Paper Christmas decoration ideas. We create voluminous New Year's decorations from paper. Christmas tree from a magazine

Decorating your home with New Year's paraphernalia is a fascinating, creative and enjoyable activity. Literally in a matter of hours, you can turn your ordinary home into a wonderful place filled with a fabulous atmosphere of the upcoming winter holidays. The only negative - themed home decor is one of the most expensive items of expenditure before the New Year. However, you can always do new Year decoration with your own hands from paper or other improvised materials. For example, budgetary and at the same time original version- stencils for windows in the form of snowflakes, Christmas trees, snowmen and other New Year paraphernalia. Next are waiting for you step by step master classes with photos and videos of New Year's decor for the house with your own hands. We are sure that they will help you meet the New Year 2017 in a festive atmosphere!

Original Christmas decoration made of paper with your own hands, a master class with a photo

The easiest and most affordable material for creating original DIY Christmas decorations is plain White paper. Most often, snowflakes and stencils are made from it to decorate windows. winter patterns. An original do-it-yourself Christmas paper decoration, a master class of which you will find below, can be used both for interior decoration and for decorating a Christmas tree.

Necessary materials for DIY paper Christmas decorations

• A4 paper
• saucer or glass
• coin
• pencil
• scissors
• beads and fishing line

Instructions on how to make an original paper decoration for the New Year 2017 with your own hands

1. We attach a saucer or glass to the paper and circle the outer edge with a pencil. On one side of A4 paper we make 4 identical blanks.
   
2. In the center of each circle we lay out a large coin and circle it with a simple pencil on the outside.
   
3. Cut out all the circles. Then we arrange each circle in half three times, as shown in the next photo.
   
4. Expand the circles and see that folds have formed. We pass with scissors along these marks, without cutting the inner circle.
5. We put a pencil or felt-tip pen inside each sector, bend the edges inward and fix it with glue.
6. Let the workpiece dry completely. For one paper decor you will need 4 blanks.
   
7. We take the workpiece and attach another one to it (with the inside). We also connect the two remaining blanks together.
   
8. Then, using a thick needle, we make a hole in the middle of the blanks and thread a thin fishing line with beads.
   
9. The original paper decor for the New Year 2017 is ready! It remains only to decorate with their help a room or a Christmas tree.
   

A simple do-it-yourself decoration for the New Year 2017 from improvised materials, step by step

A simple but very unusual do-it-yourself decoration for the New Year 2017 is quite simple to create from improvised materials with a little imagination. For example, in our next master class, you will learn how to use small shreds of fabric to transform a simple garland into a spectacular New Year's decor. Such a simple decoration for the New Year 2017 with your own hands from improvised materials is sure to attract the attention of guests and will delight you with a festive atmosphere.

Necessary materials for DIY Christmas decorations from improvised means

• garland
• loose fabric of different colors, such as canvas
• scissors

Instructions on how to make a simple decoration for the New Year 2017 from improvised materials

1. First you need to decide on color palette to decorate the garland. It is best to take the traditional New Year and Christmas colors. Since the upcoming 2017 will be held under the sign of the Fire Rooster, it is advisable to use bright colors, such as red or orange.
   
2. Having decided on the color, we proceed to the design. To do this, we cut narrow strips of 6-7 cm long from the fabric. The number of strips depends on the length of the garland. Prepare so many blanks that for every 2 bulbs there is 1 fabric strip.
   
3. Take a strip and tie it into a knot between two light bulbs. We alternate different colors if we use several shades.
   
4. We use all the blanks, filling the garland with fabric "bows" along the entire length. Ready!

Do-it-yourself Christmas decorations for the house from cans, a master class with a photo

Candles not only create coziness in the house, but also contribute to relaxation, improve mood and relieve stress. Isn't it so important to feel when you return home after an exhausting chase for New Year's sales? From the next master class with a photo, you will learn how to create beautiful Christmas decorations for your home with your own hands from ordinary cans. Such decorated jars can serve as excellent candlesticks, which is especially important on the eve of the New Year 2017. In addition, New Year's decorations for the house from cans are good in and of themselves.

Necessary materials for DIY Christmas decorations from jars for the home

• glass jars
• lace
• twine
• scissors
• artificial snow or foam
• cones
• candles

Instructions on how to make Christmas decorations for the house from cans

1. We take beautiful lace and wrap around the neck of the jar. We fix with twine wound in several layers, as in the photo below.
   
2. We tie the ends of the twine, which can be replaced with a decorative cord, a bow. Glue small bumps near the bow. You can also add sprigs of spruce, arborvitae, a rowan branch and other natural materials.
3. We make cones with the help of artificial snow. If there is no such snow, then you can take the usual foam and grate it. Attach the resulting crumb to the cones with glue.
   
4. Inside the jar is also filled with snow, about 1/4 of its volume. Carefully insert the candle inside. You can use culinary tongs.
5. It remains only to arrange spectacular candlestick jars around the house and light candles. Ready!

Christmas paper stencils for window decorations, templates

When is the time for home improvement? winter holidays in short supply, and financial opportunities are limited, they come to the rescue christmas stencils from paper for decorating windows. This is perhaps the easiest and fastest way to transform an ordinary room into a fabulous place in a matter of minutes. And given that different new year templates and window stencils can be made in just 10 minutes, then ignoring such decor is simply a crime. Before proceeding with the review of the most relevant paper stencil decorations for the New Year 2017, let's look at how to make them at home. In order to give windows, mirrors, furniture or walls a frosty decor, you will need the following materials:

• paper
• scotch
• scissors
• pencil and ruler
• artificial snow

The first step is to make a sketch of the New Year's drawing with which you want to decorate your house. The easiest way to do it is with simple pencil and ruler sketch of snowflakes. If drawing lessons at school passed you by, then just print out the ready-made templates from our selection below. Then carefully cut out the silhouette of the pattern along the lines. Fix the resulting stencil on the desired surface, for example, glass, with adhesive tape. Take a can of artificial snow and fill the drawing. If there is no snow, then use a budget remedy - slightly diluted toothpaste and a brush. You can also take acrylic paint and apply it with a kitchen sponge. Let the pattern set and remove the template. Ready!

How to make spectacular Christmas decorations for the house, video

As you can see, it’s not difficult to make original Christmas decorations for your home with your own hands. The main thing is to apply a little imagination and then even such a simple improvised material as paper can turn into a unique decor. Next, you will find several video tutorials on making interesting decorations for the New Year with your own hands. We hope that they, like the step-by-step master classes from the photo above, will inspire you for New Year's creativity. And you, in turn, will learn how to make spectacular holiday decorations home quickly and easily!

Time inexorably runs forward and now white flies are flying outside the window, slowly sinking to the ground and covering everything around with a snow-white fluffy veil. However, despite the cold, the soul is warm and joyful. And all because suddenly appeared snowflakes herald the onset of the New Year. The most important holiday of the year is already very close, which means it's time to think about New Year's decor, gifts and, of course, crafts.

The days are getting shorter and the evenings are getting colder and longer. What to do with yourself, and even more so with your little fidgets, when for street winter fun is it already too dark? Well, crafts, of course. New Year's crafts can be made from the most unexpected materials: cocktail tubes and much more. But there are also more traditional materials, such as paper. In this article, we have collected for you more than 60 step-by-step master classes for making paper crafts for the New Year. If you still think that only applications can be made from paper, then drop everything and carefully look at our article! Well, for those who are looking for something unusual and know what miracles can be created from ordinary paper, we can only advise you to start the creation process without delay. New Year's crafts from paper according to our schemes and templates.

One of the simplest New Year's paper crafts can rightly be considered a garland. We all remember well from our childhood how they decorated the Christmas tree with such paper garlands not only at home, but at school or kindergarten. Making a paper garland is very simple: colored paper cut into strips of the same width, the first strip is glued into a ring, and each subsequent one is threaded into the previous ring and also glued. This paper craft is perfect for 4-5 year olds.

If the task of entertaining children is not worth it, but you need to decorate the house, then here's another version of a paper garland for your note. It is made even easier than the previous one, but you will need sewing machine. So, to create such a New Year's paper craft, you will need: a lot of circles of different diameters (the number depends on the size of the garland), a sewing machine. Sew circles through the center on a typewriter and hang a garland. From any gust of air, such a garland will “come to life”.

So, if you decide that the issue with garlands is closed and there is nothing else to think of here, we hasten to upset you - this is only the very tip of the iceberg. Simple paper garlands are an activity for beginners. Professionals prefer more complex tasks, for example, voluminous crafts from paper. Below is a master class on making a volumetric garland in the form of light bulbs.

By the way, paper lanterns You can decorate a regular LED garland. This New Year's paper craft looks very cool, especially if you decorate the wall with this garland.

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Since we are talking about the decor of the apartment, it would be strange not to mention Christmas wreaths, or as they are also called New Year's wreaths. Everyone can make such a paper craft, in addition, a New Year's paper wreath is a reusable decoration that will not deteriorate and will not lose its appearance over time.

A very cool paper craft for the New Year is a wreath of roses. You will have to work hard to create such a craft, so if you decide to make yourself such a paper wreath on the door - stock up on patience and mood!

If you're planning a New Year's themed party, say Cuban or Hawaiian style, then you'll definitely need some kind of decoration to set the atmosphere. Here is such a simple, but very original wreath made of paper will come in handy!

Surely your child at school or in the garden was asked to make a Christmas wreath with their parents. Allegedly for a competition, but the main task of this task is to get parents to spend time with their children. But maybe you should not wait for a task from school, but spend time with your child yourself. In addition, with such a New Year's craft, you can decorate the house in a very original way, and most importantly, get a lot of positive emotions!

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So, we continue to decorate the apartment. There is a garland, there is a wreath. Something is missing? Oh, of course, Christmas trees! If you prefer to put a big forest beauty on New Year's holidays, it doesn't matter. By the way, read on. Small paper Christmas trees make a great addition to the decor, and they can also be used as small souvenirs for guests!

# 10 New Year's paper crafts with our own hands: we make a Christmas tree toy "Herringbone"

A Christmas tree made of paper does not have to be on the table or somewhere in the house. You can make a craft out of paper, which you can then hang on the Christmas tree itself, and if there is no Christmas tree, then you can simply hang such voluminous paper Christmas trees around the house. The scheme for making a Christmas tree is quite simple, but if you don’t quite understand what the essence is, or you just don’t have time to figure it out, then you can download a ready-made template.

A very cute Christmas tree can be made from corrugated paper. This paper craft looks very realistic, but it is done quickly and easily.

If you are still interested in a paper Christmas tree, but you want to make something unusual, then use this master class.

The tree does not have to be on the floor, it can also be hung from the ceiling. An excellent Christmas garland will turn out from plain paper.

How to distinguish the New Year's table from the usual festive one? Everything is correct! According to thematic elements of decor. And how to make a suitable New Year's dessert, see.

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#17 Christmas paper crafts: making a movable card with wishes

From paper, you can make not only flat or voluminous crafts, but also movable ones. With our ready-made scheme, you can make a postcard with an encrypted congratulation or message. Such unusual gift will please not only children, but also adults! You can download the finished scheme below.

In winter, wild flowers are not to be found, even in flower shops. But there is nothing to worry about, flowers can be made from paper with your own hands. And our step by step wizard class will help you with this.

A wide variety of flowers can be made from paper, the whole secret is cutting out the ends.

If you want to make a big Christmas star for decorating a wall from paper tubes Then this master class is especially for you!

A very themed New Year craft made of crimped paper. Such a paper cone looks very natural and is quite difficult to distinguish, especially if it is used as a decoration. With our master class, you can easily cope with such paper crafts.

There is another technique for creating paper cones with your own hands. This method is more labor intensive and will take you more time. In addition, to create such a New Year's craft, you will need: paper, a foam blank, a lot of safety pins, a ribbon and beads for decoration. However, if you have the time and desire, then pay special attention to this scheme for making a cone, especially if you want to impress.

From paper, you can make very special crafts using the Japanese origami technique. Our step-by-step master class will help you create christmas ball from paper, which can decorate both the room and the Christmas tree.

A step-by-step diagram for creating an origami star with your own hands. You can decorate the top of the Christmas tree with such a star, you can simply create a festive atmosphere in the house, or you can combine it into one big garland.

You can make the base yourself, as in the first picture. Or you can download the finished pentagon blank and, depending on the size of the pentagon, the size of the finished star will change.

At your service step by step diagram making paper snowflakes. Follow the instructions and you will definitely get such a miracle.

#34 We decorate the apartment with cones: do-it-yourself Christmas paper crafts

In continuation of New Year's paper crafts, I would like to offer you another scheme for making paper cones. In addition to paper circles, you will need an oval or round blank, glue and fir branches for decoration.

Another great option do-it-yourself apartment decor - a large voluminous snowflake on the wall. A snowflake can be not one, but a whole ensemble. In addition, on such a New Year's background, you will get great photos!

New Year's gift must be in a beautiful package. In my opinion, the gift itself is not so much important as the intrigue around it. After all, it is this intrigue that will remain in the memory, this is a pleasant expectation and unfolding the paper. Use our scheme for making paper flowers with your own hands and decorate gifts for dear and close people.

It is customary to decorate a Christmas tree with toys, but these toys do not have to be purchased. Even better if they are made by hand. And what could be easier than making a toy on Christmas tree from paper. Take advantage of our step by step instructions and make your own paper Christmas ball.

Very simple, but incredibly cute voluminous lanterns can be made from ordinary colored paper. Even children can handle this craft, so feel free to get to work if you have little helpers. Well, if not, then you can do it yourself!

You can make completely unexpected crafts out of paper, including gift boxes. And not just boxes, but in the form of delicious sweets. For such a gift box you will need: cardboard cylinder, colored paper, glue, scissors, satin ribbon.

In continuation of the question of gift wrapping, we want to offer you another budget, but very charming option. You can make such a gift elf with your own hands using our master class.

Here's another option for you original packaging new year gift with your own hands.

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#55 A simple paper snowflake pattern: decorating a room for a party

#56 Do-it-yourself voluminous paper crafts: making a snowflake. Scheme

#58 Christmas paper crafts: decorate the house with diamond crystals

Download ready-made schemes and make your own paper diamond crystals.

#59 New Year craft paper ball "Mistletoe" with your own hands

Here you can make such a mistletoe paper ball with your own hands, using ready-made cutting templates. Stock up on patience and New Year's mood!

You can decorate a house not only with standard snowflakes or stars. You can make such a wonderful vase out of paper. Download the finished scheme and assemble the vase following the instructions in the master class.

A wide variety of decorative elements can be made from plain paper, just download the finished scheme, print it, cut it out and glue it. A wonderful Christmas paper craft is ready!

#64 Christmas patterns for cutting: a great photo shoot for the new year

Note! The templates are very large and of good quality, so the download may take some time.

Simple Christmas decorations can be made from paper. In our master class, an example with a ball is given, but it can be other shapes: hearts, stars, Christmas trees and much more. You can download ready-made templates below.

You can make a simple and original Chinese lantern with your own hands using our ready-made scheme.

An excellent decoration for the new year will be a composite paper star. You can download a ready-made template for gluing below.

In our time, you will not surprise anyone with ordinary paper cutters. Volumetric crafts cause much more delight. In this master class, a scheme for creating a simple volumetric star is described step by step. You can download a ready-made template with a large, medium and small star from the link below.

It is quite difficult to imagine a New Year's decor without all sorts of variations on the theme of stars. In this master class, you will learn how to make a volumetric double-sided star out of paper with your own hands. You can download the finished scheme below.

#70 Christmas paper masks

Carnival masks must be included in the list of New Year's paper crafts. Well, what new Year party can do without masks? That's right, none! In fact, there are a lot of options for making paper masks, and if you turn on your imagination, you can make many wonderful crafts!

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Before the New Year holidays, many try to come up with original jewelry for home and Christmas tree. Stores sell many unusual toys, beautiful Christmas tree sets, but do-it-yourself decorations seem more attractive and original than purchased ones.

Jewelry made by hand, as if absorbing a piece of the soul of the one who made them.

Decorations and toys for the Christmas tree, made at home, will give a festive atmosphere, bring joy to the hosts and their guests, and delight the children.

There are a lot of options for Christmas tree decorations: in this case, you need to show imagination, then the New Year's interior will turn out beautiful and original.

To decorate the house for the holiday, come in handy various materials, which is sure to be in every home. To create a New Year's decor, colored paper, bottle caps, ribbons, sparkles, beads, buttons and even newspapers are suitable.

Decorations from old CDs

Old discs are a great material for making Christmas decorations.

DIY Christmas decorations, photo

To make this craft, cut the disk into several small fragments with scissors.

Then take a Christmas tree toy and apply glue to it, and then attach the disk pieces to the toy - you will get an unusual decoration.

Festive felt crafts

It looks interesting Christmas decoration made of felt material. To make such a craft, large expenses are not needed. This fabric is inexpensive, and you need quite a bit of it.

In addition to individual toys, you can make New Year's homemade garlands from such small felt figures by fixing them on a thread, cord, satin or soutache ribbon.

Fabric can be made into many beautiful crafts. Multi-colored materials open up great opportunities for New Year's decor.

With the help of fabrics, you can make real mini-masterpieces. Flashy colors in the cold winter look especially attractive.

You can even make a small Christmas tree with your own hands; it can be placed in the center of the festive table or presented as a gift to friends.

Christmas tree toys made of cardboard or postcards

It is not difficult to make balls for a Christmas tree from thick paper. For this purpose, you can use thick colored paper, magazine covers and postcards.

From cardboard, charming crafts for the Christmas tree are obtained. Cardboard balls can be made with children, this activity will be interesting for those who are looking forward to the New Year so much.

Take a postcard or thick paper (necessarily double-sided) and cut out circles of the same size from it. You need to cut eight blanks. In order to draw circles, you can use a small glass. Then make two more circles, but a little smaller.

Fold the larger pieces in half twice. You will get a blank, which is a quarter of a circle. On a smaller circle, glue the four blanks made earlier. Then, carefully, so as not to break the craft, straighten the glued "pockets".

If all the steps were performed correctly, you will get two parts of the toy. Before gluing blanks on a circle of small diameter, make sure that they are correctly positioned.

Two parts need to be glued. After the toy dries, straighten the decor elements on the Christmas tree toy and attach a bright ribbon. The decoration is ready, it can be hung on the Christmas tree.

Christmas tree balls from threads

Thread balls are a trend in DIY style. Crafts from threads can be hung not only on the Christmas tree, but also used as a decorative element for the interior of various rooms, for example, create a spectacular lamp, or use it as a ceiling decoration by attaching the balls to the threads different lengths. From the threads you can make balls of different sizes.

To create a decoration from threads, you need glue, preferably PVA (it is not visible after it dries), a balloon and threads (yarn leftovers).

Before you start, put the threads in the glue for a while; To do this, pour it into a plate.
Blow up the balloon.

Wind the yarn that lay in the glue around the ball so that it resembles a cocoon, leaving small gaps. Let the ball dry - it takes a day.

The ball blank should be pierced in several places so that the ball is blown away and removed.
From such thread balls you can create a fancy festive composition.

Decorate finished thread balls with pearls, multi-colored beads. You can also use fur for decoration, satin ribbons and shiny buttons.

Festive wreaths of spruce cones

In most cases, doors are decorated with such wreaths, but they can also be attached to the wall in the apartment. Such a wreath looks very impressive above the fireplace, if there is one in the house.

Making your own Christmas wreath is easy. Find a suitable base for the wreath, such as wire or willow twigs. You will also need cones from coniferous trees and special liquid nails. Don't forget about wreath decoration materials.

Cones need to be glued to the base with nails, try to keep them as close as possible closer friend to friend.

Cones can even be painted in silver or white: for this, use acrylic paints. Decorate the wreath with colored ribbons, shiny rain.

japanese kanzashi crafts

With your own hands, you can make Japanese kanzashi crafts for the new year, symbolizing closeness to nature. Such decorative crafts can resemble flowers, Christmas trees or something else - there are many options.

By the New Year, decorations made in Japanese technology will be relevant, in the form of snowflakes, Christmas trees, wreaths, balls, cute angels. Such an accessory will not only be an interesting idea for decorating an apartment, but will also serve as a wonderful gift for the New Year to relatives and friends.

Festive headband "Snowflakes" in Japanese technique

Christmas hair ornament, reminiscent of a snowflake, will appeal to little princesses and adults of the fair sex. This decorative item on the head will emphasize the beauty of the hairstyle.

To make the headband, you will need the following items: a glue gun, squares cut from a white or sky-colored tape about 5 by 5 cm, a lighter, squares from a blue tape half the size. You also need 42 blanks of ribbons with a shiny surface, having a size of 2 by 2 cm, a snowflake blank 3 cm in size, a white rim (it can be braided with a white ribbon) and scissors.

Make petals from white squares (ordinary round ones), you need 6 of them. The photo below shows the process of making such petals:

Then make 12 petals triangular shape. Fold a piece of tape in the shape of a square in half three times, you need to fold it diagonally. Spread a little, and you will get a petal.

Make two-color petals in the amount of 6 pieces. The squares of white and blue need to be folded in half (diagonally), then put the blue in the center of the white and wrap it around the white blank, then wrap the white piece of tape around the blue and fold it in half.

From the blanks of the sequined ribbon, make 42 miniature petals.

From blanks measuring 2.5 by 2.5 cm, make 6 petals: fold the blank diagonally, then each side should be wrapped up.

Wrap a paper snowflake blank with a white ribbon and attach it to the hoop with a special gun. Cover the snowflake with petals.

Gather all the petals together. Attach white triangular-shaped petals to a petal of two flowers. There should only be 6 of them.

Three glossy petals need to be glued together.

Glue the "corrugated" petals of a heavenly color in a circle - so that it looks like a flower.
Treat the edges of the petals with a lighter so that they do not crumble: this must be done during manufacture.

Connect all the details. In a circle, insert a composition of glossy petals into each detail. In the center of a white flower, mark a sky-colored flower from “corrugated” blanks.

The final stage is the decoration of the rim with beads.

A hairpin made in Japanese technique will become a beautiful decoration and a subject of interest to others.

Festive kanzashi made in the form of snowflakes are a great replacement for traditional decorations for the New Year. Such decorations are one of the best options for New Year's decor.

Crafts, for the creation of which Japanese technology was used, are distinguished by their brightness and originality.

You already know, apart from store-bought toys? By tradition, dressing up the Christmas tree for the New Year should be as varied as possible, using balls, garlands, Christmas decorations, lights and handicrafts.

Step-by-step instructions for making a New Year's topiary with your own hands - in: create a miniature Christmas tree yourself from improvised materials.

Decorations for the New Year's table

Well-chosen decorations for the festive table in new year's eve have great importance. Guests gather at the festive table, and the decor will definitely not go unnoticed, so you need to approach the choice of decorative elements especially carefully. You need to come up with something unusual to surprise the guests, demonstrate your creativity and good taste.

A prerequisite for decorating New Year's table is the placement of decorations in its central part: it good way place accents.

Multi-colored fruits, Christmas decorations, spruce twigs (what could be better than the main living symbol of the New Year, pine or spruce twigs have a unique aroma), compositions of flowers and fir cones, burning candles, napkins with a bright pattern.

The composition with citrus fruits and spruce branches placed in the center of the table looks impressive.

Options and ideas New Year's compositions so many. You can make a composition in which flowers are combined with spruce branches. Put pine branches in the basket, put Christmas balls, orange oranges and some kind of knitted item there: knitted items are mainly associated with winter and Christmas holidays.

No less beautiful composition with candles.

For a romantic celebration of the New Year, use a New Year's wreath as a table decoration.

The closer the New Year, the stronger the festive atmosphere is felt. Pay attention to the New Year's decor, make decorations and cute trinkets with your own hands so that the festive interior will delight your guests.

By creating holiday decorations for the New Year, you will demonstrate your skills and impeccable taste and, most importantly, enjoy the process a lot. Invite the holiday into your home!

Read about how to create: learn the tricks of decorating and discover new ideas for using accessories and stylish little things in holiday design.

Methods and options for creating and decorating New Year's compositions on the table are described.

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Paper is by far the most inexpensive and easy-to-use material for holiday crafts, which is why we arm ourselves with scissors, glue, stapler and tape, as well as a pile of colorful leaves to make the most beautiful do-it-yourself paper Christmas decorations. And although some of the ideas are not new, you can start doing this right today, without any complicated and expensive preliminary preparation.

DIY paper Christmas decorations

The garlands that stretch around the entire perimeter of the room, curl the walls, furniture, ceiling, have been made by us since childhood. Colored chains are no longer the most popular long variety. DIY paper Christmas decorations. The hit of this winter is the starfall, the end of which is not visible.

To create these, you will need one template or stencil, a long rope and glue. On stencils, you need to cut out so many stars that it is enough to shower the whole house. Since the version of such a craft is very simple, it is necessary that the stars themselves have individual artistic value, therefore, if you take bright, colored sheets for them, maybe even with sparkles or metallic tints, then it will only get better. Another a good option- wrappers that are sold for gift wrapping departments, such material already has an interesting texture, but it is not so expensive. One such leaf can become the progenitor for hundreds of stars. You need to assemble the garland on a rope, using glue for this, coat it on one asterisk, lay the rope on it so that it passes in the middle, and then cover it with a second asterisk on top and gently press it with your fingers so that the elements are fixed. You can string a string of strings, you can arrange an entire star curtain by placing them on a window cornice or doorway, or you can let them slide down from a chandelier, shining beautifully in artificial light. To complicate the task a little, you can glue together not two, but five elements in series, then you will get interesting voluminous Christmas decorations with their own hands made of paper. To save money, because several times more will go to this type of material, it is worth taking newspaper sheets.

You should not stop only on the stars, when there are still so many different elements for. For example, you can use large images of Christmas symbols - deer, Christmas trees, candy canes and gingerbread men - as such elements. They are not glued to a rope, but attached with an ordinary clothesline, making a creative garland in the style of photographic dryer exhibitions.

Volumetric decorative accents can complement garlands with a more uniform texture, for example, they always add bright strokes paper balls, folded in any way known to you. They are both fragile and strong, large and neat, suitable for any interior, as the color for them is limited only by the palette of your colored cardboard box. Pay attention to how beautiful the heart pendants look, the photos of which you can see above, moreover, you can later use the idea of ​​​​creating such pendants for Valentine's Day decor, but without depicting snowflakes on the front of the hearts.

New Year's home decoration made of paper

What is good volumetric New Year's decoration of the house with your own hands from paper, is the fact that it can be used not only in hanging garlands, but also in desktop compositions, which can become no less in demand, especially if they are illuminated inside with an LED garland or in other ways.

In the photo example, you can see some ideas for both table and hanging decor. Such cones with the image of Christmas heroes can not only be printed on a color printer, but also drawn with your own hands. It is only necessary to first draw a diagram of the layout of such an ornament, for this it is worth arming yourself with a compass so that the circle turns out to be correct and even, the larger its diameter, the higher the cone will eventually turn out. The resulting circle must be divided into four parts in the middle and color only three, because you will need to cut off the fourth part. After cutting, the cone is twisted in just one movement and fixed with glue. It is somewhat more difficult to make such cute snow-white lanterns; the vytynanka technique is used for them, when openwork pattern carefully created with a sharp breadboard knife or scissors. To get just such an elegant effect, you need to first fold solid candlesticks, but with the help of a more transparent material, such as tracing paper or parchment for baking, and the top layer, on which the pattern will already be cut out, is made based on the usual drawing format, it Holds its shape well and is easy to cut. But we will return to this beautiful technique when we explore the options in more detail.

Apply everything interesting techniques, which you only know to get a great New Year's result. Some people prove it to us DIY paper Christmas decorations, photo which are above. For example, the classic origami technique can be quite complex, but if you want to volume stars, then you can very well use its schemes, of which quite a lot can be found on the Web. Such stars can generally be hung not as a common garland, but separately, as they certainly deserve. Pay attention also to, which is a folded book pages. As the basis for the Christmas tree, you will need a log or a small log in which vertical grooves are made. The villages are folded into identical right-angled triangles and inserted into these holes so that the sharp end - the top of the Christmas tree - is on top, and at the bottom there would be wide legs. Above decorative tree a wooden star or a voluminous origami craft is simply obliged to complement.

DIY paper Christmas decorations

Not so long ago, snowflakes thin as lace were used only as. Now, their grace is the best suited for decorating a modern interior in the Provence style or similar classical styles, so snow lace should definitely be considered in any material dedicated to DIY paper Christmas decorations.

Of course, the inspirers DIY Christmas decorations made of paper - snowflakes, may not be the most classical form. For all examples decorative crafts snowflakes of one kind or another are used, depending on the tasks that are set for them. So, for example, for an elegant garland that hangs in the most visible place, it is best to choose multi-layered snowflakes, with a dense middle, the shape of hearts, circles, crescents, which are shown in the photo, is suitable for this. But if you want to combine snow elements, for example, into a common wreath to decorate a window opening with it or front door, then it is worth making a lot of them, but as simple as possible, because beauty will lie in their number, and not in the delicacy of each individual part. It is for wreaths that you can deviate from the classic white color and make New Year's decorations from colored paper with your own hands, let them be pink, blue, red, to match the color of your interior.

But for windows today, not just snowflakes are cut out, but entire snowy landscapes, compositions that look especially impressive if they are highlighted. Above you can see suitable for similar Christmas decorations made of paper do-it-yourself templates.

DIY Christmas decorations from corrugated paper

Do not hold tenderness either do-it-yourself crepe paper Christmas decorations. This material seems to be created for the most festive crafts that are obtained with it. beautiful flowers, weightless garlands and more. If you stock up on several rolls of corrugated material in basic shades, you are guaranteed to be able to make the most fashionable and elegant varieties of New Year's decor.

For example, you and I know that they are often used to decorate large areas, this is a fairly simple element. Strips of corrugated material are twisted into roses and fastened with glue. So that there is a place for flowers in the winter interior, use them to decorate Christmas balls or a large ball that decorates the chandelier. Also interesting idea- make a wall Christmas tree using this green material. The strips are cut into fringes and glued to the wall (or even base), starting from the bottom. Or you can use known to you for do-it-yourself Christmas decorations from paper scheme, which will allow you to make garlands that differ in texture, more voluminous and bright. For example, such simple bows do not require special gluing or folding, but look very elegant.

Make your own paper Christmas decorations

Now let's take a simple example of how DIY paper Christmas decorations that will answer all fashion trends today's time. These include window decor, which has several layers. On sale, such cities, however, plywood, wooden, cardboard, are quite expensive, but if you use thick, high-quality paper, and even do everything yourself, you can get by with quite modest funds.

You can either develop it yourself or download a ready-made Christmas window decoration made of paper. DIY you need to transfer the sketch to the material and carefully cut it out with a breadboard knife. If you iron the format first. It will be easier to work with him. Fold the cut out houses, glue the roof to them and place them in the prepared box.

On both sides of the box, you need to make the outer layers of the composition. For the layer that will be on the glass, an image of tall houses, a month in the sky, and so on, is suitable, for the foreground - walking people, a standing Christmas tree.

Inside, houses are installed and fixed, inside which garland bulbs are placed. To heighten the effect on the glass, with the help of artificial snow, draw the very last distant plan.

New Year- a special, sincere holiday. And in the pre-New Year's turmoil, the second most powerful, after the desire to quickly sit down at the table, is the desire to make unique New Year's toys with your own hands. It is not customary to reckon with the expenses for the New Year; the festive industry, we must give it its due, the demand is trying in every possible way to satisfy and does not prescribe insane markups: the goods are in demand, profit will be so. But the variety is so great that do not expect originality from the purchase, somewhere the same is still for sale. So I want something from my own hands and with a piece of my soul.

This article is a part, however, quite extensive, of the boundless sea: how to make and decorate Christmas decorations with your own hands. Let's touch on a very popular wreath on the door and styles of decorating the Christmas tree. Of course, there are more than enough New Year themes for home craftsmen with craftswomen and their little helpers: decorating a room, a festive table, a homemade Christmas tree, and much more. It is not difficult, for example, to make a lush and fragrant Christmas tree on your own, and living trees remain on the vine, and do not go under the axe. But you can’t immediately embrace the immensity like that. Therefore, for now, we will limit ourselves to Christmas tree decorations. But! Take a look at fig. Part, and most, of all these Christmas tree decorations are homemade. Including the bell at the top right next to the red apple. See? It used to be a glass of yogurt. Like? Then, as they say, you are here. We will do no worse.

The material is designed primarily for New Year's do-it-yourselfers who do not own complex technologies and do not have a home workshop at their disposal. To make the Christmas decorations described below, you will need scissors, an awl, a sharp knife with a thin blade (scalpel or mounting), thread, a sewing needle, nail clippers or side cutters, and tweezers or small pliers. Also - PVA glue, superglue (cyanoacrylate instant) and, in some cases, "Moment" or its analogues. For certain types of toys - some other small household tool or household utensils. What other materials will be needed, simple and affordable, we'll see along the way. All the work can be done on the table, covering it with a film or covering it with cardboard.

Miscellaneous tricks and tricky differences

No workflow is possible without the right technology. We don’t need workshops with robots, we need to make do with what is at hand. In order for homemade New Year's crafts to please both the hands at work and the eyes ready, you need to learn a few simple ways to prepare blanks and materials for Christmas tree decorations and the rules for their use.

Shine

Now, for some reason, almost everything shiny for the New Year is called glitter; in Russian - shine. Reading the manuals, sometimes, and with considerable personal experience, it is difficult to figure out what is meant: sequins, colored laminated paper, thin shiny plastic film, metallic paint, or some new product in general.

We'll start with the glitter; can't do without them. Sequins for Christmas decorations are inexpensive, but in the outback they may simply not be on sale. In this case, a manual noodle cutter (see the figure on the right) and a foil baking sleeve will help out. The noodle cutter needs to be manual; the powerful motor of the food processor does not feel the unusual material, and the nozzle will immediately become clogged, or even broken. Manually, the work goes well:

• From the roll, the sleeves are cut off with a knife, a part about 10-12 cm wide.
• Gradually unwinding the aluminum tape, pass it through the machine.
• Then, and it is possible in the course of work, if there is an assistant, they finely chop the “noodles” with scissors. The kids like it if there are not enough scissors for everyone, not far from the fight.

Instead of foil, you can also use glitter, which is a shiny colored plastic film. And another note: do not try to replace shredder assistants with mechanization in the form of a meat grinder. “Noodles” instead of sequins will turn into pellets, and you won’t clean the meat grinder later.

Toys usually “shine” by sprinkling a surface covered with dry PVA, varnish or paint. But you can “shine” with spots; if there are multi-colored sequins - multi-colored. To do this, a portion of the sequins is collected in a straw of the desired diameter, from a very thin one for juice to a hose under 2 cm in diameter for a smoothie or shrimp cocktail, and the desired area is gently blown with sequins. Having adapted to blow, you can also display patterns. In any case, to blow out the stripes (see. Fig.), Long training is not required.

colored varnish

Transparent colored varnish is prepared on the basis of nitro solvents 646, 647, etc. Dye - paste for ballpoint pens. OK. 50 ml of solvent is poured into a glass cup (in a ventilated room!), a writing tip is pulled out of the rod with pliers (carefully, do not get dirty!), And the paste is blown into the solvent. The tone of the paste is very dense, so more than 1 rod is unlikely to be needed. The finished varnish is poured into a vial with a gas-tight stopper and a lid. Pharmaceutical vials from hydrogen peroxide are well suited, they do not need to be washed. The glass (beaker) is washed from the remnants of varnish with the same solvent.

Blanks for balls

In shops and departments "Skillful hands", "Everything for creativity", art, and on New Year's Eve and in gift shops, foam and transparent plastic blanks for balls are sold. Transparent balls are most often filled with something colorful, see fig. on right. For decoration, it is better to take plain ready-made balls, they are cheaper and are sold everywhere. We'll see what we can do with them.

In the meantime, let's see where to get away from the centers with a large trade turnover and how to prepare very convenient foam balls for work, we will also deal with them for the Christmas tree. The first question is solved simply: there will surely be some kind of fishing and hunting shop within reach. And in it - cheap floats for fishing rods and nets from the same foam balls different sizes. Are they perforated? So what, it will be easier to attach the suspension loop.

However, the foam corrodes almost any paint and varnish. Almost the only thing that definitely does not spoil it is PVA. Here is the PVA and you need to cover foam blanks before moving on to work. Better - twice, with the complete drying of the 1st layer before applying the next. PVA film is quite resistant and will accept painting well.

Note: PVA is also desirable to process inflatable gel balls in those places where the pattern will be applied. And if it was drawn with a gel pen, then it would be nice to protect the drawing in the same way from accidental smearing with wet hands.

Papier mache

Adhesive semi-liquid paper pulp - papier-mâché - in the manufacture New Year's toys irreplaceable in many cases: knobs are made from it, they mold the basis of funny faces, etc. Usually, for the preparation of papier-mâché, it is advised to take old newspapers, but due to the admixture of printing ink, the tone of the product then comes out dirty. For papier-mâché, it is better to buy clean white newsprint (not glued) paper at the stationery store. Cigarette and mica are no good! Papier-mâché is made like this:

1. The sheet is passed through a noodle cutter or finely cut with scissors.
2. Spread the trimmings in a glass, crushing tightly.
3. A full glass is poured with boiling water and left for 3 hours. Absorbed boiling water must be immediately topped up to the top of the settled paper!
4. The mass from the glass is poured into a bowl and kneaded until the dough or plasticine is thick, gradually adding PVA; should take about 2 tbsp. spoons of glue.
5. The finished papier-mâché is laid out in a jar with a tightly screwed lid; shelf life in a canned vegetable jar lasts up to 6 months.

old light bulbs

Burnt out incandescent light bulbs are an excellent basis for Christmas decorations. However, if you want to fill the flask with something (see Fig.) or cover it with transparent varnish, the question arises: how to separate the flask from the base, open and remove the stem with internal fittings?

The base is separated by boiling: the bulbs are placed in a saucepan with cold water, heated over low heat until a slight boil, and boiled for up to 10 minutes. The fallen off base will not fall to the bottom, it will hang on the wires. After the lamp has cooled down, they are bitten off with side cutters, the tips of scissors or manicure tongs, thrusting them deeper into the socket of the stem.

Next, an emery bar is placed in a large bowl or small basin and water is poured to cover it. Then, with light pressure, in smooth circular motions, erase the side of the flask until the stem falls out; takes 1 lamp up to 5 min. The base, if needed, is glued back with superglue.

Note: you need to work with light bulbs in cotton household gloves, which are used, for example, when cutting fish. Glass is a dangerous material! The second important thing is that only incandescent lamps can be disassembled! In the light tubes of housekeepers - mercury vapor! A negligible amount, but still - mercury is mercury, it is not excreted from the body.

Salty dough

Excellent Christmas decorations can be made from salt dough, see fig. From its thin layers, figures are cut out with cookie stamps (pos. 1.2), cut out with a thin sharp knife by hand (pos. 3) or according to templates (pos. 4.5). Salt dough is not edible, but it will take any paint with varnishing very well and will allow you to cut very thin contours.

The composition and method of preparation are as follows:

• White wheat flour - 200 g.
• Fine table salt - 200 g.
• Refined sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. spoons.
• Water - 125 ml (a little more than half a glass).

Salt is mixed with flour, then butter is gradually added, kneading all the time. Then water is added also with continuous kneading until the consistency of clay or plasticine. Spread the mass in a plastic bag, and put it in a jar with a tight lid and store it in the refrigerator in the vegetable compartment, up to six months.

In a layer 3-4 mm thick, the dough is rolled out with a round rolling pin. The cut figures are placed on a baking sheet, a sheet of tin, galvanized iron, etc., and dried on a radiator. It is impossible to dry quickly in the oven or just on the table without heating! Drying takes several days; completely dried figures are painted, painted with gel pens, varnished. They, with careful storage, will be enough for more than one New Year; salty dough- The material is strong enough.

Note: You can learn more about Christmas toys from dough from the video below:

Video: Christmas toys from dough

Decoupage

Decoupage, simply - decals - is widely used in New Year's decor. However, not everyone is suitable for Christmas toys. Christmas tree toys need to be decorated with plastic decoupage, which lies on curved surfaces without wrinkles. It can be distinguished (sellers do not always know what they are selling) from the usual one by its protective coating: in this case it is not a film, but a porous napkin. Moisturize and remove before use. The picture is superimposed on the base, unlike flat "translations", in the center, and carefully, in smooth circular motions, smooth to the edges. The best base is a slightly rough layer of PVA applied with a foam swab, or the same layer of white nitro paint.

Note: children decouple most accurately - their fingers have not yet become calloused.

Popcorn

Small popcorn glued with PVA or superglue can in many cases replace papier-mâché. It, like the latter, before use, it is desirable to process the PVA in the same way as the foam, and for the same purpose.

Christmas tree decorations

Snowflakes

The first and simplest way to decorate both the Christmas tree and the whole house is snowflakes. Probably everyone knows how to cut them; just in case, we give a diagram (fig. below) how to cut snowflakes with gaps in the rays.

However, in reality, water crystallizes in a hexagonal pattern, i.e. real snowflakes have 6 rays. Cutting them out in the same way will not work: if the sheet is folded three times, it will not turn into a snowflake, but six times - you get 12 rays. Therefore, if you do not feel sorry for the work of real snowflakes, we give a diagram of the crystallization of water, see fig. on right. It can be used to compose an uncountable set of figures, and for inspiration, or as samples for templates, in fig. below are photographs under a microscope of real snowflakes from a real snowfall. Is it true that human imagination is far from nature? Experts say that 2 identical snowflakes have not yet been seen.

A word about boxes...

Preparing for the New Year in advance, do not throw away small warranty boxes that are no longer guaranteed. They make excellent toys, see fig. Yes, and with surprises can be done. It is interesting then to observe what kind of barter negotiations the “high contracting parties” then start, having discovered that he got a baby doll, and she got a model car.

... about eggs ...

Also excellent toys come out of bird eggs, see fig. below. It is best to take goose or turkey eggs, they are large and strong. At the poles of the eggs, with a gypsy needle or awl, holes are carefully turned and the contents are blown into a cup or bowl; on an omelet or scrambled eggs, in dough, cream, etc. it suits well. And the shell is treated with PVA, like foam, painted, varnished, sprinkled with glitter, rag fragments are glued on, etc. The pink "bump" in the center, for example, is pasted over with dyed popcorn.

… and about nuts

One of oldest species Christmas tree decorations - foil-wrapped walnuts. The thread of the suspension loop was passed along the seam between the shells; now you can just glue it on. Neither is a hindrance to eating. Especially for this, the Nutcracker was placed under the Christmas tree, about which P. I. Tchaikovsky wrote ballet music, which was then used for the opera.

balls

Christmas balls - an immense world in the vast world of Christmas decorations. And in the vast world of Christmas balls there is an immense world of paper balls, if we consider the body of rotation in a smoothly curved surface and regular polyhedrons as a ball. We will deal with all this immensity in the immensity in the immensity now, remembering: everything should be within the power of the child, and in order to do it it was possible at home on the table.

From blanks

First, let's try to change the monotonous finished balls in our own way. The technique is simple, see pic:

1. We select plastic balls cheaper, with a matte dull surface;
2. We paint with white nitro paint;
3. After complete drying, we decouple;
4. Well, how? How much is this in the store? Under the New Year?

Note: and if you don’t feel sorry for the money for a glue gun, and there’s nowhere to put old beads, glass beads, artificial pearls, then here’s another option in the pic .:

Now let's get to the foam. Here the options are much more diverse, see fig. below. Pos. 1 - you will need a figured hole punch from the same craft store. If from the Internet, then order ahead of time; how parcels go on New Year's Eve is known. Next - pins with bead heads, pos. 2 and you're done. The suspension loop is fixed with a piece of a toothpick or a match and a drop of PVA.

Suddenly there is no curly stamp for paper, but there are pins and beads, it turns out a ball-colored hedgehog, pos. 3. Beads are strung on pins, and the tip of each, so that it sits tighter, is dipped before being stuck in PVA. And pos. 4? Guess! Chupa Chups with sticks bitten obliquely (to make it easier to stick in). You can eat directly from the Christmas tree, if adults do not mind. Or quietly, on the other side.

For pos. 4 and 5 already require a glue gun and a workpiece protected by dried PVA. Finishing materials - cord and glass beads or artificial pearls.

From light bulbs

Light bulbs, as mentioned above, blanks for Christmas decorations are difficult, but grateful, see fig. Low-power lamps with a narrow “minion” base and a frosted embossed bulb, pos. 1; it is considered that the finished balls. Light bulbs - "candles" are also not bad, but if you do not remove the stem, they must be immediately after painting / varnishing, until the paint / varnish has dried, sprinkle thickly with gloss, pos. 2. Burnt-out housekeepers of low power in double flasks-“cones” are made on purpose for the New Year: all that remains is to decouple, tie a loop on the base, close it with papier-mâché, and you’re done (pos. 3).

From ordinary light bulbs, you can also do a lot of New Year's things. The easiest way is to get penguins (pos. 4): here you don’t need to be able to draw at all. Barbosov-Shreks can also be made without art education - the shades on the background are made through with a small foam rubber swab, and the line drawing is drawn with gel pens. In the same way, toys are created that require, in addition to talent, and sufficient skill, poses. 5 and 6. In general, a matter of taste and imagination.

Gossamer balls

Thread balls are all the rage right now, and in this case, she didn't go crazy. There are several varieties of them. The first one (pos. 1 in the figure) is an ordinary cheap ball, on which a plastic mesh is stretched, in which garlic and other trifles are packaged in supermarkets. Let's add another bow from the ribbon - already something. Just like the same cheap balls decorated with tulle or organza trimmings, pos. 2.

"Real" gossamer balls are made from glued colored threads, pos. 3, 4. It is best to take threads for satin stitch embroidery, but simple ones will also go with additional decor. The technique is simple: the thread is pulled through the PVA and immediately wound onto an inflatable template lubricated with petroleum jelly. After the glue dries, the template is blown off or simply pierced and removed.

For small Christmas balls-spider webs, the template can be inflated, perhaps, only from a medical fingertip: it has a roller that allows you to hold the workpiece against the lips when inflated; nothing will come out without a roller. Gel and latex balloons are not suitable: so that they do not slip under the thread, they need to be inflated to too large a size.

There are plenty of devices for pulling a thread through glue; one of the simplest ones is shown in Fig. The glass allows you to economically spend glue, and the tray does not let its excess onto the table. The glass is pierced with a needle and thread, glue is poured, pulled, wound. It is only necessary that the assistant hold the “broach”, otherwise, if the thread gets hooked, the glue can turn out onto the table, knees or chair upholstery. An alternative to the helper is a piece of double-sided tape, with which the tray is attached to the countertop. You need to wind dexterously, because. PVA impregnated thread dries quickly.

More about yarn balls

Beautiful thread balls can be made not only in the "spider" technique. The method of making one of the oldest Christmas tree decorations from threads - a pompom ball - is shown in fig. To pos. 5: cut the thread along the rim with a sharp knife or blade safety razor. Pompom balls look especially impressive if the ends of the threads are tinted with silver, bronze or metallic paint in a contrasting color.

Paper balls and more

We now proceed to the immensity in the immensity - Christmas tree decorations made of paper. It's a whole big world; for example, masters modular origami they create creations from it that clearly confirm: paper is one of the most wonderful materials invented by man, see fig. But we will leave these difficulties for later, and let's deal with what can be done, as they say, with kondachka, and which also looks spectacular.

How to make a simple paper ball for a Christmas tree is shown in fig. Material - thick colored paper, PVA. It is not forbidden to paint, varnish, sprinkle with glitter. If the ball is made of glitter (laminated paper, plastic), you need to glue it with "Moment" or superglue.

Openwork

Next in terms of ease of manufacture, but not in appearance - openwork paper balls; of them, in addition to the Christmas tree, a magnificent decor of the room is obtained. The larger the openwork ball, the easier it is to make and the better it looks. The technique is simple, an example in Fig. deliberately very rough was chosen to show how tolerant the openwork balls are to the neglect of the material and flaws in the work:

1. Paper circles are quilted with a thread or (worse) sewn with a stapler in diameter. Their even or odd number is taken depending on the gluing scheme, see below;
2. They are glued together in pairs in a checkerboard pattern until the entire “book” closes into a ball;
3. A loop is glued;
4. The ball is decorated.

And now about what can be achieved from an openwork ball if you do it carefully, patiently and with understanding. First, the generating figure can be any body of revolution. The main thing is that the workpiece should be bilateral, i.e. its right and left halves should be mirror images of each other; quilt a stack of blanks along the axis of symmetry.

Secondly, the places of gluing must also be accurately marked on the “booklet”, by striking with handles along the edge of the foot. Handles - because the places of alternating gluing are marked with 2 different colors. And finally, you need to glue it carefully, putting a drop of glue on each joint. Squeeze to setting not with paper clips, but with your fingers through a plastic wrap. What can be achieved in this way is shown in Fig. on right.

Some stereometry...

For the basis Christmas ball often they take the right polyhedrons: they look great with skillful decor, and gluing them out of paper is not difficult if you know how. The very polyhedra suitable for the Christmas tree, without "impurities" of other flat figures, are made up of equilateral triangles and pentagons. Since not everyone knows the basics of stereometry and planimetry, we give their templates inscribed in circles, see fig. The segments (wings) of the circumcircles are not cut off, but are bent and glued together. The balls are glued with the wings out, and the plafonds of the lanterns are inward (see below, about garlands).

The simplest regular polyhedron is a tetrahedron, a trihedral pyramid. However, the ball, which is already a ball, is an octahedron: two 4-sided pyramids glued together with bases without bottoms. How to assemble it can be seen at the top in fig. Even more spectacular are the regular 20-sided triangles of the icosahedron and the regular 12-sided dodecahedron of 5-gons. Many ways of gluing icosahedron balls have been described; dodecahedrons are ignored for some reason. However, if there are templates inscribed in circles and printed in right size, it is easiest and most accurate to glue according to the patterns, below in fig. Coloring, decoration, of course - to your taste.

Note: regular 3- and 5-gons can be used to form polyhedra with any, up to infinity, number of sides.

… and topology

curved figures, complex shape, another science is already engaged - topology. Not without its application to Christmas decorations. Most of the "topological" decorations, however, are quite difficult to make, so we give only 1, but very beautiful ball, which can be woven without special knowledge and experience. First you will need to print a pattern of blanks on colored paper (see Fig.) And cut them out.

The next step is the layout for gluing according to the template, see next. rice. It is better to draw the template yourself (radii - after 30 degrees), using a compass and a protractor, and a larger size so that you can make balls different sizes. The sidewall blanks are laid out so that their spouts touch the center and the corresponding radius.

Then, on the center of the “octopus”, more precisely, the twelves, carefully, so as not to knock down the calculation, stick a circle, pos. 1 next. rice. In the same way, they glue the second centipede, turn it over, put the first one on it and intertwine the “tentacles”, pos. 2 and 3. As a result, a ball is obtained such as in pos. 4.

Note: if the "centipedes" are assembled not in one color, but from blanks of alternating colors, then the finished ball will turn out not from rhombuses, but from spiral stripes.

hedgehog and vice versa

A compass with a protractor will also be needed in order to make a papillot ball. It is called so because its "horns" look like paper hair curlers, which curled the style of the past. In fact, this ball looks like a hedgehog. How to do it is shown in Fig:

• Cut out 10 circles and divide into 2 equal piles, 5 in each.
• The circles of each pile are cut along 8 radii at 45 degrees, pos. 1 in fig: 1st half, last 5/6 of the radius; intermediate - gradually increasing the depth of the incision. You need to cut accurately, so it’s better to immediately draw smaller circles on the circles - markers.
• The petals are folded into papillotte cones and glued along the seam.
• Each pile is folded in order of increasing incision depth, with the “needles” displaced along the circumference, pos. 3, and pull it together with a thread in the center so that the “needles” flutter.
• The two halves of the “hedgehog” are folded with their bottoms and finally pulled together with a thread, pos. 4.
• The ball is painted, the ends of the needles are gilded, silvered, sprinkled with sparkles, etc.

Good balls on the same principle can be obtained in a simpler way. To do this, many papillots are folded from circles separately; better - from a silver or golden plastic film. The diameter of the blanks may be different. Then they are placed on the table and leveled in height, trimming the tips. The next step is gluing to the base (large bead, foam or ping-pong ball) with the points inward. It turns out a “hedgehog inside out”, or an anti-papillot ball, see fig. on right. Paper can still be decorated, but shiny is already good.

More paper

The basis of the next series of Christmas tree decorations is an accordion or a paper fan. A small part of what can be done from them is shown in Fig:

The craft on the top row will fit old buttons and a little help from an ordinary clerical hole punch, and for the one below, you will need another scotch ring, etc. However, the ring can also be glued from several layers of paper on a mandrel from a bottle, can, etc. In this case, the mandrel must first be wrapped with plastic wrap so that the ring does not stick. And to make it easier to remove, the paper tape must be wound onto the mandrel not tight and closer to the bottom or neck.

Note: a ring with small additions and coloring will go on jewelry by itself, see fig. on right:

You can also stick Chinese lanterns from paper for the Christmas tree and for the whole house. This theme is also boundless in the boundless; for example, we give the simplest, see fig. below. Best of all, these look made of multi-colored glitter, which in this case is colored glossy paper or plastic film.

Cones, icicles, bells

Spruce and pine cones are often advised to be turned into Christmas decorations by painting and pendants, on the left in the figure:

But traditional New Year decorations made of cones look much more impressive: the edges of the scales are tinted with bronze or aluminum powder (silver) and a bow, beads or small balls are added, right there. Such decorations, in addition, according to all beliefs, are a full-fledged replacement for bells on a New Year's wreath, see below.

Good icicle toys are made from salt dough dyed with silver. The blanks are cut out of the layer straight or slightly swollen in the middle, with pointed ends, or in the form of a spearhead elongated in length. Then twisted into a spiral; hang to dry.

Bells, except for plastic cups, are obtained from small PET bottles, for example, from ketchup. On fig. on the right - the original product, a blank for decoration from it and how the tongue of the bell is arranged. The “spindle” (thread for smoothing) is pulled through the dispensing spout of the cork and fixed with a regular cap. You can also pierce it with a needle, but the cap, as if on purpose, is made under a papier-mâché face. The whole body of the bell hangs freely on the top button. Of course, a bead would have gone better on a beater, but it was not at hand.

Garlands and beads

The simplest of the New Year's garlands - the so-called. English, see fig. She needs the same paper accordion. On it they draw, with some protrusion beyond the edges, the desired figure. First, internal holes are cut out with a scalpel (better) or a mounting knife. To tear the paper, at their corners and, with some intervals, at the sides, holes are punched with a hole punch, and jumpers are cut with a knife. Let's unfold the accordion - we get a tape like the one on the upper right in Fig. Below it are several patterns of stars suitable for an English garland.

The simplest of glued garlands is a chain of rings, at the top in fig. on right. But glued garlands of paper fans look much more magnificent, two poses. under it, double (interception in the middle of the accordion) and single. Fan garlands are best made from corrugated thin paper, and from dense - chain, two poses. at the bottom. It is clearly seen there that the blanks for them must be bilaterally symmetrical (bilateral). They are cut out from a sheet folded in half, this is like 1 element of an English garland.

Corrugated paper will also go well for "shaggy" garlands. How to do them is clear from pos. below: the roll is unwound, stretched (stretch), folded into an accordion stack (fold), then one side is cut with scissors along the corrugation to almost half (cut halfway through fold), turned over and the other side is also cut (flip + cut halfway on the other side). Then the accordion is unfolded and folded into a spiral. In order for the “corkscrew” to hold, you can, after securing its ends, sprinkle a little, literally a little, with water from a perfume spray bottle. It dries up and stays that way. But, if the water is transferred, it will spread.

There are also garlands strung. One of the simplest can be assembled from small ball-books like openwork, only without gluing the sheets. How is clear from Fig.

The strung quilling garland is also simple and effective, see next. rice.:

Christmas garlands, as you know, are luminous. Modern from microbulbs allow you to supply yourself with shades. The simplest ones are made from ping-pong balls: holes are turned with the tip of a knife and light bulbs are inserted inside. Fix by inserting a sliver or a piece of toothpick between the wires. This work is quite safe, unless the garlands are homemade for 220 V. Then - let the master manufacturer ennoble.

Very beautiful shades are obtained from polyhedral balls, but glued with wings inside. For what? And from the wings on the sides of the ceiling, bizarre shadows will fall from the inside. Finally, plafonds for a luminous garland can also be made using the classic origami technique. By the way, many Japanese do not recognize modular origami, with gluing elements, considering it an invention of armless Euro-Americans. Real origami, they say, should only be folded out of paper. How to make origami shades, shows fig. below.

Translation of explanations:

• Repeat on the opposite side - repeat on the opposite side.
• Repeat on the other 3 corners - repeat on the other 3 corners.
• Repeat steps 11-13 on remaining 3 flaps - repeat steps 11-13 on 3 flaps where required.
• Blow in the opening to inflate - inflate into the hole to inflate.

Christmas tree beads, which look like factory ones (on the left in the figure), can be made from aluminum foil, salt dough and colored plastic tubes.

First, the foil is cut into squares from 10x10 to 20x20 cm, depending on the desired size of the beads. Bead blanks are rolled into balls between the palms, on the right in fig. Next, circles with a diameter of a little bit are cut out of the salt dough. over size beads, wrap them around blanks and smooth them out. The beads are dried on a newspaper, painted with bronze or silver, or colored metallic. It remains to string mixed with tubes, and you're done.

Rain and tinsel

The old-fashioned silver rain on the Christmas tree can be made on the same manual noodle cutter as the sequins, but you no longer need to shred the “noodles” with scissors. The rain will be less confused and will last longer if you put on it not a baking sleeve, but silver or gold, or just colored, shiny plastic.

But the “shaggy” home-made tinsel is made just from an aluminum baking sleeve, like a corrugated paper garland. Then the ribbons twisted into a spiral will not unfold themselves. As for the tinsel-"sausage", it is still better to buy it. Without special equipment, long pieces cannot be made, thin strips interlock and stick together. You can make short cuts for the branches of a table tree, but this is another vast in the vast.

Wreath

New Year and Christmas wreath over the holiday New Year and older than any of the current reckoning. His lineage is lost in druidic antiquity; it is only known that the ancestor was made from mistletoe and holly branches with red berries, and the meaning of the wreath of the Druids was such that it would not be said by night.

In Russia, the New Year is celebrated relatively recently. Before Peter the Great, the years were counted “from the creation of the world” (now according to the Orthodox Slavic calendar 7524 GM, there is also the Orthodox Byzantine; according to the Hebrew - 5775. In what.); the beginning of the new year fell on March 1st and this day was not distinguished by anything special. For the first time, by decree of Peter, "with great noise and revelry" and "decorations from branches and trees of pine, spruce and juniper", was celebrated on January 1, the year 1700 from the Nativity of Christ.

The Christmas wreath entered the festive life of Russia just a few years ago. None of the world religions attaches sacred significance to the branches of coniferous trees; all the beliefs associated with the New Year's wreath are pure folk art. In general, it is believed that the wreath should contain small red balls (a hint of holly berries), and it should be crowned with a bow with bells, see fig. higher. 2 bells - for the family, 1 - for bachelors and unmarried people (who, nevertheless, can celebrate the New Year by no means and by no means alone); a couple of different sizes - for divorced and single mothers.

All this, of course, is pure convention. From what only New Year's wreaths are not made, see fig. below. The use of a wreath is not forbidden and in the most frivolous way, see fig. on the left above, and the goblin with kikimors of swamp actions seem to be not satisfied with it.

As for a real wreath-amulet and a talisman, it is not difficult to make it with your own hands: spruce branches, natural or artificial, cones, wire frame, balls, bells, bow, and - go ahead, see fig.:

Learn more about how to make a wreath spruce branches- in the video below:

Video: a wreath of cones and spruce branches

If the wreath is large, with many symbols of abundance and happiness, then a light frame may not be enough, and the blank is needed more impressive. In such a case, see the video:

Video: blanks for New Year's wreaths

An original and popular craft for the New Year - a wreath of pine cones. It is also easy to make, see next. rice. Tinted cones are provided with loops, pos. 1. For this, special sets are also sold, pos. 2, but you can get by with clips bitten by side cutters. The holes under their legs are pricked with an awl, and, having inserted a loop, superglue is dripped under them. It remains to string on a cord or wire, pos. 3, roll the thread into a ring, pos. 4 and decorate the wreath with a bow, pos. 5.

About Christmas Tree Styles

Designers, of course, do not pass by a decorated Christmas tree. But with the style here is a complete mess. Obviously, the same style is called each in its own way, or exactly different - by the same name. However, there is still something in common; especially for small artificial Christmas trees on a conical base. They are very thick, so they decorate them in a minimalist style: 3-4 types of toys of approximately the same size. The canons of style do not concern decorations, they can be arbitrarily pretentious. There are 2 trends in Christmas tree minimalism: “warm”, in fig. on the left, and "cold", in the same place on the right. The choice of one or the other is determined by the general style of the room; finally, just the taste of the owner or customer.