New Year's pears. How to make New Year's toys with your own hands. Gift decoration with vintage paper

New Year's time is an extraordinary time for families. Pre-holiday chores are an excellent reason to spend time together; they bring loved ones together. The Christmas tree is especially important, a symbol of the holiday on the threshold. Children love decorating the Christmas tree and look forward to this moment. Imagine how delighted they will be with the idea of making Christmas tree decorations with their own hands!

So it is possible to “reanimate” old, favorite Christmas tree balls or create new ones using scrap materials and a little imagination. By investing in your soul, you will make every holiday special and memorable, and your children happy.

Soft Christmas trees

List of what you need:

cardboard, pencil, scissors and glue;
pieces of beautiful fabric;
loop tape;
decor to taste - rhinestones, buttons, lace, curly beads, seed beads, etc.

Draw a Christmas tree template on cardboard, cut it out and cover it with fabric on both sides. Then it's time for imagination! Involve your child in decorating a soft Christmas tree - sew on beads, stick on sparkles, feathers, sequins, scraps of braid and lace. You can sew knitted flowers, ready-made or purchased, onto the toy.

Idea: use acrylic paints on fabric to draw a pattern on the Christmas tree.

Finally, you need to sew a loop to the top of the work to hang it on the Christmas tree or decorate the house.

You can do it differently: cut out two “mirror” parts in the shape of a Christmas tree from fabric, sew them and turn them inside out. Stuff your Christmas tree and once again give free rein to your imagination and creativity in decorating.

Lace fantasy

Required:

balloon, thread;
petrolatum;
knitted lace;
plastic cup, water, PVA glue;
brush.

The technique is similar to making a spider web ball.

Mix glue and some water in a container. Inflate the balloon, tie it tightly so that it does not deflate ahead of time, and the creation does not deteriorate during drying. Lightly coat the ball with Vaseline so that the lace will come off later. Knitted lace needs to be covered with a mixture of water and glue using a brush and row by row wrapped around the ball.

Then the toy is dried for 24 hours. When finished, you need to do the same as with regular papier-mâché: untie the ball, deflate it and carefully pull it out.

The finished product will turn out beautiful and “airy”.

Pompom decorations

Knitted pom-poms are a great thing, as individual toys or even as whole garlands. A variety of colorful ones will make a cheerful, colorful caterpillar on a Christmas tree. Turn single white pom-poms into angels or hares by sewing on eyes, ears, wings, and paws.

Tools and materials:

cardboard, scissors, pencil;
thick yarn of the desired color, synthetic or wool, so as not to fray.

Cut out two identical circles from cardboard. Take a glass or use a compass as a template. The diameter of the circle determines how large the pompom will be. Cut a 3 cm hole in the middle. Place the resulting rings together and begin wrapping them with thread. The more yarn is wound, the fluffier the pompom. Use different threads to create a multi-colored pompom.

Next, along the outer contour of the circle, you need to cut the knitted yarn with scissors, move the rings apart, wrap tightly and tie the threads between them so that the product does not fall apart. When finished, remove the rings and save them as a blank for future use. If the pom pom is uneven, “cut” the yarn with scissors.

You can make many crochet pom poms to make a garland or use them individually.

Another interesting idea for a textile garland: you need to collect beautiful vintage scraps and string them on a rope. You will get a knitted garland of flags, ideally matched by color.

Felt Christmas decorations

Felt is thin colored felt. It is dense, so the toys are durable and practical, especially if children often touch them. Making felt crafts is simple: cut out the blanks and sew them together.

There are some simple and beautiful ideas for felt Christmas tree decorations.

They will need:

felt sheets of different colors - you can buy them in craft stores;
ribbons for loops;
decorative items - buttons, wooden and plastic beads, seed beads, etc.;
padding polyester;
pencil, scissors, thread, needle.

Any shape is acceptable - heart, bird, circle, star, your choice. You can make several different Christmas tree decorations. Fold two sheets of felt together, draw the desired shape and cut it out. It is interesting to use sheets of different colors for both sides. You can sew it so that the seam is visible - a visible stitch with bright floss thread on felt looks beautiful.

Loosely stuff the finished toy to make it voluminous and decorate it as you wish. Decoration ideas - embroidery with beads and sequins, embroidery with threads, ribbons.

Sew a ribbon loop and hang it ceremoniously on the tree.

Paper toys for the Christmas tree

The face of Santa Claus

On the eve of the New Year, many things magically transform... Even paper plates! Thanks to the hands of home craftsmen and women, paper containers can become the smiling faces of Father Frost, Snow Maiden, and favorite fairy-tale characters. Below is a master class using the example of Santa Claus.

You will need:

packaging of paper plates;
colored paper;
cotton wool for beard;
felt-tip pens, paints, pencils;
glue;
acrylic primer or white acrylic paint;
scissors.

The paper plate needs to be painted with white acrylic on the front side. This is the base so that the paints can be applied neatly and look bright. When the base is dry, mix paint (gouache or watercolor) to create a flesh color and cover the previous layer with it. The plate should dry again.

Now let's get to the face. Eyes, mouth, nose. For them, you can use felt-tip pens and pencils, and also look at a picture of Santa Claus on the Internet to choose or match a color. The next stage is the beard. Pieces of cotton wool are glued along the edge of the plate.

The last one is the hat. Cut it out of red colored paper and glue it onto a plate. You can make a cotton edging or a pompom on the hat, it will come out beautifully. Using the same principle, you can make another favorite fairy tale character.

Paper stars

This decor is a simple origami product, which is also called “wishing stars”. You can put them in a transparent Christmas ball or make a beautiful garland by stringing stars on a string.

Required:

colored paper, cut into strips 1.1 × 29 cm;
patience and perseverance.

Process of creation:

Take the prepared strip and fold it into a loop.
Fold the short end of the paper into a knot.
Careful not to tear, tighten the knot and press with your fingernail - the result looks like a pentagon.
Wrap the tip to the other side of the workpiece. The shorter it is, the better - the free end should not protrude beyond the pentagon.
Turn the future star over; if the tip of the paper strip is still too long, it needs to be trimmed or tucked and hidden inside the pentagon.
With a long strip, without pressing on the product itself, wrap the entire pentagon at least ten times (2 on each side).
You need to do the same with the free end: tuck it in and hide it.
Now take the workpiece with two fingers of one hand and with the nail of the other hand press on any face of the pentagon towards the middle. Repeat with all edges. Ready!

Paper ice cream

For this inedible beauty you need:

cardboard, glue, scissors;
needle and thread;
corrugated colored paper.

Cut a circle with a diameter of 10-11 cm from cardboard, cut it in half and roll the resulting parts into cones. Secure with a paper clip to make it more convenient, and coat with glue. Let it dry.

Form corrugated paper of different colors into balls, coat the bottom with glue and insert into cardboard cones with the glue facing down. Using a needle and thread, make a loop in the Christmas tree decoration by piercing the top “ice cream ball”.

You can make knitted balls instead of paper ones.

Use edible materials

New Year's tree decorations made from peanuts

Materials:

acrylic paints;
brushes, jar of water;
peanut;
glue;
lace for loop;
items for small decor - colored paper, cotton wool, etc.

Painting on peanuts is almost miniature painting; most of the work here is for adults, and children will offer creative ideas.

Paint the peanuts the color you want and let dry. After drying, use a thin brush (brushes for nail art are good), paint faces on the blanks - eyes, mouth, etc. Peanuts can be “dressed” - a cap made of colored paper, a knitted scarf, or a cotton mustache and beard. When finished, glue the loop to the top of the walnut man's head.

Citrus decor

Required:

lemon, tangerine or orange;
different cookie cutters;
If there are no forms, scissors will do.

You need to remove the skin from the citrus fruit and cut out a piece of the desired shape from it, make a hole or cut out the middle, and then dry it.

During the drying process, the skin becomes deformed - if you don’t like this, you can put the blanks under the press in advance, placing them between two sheets of paper and pressing them down with books.

Hang the resulting figures separately from a loop or make a garland. Dried citrus peels smell wonderful, and you can add natural cinnamon sticks to this garland for added scent, too.

You can also dry orange and lemon slices, then poke holes in them and hang them.

"Macaroni" Christmas decorations

pasta of various shapes;
brushes, water;
glue moment;
acrylic paints of different colors, as well as metallic paints - silver and gold acrylic;
sparkles, glitters for decoration;
ribbons for loops for hanging decorations.

There are no limits to your imagination with pasta. You can use them to create unusual Christmas trees, snowflakes, angels, etc. You can lay them out on the table and play like with a construction set. When you decide on the shape of the future product, fasten the pasta together with glue and let it dry.

Then start painting. Cover the table with newspaper, take a brush and cover the product first on one side, then, when dry, on the other. To fix the paint, the creation can be varnished. You need to attach a loop on top.

During the process, when the paint is still wet, you can sprinkle the toy with glitter. A shiny silver snowflake or star will look great.

If you have foam blanks of New Year's balls or just old and uninteresting ones, you can paste them over with pasta and paint them.

Working with blanks

Button decor

What you will need:

a lot of beautiful buttons (beads, seed beads);
glue moment;
preparing a Christmas ball;
a piece of twine or ribbon for a loop.

Craft stores (and even sometimes stationery stores) sell sets of foam and wooden blanks for creating New Year's toys with your own hands. You can buy a package or use old, ugly plastic balls you have at home.

It is enough to select buttons and beads with which you will lay out the surface of the Christmas tree decoration, and glue them one by one, and at the end attach a loop to the top.

Decor with beads

preparing a Christmas tree toy;
skeins of small and large plastic beads;
glue;
scissors;
loop ribbon;
decor to taste.

Another way to decorate an old Christmas tree ball or blank. Beads are wrapped in rows around the toy and “set” on glue.

You can glue individual beads to the ball, playing with their size, color and shape, or decorate with several large and medium beads, and fill the remaining space with multi-colored microbeads (available in stores selling manicure products).

If you take a thin cord and use glue to lay it in fancy curls on the ball, adding beads, it will also be beautiful. Don't forget to attach a loop to hang the toy on the tree.

Ball using decoupage technique

Required:

blank for the ball;
napkins with a cute pattern;
sponge;
white acrylic primer or white acrylic paint;
a jar of water, PVA glue, brush;
nail scissors;
decoupage varnish;
palette (a piece of cardboard will do);
sparkles, glitter;
string for hanging the ball.

Squeeze the paint onto the palette, lightly dip the sponge into it and cover the ball with white with light touches. If you have art primer in a jar, you can use a sponge to take it straight from there. While the toy is drying, separate the colorful layer from the selected napkin and cut out from it with nail scissors the element that you want to see on the ball.

Mix water and PVA in a 1:1 ratio, place the tenderloin on the ball and begin to apply the adhesive mixture to the napkin with a brush, from the middle to the edges. Try not to let the brush drip; a wet cloth will tear easily. If you want to sprinkle glitter on the balloon, do it now.

Let the work dry. Later, you can once again lightly walk the sponge with paint over the ball, so it will look dusted with snow. Finally, coat the toy with varnish and attach a loop.

Here are ideas for family entertainment on New Year's Eve. Be creative, rejoice, smile at each other. Time spent in this way is priceless and is worth much more than ordinary purchased gifts and a table set on a festive night.

Funny snowmen made of cardboard

New Year is just around the corner. You can feel the approach of a holiday in the air, which is slowly but surely moving towards our homes and hearts, because the New Year is a special holiday when you want to believe in a dream, hope for the best, and expect miracles.

The New Year is a special and bright holiday for children, because on New Year's Eve, children often spend quite a lot of time with their parents, enjoying pleasant family joys.

And if parents usually don’t have time, then on New Year’s Eve they definitely find it to take care of New Year’s chores with their children.

A very entertaining and joyful thing for children on New Year's Eve is the opportunity to decorate the New Year tree together.

If you can afford to buy New Year's toys and create a stunningly stylish New Year tree design - super!!! This Christmas tree will appeal to both children, adults and your guests.

If you can’t buy beautiful toys for the New Year and new New Year’s decorations for the Christmas tree, we advise you to get creative and create beautiful New Year’s toys and decorations for the New Year with your own hands.

DIY Christmas toys and DIY Christmas decorations for the Christmas tree and home are a very fun activity for the whole family.

Therefore, laziness to the side!!! Let's look at what New Year's toys and New Year's decorations for the New Year you can make with your own hands without much effort, not only to decorate your home, but also to get even closer to your family members.

We create New Year's toys and decorations with our own hands

Firstly, let us immediately note that creating New Year's toys with your own hands, making homemade decorations for the New Year is a very fun activity. It can be compared to a ritual, to an exciting process, in the minutes of which a miracle is born and a fairy tale comes into its own.

After all, when making homemade New Year's toys and unusual, homemade New Year's decorations for the Christmas tree and home, you breathe into them a piece of your love and warmth, so such New Year's decorations and beautiful toys for the Christmas tree turn out to be truly special.

New Year's toys made with your own hands will not only decorate your home, but will also add a special atmosphere to your home, enriching it with bright accents and cozy little things.

What kind of New Year's decorations can you come up with so that it is not expensive, interesting, and so that such New Year's decorations transform your home.

In order to make New Year's toys and decorations for the New Year's tree and home, stock up on all the necessary materials.

In order to make New Year's decor, namely homemade New Year's decorations and New Year's toys, you do not need special materials.

For this purpose, available materials such as threads, a needle, of course, paper, pieces of multi-colored fabric of different textures, beads, sparkles and many other little things that may be standing and waiting in the wings to become an original mega fashionable New Year's toy are suitable.

Of course, you can’t start making New Year’s decorations and toys without imagination, because it is the driving force of the whole process.

New Year's decorations made from paper look creative. They are not at all difficult to make, and today’s New Year’s decorations in the style of papier-mâché and quilling are so varied that even if you are not the greatest craftsman, you will no doubt get New Year’s paper snowflakes, New Year’s garlands, stars or balls for the New Year.

And if, in addition to multi-colored or white sheets of paper, you have ribbons and sparkles, you are simply risking being a master of quilling and papier-mâché if you try a little.

New Year's decorations and New Year's toys are not only New Year's quilling and papier-mâché.

For New Year's decor, an excellent option would be New Year's toys knitted with your own hands using knitting needles or a crochet hook. And there are no fewer ideas here than in paper decorations.

A retro-style Christmas tree will look amazing if your New Year's decorations, crocheted or knitted yourself, resemble birds and little animals.

The tree and house will be decorated with New Year's bells, flowers, snowflakes and stars, and balls made using the decoupage technique, which will make the design of the tree and house especially warm and cozy for family evenings.

The tree will look rich and tasty if it has New Year's garlands of sweets, fruits and other goodies.

Such New Year's decorations will shine with bright colors on the New Year's tree and will become a tasty surprise for the little residents of the house.

You can make New Year's decorations for the Christmas tree and home in the form of New Year's gifts. If you have old trinkets gathering dust in a box, treat them with varnish and dust them with glitter, and you will have a very original New Year's toy.

You can also create very successful New Year's toys and decorations from polystyrene foam. Make blanks in the form of balls or cubes.

Cover the blank with bright ribbons, sequins, you can take beads, different types of cereals are also suitable, with which you can create a whole masterpiece, and not a New Year's toy.

New Year's decorations in the form of large multi-colored socks, felt boots and mittens, which are best made from thick fabric, have already become a tradition.

Very interesting New Year's toys and decorations are made from burlap and felt. This material is easy to work with, and any decor on it will look very impressive.

Both children and adults will enjoy making New Year's toys made using the kanzashi technique.

To make such New Year's decorations, you need to stock up on ribbons, beautiful fabric, beads, pearls, laces and wire.

New Year's toys in the form of garlands create an unusually festive mood. DIY Christmas garlands can be much more interesting than store-bought ones.

Garlands made of paper can be combined with garlands of foam balls, garlands of old toys decorated in a modern way, etc.

Don’t forget that DIY New Year’s toys can serve not only as decorations, but also as symbolic New Year’s gifts, which will always remind you of pleasant New Year’s evenings spent with loved ones.

Children especially love making such New Year's toys, because they put a piece of their soul into such a homemade surprise for mom, dad, grandmother and other family members.

Now let's see what New Year's toys and beautiful New Year's decorations, besides those mentioned, can still be made from ordinary materials, giving them a completely unusual and very important essence.

What kind of New Year's toys do you make with your own hands?

DIY New Year's toys: photo ideas for inspiration

Homemade toys for the Christmas tree can be made not only by needlewomen. There are quite simple options that won’t take much time. They can be done with children or on your own. The most important thing is that your furry beauty will not be like others. And the warmth of your hands transferred to the toy will be noticed by all your loved ones.

Greetings to all readers of my blog, New Year is a magical holiday! It carries so much warmth, kindness and inspiration that it should be enough for the next 365 days! Preparing for the New Year is a real sacrament. Buying (or even better - creating with your own hands) gifts for family, loved ones and friends, planning the New Year's menu, decorating apartments and houses and, of course, the most important New Year's process... It's time to decorate the Christmas tree!

But now the next question arises: with what? Surely every home has a box of Christmas tree decorations. Some people have old Soviet houses with snow roofs, ruddy Santa Clauses and bullfinches lying there. They are, of course, dear to the heart, but they are already old, tired, and the paint is worn off. By the way, I advise you to read it, because the holidays are so fleeting.

Others have bright identical balls in the color of the curtains and golden bows.

Stylish, no doubt. But it’s the same – like everyone else’s. So what can we come up with? The answer is the simplest: make homemade Christmas tree toys! Everything about this process is perfect: from the search for ideas to the preparation of materials, from the first detail to the final result.

The flight of fancy is not limited! You can create any crafts from any materials, by any means. But sometimes it’s difficult to come up with an image on your own. In this case, there is no shame in looking: what are others doing? And taking the proposed options as a basis, come up with something of your own, or simply repeat some very cute little thing.

That is why I “climbed” onto the Internet in search of everything tasty and interesting. It’s not for nothing that mine was opened. There are a lot of tips. We'll look at some of them.

Paper Christmas tree toys

Cardboard, paper and glue are the most accessible materials. They are always in the house, especially when the baby is growing. In addition, such homemade Christmas tree toys are easy to make, do not require special handicraft skills and can be made by a child aged 8-10 years independently or with a little parental help if your child is younger.

Paper balls

These balls are quite easy to make.

Decoupage glass ornaments with vintage German newspapers

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We will need:

1 ball (you can use foam balls or plastic ones, which are sold in handicraft stores as blanks for Christmas tree decorations) or a hemisphere (for example, molded from plasticine);
glue (preferably liquid, it would be ideal to dilute the paste, but you can also use PVA);
newspapers;
thin wire (you can use a paper clip);
a thread;
glitter, stickers or scrapbooking paper - optional.

We tear the newspapers into thin strips, coat each of them with glue and gradually cover the ball with them. As soon as the base is no longer visible under the layer of newspapers, put the product aside and let it dry - about 40 minutes. Then create 2, 3, 4 and 5 layers - similar to the first. If you are using a ball base, you do not need to remove it. If you have only made half of the base, you will have to first make the decoration from individual parts and then glue them together.

After complete drying, you can apply a layer of varnish and sprinkle glitter. Homemade Christmas tree decorations are so valuable because they can be decorated in any way and with anything!

When the ball itself is ready, we begin making the “top”. If the work was carried out with New Year's balls, then we attach their holders on top. It’s even easier to glue a tinsel bow to the ball and tie a thread or ribbon on top so that you can hang the product.

To make “named” balls, just attach a piece of paper with a name to the tinsel using a thread. You can write wishes, compliments and any other pleasant little things on these stickers.

Gift decoration with vintage paper

In the same source I saw a New Year's craft that can be done in 10 minutes! You need to make an “accordion” from a sheet of music notes, alternately bending the paper into 1-2 cm strips in one direction or the other. Repeat with another sheet. Bend each accordion in half and glue along the free side to make it look like a “half-toy”. Then connect the resulting semicircles to each other along the sides that remain without folds.

You can use it as a gift for someone dear to you. Take a simple box that you can find at any craft store, decorate it with an old map and the resulting paper toy.

Musical muse

To make beautiful homemade Christmas tree decorations with your own hands, you need a true love of music!

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Required:

glue;
scissors;
old sheet music;
rhinestone (you can simply cut a circle out of cardboard in color).

We cut three A4 sheets with notes each into 4 parts. From the first two we will make large rays, and from the third - small ones. We roll a quarter of the sheet into a cone and glue the joint. Please note that the glue will first need to be applied so that both sides of the cone stick together into one. And then carefully glue the rest. You need 8 such elements.

The next step is to cut the quarters of the last sheet in half. We get 8 parts. The scheme is the same. After this, each ray needs to be glued to a rhinestone or cut out circle. The back part can be covered with a layer of music paper, and a thread can be glued under it.

Another tip: to age paper, you need to soak it in a bowl of strong tea and then dry it. Then crumple and iron with an iron at minimum temperature. I really like the look of the paper, which is scorched at the edges.

Be careful to only burn sheets in close proximity to a water source!

DIY vintage toys

These vintage DIY Christmas tree decorations will harmoniously fit into any interior.

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To make such a New Year's beauty, you will need:

colored paper (or scrapbooking paper);
glue;
scissors;
wooden stick for the base.

Cut out strips from colored paper. Their length should be the same, but the width of each next one should be 1 centimeter more than the previous one. The number of strips and their size can be any - it depends on how you want your homemade Christmas tree toys to look.

Twist each strip into a tube and glue the joint. Then connect all the strips together and put them all together on a wooden base (can be cut out of cardboard). Don't forget the star and thread!

If regular colored paper is used, then I would additionally decorate this madame with cut out balls, circles, stars, sparkles, and pieces of tinsel. Give your child plenty of room for imagination. Let him paint the stripes and stick on bright stickers. Homemade Christmas tree decorations for the New Year can be as colorful and catchy as you like. The main thing is with the soul!

Christmas tree toys made of cardboard

If your New Year's homework is a DIY Christmas tree toy for school, then you can make an owl like this.

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For this you will need:

toilet paper roll;
dye;
glue;
scissors;
colored paper;
white stickers with glitter.

You will need to glue the edge parts of the base and paint the product with white paint. Cut out all the details from paper and place them on top. I would also knit scarves for the owls and add thread tassels to their ears.

Another interesting and unusual idea is to make a cup of hot chocolate from a sleeve.

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You will need:

sleeve;
cocktail straw;
colored paper;
glue;
scissors;
cardboard.

We prepare a paper cylinder from the sleeve - cut it to the desired size. Then from thick cardboard we cut out one cylinder of the same diameter - for the bottom, and another - for the “coffee” - a little smaller so that it fits inside but does not fall out. A small circle needs to be smeared with glue and a circle of brown paper, slightly larger, should be placed on top. Next, let's move on to the mug itself. According to the “recipe,” we are asked to cover it with a strip of colored paper, leaving a protruding part on both sides. At the bottom you should cut it with a “fringe” and glue each fragment to the bottom separately.

But I would simply wrap the homemade New Year's decorations on the Christmas tree with packaging material, fixing the joints with glue or a stapler. Or even just foil! But if according to the recipe, then don’t forget to glue the circle to the bottom.

After the packaging is ready, you need to put our “hot chocolate” inside, applying glue to the paper from the inside. Then we work on the top edge: carefully cut the free edge and glue one piece at a time. We insert the “drink” into the vessel. Here in the side edge we make a hole for the future thread.

Now for a pen: rolled paper, soaked in water and left to dry will work just fine. Glue it to the mug.

The base is ready, next is the decoration. There are no restrictions here: you can do it like the author, you can decorate it differently, for example, add a “slice of lemon” using a curly eraser, or draw a picture from “foam” using a corrector or contour. Homemade Christmas tree toys for the New Year can be very non-standard.

There are many tutorials on the Internet on how to make Christmas tree decorations with your own hands, incl. video. For example, to make a ball, you need:

foam base;
many different buttons;
hot glue;
tapes.

We cover the ball with buttons, make a bow from a ribbon - and you're done!

For me, threads are a closer material. About how many different mercies can be connected, write and write, this will be a life-long post. In addition, this is an activity for mothers, probably not for a child. Therefore, I will just show a few interesting things that I found, without going into details.

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A knitted ball can be made in any color and any size. The thread is quite simple to sew on. You can tie a foam base, or you can stuff the toy with synthetic padding or other similar material.

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But you can make things much simpler from threads. Homemade Christmas tree decorations made from thread always look very interesting, tasty and unusual.

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These wonderful decorations can be ordered, but are easier to make!

You will need:

leg-split;
foam base for the ball;
double-sided thin tape or hot silicone;
scissors;
lace.

If you don't have tape, you can try using silicone, but this is more painstaking work. Carefully, one row after another, you need to wrap the base with rope, gluing the thread.

If you decide to use tape to make these homemade Christmas tree toys, then just make a “belt” for the ball from an adhesive strip (from left to right), and then two more lines perpendicular to the belt (from top to bottom).

Be careful not to glue one strip on top of another to avoid problems with removing the protective tape. Attach a string to half of the balloon. Then form a free part by unwinding a little twine, and, as if making a “dead loop,” return to winding the ball in the same direction as you started. Once the first round is completed, secure the “reference point” with a small pin or nail. And start moving around this pin, gluing new pieces of adhesive tape when necessary.

In principle, you can use any thread - thin or thick wool, yarn. In addition, strips of felt, woven fabric or braids, and anything else will work. When the winding is finished, you need to let the product dry and soak, if you used an adhesive mass, and then start decorating.

Here you can learn how to decorate the base for a ball using twine. In addition, there is a wonderful option for decorating the resulting craft using ribbons, lace and beads.

You can wrap any figures in the same way. The convenience of this manufacturing method is that subsequent decoration can be made with any elements. You can sew them, glue them, tie them, attach them with Velcro and whatever else you want to do with them!

Here's another option - this is the famous striped candy wrapped in twine. Fortunately, these plastic imitations can now be bought in bags and quite cheaply. Working with them is easier than with balls. You just need to secure the twine with silicone from a hot gun, and then wrap it along the entire length and do the same from the other end.

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Another option is to do without foam plastic altogether. For example, like in this video about how to make Christmas tree decorations with your own hands. The neck of a regular plastic bottle is used as a base. First, cover the lid area with mounting tape, making it level. Then put the bag on the bottle. And using glue, carefully wrap the container to a certain level (depending on what size bells you want to end up with. As soon as the product dries, you should remove it from the neck and free it from the bag. And the final step is decoration.

You can make homemade Christmas tree decorations from threads with your own hands, using practically nothing except this very thread!

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To make such an adorable snowman, you need:

white yarn;
small cardboard;
scissors;
needle;
a little felt.

The whole action is based on the principle of making pompoms for a hat. You have to wrap the cardboard in 30 circles with wool and cut the thread. Carefully remove the resulting skein, tie it in two places, preparing areas for the head, belly and legs. Prepare another skein, a smaller one, for your hands. Remove it from the cardboard and make two narrowings. Then spread the threads in the second segment in the frontal plane and thread future handles through the hole.

Schematically the snowman is ready. Cut the loops of thread on the arms and legs. And then start decorating. Trim all the ends of the fur so that nothing sticks out. From felt you can make a face and a scarf for our gentleman, as well as a hat. Or you can link it. Add a belt or buttons on the stomach. Tie a string so you can hang the toy.

Christmas tree star

So, the decorations for the branches are ready! Now our beauty is waiting for her “finest hour” - when we put a star on her top. But how, from what can you make it?

While I was flipping through the pages looking for something interesting, an idea came to my mind: why not decorate the Christmas tree... with a Christmas tree?! And here, for example, is an option!

We will need:

sheet of cardboard;
glue;
green tinsel thread;
bag of candy.

We make a cone out of cardboard and glue it along the joint. Glue a layer of tinsel onto the base. Then - a layer of sweets, one to one. Then again tinsel, and again sweets! Or you can replace sweets with a garland of lights and then our top will sparkle and shimmer, as it should be on the New Year!

If you made the musical decorations that were discussed at the very beginning of the article, then the star should be musical!

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You can make this by cutting out the parts according to the template. Then you have to fold along the dotted lines, glue the joints - voila, done! The only difficulty is that you will have to redraw the template, or print it initially on music paper. However, you can use any other material.

For balls covered with newspapers, a corresponding star is suitable.

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Making such a decoration is quite difficult. There is a special master class on how to make it, consisting of two parts. The first is about how to make an even pentagon, and the second is how to make a star out of it.

A star can be made from book pages, just like a toy can be made from sheet music.

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You will have to fold pages or their fragments into cone-rays and glue them to the base.

A good option would be to make a three-dimensional star, for example, from papier-mâché, cardboard, or buy a blank.

Let's look at an old book.
Divide each page in half.
We make an envelope from half.
A cardboard or plastic star blank is pasted over with ready-made envelopes according to the pattern in the photo.
Grease the edges with PVA glue and sprinkle with glitter.

To make it more convenient to install such homemade toys on the Christmas tree, I would advise making one large cone as a support. In addition, to make the star three-dimensional, the rays need to be glued not only on one side of the base, but also on the other.

Christmas is a holiday that for many is as important and significant as New Year. Therefore, the holiday tree must be decorated with themed decorations.

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You can do this, for example, using:

wooden ring (you can use a special blank, a spare ring from a cornice or a foam ring);
several beads;
cap for beads;
rondel (separator);
crochet hook;
scissors;
threads

But this DIY Christmas tree decoration can only be made if you have shells lying around the house. However, finding decorative material in stores (in the same Leonardo chain, which has representatives in 35 cities of Russia) today is not so difficult.

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To make this beauty you will need:

shells of different sizes;
hot glue;
a thread;
decorations for every taste.

In my opinion, it would be unnecessary to talk about the production process; everything can be seen without words.

This master class tells in great detail how to make an angel from a sheet of cardboard, thread, Christmas ball, ribbons and a set of decorations. These homemade Christmas tree decorations are suitable and can be used as decorations for the New Year or Christmas table.

I sincerely hope, dear readers, that this selection of tips on how to make homemade Christmas tree decorations will help you find your inspiration, catch the wave and get carried away with your work! I wish you new ideas and wonderful results!

The New Year, beloved by many, is a time of joyful troubles. The cheerful bustle catches both children and adults in its whirlpool. There are a lot of pleasant moments in preparation for this wonderful time. But there is a moment that is such a long-standing tradition that we can no longer imagine celebrating the New Year without it. This custom is loved by everyone, young and old - decorating the Christmas tree. The origins of this wonderful event go back centuries, to pre-Christian times. Ancient people believed that evergreen trees - spruce and pine - were especially loved by the gods. Therefore, they decorated them with gifts, seeking to gain divine blessings, good luck and fortune.

In Europe, the tradition of decorating Christmas trees began in the mid-16th century. According to scientists, its founder was the founder of one of the directions of Protestantism, Martin Luther. The great reformer Peter I brought the tradition of decorating the Christmas tree to Russia.

Initially, candles, fruits, cookies and paper crafts were used as decorations.

In the modern world there is such a huge number of decorations for the Christmas tree and for the room in general that it can be overwhelming: how to choose from all this tinsel and shiny decorative elements what is right for your home?

Our article is devoted to Christmas tree toys, but not ordinary ones, but those created independently, with your own hands. You cannot buy such original and unusual things in a store. Your Christmas tree will be decorated with exclusive, bright and original products, which will undoubtedly make the holiday even more memorable.

When it comes to handmade crafts, many can imagine incredibly high expenses on decorative details. We hasten to assure you that creating unusual and beautiful Christmas tree decorations is not only simple, easy and exciting, but also quite inexpensive. In our master classes we will talk in detail about crafts made from felt, scraps of fabric, sequins, threads, buttons, beads and even old computer parts or pasta.

We'll probably start with the most popular decoration - Christmas balls.

Christmas balls made of fabric

Do you have a bright colorful dress in your closet that you will never wear? Then feel free to grab the scissors and start creating. In order to make a Christmas ball from fabric, you will need:

The basis. This could be a foam ball or even an old sock that needs to be stuffed tightly until you get a hard ball;
Sheathing material;
A rope or ribbon for a loop with which we will hang the ball on the Christmas tree;
Glue (glue gun) or thread and needle.

There are many options for attaching fabric. Decorative trim can be sewn or glued. Its role can be strips of fabric gathered with frills, which need to be sewn in circles. You can cut the fabric into small squares and sew them to the base, grabbing only the center of each square. Place their centers closer to each other and you will get an adorable shaggy ball.

You can use burlap, old tablecloths, fabrics of any texture, quality and color.

Another option for decorating a Christmas ball can be buttons.

Choose bright colors and different sizes.

New Year's Christmas balls made of thread and lace

Another wonderful decoration can be balls of thread.

You will need:

Balloon;
PVA glue;
Sequins;
Iris type threads.

Making such a decoration is very simple. We inflate a ball of a size corresponding to the size of the future toy. Tie one end of the thread to it. The threads can be dipped in glue or covered with a brush. Leave some space near the base of the ball. Sprinkle glitter on top. We wait until the glue dries. Now all that remains is to pierce the ball and pull it out of the workpiece. All that remains is to hang our toy on a string or ribbon.

For needlewomen who know how to crochet, it will not be difficult to make such a magical openwork creation. We do it by analogy with threads, but here we glue the lace elements. Below we offer several diagrams for creating openwork details.

Decor of foam balls

We offer several decor options.

You will need:

Foam base - ball;
Thin felt in two shades;
Sequins of bright colors;
Pins with beautiful hats;
Thin ribbons and hooks as fastenings;
Corrugated paper;
Beads;
Needles and threads;
Glue.

First we will make the decoration with felt. We have white and red colors (you can choose any others).

So, let's draw a sketch of a flower with five petals. Two options, larger and smaller. The photo shows a detailed master class.

The next decoration option will be sequins. We used pins to attach them. To make the ball more colorful and interesting, try using carnations with beautiful caps. It can be sparkles, pearls, you can glue rhinestones. Begin attaching in concentric rows so that each subsequent sequin overlaps slightly.

The photo shows the attachment method step by step.

To decorate another Christmas tree toy you can use tiny flowers made from crepe paper.

We take our foam ball base and attach a ribbon loop to it, with which we will later hang it on the Christmas tree.

You need to roll the paper into a roll and cut it into strips about 1 cm wide. Following the step-by-step photos, we roll up small roses from the resulting ribbons. We glue the base with it and cut off the unnecessary tail.

Now carefully glue the flowers onto the surface of the ball. To hide the gaps between the roses, we glued beads to match the paper and ribbon.

Next DIY Christmas ball we will do vintage style made of lace.

Required:

Foam base;
Small pieces of lace;
Glue;
White and black coffee paint;
Brush;
Pin with cap (base for Christmas tree decorations);
Ribbons.

First, cover the foam ball with white paint. After it has dried, glue pieces of lace onto the workpiece in a random order. The next step will be covering our workpiece with brown paint. Paint in several parts to avoid staining your handles. When the paint begins to dry, take a cotton pad, moisten it with water and pass over the entire painted surface, wiping off excess paint. Wipe with different intensity. Somewhere there will be more paint, somewhere less, and the ball will have a delightful vintage, antique style.

We will decorate the next Christmas ball in high-tech style.

For this we need:

An old CD (depending on the size of the ball, you will need to take several pieces);
Plastic transparent Christmas ball;
A small piece of golden satin fabric;
Glue moment crystal.

We cut our disks into small pieces of arbitrary shape. We take our transparent ball and begin to glue the pieces of disks with a mirror surface facing outward. The location of the pieces does not matter; you glue them as your imagination dictates.

When the workpiece has dried, take out the cap with the loop on which the ball is hung, and place a golden satin ribbon or just a piece of fabric inside. We put the fastener back. Our ball is ready.

The next toy will be especially loved by all those with a sweet tooth. Christmas tree decoration in the form of a cupcake with a cherry.

You will need:

Small foam balls;
Bright cupcake tins (made of foil or paper);
Glue gun;
Skewers;
Scarlet beads (better if they are pins);
Large white sparkles.

Carefully coat the foam ball placed on a skewer with glue for ease of use. We roll our workpiece in glitter. Glue the loop. We are waiting for the glue to dry. Then take the muffin tins. This corrugated “skirt” can be made from foil or bought ready-made. We apply glue inside and place our workpiece. We decorate the top with a simple bead or pin (they also need to be glued). Our sweet Christmas tree decoration is ready.

On New Year's Eve, everything always sparkles, shines, shimmers with all the colors of the rainbow, and Christmas tree decorations are no exception. You probably have some beads or long-forgotten unnecessary jewelry at home, or maybe an old sweater with rhinestones that you will never wear. All shiny and iridescent elements can be cut off and safely used to decorate Christmas tree balls.

If you have rhinestones, crystals, bicone or beads, just place them on glue. To decorate with beads of different formats, you will need a foam ball base and pins with a cap larger than the diameter of the hole. The photo below shows in detail exactly how you can decorate a Christmas ball.

It's not just balls that are hung on the New Year's tree. It's snowing outside the window, and beautiful snowflakes are falling to the ground. And openwork graceful beauties decorate the Christmas tree. During the New Year holidays, the family spends a lot of time together, and it will be very fun and cool to make a snowflake with your own hands with the children. You can use safe and fun materials for this, like pasta.

DIY pasta snowflakes

You will need:

Pasta of various shapes (shells, feathers, spirals, wheels);
Bonding material (for small children - plasticine, for older ones - instant glue or PVA);
Paints of various colors, silver and gold;
Elements for decoration (semolina, granulated sugar, sparkles, beads and seed beads are suitable). The use of small parts is best done under adult supervision.

Since working with instant glue will be difficult for little ones, we suggest that little ones glue the pasta together with plasticine. Then paint and decorate.

For adults, there are several ways to create and decorate snowflakes from pasta.

One of them is as follows: glue the snowflake together as usual, then cover it with PVA glue and roll it in sugar, semolina or sprinkle it with nail glitter. They can be purchased at cosmetics stores or nail aesthetics salons.

Pasta snowflakes painted with gold or silver paint look very advantageous.

We have given several options for such products, but the imagination of needlewomen is limitless, so you and your family can create real masterpieces.

Are your children or do you love animals? You can decorate the Christmas tree adorable penguins made from old light bulbs.

You will need:

Unusable and old damaged light bulbs;
Paints;
Paints;
Brushes;
A little glue;
Thin ribbons.

Making a penguin from an old light bulb is very simple - just paint the light bulb. After the paint has dried, glue a ribbon in the form of a loop around the base. It will be convenient to hang our penguins on spruce branches. You can borrow hats and scarves from dolls or make them yourself and dress up the penguins.

In order to make hats for penguins or use as an independent decoration You will need:

Thick threads (you can use leftover yarn from one of your products);
Cardboard rolls from toilet paper.

We cut the cardboard blanks into rings. The width of the cap lapel will depend on the height of the ring.

Now cut the threads 30 cm long.

Fold the thread in half and thread it through the ring. Now we take the ends of the thread and make a loop (see photo). In this way we braid the entire cardboard blank. This is what we got.

We take all the thread tails and thread them into the ring (see photo). At some distance from the ring (about 1.5 - 2 cm), we tightly tie the entire bundle of threads. All that remains is to step back about 1 cm from the tie and cut off all the threads. We got a cute and funny hat with a bubo.

Another option Lovers of modern technology and computers will definitely be interested in this Christmas tree decoration.

You will need:

Old computer parts (boards from game consoles, RAM, etc.);
A drill with a thin drill bit (if not, a thin nail and hammer will do);
Instant glue;
Ribbons, connecting rings and decorative elements.

Using a drill we make several holes. We insert rings there, hang ribbons, bows and various decorations. At the other end we attach a loop, by which we will hang it on the Christmas tree.

Don't limit decorations to just these crafts. On the pages of our Club you will find a lot more ideas for creativity and inspiration, and your New Year will definitely turn out to be fabulous.

The new year 2020 begins anew to go through the twelve-year cycle according to the Eastern calendar. Therefore, the symbol of the New Year will be a white metal rat. It is she who is the first in the list of symbols in the calendar. As the legend goes, the rat was able to trick all the animals and was the first to come to the Buddha. To please this little rodent, you need to make New Year's toys for 2020 with your own hands, and most importantly, make this year's mascot - a white metal rat. In addition, if you demonstrate the main qualities of a rat, determination, perseverance and perseverance, then these crafts will bring you good luck throughout the next year.

Rat craft made from threads

Even if you have never handled threads, don’t worry, because even a child can make this craft.

For work we will need:

thick threads for knitting;
glue moment;
food foil;
paints.

Manufacturing process:

Cut a piece of food foil and crumple it into the shape of a rat's body.
We make two loops on the threads in a small gap, which will then become the ears of a small rodent.
Then we glue the made loops to the body with glue and wrap it completely with threads.
At the end of the body we do not cut off the thread completely, as we need to leave a tail.
At the end of the work, draw the nose and eyes.

Snowflakes

It is impossible to imagine the New Year without snowflakes, since they are an indispensable element of this celebration. There are many ways to make this craft; they can be crocheted, cut from paper, felt fabric, woven from beads and much more.

To make our snowflake you will need:

colored paper;
pencil;
stapler;
beads or rhinestones.

Manufacturing process:

Cut out six medium-sized strips of paper.
We wind the cut strips onto a pencil and wait five hours.
We remove the stripes from the pencil and connect them together with a stapler.
Glue a bead or rhinestone into the middle of the snowflake to make it more beautiful.

Light bulb snowman

A Christmas tree toy can even be made from an ordinary used light bulb. The main thing is that it is in the shape of a pear.

To make this craft you will need:

white gouache;
wool fabric;
glue;
cardboard;
foam;
twig;
leg-split;
threads;
buttons.

Manufacturing process:

First, paint the light bulb with white gouache. Apply the paint in two layers.
We cut off a small part from the woolen fabric and make a hat for the snowman from it.
Then glue it to the metal part of the light bulb.
We make a pompom from twine and sew it to the hat of our New Year's toy.
Cut out the nose and eyes for the snowman from cardboard, and then glue them to the light bulb.
We make hands from a branch, cut out a scarf from woolen fabric and glue these parts to the snowman.
At the end of the work you need to glue the buttons.

Fabric ball

If you have a child who goes to kindergarten, then you will definitely receive homework in the form of making a New Year's toy. Of course, children want to do it on their own, but due to their age they are not always able to do this. Although there is no difficulty in making this craft, your help will still be needed, of course. But you can safely entrust some work to a child, since the most dangerous item here is only scissors.

To make it you will need:

bright fabric;
scissors;
threads;
spruce branches;
foam ball;
tourniquet;
large satin ribbon;
tulle;
artificial or natural dried berries.

Manufacturing process:

To begin, take a foam ball and apply it to the fabric.
Cut off the excess part.
Now we place the foam ball on the fabric, wrapping it with tulle and bright material at the same time.
We gather the fabric at the base of the foam ball with a rope and tie it beautifully with an inconspicuous rope.
Now we take berries and spruce branches and tie them with thread.
We insert the resulting decoration into the base of the ball.
At the end of the work, we secure our toy with a large satin ribbon.

Paper lantern

A paper lantern will be a wonderful decoration on the New 2020 Christmas tree, so I recommend starting to make it right now.

For work we will need:

bright colored paper;
scissors;
white thread;
ruler;
pencil;
needle;
beads.

The work is carried out as follows:

We measure out equal strips 12 cm long and 1 cm wide on a sheet of bright colored paper. You need to make 18 such strips. We also draw two circles for the base and end of the toy.
We cut out the drawn elements and assemble them. To do this, you need to take a white double thread with a needle and first put a bead on it, and then a cut out circle of paper.
Then we put the strips in half on the thread as well.
We attach a circle of paper to the end of the craft and decorate it with a bead.
Now we straighten the paper strips and that’s it, the paper lantern is ready.