrap a triangle with threads, sew a couple of rhinestones or beads on it and we will get an elegant Christmas tree craft.

You can pull the threads through the holes (punctures with a hole punch) - like in the snowflake craft from the left photo.

Or thread the threads through the slits - like on the round Christmas tree decoration crafts from the right photo below.

You can combine any New Year's idea with the technique of thread winding. And get original and simple crafts for children. For example, this is implemented on crafts with a NEW YEAR'S DEER from the photo below.

The brighter and richer the color of the threads, the brighter and more festive your children's craft will be. Bright ribbons, adhesive rhinestones and stars cut out of thick foil will only add completeness to the thread craft.

And if the mother or grandmother in your family loves to crochet, then you can make crocheted New Year’s crafts - small or even large.

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New Year's crafts PENDANTS.

For a competition in a garden or school, you can make a larger-scale craft. For example, a beautiful New Year's pendant.

The general meaning of such a craft is that there should be a large holding part at the top and smaller elements of the overall craft design should emanate from it on strings.

You can hang a variety of pendant crafts on a lamp or on a window ledge. Making them from openwork paper napkins for confectionery (as in the photo below) is very simple and quick.

Even from pages of scrap paper you can make bright New Year crafts and pendants. If only I had the desire and a little time. It's really not difficult. And even from the photo it’s clear how these paper modules are made and how they are assembled onto one central round piece - just with glue.

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NEW YEAR'S WREATHS.

And here is one of my favorite themes for children's New Year's crafts. Children simply jump with pleasure when you offer them such a serious craft. They love the donut-shaped format and love that the result is that their work can be used as a real Christmas decoration that hangs on their family's door year after year.

In this article I will give just a few ideas to get you started. But in the future I plan to make a separate article on children’s crafts-wreaths for the New Year, and then the link will work here.

In the meantime, let's look at the basic ideas for creating the basis for New Year's wreaths. We will make the base in the form of a bagel. A standard A4 cardboard sheet will be too small in circumference. Therefore, the base for such a wreath can be cut from a large sheet of corrugated cardboard packaging - a pizza box is ideal.

If there are no large cardboard sheets (especially if you are preparing such a craft for a whole kindergarten group), then you can cut out SEMI CIRCLES separately from cardboard, and then use tape to connect them into one solid ring. So that in the place where the half rings are glued and joined the flimsy fold didn't work out we must strengthen the gluing area by slipping pieces of hard cardboard under it.

And we give this ready-made, wrapped blank to the child and let him figure out how to decorate his wreath. You can offer him templates or ready-made cut out figures and decoration options.

Or you can make pretty wreaths out of double-sided green cardstock—like these—with a bright red paper bow.

You don't have to wrap the donut base if it is completely covered with a finishing applique, as was done on the Christmas children's wreath in the photo below.

Or you can not glue the wreath ring, not wrap it, but paint it over with gouache. Dry and paste over with appliques - for example, these snowmen-snowflakes.

Also, a regular paper or plastic plate can serve as the basis for the Christmas wreath ring. We cut out the bottom from it and then decorate it according to our design plan.

Wrapping a wreath can be done quickly using thick woolen threads. Or knitted threads (made from knitted fabric cut into strips. You can decorate such a wreath with natural materials, figures made of thick felt, cardboard appliqués.

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New Year's crafts made from felt.

(nice and fast).

You can make quick, bright crafts from thick felt. Here is a snowflake candlestick, it is created from a flat sheet of felt. I adjusted the diagram below to fit the size of a felt sheet of 30 by 30 cm. But you can reduce the picture to a size convenient for you by copying it onto a sheet of Word and pulling the corners of the image.

If you buy green felt in two or three shades of green, you can quickly make a Christmas tree like this with your own hands - a craft consisting of flat pancakes, which are slightly pulled together with a needle in the center (to create a wavy surface of the disk).

That is, in the center of the round felt, draw a small circle with chalk, follow it with thread stitches - and then tighten these circular stitches (to create a bulge in the center (like a hat with large brims). We also make disks with a tie in the center - of different sizes , alternating shades of green and assembling our Christmas tree like a pyramid.

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New Year's crafts from PLATES.

From plastic plates you can make not only the bases for Christmas wreaths, but also any New Year's characters. The round shape of the plate easily turns into the face of a snowman, deer, Santa Claus, or penguin.

You can cut the plate as you wish - to suit any of your plans. If a round shape doesn't conjure up a Christmas craft in your mind, change the shape. Make a semicircle - and now the face of Father Frost with a sculpted beard appears.

Cut the circle of plates into quarters - and here they are unobtrusively folded into a Christmas tree. All that remains is to take green paint and colored beads.

You can cut a truncated trapezoid from the circle of the plate and turn it into the head of a Christmas reindeer.

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New Year's crafts

from a CASE from eggs.

And here are the ideas for the most inexpensive crafts for the New Year. Ordinary paper egg cassettes. Their convex rows of cells will help give birth to many New Year's crafts. Your imagination will breathe life into these cardboard honeycombs - and bright colors will give new life to old packaging.

If you work as a kindergarten teacher, then you can find this material on the first floor of the kindergarten; several large egg cassettes are thrown out in the kitchen every day. Chefs will be happy to become your regular suppliers of this creative material.

You can cut out several rows of cells at once from a cassette maker and turn them into a bright Christmas tree or a convex snowman.

You can cut out individual cell bottoms and use them to form a snowman pyramid.

You don’t have to cut the cassette box at all and make a team of New Year’s reindeer with a sleigh for Santa Claus from a whole one.

Even one small cell can become a cute little New Year's craft - a tiny mingguin or a little deer.

And to make the little ones look like solid children’s work, they can be surrounded by decorations - winter surroundings. Christmas trees or ice floes, as is the case with penguins. Pieces of ice floes can be cut out of foamed plastic - such liners are in your winter boots, or they are used as pads when transporting fragile goods or technical devices. Or you can just go to a hardware store (or to the construction department of the market
a) and buy a meter of thick insulation for the walls there - it also has the same structure.

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FROM PAPER FANS.

We can also make crafts from an easy-to-design material - round fans folded from paper. The simplest design is a Christmas tree. Here we stack the fans on top of each other in a festive pyramid - we get a Christmas tree with our own hands.

Here is a visual master class showing the general principle of creating all-round fans. The main thing is to take a VERY LONG strip - so that its length when folded like an accordion is enough to round it.

If you don’t have such a long strip, you can fold 2 separate strips and then glue them into one common long accordion-snake.

And by the way, if you make a pattern on such an accordion on its edges - and on its tips - then when you turn the fan into a round shape, we will get an openwork snowflake. You can also make an independent New Year's craft with your own hands.

Paper fans can be used as decorative elements in the construction of multi-layer Christmas tree applique toys made of paper.

And you can also use your imagination and invent original New Year's volumetric applications from such paper fans.

The simplest thing that you can quickly and easily do with your own hands is a Christmas wreath craft. Just a base ring made of cardboard and a bunch of decorative fans to decorate the donut base of the wreath.

These are the ideas you found for yourself and your children today. Now the matter remains small. Evaluate the materials available at home. And get to work.

Making a piece of a magical holiday with your own hands is already a small miracle. And the New Year's spirit of happiness consists of small miracles.

Let your hands create happiness. Happiness for the next New Year.

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What could be more magical than a Christmas tree during the New Year and Christmas? In the evening, when the lights are turned off, a fairy tale begins in the mysterious flickering of lanterns in the branches. Everyone comes up with their own magical story.

For some, the nutcracker defeats the king of mice, for others, snowflakes dance in circles. We decided to compose a fairy tale about a Christmas tree elf. It will constantly change, acquire new plots, be supplemented with characters and, most likely, will be different every year. Only the beginning of our fairy tale will always be the same: - Once upon a time, in his cozy house, among the fluffy fir branches, there lived a little Christmas tree elf...

We decided to make such a fairy-tale house with our own hands today. Join us, because the fairy tale is already beginning!

For the walls we will take a rectangular piece from a cardboard box. Let's cut a hole for the window and mark a place for the door. We will strengthen the walls with “wild stone.” Take pieces of eggshell and glue it with PVA glue.

To make the appearance of our masonry more realistic, we need to imitate traces of cement mortar in the seams. And the shells will hold on tighter this way. We will cover the walls with regular gray toilet paper. When it dries, we clean off the excess, exposing the protruding parts of our “stones”.

When the scales of the cones stick well, we will attach a pipe, because there will probably be a fireplace or stove in the house so that our elf can live warm and can cook magic potions or porridge.

We twist the pipe from a small piece of cardboard and cover it with lentils, as if it were a fireproof pebble.

To make it even more important, we will make a ladder for the roof. It is made from the same toilet paper, twisted into flagella. Yes, we almost forgot about the frame for the window, let's cut it out of cardboard.

Now let's put the roof in place and paint the facade of the house. We will do this with regular gouache. Although acrylic will be better, it does not need to be varnished.

All that remains is to glue the finished fairytale house onto the base. Since we planned that our elf will have light in the window, we will cut a hole in the base for the LED.

We wanted to decorate the “yard”. Snow is cotton wool, and a snowman is made of it. A Christmas tree is that “torn” cone, painted green. This is not necessary; perhaps your elf will live in a hanging house. Then only the bottom and the loop will be useful.

We made such a fairy-tale house with our own hands in just one evening, and the little Christmas tree elf has already begun to live his own life. A bathhouse, a cellar, and even neighbors with their own houses have already been invented for him, this is a hedgehog and a squirrel.

Decoupage - decorating a bottle of champagne for the New Year

A gift made with your own hands is always original and unique. Do you want to surprise your loved ones? Decoupage a bottle of champagne. This New Year's craft will not go unnoticed.

For decoration you will need:

• A bottle of champagne;
• three-layer napkin with a New Year's motif;
• PVA glue;
• acrylic paint;
• decorations.

First of all, you need to clean the bottle from stickers. To do this, put it in a container of warm water and leave it for a while.

Cover the entire open surface of the bottle with acrylic paint. The first layer can be applied with a brush. After drying, we paint the bottle a second time, but use a piece of sponge (“smack it”).

In just an hour, the acrylic paint will dry, so you can remove the tape from the neck and proceed to the next stage of decoration. Take a decoupage napkin and tear out the selected fragment of the design from it.

We remove the two bottom layers from the napkin, and place the top one face down on a stationery file. Carefully pour some water over the drawing, straightening out all the wrinkles.

We smooth the file with our hands. We make sure that the napkin is securely fixed on the surface, and then carefully remove the file from the bottle.

We dilute PVA glue with water in a ratio of one to one. Apply this solution to the entire surface with the pattern using a brush. Its movements should be from the center to the edges, we try to smooth out all the wrinkles and expel the bubbles.

After the glue has completely dried, take fine sandpaper (preferably “zero”) and carefully sand the contours of the napkin. We also process those places where unevenness has formed.

Next, take a sponge or a piece of foam rubber, dip it in acrylic paint, and “smack” it along the edges of the pattern fragment. In this way we try to disguise the transition from the napkin to the main surface of the bottle.

The work is almost complete, all that remains is to add some “zest”. For example, glue a ribbon to the neck. The easiest way to do this is with a glue gun. The braid will not only complete the entire ensemble, but will also close the transition from paint to foil.

Plasticine mittens - winter craft

What could be warmer and more pleasant than warm woolen mittens that warm your hands on a frosty day. If you make them with your own hands, for example, from plasticine, then such a craft can rightfully be considered a winter craft. With these mittens you can catch a magical winter fairy tale, because they are made with love and will definitely come in handy as a gift made from the heart.

On the eve of the New Year, copies of Christmas trees, Father Frost and Snow Maiden are usually made. The mittens offered are unique, the craft is not similar to others. And it will be all the more interesting to make it with children, especially since it is so simple.

What you need to use to sculpt mittens:

• white and blue plasticine;
• a small strip of lace to create a believable knitted texture;
• toothpick

How to make mittens from plasticine
The white and blue set is a very good option for sculpting the chosen craft. Mittens should be woolen, knitted, cozy. They are indispensable in the cold season, when there are snowdrifts on the streets, the sun shines brightly, but does not warm. We definitely buy new accessories for ourselves and never go out without taking this important thing.

First, make soft pellets to create the top of the craft. You need to prepare 2 balls of different sizes. The larger one will be for the palm, the smaller one for the thumb cell. Soften the plasticine in your hands and immediately proceed to the next step.

Press down the larger and smaller white pieces to form patties. Then, on one side, lightly squeeze on both sides, on the other, on the contrary, round and smooth with your fingers. Lock your palm and thumb together. Smooth out the joint. The body of the craft itself is ready. You shouldn't stop at this stage either. You need to act quickly while the plasticine is still warm. Now we need to create a knitted texture.

Make the bottom part - blue cuffs for accessories. Pull two blue pieces into flat cakes.

While the plasticine on the white part of the craft has not yet hardened, make a lace surface, or rather, an imitation of it, using a piece of lace. Press the lace onto the soft plasticine and apply slight pressure with your fingers onto its surface. After you remove the fabric, an imprint will remain on the soft surface that will be very similar to the desired texture.

Instead of lace, something knitted, such as a napkin or even socks, will also work. Experiment and be surprised, because this is such an unusual way of applying a relief pattern to a plasticine surface.

Make both mittens textured. On a blue background, use a toothpick to also create a knitting effect by drawing small notches.

Pin the mittens together to complete your craft project.

An interesting winter option for children's creativity is done very quickly. In the process of work, children will learn not only to create parts of different shapes and sizes from plasticine, but also to create unusual relief designs on a smooth surface. Now think about what other plasticine-knitted items you can make. For example, model a hat or sweater using the same scenario.

New Year's deer made of felt - DIY craft

New Year's deer is a very common symbol of the upcoming holiday. A soft toy in the shape of this cute animal, made with your own hands, can serve as both an excellent decoration for the New Year tree and a pleasant souvenir given with all your heart.

The process of sewing a deer is a very exciting activity and, at the same time, quite simple, which even a primary school student can handle.

For work we will need the following materials:

1. Medium density felt, brown or gray;
2. paper;
3. pen or thin chalk;
4. threads to match the felt or in a contrasting color;
5. padding polyester or other filler;
6. ready-made eyes or beads;
7. sequins, beads or beads.

Draw the silhouette of a deer on paper or print out a ready-made template and cut it out.

We transfer the image onto felt and carefully cut it out in duplicate.

We are preparing decor that will make the deer brighter and more festive. In our case, the decoration is a snowflake crocheted from the remnants of red thread. We cast on 11 air loops and close them into a ring, then perform 14 sc (single crochet) inside the ring.

Using a double crochet (dc), we knit a “flower”, trying to distribute all the stitches evenly.

In the formed arcs between the dc we knit 5 dc, between which we make arches of 10 dc. loops

We tie the resulting element sc, knitting a picot from 3 air. loops approximately in the middle of the arch.

Iron the resulting snowflake with a hot iron, trying to give it the correct shape.

Sew a snowflake to one side of the deer. The middle of the snowflake can be decorated with sequins and beads or a button.

Glue on the eyes.

We prepare the padding polyester and sew the blanks together, starting with the horns. It should be noted that there is no need to stuff the toy with padding polyester too tightly, as this may cause the seams to become uneven.

New Year's souvenir is ready!

DIY New Year's topiary

DIY candles - crafts for the New Year

Candles have always been an integral attribute of any holiday or romantic evening. After each celebration, you most likely throw away candle stubs that could have been put to good use. If you have accumulated candle stubs, you can make new candles with your own hands.

Necessary materials:

• Old candles;
• toothpicks;
• small sticks;
• molds.

You need to melt the wax until it becomes completely liquid. To do this, place the wax in molds in a water bath.

Preparing the molds.

When the wax has already become liquid, pour it into the prepared molds.

You can use a cotton thread as a wick, or take it from old candles. To prevent it from floating, we take a metal holder from the old candle and attach the wick.

Then we immerse it in wax.

Place any stick on top to secure the wick.

Let the candles dry for a day.

When the candles are dry, remove them from the molds. To do this, put them in boiling water for a few seconds.

To decorate the candles, I used gold ribbon and paper napkin. After I wrapped the candles, they became more festive.

To decorate the candle in the glass, I used a Christmas tree decoration, tying it to the glass.

In this simple way you can make New Year's candles with your own hands. You can experiment with different molds, or decorate finished candles with coffee beans.

Step-by-step master class with photos on how to make it -.

DIY New Year's composition with hats

Create a New Year's atmosphere in your home with a fun arrangement of miniature hats. This master class is ideal for creative activities with children.

Necessary materials:

1. Multi-colored knitting threads;
2. a cylinder made of thin cardboard;
3. white acrylic paint;
4. dry branch without leaves;
5. glass bottle of wine or champagne.

Let's make hats from threads. Take a cardboard cylinder and cut it into rings 1.5–2 cm wide. You can also make rings yourself from thick paper, fixing them with a stapler.

Cut 30 cm of thread and fold it in half. You will need approximately 30–40 such pieces, depending on the diameter of the ring.

Thread the thread, folded in half, into the paper ring. Pass its ends through the formed loop and tighten the resulting knot.

Tie the remaining threads on the ring in the same way. Try to place them close to each other, avoiding the formation of gaps.

When the ring is completely braided, thread the ends of the threads through it, as if turning it inside out.

Tie the ends of the threads using an additional thread of the same color.

Trim the ends of the threads, forming a neat pompom on the hat.

Straighten the cap from the inside, making it more voluminous. Fluff the pompom.

Make hats in other colors in the same way.

Let's make a small winter composition. To do this you will need a small dry branch, which can be found in the park.

Paint it white, creating the effect of a snow-covered winter branch. Leave it to dry.

Take an empty glass bottle and apply 2 coats of acrylic paint evenly, being careful not to leave very visible brush strokes. Let it dry completely.

Putting the composition together. Place the branch in the bottle. Put caps on small branches. You can decorate the branch using threads and beads.

Detailed master classes with step-by-step photographs are here.

Wreath for New Year and Christmas from willow branches

The next master class is “Do-it-yourself Christmas wreath.”

To make the decoration we will take the following materials:

• Willow twigs (medium thickness);
• New Year's tinsel;
• cones;
• items for decorating cones (paints, glitter, beads, rhinestones, etc.);
• moment glue, thin copper wire or nylon threads for attaching decorative elements.

Important! To prevent the vine from breaking, you need to weave it as soon as it is broken. If the branches dry out, nothing will work.

Let's start forming the wreath.

We take several thin branches (long ones) at once and form a ring, intertwining them with each other.

If it doesn’t immediately turn out to be the correct shape, don’t be upset; with subsequent weaving, the ring will even out. It is necessary to weave the vine by securing the end between the rods of the previous circle.

Thus, we continue to weave the wreath to the required size.

The basis for the festive wreath is ready, now you can move on to the decoration.

We take tinsel and wrap the finished ring so that the gaps are visible. At the bottom of the wreath we leave a little space for attaching decorative cones.

Let's move on to decorating the cones. To do this, you can use everything you have enough imagination for (paints, rhinestones, beads, ribbons, glitter, and so on).

The end result was these beautiful decorative cones.

To attach the cones to the wreath, you can use instant glue, thin copper wire or nylon thread. In my case, moment glue was used.

That's all, the wreath is ready for the festive decoration of the house. A minimum of effort and time was spent, but maximum pleasure was gained from spending time.

You can even get the whole family involved. This way everything will be much more interesting.

New Year's crafts - DIY felt boots

You can put a New Year's gift for your child in a felt boot that you sew with your own hands.

You can hang this textile decor on a Christmas tree or a doorknob.

To work you will need:

1. A piece of fabric;
2. edging for top;
3. decorative braid and beads for decoration.

If the fabric is thin, you can make the felt boots double - lined, it will look more voluminous and presentable.

Decide on the size of your boot. Re-make the felt boots pattern. It is as simple as possible, you can draw it yourself, leave a little space for seam allowances.

Since in this case the fabric chosen for the felt boots was raincoat fabric, the pattern was also transferred to the lining.

Secure the fabric with pins, sew along the line, and cut out the blank.

In the rounded areas, carefully make cuts with sharp scissors. Turn the boots inside out.

Felt or a thin strip of fur is suitable for edging. The remnants of coat fabric are used here.

Decorate your boot with snowflakes or applique. Sew on a loop so that the felt boots can be hung. Make the buboes from a small piece of bouclé, collected and sewn into a ball.

Such a boot can be useful not only as packaging, but also as decoration.

New Year's boot with a bunny

New Year's gifts are the most desirable for all children. They write letters to Santa Claus, asking him to give them toys and sweets. Then they expect all their desires to be fulfilled. A good wizard always responds to their requests. Under the Christmas tree on New Year's Eve, children find plush bunnies and bear cubs, dolls and baby dolls. You can also make a gift in the form of a craft with your own hands from any materials available for children’s creativity, for example, plasticine.

This lesson shows the stages of making a plasticine craft for the New Year in the form of a bright boot with a bow, filled with gifts, the main one of which is a white bunny.

To sculpt a New Year's gift, prepare:

• white, red, blue, black, green plasticine;
• tool.

How to make a New Year's craft from plasticine

The plasticine set contains not just bars, but a whole treasure, toys, accessories, even gifts for the New Year. It’s easy to make all the products yourself, having detailed instructions at hand, which is what this detailed master class is. Fantasize and enjoy the creative process.

To begin, take red plasticine and knead it thoroughly in your hands. Form a boot from the soft mass. Pull the mass into a cylindrical part, then pull out the resulting cylinder on one side and press it with your fingers at a right angle.

In the right places, simply smooth the surface of the boot, giving it a believable appearance. The base of the craft is ready. Of course, in reality, the part should be hollow inside, but we will not cut a hole, and we will simply place the bunny toy on top, or rather, we will only make its upper part.

To decorate your New Year's product, pull out several threads of white, green, and blue. Roll out the soft mass with your fingers with light pressure, pressing it onto a hard surface.

Use a thin green sausage to make a edging for the boot top. Use a blue sausage to model a bow - it will look very beautiful on a gift. Twist the white and red sausages into a flagellum. Press down over the entire surface. Trim off the excess on both sides. Then bend it so that you get Santa Claus's staff.

Form blanks for the top part of the bunny figurine. For a plush toy we will show only the head with long ears and front paws. Use white plasticine for modeling.

Glue white cheeks onto the head ball and pierce them with a toothpick, showing the hairiness. Attach black eyes and nose. Shape the remaining white pieces into the shape of ears and paws.

Glue the parts to the top of the red boot so that the impression remains that the bunny is sitting inside and just looking out.

Add the decorative elements prepared earlier. Place a white and red staff near the bunny's head. Add a bow to the top of the boot.

A unique plasticine gift dedicated to your favorite holiday - New Year - is ready. Having made the same base, you can put a bear or a gingerbread man in the boot. Any option will be welcome and so cute.

You can also involve children in making the following New Year crafts. Such joint creativity will bring great joy to both children and parents. After all, for the winter holidays you want to decorate your home in a special way. You don’t need to master complex needlework techniques; you can try to make something interesting from plain white paper.

As children, we all learned to cut out lace snowflakes from paper folded in several layers. But decorating your home with snowflakes is too banal and simple. Use your imagination and let the openwork weaves turn into dresses for graceful ballerinas soaring under the ceiling.

For work you will need the following materials:

• Sheets of white paper;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• fishing line

First, on paper, draw with a pencil the silhouettes of graceful ballerinas who raise their legs and move their arms to the sides. Or download ready-made ballerina templates. Cut out their images along the outline. Then make the most delicate snowflakes so that they are fluffy and light.

Try to cut the hole in the center so that the ballerina can fit into it. Glue snowflakes at the dancers' waist level.

Watch the video tutorial on how to make such a New Year's decoration - ballerina snowflakes with your own hands.

Volumetric foam snowflakes

The same openwork snowflakes made of paper are taken as a basis, the design is transferred, for example, to polystyrene foam or polystyrene foam. Using a sharp knife, all the necessary elements are cut out, and the result is unusually beautiful, voluminous snowflakes.

DIY New Year's toys.