The bell symbolizes the beginning of a new year - academic or calendar, as well as the end of studies, entry into a new, student life. Therefore, a souvenir in the form of a bell will be relevant for many moments in the life of a child and even an adult, and if you make it yourself, you will get an interesting and original surprise gift.

Since making a bell with your own hands is not a difficult task, even children can cope with it.

There are many options for making souvenir bells. One of the most interesting ways How to make a bell with your own hands - use a ready-made small souvenir bell and a beautiful tea cup with a handle.

We tie a thin cord to the bell.

Glue its tip to the bottom of the cup from the inside.

From the outside, we glue a cord more tightly to the bottom, from which the bowl will be suspended.

We tie the lace on the outside with a bright wide satin ribbon.

This bell will do a good job of ringing the first bell of the school year.

The simplest and in an effective way making a bell - from plastic cup. Using sharp scissors, make two holes in the cup.

Using a spray can, cover the cup with red paint. When the paint is dry, color the cup with a gold marker.

We will need a small bell with a hole, which can be purchased at craft stores. We insert a stiff wire into the hole and twist it several times.

Insert the bell on the wire into the holes. The bell should hang low enough in the cup. To fix the bell, twist the wire at the top of the cup.

Apply to the top and bottom part cup of glue and sprinkle with glitter.

We decorate our craft with a ribbon tied in a bow. Our bell is ready!

Paper bells

Some may think interesting idea with a paper bell. We glue a small iron bell and colored ribbons to it. This bell can be used to decorate the classroom.

Very elegant bells are obtained from folded disposable plate. Cover the plate with golden paint and fold it in twos, as shown in the photo. The craft should be decorated with a red bow.

Watch the video on how to make beautiful paper bells:

Bells made from cardboard egg boxes

For graduates, they need bells that can be hung around their necks. So how to make a bell on last call will be needed for each graduate; for its production it is better to use ready-made template forms - for example, cardboard cells of egg packaging.

Carefully cut out each cell. We use the cardboard left over from the packaging to cut out decorative leaves of an oval shape, pointed at the sides.

We paint the cells and leaves and give it time to dry.

We string several leaves onto a thin cord, then thread a cell (bell) and a large bead into it.

Pull the end of the lace out again, string a few more leaves, and tie the ends.

The gift for the graduate is ready!

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Clay bell

These are how different bells can be, symbolizing the beginning of a new period in a person’s life.

New Year- the most joyful and magical holiday. Preparing for it brings a lot of pleasant troubles. To create in the house fabulous atmosphere and give yourself festive mood, you can start making New Year's crafts. Making them with your own hands is simple and interesting. Involve your children in this entertaining hobby so that they don’t get bored and also prepare for the main winter celebration. Try to do it together New Year's bells with your own hands

Beautiful symbol of the New Year

The custom of decorating a home with bells came to us from Europe. There was a superstition that their ringing could scare away evil spirits. To prevent dark forces from interfering with New Year's celebrations, bells were hung on the Christmas tree along with other toys. This tradition has taken root well all over the world. And today even people who are far from superstitious decorate their houses with bells for the New Year and Christmas. Because it's very Beautiful holiday souvenir.

In those distant times, people made huge bells from bronze. They were used not only as amulets, but also as a signaling tool. The bell notified the population about various events or called for a meeting. Nowadays this signal is used in educational institutions. Every September 1st the first bell rings, and before summer holidays we hear the last school bell. So we can safely consider the bell as symbol the beginning of another year.

What can you make a bell from?

New Year's crafts can be made from various available materials. For example, from paper or cardboard, from plastic bottle or a disposable cup, made of fabric or rope. The bell shape can be knitted, woven from beads or using the papier-mâché method. Excellent crafts are made from spruce and pine cones, ts twig pots, foam, egg trays and shells.

In a word, a souvenir can be made from any assistants materials similar in shape to a bell. Therefore, look for items in your home that have not yet found use. Thanks to simple master classes they will turn into bright original Christmas decorations.

First, let's figure out what any bell should consist of:

• dome;
• tongue;
• suspension.

Since we have a New Year's souvenir, we will need all kinds of thematic decorations. For additional decor you need to take: pine branches, tinsel, sparkles, rhinestones, beads, sequins, lace, ribbons and bows. You can use a special figured hole punch with the shape of a snowflake or star.

Bells made of paper and cardboard

The most simple crafts made from paper or cardboard. You can take white landscape sheets and then colorize souvenir. It is more convenient to use colored paper and cardboard. The following tools are useful for working with them:

• pencil;
• compass;
• scissors;
• PVA glue;
• needle and thick thread.

Yellow paper bell

Let's make a three-dimensional Christmas tree toy out of paper step by step. For this you need colored paper (yellow, green, red), woolen thread and large beads.

Instructions:

1. Using a compass, draw a circle with a diameter of about 8 cm on yellow paper and cut it out.
2. Draw 2-3 small leaves on green paper. We cut them along the contour.
3. We make small circles from red paper. These will be rowan berries.
4. We take a piece of thread about 15 cm. We string 2-3 beads on it on both sides, and then tie knots at the ends. This will create the tongue of the bell.
5. We place the thread on the yellow circle so that the loop looks out from above. Lightly fold the paper and glue the base. Glue leaves and berries on top.

Now the cute bell is ready. They can decorate a Christmas tree or hang on the wall.

Christmas bell made of cardboard

A cardboard craft will become original decoration each Christmas tree. Prepare a cardboard sheet, scissors, needle, yarn and decorations.

A step-by-step diagram will tell you how to make a bell from cardboard:

1. Prepare the cone shape. To do this, cut a circle out of cardboard and cut it in half. Fold the semicircle and glue the cut sides together. Wait for the glue to dry.
2. Lubricate the finished cone with a layer of glue and wrap its entire surface with thread. Choose the color of the yarn at your design discretion.
3. Let's take two large beads. We will hang one on a thread and leave it as a tongue. Now you need to thread the thread through the top of the cone and string the second bead, and then make a knot and loop. This way the structure will be securely fastened.
4. Add decor to the Christmas tree decoration: sequins, lace or other decorations.

New Year's crafts from plastic cups and bottles

Plastic cups are an excellent inexpensive consumable for all kinds of crafts. You can also use unnecessary plastic soda or milk bottles. Small glasses make wonderful Christmas tree bells. The shape of the bottle is larger, so it is better to use it to make a decorative decoration for the interior or a toy for a very large Christmas tree.

Holiday bell from a bottle

What materials are needed:

• plastic bottle;
• festive paper napkin;
• tinsel;
• bow.

Let's start the master class:

1. Cut off the top of the bottle.
2. Apply glue to the outside and wrap with a napkin. Tie the top of the neck with thread. Fold the bottom edges inward.
3. Glue a bow to the dome. We attach tinsel along the bottom edge using a stapler.

A bright New Year's bell is ready to decorate your home. It can also be made functional. Take a small real bell and use universal glue to attach it inside the craft. Now the New Year's souvenir will be able to make a beautiful ringing sound.

The cut half of a plastic bottle is decorated in different ways. You can leave it transparent and cover it with miniature stickers, wrap the bottom and lid with tinsel. If you make a hole in the lid with an awl, you will be able to hang the bead on a ribbon and also make a loop.

The surface of the bottle can be coated with paint, and then lacy lace can be glued on. We decorate the lid with sequins and add a pendant made of a thin ribbon.

Gold and silver bells from glasses

Try to do new Year decoration from cups.

Collect the following set of items:

• two disposable glasses;
• artificial spruce branch;
• spray can with golden paint;
• glue;
• wide ribbon;
• white lace;
• beads.

Let's start doing the craft:

1. We paint the glasses with paint. Apply some gold spray to the branches.
2. The cups will dry for now. Therefore, you can cut beautiful elements from lace. For example, flowers. Glue beads into their centers. After the paint has dried, glue the flowers onto the dome.
3. The edges of the cups can be wrapped with fleecy yarn.
4. We make a lush bow from a ribbon, tying it in the middle with a thread.
5. We fasten the bells, bow and spruce branch together.

Instead of ordinary plastic cups, you can use yogurt containers. Now let's make a silver bell to decorate the Christmas tree. You will need: a glass, foil, tinsel, lace, scissors, an awl and a hook.

1. At the end of the lace we tie a piece of colored tinsel to make the tongue of the craft.
2. Wrap the glass tightly with foil.
3. Use an awl to make a hole in the bottom of the glass. Let's pull the lace through it; a hook will be useful for this. Let's make a loop and a knot.
4. Wrap fluffy silver tinsel around the loop.

Not only Christmas decorations are made from cups. From this simple material you can even make a whole Christmas tree. You can make a Christmas tree out of cups if you fasten them together with a stapler. To do this you will need many identical green glasses. The finished design is decorated with beads, seed beads and rhinestones.

Souvenirs made from eggshells and trays

To prevent egg shells and trays from going to waste, make colorful New Year's toys out of them. Shortly before the New Year, start collecting the necessary materials at hand. Try to break raw eggs not in the middle, but from the edge. We should have complete molds for the bells.

For crafts, take eggshells, gauze (bandage), thick thread, PVA, paint and brush. For decoration, you can add semolina, beads or putty.

There are two ways to make a Christmas tree toy from a shell.

Manufacturing method No. 1:

1. Cut the gauze fabric into pieces. We glue them on the outside of the shell. This procedure is needed to strengthen the fragile material.
2. After the glue has dried, cut out sharp petals on the shell. Cover the surface with white paint.
3. Use an awl to poke a hole for the lace.
4. We glue a mosaic of husks onto the shell and paint it.

Manufacturing method No. 2:

1. We glue the shell with gauze from the inside. To quickly dry the glue, you can place the workpiece on the battery.
2. Paint the outside with white.
3. Use scissors to cut the shell evenly.
4. Let's do the decor. Apply putty to the shell to create relief patterns, then paint the dried surface. You can smear the craft with glue and sprinkle it with beads or semolina. Use your imagination to create a bright design for the toy.
5. Make a hole at the top and insert a loop.

For MK with a cardboard tray for eggs you need to take colored paper, glue, scissors, string.

1. Cut out cells from a cardboard tray.
2. We cover the cells with paper of different colors.
3. We pierce the top to attach the lace. You can also hang a large bead on it.

If you start collecting colorful candy wrappers from foil in advance, you can replace colored paper with them. You will get very beautiful shiny bells.

Bells made from other unusual materials

Make your Christmas tree truly festive and different from others. The green beauty, dressed up with her own crafts, will look cool and original. Let's try to make a few more New Year's toys from different materials.

From flower pots

Let's take clean ones flower pots and let's start decorating them:

1. At the bottom we immediately drill a hole for hanging the future toy.
2. Now we decorate the surface. You can simply wrap it in foil and glue on tinsel.
3. Another decorative option is using pine cones. Using pliers, carefully separate the “leaves” of the pine cone. Then we cover the pot with them. It is better to use a hot glue gun. Let's decorate the craft additionally artificial spruce, beads and sparkles.

From twine

A DIY bell craft can be successfully made from linen thread. We take twine, a plastic bottle, a bag, PVA, tape, a glue gun, scissors and decor (beads, ribbons).

1. The bottle will act as a mold. Therefore, you need to wrap the transition from the cap to the bottle with tape. This way we will level it so that we can easily remove the craft from the mold.
2. We put the bag on the bottle and secure it by tying it at the bottom.
3. Lubricate the surface of the bag with glue and wind a linen thread onto the bottle. This way we reach the middle of the bottle. Waiting for it to dry.
4. Remove the blank from the bottle and remove the bag.
5. We decorate as you wish.

From papier-mâché

We prepare a mold - a real bell, glass or other similar object. We will also collect the following consumables on the table: paper, paste or PVA, cling film.

Papier-mâché bell master class:

1. Wrap the glass in cling film. This is necessary so that the future craft can be easily detached from the mold.
2. We tear the paper into pieces, soak them in glue and place them on the glass.
3. We wait for the workpiece to dry and decorate it as your imagination dictates.

To knit bells and make them from beads, you will need special patterns.

Choose any method to create a New Year's craft. Decorate your Christmas tree and interior with bells and use them as gifts for family and friends.

Attention, TODAY only!

Oksana Dudchenko

New Year is one of the most beautiful magical holidays. Great opportunities open up for children's creative self-expression. Everyone loves to receive gifts, but parents find special joy and pride in crafts made by their children. We are with children were given a small master- a class that makes it easy to make many unique souvenirs. At least we surprised everyone who saw ours bells.

So what do we need for work:

Simple pencil

PVA glue, glue stick.

Scissors (regular and curly).

Cotton pads

White cardboard.

Brush.

All the “magic” accessories that are at hand (sequins in the shape of snowflakes, multi-colored beads, beads, rhinestones, sparkles

Colored ribbons or decorative tape for gifts or bows for New Year's toys

"Magic" toys from Kinder surprises

Disposable plastic cups with feet

The first step is to make a circle of white cardboard the size of your cup from which our little masterpiece will subsequently turn out. Then cut it with curly scissors, retreating from the edge 3-4mm.

Then, you need to take the toy you like and fix it in the center of our workpiece.

You can fix it either with glue or with a regular piece of plasticine. This is more convenient for anyone.

Then comes the moment of “decoration”. This is where all the beaded beauty comes in handy, which will not only decorate our under the tree, but will also allow you to play a little if you wish. After all, beads make a lot of interesting and varied sounds if shake the bell.

You need to try to carefully lay out the beads on the disk so that later it will be easy to glue glass

We smear the edges of our cups with glue.

And carefully lower it onto our workpiece

Well, then comes the flight of fancy. We decorate as anyone wants. Here's what we got

If desired, you can make holes in the leg cup, thread a beautiful ribbon and then the toy can be hung on Christmas tree. Adults can use “moment” glue in their work. It certainly glues more reliably, but due to the sharp, unpleasant odor, you don’t need to give it to children.

I hope ours master-the class will be useful in your work. To someone in next year, and for some this work will inspire new ideas for creating original gifts for other holidays.

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Take a low and wide glass - it looks more like a bell. You will also need a large bead, 25-30 cm of thin ribbon or string, and a cap from a regular plastic bottle.

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I still need paint - I took a water-soluble metallic different colors(dries quickly, odorless, pleasant shine) and PVA glue for decoupage.

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WITH tools Prepare an awl and hot glue, as well as scissors.

How to make a New Year's bell.

First, use dishwashing powder to remove the pattern from the cup (this is very easy). If the paint still holds tightly, paint over the inscriptions with white paint - in the future, a decoupage drawing will be placed there. Paint the top and bottom of the bell with colored paint and set aside to dry.

Meanwhile, prepare the design from a napkin for gluing. From my previous work I still have a strip of Christmas trees and pine cones. The length of these drawings is sufficient. If you are using napkin designs, remove the white layer of napkin from the prepared sections. Given the shape of the bell (tapers at the top), I cut out the corners between the trees.

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Then stick the design onto the white stripe of the cup (decoupage). Apply a thin layer of a napkin with a dry pattern to the gluing area, apply PVA glue diluted with water 1:1 on top with a soft brush, straighten the folds with a brush while gluing. Leave the work until completely dry. Apply 2-3 layers of water-soluble varnish to the picture, allowing each layer of varnish to dry.

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While the polish is drying, paint the bottle cap and bead gold. Prepare an awl and a large needle with strong thread, cut 30 cm of ribbon.

Using an awl, make 2 holes in the lid and insert the ends of the tape into these holes. If the ribbon is too thick, insert 20-25 cm of strong thread into the needle and tie the ends of the thread in a knot. Place the tip of the tape into the resulting loop. Insert a needle with a thread loop into the hole in the lid, the thread loop will pull the ribbon through this hole. This technique is often used when you need to string beads onto a ribbon or thick thread. Tie the ribbon in a knot at a distance of 7-8 cm from the fold.

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Use an awl to make a hole in the center of the bottom of the cup, use a needle and thread to insert both ends of the ribbon into the hole, pick up a bead and tie the ends of the ribbon in a knot. Trim the ends so that about 0.5 cm remains after the knot.

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Now use a glue gun to glue the knot under the lid to the hole in the bottom of the glass, then glue the lid to the bottom.

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Make the blue bell the same way, only the shape of the cup is slightly different.

When I hung the bell, I realized that the golden rim would not interfere with it, so I applied it. But it’s better to do this while painting the parts.

Another red bell adorned the straw Christmas wreath. The tongue of this bell is a small Christmas ball.

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This is how ordinary plastic cups turn into Christmas bells! Try it too ordinary things find unusual uses. Enjoy your creativity and have a happy coming year!