New Year is coming. All children, regardless of age and hobbies, are looking forward to the winter holidays. This is not only a time for gifts, vacations and a fabulous atmosphere, but also an opportunity to show your creativity. Therefore, on the eve of the holiday, competitions for original New Year's crafts are held in each school. In this article, you will find how to make a DIY New Year's craft for the competition to school in 2018, original ideas and useful master classes.

An excellent craft option for the competition will be a Christmas tree. And if you can't surprise anyone with a Christmas tree made of a plastic bottle or natural materials, then a forest beauty made of threads will look stylish and effective.

Materials and tools:

• Copper tubes.
• Wooden sticks.
• The fringe is green.
• Cotton wool.
• Scissors.
• Glue gun.
• Colored paper.
• Wire.
• Hacksaw.
• Various decorative elements.

First, cut the green fringe into five pieces, each smaller than the last. Thus, each part will be above the previous one to make a tree. Using a hacksaw, cut the copper tube into 5 pieces, the dimensions of which should be the same as the length of the fringe pieces. The fringe should be attached to the pipes with a glue gun. For ease of attachment, it is better to attach the fringe to the wire, and then attach the wire to the tube.

The tree is ready. It remains to decorate it. Pom-poms can be made from cotton balls or sponges. Glue them at an equal distance on a satin ribbon or thread, and then attach them to the first and fourth tiers of the composition. A star for a Christmas tree can be made from colored paper. It remains only to fix all the decorative elements with a glue gun. If you wish, you can decorate the composition with beads, sparkles and other decorative elements.

Bright applique

If you are looking for New Year's crafts for the school competition, pay attention to this application. It is extremely simple to make it, and the craft looks bright, unusual and impressive. Therefore, she will definitely take a prize in the school competition.

Materials and tools:

• Colored paper.
• Cardboard.
• Scissors.
• Glue.
• Sequins, beads, tinsel and other decorative ornaments.

First, you should circle your palms on paper of different colors, and cut them out. The more palms you make, the larger and more beautiful the crafts will turn out. Ideally, it is recommended to cut out about 20 craft items.

After that, you should prepare the basis of the craft. This will require a sheet of cardboard or Whatman paper. Additionally, you can make a frame by gluing bright tinsel around the perimeter. Make bright ornaments inside the frame with stationery glue. Sprinkle glitter over the leaf. Then remove the excess glitter. The result will be a glitter ornament. Additionally, you can decorate the craft with sequins and beads.

It remains only to glue the palms. Lay them out in a herringbone shape. In the first row, glue five elements, in the second - four, and so on until there is one palm in the top row. Decorate your palms with tinsel, sparkles.

Christmas tree toy "Winter bouquet"

If you need an original DIY Christmas toy for the school competition, pay attention to the stylish and delicate Christmas tree toy. She will not only look stylish on the tree, but will also take its rightful place in the school competition.

Materials and tools:

• Crepe paper.
• A plastic ball or unnecessary Christmas tree toy.
• Satin ribbon.
• Scissors.
• Glue.

The Christmas tree toy will consist of crepe paper roses. The size of each flower should be about 20 mm. To make it, you need paper 20 cm long and 40 mm wide. You need to bend a corner of the paper on one side, roll up a small area and tuck it. We hold the place of the fold, after which we bend the tip of the paper back, twisting it. We retreat a finger distance and bend the paper inward from above, and bend the right side of the paper. We repeat these actions until the strip ends. We turn the resulting strip into a bud. We fasten with a thread.

Thus, you need to make the right number of flowers. Use blue, white and green paper for this. The finished flowers should be glued to the plastic blank, and a tape should be attached to it. Instead of a plastic blank, you can use an unnecessary Christmas tree toy or a pre-made paper ball.

It remains only to attach the ribbon, and the craft is ready. Additionally, you can decorate the craft with sparkles, beads and tinsel. Such an original New Year's toy for school competition can be used to decorate a Christmas tree, walls or windows.

Sweet crafts for the New Year

If you want DIY crafts for the New Year 2018 for the school competition to be liked by everyone around you, pay attention to sweet Christmas toys. Their extraordinary aroma, spicy taste and unusual appearance will find their admirers. Therefore, if you want to participate in the school competition for original New Year's crafts, you can be sure that with such a toy you will definitely take a worthy place.

Materials and tools:

• Cookie dough.
• White glaze.
• Tape.
• Twine.
• Forms for cookies.

Prepare. Use a cookie cutter to make snowmen, stars, birds, houses, bells, bells, and balls. Insert toothpicks into each blank for the toy so that a hole for the thread or ribbon is formed during baking.

Bake cookies. Decorate it with white glaze. If you wish, you can add natural dyes to the icing to make the cookies multi-colored. Insert some ribbon or twine. Hang the cookies on a prepared rack. In this form, the craft will look like a complete composition, so it will be able to participate in the competition.

More than 3,000 DIY New Year's crafts with photos and master classes are published in this section. Homemade Christmas trees and Christmas tree decorations, snowmen and snow maidens, angels and snowflakes, decorations and garlands for the interior can be made right up to the New Year, creating a festive atmosphere both in kindergarten and at home. In 2016, monkey crafts are relevant.

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The most long-awaited and favorite holiday for children is, of course, New Year. After all, this holiday gives a lot of positive to all children. They are impatiently waiting for their parents to install a beautiful Christmas tree at home and, together with them, decorate it with colorful toys, and under the branches one can find pleasant surprises, gifts. But the New Year holidays are celebrated not only at home, but also in schools - children will make with their own hands some interesting crafts for school for the New Year 2020, which will be shown at the school New Year's exhibition. Your child can make the most amazing crafts from any natural or scrap materials, of course, not without your help. The main thing is to turn on the imagination, and then your joint craft will not only bring pleasure to you and the children, but also surprise others and, for sure, increase the child's self-esteem.

New Year's paper crafts to school

Paper is perhaps the most common craft material. So why not use it to create interesting crafts for school for the New Year 2020? If your son or daughter is just first-graders, then when planning joint needlework, choose simpler models. Even if they seem somewhat primitive to you, it can be quite difficult for a baby. But, having made the craft with his own hands, he will be very proud of his achievements! Even a first-grade student can make a beautiful Christmas tree out of paper independently or with the help of parents. Mom or dad will help you carefully cut a stencil out of paper. And the young creator himself can paint and fold.

All kids love to cut and glue colored paper. So why not take advantage of this and make a New Year's applique? An interesting idea is to make a Christmas tree or a wreath, but not simple ones, but from palms.

You will need:

• colored paper;
• cardboard;
• scissors;
• glue;
• bright sequins, stars and other decorations.

Creative people don't have to buy a living tree. It is much more interesting to do with children from a variety of materials at hand.

Another version of a cute Christmas tree. Thin strips of paper folded in half, but not ironed along the fold or ribbon, can make up a voluminous custom herringbone. For brighter work, you can use multi-colored stripes.

New Year's crafts from threads to school

From threads and thin twine, you can make many incredibly interesting crafts to school for the New Year 2020. They look very beautiful on their own, but you can make original compositions from these airy toys.

You will need:

• a skein of thread;
• pVA glue, thick paper;
• decoration.

The manufacturing technique is quite simple, so even a preschooler can handle it.

By the same principle, you can make a funny snowman. Only here, instead of a cone, you need to use 3 inflated balloons of different sizes, on which a thread or thin twine is also wound. After final drying of the blanks, the balls are pierced and removed. The three resulting balls of different diameters are glued together, once again coated with glue and sprinkled with sparkles. After drying, the eyes, mouth and nose are glued. You can put a bucket of paper on the top of your head and put on a scarf made of paper or from a strip of bright fabric.

New Year's crafts from cones to school

The process of creating crafts from cones will arouse no less interest in a young schoolchild. The opened cone can be painted green, decorated with multi-colored beads, and a star made of shiny cardboard can be placed on the top of the head. That's it - the craft is ready and pleasing to the eye!

If your goal and your child's goal is to impress everyone at the school exhibition, then Christmas wreaths will be a great solution. It is very easy to make this craft, but at the same time, it looks very unusual. We cut out the base from thick cardboard. If you make 2-3 layers, reducing the diameter of the layers towards the center, then the base will turn out to be more voluminous. We glue several cones, twigs or Christmas balls on it. To give a greater effect of magic, the finished work can be sprinkled with a little colored varnish - a silver or gold shade will be very useful.

A magical gnome is obtained from a simple pine or spruce cone. The head can be made from a cotton ball or a small tennis ball. Alternatively, a large white button, a cork from a champagne bottle, a part from a designer or a broken toy will do. The head can be simply glued on. We dress our gnome in a cap made of felt or other fabric, add a scarf from a satin ribbon or a ribbon from a bouquet, or other decorations that are always at hand.

Everyone is able to make relatives and friends who will become truly unique and unusual things, filled with positive emotions, warm feelings of love and respect for each other.

New Year's crafts to school from fabric

Not only a child from the first or second grade, but also older students will be able to boast of fabric crafts at the school New Year's exhibition. Having spent quite a bit of time, having a sock or a glove at hand, armed with a needle and thread, you can create a real toy. As a filler, a traditional halafiber or synthetic winterizer, cotton wool and even cereals (rice or buckwheat) are suitable. A very cute snowman, penguin or Santa Claus can be made from a white sock or a piece of knitted fabric.

Volumetric crafts to school from salt dough

Salty dough is perfect for children's creativity! From it, as from plasticine, you can mold all kinds of animal figures, fairy-tale characters, and even create landscapes and paintings. But the parents will have to help the child prepare the dough. Take 200 grams of fine salt and flour. Mix the composition and gradually add 125 ml of warm water and a little hand cream for plasticity. The dough should be tight and plastic and should not stick to your hands. To check if the dough is mixed correctly, roll the dough into a ball and leave it on the table for 10-20 seconds. If the ball spreads and sticks to your hands - a lot of water, crumbles in your hands - little water or it was too cold. The rest is a matter of imagination, yours and the child's.

You can make flat and voluminous crafts from salted dough; lace jewelry decorated with beads and shells looks great. You can take baking tins and use them to squeeze out models that need to be dried well at room temperature, in natural conditions. Next, it remains only to color the resulting figures. If several layers of decor are applied to the model, then each next one is covered only after the previous one has dried. After the paint has dried, it is better to cover the figurines with colorless varnish. This makes them look brighter and last longer. The procedure can be complicated, namely, sculpt a volumetric figure, like from plasticine, and bake it in the oven. The procedure is quite laborious. You need to preheat the oven to 180 * C, turn it off and place a figurine of salted dough, leaving the door slightly ajar. You can dry the craft at room temperature, but this will take much longer. Decorate the figurine as you like.

New Year's crafts to school from old light bulbs

Decorating and decoupage of light bulbs has gained popularity quite recently. An unnecessary old incandescent lamp can be given new life thanks to painting, sparkles and other decorative elements, creating funny faces and animals. At the school New Year's exhibition, they will surely appreciate this kind of handmade. Get inspired and get creative!

Christmas crafts to school from plastic bottles

Even a first grader can make a beautiful snowman from a plastic bottle. To do this, you need to push cotton balls into the bottle, well, mom and dad will help draw eyes and glue paper or cardboard pens.

White plastic yogurt bottles make a wonderful Snowman. We clean the bottle from the label under hot water and wrap the top of the bottle without a cap with soft green paper. From the remains of paper, decorate the hat with a bubo from a thin strip of paper. You can glue the nose with plasticine or make a hole with an awl and put the nose out of cardboard. Draw the eyes, mouth and buttons on the belly with felt-tip pens. The snowman is ready.

New Year's crafts to school from cotton pads

A pack of cotton pads is enough for a whole army of snowmen and Santa Clauses - just take a larger piece of paper and stick the discs two or three together.

Christmas crafts to school from disposable plates

Disposable plates are perfect for New Year's creativity at school, from which any kid can make a variety of different crafts. If you roll half of the plate into a cone, you get a great Christmas tree. By folding such a part in half and ironing it along the fold, you can get the base for the penguin. Santa Claus and fawn are obtained from whole plates with small additional elements or drawings - the main thing is to choose the right color for coloring.

New Year's crafts to school from toilet paper rolls

A toilet paper sleeve will serve as an excellent material for crafts. It can serve as a body for many animals - dogs, wolves, chanterelles, snowmen, deer or Santa Claus. It all depends on the child's imagination.

Interesting! Gift boxes with your own hands: ready-made templates

Take a jar that is small enough to fit the toy. Pour water into it halfway, and fill the rest with glycerin. Take a solid-colored lid, glue the toy on the inside with hot glue and let it dry. Finely chop the tinsel and pour into a jar of water, then add multi-colored glitter. After that, screw the lid with the toy, having previously lubricated it with glue along the thread. This is to prevent water from leaking. Despite the simplicity of manufacture, such a craft looks very original and beautiful.

New Year's crafts to school - a symbol of 2020 - Rat

Of course, the coming New Year will in no way do without a variety of handicrafts dedicated to the funny Rat - the patron saint of the coming year.

Salt dough rats

To make a craft from salt dough, you need to prepare: A bowl for kneading dough. Flour, salt and water. Piglets for baking. Paints and brush. Threads and glue. They start by kneading the dough. For two Piglets, you will need 2 (heaped) tablespoons of flour and 4 tablespoons of salt. Mix in a bowl or on the table the loose ingredients of "flour plasticine". Warm water is gradually added to the resulting mass. Above you can see more details about the preparation of salted dough.

Rat made of socks and gloves

You can make snowmen, little men and, of course, rats from bright socks.

"Lovers of pigs". These paired toys look very good and will surely attract attention at the school New Year's exhibition.

Toys require:

• fabric in two shades of pink;
• filler (holofiber or synthetic fluff);
• sewing thread (pink and white);
• floss in black;
• black beads;
• pins.

You can decorate a couple in love to your taste. The piggy girl can be dressed in a dress or a skirt, you can add jewelry - bows, beads, earrings. Piggy - a boy can hold flowers, a gift box, wear a classic tie or bow tie.

Can rat

You can make a cute rat out of a can. If the child still does not know how to knit, then the help of the mother will be very helpful. To get started, you should arm yourself with a crochet and pink thread

Pom-pom pig

From pompons, you can make great animals for the school New Year's exhibition, including a piglet.

With so many different variations, making small crafts for the school New Year's show will be a snap. Your child will be able to bring their New Year's crafts to school and proudly say: "I did it myself!" The main thing is to give free rein to your imagination and not be afraid to experiment. Happy New Year!

In winter, schools decorate the premises for the holidays, hold exhibitions and contests of thematic works. Children are actively involved in the process and have the opportunity to show their imagination. Pupils cook independently or with the help of their parents. It is worthwhile to find several interesting options for products in advance so that the young master will remember the creative process for a long time.

New Year's crafts for elementary school

Before offering a child an idea for creativity, it is necessary to assess how it corresponds to the age of the student and his capabilities. A simpler option is suitable for a first grader, but which he can perform as independently as possible. For example, you can do this requires the following materials:

• stapler, double-sided tape (foamed), glue;
• red cardboard;
• scissors, pencil, marker, ruler;
• paper in red, black, orange, white.

Working process:

Younger children are able to prepare other original crafts for the new year for school:

Soon the New Year 2020 is already and this is a great reason to make simple and beautiful DIY crafts from improvised materials: cones, paper, tubes and much more. You can not only boast of them at school exhibitions, but also decorate your apartment, but also present them as an invaluable gift to your family and friends. We have prepared the best crafts for the New Year for you and we will start our article by making the symbol of 2020, which will be held under the sign of the Yellow Metal Rat, and we decided to show you a simple and useful craft.

Symbol of 2020 made of paper and cardboard

In order to make this New Year's craft, you will need:

• Cardboard
• Colored paper
• Scissors

We carefully make a toy:

1. We cut out our future rat, as well as its parts and clothes.
2. With the help of glue we glue the crafts, clothes and small parts. The toy is ready!

Clay rat craft

Even a child can do such a simple craft, prepare:

• Polymer clay
• Rolling pin

Working process:

1. Roll the clay ball, then pull it out and shape it into an egg.
2. Using a knife, mark the legs and a circle on the sides of the rat.
3. We take clay of a different color, shape a scarf and attach it to the figure
4. We make small balls from clay of the main color, then press them down, shaping the feet and palms. Fingers can be marked with a needle. Attaching them to the shape
5. We make and attach the ponytail
6. Making a rat's head. To do this, roll the ball, then gently pull it out to make it look as close as possible to the face of a rat.
7. We sculpt the eyes of the rat. You can make them in one color, or you can shape them using white, black and blue clay.
8. It remains to bake the resulting figure, according to the instructions on the polymer clay packaging. The craft is ready!

Craft for the New Year 2020 rat from felt

Even a schoolboy can make a rat out of felt, for this, prepare:

• A template for the torso of a rat, a dress for it and a flower for decoration (you can print or draw and cut out yourself)
• Felt of the desired color
• Needle, thread
• Thin lace

Making a rat:

1. Using the ready-made template, we cut out their felt of different colors the body of a rat, a dress and a flower
2. We fold the body and dress together and carefully stitch along the edge. It is better to do this using the "needle forward" technique.
3. Sew a tail to the rat using a lace or thick thread
4. Now we embroider the rat's face with colored threads: eyes and antennae
5. Sew on the flower. The craft is ready!

Balloon snowman

To make this beautiful craft, you will need:

• 3 balloons
• Thick white thread
• Decoration accessories

Manufacturing process:

1. inflate three balloons according to the principle of a snowman figure (large, medium and small)
2. Thoroughly grease the thread with glue and wrap the balls in turn. We wait until dry
3. Putting three balls together and fixing with the same glue
4. We decorate the snowman with accessories, designate the eyes, nose, mouth, etc.
5. The snowman is ready!

Paper lantern

Making this simple craft will take very little time:

• Colored paper
• Scissors

The manufacturing process is very simple:

Following these instructions, we measure and cut out the necessary parts from paper, glue them with glue. The craft is ready!

DIY beautiful candlesticks: 3 ideas

Candlesticks are one of the most popular and understandable gifts for everyone. They can be gifted to anyone, be it a colleague or a close relative. A young person, a student, and a person of age will be happy with such a present. You can make a candlestick with your own hands from scrap materials, and the cost of a souvenir will delight those who do not have a large budget.

To make an original candlestick, you need a glass cup and regular nail polish in different colors. On the outside of the glass, you can paint any pattern with varnishes, and after drying, the pattern will not be erased or washed off with water. The choice of drawing depends only on the preferences and imagination of the author himself.

Idea number 1

To make an original Christmas tree candlestick, you need a green ribbon, several small branches of spruce or pine, white, blue and green nail polish, and a small heat-resistant glass cup.

On the outside of the glass, you need to draw snowflakes, Christmas trees, or just write a handwritten greeting for the upcoming New Year. If the candlestick is large, then you can leave fingerprints on it as a keepsake. On top you need to put several branches around the perimeter of the glass and tie them with a tape. Make a bow out of the ends of the ribbon.

Idea number 2

This lace candlestick is an original piece that will please the female sex. On a smooth glass made of heat-resistant glass, you need to stick a lace tape. In work, you can use glue "Moment" or a glue gun. Do not worry if the edges of the fabric protrude slightly beyond the edges of the glass - this will give the souvenir an extra zest.

Idea number 3

A small candlestick made of twigs is a good gift for those who appreciate handmade things and know how to use them in the interior. Small twigs, cut to the size of the container, are glued around the perimeter of the transparent glass with a glue gun. The branches must be dry, pretreated with an antiseptic. If such a present seems small for a gift, then a few more candlesticks of different sizes can be made for it. They will look great on the shelf together.

Scented bath bombs

A gift in the form of a set of bath bombs looks stylish and original. With the help of such balls, you can perfectly relieve tension, relax in a foamy bath. The products are completely safe for human health, as they contain only natural ingredients that do not cause allergies.

To make a bomb with your own hands, you will need:

• 4 tablespoons of baking soda
• 2 tablespoons of citric acid;
• A few drops of any essential oil;
• 2 tablespoons of cosmetic sea salt.

Thoroughly mix all dry components in a separate container, add a few drops of your favorite essential oil to them. For example, you can use essential oils of lavender, bergamot, orange or lemon, rose. Then the mixture should be gradually moistened with water from a spray bottle until it starts to hold its shape when squeezed. When it will be possible to make "snowballs" from the powder, it means that bombs can be formed. The mixture can be tamped tightly into any shape, making it funny bears for children or a flower for adults. In this position, the bomb should dry for several days, after which it can be used.

Instead of colored food colors, you can use natural ones - coffee, colored sea salt, cocoa.

Gift shoe

A handmade boot for gifts is a wonderful interior decoration. Even a beginner can sew it and give it to every family member. To do this, you need to draw a pattern of the required size on paper and cut out all the details of the future product from it. Then they are sewn using a typewriter, choosing a not too small stitch. Remember that the boot must have a lining that is also sewn over a paper pattern. The lining is fixed on the top of the boot with a blind seam, after which a loop is attached so that the souvenir can be hung on a hook.

Preserved with your own hands

An interesting option for a New Year's souvenir can be a talisman, which is presented as a symbol of prosperity, happiness, abundance of money, love, career growth. It can be a small ball - Temari, which can bring laughter, happiness, health into the house. Or original amulets for the house, which will protect you from all negative things for a whole year. And you can make a temari in 10-15 minutes, thanks to our video below.

DIY Christmas craft-clapper

In the New Year, everything is appropriate: noise and fun. Therefore, a bright festive firecracker will be a wonderful craft. After all, who among us has not dreamed of finding ourselves in the rain of shiny confetti. This craft is done by hand very easily and quickly from simple materials at hand, and to make it easier for you, we found suitable videos with a master class.

New Year's diary

Super cool craft for the New Year - a diary in which you can plan and schedule all your affairs and meetings for the whole year. Ideally, if the symbol of the coming year of the Rooster is depicted on it. On the first page, you can write your wishes for the person in the New Year. It would seem banal, but such a necessary and cute gift that can be made in just 30 minutes if you watch our video with detailed instructions.

Christmas cookies

If you have a wonderful relationship at work and you need to congratulate a large number of colleagues, do not rush everyone to buy expensive New Year's souvenirs. You can congratulate in a very original way with pastries made in the form of small symbols of the holiday. These can be cakes, candy, or cookies. They can be made by hand or ordered in almost every pastry shop. Such gifts will not only delight your colleagues, but also serve as an excellent dessert.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups wheat flour
• 1 cup of sugar
• 2 pcs. egg
• 125 g butter
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 3 tbsp honey
• 1 tsp citric acid
• a pinch of salt

Preparation:

1. Add honey, water, sugar to a convenient bowl, stir and heat over medium heat.
2. Add soy sauce, oil and spices and stir until smooth.
3. Let it cool slightly, then salt.
4. Then transfer everything to a saucepan, add flour and knead an elastic dough.
5. Then put it in a cold place for 40 minutes.
6. Roll out the dough 1-2 mm thick, cut with molds.
7. Transfer the cookies to a sheet and bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 5 minutes.
8. And finally, you can decorate with anything: caramel, chocolate, eggnog with dye.

Cooking instruction video

Do-it-yourself star on the Christmas tree

You can make a beautiful decoration for a Christmas tree with your own hands, using only those materials that are at home. Economical and stylish.

What we need:

• PVA glue;
• Knitting thread;
• Styrofoam;
• Matches;
• Possible pattern for the tree.

Cooking process:

• Pour glue into a small bowl, dilute with water if necessary.
• Prepare a template for the future star and attach it to the foam with matches.
• Soak the thread well with glue. And we begin to wind the matches counterclockwise, alternately above the match, under the match. First, fix the end of the thread on one of the matches.
• Then we fill the entire space with a thread. We leave our masterpiece to dry.
• We tie a string to our star from above and you can hang it on the tree. Our original toy is ready.

Christmas tree made of cotton pads

How can the New Year be without a tree? Recently, most people are used to putting up and decorating an artificial Christmas tree. We can do it ourselves. Festive and elegant.

What is necessary:

• A large number of cotton pads (more than three packs);
• White paint;
• Stapler;
• Convenient scissors;
• Glue;
• Beads and braid;
• A2 size cardboard.

Cooking process:

• First, we need to prepare needles for our tree. To do this, fold the cotton pad in half, then again and fasten it with a stapler.
• We take a sheet of A2 format, twist it with a bag, level the bottom with scissors.
• But we begin to glue the base from the bottom with our needles. Lubricate the fold with glue and fix it on the base. We go through each row again with glue.
• Glue the cone row by row.
• Next, we decorate our Christmas tree at our discretion, glue the stars. The top can be decorated with a large star. The herringbone should look beautiful and stylish.

Snowman made of disposable cups

A beautiful, original masterpiece from absolutely inexpensive materials can be prepared for everyone. Your craft will be appreciated, take the time to please yourself and your loved ones.

What we need:

• Plastic disposable cups;
• Cardboard, preferably black and gold;
• Stapler;
• The cloth;
• Carrot.

Manufacturing process:

• We fasten the cups with a stapler, forming the torso in the form of a ball first, and then the head.
• When the frame of the snowman is ready, we attach the nose from the carrots, and from the scraps of fabric we make the eyes and a scarf.
• We make a hat from cardboard, we make a circle and a cylinder. We glue. Decorate with a golden ribbon. Our cute snowman is ready.

Original Christmas tree made of threads

Do you want to come up with something extraordinary and extravagant? Try to make a voluminous Christmas tree from threads. It will decorate your interior and add a touch of novelty.

What is needed for manufacturing:

• Woolen threads;
• Convenient scissors;
• Glue;
• Thick paper;
• Film;
• Incomplete tablespoon of starch;
• Four tablespoons of water;
• Decoration elements.

Manufacturing process:

• Make a cone of thick paper, cut and align the bottom, glue.
• Mix the glue and starch well;
• Cut off the thread, the longer the better. And leave to soak in glue and starch for at least twenty minutes.
• We take the film and carefully wrap our cone.
• Next, we take out the thread from the solution and wind it on the cone in random order.
• After that, we leave to dry for a day.
• Then we take out the cone. We decorate our Christmas tree with decor: beads, confetti. Our stylish Christmas tree is ready. Nothing complicated, but extraordinarily beautiful.

Souvenir "Snow Tale"

Everyone in childhood loved to play with a ball with snow. He fascinated, there was something intriguing and mysterious in him. It's time to create this fairy tale with your own hands. It turns out that it's not that difficult. And if you also introduce a child to the process, then it will become an exciting adventure.

Materials required for manufacturing:

• Glass jar of any size, lid;
• Any small details in the form of figures of people, animals, plants;
• Waterproof glue;
• Glycerol;
• Distilled water;
• Snowball

Manufacturing process:

• We take the figures and glue them inside the jar, as we like, it can be on the lid;
• Now you can pour in water and dilute the glycerin in it. Thanks to the glycerin, the snowball will fall slowly to the bottom of the can.
• Add sequins and flip the jar. If they settle quickly, you need to add glycerin.

Add glycerin until we achieve the desired result. Our fabulous toy is ready.

Snowflake

Now I want to tell you about a very original New Year's craft, which can be made from salt dough with my daughter.

Necessary materials:

• For dough, 1 glass of flour and salt and 0.5 glass of water;
• Blue gouache;
• Ribbon;
• Glue;
• Sequins.

Work process:

1. Knead the dough and add blue paint to it.
2. We roll 7 peas and make a flower out of them as in the photo. We make small indentations in them with a toothpick.
3. We roll the flagellum and make an element out of it as shown in the photo. We sculpt the second one to it. We attach the resulting part to the center of the snowflake.
4. We make 5 more of the same rays.
5. When the snowflake is dry, cover it with paint again on both sides.
6. Apply glue in a thin layer and sprinkle with sparkles and the snowflake is ready with your own hands.

Salted dough candlestick