The calendar established by Julius Caesar determined the beginning of the year on the first of January. Under the Roman Empire, this day received its meaning, later turning into a New Year holiday. As the Gregorian calendar spread across countries, the celebration became popular among many nations.
On the eve of the holiday, everyone is waiting for changes. They convince themselves that the coming year will be better. On New Year's Eve they want to believe in a fairy tale, they dream about their deepest desires. People prepare for this day, decorate the Christmas tree, and select gifts. A celebration is not complete without crafts. After all, a souvenir bought in a store cannot be compared to one made with one’s own hands, so such a gift is the most valuable.
Symbol of the year made of felt
Preparations for the celebrations begin in advance. The symbol of the coming 2019 is the pig, which, according to traditional characteristics, brings good luck. For the holiday, it is appropriate to prepare products that correspond to iconic figures. Thin felt (felt) is chosen as the main material for the toy. A homemade yellow earth pig made of felt will be a delightful gift for loved ones and relatives.
To make a three-dimensional pig, you need a minimum of tools and raw materials. First of all, you will need felt, which makes up the “skin” (outer shell), filler (foam rubber, cotton wool, unnecessary pieces of fabric), buttons to imitate eyes, threads for sewing crafts, scissors for a pattern. Flat products do not require any fillers. The craft can be made in the form of a souvenir, keychain, case, or even a panel.
To make a pig, and at the same time it turns out beautiful, you will need to use templates. They are cut out of cardboard and attached to the fabric from which the blanks are made using pins. First, the animal's muzzle is sewn together from the resulting shapes. Eyes, ears, mouth, and snout are sewn to it. The prepared product is filled with filler, preferably made from padding polyester or holofiber.
Ideas for creating candlesticks
On New Year's Eve, the lights are often turned off, leaving only sparkling garlands and flickering lights of lit candles. In this way an emotional atmosphere is created and bliss is achieved. But a naked candle looks dull. In such a situation, a candlestick will help. A handmade product gives a feeling of warmth and home comfort.
There are a lot of ideas for creating candlesticks, as well as their frames. Let's look at some of them:
- Restoration of old factory products. If there are candlesticks left in the house that have been passed down through generations, or were once bought and forgotten, they can be given a special look by resorting to decoration. You can use fabrics, ribbons, and napkins as decorations. They can be covered with jewelry, wrapped with rope, and ribbons attached;
- Wooden logs. If you make a hole in them for a candle, it will be a unique masterpiece made from natural materials. The log can be used as a separate element, they can be assembled into a composition on stands, or decorated with branches;
- Glasses. The candle can be placed both inside and on its base. They can be decorated with ribbons and lace, played with flowers, covered with rhinestones, or installed with an interesting toy inside;
- Fruits. In addition to its aesthetic appearance, such a candlestick will give a pleasant aroma.
The tradition originates from the legend of St. Nicholas, when he threw a gold bar through the chimney into the socks of three sisters on Christmas Day. The boots should hang by the fireplace, but this is not important; they can be placed above the children's bed, under the spruce tree. Those who behaved well during the past year will receive a gift.
The Christmas stocking is not only intended for gifts and sweets, but first of all it is a decorative element. Therefore, there are many options for their manufacture. First you need to decide on the fabric for the boot. Felt, fur, and cotton are more in demand. A special place is occupied by knitted boots or those made of leather.
Having chosen the material and sewn the New Year's boot, they begin to decorate it. Embroidery, appliqués, stripes, beads, ready-made mini-toys, and ribbons are used as decoration. Making a boot is a creative activity that the whole family can do.
What would a holiday be without sweet pleasure? And also beautifully decorated. The motives for decoration are chosen according to the celebration. Traditional images of a chocolate bar in the form of Santa Claus, twisted lollipops, candies on a Christmas tree are memories from the childhood of any parent. It is on this day that I want to convey a festive mood to children who are also looking forward to the New Year, and just a gift will not satisfy them.
Various decorations are made from sweets. For example, you can bake the most ordinary cake, decorate it with candies in the shape of snowflakes, draw a New Year’s motif from cream or chocolate, and package it beautifully. Or make cupcakes, decorating them in the shape of a snowman. Cupcakes are good to use to create reindeer. Bake cookies in the shape of snowflakes or frosty patterns.
If you use your imagination, you can even create entire compositions of sweets. These can be candy trees, additionally decorated with fabrics, appliqués, and branches. A log house made of round-shaped cookies, dipped in white chocolate to imitate snow. Ships, bouquets of flowers, sleighs, imitation fruits and many other crafts also work well.
The celebration will not be complete without the main symbol. There will always be adherents of traditional spruce or pine in the house, but even they are not alien to making additional decorations in the form of their favorite tree. Crafts are made in completely different sizes; the product can fit on a shelf or take the place of a standard attribute.
It is impossible to combine in one expression the variety of objects and materials from which you can make an artificial spruce with your own hands. There are a lot of ideas. Even plastic cups and glass jars are used as raw materials. The most daring ideas are to make an imitation of wood from hot pepper pods, beans, springs from an old bed, spokes from a bicycle wheel, horse shoes, computer motherboards. There are a lot of options. Let's look at the most common of them:
From paper
A paper Christmas tree is the simplest and most budget option. For production, you can take colored, corrugated paper, use old books, newspapers, cardboard boxes. Images and inscriptions on the sheet do not play a special role. The finished product can be plain or colorful. When working with a Christmas tree, any type of paper processing is used: papier-mâché, origami, collage, quilling, modeling, three-dimensional applications.
There are many master classes on creating paper Christmas trees. For example, when making a three-dimensional product, you will need a compass with which to draw a circle on a piece of cardboard, scissors, glue, and colored paper. The cardboard circle is cut in half and rolled into a cone. The edges are glued together, you can additionally fasten them with a stapler. The finished base serves as the base for a future toy; fluffy spirals, toilet paper balls, colored roses, and twisted strips can be applied to it. Decorate with rain, ribbons, and homemade toys.
From threads
You can literally make a Christmas tree from scrap materials. There are several ways to assemble a craft. To do this you will need thick paper or cardboard, scissors, glue, a set of threads and needles. The installation technique is as follows:
- A cone is made from a piece of whatman paper or cardboard;
- The base is wrapped in oilcloth or a polyethylene bag;
- Threads coated with glue are randomly wound around the cone, starting from the bottom;
- At the final stage, you need to dry the craft and remove the paper base.
You can decorate your Christmas tree with different components. Anything will do - candies, colored cereals, multi-colored buttons, beads, sequins, lace, paper snowflakes, rain of different shades. To make the composition more original, you can place a lamp, lantern, or light bulb inside.
The product is fragile and should not be heavily loaded. It can have different heights, but the color design should be standard, in green tones.”
From forest cones
The cones do not have a solemn appearance, but you just need to use your imagination and show a little ingenuity, and the natural material will turn into a luxurious spruce. Anyone can make such a decoration or a holiday gift. Finding raw materials will also not be difficult; to do this, just go for a walk in the forest or city park, planting. Trees also grow near multi-storey buildings and buildings owned by city authorities.
A simulated tree can consist of one cone mounted on a base (cork, branch, pot), or represent an entire composition. To create a three-dimensional product, you will need fir or pine cones, paints, paint brushes, glue, a disk or cardboard for the base, and decoration items.
Before starting work, the cones must be processed. To keep them closed, they are coated with glue; if you need open ones, you should place the raw materials in the oven for a couple of hours or boil them in boiling water for half an hour. The master class on creating a three-dimensional spruce is as follows: the first row of cones, which consists of the largest shoots, is glued in a circle onto a base made of cardboard cut out in the shape of a disk. The next row is more difficult to install, since here the cones have to be glued together. This is a very painstaking and long process, because until the previous layer has dried, you cannot begin the next one. The rows are applied to each other until the top is formed, where an elongated cone with a sharp tip would look appropriate. The Christmas tree created in this way is painted and decorated. You can use a cone as a base and glue the pine cones directly to it.
Christmas wreaths
The ancient Slavs and Germanic tribes used this attribute as a talisman, placing it on the door at the entrance. There is a story about a Hamburg Lutheran who, a month before the holiday, hung a wreath with 28 candles in it. Over time, wreaths lost their symbolic purpose and became a decorative element.
The material for the wreath can be spruce and pine branches, ribbons of different colors, dried flowers, fabrics, items of clothing, New Year's toys, jewelry, snowflakes of various shapes, pine cones, balls. To make the craft and hold everything together, you will need a base. To create it, it is better to take metal wires; aluminum is especially good. You can also use straw, cardboard, plastic, or foam as a base. The circle twisted from wire must be wrapped in newspaper or paper and secured with threads. The finished base can be decorated with fir branches of different shades and glass balls added. How to decorate an object depends on the intention of the author of this attribute.
Fairy lights
It is impossible to imagine the New Year without garlands. They are elegant, bright, elegant. They can be monochromatic or multi-colored, consist of paper, candies, threads, fabric, and have a complex structure. There are many options for creating these decorative elements. As an example, let's look at a few original ideas.
| Name | Materials | How to do |
| Twine balls | Balloons, glue, twine, needle, LED garland, cream, water | The inflated balls are coated with cream. The string is soaked in glue diluted in water and wound around the ball. After drying, the ball is bursted and removed, and a garland light bulb is placed inside. |
| Edible light bulbs | Multi-colored candies, marmalades or jelly, thread | The marmalade is cut into the shape of a small base, heated, and round or oval sweets are attached to the hot edge. Then the resulting elements are strung on a thread. |
| Salt dough garlands | Flour, dyes, molds, paints | Flour and salt are mixed and filled with water and dye. The dough is kneaded, then rolled out and pressed into shapes using molds. A hole is made with a match or toothpick. The figures are left to dry for a couple of days. After the blanks have dried, they can be decorated with a brush and glitter applied. At the final stage, the figures are strung on a thread. |
The process of decorating a New Year tree is a joyful event in which all family members participate. To do this, they use glass toys, rain showers, garlands - whatever you can buy. But it’s much more interesting to decorate a tree with handmade crafts. This decor will appeal to all household members and will create comfort. In order to create crafts for the New Year, any available material will do.
Toys can be made from yarn. Simple needlework will allow you to get a spectacular decoration. In just a few minutes, you can freely create a wire craft. A Christmas tree is formed from a ribbon and divided into layers with beads. A knitted deer, a folded card, a paper ball, thread hats - everything will be in place. Let's take a closer look at popular materials:
From old light bulbs
A burnt out light bulb that seems useless at first glance can be a good basis for a New Year's decoration. A decorated object will be an excellent replacement for plastic balls. With some ingenuity, you can make:
- Snowman. To do this, you will need to paint the light bulb white and draw a cheerful face on it. Then a nose made of porcelain and salt dough is glued on. A cap sewn from fabric is hung on the base. If desired, you can attach hands to him from ordinary wooden sticks or paper.
- Father Frost. All you need is to draw a characteristic face and costume, put on a cap, for which even a rolled-up paper tube can be used.
- Dog. A button or pebble imitating a nose is glued to the base, and a fluffy muzzle is made around it using yarn or thread. Next, glue on the eyes, eyebrows and mouth. You can wear a beautiful hat on top.
The light bulbs will make a good fake of the original glass toys, be it the Snow Maiden, a bee or a bag.”
Bigwigs
Pine cones can act as a complement to toys, or become the basis for many Christmas tree crafts. The door, shelf, window are also well decorated with decorations made from this raw material. After walking down the street and collecting the necessary material, you can safely get to work, but first you need to sort through and process them.
When creating products you will need pine cones, decoration items and imagination. From blanks you can make funny gnomes, families of penguins, birds, hedgehogs, elves, squirrels, foxes, mice, butterflies, bees, owls, snowmen on skis, angels and many other characters. You can use pine cones to make garlands, a star for a New Year tree, a miniature holiday tree, a ball, or simply paint it and use it as a separate decorative element.
Thread
Crafts can be made from the most ordinary threads. They make unique balls, stars, Christmas trees, and various flat decorations that do not need to be sewn. To create toys, there will be enough available materials in the house - threads, glue, scissors, needles.
Working with such material must begin with a template. It is cut out of cardboard or thick paper, and then a sketch of the future product is applied to it. Having ready-made templates, you can begin to implement your plan. To do this, stencils are laid out on the substrate and attached to it using needles located in all corners. Next, the glue is poured into any convenient container; if necessary, it can be diluted. The threads are dipped into a container with diluted liquid and allowed to soak. The moistened thread is pulled between the needles in a chaotic manner. That's it, the product is almost ready. All that remains is to dry it naturally or artificially, carefully separate it from the substrate and let the back side dry. The homemade product can be decorated with sparkles, jewelry, rain, and ribbons.
Snowflake is a traditional decoration. This is one of the first crafts that a child does for the New Year. A standard attribute that decorates windows in kindergartens and schools. It's hard to imagine a holiday without them.
Simple products can do everything. Three-dimensional snowflakes are more difficult to make, although the materials used to create them are the same as for flat ones. They look impressive. Such a miracle is created from various raw materials, they can be woven from elastic bands, sewn from fabric, filled with cotton filler, or wrapped around a voluminous frame with threads. Let's consider the most common options for making New Year's decorative elements:
From paper
Paper is the most suitable material for creating a snowflake. When making it, you can use a landscape, newspaper, or cardboard sheet. The simplest pattern for three-dimensional crafts is an accordion. To create such an element, you will need two sheets of paper. The work begins with folding the raw materials like an accordion. Then, using a pencil, mark the middle on the compressed sheets. Stepping back from it a couple of centimeters in each direction, marks are made for the cutouts, and the rounding of sharp corners is also noted. Having cut off the marked areas with scissors, the accordions are carefully inserted with their ends into each other up to the first holes and tied with threads. To finish the product, all that remains is to straighten and glue the places where the two sheets come into contact.
3D snowflakes are interesting in their structure. Ornaments for an element may be different. They can be made by placing cut blanks on top of each other or gluing them from multi-colored strips cut from a sheet. The finished product is decorated with sparkles.
From foam plastic
Polystyrene foam is available in every home; in extreme cases, it can be purchased. The material is popular in handicrafts. To make a snowflake out of it, you will need a pencil for drawing a sketch, a sharp stationery knife, and glue. The main condition for getting started is having a template. You can draw it yourself, download a sketch from the Internet.
A stencil cut out of paper is applied to a piece of foam plastic, onto which the image is transferred with a pencil. After this, you can begin to work, the edges are cut first, then precise cuts are made. The finished craft can be smeared with glue and sprinkled with salt; such actions will allow it to reflect light and shimmer. The work area must be covered with a tablecloth, otherwise the foam will spread throughout the house.
Creating a New Year's mood is very simple. It is enough to give your friends or relatives an original postcard made yourself. Children especially like to give such gifts to their peers in kindergarten. Wishes are often written inside, and figures are made to drop out.
An ordinary postcard can be made without much effort, just fold a sheet of paper in half and draw some kind of ornament on it. But New Year's crafts are something more. They are created with passion. To do this, they come up with different decors: they decorate the product with appliqués, glue various origami, create 3D compositions that appear in all their glory when opened, use quilling, and trim them with textile elements.
Topiary is represented by a beautiful homemade tree planted in a pot. First of all, this is an interesting craft. Like the original plant, it consists of a trunk and crown. Additional attributes are decorations and a pot that forms the base of the product. The topiary is created as follows:
- It all starts with the basics. An alabaster solution is poured into a decorated vase and allowed to harden;
- Trunk. Natural branches, wire, and plastic will work as raw materials. It is installed in a pot with a solution that has not yet hardened and fixed;
- Crown. It is made of paper (ideal for simulating a Christmas tree), thread, polyurethane foam, polystyrene foam. Attached to the trunk;
- Decor. These are all the elements that give the craft an original look.
Champagne bottle decoration options
On such a festive day, everything should be irresistible. This also applies to the table, on which the main role is assigned to a bottle of champagne. You can cover it with New Year's stickers by first removing the label. Sparkling wine will look good placed in a basket decorated with flowers, balls, snowflakes, ribbons, and chocolates.
There are quite a few interesting ideas: the bottle is wrapped in corrugated paper, tied with ribbons, decorated with balls and flowers; a container wrapped in red felt, with the addition of decorations, turns into Santa Claus; You can cover the champagne with rain, attach jewelry and make a Christmas tree out of it.
Conclusion
New Year's crafts are a creative process in which all family members can participate. Handmade jewelry is the most valuable. They will always delight children and adults. There is an unlimited number of decorative elements and materials for creating them.
It's rapidly approaching. And it's time to think about your holiday design. Therefore, you can safely start making beautiful crafts not only for yourself, but also as a gift to your family and friends. It’s so nice to make things with your own hands and celebrate, then it seems truly magical.
In the last article we made crafts, today I offer interesting but simple ideas for homemade crafts for kindergarten and schoolchildren. You can make them from scrap materials or visit a craft store. In any case, the work will be excellent if it is done from the heart.
The article offers different options for homemade products according to the level of complexity. There are easy ideas for kindergarten children and interesting options for older children. Choose the most interesting ideas and bring them to life!
I propose to start the selection from products in the form of piglets and pigs, because these are the main characters of 2019. Such works can be presented as a gift to family and friends. And it will be very interesting and fun for the child to create such cool animals.
Paper pigs
Cute flying pigs as a Christmas tree decoration will serve as a real talisman for the coming year. Making them is easy and quick. Therefore, you can involve your children in the work.
Required:
- cardboard;
- white and colored paper;
- pig pattern;
- needle;
- threads;
- scissors.
Stages of work:
1. Draw the outline of the pig on cardboard or trace it using the templates provided below. Cut it out and glue it on both sides.
2. We make the wings from white paper and attach them with glue. We wait until they dry and bend them a little at the ends.
3. Make a loop of thread on the pig’s back and hang it on the tree. This is such a beautiful flying pig. In this way, you can make a few more pieces so that they harmoniously decorate the New Year's tree.
You can also make a three-dimensional pig from strips of paper that will decorate your New Year's interior.
Required:
- colored paper;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- pencil;
- glue;
Stages of work:
1. From pink paper, cut out 4 strips measuring 21 by 2 centimeters. Mark the middle and glue them together in the form of a snowflake.
2. Then we connect the ends of the strips so that we get a ball.
3. All that remains is to draw and cut out the pig’s head with a diameter of 6 cm. Don’t forget to draw the eyes and mouth. We also cut out the piglet from paper and attach it to the head. Decorate with two green hearts in the form of a bow.
4. Now glue the head to the body ball.
The pig is ready!
Pig from a cone
This MK demonstrates step by step how to make the cutest symbol of the year 2019 from an ordinary pine cone. This is a great souvenir in honor of the holiday!
The following materials are required:
- Cone - 1 piece
- Button
- Felt - a small piece of pink color
- Button - future nose
- Black beads 4 mm
- Scissors
- Brush
- Acrylic paint
Step-by-step stages of work:
1. Using pink acrylic paint, paint the surface of the cone well so that there are no free unpainted areas left. First we paint one part, then we give time for the paint to dry and we paint the rest of the cone.
If the paint is thick, add a little water and mix well.
2. While the painted body of the pig is drying, fold a piece of felt in half and cut out the ears, resulting in 2 identical parts.
3. Now we glue all the details to the pine cone - the button nose, ears and eyes.
This is such a wonderful little animal
Sock Pig
You can make very cool and amusing little pigs out of socks. This work will be an excellent souvenir for the New Year holidays. In my opinion - a great idea!
New Year's crafts for kindergarten made from paper
In kindergarten, children can make beautiful cards and give them to their parents.
Required:
- scissors
- glue stick;
- colored paper and cardboard;
- felt-tip pen or pen;
- sheet of white paper.
Stages of work:
1. For the base, take red cardboard and fold it in half. Iron it well along the seam.
2. Cut out a small rectangle from green paper. You will need it for the inscription on the front of the postcard. Glue it onto a white rectangle, but slightly larger. Don't forget to write "Happy New Year!"
3. Now we will make three accordions from green paper. We glue each one in the form of a fan.
4. We trim the edges of two fans so that they are all different sizes, and from the remains we make the top of the Christmas tree.
5. Cut thin and short strips from white paper. Glue them together in the shape of a snowflake.
6. At the final stage, all that remains is to connect all the parts together. A beautiful 3D postcard for the New Year is ready!
Here are some more interesting postcard options for 2019:
You can simply make a Christmas tree out of paper and cut out decorations from felt; in my opinion, it turns out to be a cool Christmas tree and it’s not difficult.
But what a miracle of pasta, even kids can cope with this task:
I really liked the wreath
DIY craft: papier-mâché piggy bank
And of course, don’t forget about the piggy bank, which is easy to make using the papier-mâché technique. The result will be a wonderful homemade product, but also a very useful thing in the house.
First, prepare a paste from regular flour:
Required:
- 1 tbsp. sifted flour;
- 3 tbsp. water;
- ½ tsp. salt.
Step-by-step preparation:
1. Pour the flour into a deep bowl. Slowly pour in 1 glass of warm water. At this time it is necessary to stir the mixture. And so on until a homogeneous mass.
2. Add salt. Pour into a saucepan and mix well. Add 2 more cups of boiling water.
3. Place on low heat and cook the paste for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Cool.
Now you can proceed to making a piggy bank:
Required:
- balloon;
- newspaper;
- paste;
- brush;
- PVA glue;
- acrylic paints;
- sandpaper;
- putty;
- water-based paint.
Stages of work:
1. Inflate a balloon of the same size as the future piggy bank will be. We tear the newspaper into long strips and glue it to the ball using paste. This way we make 8 layers. We wait until it dries completely.
2. Carefully burst and remove the ball from the resulting workpiece.
3. In place of the hole we install cardboard heels. Below are four legs. We also cover them with newspaper. We wait for the future piggy bank to dry and cover it with a layer of foil.
4. Prepare the papier-mâché mixture. Pour boiling water over regular toilet paper. Squeeze and mix with PVA glue.
5. Cover the piglet completely with the mixture and use the same mixture to construct ears and a tail. We are waiting for complete drying.
6. Coat the pig with putty. As soon as it starts to dry, rub the surface of the pig with sandpaper. It should become smooth.
7. Then we paint it with white water-based paint.
8. Now we cover the workpiece with acrylic paints. Draw the eyes and mouth.
9. All that remains is to coat it with varnish, let it dry completely, and the piggy bank is ready.
We will use the pig's nostrils as slots for money.
And a couple more ideas for cute piggy banks:
Salt dough souvenir with the symbol of 2019
Let's make piglets in the form of pendants. They can be used to decorate a wall or Christmas tree. And if you attach a magnet to them, it will be a great decoration on the refrigerator...
Required:
- salty dough;
- water;
- brush;
- plasticine knife;
- acrylic paints;
- foam sponge;
- various decorative elements for decoration.
Stages of work:
1. First, let's prepare the dough. Mix 1 cup flour and 1 tablespoon salt. Add to them 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil (for elasticity) and hot water.
2. Mix everything well to a homogeneous plastic consistency. Place the dough in the refrigerator for 3 hours and then you can start making the pendants.
Salt dough must be stored in a plastic bag while working, otherwise it will simply dry out.
3. Roll a ball from a medium-sized piece and flatten it into a flat cake. This will be the body of the pig. We make heels in the same way. We make the nostrils with a pen.
We coat the joints of the parts with a brush dipped in water.
4. Make eyes from small balls. They need to be placed above the heel. We make ears from triangles. We attach them with cuts at the junction with the body.
5. Now from the lower left edge we glue a heart made from a circle of dough. To make the body more voluminous, we make indentations on the sides of the entire piglet.
6.Using a rod, make two holes for the legs and two for the hanging cord.
7. Roll two thin sausage-like handles. We make a cut at the ends of the hoof. We place the handles so that the pig holds the heart in his hands.
8. For the legs, roll two small balls and bring them into a drop-shaped shape. On the wider side we make a cut for the hooves. With a narrow one we make a hole. Since they will be attached to the body using laces.
9. We wait for the craft to dry completely and start painting. First, let's paint the piglet black. This is necessary for the relief of the product. As soon as the paint dries, wash it off the convex parts of the body under the tap.
10. We wait for the pig to dry and now saturate it with white paint using a sponge in those places where the black color has washed off.
11. Now all that remains is to paint, let it dry, attach laces and additional details.
To make the craft durable, it must be painted with acrylic varnish.
As we can see, working with salt dough is very easy. Therefore, several more options with the symbol of the coming year:
Simple and easy felt crafts + patterns and diagrams
Soft crafts made from felt will decorate your festive interior. They are very pleasant to the touch. You can make both volumetric and flat options. We will sew these pigs.
Required:
- felt;
- a thin piece of padding polyester;
- beads;
- buttons;
- threads;
- needle;
- scissors;
- glue moment;
- pattern.
Stages of work:
1. Draw a pattern on a white sheet of paper or cardboard. Transfer the parts to felt and cut them out. Also, don't forget about the ponytail. It can be made in any shape.
2. Sew the two parts of the body together, place a tail and a little padding polyester between them. We will do this by machine, but you can sew it by hand.
3. In the same way we fasten the two parts of the head. Between them we insert the ears and a little filler. And two details of the patch. This is what we got.
4. All that remains is to collect all the details of the pig, and before that decorate it. Sew 2 small white buttons to the heel. And to the place where the eyes will be located - 2 black beads.
5. Glue the ends of the ears to the top of the head with glue. We attach heels under the eyes. And finally we attach the head to the body. The pig is ready.
For decoration, you can tint the pig with eye shadow.
Patterns for New Year's pigs made of felt:
How do you like this pig?
Here are some more interesting ideas and not at all complicated:
I’m sharing simple diagrams and patterns for New Year’s felt crafts:
Santa Claus
Felt Santa Claus
New Year's craft - DIY beaded Christmas tree for beginners
Mini souvenirs for decorating the New Year tree will look amazing. Especially if they are made of beads. For beginners, we have prepared these Christmas trees.
Required:
- beads;
- beads;
- scissors;
- wire;
- Christmas tree stand.
Stages of work:
1. The Christmas tree is woven from loops and then twisted. We string 3 green, 2 gold and again 3 green beads onto the wire. After that we twist it. You will have to stock up on time and patience to make a New Year's tree.
2. Gradually, the branches from the base to the crown decrease - accordingly, the number of loops decreases.
3. Now that all the branches are ready, attach them to the trunk in a circle.
For those who are quite familiar with beadwork, you can use the patterns selected below:
DIY Christmas tree toy in the form of candy
With your children you can make a Christmas tree toy in the form of candy; such a homemade product is not very difficult to make, but the children will be happy, because they have such a sweet tooth! And then they made the sweets themselves. They can be made in different sizes, you can even create a large candy for a street Christmas tree...
You can decorate your home with this beauty for the upcoming New Year holidays.
What ideas did you like? Be sure to share in the comments.
Making something for the New Year is easier than it seems. Website “Mom can do anything!” I have put together a selection of simple, but very effective and beautiful crafts that are easy to make with children for the holiday. And thanks to the description and photo master class, it will be easy to make them. They will decorate your home for the holiday, and they can also be taken as a New Year's craft to a kindergarten or school.
Small Christmas trees in five minutes.
- Cover the cardboard on both sides with double-sided tape.
- Cut out equilateral triangles from it.
- Remove the protective strip from the tape and wrap the threads around the Christmas tree.
- Sew beads and loop. The Christmas tree is ready!
Asterisks
A simple card made together with the children.
We've all had to sharpen pencils, but few people thought that pencil peelings can also be used to make crafts. Glue them onto paper in the shape of a Christmas tree, add a trunk and a star - the card is ready! 
Small Christmas trees:
Snowman made of cotton pads.
- Take two cotton pads and sew their edges with thread.
- Use glue to fasten them together.
- Make a scarf from threads.
- Glue the buttons.
- Make handles from wire.
- Add a triangular nose.
- Paint the eyes and mouth.
- Glue the cardboard hat.
Christmas tree decorations made of corrugated cardboard.
It’s easy to make original Christmas tree decorations from corrugated cardboard of different colors. Stars, Christmas trees, circles of different sizes will look great. 
Christmas tree forest.
You can make such a forest in literally five minutes. All you need is paper, a wooden skewer, a hole punch and a base. Wooden circles, plastein, or a pot of sand are used as a base. 
A few more ideas for New Year's crafts 
Hello, friends!
And the white winter began suddenly, It came out and swept, swept, swept! Ah, I’ll decide for myself what to do tomorrow, And tomorrow –…. Remember this song by Sofia Rotaru, for some reason I was humming it when I decided to take on one very fascinating topic. The article will be devoted to crafts for the New Year. Do you know why? Yes, because again we were asked to bring something interesting and unusual to the kindergarten and school for a competition. So again my mother had to sit and rack her brains.
By the way, if you don’t go far and be primitive, then you can do it for a New Year’s exhibition, for example, or maybe? Yeah, in my previous notes we already conjured on this topic. I think that even Santa Claus will be happy with such work))). Ah ha ha. How do you think?
Still, there is nothing more wonderful when we all begin to prepare for winter and decorate absolutely everything in the room with beautiful winter decor. Be it shops, apartments or child care facilities, etc. Thanks to all this, the mood rises and a festive mood reigns, which happens once a year. The smell of tangerines, the chiming clock and all this happens when we are all looking forward to it on the night from December 31 to January 1. Do you agree?
Well, let's start creating, take note of the work option you like and quickly get to work. Choose the material at your discretion, it can be absolutely anything, use improvised means or junk, in general, everything that is called
Well, friends, are you ready to go into the world of magic? Then quickly turn on your imagination and ingenuity, let's take unnecessary things and make masterpieces out of them. If you still don’t know how to do something like this, then these master classes and a bunch of ideas will help you. Go for it!
For the first craft we will need:
- glue gun
- tinsel
- paper
- wire
- CD disks - 12 pcs.
Stages:
1. Cut a pentagon from a sheet of paper with sides of 6.5 cm. Attach it to the disk, and where the vertices are, place points on the surface of the disk.
3. Now use a drill to drill along the marks to make holes. Take the wire and fix all the pieces so that the ball eventually comes out.
4. This should be such a cute little thing, it already shines and shimmers.
5. Now all that remains is to do some magic, glue multi-colored tinsel along the contour of each circle.
Use a heat gun, just be careful not to burn your fingers.
6. In the end, the most wonderful charm awaits you, which is even a pity to give), and if you hang it on a chandelier or decorate a street Christmas tree with it, it will be absolutely wonderful.
By secret. You can take it with you to school or kindergarten and take first place at the exhibition. Good luck!
The next craft option for the New Year, or winter in general, so to speak, is a fairy-tale house. Wow, you say, I see how your eyes have already lit up. Do you want to create the same snow composition? Then contact me for templates, I will send them to everyone absolutely free.
These works are made in the style of vytynankas, but many people really like them. In addition, you can then decorate such products with tinsel or beads, sequins to create a festive atmosphere.
You will be given one template for the Christmas tree, but you will need to cut out two blanks from it, and then either coat them in the center with glue or sew them together. This is necessary for the volume effect.
If you don’t want that Christmas tree model, then take this newspaper beauty. In general, you know, I recently had a post on my blog, and there I gave so many amazing ideas on how to make a Christmas tree that wow, you will obviously be delighted. Therefore, if you want, you can go right now here. Well, if not, then do it this way:
The next cool option and you can even say a souvenir in the form of a deer. Moreover, it is made from an ordinary bottle of champagne or beer. You can take any fruit drink, depending on who you want to give it to later, or put it on the table on a festive night?
Next, the next point, you probably know that not a single winter is complete without snowflakes. So why not take advantage of this and make a whole mountain of them. They can be cut out using either a stencil or the accordion technique. This method allows you to make the product voluminous. Watch the instructions now. But in this article, you will find a lot more
So, the snowflake has been created, now what? The craft is of course ready. Or you can make 7-8 of these fluffs, of different sizes, and put them on a stick with a stand. Do you see what I'm getting at? Yeah, and make another New Year's masterpiece. Look, how do you like this miracle?
Charming and beautiful, see the next work, which is made of satin ribbons (can be replaced with paper strips). You need to fold each strip into a loop and glue it to a paper cone.
For preschool children, I suggest the work is approximately the same, but instead of needles there will be ordinary green balls.
If you want to amaze everyone with your ingenuity, then make toys from eggshells, and you can do this completely safely. Pierce two holes with a diameter of 5 mm and 2 mm in the egg on both sides, and then start pouring foam into the largest hole.
That's the whole trick, from a small hole, then you will see foam as it appears, so stop filling the testicle.
Thus, such a “ball” will be strong and stable, and then decorate it with decoupage, as if you don’t know how to do this, you can read here, or wait for my next article on New Year’s toys. In a nutshell, you have to take a regular napkin with a pattern and separate all the layers, then leave only the last one, dip it in PVA and stick it on the egg, let it dry.
And now pay attention, another new product this year is a New Year’s craft made from salt dough. Wow, you fluff. This phrase stuck to me from a cartoon about the Barboskins. Well, glue a cone-shaped figure from cardboard; the inside of the almost finished product is already shown.
Do you know how to make dough? If not, then here is the recipe for you, written in the picture.
Using your hands, apply the dough onto the cone and smooth it out, making sure the layer is 1.5 cm thick.
Then use scissors to scratch the dough and it will look like needles and branches, like the crown of a tree.
Place a star on the top using a toothpick.
Well, after voila, into a preheated oven at 180 degrees.
You can decorate with beads or large beads; glue them to the workpiece.
For creative individuals, I suggest making magnets in this theme. To do this, take a cardboard and cut out a New Year's symbol from it.
Then tie it in a spiral with a thick thread and secure all ends with glue. Glue a magnet to one of the sides.
Now the most interesting thing remains, this is the design, I propose to do it this way in the form of coffee beans.
Or you can build a toy in the shape of a snowflake, use ice cream sticks as a base and glue them at the base.
And then glue colorful buttons.
Perhaps you will be blown away by another beauty from whom you will not take your eyes off))). Take a look.
By the way, they often make a little penguin in winter, just like from the Tororo cartoon, using plastic bottles.
Well, since in the coming year the symbol will be a rat, I propose to make it just that. And do you know what? Yes, from ordinary socks. See all the work steps in these pictures.
Or take approximately the same scheme for the work of snowmen.
A ball will be an excellent gift, as well as a craft. Which you can paint with acrylic paints and draw absolutely any design.
Or do decoupage with your own hands. Remember how to do this? If you find it difficult, this is how we decorated eggs for Easter. In short, you need to take a napkin and separate all the layers, leaving only the last one with the picture. Dip it in glue and apply it to the workpiece, let it dry.
Or go the other way; transparent balls can be filled with anything, for example, rubber bands. Looks nice, huh?
Here are a couple more ideas.
A ball with a photo inside looks magical and beautiful.
You can glue any bows you like.
And look what I found - an asterisk. Which will fit perfectly on a forest beauty, or will act as a keychain on a bag.
Crazy little hands even made something out of walnuts.
You can create any pattern or snowflake using PVA glue, then let it dry and remove it from the parchment. You can add more colors and color the sketch.
I also offer a version of paper fluff, and it will be voluminous and with fringe. First, learn how to fold the sheet correctly, since this craft is made based on origami. If you have any questions, write or read more
Now another toy, in the form of a snowman made of pompoms. The idea itself is quite simple, and the souvenir turns out lovely.
And by the way, you can use all the options discussed in the article for Christmas. For example, here is another masterpiece made from threads and glue, watch MK in this video and reel it in for yourself.
If you are interested in artistic activities, you can easily paint ordinary light bulbs and put knitted hats on them.
Crafts with the symbol of the year rat for New Year 2020
Friends, now let’s move on to the most important part of our article. Probably all of you are eager to receive a selection of crafts that will feature pigs made from improvised materials. In other words, from what is always at hand. So, I want to immediately remind you that I have a cool article on my blog, if you need diagrams and descriptions, then contact me.
Another article will be published soon, in which you will find a bunch of new and cool ideas on how to make the main symbol of this year. By the way, is this a boar or a pig?
Well, for now, let me introduce such a character made of wool pompoms.
Probably the simplest option is a paper craft in the shape of a face.
Or create an applique with your children.
You can also make a postcard or greeting sheet.
A souvenir made from pine cones also looks wonderful, what cute little pine cones the author came up with. Bravo!
You can create a rat like this from polymer clay or modeling dough.
And if you want to find an easier job, look at this photo of a plasticine mouse:
Well, now friends, I want you to watch a couple of videos, maybe you can take something new and interesting from there as a basis. I tried to find a variety of stories for you.
Look what a magnificent mouse with flowers.
And this is a craft for our youngest children made from chenille wire, you can make it:
For those who are interested in soft fabric toys. Here are a couple of ideas for you.
Take felt, it turns out great work, look at the mouse). Moreover, it comes with a cutting diagram.
In general, choose the one you like.
Do not forget that for volume, a felt toy must be filled with padding polyester or cotton wool.
Souvenirs made from pine and fir cones for the home
I think I’ll start introducing you to the easiest options first, and only then the more difficult ones. The first composition will be from an ordinary jar, tie the neck with threads, and hang real spruce or pine cones.
Fill the jar with pine branches and place a candle.
This work can be slightly complicated and all materials can be designed in an unusual way. Want to know more? Then see for yourself. A glass container can be decorated with regular semolina, which will look like a snowball on the product. To do this, paint the cereal white with chalk.
Then apply PVA glue to the jar and dip it into the semolina. Let dry.
After filling, decorate the neck and tie a bow.
Now decorate the cone with snow. Add more glitter to the semolina + and mix. You will need to dip the cone, and in order for it to stick to it, first dip the cone in PVA glue (a small piece of where the cereal will stick).
Thus, proceed according to plan, first dip in PVA, then in semolina and so on.
Another option, you can glue golden decorations, dip the cone into the glue, and then into them.
The product can be planted on the bark of a tree by gluing it with a heat gun, and you can also attach beads and a Christmas tree branch.
Using acrylic white paint will also make a nice souvenir.
Add a bow and beads.
In general, it will be a wonderful composition that everyone will go crazy about.
You can also easily cope with such a craft. Glue each cone into a decorative pot, but first paint them with acrylic paints.
Glue a star onto the top, as expected, so that the product reminds everyone of a Christmas tree.
Well, if you want a real beauty, then use a heat gun to glue the pine cones to the base in the form of a cone and decorate them with bows and other winter decor trinkets.
In addition, you can imagine such work as a wall decoration. Just remember that you need a foam ball.
Well, I couldn’t resist one more super option that I found on the gifts ru website: topiary. How charming and exciting it looks.
All work steps are written directly on the slides.
Master classes and ideas for paper crafts for the New Year
To be honest, last year we didn't have much time to bring work to the exhibition. Therefore, we made this creation from cardboard and decorated it with plasticine. The stand was an ordinary plastic sour cream lid.
Or here’s another option: take a cardboard cone and glue any decorations on it.
And this year, the child was made by Thomas, they took an ordinary sleeve, covered it with paper and stuck on sweet souvenirs.
Well, what about Santa Claus, you can’t live without him, friends! Let's do it using origami technique.
Fold in the same way, I mean use the origami bunny technique.
Quite an unusual work in the form of a wreath, but it is attractive because it is made of paper arms, or maybe legs))).
Here's another idea, the work is made of corrugated paper. This is usually done for Christmas.
On one English-language website I saw such a work with wishes. You spin the circle, it rotates and a wish appears. To work, you will need two blanks of different diameters, on one of which a window will be cut.
To make the magic circle spin, make a hole in the center and glue a juice straw or toothpick to the largest circle. In fact, the idea is good, because you can use it to hold competitions and make jokes.
If you are interested in such a turntable, that is, all the templates and sketches are in Word format for printing, please contact me, I will send it by email for free.
It’s also easy to build a three-dimensional ball from newspaper tubes and cover them with aerosol paint. And then glue a ball or the symbol of the year onto it.
Now I also want to introduce one work that you may recognize, it is from our childhood. For it, you will need to make templates on office paper in advance, choose, there are more or less. Due to this, the ball will have a different volume and size. Make 5 cuts with scissors along the lines of each piece.
Well, in conclusion to this chapter I want to show you one more ball, it’s quite delicate. You need to first cut out a sample in duplicate using the kirigami technique. And then glue or stitch two blanks.
Here are some designs for you to cut out.
And here is the finished product.
We have already tried it with our family in our spare time. Don't forget to decorate with rhinestones or sparkles.
DIY felt toys with patterns
Now for those who are interested in handicrafts, but I would like to note right away that I have another post on my blog that contains various . And now, as for New Year’s, I propose to perform such a miracle from pieces of felt.
Cut out squares from the materials, and then use a needle to collect them into one large pile.
Or take this Christmas tree as a basis.
By the way, you can make a huge green beauty and hang it on the wall.
If you love soft toys, then here are sketches and patterns for them.
The Christmas tree needs toys, these include balls, bells and crackers.
Also a winter house and reindeer.
Do whatever you want, but of course you can’t do without Grandfather Frost or Santa.
Beautiful works for the New Year's competition for school
Well, are you ready to be surprised? Take these ideas and go ahead to take prizes. Look at the first masterpiece, it’s a jar, and from it the author created an amazing snowman. There is a battery-powered candle inside.
You can also build a winter composition, take an ordinary glass jar and decorate it, for example, put a car in it, and an artificial small Christmas tree on top of the car.
Tie the container with a ribbon or other decorative thread and hang the beads.
And then add any decor so that it is immediately clear that this is a New Year’s style vase. Now place the spruce branches and enjoy.
Quite an interesting idea to make a Christmas tree from coffee beans. They are glued to a paper cone rewound with dark threads. And then add decorations.
You can also create a miracle from candies. Take note for yourself too.
Here’s another button beauty, how do you like this masterpiece?
If you are an avid needlewoman, then you can also embroider a picture with your grandfather.
In addition, a masterpiece made of beads also looks great.
I have one more composition in my collection, but I will write a separate note about it and show you a master class. So don't miss it. A real masterpiece will come out in the form of a lamp, and you can imagine how cool it will look on New Year’s Eve.
Or make a Christmas tree like this, disguise a plastic bottle, pour plaster into the pot to secure the stick stem.
And if you want to charm the teacher, then present him with the following directly on the blackboard.
And now I propose to build a sweet ball, only it will not be edible. Glue the round-shaped jelly beans onto the foam plastic blank with a glue gun.
Also don't forget to add a rope or ribbon in the form of a loop.
Similarly, decorate the same blank with beads. Or put the beads on a safety needle and stick them into the workpiece.
I think I’ll show you a couple more ideas, this will be a tangerine topiary.
How to make a garland for a city Christmas tree
Probably the most affordable and budget option that remains for all time is a garland of colored paper in the form of rings. I remember how I sat and glued such round pieces as a child.
You can make a craft in the form of hearts, which are fastened together with a stapler, and the figure itself is made from paper or strips or decorative shiny paper.
You can do the work in a rainbow style using double-sided cardboard.
Well, paper novelties are in use.
By the way, if you want butterflies to flutter, then here is another cool idea. Watch this video and see for yourself. The author came up with a bright and very cool garland.
Or use regular cotton wool.
You can create something from scraps of fabric:
Of course, such options are more suitable for apartment premises, but a garland of buttons is perfect for the street.
They also make masterpieces from ice; they simply add dye or paint to the water and the pieces freeze. By the way, you need to immediately put the thread so that it also grabs.
Such a creation made from thread pompoms is suitable for home and street.
There is also an option that is suitable for those who knit and can easily master this pattern. Take the triangles from this snowflake as a basis and tie them around the disk, and then connect them into a chain.
Unusual crafts "Winter's Tale" for kindergarten for exhibition
You must understand that, after all, when a child brings a craft to kindergarten, he does it together with his parents or older children. Therefore, now I propose to consider different options for what you can bring. For example, take this grandfather in the shape of a star and decorate any winter composition with it. There is both applique and coloring here.
You can also use cotton swabs or disks to create something similar to a picture with your child.
Here's another souvenir that might also come in handy.
Such masterpieces are still created from threads and PVA glue.
I also like works made from plastic bottles or other utensils, such as spoons.
Now, as for winter compositions, you can create them from all sorts of things, it can be twigs and even plastic tiles, from which you will make Santa Claus’s house. Instead of snow, use cotton wool, and even make a Christmas tree out of pasta. See for yourself, friends.
Well, my favorite work, which has already been mentioned above, whoever needs blanks, write.
But at night she looks like a night light.
And finally, here’s one easy option for a New Year’s watch with candies, see the step-by-step instructions in pictures.
Beautiful cards for the New Year 2020 for children (MK and templates inside)
Postcards can be made from either paper or cardboard. You can take absolutely any story, even a coloring book, as a basis, and sign the necessary words or poem on the reverse side. Choose.
Among other things, you can design a postcard in the form of winter characters like this.
And also make a voluminous congratulation card.
Friends, this is not all, soon a new article on this topic will be published on the blog, so come visit often and you will see many other creations. Make New Year's crafts and decorate your home and apartment with them. Bye everyone! See you again.
