Larisa Savchuk
Master class on making a Christmas tree from tinsel in five minutes!
Today I want to share an idea for making a New Year tree from tinsel. The method of making it is very simple and does not take much time, and the result, it seems to me, is obvious!
A preschooler of any age can make such Christmas trees, which is very important for us teachers!
To make a Christmas tree we will need: cardboard of any size for cones, tinsel of any color, multi-colored pieces of torn tinsel, glue stick.
So let's get started!
1. Roll a sheet of cardboard into a cone and glue the corner.
I wound several cones of different sizes at once.
2. Cut off the excess cardboard at the base so that the cones stand.
3. Cut off the top of the cone just a little and insert the end of the tinsel into the hole. We wrap the tinsel in a spiral around the cone. The end of the tinsel at the bottom of the cone is secured.
4. One, two and our Christmas tree is ready!
And then another one.
And another one!
And further! I wrapped four Christmas trees, barely stopped - how fast, easy and mesmerizing it is!
5. Now we decorate the Christmas tree. For this we need multi-colored pieces of tinsel.
6. We wrap pieces of tinsel around your finger and you get these multi-colored balls - decorations.
7. Use tinsel balls to decorate the Christmas tree.
And these Christmas trees are beautiful even without decorations!
These are the wonderful Christmas trees I got!
And last New Year I made such a Christmas tree to decorate the New Year's table. She wrapped a bottle of champagne in tinsel. Try it - it will be beautiful, unusual and with a surprise!
Do you like to do handicrafts? Then you will love making Christmas tree decorations with your own hands! This is a pleasant and exciting activity for the whole family, which will not leave anyone indifferent - you will spend several evenings with pleasure making Christmas tree decorations with your own hands.
What do we use for the material?
What do you need to make your own New Year's decorations? You can use almost anything you can get your hands on. If you want, you can buy special supplies (sold in craft stores), or you can use what you have in any home. So what to prepare:- plain paper (good for making patterns);
- pencils and markers;
- regular cardboard, white and colored (you can use velvet);
- sharp scissors and a breadboard knife;
- glue (PVA or glue gun with sticks);
- threads and needles;
- yarn of different shades;
- various decorative materials - these can be sparkles, sequins, confetti, multi-colored foil, stickers and much more.
Simple crafts from scrap materials
Of course, you've probably seen how New Year's balls are made from thread and glue with your own hands, but why not expand the range? We make various Christmas tree decorations with our own hands.From yarn
This is a simple and at the same time spectacular Christmas tree decoration that can decorate any Christmas tree.
For production you will need:
- yarn;
- tailor's pins;
- plate or bowl;
- porous material (for example, a disposable tray);
- cutting paper;
- marker.
The template needs to be attached with pins (or ordinary toothpicks) to the porous material, and the design you need should be laid out on top - first the outline is laid out, then the interior decor. You should not cross the threads too often; the toy should be fairly flat. Once you are finished, dry the item and remove it from the pins and tie a loop in the eye. If desired, you can decorate with sparkles or rain.
From wire
How to make New Year's toys with your own hands in just a couple of minutes? Use wire!
To make toys you will need:
- two types of wire - thick and thin (thin wire can be replaced with bright threads, for example, floss. Pure white strong threads look very beautiful);
- beads, beads;
- colored tape;
- pliers.
The ends of the thick wire need to be twisted. You need to string beads and seed beads mixed together on a thin wire, tie the end of the thin wire to the future Christmas tree decoration, and wrap it randomly.
When the toy is evenly wrapped, you need to wrap the free tail of the wire around the toy and tie a ribbon in the shape of a bow - your toy is ready.
Another original idea:
Made from ribbon and beads
Who said that making New Year's toys with your own hands must take a long time and painstakingly? Not at all. In just five minutes you can create one that will decorate both the New Year’s tree and the interior.
You will need:
- beads;
- narrow tape;
- yellow, golden or silver cardboard;
- glue "Second";
- needle and thread.
Interior decor made in this way looks very attractive.
From cardboard - in a couple of minutes
Some New Year's toys made of paper or cardboard take a lot of time to make, but not in this case - here you really only need a couple of minutes to make an elegant hand-made New Year's decoration.So, you will need:
- ordinary cardboard;
- a little twine or thick yarn;
- glue;
- paints and brushes;
- napkin or cloth;
- varied decor.
Use a loose tail of twine to wrap the tree in different directions. After some kind of thread pattern appears on the tree, you can start gluing it with a napkin. You can tear the napkin into pieces, coat the tree well with glue, and seal it tightly with the napkin. This will give a nice texture to the future toy.
After the toy has dried, you can start painting - paint the Christmas tree green.
After the paint layer has dried, shade the texture of the toy using a dry, hard brush and white paint, and then decorate it to your taste.
From bright shreds
Here you will need a sewing machine, but if you really want to, you can do it without it. This is the best way to make Christmas toys from cotton wool and fabric - just choose fabric with a Christmas ornament, or use what you have on hand.
Prepare several paper patterns - for example, deer, stars, gingerbread men, bears, letters and hearts. Cut out fabric blanks with your own hands, sew them in pairs, leaving a small gap (for stuffing), and through this small hole, tightly stuff the toys with cotton wool or padding polyester. It is most convenient to fill with a pencil.
Patterns can be downloaded here:
By the way, don’t forget - we sew on a machine from the inside, but if you decide to make toys from thick fabric with your kids, then it is better to sew them with a decorative seam over the edge - a toy with your own hands will look simply charming and will be suitable for either a home Christmas tree or a kindergarten - Usually, for kindergarten Christmas trees, children make decorations themselves.
Made from twine and cardboard
New Year's toys made of paper and cardboard will be much more interesting if you add a couple of simple materials to them. To make such a toy you will need ordinary cardboard, simple paper or natural twine, a little felt or any other fabric, as well as ordinary paper, a pencil and ruler, and a drop of glue.
The star template can be downloaded here:
First, make a pattern on plain paper, and then transfer it to cardboard. Don't forget that the star must be double. You shouldn’t make the star too thin; it’s better to make it a centimeter or more. The tail of the twine is glued to the cardboard, then you need to gradually wrap the entire workpiece.
Place the thread as tightly as possible so that there are no gaps. To decorate the star, make a couple of leaves and berries from fabric and decorate one of the rays. Your decoration is ready.
From yarn and cardboard
Do you want to make original and at the same time charming Christmas tree decorations with your own hands? Then it's time to make small gift hats with your own hands from scrap materials. This is a wonderful Christmas gift that looks cute and will keep you warm all winter long!
To make Christmas tree decorations in the form of hats, you will need:
- a couple of toilet paper rolls (you can just glue cardboard rings together);
- remnants of colored yarn;
- beads and sequins for decoration.
The threads need to be cut into pieces of approximately 20-22 centimeters. We fold each piece in half, pass the loop through the cardboard ring, and pull the free edges of the threads through the loop. It is necessary that the thread is firmly fixed to the cardboard base. This needs to be repeated until the cardboard base is hidden under the threads.
All the thread tails need to be pulled through the ring so that our hat has a “lapel”.
Now we pull the loose tails tightly with thread and trim them into a pom-pom shape - the hat is ready! All that remains is to make a loop and decorate your Christmas tree toy with sequins and sparkles.
From beads
Making a New Year's toy in a minimalist style is easy and simple - you will need wire, beads and seed beads, a ribbon and a coin (can be replaced with a small candy, but it looks much more impressive with a coin). Try to make this Christmas tree toy with your own hands, the master class is very simple.
Make a loop on the wire and string green beads mixed with large beads on it - they will play the role of New Year's balls on our Christmas tree. Once the wire is filled, give it a herringbone shape by folding it in a spiral.
Once your tree has taken shape, bend the free edge into a loop.
We cut off a piece of ribbon, form a loop from it for hanging and pull it through the Christmas tree, and decorate the free tail with a coin (the easiest way is to glue it with double-sided tape). We tie a decorative bow on the hanging loop - your decor is ready!
Christmas balls
How to make a New Year's ball from threads? It’s as easy as shelling pears, watch our master class on spectacular lace balls for the Christmas tree.Required:
- several balloons;
- cotton threads;
- PVA, water and sugar;
- scissors;
- polymer glue;
- spray paint;
- decor
First you need to inflate the balloon - not completely, but according to the size of the future decoration. Mix two tablespoons of water, two teaspoons of sugar and PVA glue (50 ml), and soak the thread in this mixture so that the thread is saturated. Then you need to wrap the ball with thread randomly. The balls need to be dried for several hours. After the glue has completely dried, you need to deflate the ball and take it out, and carefully paint the ball of thread with spray paint and decorate it with sequins and sparkles.
DIY thread Christmas balls will turn out to be very, very impressive if you make them in different tones - for example, red, silver and gold. Try to make New Year's balls with your own hands using different techniques - you can sew or knit balls, make them from cotton wool with your own hands, or, for example, sew them from felt - you can never have too many of these toys.
From paper
New Year's decorations made of paper are very popular among both big and small admirers of the New Year's miracle - try making paper Christmas tree balls with your own hands.
A DIY paper Christmas toy is made like this: 
There is no additional need to decorate such a toy; it is already expressive.
Another ball option:
Or you can make a ball like this according to the master class:
From felt
DIY felt Christmas toys look very warm and cozy, and they are very, very easy to make. To make your own charming felt Christmas tree decorations you will need:- red, white and green felt;
- red, white and green threads;
- Crystal glue;
- scissors and needles;
- cardboard;
- a little satin ribbon;
- soft filler (cotton wool, holofiber, padding polyester).
First, make sketches for your future toys. It can be anything. Once the patterns are ready, transfer them to felt and cut them out. What is good about this material is that it does not crumble, you will not need to additionally process the edge of each workpiece.
Make identical decorative elements - for example, sprigs of holly (by the way, did you know that this is a symbol of joy and Christmas reconciliation?). The berries need to be glued to the leaf using glue, and then a decorative knot should be made - this will give the berries volume.
We sew each piece together in pairs. By the way, it is best to sew it with contrasting threads; it will be fun and elegant. How to make New Year's decorations voluminous? Stuff them with holofiber before sewing them up completely! Straighten the product well, so the Christmas tree toy will be filled more evenly. You can use the back of a pencil for stuffing.
Sew on the decorative elements and your New Year's toy is ready!
Try to sew felt decorations not only for the New Year tree, but also for your home - for example, a Christmas wreath decorated with felt toys looks very stylish. Look at the selection of DIY New Year's decorations, photos of master classes - and you will understand how many interesting things can be made from ordinary felt of two or three colors.
Master class on how to make a Christmas garland with your own hands from felt:
Below you can download templates and patterns of different Christmas trees for felt crafts.
The New Year tree is the eternal embodiment of joy and celebration. And not just for children. Adults, too, with poorly concealed trepidation, await the coming of the New Year, when all their most cherished dreams come true. And for this you don’t need much - just decorate the Christmas tree with cute trinkets. They say that it is this ritual that helps any wish come true. Especially if these are made.
A house decorated with tinsel immediately becomes warmer and more comfortable.
Of course, it’s easier to decorate the Christmas tree with expensive store-bought toys: huge glass balls, cheerful electric garlands, bright rain. No one argues that such a tree will look very presentable and elegant. But will there really be as much soul in a cold glass toy as in a touching cardboard toy made with one’s own hands, and even with children’s hands? Over the years, of course, both purchased and homemade toys will deteriorate and lose their former luster. But if you simply throw away an impeccable but aged factory decoration without a drop of regret, then you will not raise your hand to throw away the toy that you made together with your child. And then you will try to breathe new life into it, repair torn parts, glue or tint. And not because you will be sorry to throw away a piece of paper or fabric, but because in this naive product there is a piece of your soul, a fragment of your life with your child. Touching this craft, you seem to be reliving moments of long-gone years, which can only be returned in such memories.
For this voluminous garland you need to cut out several snowflakes according to the pattern and glue them together.
So, let's look at what we can do. The simplest and most affordable thing we can do is to repair our children's old toys and sew ribbons on them, if they are soft toys, stretch the ribbon through the hole or tie it to the thinnest part of the toy made of hard materials. Such a small toy will look very cute on a Christmas tree branch.
The most common option for making Christmas tree decorations is paper toys. To make a simple but very cute holiday RING toy with your own hands, you will only need sheets of colored cardboard and paper, as well as scissors and glue. First you will have to work on a cardboard ring, which, however, can be replaced with a decorated one - pasted over or painted, a ring made from adhesive tape or any other suitable element. Then an accordion is made from a strip of white or colored paper, a width less than the radius of the ring, and glued from the inside into the base ring. After this, all that remains is to add bright touches using squares that contrast with the color of the base. They are bent in half and symmetrically glued into the folds of the accordion.
How to make Santa Claus with your own hands?
To make a New Year's toy with your own hands, you can come up with something of your own, unusual and interesting. A decoration in the form of a felt lamp or a magical snowflake made of beads, shining like a scattering of diamonds, will look original. Or you can make a real SANTA CLAUS. To create this good old man, which will become an original decoration for a child’s room, you will need a paper plate, cotton wool, sheets of colored paper, felt-tip pens, watercolors, white glue, white acrylic paint, scissors and, of course, a good mood. So, let's get started.
- First, take a paper plate and paint it white with acrylic paint. After the paint has dried, a nose made from a ball of crumpled paper is glued to the back of the plate, which is covered with scraps of white paper according to the papier-mâché principle. Using the same principle, you need to make grandfather’s cheeks and eyebrows, and after the glue has dried, paint everything white.
- After the nose has completely dried, you need to mix a little white and brown paint until you get a natural complexion. The resulting shade is applied to the plate. A little red tint is added to the cheeks and nose.
- It is checked whether all the paint has dried, after which the facial features are drawn on with felt-tip pens. When a child doesn’t really like to draw or is not very good at it, you can glue the mouth and eyes from the same paper strands, paint them white, and then in a natural color: reddish lips and blue eyes.
- Next, a hat is made from a red paper triangle.
- Glue a small cotton ball onto the tip of the hat to make a pompom. After this, a wide strip of cotton wool is taken and glued to the lower part of the face. This is how you get the Santa Claus beard. To make eyebrows and mustaches, thinner small strips are taken that will imitate a chic mustache and bushy eyebrows.
- After the glue has dried, the toy is ready!
You can put this Santa Claus on a postcard, or you can make a double one and decorate the Christmas tree.
For example, I throw away toilet paper bases, but now I won’t, because with their help and multi-colored pieces of fleece you can make such wonderful Santa Clauses.
Here’s another interesting idea for a three-dimensional Santa Claus, also made from cardboard bases. In this way you can make the Snow Maiden and other fairy-tale characters.
If you are an expert needlewoman, then weave Santa Claus from beads.
Using exactly the same principle, you can make the head of a SNOWMAN, Pinocchio or other funny face. If only there was a desire!
Another easy way to make a beautiful toy is to decorate a foam heart with beads. To do this, use a glue gun to attach a string of beads to the edge of the toy. Then the beads begin to be glued, and they are laid strictly in one direction, forming turns from the edges to the center. The beads do not have to be the same. They can be selected in different colors and sizes. Having reached the middle of the heart, the thread of beads needs to be cut and then glue only small parts of it, cutting off the required number of beads with scissors. Once one side of the heart is completely filled, you can move to the other. At the end, a thread or ribbon is attached to hang the toy.
DIY New Year's toys: garlands and balls
On December's New Year's Eve, this will help you decorate your home and create a festive mood. Christmas tree garland. And if you involve the whole family in its production, the warmth of winter evenings will be ensured. So, one of the simplest, but very original options for such decoration is a GARLAND made from paper pompom tassels. To make it you will need paper of different colors and different textures, scissors, rope and glue.
First, a piece of paper is folded in half widthwise, then folded in half lengthwise again.
Garlands made of corrugated paper turn out to be very delicate and light. For this garland, all you need to do is roll the paper and staple the strips together.
But this garland can be made within a few minutes. All you need is a hole punch, thread, glue and paper with brighter glitter.
You can make cute flowers from multi-colored napkins and put them on a thread. You will get a beautiful garland!
On the side without folds, an incision is made using scissors - a strip of half a centimeter in full length, leaving a fold of 6 centimeters. The sheet is unfolded and cut in the middle into two parts, one of which is set aside. The leaf opens completely and the result is a leaf cut on both sides into strips with a whole part in the middle untouched by scissors. Then you need to take the middle with your fingers and twist the leaf without touching the cut edges. After the center of the leaf is completely curled, you need to bend it to form a loop and then glue it at the base. After stringing this tassel onto a rope, you can begin making the next one. This furry caterpillar will be a fun addition to your Christmas tree decor.
The packaging material makes wonderful garlands, doesn’t it? What do you do with the packaging from your new iron and microwave? Save it and make yourself such a wonderful “star” garland.
You can create a masterpiece from napkins and LED garlands in just 10 minutes!
Using the quilling technique you can weave such a wonderful garland.
You can make such a fluffy garland from corrugated paper. I recommend buying corrugated paper today, otherwise everything will be taken apart)))
Cheap and cheerful, and most importantly - with your own hands and love.
DIY paper Christmas garlands
There are many types of garlands that are easy to whip up, remember, we have already written about that. So you can string scraps of multi-colored fabric onto a rope.
If you thread a rope through the fabric triangles, you get a great garland of flags! If you make pom-poms from fuzzy yarn and string them on a thread, you will get a garland that your child will just want to play with, it’s so cute and fluffy.
How do you like this popcorn garland? I personally really like it.
And if you string some berries (in our realities, more like rose hips) between the popcorn, it will turn out bright!
Popcorn is strung easily and simply using a needle. By the way, such a garland is a good snack!
Well, another wonderful option for a garland of mint candies. where would we be without him)
And when you tie the fabric strips onto a rope with bows, you get a very flirty garland. And the remains of old wallpaper can also be quite successfully used to create a New Year's garland. And even if carved paper napkins are folded in half, put on a rope, and glued together at the corners, you will also get an excellent garland. You can get a vintage garland by cutting out hearts from multi-colored paper and threading them with thread. Such a touching romantic garland can become not only a Christmas tree decoration, but also an attribute for Valentine's Day. This symbol of love may well provoke its appearance on New Year’s Day. Don't believe me? Check it out: invite your friend to help you decorate the Christmas tree, and, as if in passing, make a garland of hearts together. See for yourself that pleasant consequences will not take long to arrive.
And such a garland is easiest to make with a sewing machine. Sew cardboard circles and it's ready!
Classics of the genre - bright New Year's chains.
If you decorate the most ordinary LED garland with snowflakes, it will light up with a completely different light. Give it a try.
Everything ingenious is simple. Sometimes you shouldn’t be too zealous in decoration, but limit yourself to a minimalist star garland.
How do you like this knitted garland of snowflakes? I feel warm when I look at her.
And this garland is also made of fabric and threads. Cut out different flowers from fleece and decorate the room.
A riot of colors. Don’t even think about saying that you wouldn’t regret it three times before taking such a garland off the wall after the holidays.
Such DIY Christmas tree garlands It is most convenient to make it from ordinary colored paper for manual labor, but it is better if it is double-sided. For example, you can take red, pink and white paper. The combination of these colors will create a very delicate garland ribbon. To make it you will also need: a pen, scissors, a ruler and a stapler. Strips are cut from paper, the width of which is 3 centimeters. In order for your child to participate in the work, you can draw each cut line with a ruler, and ask him to cut them. Then each strip is folded in half. The ends are bent and stapled to each other. The same actions are performed with each subsequent strip. Each heart is connected to the previous and next ones. Work continues until the desired length of the garland is obtained. And so that the hearts do not stretch while stretching the garland, you can pierce the heart at the base with a stapler. Here's a heart garland for you.
Besides all, or rather - most often, BALLS are attached to the Christmas tree as decoration. These traditional homemade toys come in a variety of varieties: glass, paper, foam. By the way, while a glass ball can quickly break, a foam toy is very easily scratched, broken, and crumbled. If you have such spoiled-looking balls, then you can very quickly turn them into a real precious decoration, using a reel of small plastic beads and decorative cords for decoration - for example, milky white.
Tools you will need are a hot glue gun, scissors and tweezers. In this way, you can not only update old foam balls, but also decorate not very interesting plastic ones. And the diameter of the beads and cords used can be very different. But, naturally, it is better to decorate small balls with a thin cord and a string of small beads, and large toys can be covered with both large and small beads. Balls decorated with three cords or threads at the same time look even more original. First you need to unravel the finished garlands along separate threads. Then the cord is taken and its end is immersed in a foam ball using nail scissors or ordinary tweezers. A little glue is applied to the area of the ball near the place where the cord is attached, and the tip of a string of beads is attached to it. The next part of the ball is gradually covered with glue and slowly, layer by layer, beads and cord are laid until the entire surface is completely filled. The excess is cut off, the end of the lace is drowned in foam. At the end, using a thread and a needle passed through the cord, a loop is made for hanging the toy.
How do you like this ball? A very interesting thing that requires knowledge of geometry. Doing it is very educational. I advise you to try it.
To begin, prepare the base circles as shown in the picture.
To work you will need 20 circles of the same diameter.
Place them in sequence. It seems like nothing complicated.
But such a funny pinwheel is made from strips of paper according to the diagram.
A foam ball or sponge ball can be wonderfully decorated with flowers and bobby pins with beads.
Making such a ball is simple, but takes a long time. To work, inflate the ball, wrap it with thread, spread it with PVA glue and wait until it dries. Then puncture the balloon and take it out.
Balls can also be twisted from wire.
And this is how you can decorate a blank ball made of foam or sponge with sequins and bobby pins.
Knitted circles can be used as toys, and then as coasters for cups. How's the idea?
And here is another ball with sequins. I really like him.
Often we do DIY Christmas toys FROM BEADS. It really makes very nice Christmas tree decorations that can be hung throughout the house, which will help create a great New Year's atmosphere, we have already written before. To make such charming toys, you will need red beads, ribbon and wire. So, beads are strung on wire, and then wire toys are formed from ready-made hard beads, for example, stars, hearts or Christmas trees. No special work is required, but if you hang such toys on the Christmas tree, after decorating them with ribbon bows, the result will be very cute.
Returning to the same balls, you can try to make Christmas tree decorations using the decoupage technique. To do this, you need an aged glass Christmas tree ball, sheets from a music book, PVA glue or a special one for decoupage, glitter and silver paint, a special stamp with a New Year's themed inscription, ink, a small bell, a ribbon for tying a bow, as well as thin twine for loop. Although all these components can be replaced with what you have on hand, leaving the main thing - a ball, glue and napkins. The technique for making the toy is very simple and does not require additional skills. First, a little white acrylic paint is laid out on the palette, then the sponge needs to be carefully soaked in the paint and white is applied to the entire surface of the ball. You need to constantly pick up paint on the sponge, then you get something like a snow coating. This way all the balls are prepared and left to dry completely. In the meantime, you need to prepare napkins. To do this, the top layer of the napkin, the most colorful one, is separated. Then PVA glue is diluted halfway with water and the motif is glued to the ball. Gluing begins from the central part of the motif with uniform advancement to its edges. All motives are attached in the same way. In general, everything is done in the standard way, as with any decoupage, just with more glitter and decorations.
Decorating an old ball with new beads is a great idea.
Beaded snowflakes are a very delicate decoration.
If you want to make a ball for your Christmas tree out of beads, you don’t have to know how to weave, you can just stick the beads on.
Interesting balls are made from... book pages or, for example, pieces of felt. So, on the scraps of the material you have chosen, the contours of the circle are indicated (you can circle any household item, for example, a cup). Using a sewing machine, approximately 10 circles are sewn together along the diameter. If you don't have a machine, you can use a stapler. The line should go exactly in the middle through the centers of all circles. The edges are connected with paper clips in a checkerboard pattern: either in the middle there is one connection, then closer to both ends of the seam with two connections. And so on. It looks like a book turned 360 degrees with oval pages, fastened in twos either in the middle or at the edges. This gives the paper toy the effect of a voluminous corrugated ball. At the end of the work, a loop is attached. Even such a toy can be attached to the Christmas tree, but it is better to additionally decorate it with sparkles and glue. It’s better, of course, if you have ready-made glitter glue.
New Year's snowflakes made of beads
The ball-web looks very unusual and elegant. To make it you will need a simple balloon, any thread, good glue (PVA is best), as well as your imagination and perseverance. Naturally, the ball is inflated to the required size (according to the volume of the future decoration), tied well and lubricated with ordinary oil. Then the thread is soaked in glue, excess glue is removed from it, passing the thread through tightly clenched fingers. Although you can make a special container into which glue is poured, and a small hole is punched in the lid. The skein is placed in a container, the tip of the thread is passed into the hole made and it is gradually pulled out, due to which it is dosed with glue. Then the entire ball is gradually entangled with this thread. In this case, you will have to stock up on considerable patience, since the first rows of thread can simply slide off the ball. The thread should be held in light tension (slightly tense). After winding is completed, the ball must be hung to dry. But you should not dry it with a hairdryer or over a heating radiator, as this may cause the ball to burst. The thickness of the thread can be selected at your own discretion. But there's no need to rush. Let the ball dry for a day, and then you will need to carefully pierce it with an ordinary needle and gradually remove the frame from under the threads. Frozen threads soaked in glue will hold their shape well. But that’s not all: the ball can be decorated, again, at your discretion.
If you braid a large bead with beads, you will get a beautiful toy.
The bead is woven according to this pattern.
Snowflakes-earrings and snowflakes-toys.
DIY New Year's toys: Christmas trees and snowflakes
Most Popular DIY Christmas toys made from paper– these are ordinary SNOWFLAKES. They do not require any special skills from the performer, no expensive material, no special investment of time. Everything is more than simple, if not elementary. For such a New Year's decoration you will need ordinary paper - from white to colored, glue - better, of course, the same PVA, paper clips and scissors.
The methods for cutting them out are very diverse: from simple ones, like those we cut out from notebook sheets in school, to complex three-dimensional snowflakes. Folding using the origami method or cutting using the kirigami method is done according to special instructions with each step demonstrated. If everyone is more or less familiar with origami, then snowflakes using the kirigami technique are made by first folding a square diagonally, then bending the corners towards the middle of the triangle, which will divide it into three identical triangles. Then several parallel shaped cuts are made along the folds and on top, the tongues of which, after unfolding the snowflake, will need to be tucked towards the center under the base to create a semblance of petals. In addition, you can decorate the snowflake by smearing it with glue and sprinkling it with glitter. This will make the snowflake even more beautiful and brighter. A card in the shape of a snowflake is made by gluing individual parts piece by piece.
This voluminous snowflake can be made using a simple pattern.
These giant snowflakes can be made from popsicle sticks. don't believe me? Watch the master class.
You will need a lot of Popsicle sticks. Didn't have time to collect? Then immediately treat your friends to popsicles and take away the wooden ones.
If you paint a snowflake in a shade contrasting with the color of the walls, then the New Year's ambience will be 100% guaranteed.
This intricate snowflake is made from thin, thin strips of paper. she is extraordinarily beautiful. Carefully follow all the points of our tutorial.
Difficult? The main thing here is not to be nervous.
That's it, the finishing touches and it will be ready.
The result was worth it, right?
Unexpected DIY soft Christmas toys are obtained, for example, in the form of a TREE, we have already written about that. To make such a Christmas tree from tools and materials you will need:
- a hook, the size of which matches the thickness of the threads,
- soft material (as for filling pillows),
- package of white beads,
- the remains of three shades of green threads,
- needles and thin threads for sewing, matching the tone,
- golden waxed threads.
First, according to the pattern, a stand, a tree trunk and a triangular base are knitted. When knitting a triangular warp, a pattern is used in which each row is repeated four times. The Christmas tree is knitted striped, each strip will be three rows wide. The alternation of stripes is carried out according to the following scheme: dark green, green, light green.
So, first, five air loops are closed into a ring, and then knitting occurs according to the following pattern:
- three identical rows of 8 single crochets (dark green);
- a row of 8 single crochets (green);
- two identical rows of 14 single crochets (green);
- two identical rows of 14 single crochets (light green);
- a row of 20 single crochets (light green);
- three identical rows of 20 single crochets (dark green).
The toy is decorated with large white beads or seed beads as if it were New Year's toys. Beads are sewn to the base randomly. Then the base is stuffed with soft filling material.
Tennis balls can be turned into wonderful toys with a simple movement of the hook.
The tree stand and trunk are knitted according to the following pattern:
five air loops are closed into a ring, then three identical rows of 8 single crochets are knitted (brown). This will create the trunk of a Christmas tree;
Next, the base is knitted according to the same pattern as given at the beginning of the work (dark green color).
To strengthen the base, a circle is cut out of cardboard, the diameter of which is equal to the diameter of the knitted stand. Then the knitted stand is sewn to the cardboard. The first row of loops runs around the trunk of brown threads, the second along the outer edge. All that remains is to connect the tree and stand together, and a real New Year's beauty will delight you for many years. And the real spruce can be preserved.
Soft toys made of brocade and beads: royal decoration.
There are many more different options for homemade New Year's toys. You just need to turn on your imagination and try a little. And then certainly any of your wishes will come true. After all, the first thing - to make a creative Christmas tree decoration - came true. Well, who else doubts the magic of the New Year's toy?
It won’t be difficult for a craftswoman to crochet this Christmas tree.
A funny and cute Christmas tree made of felt and beads.
DIY Christmas toys video
New Year is just around the corner. You can feel the approach of a holiday in the air, which is slowly but surely moving towards our homes and hearts, because the New Year is a special holiday when you want to believe in a dream, hope for the best, and expect miracles.
The New Year is a special and bright holiday for children, because on New Year's Eve, children often spend quite a lot of time with their parents, enjoying pleasant family joys.
And if parents usually don’t have time, then on New Year’s Eve they definitely find it to take care of New Year’s chores with their children.
A very entertaining and joyful thing for children on New Year's Eve is the opportunity to decorate the New Year tree together.
If you can afford to buy New Year's toys and create a stunningly stylish New Year tree design - super!!! This Christmas tree will appeal to both children, adults and your guests.
If you can’t buy beautiful toys for the New Year and new New Year’s decorations for the Christmas tree, we advise you to get creative and create beautiful New Year’s toys and decorations for the New Year with your own hands.
DIY Christmas toys and DIY Christmas decorations for the Christmas tree and home are a very fun activity for the whole family.
Therefore, laziness to the side!!! Let's look at what New Year's toys and New Year's decorations for the New Year you can make with your own hands without much effort, not only to decorate your home, but also to get even closer to your family members.
We create New Year's toys and decorations with our own hands
Firstly, let us immediately note that creating New Year's toys with your own hands, making homemade decorations for the New Year is a very fun activity. It can be compared to a ritual, to an exciting process, in the minutes of which a miracle is born and a fairy tale comes into its own.
After all, when making homemade New Year's toys and unusual, homemade New Year's decorations for the Christmas tree and home, you breathe into them a piece of your love and warmth, so such New Year's decorations and beautiful toys for the Christmas tree turn out to be truly special.
New Year's toys made with your own hands will not only decorate your home, but will also add a special atmosphere to your home, enriching it with bright accents and cozy little things.
What kind of New Year's decorations can you come up with so that it is not expensive, interesting, and so that such New Year's decorations transform your home.
In order to make New Year's toys and decorations for the New Year's tree and home, stock up on all the necessary materials.
In order to make New Year's decor, namely homemade New Year's decorations and New Year's toys, you do not need special materials.
For this purpose, available materials such as threads, a needle, of course, paper, pieces of multi-colored fabric of different textures, beads, sparkles and many other little things that may be standing and waiting in the wings to become an original mega fashionable New Year's toy are suitable.
Of course, you can’t start making New Year’s decorations and toys without imagination, because it is the driving force of the whole process.
New Year's decorations made from paper look creative. They are not at all difficult to make, and today’s New Year’s decorations in the style of papier-mâché and quilling are so varied that even if you are not the greatest craftsman, you will no doubt get New Year’s paper snowflakes, New Year’s garlands, stars or balls for the New Year.
And if, in addition to multi-colored or white sheets of paper, you have ribbons and sparkles, you are simply risking being a master of quilling and papier-mâché if you try a little.
New Year's decorations and New Year's toys are not only New Year's quilling and papier-mâché.
For New Year's decor, an excellent option would be New Year's toys knitted with your own hands using knitting needles or a crochet hook. And there are no fewer ideas here than in paper decorations.
A retro-style Christmas tree will look amazing if your New Year's decorations, crocheted or knitted yourself, resemble birds and little animals.
The tree and house will be decorated with New Year's bells, flowers, snowflakes and stars, and balls made using the decoupage technique, which will make the design of the tree and house especially warm and cozy for family evenings.
The tree will look rich and tasty if it has New Year's garlands of sweets, fruits and other goodies.
Such New Year's decorations will shine with bright colors on the New Year's tree and will become a tasty surprise for the little residents of the house.
You can make New Year's decorations for the Christmas tree and home in the form of New Year's gifts. If you have old trinkets gathering dust in a box, treat them with varnish and dust them with glitter, and you will have a very original New Year's toy.
You can also create very successful New Year's toys and decorations from polystyrene foam. Make blanks in the form of balls or cubes.
Cover the blank with bright ribbons, sequins, you can take beads, different types of cereals are also suitable, with which you can create a whole masterpiece, and not a New Year's toy.
New Year's decorations in the form of large multi-colored socks, felt boots and mittens, which are best made from thick fabric, have already become a tradition.
Very interesting New Year's toys and decorations are made from burlap and felt. This material is easy to work with, and any decor on it will look very impressive.
Both children and adults will enjoy making New Year's toys made using the kanzashi technique.
To make such New Year's decorations, you need to stock up on ribbons, beautiful fabric, beads, pearls, laces and wire.
New Year's toys in the form of garlands create an unusually festive mood. DIY Christmas garlands can be much more interesting than store-bought ones.
Garlands made of paper can be combined with garlands of foam balls, garlands of old toys decorated in a modern way, etc.
Don’t forget that DIY New Year’s toys can serve not only as decorations, but also as symbolic New Year’s gifts, which will always remind you of pleasant New Year’s evenings spent with loved ones.
Children especially love making such New Year's toys, because they put a piece of their soul into such a homemade surprise for mom, dad, grandmother and other family members.
Now let's see what New Year's toys and beautiful New Year's decorations, besides those mentioned, can still be made from ordinary materials, giving them a completely unusual and very important essence.
What kind of New Year's toys do you make with your own hands?
DIY New Year's toys: photo ideas for inspiration
