DIY Christmas tree decorations: New Year's workshop at your home. Origami Christmas tree from an old magazine and other original crafts Decor of foam balls

The New Year, beloved by many, is a time of joyful troubles. The cheerful bustle catches both children and adults in its whirlpool. There are a lot of pleasant moments in preparation for this wonderful time. But there is a moment that is such a long-standing tradition that we can no longer imagine celebrating the New Year without it. This custom is loved by everyone, young and old - decorating the Christmas tree. The origins of this wonderful event go back centuries, to pre-Christian times. Ancient people believed that evergreen trees - spruce and pine - were especially loved by the gods. Therefore, they decorated them with gifts, seeking to gain divine blessings, good luck and fortune.

In Europe, the tradition of decorating Christmas trees began in the mid-16th century. According to scientists, its founder was the founder of one of the directions of Protestantism, Martin Luther. The great reformer Peter I brought the tradition of decorating the Christmas tree to Russia.

Initially, candles, fruits, cookies and paper crafts were used as decorations.

In the modern world there is such a huge number of decorations for the Christmas tree and for the room in general that it can be overwhelming: how to choose from all this tinsel and shiny decorative elements what is right for your home?

Our article is devoted to Christmas tree toys, but not ordinary ones, but those created independently, with your own hands. You cannot buy such original and unusual things in a store. Your Christmas tree will be decorated with exclusive, bright and original products, which will undoubtedly make the holiday even more memorable.

When it comes to handmade crafts, many can imagine incredibly high expenses on decorative details. We hasten to assure you that creating unusual and beautiful Christmas tree decorations is not only simple, easy and exciting, but also quite inexpensive. In our master classes we will talk in detail about crafts made from felt, scraps of fabric, sequins, threads, buttons, beads and even old computer parts or pasta.

We'll probably start with the most popular decoration - Christmas balls.

Christmas balls made of fabric

Do you have a bright colorful dress in your closet that you will never wear? Then feel free to grab the scissors and start creating. In order to make a Christmas ball from fabric, you will need:

• The basis. This could be a foam ball or even an old sock that needs to be stuffed tightly until you get a hard ball;
• Sheathing material;
• A rope or ribbon for a loop with which we will hang the ball on the Christmas tree;
• Glue (glue gun) or thread and needle.

There are many options for attaching fabric. Decorative trim can be sewn or glued. Its role can be strips of fabric gathered with frills, which need to be sewn in circles. You can cut the fabric into small squares and sew them to the base, grabbing only the center of each square. Place their centers closer to each other and you will get an adorable shaggy ball.

You can use burlap, old tablecloths, fabrics of any texture, quality and color.

Another option for decorating a Christmas ball can be buttons.

Choose bright colors and different sizes.

New Year's Christmas balls made of thread and lace

Another wonderful decoration can be balls of thread.

You will need:

• Balloon;
• PVA glue;
• Sequins;
• Iris type threads.

Making such a decoration is very simple. We inflate a ball of a size corresponding to the size of the future toy. Tie one end of the thread to it. The threads can be dipped in glue or covered with a brush. Leave some space near the base of the ball. Sprinkle glitter on top. We wait until the glue dries. Now all that remains is to pierce the ball and pull it out of the workpiece. All that remains is to hang our toy on a string or ribbon.

For needlewomen who know how to crochet, it will not be difficult to make such a magical openwork creation. We do it by analogy with threads, but here we glue the lace elements. Below we offer several diagrams for creating openwork details.

Decor of foam balls

We offer several decor options.

You will need:

• Foam base - ball;
• Thin felt in two shades;
• Sequins of bright colors;
• Pins with beautiful hats;
• Thin ribbons and hooks as fastenings;
• Corrugated paper;
• Beads;
• Needles and threads;
• Glue.

First we will make the decoration with felt. We have white and red colors (you can choose any others).

So, let's draw a sketch of a flower with five petals. Two options, larger and smaller. The photo shows a detailed master class.

The next decoration option will be sequins. We used pins to attach them. To make the ball more colorful and interesting, try using carnations with beautiful caps. It can be sparkles, pearls, you can glue rhinestones. Begin attaching in concentric rows so that each subsequent sequin overlaps slightly.

The photo shows the attachment method step by step.

To decorate another Christmas tree toy you can use tiny flowers made from crepe paper.

We take our foam ball base and attach a ribbon loop to it, with which we will later hang it on the Christmas tree.

You need to roll the paper into a roll and cut it into strips about 1 cm wide. Following the step-by-step photos, we roll up small roses from the resulting ribbons. We glue the base with it and cut off the unnecessary tail.

Now carefully glue the flowers onto the surface of the ball. To hide the gaps between the roses, we glued beads to match the paper and ribbon.

Next DIY Christmas ball we will do vintage style made of lace.

Required:

• Foam base;
• Small pieces of lace;
• Glue;
• White and black coffee paint;
• Brush;
• Pin with cap (base for Christmas tree decorations);
• Ribbons.

First, cover the foam ball with white paint. After it has dried, glue pieces of lace onto the workpiece in a random order. The next step will be covering our workpiece with brown paint. Paint in several parts to avoid staining your handles. When the paint begins to dry, take a cotton pad, moisten it with water and pass over the entire painted surface, wiping off excess paint. Wipe with different intensity. Somewhere there will be more paint, somewhere less, and the ball will have a delightful vintage, antique style.

We will decorate the next Christmas ball in high-tech style.

For this we need:

• An old CD (depending on the size of the ball, you will need to take several pieces);
• Plastic transparent Christmas ball;
• A small piece of golden satin fabric;
• Glue moment crystal.

We cut our disks into small pieces of arbitrary shape. We take our transparent ball and begin to glue the pieces of disks with a mirror surface facing outward. The location of the pieces does not matter; you glue them as your imagination dictates.

When the workpiece has dried, take out the cap with the loop on which the ball is hung, and place a golden satin ribbon or just a piece of fabric inside. We put the fastener back. Our ball is ready.

The next toy will be especially loved by all those with a sweet tooth. Christmas tree decoration in the form of a cupcake with a cherry.

You will need:

• Small foam balls;
• Bright cupcake tins (made of foil or paper);
• Glue gun;
• Skewers;
• Scarlet beads (better if they are pins);
• Large white sparkles.

Carefully coat the foam ball placed on a skewer with glue for ease of use. We roll our workpiece in glitter. Glue the loop. We are waiting for the glue to dry. Then take the muffin tins. This corrugated “skirt” can be made from foil or bought ready-made. We apply glue inside and place our workpiece. We decorate the top with a simple bead or pin (they also need to be glued). Our sweet Christmas tree decoration is ready.

On New Year's Eve, everything always sparkles, shines, shimmers with all the colors of the rainbow, and Christmas tree decorations are no exception. You probably have some beads or long-forgotten unnecessary jewelry at home, or maybe an old sweater with rhinestones that you will never wear. All shiny and iridescent elements can be cut off and safely used to decorate Christmas tree balls.

If you have rhinestones, crystals, bicone or beads, just place them on glue. To decorate with beads of different formats, you will need a foam ball base and pins with a cap larger than the diameter of the hole. The photo below shows in detail exactly how you can decorate a Christmas ball.

It's not just balls that are hung on the New Year's tree. It's snowing outside the window, and beautiful snowflakes are falling to the ground. And openwork graceful beauties decorate the Christmas tree. During the New Year holidays, the family spends a lot of time together, and it will be very fun and cool to make a snowflake with your own hands with the children. You can use safe and fun materials for this, like pasta.

DIY pasta snowflakes

You will need:

• Pasta of various shapes (shells, feathers, spirals, wheels);
• Bonding material (for small children - plasticine, for older ones - instant glue or PVA);
• Paints of various colors, silver and gold;
• Elements for decoration (semolina, granulated sugar, sparkles, beads and seed beads are suitable). The use of small parts is best done under adult supervision.

Since working with instant glue will be difficult for little ones, we suggest that little ones glue the pasta together with plasticine. Then paint and decorate.

For adults, there are several ways to create and decorate snowflakes from pasta.

One of them is as follows: glue the snowflake together as usual, then cover it with PVA glue and roll it in sugar, semolina or sprinkle it with nail glitter. They can be purchased at cosmetics stores or nail aesthetics salons.

Pasta snowflakes painted with gold or silver paint look very advantageous.

We have given several options for such products, but the imagination of needlewomen is limitless, so you and your family can create real masterpieces.

Are your children or do you love animals? You can decorate the Christmas tree adorable penguins made from old light bulbs.

You will need:

• Unusable and old damaged light bulbs;
• Paints;
• Paints;
• Brushes;
• A little glue;
• Thin ribbons.

Making a penguin from an old light bulb is very simple - just paint the light bulb. After the paint has dried, glue a ribbon in the form of a loop around the base. It will be convenient to hang our penguins on spruce branches. You can borrow hats and scarves from dolls or make them yourself and dress up the penguins.

In order to make hats for penguins or use as an independent decoration You will need:

• Thick threads (you can use leftover yarn from one of your products);
• Cardboard rolls from toilet paper.

We cut the cardboard blanks into rings. The width of the cap lapel will depend on the height of the ring.

Now cut the threads 30 cm long.

Fold the thread in half and thread it through the ring. Now we take the ends of the thread and make a loop (see photo). In this way we braid the entire cardboard blank. This is what we got.

We take all the thread tails and thread them into the ring (see photo). At some distance from the ring (about 1.5 - 2 cm), we tightly tie the entire bundle of threads. All that remains is to step back about 1 cm from the tie and cut off all the threads. We got a cute and funny hat with a bubo.

Another option Lovers of modern technology and computers will definitely be interested in this Christmas tree decoration.

You will need:

• Old computer parts (boards from game consoles, RAM, etc.);
• A drill with a thin drill bit (if not, a thin nail and hammer will do);
• Instant glue;
• Ribbons, connecting rings and decorative elements.

Using a drill we make several holes. We insert rings there, hang ribbons, bows and various decorations. At the other end we attach a loop, by which we will hang it on the Christmas tree.

Don't limit decorations to just these crafts. On the pages of our Club you will find a lot more ideas for creativity and inspiration, and your New Year will definitely turn out to be fabulous.

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Good afternoon! I hasten to please you with New Year's toy ideas, and for those who have not yet made gifts for the New Year, I recommend not to delay this for too long and choose them in this

Tell me, what do you prefer to give for New Year? What about receiving? Probably everyone really likes receiving toys for the Christmas tree, and just all kinds of them. I agree, I remember when I published a post about crafts for the upcoming holidays, so a lot of people sent me wishes and congratulations, so I also want to congratulate everyone on the upcoming holidays!

After writing my last post about New Year’s crafts, I received letters in the mail asking me to publish more options for what can be made from plasticine, and I’m sharing my experiences with you.

She's so beautiful!

Do you like to sculpt Christmas trees and snowmen? Then use these step-by-step instructions with photos:

Where would we be without Santa Claus, children simply love to see him at the holiday, and even more so to make crafts.

These are the kinds of compositions that can come out.

If you want, you can even sculpt Peppa Pig and her brother George from the cartoon.

You can make a dog lying near the Christmas tree, let it bring good luck and warmth to your home and become a talisman.

Such an affectionate and sad puppy girl.

Or playful Tuzik, what do you choose?

I remember once upon a time I had to work in a kindergarten, you understand that kindergartens are almost not funded, so at that time we made and decorated our group from whatever we could, from all sorts of things in general. It was ordinary polystyrene foam or they took cheap ceiling tiles and this is what happened:

Agree, there seems to be nothing difficult, but it also looks original, with a twist.

Toys made from salt dough are a little more complicated and time consuming.

Beautiful felt toys for the New Year tree

Now, as for felt, well, you can create a lot of ideas and find them on the Internet.

Their diagrams and patterns are quite simple, you can easily draw them yourself.

Funny little deer.

The Christmas tree is a forest beauty.

If you are interested in this Christmas tree, or this bookmark for books in the shape of a dog, then write to me below, I will send you templates and a diagram.

Felt Snow Maiden.

How do you like such wonderful creatures, if you decorate a Christmas tree with them, there are enlarged diagrams, they will appear soon in another post, or write to me and I will send them.

By the way, I was so fascinated by the topic of felt that I will soon write a separate article on this topic, so fans, wait, add my blog to bookmarks and rejoice with me))). By the way, if you need crocheted toys, then don’t hesitate to go here, there’s a whole bunch of them

Master class on paper crafts in the form of balls and lanterns

Who doesn't love balloons on the Christmas tree? Probably everyone just loves them, let's make a simple version.

You will need colored or multi-colored paper, scissors and glue. You will need to cut out 20 circles of the same size from it. And then follow this pattern, roll it up as shown in these pictures.

Then, as shown, glue with good glue, it is better to use ericruser or PVA.

There is another option for such a ball for a Christmas tree made of paper.

I’m also giving you the most popular type of balloon decoration, in this video everything is shown in great detail and clearly, you just have to repeat the necessary steps after the leader:

And here’s another super idea, you’ve definitely never seen anything like this before:

For schools and kindergartens I can offer such interesting lanterns that everyone probably knows and remembers.

And another masterpiece in the form of a garland, it is not something unimaginably beautiful. Watch this video from YouTube channel:

Paper toys for the New Year

The first place can rightfully be given to snowflakes of different types and in the origami style and volumetric options, who needs all sorts of ideas and templates, see snowflake patterns here

It is also easy to fold various figures from paper strips.

We make Christmas decorations for the Christmas tree with our own hands from plastic bottles and light bulbs

A fairly common craft, a souvenir, and someone will even give such a treasure as a gift, I recommend doing it yourself at home. Just be careful if you make a craft from a light bulb, it’s still not for children’s hands.

Plastic bottles will be safer and more durable.

Souvenirs from scrap materials

You can make a craft from wire and knitting threads.

As they say, an idea does not come alone, it pulls another.

From satin ribbons and beads, balls.

In just a couple of minutes you can fashion a gorgeous spruce tree out of cardboard. Cut out a Christmas tree shape from cardboard, use three templates, then tie it with thread.

Then glue the napkin onto the glue, after drying, paint it with gouache paint and decorate it with beads.

Cool magic rope star.

If you like to collect pine cones in the forest, then make this a gift.

It can also be made from foamiran.

Believe it or not, you can even make a souvenir from oranges.

Using cotton pads you can make an angel:

Video on how to make toys in the shibbe chic style

Well, I think you haven’t heard of this, so you can watch this miracle more clearly in this video and repeat it. It turns out indescribably beautiful, and most importantly it’s not particularly difficult, it’s reminiscent of decoupage.

That's all for me, if you want more ideas, then look in. Have a nice weekend everyone and see you soon. Bye bye!

Sincerely, Ekaterina Mantsurova

Even kids can take part in preparing for the New Year and making New Year's crafts with their own hands. For example, even a two-year-old can make a Christmas tree from an ordinary pine cone and plasticine. You just need to teach him to roll plasticine balls of different colors and attach them to the pine cone. The base of the Christmas tree is a spool of thread wrapped in foil.

Here are more complex versions of Christmas trees made from pine cones. In the first case, the cone was painted green and white with acrylic paint. In the second version, the pine cone was decorated with beads.

You can make your own Christmas trees from paper.

Print on thick paper or cardboard and cut out the blanks with scissors. Fold each Christmas tree in half and glue them together.

The openwork Christmas trees on the Country of Masters website are made using the same principle.

And here is an example of an original Christmas tree toy that can be given to friends and family as a New Year's souvenir or placed on the table as a New Year's decoration.

An interesting idea - a Christmas tree made of paper cones of different sizes inserted into each other.

The base of the tree is a cardboard tube from a used toilet paper roll, decorated with a ribbon.

Check out this red and gold paper tree.

Its base is a cardboard cone. You will need colored paper, tape, scissors and glue. The most time-consuming part of making this craft is cutting a large number of strips of colored paper of the same length and width. Each strip must be glued with glue to form a loop, after which all the loops must be attached to tape.

This tape will need to be wrapped in layers around the cone. Your DIY paper Christmas tree is ready!

You can cover a cardboard cone with paper circles of different shades of green. The result is a cute, scaly paper Christmas tree.

A curly Christmas tree is made by covering a cardboard cone with strips of rolled paper.

You can make an origami Christmas tree with your own hands using an old magazine.

If the cover is thick, it needs to be unfastened (or torn off).

We bend the upper right corner of each page at an angle of 45 degrees to ourselves.

Once again, fold the sheet in half diagonally.

We go through all the fold lines with a pencil or other object so that they do not open, especially if the pages are thick. We turn the bottom corner that extends beyond the borders of the magazine upward.

In this way we add up all the pages of the magazine.

The result is a cute origami Christmas tree.

A large Christmas tree to paint on the wall is offered by the website www.mrprintables.com. The individual parts of this Christmas tree must be printed on 22 A4 sheets and pasted on the wall in the correct sequence. The advantage of this New Year's paper craft is that the Christmas tree is made in black and white, so the printer's ink consumption is low. In addition, this New Year's coloring book with many small details will captivate the child for a long time.

A master class on making a very beautiful, unusual Christmas tree from napkins can be found.

The Country of Masters website suggests making Christmas trees from corrugated paper.

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You can also make a Christmas tree from yarn wrapped around a cardboard cone, pre-lubricated with glue. Use beads and sparkles as decoration.

A homemade Christmas tree can be sewn from fabric and decorated with small buttons instead of Christmas tree decorations. This New Year's craft looks very cute.

If you have a drill and a saw, and you know how to use them, then it won’t be too difficult for you to make such a cute craft. This mini-Christmas tree made from branches can be hung on a New Year's tree as a homemade toy, or you can give it to loved ones as an original hand-made New Year's gift.

And this New Year's beauty is made from a spruce branch and a cut tree.

And finally, one more idea for inspiration.

New Year and the beautiful green Christmas tree are inseparable concepts. It's time to review and update your toy inventory. We suggest not running to the store, but engaging in the exciting process of creating Christmas tree decorations and decorations with your own hands. The material can be found in every home - these are old glossy magazines, newspapers, unclaimed strings of beads, scraps of fabric, fur and felt. You can also use what you can collect on a walk - acorns, pine cones, beautiful twigs and even bird feathers. Armed with glue, scissors and your own imagination, you can make unique things in the handmade style, please your family, surprise your relatives and friends.

New life for old Christmas balls

In the box where Christmas tree decorations are stored, there will probably be balls that have lost their former attractiveness or are simply tired of them. Spend a few evenings doing some nice handicrafts and decorate them in a new way. The proposed ideas are not a strict New Year’s master class, where you need to strictly perform certain actions, but only tips for generating your own creative abilities.

Take old tatty balls, foam blanks, any round objects, burnt out light bulbs and get started. Possible options:

• wrap with scraps of fabric,
• cover with beads or shiny cord,
• paint with acrylic paints,
• draw abstract patterns with a gold or silver marker,
• fill transparent balls with buttons or other small objects,
• wrap with multi-colored threads.

Using bright yarn, you can make funny pom-poms, a New Year's star or a small Christmas tree.

Just fill small nails along the desired contour, soak the thread in starch or glue, wind it and let it dry - the decoration is ready.

Christmas trees, garlands, pine cones and New Year's cookies

Christmas trees can be made from cardboard, felt, buttons of different sizes, or from colored paper rolled into a tube. An ordinary garland will take the form of Chinese lanterns if you place each element in a box, which is assembled according to the instructions given.

A selection of photos will indicate the main direction, and new ideas will appear on their own. Just don’t put everything off until the last minute, but bring the New Year’s fairy tale into life right now.