Put a candle inside and light it. The light will fall as if from the windows of magical snow-covered houses.

What do you need

• light paper;
• pencil;
• black marker;
• scissors;
• glue;
• glass jar;
• sponge;
• white paint.

How to do

Arrange a sheet of paper horizontally and draw on it the outlines of a winter city: snowdrifts, trees, houses with windows, a lantern. Fill the shapes with a black marker and cut them along the outline. Make windows of houses.

Now glue the paper along the bottom edge of the can. Using a sponge, lightly coat the glass and the outlines of the city with white paint, imitating snow.

2. Christmas tree from the magazine

Two in one: decorate the house and get rid of old prints.

What do you need

• magazine;
• glue gun;
• gold spray paint;
• red and gold foamiran with sparkles or red and gold paper with sparkles;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• beads.

How to do

Lay the magazine so that the spine is on the left. Fold the first sheet by connecting the top edge to the left. Bend the lower right corner to the middle.

Deal with the rest of the sheets in the same way. Open the magazine approximately in the middle and walk along the fold with a glue gun. Fold the right sheet by gluing its edge to the middle of the magazine.

Turn over the glued part, again glue the center of the magazine and glue the next sheet. Do the same with the rest of the sheets. You will get a cone. Spray it with spray paint.

On the back of the foamiran or paper, draw two identical large gold stars and several smaller red and gold stars. Carefully cut them out.

Connect the two large stars with the spangles out and glue to the top of the tree. Place the remaining stars and beads on the Christmas tree.

3. Santa Claus from a can

What do you need

• double sided tape;
• can;
• beige foamiran;
• scissors;
• colored fabric;
• glue gun;
• white faux fur;
• blush
• wide brush;
• white felt;
• black paint;
• white paint;
• brush;
• gold ribbon.

How to do

Glue the adhesive tape at the bottom, top and middle of the can. Wrap the cylinder with foamiran and cut off the excess. Glue the edges of the foamiran with double-sided tape.

Wrap a colored cloth around the top of the can and glue it with a gun. Wrap in the edges of a narrow strip of fur and glue. Place the resulting strip along the top of the can.

Blush to draw the cheeks of Santa Claus. Cut a mustache from white felt, and a round nose from the remains of beige foamiran. Glue them to the jar.

Black and white paint your eyes. Glue white felt eyebrows on top. Wrap a gold ribbon around the colored fabric and tie a beautiful bow.

4. Wreath of paper napkins

Such beauty can be put on the table or attached to the wall.

What do you need

• 5 round openwork paper napkins;
• pencil;
• ruler;
• scissors;
• glue;
• cardboard;
• white paper;
• glue gun;
• small artificial spruce branches with cones;
• red artificial berries;
• white paint;
• brush;
• red bow.

How to do

Cut each of the three napkins into four equal parts and fold them into cones, greasing the edges with glue.

Cut a circle with a diameter of 10 cm from cardboard. Cover it with glue on one side and glue it to white paper. Cut a circle out of it, retreating from the edges of the cardboard 1-2 cm.

Make vertical cuts on paper. Lubricate the edges of the cardboard circle with adhesive on the back and glue the cut paper to it.

Glue whole napkins on both sides to the circle. Mark the middle on the one that appeared on the front of the workpiece. Using a glue gun, arrange prepared cones from napkins in a circle.

Glue fir branches and berries in the center of the wreath. Lightly coat them with white paint to simulate snow. Place a bow under the composition.

5. New Year's vase

This craft can be used as a stand for writing instruments or cosmetics, as a candlestick or just a beautiful decor element.

What do you need

• notebook sheets of paper;
• glue;
• glass cup;
• scissors;
• glue gun;
• gold spray paint;
• twine;
• wooden decorative elements.

How to do

Twist the sheet diagonally into a thin tube, periodically lubricating the paper with glue. Place the workpiece vertically on the glass and cut it approximately in height.

Make so many tubes so that you can cover the entire glass. It is better if they are slightly different in length.

Attach them to the glass with a glue gun. Paint the future vase with paint on the outside and inside. Wrap the lower and upper parts with pieces of string and glue the wooden decor in the middle.

6. New Year's gnome from fabric

A cozy decor element in the Scandinavian style.

What do you need

• colored fabric;
• scissors;
• glue gun;
• white faux fur;
• wire;
• gray fleece;
• black felt;
• wooden ball;
• christmas decoration.

How to do

Wrap the cone with a cloth, cut off the excess and glue with a glue gun. From the fur, cut a beard in the shape of an elongated rhombus and a long mustache, similar to the letter "L".

Glue the beard to the cone. It should occupy most of it. Spread the fur upstairs and place a mustache so that a beard hangs slightly on them. So the figure will be more voluminous.

Cut a piece of wire about the length of the cone and insert it into the top of the workpiece. Wrap the fleece around the wire so that it goes a little on the beard. Cut off the excess, connect the fleece to the cone and fasten the edges of the fabric with glue.

From the felt, cut out the eyes and glue them under the hat. Below, place the gnome's nose - a wooden ball, and glue the Christmas decoration on the hat.

Lovely gnomes can also be made from improvised materials. This video shows how to craft them from socks:

7. Bottle toy

When looking at this jewelry, one can hardly guess what it is made of.

What do you need

• stationery knife;
• 2 plastic bottles with a volume of 1.5 liters;
• yellow paint;
• brush;
• wire;
• 6 Christmas balls;
• pVA glue or acrylic glue;
• gold glitter;
• glue gun;
• red narrow ribbon;
• 3 red bows;
• decorative flower with sparkles.

How to do

Cut the bottles a little above the middle. Make a hole in the center of each cover with a clerical knife. Cover the caps with yellow paint and close the bottles with them.

Pass a piece of wire into the lids so that its ends are in the bottles and a loop forms on top. Put on each end three balls and twist with wire. Balls should be inside the bottles.

Lubricate the bottles with glue from the outside and cover with glitter, leaving a small strip along the bottom edge. Using a glue gun, attach a red narrow ribbon to it.

Glue the bows together. Twist the top of the wire slightly over the bottle caps. Use a glue gun to close the twist area with a bow on which to stick a decorative flower.

8. A voluminous snowman from threads

If you insert a garland into this cute snowman, he will decorate the room even at night.

What do you need

• 2 balloons;
• scotch;
• white yarn;
• scissors;
• pVA glue;
• water;
• needle;
• 2 thin wooden twigs;
• glue gun;
• black double-sided paper or cardboard;
• color tape;
• colored fabric;
• 2 black buttons;
• cardboard;
• orange paint;
• tassel.

How to do

Inflate the balls and tie the ends. One ball should be slightly smaller than the other. Glue them with tape to form a snowman. Tie the place of gluing with yarn so that the balls are even closer to each other. Cut the remnants of the thread.

In a wide plate, combine glue and water in equal proportions. Moisten the yarn thoroughly with the resulting mixture and wrap the balls tightly. The thread should cover most of their surface. Leave the workpiece to dry completely. To speed up the process a little, you can use a hairdryer.

Pierce the balls in several places with a needle and carefully remove the rubber through the holes. Cut a few threads at the bottom of the snowman so that he can stand. Insert twigs on the sides - these will be his hands - and secure with a glue gun.

To make a hat, cut a rectangle out of black paper and glue its edges. You can also take a toilet paper sleeve and paint it black.

Cut out two circles of paper: the diameter of the resulting tube and more. Glue the smaller one on top. The larger notch in the middle and connect to the bottom of the hat. Wrap the tulle around with a colored ribbon.

Lubricate the fields of the hat with glue and attach it to the snowman's head. Around the neck, wrap a rectangular piece of fabric, glue its edges to each other and to the lower ball. Place buttons nearby.

Make a small cone out of cardboard, paint it orange and glue it in the middle of the upper ball. From black paper, cut out your mouth and eyes and place them next to the nose of the snowman.

9. Volume Christmas tree made of threads

Such a Christmas tree is made according to the same principle as a volumetric snowman. But there are a couple of important nuances.

What do you need

• cone-shaped foam blank;
• stationery pins;
• pVA glue;
• water;
• white yarn;
• beads;
• glue gun.

How to do

Wrap the foam around the foil and pierce it in several places with pins. Thanks to the film, the workpiece will be easier to remove, and the pins will help the thread stay in place.

Combine glue and water in equal proportions and thoroughly moisten the yarn in the mixture. Wrap the workpiece with threads, clinging them to the pins. Leave it overnight to completely dry the tree.

Remove the needles and carefully remove the workpiece. Place the beads on top with a glue gun.

10. New Year crescent

An unusual version of the familiar New Year wreath.

What do you need

• jigsaw and / or scissors;
• plywood or cardboard;
• twine;
• pVA glue;
• sponge;
• white paint;
• 2 cones;
• wooden decorative snowflake;
• glue gun;
• small artificial spruce twigs;
• silver christmas ball;
• white decorative braid with pompons;
• silver artificial berries;
• brush;
• wooden bead.

How to do

Using a jigsaw or scissors, cut a crescent-shaped blank from plywood or cardboard. Make a small hole from above and insert a piece of string there - the future chain.

Slightly lubricating the workpiece with glue, wrap it tightly with a twine. Sponge a little white paint on the rope and cones, imitating frost. Paint a wooden snowflake completely.

Using a glue gun, attach a snowflake to the bottom of the crescent so that most of it peers over the edge.

Glue fir branches next to them, and on them are cones and a ball. Arrange the braid with pompoms and berries.

Using a brush, lightly tint the twigs with white paint. Insert a wooden bead into the string, which is threaded into the upper hole, and tie the thread with knots from the bottom and top.

11. Christmas tree made of ribbons

What do you need

• pencil;
• white paper;
• scissors;
• green cardboard;
• stapler;
• red narrow ribbon;
• green narrow ribbon;
• white narrow ribbon;
• glue gun;
• pink foamiran with sparkles or pink paper with sparkles;
• gold glitter.

How to do

Make a white paper template as shown in the video. Attach it to the green cardboard, circle and cut. Fold the workpiece in half and fasten the bottom with a stapler.

Cut strips 12 cm long from the tapes and glue the edges of each of them. Attach them to the workpiece in a circle: the bottom row is red, the next is green, then red, green, red and white.

Cut two identical stars out of foamiran or paper, glue them and place them on top of the tree. Sprinkle glitter on the Christmas craft.

Sweet gift

I remember in childhood, you wake up in the morning - and a surprise awaits you under the Christmas tree. Colorful rustling wrapper, fruits and sweets. At that time, parents themselves collected sweet bags: tangerines, caramels, chocolates, but bars were rare. At the matinees, too, could not do without a gift, only factory bags were often even simpler than home ones.

Today's children are lucky - the variety of sweets is limited only by the purse of the parents. And now they don’t need to bother too much: all the shelves of shopping centers and small grocery stores are made ready-made sweet gifts.

On the eve of the holiday, we decided to check what is hidden behind the beautiful wrappers and how much the finished sweet gift will cost.

So, we choose the most ordinary shopping center. Here the atmosphere of the holiday is everywhere: tinsel, costumes, Christmas-tree decorations, and here are the sweets - a showcase with bags is immediately evident. There are gifts on the shelves of different shapes and colors: marketers have tried - the most colorful ones I want to pick up immediately. Here is a package in the form of a symbol of the new year - a sheep, and this one is the “bag of Santa Claus” of Frost. Prices for gifts from 100 rubles per 200 grams to 2500 rubles per kilogram. Adds value to the gift and its design, as well as the presence of toys or other necessary items like a pencil case or backpack.

In order not to spoil the New Year holiday, Rospotrebnadzor advises to take a responsible approach to choosing a bag: you need to check the gift on the spot, request documents confirming quality and safety, pay attention to expiration dates. What we do during the experiment. It’s not immediately possible to find all the information about the product, something is sealed with a bar code, something is written in very small print. The desire to purchase such a gift immediately disappears: it seems that the manufacturer (seller) wants to hide important information from us. Having checked with a dozen different bags, especially those that are farthest than others, we couldn’t find erratic (which cannot but rejoice), but still intuition tells us: without looking at the expiration date, you can take only a New Year’s bag, the box of which is decorated taking into account future symbol of the year.

Due to the fact that for a long time we choose gifts and so meticulously examine, we attract the attention of a sales assistant. We take this opportunity to bring documents confirming the quality. However, the store employee in response asked an unexpected question: are we wholesale customers. A woman arrived in time for help, answering in the affirmative. Immediately, the seller went for documents: it is clear that wholesale buyers are more welcome here. After talking with the customer, we learn that a quality certificate was requested from the parent committee in the kindergarten. No documents anywhere.

According to the list of Rospotrebnadzor, we check sweet gifts further. There are bags that are “tightly” sealed, but the basic information is presented on the packaging: expiration date, list of products, importer, country of manufacturer, information for contacting them, the minimum age of the child for whom the toy is intended, or a pictogram indicating the age of the child, everything , as expected, in Russian. Other gifts can be opened and a more detailed look at the composition, while the candies are sealed in individual packaging.

Despite the fact that the choice of sweet gifts is huge, many Magnitogorsk residents prefer to collect their New Year's bag on their own.

This allows you to make the gift more diverse: choose sweets to your taste, put cookies in the bag, fruits, perhaps even some kind of souvenir, ”says Lyubov. - In addition, this approach will be useful if children are of different ages. For example, you can’t put chocolate candies on a one-year-old baby, in this case I replace sweets with juice, cookies, a toy.

Kindergartens do not stand aside. After all, gifts that every child will receive at the matinee must be bought in time.

Last year there were only sweets in bags. This year, gifts will be with a toy, parents decided so, ”said Irina, a kindergarten teacher. - Fundraising and Santa Claus raise money, either the parent committee or the educator. Most often, teachers trust this work. We ourselves go to the toy base and buy gifts by age.

“Their composition, the availability of accompanying documentation confirming the quality and safety of products and packaging material, shelf life and storage conditions of products, the presence of a leaflet indicating the list of products included in the gift are very important. All food products must comply with the requirements of technical regulations, state standards, regulatory and technical documentation, packaging integrity, and clear labeling must be ensured. Toys that make up children's gifts must be safe. A toy located in food products and (or) sold together with a food product must have its own packaging, ”the agency notes.

Responsibility for completing New Year's gifts rests with the heads of wholesale bases and retailers in terms of compliance with the storage conditions of gift set products, the availability of documents confirming the quality and safety of these products.

The stove must not be bought!

For older children, a holiday is organized at school. Competitions, games, quizzes, and, of course, tea drinking with pies and sweets.

Just 10-15 years ago, the boys brought home-made cakes and cookies cooked by mothers and grandmothers to school. However, now Rospotrebnadzor, in the published requirements for a safe rest for children during the winter holidays, considers it necessary to exclude homemade food.

“When conducting New Year's events, which are accompanied by tea parties, in organized children's groups, it is necessary to exclude homemade pastries, cream confectionery from the diet of children,” the department reports.

Parents of schoolchildren have not heard of such a ban.

We’ll have a New Year’s tea party, but they didn’t tell us that we can’t bring home-made cakes, says Daria, the mother of an eighth-grader. - Of course, now we mainly buy sweets to school, not like before. The choice in stores, as they say, for every taste and budget.

But there are those who prefer home-made cakes to purchased sweets.

Peka independently, firstly, it’s inexpensive, and secondly, you know exactly what you put in home baking: jam, berries, sugar, there are no dyes or other harmful substances, says Elena’s second-grade mother.

On vacation - to camp

During the winter season, hiking and hiking trips are often held.

Last year, we went to the camp in the winter for seven days, ”says Anna’s sixth-grade mother. - The initiator and organizer was the parent committee. We are also planning this year.

When organizing trips, Rospotrebnadzor recommends that the responsible persons conclude a contract for transport that has passed a technical inspection.

“It is forbidden to transport children in unheated vehicles. All these factors are unsafe for the life and health of children. For the transportation of organized groups of children by rail, there are sanitary and epidemiological requirements of SanPiN 2.5.1277-03, according to which a group of children must be accompanied by a medical worker, drinking regimen and meals along the route should be organized. The organizers of children's group trips agree with the Rospotrebnadzor Office on the assortment of products included in the travel kit - rations, and provide food for children from such sets along the way, ”the department noted.

If the heads and responsible persons of children's institutions meet all the necessary requirements for holding mass events and organizing vacations during the winter holidays, then the New Year holidays will be held without any incidents that have adverse consequences for the safety and health of the younger generation.

With full requirements for a safe holiday for children during the winter season 2015 can be found on the website of the Rospotrebnadzor in the Chelyabinsk region.

Whenever your childhood is over, it always comes back with the smell of needles and tangerines. It is on the last day of December 31 that each of us believes in a miracle and prepares to meet him.
To make a fabulous holiday enter your home, try to buy balloons for the New Year in Moscow. If the weather does not indulge in fluffy snow, arrange a snowfall in the office, apartment, banquet hall yourself! Our incredible silver snowflakes will soar under your ceiling, creating a winter mood. Do you think that Santa Claus doesn’t come to adults? We will dispel this myth! We have woven figures - from miniatures that are convenient to place on your desktop, to gigantic ones - for the school hall or the hall of the shopping center. Who said that you can’t give a whole holiday and don’t decorate the premises for Christmas? Our masters of aerodesign make Christmas and New Year decoration with helium balls constantly, decorating shop windows and shopping centers, creating decor for corporate parties in restaurants and children's matinees at school and kindergarten.

You can choose inflatable compositions in our thematic sections, focusing on stylistic and color preferences, budget. It can be:

• Large latex spheres filled with confetti, feathers or made in the form of a muzzle of a cat, teddy bear, unicorn, Mickey Mouse;
• Christmas trees, snowmen, Snow Maiden, the inscription "Happy New Year", Santa, deer and other characters that amaze with a variety of shades, textures and a combination of colors;
• A luminous ball is a great and safe alternative to candles. Various lighting modes, just like the New Year's garland, make this product especially popular;
• Decorations in the form of arches, chains, columns to decorate the entrance zone, stairs of administrative buildings, hotels, clubs for the celebration.

Immerse yourself in the joyous preparations of the whole family, choosing what beautiful New Year's balloons to buy in the online store!

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Many people notice that the older they get, the more difficult it is to experience the magical sensation of a fairy tale and a miracle that always came to us in childhood on New Year's Eve.

But we are in site We are sure that the New Year’s mood will not take long if you make one of these wonderful decorations for your home and Christmas tree with your own hands. Almost all, with the exception of two or three, do not require much time and some special materials - they can be done in half an hour from what is at hand.

Sprocket of thread

Wreath of balls and an old hanger

In just half an hour you can make a colorful wreath by buying a couple sets of inexpensive balls. The blogger Jennifer, the author of this article, recommends that the old hanger be folded, but if it is not, then a piece of durable wire is perfect.

• You will need: a pair of sets of balls (20-25 balls of different colors and sizes), a wire hanger or wire, spruce branches, braid or a finished decoration for decorating a wreath.

Tablecloth made of snowflakes

A delicate and surprisingly festive tablecloth will turn out of snowflakes, on which we have filled our hand since childhood. You can sit and cut snowflakes with the whole family, and then lay them on the table and fasten them in small pieces of adhesive tape. A wonderful solution for receiving guests or just a lunch with your family on vacation.

Colorful hats

Cute colored hats can be made from the remains of yarn, from which you can collect a garland on a Christmas tree or to decorate a wall. Or hang them on a window or chandelier at different levels. Children over five years old will do just fine with this simple decoration. See details.

• You will need: a toilet paper sleeve for ringlets (or plain cardboard or thick paper), scissors, multi-colored yarn and a good mood.

Lamp "Snow-covered city"

For this charming lamp you need to measure a piece of paper around the circumference of a can with a small margin (to glue it), depict and cut a simple urban or forest landscape. Wrap around the jar and put a candle inside.

• You will need: a can, thick paper of any color, you can white, any candle. Alternatively, you can cover the top of the can with “falling snow” using a special “snow” spray, which is sold in hobby shops.

Balls with photos

Great idea for decorating a Christmas tree or for a gift to relatives and friends. The photo needs to be rolled up into a tube so that it passes into the hole in the ball, and then straightened with a wooden stick or tweezers. Small black-and-white rectangular pictures are suitable, and you can also cut the photo in the shape of a ball or in silhouette (as is the case with a cat in the snow).

• You will need: plastic or glass balls, photographs, miscellaneous items to fill the ball - tinsel, garlands, coarse salt (for snow).

Christmas lights

And this miracle is a matter of five minutes. It is enough to collect balls, spruce branches, cones and put them in a transparent vase (or a pretty jar) and add luminous garlands.

Embers

Luminous garlands hidden among cones, branches and coniferous paws create the effect of coals smoldering in a fireplace or a cozy bonfire. From them even as if the heat is coming. For this purpose a hundred years old basket, a nice bucket or, for example, a wicker container for small items from Ikea will be suitable for a hundred years. Everything else (except for the garland, of course) can be found in the park.

Floating candles

A very simple decoration for the New Year's table or for a cozy evening with friends on New Year's holidays is a composition with candles floating in a vessel with water, cranberries and coniferous branches. You can use cones, circles of oranges, fresh flowers and leaves from a flower shop - all that the fantasy tells you. And as a candlestick - deep plates, vases, banks, glasses, the main thing is to be transparent.

Snowman on the fridge or door

From this, the children will certainly be delighted - quickly, fun and very simple, because even a three-year-old will cope with cutting large parts. It is enough to cut circles, a nose and a scarf from self-adhesive paper, wrapping paper or color cardboard and attach them to ordinary or double-sided tape.

Snowflakes on the window

An interesting application for a glue gun lying around idle. In order to glue these snowflakes to the glass, just gently press them to the surface. See our details video.

• You will need: a stencil with a snowflake drawn with a black marker, tracing paper (parchment, baking paper), a glue gun and a little patience.

Christmas trees

Bright Christmas trees can be built together with the kids for a children's holiday or decorate with them a festive table. Cut the triangles out of colored paper or cardboard, attach them to the toothpick with tape and stick the resulting Christmas trees into the candies.

• You will need: Hershey’s Kisses or any other truffle sweets, toothpicks, scotch tape, colored paper or patterned cardboard.

Garland with photos and drawings.

New Year, Christmas - warm, family holidays. And it will come in handy with photographs, children's drawings, pictures. They are easiest to fix with clothespins that can be decorated with hearts or snowflakes.

Origami Star

Painted spoons

Ordinary metal spoons or wooden spoons for cooking with the help of acrylic paints turn into interesting Christmas decorations. This idea will surely appeal to children. If you bend the handle of metal spoons, they can be hung on a Christmas tree. And wooden spoons will look great in the kitchen or in a bouquet with fir branches.

There are two candy holidays in Russia: March 8 and New Year. In anticipation of the festivities, people rushed to the shops to buy candy. The classic Karakum, Bear in the North, Alenka, Mask, modern Kinder, Soviet Petrel, Swallow, Citron, various monpensier, candy canes, chocolate figures and other joy are abundant in beautiful packaging and waiting in the wings. We tried to find out all the secrets of sweet gifts from professionals.

Candy variety

In Yakutsk, there is more than one wholesale candy store, which by the New Year, besides selling by weight, offers ready-made sets and the opportunity to collect a gift yourself. Going to one of them, we marveled at the variety of choices. The store has several hundred types of sweets, ranging from caramels and toffee, ending with expensive truffles and famous brands. As Anastasia, the seller of the Caramel wholesale base, told us, there are New Year's kits available since the end of October, the rush hour of buying sweets has not yet arrived, but people are walking very actively. Parent committees of schools, kindergartens, and trade union committees of organizations buy dozens, hundreds of ready-made gifts and prepare them themselves, buying sweets by weight. There are dozens of ready-made gifts. Prices - from 150 to 2500 rubles, it all depends on the filling and packaging.

Roshen candy company, many people refuse to take, citing patriotism. And they continue to arrive at wholesale stores in Yakutsk.

Types of sweets

The following most popular types of sweets can be distinguished:

caramel;

chocolate candies;

iris;

souffle sweets;

licorice sweets;

Truffles

marzipans;

fondant sweets;

fruit sweets;

milk sweets;

liquor sweets;

lollipops;

cream sweets;

walnut sweets

jelly candies;

candied candies;

jelly beans

sweets stuffed between wafer layers.

sweets with whipped filling or souffle.

multilayer or combined candies.

You have every right to ask the seller or store manager to show the entire list of sweets that are inside

Lollipops await the summer

The leaders among New Year’s sweets are “Red October” “Mask”, “Bear in the North”, “Karakum”, “Cancer necks” and so on. Sweets of the Slavyanka factory are popular - Levushka, Eker, Curieuse, and Baked Milk. "Rotfront" is the well-known "Cow", halva in golden-red foil, "Bird's milk", "Grillage". There is also “Rakhat” - “Magic”, “Romeo” and others. In both wholesale and retail stores, the Kinder brand is popular. This set includes its most diverse types: Kinder Country, Kinder Chocolate, Kinder Delis, an egg with a toy, and so on. According to Miroslava Arsenyev, the seller of the store on the Covered Market, people are very good at candy factories. They ask, for example, to collect a set completely only from "Red October" or "Kinder". Roshen candy company, many people refuse to take, citing patriotism. And they continue to come to wholesale stores in Yakutsk, and people do not stop taking them in sets. Now parents are trying to keep as few caramel candies as possible in sets. Lollipops are considered unpopular in winter at all, their turn, as we were told at the "wholesale", begins in the summer.

Surprises of ready gifts

Those who do not have time to make a gift on their own can buy a ready-made one. But if in a specialized store they are displayed on a window with all its contents, then in shopping markets and simple stores it is like a pig in a poke. Beautiful packaging may have sad content. As one employee shares with us, she bought two identical sets of sweets for her sons in one of the city's supermarkets. When they unpacked the gifts with the children, it turned out that one set of elite chocolates had more, and the other had more caramel, besides, one had a big toy and the other had a small one. There were some tears. The woman did not go back to the store. You have every right to ask the seller or manager to show the whole list of sweets that are inside, on some sets from the factories themselves all the sweets are listed on the packaging (for example, “Kinder” and “Inspiration”). As the seller Miroslav Arsenyev shares, she opens the packages and shows the contents, and if necessary gives them a taste.

Homemade candy

Housewife Rosa Ivanova makes chocolate with her own hands, wraps it in foil and adds to the sets: “It turns out much tastier and unusual, individually. The recipe is simple. Oil is taken (the amount is by eye, in fact, the more butter, the more chocolate will be), you can cut it into pieces (melt faster and more evenly) and put in a saucepan on fire. When the oil boils, add sugar and cocoa to it. Sugar - to taste, as anyone loves. Cocoa - in the eye, strew with one hand, interfere with the other. We stop adding cocoa when the consistency of the mass is from thick sour cream to when it is already badly mixed with a spoon (but it is better not to bring this extreme state). Then cook for another minute or two, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, leave to cool, and in the freezer (if desired, you can pour it from the pan into something, more on that below). The more cocoa, the more bitter and hard the chocolate will be. ”

Tara

If you are going to collect a gift yourself, it is important to choose a container for sweets. There are cardboard packaging, cans, soft toys, cellophane bags, fabric bags, wooden trunks, even plastic bottles supposedly from under champagne - in general, they are very different. Prices in a wholesale store range from 14 to 120 rubles apiece. In stores - 30-100 rubles more expensive. Every year their design changes, a lot of packages with the symbol of the year - plush lamb and goats, cardboard with the image of the symbol of the year, even on handbags they are embroidered and glued. Here to choose just to your taste.

Bonuses

If we, adults, give taste and quality, then for many children, as their parents say, sweets are just one big tasty mass, they don’t always care, toffee in the set or truffles are expensive, different little bonuses are important to them. And if before they were an apple and a tangerine for sweets, now they are different candies, toys, dragees and so on. They can also be bought at the "wholesale", and can also be purchased in retail stores. “Tangerines and apples - this is the last century, now for girls they take toys“ Monster High ”,“ Ponies ”, for boys -“ Cars ”, they put candies, lollipops, Christmas balls, from two to 60 rubles, there are also different planes , pistols with dragees and marmalades attached to them, chocolate figures of Santa Claus, various animals are taken, marshmallows, marshmallows, chocolate eggs, my son loves “trinkets” - these are liquid sweets, ”Anastasia shares. Miroslava says that the gift can be supplemented with real Belgian chocolate, which is sold there.

There is chocolate for diabetics, candy without sugar on sorbet and fructose.

Fancy sets

As Miroslava Arsenieva told us, she received rather interesting orders for sweets. For example, one girl asked for five thousand rubles to collect a set only of red candies, the second set she asked only brown. It turned out that one was for a woman, the other for a man. There is chocolate for diabetics, candies without sugar on sorbet and fructose - the choice is great. People take handmade chocolate from Belgium, Italy, add chocolate animal figures.

How to make a set yourself?

“Every New Year's gift must have at least 100 grams of Red October candy. If you score a simple gift for 350 rubles per kilogram, it doesn’t work out very well, ”says Miroslava. Anastasia advises adding to the set of different toys, since the children love this very much, you can also add cookies, unusual sweets.

Ready gift versus hand-picked. Who will win?

We decided to find out which is more profitable and better - buy a ready-made kit or assemble it yourself? To do this, we bought a ready-made gift for an average price of 450 rubles in a wholesale store (in a retail one it would cost 500-600 rubles) and collected the gift ourselves in a retail store for the same amount. As it turned out, in wholesale stores everyone considers half a kilogram, and one candy can be collected only in a retail candy store.

Ready set - 48 candies

Weight: 890 grams for 450 rubles.

We chose a ready-made set according to a simple principle: “Give us the most popular”. They did not even look at its contents, although everything was displayed on the window. With us, several women zealously wrote in notebooks all the names of the candies presented on the window, photographed and loudly praised him: “The most successful set of candies, everything is here: both chocolates and lizunas.”

Total: there are 48 candies in the set, including seven elite chocolates of the brands “Red October”, “Rot Front”, 34 are average, a package of marmalade, monpensier in a tin box, chewing gum with a toy, candy, acid pastille, a large wafer in chocolate, fruit bar.

Do it yourself - 64 candies

Weight: 910 grams for 450 rubles.

Here we made a bias only for elite class chocolates, collected handfuls of “Squirrel”, “Karakum”, “Martian”, “Golden Cockerel”, the same little “Twix” and “Snickers”, different truffles, waffles, halva, roasting, the seller put into our hands both the Soviet Chamomile and Citron. She said: “How is a New Year’s present without Soviet sweets from our childhood? Take it! ” Each handful of sweets of different brands with the same price per kilogram was counted out loud to us: 33 rubles, 26 rubles, 77 rubles, 143 rubles - in general, so we collected exactly 450 rubles a heavy bag.

Total: we got 64 candies, all chocolate, but not a single “bonus” like marshmallows, marmalades and “toys”.

Conclusion

Although the gifts do not differ in weight, the kit contains more candies, and in the finished one a lot of weight is taken by a tin box with candies and a plastic toy with chewing gum. In the box assembled with your own hand, all the candies are only chocolate, everything to your taste, all the weight is chocolate, but it may seem boring to the child, because diversity is important for children. Seeing these two sets in the photo, you will say that in the self-assembled ones we saved on packaging by buying a simple bag with a picture, but no, it costs more than cardboard packaging from the first set: 14 for 20 rubles. But the general conclusion is this: if you value quality and you have a certain taste, then collect the gift yourself, it will cost you less. And if you like surprises, try something new, different funny little things that you yourself would not buy in the store, then take the finished one, but most likely it will cost you a little more.

New Year is a favorite holiday of childhood. And a gorgeous Christmas tree with huge glass balls, an iridescent garland and dazzlingly shiny tinsel has nothing to do with it. In the days of a happy carefree childhood, we were delighted with New Year's gifts. Just remember these huge rustling bags with sweets or places of thawing chocolate Santa Clauses wrapped in colorful foil, and without fail, from year to year we received shaped cookies in paper wrappers as gifts. What a blessing it was to open such a gift, inhale a mixture of sugary smells and start sorting out all sorts of goodies, put aside delicious caramels, choose large candies with a mysterious filling and chewing marmalade thoughtfully while looking at all this happiness.

We all grew up long ago, but still we continue to love sweets. The New Year is traditionally considered a family holiday, and even if you do not meet it with your family, you will surely be with loved ones who want to surprise and please. And we used to surprise and delight with the help of gifts. Very original and just insanely pleasant will be a gift made by your hands. Of course, it can be some kind of cute souvenir, over which they sigh and send dust to the shelf, but we offer to give a delicious gift that can really impress and be remembered. However, before giving a tasty gift, you need to take care of its design. So, let's start compiling and decorating original gifts.

A handmade gift sounds great, but it's not just words, so arm yourself with sweet dough, a rolling pin and other culinary appliances. Cookies are always present in all gifts. But which one? One that you can buy by going to the first grocery store you come across. This option is definitely not suitable for us. So, we buy shortbread dough, or, if we can, then start it on our own, add raisins, nuts or cinnamon if desired, take out forms and cut out beautiful cookies. While the cookies are browning in the oven, prepare icing from icing sugar and sugar syrup, if you want the cookies to be bright, add a little food coloring to the icing. Make a bag of paper for baking paper, and until the icing has cooled, pour it into this bag, cut a corner to make a hole no larger than 1-2 mm and draw snowflakes on cookies or paint them with any winter patterns to your taste. When the cookie has cooled, wrap it in transparent wrapping paper and tie it with bright tape or ribbon.

Surely among your friends and relatives there will be many lovers of cakes and marzipan. To make cakes, you will need tartlets that you can buy at grocery supermarkets, as well as marzipan, which you can also buy or try to make yourself. Put your favorite cream in a tartlet - protein, from boiled condensed milk, whipped cream or butter. Using forms for cookies or a stencil made of cardboard or paper, cut out stars, snowflakes or any other shapes from marzipan and cover them with a tartlet. You get an original tasty cake. From the remnants of marzipan, you can mold a symbol of the new year - a hare - and decorate a cake with it or give it to someone as a separate presentation.

A gift from handmade candies will look very solemn. Making such sweets is simple, from 150 grams of dried apples, 150 grams of walnuts, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of honey, juice of half a lemon, pine nuts, cinnamon and bitter powder chocolate or chocolate powder. Grind dried apples and walnuts, mix them, add lemon juice, honey and cinnamon and mix well. Roll the balls from the resulting mass, not forgetting to lay several grains of pine nuts in them. Roll each ball in bitter powdered chocolate or chocolate powder. It will turn out very tasty and healthy sweets. Now it’s important to pack them correctly. Pick up a small box of light brown or beige color, cut out a square from baking paper equal to the length of the side of the box, multiplied by 2.5. Put the paper in the box, put the sweets on it, cover with paper and close the box with a lid. Tie a gift with a wide ribbon of deep chocolate color.

If the gift is the main brightness and fun, then the next idea is for you. More and more often in grocery stores, especially in departments for children, began to sell the so-called marshmallow sticks and small colorful marshmallows. You can use the appeared innovations as New Year's gifts. Buy some marshmallows and some colored marshmallows. Cut the sticks into 3-4 cm slices. Make some small bags from the bright packing paper, decorate them with bright ribbons, braid and beads. Fill the bags with marshmallows and give your gift. The phrase "candy bags" has long become stable, and such a visual representation simply cannot go unnoticed.

Continuing the theme of bright sweets, it is worth mentioning about marmalade. Marmalade is perhaps the brightest and most varied in form sweet product. A marmalade gift depends entirely on your imagination and the sense of humor being bestowed. On the shelves of the shops you will find the most common shaped marmalade in sugar, marmalade teddy bears, cars, all kinds of marmalade rings, slices of citrus fruits and berries. Take everything that your sharp eye falls on. Also, to form a gift, you will need fully transparent jars. Just pour the marmalade you like into the jar and close it tightly. The gift can be decorated with a ribbon tied around the lid, or made of paper and attached to a jar with a label on which you can write a few kind words.

Let's move on from sweet gifts to delicious and healthy gifts. For example, to nuts. Before giving such a gift, you need to find out if there is an allergy to the person to whom this gift is intended. If not, then we begin to form a present. Include peeled walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, cashews and any other nuts in a walnut bag. Diversify and decorate this mixture with dried anise and a few sticks of cinnamon. For sweet tooth you can cook nuts in sugar, for this you need 2 tbsp. butter, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 2 tbsp. water, 1/4 tsp ground caraway seeds, 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/2 tsp salt. Fry the nuts in a dry frying pan, then remove them, melt the butter in the pan and add all the indicated spices, cook the mixture for about 1 minute, then add the nuts, mix with the icing and wait until the icing turns golden. Such a nut mix looks great in leather or fabric bags, the main thing is that everything should be completely natural.

Perhaps the most useful and sweetest gift is natural honey. But to get it in the winter is not so simple. The fact is that natural honey, if it has not been heated and not diluted with sugar syrup, is already hopelessly sugared, and you will have to bend more than one spoon, trying to pick up a delicious gift to a close relative. However, you can buy honey in a beautiful jar or try to heat your own a little in a water bath. Just as in the case of marmalade, you will need a beautiful transparent jar, as well as natural jewelry in the form of anise and cinnamon sticks. Put honey in a jar, stick a couple of cinnamon sticks in it, and put anise on top. It will turn out an original, tasty, fragrant and very useful gift, which will be most welcome in such a cold season.

If only it were so easy with delicious gifts! But surely there is one who cannot sweets, or one who is on a diet and is not going to interrupt her for any kind of baking. But you can please the goodies and such. To do this, a variety of fruits will come in handy - oranges, tangerines, apples, pomelo, grapefruits, pears and in general, whatever your heart desires. But the presented package of apples looks rather weak for a gift, so here you will have to make an effort to decorate. Best of all, if you can find a small basket and decorate it with a wide ribbon. Also, each fruit will have to be bandaged with ribbons, and citrus fruits should be decorated with clove seeds. Such a fragrant, tasty and healthy gift will rejoice even the biggest picks.

Over the many years that we spent with family and friends, many things were presented, and every year we relentlessly continue to look for new ideas and come up with something like that, while delicious gifts remain an acknowledged classic. But even the classics allow you to search for new tastes, forms and design methods, while remaining a universal gift that everyone likes. Experiment, scoop up new ideas, and let your gift become the most unusual and memorable!

The Komus catalog presents a wide selection of sweet New Year's gifts for children - products of the Dilyaver, Pod’Ari, United Confectioners, Roko and other brands.

New Year's sweet gifts look very attractive for children, because they are packed in elegant cardboard boxes, painted tin cans and soft toys - the online store prefers high-quality goods of an exceptionally presentable appearance.

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As part of the sets, sweets, waffles, cookies, chocolate - goodies loved by the kids. Presentations are composed of products of the famous Russian companies “Red October”, “Rot Front”, “Slavyanka”, etc. The weight of the sets ranges from 200 g to 2 kg.

Adherents of Oriental horoscopes will love the choice of children's sweet New Year's gifts with the symbol of the year. These are various toys - “Pig Zucchini”, “Wild Boar Valerian”, “Bitcoin”, “Bow”, “Funtik”, pig-elves and skaters, just funny piglets. They will make the holiday happy, memorable for the kids. Cute figures, even without a tasty filling, will delight the kids - just stuff the toys with foam rubber.

To buy children's sweet New Year's gifts is most profitable in bulk. Such a proposal is especially relevant when organizing morning parties, congratulating the families of employees.

Gift weight choose by age

A child under four years old is better to buy a gift weighing no more than a pound. A 5-6 year old child can get a kilogram gift. More significant gifts are better to stay away.

When buying sweets for a child in a store, there are several important recommendations to consider:

Pay attention to the appearance of the package. It should be strong, tightly closed, not wrinkled and not deformed, the contents should be well protected from external influences;

Check the expiration date of any sweets and candies. Do not buy sweets whose shelf life has expired or is near the end;

Pay attention to the composition of the ingredients: give preference to those kits that contain a minimum of food additives, preservatives, cooking and confectionery fats, soy products, flavors and sweeteners.

Confectionery products should not contain alcohol, natural coffee, or components that may cause an allergic reaction in children.

It is also worth remembering that sweet New Year gifts purchased in places of organized trade are to be returned or exchanged if the gift turned out to be of poor quality.

Do not put perishable products as a gift - yoghurts, cakes or cookies with cream filling;

Do not buy home-made sweets for gifts at fairs;

When choosing a lollipop, stop your choice on the traditional “Cockerel” sweets, which include water and sugar. Striped, multi-colored lollipops indicate a large number of dyes and harmful food additives;

Do not buy sweets on fructose and sugar substitutes, harmless to diabetics, and for healthy children their benefits are doubtful. Fructose is the same sugar, only of a different origin;

Refrain from buying glazed marmalade, marshmallows, jelly - glaze ingredients of not the best quality can negate the useful properties of the product;

It is better to put chocolate as a gift as a minimum, because it causes allergies more often than other sweets. In addition, fruit, yogurt and other chocolate toppings contain many food additives that are harmful to a small child. Chocolate must not contain palm oil;

Exclude toffee, caramel candy, sparkling candies.

These are cookies, frutilades and sweets from dried fruits, gozinaki, hematogen, waffles, marshmallows, marmalade and marshmallows without chocolate or glaze, chewing marmalade (in small quantities), packaged dried fruits and nuts.

Fruits are perfect as a sweet gift: apples, pears, tangerines, oranges, bananas. Please note that tangerines and oranges are better to add no more than two pieces, since a large consumption of citrus fruits can cause an allergy in a child, even if he had not had an allergy before.

Of course, so that a sweet gift does not harm your health, you need to know the measure in everything. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the amount of sweets eaten by the child, limiting the consumption of confectionery from 20 to 50 grams per day.

We remind you that already now the specialists of Rospotrebnadzor are conducting a hotline on the quality and safety of New Year's goods. You can ask your questions by a single number 8-800-100-26-73 or by phone of the territorial department in Magnitogorsk 21-35-61 .

Short:

1. The bag must be up to a kilogram;

2. You need to buy a gift in places of organized trade;

3. Attention to the composition and shelf life, in particular fructose is not so safe;

4. Citrus no more than two pieces;

5. The ideal composition of the bag: cookies, dried fruit candies, gozinaki, hematogen, waffles, marshmallows, marmalade and marshmallows without chocolate or glaze, chewing marmalade (in small quantities), packed dried fruits and nuts.