On New Year's Eve, schools and kindergartens hold various exhibitions and competitions of themed crafts. So that your child can not only take part in them, but also take a prize, we have selected many simple and interesting master classes with photos and videos on the topic “DIY New Year 2019 crafts.” In them you will learn how to make a New Year's craft - the symbol of 2019, the Yellow Earth Pig, from paper, salt dough and beads, and we have also created a collection of examples of new crafts for the New Year 2019 that every child can make with their own hands.
Cool DIY crafts for New Year 2019 - the most interesting things for kindergarten
Our readers and their children can easily prepare for an exhibition in kindergarten in honor of the New Year 2019 with examples of interesting handmade crafts. Simple figures and compositions are assembled quite quickly and easily. Kids just need to look at the photos we’ve selected and make the same New Year’s decorations themselves.
Photo examples of interesting and cool crafts for the New Year 2019 for kindergarten
Among the photos of New Year's decorations we have selected, children from kindergarten can choose original figures and compositions to participate in the exhibition. All the examples we offer are very easy and simple to make.
Simple DIY crafts for the New Year 2019 - the most interesting things for school
Photo examples will help children prepare cool figures and compositions for the school competition. We have selected simple and understandable New Year's crafts from pine cones, plastic bottles and branches that schoolchildren can easily make without the help of adults. The most interesting handmade crafts are ideal for participating in the school competition dedicated to the New Year 2019.
Photo examples of simple DIY crafts for school in honor of the New Year 2019
After reviewing our photo examples, children will be able to easily make the symbol of 2019, a pig and other New Year’s decorations for school. The proposed figures and compositions are made as easily and quickly as possible. But at the same time, they can also be submitted for participation in the New Year’s competition.
DIY craft for New Year 2019 in the form of a symbol of the Year of the Pig - for kindergarten
To participate in the New Year's exhibition held in kindergarten, we invite you and your children to try to make an unusual symbol of 2019 from paper. Make a cool piggy bank as easily and quickly as possible. At the same time, it has an original appearance and can be used in the future by the child himself to store money, change or any candy wrappers. Our step-by-step master class will help you learn more about how to make a craft in the form of the 2019 symbol of a pig for an exhibition in a kindergarten held in honor of the New Year.
Materials for making your own pig - the symbol of the New Year 2019 for kindergarten
- colored thick paper;
- scissors;
- toy glue eyes;
- thick glue;
- felt-tip pen;
- box (for example, cereal);
- chenille wire.
Master class with photos of self-made for kindergarten symbol of 2019 - pigs
- Prepare materials for work: cut out sheets of pink (or yellow) paper from a cereal box of a size that can cover its entire surface. Also cut out a couple of circles from paper: one large and one small.
- Cover the selected box with prepared paper. It should completely cover the box.
- Make the face of the symbol of 2019 from pink circles. Glue a couple of small black nostril circles and toy eyes to it. Make small rectangular hooves. Curl the chenille wire into a spring.
- Glue the pig's hooves to the completely dry box and attach the tail (for example, using glue or plasticine).
- Glue the previously made muzzle on the front. Make a hole in the top of the box.
A simple DIY paper craft for school for the New Year 2019 - symbol of 2019
Three-dimensional figures are very easily made from plain or corrugated paper. Therefore, we have put together a simple master class for you that will tell you how quickly and easily you can make a symbol of 2019 using a simple pattern. To work, you just need to print out the proposed blanks and assemble them according to the step-by-step instructions. This craft in the form of a pig, the symbol of 2019, can be easily made with your own hands to participate in a school exhibition held in honor of the New Year.
Materials for making your own New Year's paper symbol 2019 for school
- colored paper or corrugated paper;
- stationery knife;
- plain paper (for printing diagrams).
Master class on making your own symbol for school for 2019
- Prepare materials for work.
- Print out the diagrams below.
- Transfer the diagrams to colored or corrugated paper.
- Cut out the blanks and assemble a figurine in the form of the symbol of 2019, using the video hint and instructions according to the diagram.
Video tutorial on how to make your own New Year figurine in the form of the symbol of 2019
You can learn how to make cute piglets from plain paper with the help of our next master class. This video explains step by step how to assemble a cool pig figurine using the origami technique. When making several of these figures, they can be assembled into a whole composition. For example, make an original garland or panorama with piglets on a farm. Also, individual figures are suitable for decorating offices and assembly halls.
Beautiful DIY New Year's craft for a school competition - master class with photos
In our next master class, children studying in middle or high school will be able to make a three-dimensional symbol of 2019. Papier-mâché pig can also be used to decorate cabinets. You can also very easily turn it into a real piñata by placing various candies inside the symbol of 2019. A master class with step-by-step photos will help you learn more about how to make a cool New Year’s craft for a competition at school with your own hands. However, it is worth knowing that it will take about 2-3 days to assemble such a pig. The duration of production of the 2019 symbol directly depends on the drying speed of the papier-mâché.
Materials for a beautiful New Year's craft made for a school competition
- balloon;
- wire;
- thin batting;
- primer and pink paint;
- newspapers;
- cardboard tubes (you can use toilet paper);
- PVA glue and silicone glue;
- white thick paper or cardboard;
- a pair of black beads;
- gold ring;
- chain;
- doll or small decorative cylinder;
- masking tape;
- feathers.
Master class with photos of assembling a beautiful craft for the New Year for a school competition
- Inflate a balloon and wrap it in dry newsprint.
- Soak newspapers in PVA glue and begin to carefully wrap the ball prepared for work to obtain real papier-mâché. Using masking tape, attach 5 cardboard tubes to the dried workpiece, as shown in the photo.
- Continue pasting the pig figurine - the symbol of 2019 - with newspaper: to securely fix the legs and snout.
- After the workpiece has dried again, make a small cut in the back and install a wire ring inside (in the center of the back).
- And cut out two blanks for the ears from thick cardboard.
- Carefully bend the cardboard blanks to make the ears more realistic. Glue them to the workpiece with masking tape.
- Cover the pig's ears with papier-mâché and, if necessary, expand the ears. But then it will also need to be re-covered with newspaper soaked in PVA.
- When the workpiece is completely dry, it should be coated with a primer.
- Apply pink acrylic paint to the figure, and after drying, cover it with silicone glue and attach thin batting. This will give the figure greater realism.
- Once the glue has dried, you can begin further work.
- Make pig hooves from cardboard tubes, paint them black and glue them to the figurine with silicone glue.
- Make a couple of holes in the back next to the ring using toothpicks.
- Pass the wire between the holes and secure it with silicone glue or a glue gun.
- Cut a pair of wings out of cardboard and glue them to the back of the pig and the wire itself with a glue gun.
- Glue chicken feathers onto cardboard wings.
- Using a glue gun, attach beady eyes, a monocle ring, and a doll top hat to the figure. Cut and glue the mustache.
- Make a small pocket watch out of paper and glue a chain to the figure. Glue the previously made watch to the chain itself.
- The cute symbol of 2019 is ready for the school competition!
An interesting DIY New Year's craft for an exhibition in kindergarten - master class with photos
With the help of our simple master class with photos, kindergarten children will learn how to easily make various New Year's decorations from salt dough. This kind of work can be done by children from the younger group and children from the middle or older group. The proposed New Year's crafts, made with your own hands for an exhibition in a kindergarten, can also be used as a useful hint. Instead of such ordinary New Year's decorations, according to the proposed instructions, you can make many cute symbols of 2019 from salt dough.
Materials for an interesting New Year craft made for an exhibition in kindergarten
- flour - 1 tbsp;
- salt (fine) - 1 tbsp.;
- rast. oil - 5 tbsp;
- warm water - 2-4 tbsp. (the dough should be thick, but still easy to knead);
- threads or ribbons;
- cookie molds.
Master class on DIY New Year's crafts for kindergarten
- Mix all ingredients to make salt dough.
- Mix the ingredients thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is obtained (children can help, but adults should still knead the salt dough).
- Prepare cones, beads, and various leaves for squeezing unusual designs on the surface of Christmas tree decorations.
- Roll out the salt dough into a thin layer.
- Using cookie cutters, make many different shaped figures.
- Transfer the salt dough pieces onto parchment.
- Make drawings, patterns or inscriptions on the salt dough pieces.
- Make small holes in the top of each figure for hanging using a regular tube.
- Bake the salt dough at 180 degrees for 1 hour.
- Attach strings or ribbons to the finished Christmas tree decorations. If desired, they can be painted or coated with multi-colored varnishes with glitter.
A simple and beautiful DIY New Year's craft - for elementary school and kindergarten
You can make a cool symbol of 2019 for the New Year's exhibition not only from paper or newspapers, but also from simple improvised materials. Having carefully studied our next master class, children will learn how to make such a simple and beautiful New Year's craft with their own hands from an ordinary tennis ball and a couple of balls. Children must carry out the work of making the symbol of the coming year under the supervision of their parents: children from kindergarten will not be able to complete some stages without the help of adults.
Materials for making your own New Year's crafts for school and kindergarten
- tennis ball;
- two balloons;
- silicone glue;
- toy glue eyes;
- chenille wire;
- velvet cardboard.
Master class on making your own New Year's crafts for kindergarten and school
- The 2019 symbol will be based on a tennis ball.
- To hide the tennis ball, you will need to cut off the thin parts of the two prepared balls - the “necks”. First, you need to put one ball on the ball, and then a second one to cover the remaining visible part of the ball.
- Tie the neck of one ball in a knot, trim off the excess. Glue the resulting circle to the workpiece as a pig's snout.
- Cut out a couple of ears from velvety cardboard and glue them to the workpiece with silicone glue.
- Wait for the glue to harden.
- Glue eyes to the figure. Make a small hole in the back to install a hook tail. Make a tail from chenille wire, coat it with glue and install it in the toy.
Video tutorial on how to make crafts yourself for the New Year 2019 in kindergarten and school
Children from school and kindergarten can make another simple but interesting figurine in the form of the symbol of 2019 in the following master class. In it, a very beautiful and cool pig is sewn from felt. The production of such a figurine by children from the older group of the kindergarten should be carried out under the supervision of adults.
How to quickly make a beautiful New Year's craft with your own hands - master classes with photos and videos
For New Year's exhibitions, you can make not only symbols of 2019 in the form of pigs, but also simply themed decorations and figurines. And in the next master class we told you how to quickly make a beautiful New Year’s craft in the form of a Christmas tree. The proposed instructions are simplified kanzashi and can be made even by children studying in primary school. But they should still carry out such work under the supervision of adults.
Materials for quickly making beautiful crafts for the New Year
- sewing pins;
- grosgrain ribbon;
- cardboard;
- gift bow.
Master class with photos of making a beautiful New Year's craft with your own hands
- Make a cone out of cardboard that will be used as the base of the Christmas tree blank. Cut the ribbons into small pieces (about 3-4 cm). Using sewing pins, start fixing the first row of ribbons, as shown in the photo. Make the next row from ribbons of a different color. After the base cone is completely closed, attach a gift bow to the top of the resulting Christmas tree.
Video tutorials on how to quickly make new crafts in honor of the New Year
You can also submit other fairly simple figurines in the form of Christmas trees for competitions in kindergarten or school. The following master classes with videos will help you make such jewelry. They tell you step by step how to make cool Christmas trees from beads and cotton pads for the New Year. The last video contains instructions for making an original Christmas tree using the kanzashi technique. This kind of work is more suitable for preparing middle and high school students for the New Year's competition.
Another year is coming to an end. What will the coming year bring us? And, as always, we look into the future with hope and expectation and begin to prepare for the New Year. Often preparation brings more joy and pleasant feelings than the holiday itself. And always, as in childhood and youth, I want to celebrate the holiday in some special way, to amuse my children, to congratulate my parents and loved ones, to come up with something unforgettable. Perhaps you will find some inspiration in this article. Together with your children in the evenings you will make crafts for a fun holiday. After all, in order to feel the holiday, you need to create an atmosphere: light, cheerful, unusual. Decorate your home not with store-bought products, but with toys made with soul and warmth.
Small toys cut from thin felt, felt or other plain soft fabric will be a wonderful decoration for the Christmas tree and will never break.
Lightly fill such soft New Year's toys with padding polyester or cotton wool so that they gain volume.
Armed with fabric glue and various scraps, try making a garland of these houses. And for fastening them, any twig picked up on the street will do.
It's easy to make New Year's people from leftover fabrics. To do this, glue cardboard tubes together in advance and come up with the characters you will make. Using special fabric glue, cover the cardboard tubes with material, giving them an imaginary image.
Such a panel house is easy to make with your own hands; you can give it as a gift or keep it. Make a wish for the New Year so that this house will become a talisman for your large home and preserve the happiness of the family.
Make soft cards for your family. To do this, glue pieces of fabric onto a landscape sheet and arrange them into a design. Be sure to write your most tender wishes inside.
Postcards can also be made from thin cardboard. Cut out hearts, flowers, bells, stars, Christmas trees, whatever you can think of and sign New Year's wishes to your family and friends.
And to decorate boxes or bags with gifts, cut out snowflakes. We still remember from childhood how to fold paper to make especially delicate snowflakes. Take not white paper (or ordinary napkins), but colored one.
Instead of snowflakes, Christmas trees cut out of colored paper are suitable for decorating gifts.
You can put small gifts in these hollow inside Christmas trees. They are easy to glue from any paper.
If not Christmas trees, then fish. Look how spectacular these goldfish are. Accompany such a gift with wishes that the fish can fulfill.
Making candies from gift paper for wrapping gifts is generally as easy as shelling pears using tape and two ribbons or ribbons.
If you make a removable roof for such a house, then you can put a gift for a child inside, and the house will become a home for toys.
Decorate your home Christmas tree with handmade angels. To do this, take any white fabric, starch it and dry it. For one liter of hot boiling water you will need one tablespoon of starch, which is first diluted in a small amount of cold water and then hot is added. The solution must be constantly stirred. Cut the dried fabric into squares or circles and find the middle. This will be the head of an angel. Insert a small ball into the middle of the fabric and tie it with thread. The head is ready, you can draw eyes, nose, lips on it. Cut the wings from another piece of fabric and attach discreetly with a pin.
If you know how to crochet, knit these colored or white snowflakes, stars, and Christmas trees. They can also serve as coasters for a tea mug.
And if you try really hard, you can even sew gift bags in the shape of New Year’s heroes.
And your children can make such toys for the Christmas tree. To do this, you need to string various beads and beads onto a thin but strong wire, and then give the wire an invented shape: a star, a fish, a Christmas tree.
And these toys can be made if dad cuts out figures from thin plywood in advance. But you can also cut it out of cardboard and then glue coins or corks. Paint it some color or leave it just like that.
Paper, cardboard (white and colored), glue, paints and brushes are the main helpers in decorating your home for the holiday. Help your children trace, cut out and glue the palms into the shape of a Christmas tree. The result will be an unusual and funny panel.
Hands circled on paper make wonderful holiday deer. These people are harnessed to the New Year's team to deliver gifts.
If you fold colored paper into a fan shape and glue the ends together, you get a circle from which you can make a dial. Sizes can be very different. Hang such light, unusual clocks around the room while waiting for guests to arrive at the New Year's table.
As children, many of us made chains from strips of colored paper and lanterns like this. Be sure to teach your children this too. Place deep candlesticks made of thick glass inside such lanterns. Take care of fire safety!
Just cones glued together from paper and faces drawn on them, and what characters! Together with your children, brainstorm what emotions your little people’s faces will express.
Funny snowmen (or Santa Clauses, owlets, bunnies) are made from bottle caps. They make them like this: take three corks, a strip of thin cardboard no wider than the cork, glue and a brush. The corks are carefully glued onto the cardboard. Don't forget to glue a ribbon to the top cork so that the toy can be hung on the Christmas tree. When the glue is completely dry, paint the corks. Another option for making a toy from corks is this: the corks are glued to cardboard on both sides of the cardboard strip, then the toy will be double-sided.
If you love ice cream on sticks and have accumulated enough of them, they will make wonderful Christmas tree decorations. You just need to use ingenuity and patience.
From inexpensive scrap materials you can come up with a lot of interesting crafts for the holiday. For example, disposable paper plates can easily be turned into New Year's clocks.
Even children can easily make them.
Or ordinary plastic flowerpots can turn into an elegant snowman. To do this, you need to glue one flower pot to another with plastic glue. When this seam is dry, take a stiff brush and apply PVA glue to the surface of the flowerpot. But first prepare finely chopped rain or tinsel. Then sprinkle the areas coated with glue evenly with fine shavings from the rain, prepared by you in advance. To avoid rain or tinsel, you can come up with something of your own for sprinkling, for example, coconut shavings or confetti. Draw the snowman's eyes and make a nose out of plasticine. Think about what your character will wear.
For example, you can make these funny gnomes or brownies.
Or snowmen.
And the picture below shows the process of transforming an ordinary cone that is lying under your feet into a New Year tree.
If you don’t want to bother with pine cones and plasticine, you can simply pour them into transparent glass vases mixed with large walnuts.
Let's start creating a festive mood in our home long before the holiday. Paint thin branches of any tree with silver paint, pour pine or fir cones into a transparent glass tube vase. When the branches are dry, place them in a vase and decorate them with bows of any color you like. These bows are easy to make from pieces of fabric or paper cut into strips. You just need to tie them in the middle with thread or twine.
Hang a New Year's wreath and place candles next to the graceful branches.
And these monkeys are made from an old sweater or even from socks. Clothing from any available materials.
To celebrate the Year of the Monkey, bake any cake, but decorate it with the “face” of the primate.
What this “face” will be like, decide for yourself. There are many options.
Decorate another cake with a clock face. The more original cakes you bake, the more reasons you will have to sit with your family over tea.
The clock will be made from cookies or gingerbread if you draw numbers on them with cream. But you don’t have to draw, but lay out the numbers with small dragee candies. Then you need to try to glue the candies onto the fondant, which is spread on the gingerbread cookies, while it has not yet hardened. The gingerbreads should be placed along the edge of the plate, and the arrows should be made from the top layer of the waffle.
A festive table decorated with various figures will delight children first of all.
And such a clock cookie, with a surprise, will delight them.
It’s also not difficult to figure out how to decorate bottles of drinks that you will place on the holiday table. For example, make a New Year's clock out of paper, folded like a fan and glued together. Thread some twine through them and make a loop so you can hang them around the neck of the bottle. Additionally, you can attach notes to the bottles with humorous wishes to those who will open them.
Don't live a dull and monotonous life! Get ready, wait and celebrate the holidays! Happy and prosperous New Year everyone!
There is a New Year's tradition: buying gifts at the last moment helps, you know, not to lose the rhythm of life. But this number will not work if you decide to make them yourself. We invite you to take a closer look at a dozen interesting areas for finding New Year's gift ideas and start working on them. After all, this will take time.
Check out the ready-made New Year gift ideas from our experts
We have collected 10 interesting ideas for New Year's gifts and souvenirs that you can make with your own hands. Small crafts, cute warming accessories and pleasant festive little things - everything that will help create the right atmosphere on this most magical night of the year. So, it's time to work miracles.
1. Commemorative Christmas tree decorations with photos
2. Gifts from your baby
Parents of a small child probably already know the cool “Baby’s First Footprint” kits, from which you can make 3D prints of a hand or foot. For the New Year, this idea can be modernized and unusual Christmas tree decorations can be prepared - just paint the prints with bright colors.
Balls can also be made with palms
Children's hands will turn the simplest things into magical ones - for example mittens with handprints of little helpers. Also try to print small legs inside slippers for dad or grandpa. Or do t-shirt with imprinted baby hugs.
You can also make New Year cards with your baby - it’s a very fun and ticklish activity!)
You will find even more gift ideas for family holidays in our collection
3. Craft ideas. Knitted New Year gifts will keep you warm in winter.
If you still remember school lessons on labor or grandma’s instructions on knitting, then you won’t have any difficulty bringing these New Year’s gift ideas to life.
Let's start with the classics. Knitting warm and cozy DIY scarf! Both your girlfriend and your loved one will appreciate such a gift, and, of course, your parents and grandparents will be delighted!
To knit such a scarf you need to master only 2 steps - a set of loops and garter stitch. This video tutorial will help you:
All that remains is to choose the color and thickness of the yarn and the size of the knitting needles - you can knit a light, neat scarf from thin yarn or a massive, incredibly warm and cozy coarse knit scarf.
Try changing thread colors as you knit to create stripes. You can add buttons or a small beaded pattern. Add fringe, braids or pompoms made of fluffy threads along the edges (see).
If you are confident in your abilities and have sufficient skills, then you can try tying socks or mittens. On the Internet, on specialized sites, you will find many detailed lessons and tips.
You can also sew something unusual. For example, a great gift for the New Year - heating pad in a knitted case, and knitted “clothes” - a cover for a cup will keep your favorite drink hot for a long time.
4. Fragrant Christmas tree decorations
From vanilla sticks, pine cones, fragrant spruce branches, orange slices and star anise (star anise) you can build cute Christmas trees, houses, stars and even assemble garlands from them. Even after New Year's Eve, such toys can be used as natural flavors - to decorate your workplace with them, for example, for the rest of the winter.
5. Delicious New Year's gifts
Gifts that can never be enough. Especially under the tree. Especially in a big company!
Bake something delicious gingerbread cookies By this recipe and pack it in a beautiful New Year's box. You can make holes in it in advance and add ribbons so that it can be hung on the Christmas tree.
Very popular in the West gingerbread men- they have already become a kind of symbol of Christmas and New Year. And it’s really easy to make nice souvenirs from them, for example, for colleagues or classmates. The prepared little men can be “individualized” using colored glaze - add glasses, just like the accountant Olya, a beard, like the programmer Vitka, and a tie, like Pal Andreich, and put them in CD packaging (genius - simple!) - edible ginger colleagues are ready to please their prototypes!
If you get gingerbread men, then you can move on to the next level of culinary skill - cook Gingerbread house, just like in the fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel. Parts for it can be baked using the same method cookie recipe, then assemble the resulting “construction set” using glaze and use it to decorate the exterior of the fairy-tale building. Here is a sample diagram -
From the same series - homemade, fragrant and aromatic jam. Traditional and proven, it’s best to ask your grandmother or mother, but you can also look on the Internet for something exotic. We hang tags with wishes on the jars ( “Raspberry jam for coughs and winter blues”, “Jam from garden cherries and my love”, “Currants for good luck!”, “Gooseberry jam for the best dad in the world”) wrap it in a nice colored fabric or paper and tie it with ribbons. Don't forget about honey- the most important and delicious protector against winter snowstorms and blizzards.
Here's how to pack sweets for a child in an original way. Make a personalized New Year's gift from your baby's favorite treats.
6. We remember our art lessons. New Year's origami
Well, the easiest way to make Christmas tree decorations is from colored paper. You can make such souvenirs with your children. Children will be able to decorate their room or classroom at school with them.
Here, for example, are the simplest origami toys - Santa Claus from a square of red paper.
Here's another instruction Santa Claus made of colored paper.
You will find many other schemes on the Internet. The easiest way to make toys is by following video tutorials. Here, for example, is a detailed lesson on modular origami "Christmas Star".
The result is stars like this:
7. Ball “Melted Snowman” and Snowman from an old light bulb
Another unusual Christmas tree toy. Pour some sugar-snow into a transparent Christmas tree ball, throw in a mini bag of orange paper - it will be a carrot and a few black peppercorns - the eyes and buttons of a melted snowman. The winter ball is ready!
Another idea is a snowman made from a burnt out light bulb. Cute, isn't he? It’s very easy to make - read our
On New Year's Eve, you want to decorate your home, fill it with a special atmosphere, and also please the Mistress of the Year - the Yellow Pig. Making cute crafts following the instructions provided is easy and very fun. Children will be especially delighted if you take on such magical creativity together. Let's find out what crafts you can make for the New Year 2019 with your own hands - the symbol of the Year of the Pig.
Felt pigs
It’s very easy to make such a piglet, a symbol of the New Year 2019, with your own hands; for this you need to have the following arsenal of materials:
- Felt of different colors,
- Sintepon for stuffing toys,
- Sewing accessories,
- Scissors,
- Buttons,
- Beads.
It is necessary to cut out the parts from felt according to the proposed or your own pattern.
We sew the two parts of the head together, not forgetting to put the ears between them, using overlock stitches, leaving a hole for stuffing with padding polyester. After stuffing, we also sew up the hole using overlock stitches.
We also sew together two parts of the patch, stuff it with synthetic padding and sew two buttons to the patch.
Sew the finished patch and two beads for eyes to the head.
Sew the head to the body. The ponytail can be curled using a pencil. You can sew an elegant bow on the piglet’s neck.
If you attach a string to the pig's head, you can use the toy as a Christmas tree decoration.
Based on the proposed option, you can make many interesting options for toys, using additional materials for decoration (sequins, ribbons, beads) and your own imagination.
Sock pigs
This DIY symbol of the New Year 2019 is made from ordinary socks. Necessary materials:
- Two socks of different colors or with different bright prints,
- Buttons,
- Sintepon,
- Sewing accessories,
- Scissors,
We stuff one of the socks with padding polyester so that we get a spherical shape, and cut off the rest. We sew the edge of the sock, tighten it and sew it with a hidden seam.
We put the previously cut part of the sock on the resulting ball. We sew its edge, tighten it and also sew it with a hidden seam.
Cut off the upper part of the second sock and cut it crosswise into two halves. The blanks must be rounded, giving them the shape of ears. We sew each piece from the wrong side and turn it inside out. We sew the ears to the body with a hidden seam.
Sew on the buttons - the patch and the eyes.
Pompom pig
The symbol of the New Year 2019 - the Pig - is made with your own hands from knitting threads. To do this you need to stock up:
- Threads made of wool or acrylic,
- Pink chenille wire
- Felt,
- Buttons,
- Cardboard.
You need to cut out two rings from cardboard, put them together and wrap them with yarn in several layers. Next, cut the yarn along the outer edge and tie in the middle between the rings with thread. Cut the rings and get a pompom.
We make legs and a tail from wire and glue it to the pompom. We cut out ears from felt. We use a button as a snout, buttons as eyes, or ready-made eyelets. Glue the parts to the pompom and get a cute pig.
Piglets from cones
Making such piglets will be easy even for children. You need to stock up on cones, plasticine and wire. The cone can be painted pink. We use large scales from cones as ears and glue them to the body. We make the nose, eyes and paws from plasticine, the tail from wire.
Polymer clay pig
We will need:
- Polymer clay,
- Tools for working with clay.
Roll out a ball of pink clay. Shape the muzzle. Supporting the head with your fingers, level the patch on a flat board.
Use a ball-end tool to shape the head and make the necessary indentations.
Use small black beads or black clay balls as eyes.
Make indentations - nostrils and mouth.
Connect the head and body with a wooden stick. Make and attach the piglet's arms and legs, as well as ears and tail, as shown in the picture.
The pre-New Year bustle with gifts and preparing a festive menu also applies to decorating the home interior and office. Decorating the room creates a festive mood and helps you forget about fatigue and the annual report.
New Year-themed crafts provide an opportunity to awaken the dreamer and inventor in your soul. Involving children of any age in the process helps strengthen family traditions and values.
Any material at hand is suitable for crafts; if you wish, you can buy something in handicraft stores. Don’t be afraid of experiments: it is non-standard solutions that attract attention and deserve admiration.
It will complement the exclusive interior made of cardboard boxes, which we have already talked about earlier.
New Year's figures: Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Snowman
Well, what's the New Year without the main characters? Flat or voluminous, made of paper or plastic, simple or complex - there are plenty of options for every taste. It all depends on the time you are willing to spend on the craft and patience.
Santa Claus made of cardboard and felt
To make a cheerful and cute Santa Claus you will need: a toilet paper roll (or a cylinder of the required size from cardboard), small scraps of red, white, black and yellow felt, glue, cardboard and 2 beads or buttons for the eyes.
Manufacturing process:
- cover the sleeve with red felt;
- cut out felt and glue a black “belt” and “plaque”;
- from white felt we make a “face”, “beard”, “mustache” and “nose”;
- We make a cap from red felt, glue it, and cover the seam with a white felt ribbon, like a real hat;
- from cardboard and black felt we make a flat base for a figure in the form of boots;
- We make handles in mittens from red and white felt and glue them to the “body”;
- At the tip of the cap we make a white pom-pom (glue two felt disks together);
- glue on bead eyes and a red mouth.
The craft can be placed or hung on the Christmas tree. In the second case, when making a pompom, a beautiful ribbon or shiny lace is glued between the discs.
Santa Claus from a plastic bottle
For the craft you need to prepare: a plastic bottle (volume 0.5-1 liter), red and white acrylic paints, glue, scissors, black marker and white thread.
Manufacturing process:
- paint the bottle red or cover it with paper;
- we draw the eyes with a marker (here you can improvise: “sly squint”, “mischievous wink”, “delight”);
- for the beard and hat we glue the material and paint it with white paint;
- Glue a thread pompom onto the bottle cap;
- draw snowflakes and mittens;
- Cut out a snowflake from felt and glue it to the hat.
The finished figure of Santa Claus can be decorated with sparkles or tinsel.
Clay Snow Maiden
An interesting version of crafts made from modeling clay, suitable for both kindergarten and home decor. The Snow Maiden figurine turns out to be hollow.
The sculpting technique includes the following steps:
- from “sausages” of medium thickness we make a pyramid (smoothing the seams to get a solid, even figure);
- for the head we roll a ball, which we secure with a match;
- we braid a braid from thin flagella, make a “fur” frill and a collar for a fur coat, a kokoshnik and sleeves with mittens;
- When the figure hardens, we begin to paint (mix the paint with glue).
You can make other New Year's characters in a similar way.
Paper Snow Maiden
To make a cheerful Snow Maiden from paper you will need cardboard, colored paper, glue and pencils.
We roll a sheet of cardboard into a cone and get a base, which we then cover with blue paper. We also make sleeves from cardboard.
On thick white paper we draw the Snow Maiden’s face with pigtails and carefully cut it out. From white paper we cut out the openwork trim of the “fur coat”.
Glue all the parts together and, if desired, draw on the decorative elements with a marker. Instead of blue colored paper, you can take white paper and color it with a pencil.
Snowman made from white plastic cups
The craft can be of different sizes, but it will be equally easy to work with due to its light weight. You need to prepare: several packages of disposable cups, a stationery stapler, glue, colored cardboard for a cap, a marker and an old scarf.
Manufacturing process:
- we connect the cups around the circle using a stapler (orient the bottom towards the center of the circle);
- adding rows, we get the first hemisphere;
- we make the second hemisphere unfinished (without a top) so that the sphere stands stably on a flat surface;
- we connect the parts with a stapler and get a “lump”;
- in the same way we make a second “lump” of smaller radius;
- glue two spheres together;
- We make a cap from cardboard (you can sew it from fabric or take a ready-made one);
- we make eyes, nose and mouth;
- we decorate the buttons (you can put tinsel, a wad of foil or colored paper in the required cups).
Coming up with an original decoration for a Snowman is quite simple.
Snowman made of thread and glue
For this craft you will need: white threads (preferably thick ones for knitting), PVA glue, 4 balloons, colored paper and felt-tip pens.
Manufacturing process:
- inflate balloons of the required sizes (torso, head and arms);
- wrap each ball with thread dipped in glue and leave to dry;
- after a day, we pierce the balls with a needle and remove the scraps;
- from the resulting white balls we collect and glue the figure of a Snowman;
- we make eyes, a nose and a smile from paper or draw with felt-tip pens;
- create a headdress - a paper bucket;
- tie a wide ribbon, a children's scarf or tinsel.
To complete the composition, you can make a broom from a wooden kebab skewer and wide ribbons of colored paper.
Decorative Christmas tree
The Christmas tree, which is usually decorated, is recognized as the indisputable and permanent symbol of the New Year. But the Christmas tree itself can become a decoration. We present the 5 best options for a decorative Christmas tree.
Christmas tree made of pine cones
A small but cute Christmas tree will be made from a beautiful pine cone (fir cones are smaller and more elongated). Various coloring and decoration options are possible.
To make the Christmas tree look more realistic, “plant” it in a small plastic flower pot (flowers are sold in stores in them, but after transplanting into a ceramic pot they often do not find use at home). You can also make a pot from puff pastry or plasticine.
Fluffy Christmas tree with sweets
New Year's holidays were remembered from childhood by the aroma of chocolates. It will be great if a New Year's harbinger, strewn with sweets, appears on your desktop. We make a cone from white cardboard. Starting from the bottom, glue green tinsel in a circle, alternating each row with a row of candies. The top of the Christmas tree can be decorated with a star made of colored paper or candy. Instead of chocolates, you can use different sweets.
Vegetable tree
To decorate your holiday table, you can make a Christmas tree from cauliflower. Small or chopped carrots, pomegranate seeds, and tangerine skin clippings are suitable as decorations. You can hold the cabbage florets together with puff pastry.
Christmas tree made of threads “with lights”
A simple Christmas tree made of threads with the light of a tea candle flickering inside will fill your home with coziness. To make it, we wind any threads soaked in glue onto a cone of the required size.
After 24 hours, when the glue has dried, take out the cone and decorate the craft with beads or other small and light decor.
Natural mini-Christmas tree made from spruce branches
When there is no room in the apartment for a real spruce, but you really want a resinous smell, you should think about creating a mini version from small branches. To do this, place an elongated piece of floral sponge in a decorative bowl or clay pot.
At the next stage, the branches are evenly stuck into the sponge, repeating the silhouette of a real Christmas tree. You can decorate the finished composition with physalis, dried flowers or dried orange slices (natural spruce branches go better with natural materials).
DIY Christmas tree toys
Handmade toys of unique design are increasingly popular and create a special atmosphere in the interior.
Gnomes made of fir cones and felt
Cute toys with pendants will be a great decoration. There are many different variations and room for creativity.
Felt Snow Maiden
You can make the Snow Maiden using a ready-made pattern or prepare your own version on paper. In the pattern you need to take into account all the elements. We decorate the finished figurine with beads or sparkles.
Garland of woven paper balls
There are different techniques for weaving 3D figures from paper. The simplest of them: cut colored paper into strips, take one strip and glue it into a ring, intertwine two more strips and also glue them into a ring.
For balls of small diameter, you need to take strips of 8-10 cm. The larger the ball, the greater the number of strips required. We string the finished balls onto a ribbon or decorative rope and get a bright multi-colored garland.
Northern penguins made from plastic bottles
All you need for the craft is an even number of bottles (if they are of different sizes, you will get a funny family), threads for pompoms, scraps for cutting scarves and multi-colored acrylic paints. Coloring does not require artist skills - just desire and a festive mood.
Plastic snowflakes
A wonderful decoration in the form of multi-colored snowflakes can be made from the bottoms of plastic bottles of any size: cut off the bottom, use a hot nail to make a hole for the ribbon and paint with felt-tip pens or draw patterns.
Button decoration
Buttons are actively used in needlework to decorate any crafts. Both decorative buttons of the same color and old unnecessary buttons can be used to create a Christmas tree decoration. The elements are strung on copper wire, and the junction of the two ends is decorated with a bright ribbon bow. A similar version of the craft is a vertical decoration in the form of an icicle.
The symbol of the coming 2018 is the Earth Dog
When decorating the interior, you cannot ignore the “mistress” of 2018 - the Earth Dog. In 2019, the relay race according to the eastern calendar will be continued by the Yellow Pig, and in 2020 by the White Rat.
White dog made from cotton balls
For the craft, a cardboard frame is first made, which is covered with cotton balls or pieces of cotton swabs.
Pompom dog
You will get a cute puppy from pompoms. For the craft, take two pom-poms of the same size (head and torso) and one small one (nose).
We tie the pompoms together with thread and glue the felt ears. For the eyes, you can take black beads, and for the nose, sew a lump of black material.
Cute felt puppies
A great idea would be to hang funny felt puppies on the Christmas tree. The pattern for the craft is easy to make yourself.
Funny puppy made from socks
To create such a dog, you will need basic cutting and sewing skills. Initially, the future body and head are formed from one sock, which are filled with padding polyester and then separated by tightening them with threads. Afterwards the head is completed with eyes, a mustache and eyebrows are embroidered.
From the other two socks, a pattern is made for the ears, paws and tail, which are also filled with padding polyester and secured to the body.
Selected ideas for crafts for the New Year 2018 will help make the interior not boring and magical in a festive way. More ideas for New Year's decorations in.
