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

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Target: Making a DIY snowman from popsicle sticks. Teach children to do crafts according to the pattern, to combine different materials in one crafts, fasten with sticks and glue. Develop fine motor skills, tactile and visual perception, attention, perseverance,...

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On our website, preschool workers share their ideas, conduct master classes, and introduce colleagues to non-traditional handicraft techniques. Take advantage of these materials and your mood will immediately become festive!

Craftswomen make garlands and cards, panels and Christmas tree decorations from the most unusual materials. It’s amazing how many different Christmas trees can appear in kindergarten: from dough, from disks, from candies, from waste material, from fabric, from beads and other materials. Invite the children to make a set of Christmas trees of different colors - they will be passionate about making them.

Handmade crafts will be stored for a long time. Many families have a tradition of collecting New Year's souvenirs to decorate the house for the next New Year, remembering the old one.

What could be more magical than a Christmas tree during the New Year and Christmas? In the evening, when the lights are turned off, a fairy tale begins in the mysterious flickering of lanterns in the branches. Everyone comes up with their own magical story.

For some, the nutcracker defeats the king of mice, for others, snowflakes dance in circles. We decided to compose a fairy tale about a Christmas tree elf. It will constantly change, acquire new plots, be supplemented with characters and, most likely, will be different every year. Only the beginning of our fairy tale will always be the same: - Once upon a time, in his cozy house, among the fluffy fir branches, there lived a little Christmas tree elf...

We decided to make such a fairy-tale house with our own hands today. Join us, because the fairy tale is already beginning!

For the walls we will take a rectangular piece from a cardboard box. Let's cut a hole for the window and mark a place for the door. We will strengthen the walls with “wild stone.” Take pieces of eggshell and glue it with PVA glue.

To make the appearance of our masonry more realistic, we need to imitate traces of cement mortar in the seams. And the shells will hold on tighter this way. We will cover the walls with regular gray toilet paper. When it dries, we clean off the excess, exposing the protruding parts of our “stones”.

When the scales of the cones stick well, we will attach a pipe, because there will probably be a fireplace or stove in the house so that our elf can live warm and can cook magic potions or porridge.

We twist the pipe from a small piece of cardboard and cover it with lentils, as if it were a fireproof pebble.

To make it even more important, we will make a ladder for the roof. It is made from the same toilet paper, twisted into flagella. Yes, we almost forgot about the frame for the window, let's cut it out of cardboard.

Now let's put the roof in place and paint the facade of the house. We will do this with regular gouache. Although acrylic will be better, it does not need to be varnished.

All that remains is to glue the finished fairytale house onto the base. Since we planned that our elf will have light in the window, we will cut a hole in the base for the LED.

We wanted to decorate the “yard”. Snow is cotton wool, and a snowman is made of it. A Christmas tree is that “torn” cone, painted green. This is not necessary; perhaps your elf will live in a hanging house. Then only the bottom and the loop will be useful.

We made such a fairy-tale house with our own hands in just one evening, and the little Christmas tree elf has already begun to live his own life. A bathhouse, a cellar, and even neighbors with their own houses have already been invented for him, this is a hedgehog and a squirrel.

Decoupage - decorating a bottle of champagne for the New Year

A gift made with your own hands is always original and unique. Do you want to surprise your loved ones? Decoupage a bottle of champagne. This New Year's craft will not go unnoticed.

For decoration you will need:

• A bottle of champagne;
• three-layer napkin with a New Year's motif;
• PVA glue;
• acrylic paint;
• decorations.

First of all, you need to clean the bottle from stickers. To do this, put it in a container of warm water and leave it for a while.

Cover the entire open surface of the bottle with acrylic paint. The first layer can be applied with a brush. After drying, we paint the bottle a second time, but use a piece of sponge (“smack it”).

In just an hour, the acrylic paint will dry, so you can remove the tape from the neck and proceed to the next stage of decoration. Take a decoupage napkin and tear out the selected fragment of the design from it.

We remove the two bottom layers from the napkin, and place the top one face down on a stationery file. Carefully pour some water over the drawing, straightening out all the wrinkles.

Smooth the file with your hands. We make sure that the napkin is securely fixed on the surface, and then carefully remove the file from the bottle.

We dilute PVA glue with water in a ratio of one to one. Apply this solution to the entire surface with the pattern using a brush. Its movements should be from the center to the edges, we try to smooth out all the wrinkles and expel the bubbles.

After the glue has completely dried, take fine sandpaper (preferably “zero”) and carefully sand the contours of the napkin. We also process those places where unevenness has formed.

Next, take a sponge or a piece of foam rubber, dip it in acrylic paint, and “smack” it along the edges of the pattern fragment. In this way we try to disguise the transition from the napkin to the main surface of the bottle.

The work is almost complete, all that remains is to add some “zest”. For example, glue a ribbon to the neck. The easiest way to do this is with a glue gun. The braid will not only complete the entire ensemble, but will also close the transition from paint to foil.

Plasticine mittens - winter craft

What could be warmer and more pleasant than warm woolen mittens that warm your hands on a frosty day. If you make them with your own hands, for example, from plasticine, then such a craft can rightfully be considered a winter craft. With these mittens you can catch a magical winter fairy tale, because they are made with love and will definitely come in handy as a gift made from the heart.

On the eve of the New Year, copies of Christmas trees, Father Frost and Snow Maiden are usually made. The mittens offered are unique, the craft is not similar to others. And it will be all the more interesting to make it with children, especially since it is so simple.

What you need to use to sculpt mittens:

• white and blue plasticine;
• a small strip of lace to create a believable knitted texture;
• toothpick.

How to make mittens from plasticine
The white and blue set is a very good option for sculpting the chosen craft. Mittens should be woolen, knitted, cozy. They are indispensable in the cold season, when there are snowdrifts on the streets, the sun shines brightly, but does not warm. We definitely buy new accessories for ourselves and never go out without taking this important thing.

First, make soft pellets to create the top of the craft. You need to prepare 2 balls of different sizes. The larger one will be for the palm, the smaller one for the thumb cell. Soften the plasticine in your hands and immediately proceed to the next step.

Press down the larger and smaller white pieces to form flat cakes. Then, on one side, lightly squeeze on both sides, on the other, on the contrary, round and smooth with your fingers. Lock your palm and thumb together. Smooth out the joint. The body of the craft itself is ready. You shouldn't stop at this stage either. You need to act quickly while the plasticine is still warm. Now we need to create a knitted texture.

Make the bottom part - blue cuffs for accessories. Pull two blue pieces into flat cakes.

While the plasticine on the white part of the craft has not yet hardened, make a lace surface, or rather, an imitation of it, using a piece of lace. Press the lace onto the soft plasticine and apply slight pressure with your fingers to its surface. After you remove the fabric, an imprint will remain on the soft surface that will be very similar to the desired texture.

Instead of lace, something knitted, such as a napkin or even socks, will also work. Experiment and be surprised, because this is such an unusual way of applying a relief pattern to a plasticine surface.

Make both mittens textured. On a blue background, use a toothpick to also create a knitting effect by drawing small notches.

Pin the mittens together to complete your craft project.

An interesting winter option for children's creativity is done very quickly. In the process of working, children will learn not only to create parts of different shapes and sizes from plasticine, but also to create unusual relief designs on a smooth surface. Now think about what other plasticine-knitted items you can make. For example, model a hat or sweater using the same scenario.

New Year's deer made of felt - DIY craft

New Year's deer is a very common symbol of the upcoming holiday. A soft toy in the shape of this cute animal, made with your own hands, can serve as both an excellent decoration for the New Year tree and a pleasant souvenir given with all your heart.

The process of sewing a deer is a very exciting activity and, at the same time, quite simple, which even a primary school student can handle.

For work we will need the following materials:

1. Medium density felt, brown or gray;
2. paper;
3. pen or thin chalk;
4. threads to match the felt or in a contrasting color;
5. padding polyester or other filler;
6. ready-made eyes or beads;
7. sequins, beads or beads.

Draw the silhouette of a deer on paper or print out a ready-made template and cut it out.

We transfer the image onto felt and carefully cut it out in duplicate.

We are preparing decor that will make the deer brighter and more festive. In our case, the decoration is a snowflake crocheted from the remnants of red thread. We cast on 11 air loops and close them into a ring, then perform 14 sc (single crochet) inside the ring.

Using a double crochet (dc), we knit a “flower”, trying to distribute all the stitches evenly.

In the formed arcs between the dc we knit 5 dc, between which we make arches of 10 dc. loops

We tie the resulting element sc, knitting a picot from 3 air. loops approximately in the middle of the arch.

Iron the resulting snowflake with a hot iron, trying to give it the correct shape.

Sew a snowflake to one side of the deer. The middle of the snowflake can be decorated with sequins and beads or a button.

Glue on the eyes.

We prepare the padding polyester and sew the blanks together, starting with the horns. It should be noted that there is no need to stuff the toy with padding polyester too tightly, as this may cause the seams to become uneven.

New Year's souvenir is ready!

DIY New Year's topiary

DIY candles - crafts for the New Year

Candles have always been an integral attribute of any holiday or romantic evening. After each celebration, you most likely throw away candle stubs that could have been put to good use. If you have accumulated candle stubs, you can make new candles with your own hands.

Necessary materials:

• Old candles;
• toothpicks;
• small sticks;
• molds.

You need to melt the wax until it becomes completely liquid. To do this, place the wax in molds in a water bath.

Preparing the molds.

When the wax has already become liquid, pour it into the prepared molds.

You can use a cotton thread as a wick, or take it from old candles. To prevent it from floating, take a metal holder from an old candle and attach the wick.

Then we dip it in wax.

Place any stick on top to secure the wick.

Let the candles dry for a day.

When the candles are dry, remove them from the molds. To do this, put them in boiling water for a few seconds.

To decorate the candles, I used gold ribbon and paper napkin. After I wrapped the candles, they became more festive.

To decorate the candle in the glass, I used a Christmas tree decoration, tying it to the glass.

In this simple way you can make New Year's candles with your own hands. You can experiment with different molds, or decorate finished candles with coffee beans.

Step-by-step master class with photos on how to make it -.

DIY New Year's composition with hats

Create a New Year's atmosphere in your home with a fun arrangement of miniature hats. This master class is ideal for creative activities with children.

Necessary materials:

1. Multi-colored knitting threads;
2. a cylinder made of thin cardboard;
3. white acrylic paint;
4. dry branch without leaves;
5. glass bottle of wine or champagne.

Let's make hats from threads. Take a cardboard cylinder and cut it into rings 1.5–2 cm wide. You can also make rings yourself from thick paper, fixing them with a stapler.

Cut 30 cm of thread and fold it in half. You will need approximately 30–40 such pieces, depending on the diameter of the ring.

Thread the thread, folded in half, into the paper ring. Pass its ends through the formed loop and tighten the resulting knot.

Tie the remaining threads on the ring in the same way. Try to place them close to each other, avoiding the formation of gaps.

When the ring is completely braided, thread the ends of the threads through it, as if turning it inside out.

Tie the ends of the threads using an additional thread of the same color.

Trim the ends of the threads, forming a neat pompom on the hat.

Straighten the cap from the inside, making it more voluminous. Fluff the pompom.

Make hats in other colors in the same way.

Let's make a small winter composition. To do this, you will need a small dry branch, which can be found in the park.

Paint it white, creating the effect of a snow-covered winter branch. Leave it to dry.

Take an empty glass bottle and apply 2 coats of acrylic paint evenly, being careful not to leave very visible brush strokes. Let it dry completely.

Putting the composition together. Place the branch in the bottle. Put caps on small branches. You can decorate the branch with threads and beads.

Detailed master classes with step-by-step photographs are here.

Wreath for New Year and Christmas from willow branches

The next master class is “Do-it-yourself Christmas wreath.”

To make the decoration we will take the following materials:

• Willow twigs (medium thickness);
• New Year's tinsel;
• cones;
• items for decorating cones (paints, glitter, beads, rhinestones, etc.);
• moment glue, thin copper wire or nylon threads for attaching decorative elements.

Important! To prevent the vine from breaking, you need to weave it as soon as it is broken. If the branches dry out, nothing will work.

Let's start forming the wreath.

We take several thin branches (long ones) at once and form a ring, intertwining them with each other.

If it doesn’t immediately turn out to be the correct shape, don’t be upset; with subsequent weaving, the ring will even out. It is necessary to weave the vine by securing the end between the rods of the previous circle.

Thus, we continue to weave the wreath to the required size.

The basis for the festive wreath is ready, now you can move on to the decoration.

We take tinsel and wrap the finished ring so that the gaps are visible. At the bottom of the wreath we leave a little space for attaching decorative cones.

Let's move on to decorating the cones. To do this, you can use everything you have enough imagination for (paints, rhinestones, beads, ribbons, glitter, and so on).

The end result was these beautiful decorative cones.

To attach the cones to the wreath, you can use instant glue, thin copper wire or nylon thread. In my case, moment glue was used.

That's all, the wreath is ready for the festive decoration of the house. A minimum of effort and time was spent, but maximum pleasure was gained from spending time.

You can even get the whole family involved. This way everything will be much more interesting.

New Year's crafts - DIY felt boots

You can put a New Year's gift for your child in a felt boot that you sew with your own hands.

You can hang this textile decor on a Christmas tree or a doorknob.

To work you will need:

1. A piece of fabric;
2. edging for top;
3. decorative braid and beads for decoration.

If the fabric is thin, you can make the felt boots double - lined, it will look more voluminous and presentable.

Decide on the size of your boot. Re-make the felt boots pattern. It is as simple as possible, you can draw it yourself, leave a little space for seam allowances.

Since in this case the fabric chosen for the felt boots was raincoat fabric, the pattern was also transferred to the lining.

Secure the fabric with pins, sew along the line, and cut out the blank.

In the rounded areas, carefully make cuts with sharp scissors. Turn the boots inside out.

Felt or a thin strip of fur is suitable for edging. The remains of coat fabric are used here.

Decorate your boot with snowflakes or applique. Sew on a loop so that the felt boots can be hung. Make the buboes from a small piece of bouclé, collected and sewn into a ball.

Such a boot can be useful not only as packaging, but also as decoration.

New Year's boot with a bunny

New Year's gifts are the most desirable for all children. They write letters to Santa Claus, asking him to give them toys and sweets. Then they expect all their desires to be fulfilled. A good wizard always responds to their requests. Under the Christmas tree on New Year's Eve, children find plush bunnies and bear cubs, dolls and baby dolls. You can also make a gift in the form of a craft with your own hands from any materials available for children’s creativity, for example, plasticine.

This lesson shows the stages of making a plasticine craft for the New Year in the form of a bright boot with a bow, filled with gifts, the main one of which is a white bunny.

To sculpt a New Year's gift, prepare:

• white, red, blue, black, green plasticine;
• tool.

How to make a New Year's craft from plasticine

The plasticine set contains not just bars, but a whole treasure, toys, accessories, even gifts for the New Year. It’s easy to make all the products yourself, having detailed instructions at hand, which is what this detailed master class is. Fantasize and enjoy the creative process.

To begin, take red plasticine and knead it thoroughly in your hands. Form a boot from the soft mass. Pull the mass into a cylindrical part, then pull out the resulting cylinder on one side and press it with your fingers at a right angle.

In the right places, simply smooth the surface of the boot, giving it a believable appearance. The base of the craft is ready. Of course, in reality, the part should be hollow inside, but we will not cut a hole, and we will simply place the bunny toy on top, or rather, we will only make its upper part.

To decorate your New Year's product, pull out several threads of white, green, and blue. Roll out the soft mass with your fingers with light pressure, pressing it onto a hard surface.

Use a thin green sausage to make a edging for the boot top. Use a blue sausage to model a bow - it will look very beautiful on a gift. Twist the white and red sausages into a flagellum. Press down over the entire surface. Trim off the excess on both sides. Then bend it so that you get Santa Claus's staff.

Form blanks for the top part of the bunny figurine. For a plush toy we will show only the head with long ears and front paws. Use white plasticine for modeling.

Glue white cheeks onto the head ball and pierce them with a toothpick, showing the hairiness. Attach black eyes and nose. Shape the remaining white pieces into the shape of ears and paws.

Glue the parts to the top of the red boot so that the impression remains that the bunny is sitting inside and just looking out.

Add the decorative elements prepared earlier. Place a white and red staff near the bunny's head. Add a bow to the top of the boot.

A unique plasticine gift dedicated to your favorite holiday - New Year - is ready. Having made the same base, you can put a bear or a gingerbread man in the boot. Any option will be welcome and so cute.

You can also involve children in making the following New Year crafts. Such joint creativity will bring great joy to both children and parents. After all, for the winter holidays you want to decorate your home in a special way. You don’t need to master complex needlework techniques; you can try to make something interesting from plain white paper.

As children, we all learned to cut out lace snowflakes from paper folded in several layers. But decorating your home with snowflakes is too banal and simple. Use your imagination and let the openwork weaves turn into dresses for graceful ballerinas soaring under the ceiling.

For work you will need the following materials:

• Sheets of white paper;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• fishing line

First, on paper, draw with a pencil the silhouettes of graceful ballerinas who raise their legs and move their arms to the sides. Or download ready-made ballerina templates. Cut out their images along the outline. Then make the most delicate snowflakes so that they are fluffy and light.

Try to cut the hole in the center so that the ballerina can fit into it. Glue snowflakes at the dancers' waist level.

Watch the video tutorial on how to make such a New Year's decoration - ballerina snowflakes with your own hands.

Volumetric foam snowflakes

The same openwork snowflakes made of paper are taken as a basis, the design is transferred, for example, to polystyrene foam or polystyrene foam. Using a sharp knife, all the necessary elements are cut out, and the result is unusually beautiful, voluminous snowflakes.

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Crafts can be made from absolutely any materials: felt, paper, thread, pine cones, etc.

We create the most important and valuable things with our own hands and, of course, they are preserved as a memory. What did this child and you do in different years? You can even build a chronology. Or you can work hard once and save a lot on holiday decor. Decorate the Christmas tree with homemade felt figures or balls of thread, completely creating a designer design option.

And how will your children remember the evenings before the holiday, which they spent together preparing and creating masterpieces?

Knowing how busy moms and dads are these days, I picked out some quick but beautiful craft options. Which are not embarrassing to show and are easy to do.

A very easy craft to make. Another option for an interesting dog made from pompoms.

I suggest making a cute dachshund out of paper and toilet paper rolls.

We will need:

• Brown and orange colored paper
• 1 bushing
• Plasticine
• Double sided tape

Cut out a semicircle with a diameter of 8 centimeters and roll it into a cone. This will be the head of our dog.

Now we cut out a rectangle of brown paper measuring 12*20 cm and paste it over the sleeve, bending the ends inward.

Now we cut out 2 ears in the form of elongated ovals, a long tail and 4 strips from orange paper, which we will fold into paws. The size of the strips is 2*20 cm.

Glue the ears to the cone.

Glue the tail and legs to the sleeve.

We make the paws like this: we take a strip and wrap it around a finger or around the body of a glue pencil, spreading the top layer with glue to secure the circle.

Now we attach a nose to the head from black plasticine, and make eyes from white and green.

We glue the head to the body with double-sided tape and that’s it.

DIY “Shoe of Santa Claus” for kindergarten and school

Plastic bottles are in vogue this holiday! We make bells out of them, and then we make containers for gifts.

And today you can quickly sew a presentable craft from scrap materials for a kindergarten or school.

Only it is better to take fabric in bright colors. And it will be faster if you use a glue gun.

We make a Santa Claus shoe from a plastic bottle.

We will need:

• Plastic bottle
• Red cloth
• Braid and decor
• Sheet of cardboard

We cut the bottle into three parts: we need a bottom and an oblong body. You can leave the neck of the bottle for the “Bell” craft.

We measure the approximate length from the beginning of the bottom to the heel of the future shoe and cut out a base in the form of a foot from cardboard. You can trace the contours of the bottles directly onto the cardboard.

We cut out the sole and cover it with red fabric.

Measure the diameter of the bottom and cut out the same circle from the fabric with an allowance of three cm. The top needs to be sewn up so that the fabric gathers in shape.

We cover the bottom with fabric and sew it to the sole.

Now we take the tube from the body of the bottle and also cover it or cover it with fabric with hot glue (do not seal the seam at the bottom at a distance of 3-4 cm). You can use Crystal glue. And we also sew or glue the covered part to the base - the sole.

All that remains is to decorate all the seams and voids. To do this, use braid, cones, tinsel, and Christmas tree branches.

Shoe height may vary.

You can also not glue it inside, but collect it on top with a ribbon, like a bag for sweets.

How to make beautiful New Year's crafts from paper

I suggest making not only a paper craft, but a whole voluminous New Year’s decor. Believe me, it is not difficult as it might seem at first glance.

It is better to use beautiful cardboard. You can buy it a little thicker than normal at a scrapbooking and craft store.

We will make a wonderful Christmas tree from cardboard. But you need double-sided cardboard.

Now we draw a Christmas tree template.

1 side of the Christmas tree 7 cm.

5 sides of 6 cm, edges match the bottom of the first template.

Now we make three cuts to the middle of the Christmas tree: the distance between them is 0.5 - 1 cm. The middle cut is one centimeter higher than the side ones.

The first template has slits at the bottom.

Three have slits at the top, two at the bottom.

We begin to thread the Christmas tree into each other.

1 template is the center. Thread into each incision one by one. First to the leftmost one, then the middle one, and so on until the Christmas tree is assembled.

Such a Christmas tree can be large or more voluminous and made from thicker cardboard or plywood, if you have a craftsman who can do any work and even cut and sand the workpiece for you.

Children's crafts for the New Year

The New Year is symbolized by figures of deer, Father Frost and Snow Maiden, sleighs, gifts, Christmas trees and balls.

Therefore, you can quickly make a Santa Claus figurine using the origami technique.

A small child of four years old needs help making straight folds, otherwise the Frost may not work out, and the child will be upset. All of these techniques perfectly improve fine motor skills and hand control.

Take a sheet of paper, it should be two-color. Square size 10*10 cm.

We draw diagonals on the square by turning a corner on one side and repeating the same on the other.

We work on the white side.

Fold the top corner towards the center.

Now we turn the corner to the edge. Let's expand it and see the lines.

Now let's wrap the bottom edge up to this line and turn it.

Let's check it this way.

We wrap the lower part to the already folded edge and make a fold back to the bottom point.

The lapel looks like this.

Now we turn the workpiece over to the front side, we need to wrap the side part. We wrap a small strip on one side and the same on the other.

Now we turn the side parts at an angle to the center line.

All that remains is to make Grandfather's hand. We wrap the protruding edges.

Roll diagonally.

Now, when you unfold the figure, you will see that it is already Santa Claus. All that remains is to draw the nose and eyes.

A garland of such Frosties will look very interesting.

You can take cotton pads and make three-dimensional crafts on cardboard. They paint perfectly and are glued with ordinary PVA glue, which... As we know, it is absolutely non-toxic.

Here's another idea: using cotton pads you can make a cute polar bear.

Also look at what a cute little sheep can be made from cotton swabs, paper and a wooden clothespin.

Interesting crafts are also created from ice cream sticks. You can ask for them in any supermarket; they are usually given with popsicles.

The snowflake is glued together with hot glue. We paint it in the desired colors and hang our craft on a wall or window.

You can sprinkle it with glitter or shiny varnish. You can also put a garland on it or glue other New Year's decor: light balls, braid, cones, twine or gold braid.

Another version of the snowflake in the photo below.

And more options.

Another interesting craft option that we also use for home decor is hanging cardboard snowflakes.

You can do.

SIMPLE CRAFTS FOR THE NEW YEAR: GARLANDS

For example, candlestick made of pine cones It’s very simple to do: cut off the top of the cone, grease each remaining scale with PVA glue and sprinkle it with glitter, after drying, brush off the excess glitter with a brush and place a small candle inside the cone. You can make a composition of candlesticks on a tray.

From ordinary glass transparent jars left over from pickles (not 3-liter ones, of course) you can make stunningly beautiful candlesticks.

You can paint them with acrylic paints, cover them with tinsel and beads, cinnamon sticks, or knit a “sweater” for them. In any case, the candlestick will turn out very beautiful, cozy, and homely. There will be no warmth from it, as such, but there will be spiritual warmth.

NEW YEAR'S SNOW GLOBE WITH YOUR HANDS

Glass jars can be used not only for a candlestick, but also for a classic snow globe, inside which you can place whatever your heart desires. We will tell you about the classic New Year's ball.

To create it you will need: a jar with a lid, glycerin, artificial snow, sparkles, stars, sequins, tinsel, polystyrene foam, various figurines and glue.

The first step is to decorate the lid: glue figures to it, creating a New Year's composition (the figures can be anything - Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Elves, deer, sleigh, house, Christmas trees, Rooster, snowman, bunnies, wolves, bears and other living creatures. Pour into a jar artificial snow created from foam, sparkles, stars and other shiny nonsense.

Pour glycerin diluted with water in a 1:1 ratio into the jar, close the lid tightly and turn it over. Your New Year's ball is ready. Place it in a visible place and enjoy.

TREE LAMP FROM A CONE

You can do such a miracle yourself, just scratch through the bottom of the barrel and find a small piece of paper, decorative mesh, threads, beads, ribbons, small toys.

Roll a piece of paper into a cone, glue it well, cut out holes (for example, in the form of stars or circles) and decorate it to your liking. You can wrap the cone with threads, decorative mesh, stick beads, paint it, hang toys, etc. Place a flashlight or LED lamp inside the cone. Simple, beautiful, unusual and New Year's style.

You can find other cool crafts for home decoration from our photos.

Here you will find both New Year's crafts made from paper and crafts from unusual materials. Making such crafts will be interesting for both the youngest children (from 2 to 3 years old) and older children.

• Volumetric Christmas tree toys made of paper

For this craft, it is better to take the simplest templates - stars, Christmas trees, bells, balls, etc. It is necessary to prepare 4 templates for each Christmas tree decoration in advance. It is important that all 4 patterns are absolutely identical and symmetrical! Therefore, before cutting out, for example, a Christmas tree from paper, fold the piece of paper in half, and draw half of the Christmas tree on it, and then cut it out folded.

When the templates are ready (older children can cut them out themselves), invite your child to glue Christmas tree decorations from them. Don't forget to glue a ribbon or string inside so that the toy can be hung on the Christmas tree!

• Christmas tree toys made from dough

The process of making such toys is in many ways similar to baking. If your little one loves playing with dough, this craft is definitely for you.

To ensure that the toys are strong and can be painted, you need to prepare a special salty dough . There are many variations of salt dough recipes. But the main thing to remember when choosing a recipe: the more salt you add, the stronger and rougher the dough becomes. For drying simple Christmas tree decorations (as in the photo), in my opinion, this recipe is perfect:

1 cup flour

1 cup salt (Extra)

½ glass of water

If you plan to make toys with many small embossed parts, then you will need more. Soft dough is also good for playing if you do not plan to dry the toys at all.

So, having prepared the dough, roll it out and use molds to cut out figures from it. Don't forget to fasten the thread or ribbon inside the toy. To do this, make a small hole at the top with a knife or secure the thread at the back with a small extra piece of dough. You can also use a paperclip instead of thread.

You can dry the figures at room temperature, but this process will be very long (several days, or even weeks). The process will go faster if you put your Christmas tree decorations near the radiator, or even better, in the oven. At the same time, the temperature in the oven should be very low so that the toys do not crack. We dried the figures in the oven at 50 degrees with the door ajar, it took about 4 hours. It is important to place toys in and out of the oven when it is cold to avoid sudden temperature changes.

After drying, paint the toys with acrylic paints or gouache.

DIY Christmas tree decorations made from walnuts

For such New Year's toys, first of all, you need even halves of a walnut shell. Next, you need to prepare appropriate templates from cardboard - the silhouette of a turtle, fish, bear, sun, etc. The child is required to paint the shell with suitable paint (it is better to use acrylic paints or gouache) and attach them to a cardboard template. This is convenient to do using plasticine.

DIY bird feeder made from a plastic bottle

For a feeder competition for kindergarten, my daughter and I made just such a bird feeder.

Generally speaking, the majority of the feeders at the kindergarten competition were very sophisticated, and even an adult would have to work very hard to build them. When thinking about the idea of ​​decorating a feeder, I, as usual, was guided by the principle of accessibility for a small child. In fact, all you need to know to create such a feeder is to paint the bottle. And indeed Tasya enjoyed coloring the snowman from start to finish. But, of course, I helped her with this, and also painted on the eyes and carrots.

For the feeder we needed a five-liter plastic bottle and acrylic paints (the bottle is covered with one layer of paint).

It seems to me that this is the most popular craft on the Internet now. This is not surprising, because despite its festive appearance, the ball is quite simple to make. The main thing is to know a few secrets. First of all, you will need a glass jar (preferably close in shape to a ball) and a beautiful figurine that fits the size of the jar; for us it is a candle in the shape of a snow-covered Christmas tree. You will also need glitter, super glue or a glue gun, and glycerol(liquid), it is sold at the pharmacy.

Glycerin is necessary for the glitter to fall slowly and smoothly. When choosing sparkles, buy the smallest and lightest ones; large stars and other decorations will sink to the bottom of the jar too quickly.

First, you need to glue the figurine to the lid with glue (our candle did not succumb to super glue, but a glue gun coped with the task). Then fill the jar with water almost to capacity, add glycerin and glitter. Then screw the lid on and enjoy the beauty. Perhaps, here the adult only uses super glue; the child can handle everything else.

New Year's applications made from unusual materials

In fact, the materials are not so unusual, we always have them at hand - cotton wool, cotton balls, cotton pads, pieces of sponge, napkins, semolina. Applications with these materials look very wintery. Let me give you a few examples.

• Craft for the New Year “Snowflake” from pieces of sponge

For younger children, you can mark the lines on paper in advance on which to glue the sponge pieces.

Another option for winter crafts made from cotton pads.

• Mittens with cotton appliqué and lacing

For this craft, mom needs to make a preparation in advance: cut out mitten templates from cardboard and make holes in them with a hole punch.

Taisiya (she is now 3 years 2 months old) has lately had a real passion for embroidery on cardboard, so she made this craft with special pleasure.

• Winter craft from paper and napkins