Today it is not difficult to buy a Christmas tree decoration for every taste and style. But when you want to get it yourself or give someone something original and sincere, it’s time to think about how to make New Year’s decorations with your own hands. It turns out it's not so difficult! After all, there are many simple options for toys that can be created literally in one evening.
Paper toys
The most convenient material for making Christmas tree decorations is paper, because even a child can handle it. You can make a lot of interesting and beautiful decorations for the New Year tree from paper, but we will look at the most spectacular and simple ones.
Christmas trees
The main symbol of the New Year can be created from colored cardboard circles strung on a toothpick or stick. To leave a small distance between the layers, insert a bead between them. The embossed edge of the circles can be obtained using special scissors, which are sold in a craft and scrapbooking store. There you can also get paper and cardboard with beautiful designs.
You can make a simpler Christmas tree by folding a triangle of thick paper like an accordion and securing it to a toothpick, or by gluing four identical Christmas trees together. To decorate such a toy, a voluminous acrylic outline, glitter (gel with sparkles), ribbons, cords, beads, sequins, pearl appliqués and much more are suitable.
Snowflakes
Who didn’t cut out snowflakes from folded paper as a child? It would be nice to remember this long-forgotten activity. You can experiment with shape and complicate the pattern. For needlewomen familiar with quilling, it will be interesting to try making snowflakes using this technique.
Balloons
Surprisingly, you can make quite voluminous balls from flat paper. To do this, you need to cut the paper into circles of the same diameter - old postcards or magazines will do. The blanks need to be folded in half and glued to each other. By varying the gluing options, you can get different-looking balls.
You can make more complex balls from the same paper circles. To do this, you need to draw an equilateral triangle in each element, bend it along these lines and glue it together.
Paper balls made using the quilling technique look completely different. You can create a ball shape by wrapping paper of different widths layer by layer, or use twisted parts just for decoration.
Fabric toys
The use of fabrics gives us no less options for toys.
Felt
You can use a wide variety of subjects for crafts - Christmas trees, snowmen, animals, stars, and hearts.
Figures made from felt in bright colors look impressive. Most often they turn out flat, because this fabric is quite thick and has volume in itself. You can use a wide variety of subjects for crafts - Christmas trees, snowmen, animals, stars, and hearts. A distinctive feature of felt products is hand-sewn parts, stitching, and multi-layer appliqué. To decorate such toys, you can use beads, buttons, braid and other decorative elements.
Thin cloth
If you have accumulated a lot of small colorful scraps, it's time to use them to make cute Christmas tree decorations. These can be three-dimensional balls, Christmas trees, snowmen, people or animals. Typically, such toys are filled with holofiber or padding polyester, and ribbons, buttons and other small details are used for decoration.
Socks
In addition to pieces of fabric, you can also use old clothes, such as socks, to create New Year's toys. If you choose them well in color and texture, you can create cute characters. The technique for working with this material is the same as with fabrics.
Thread jewelry
Volumetric balls
Thread balls always make an impression. But making them is not so difficult! To do this, you need to inflate a small ball, soak the thread with PVA glue and randomly wind it around the ball. It is important not to forget to leave a place to remove the ball - preferably in the area of its tail. After the glue has dried thoroughly, the ball must be burst and carefully removed. The finished decoration can be decorated or painted.
Balloon decorations
It is not at all necessary to build Christmas tree decorations completely from scratch. You can use simple plastic one-color or transparent balls as a base.
Decoration
You can decorate the balls with anything. You can glue multi-colored beads, small beads or buttons over the entire surface. The ball will turn out shiny and sparkling if you cut an old CD into small fragments and secure them with a glue gun or superglue.
You can decorate the balls with anything.
You will get original balls covered with cord in a spiral. Instead of a cord, you can use strips of thin colorful fabric twisted into a rope. It is important to secure each turn properly and not skimp on glue.
painting
Unique balls can be created using painting. To do this, it is convenient to use markers, glass paints, acrylics, volumetric contours, and glitters. The painting can cover the entire surface of the ball or only a part. While working, do not forget that a ball hanging on a branch can rotate, so it is better to apply a design from all sides.
Inner world
You can create a whole world inside the transparent balls. They can be filled with sparkling rain, dried rose petals, large light feathers, and even make a real terrarium by placing some soil, moss, twigs and plants in it.
Toys from scrap materials
To create Christmas tree decorations with your own hands, any materials that you have at hand are suitable - you just have to break away from stereotypes and awaken your imagination.
Cones
The most obvious object is the pine cones. They can be painted golden or white, mounted directly on spruce branches or hung on strings. But an original solution could be to decorate large cones with small balls of thread or fabric. This way they will look like small Christmas trees.
Plastic bottles
They made a lot of things out of plastic bottles, but they come in handy here too. For example, you can make light, almost transparent balls from cut and decorated plastic rings, and adorable little penguins from the bottoms of bottles.
Light bulbs
Have you ever thought that ordinary incandescent light bulbs are very similar to Christmas tree balls? If you approach them creatively, paint them with paints or decorate them beautifully, you can get a very original decoration for the New Year tree.
Don’t forget to make your Christmas tree decorations comfortable and attach ribbons and loops to them, which will make it easy to hang them on a branch. Try to ensure that your decorations match both each other and the interior of the room. Make them as safe as possible if you have small children and pets. Enjoy the creative process and the approaching holiday!
Everyone wants to give a surprise to their loved ones on Christmas and New Year. And you can bring the celebration closer with your creative powers. Take note of the original ideas that we have collected in the selection below, and then the upcoming winter holidays will sparkle with completely new colors. Don’t be afraid to create, involve everyone at home in the process - this will bring the family closer, and maybe even become the beginning of a new tradition.
Winter flowers
It’s not difficult to make a beautiful New Year’s tree bloom. In order to make such Christmas and New Year toys with your own hands on the eve of 2018, you don’t even need to use special colored paper, opting for old books or newspapers. Such buds will look original, and you will pay tribute to the currently fashionable eco-trend. So let's get started:
- cut out a perfect square from paper;
- fold it in the same way as shown in the photo;
- repeat this with the remaining 4 sheets of paper;
- glue the resulting blanks together to form a flower;
- We decorate the middle with tinsel, beads, in a word, anything that seems suitable to you.
Ice shards
Who would have thought that old CDs could be used to create such creative balloons? Yes, in most cases, making New Year's Christmas tree decorations will not require either serious material expenditure or the skills of a professional designer. This is what the next master class proves.
To work, you will need transparent (in principle, you can use colored) plastic or glass balls, an unnecessary CD, scissors, and a glue gun.
- using scissors, cut the CD into pieces of arbitrary shape and size;
- Apply droplets of glue to the surface of the ball and fix the “mirror” fragments in the desired order, evenly covering the ball on all sides and leaving no empty spaces.
The result is a wonderful toy, no different from expensive designer works. Their soft shine will perfectly complement the overall impression of a magnificent Christmas tree.
Cute snowflakes
A simple but wonderful decoration in its laconism is snowflakes. Backing material... rolls left over from using toilet paper or kitchen towels. Also stock up on scissors, glue, decorative elements in the form of large rhinestones and thin fishing line. The whole process looks like this step by step:
- we crush the sleeve, pressing it well from the edges;
- cut the bushing into strips of equal width. The resulting elements are visually reminiscent of flower petals;
- glue the resulting blanks together in the center so that you get a flower;
- decorate the middle with rhinestones;
- We thread a fishing line through one of the petals. That's it, the snowflake is ready to float near the branches of your Christmas tree.
Felt fantasy
Here are some more fun DIY crafts. The toy can become either an independent element of holiday decor or act as an integral part of an entire garland.
- Cut out a square from felt of the desired color;
- draw it out as shown in the photo;
- cut along the lines with a stationery knife, not reaching the center;
- glue the strips together, folding the corners on top of each other;
- we alternate actions alternately from one side to the other;
- We hang the finished toy on a fishing line, decorating it with beads.
If desired, you can create a whole vertical garland from several similar parts, interspersing them with beads. The toy can be hung on the Christmas tree or placed in the interior.
Snowball game
It’s very easy to make fluffy balls of snow that won’t melt no matter how warm it is in your house. We use foam blanks in the form of balls, mother-of-pearl beads, sewing pins, glue, scissors, and braid. The process of making such a toy comes down to the following steps:
- string beads onto pins;
- Having coated the end of the pins with glue for better fixation, we stick them into the ball;
- We continue this way until we cover the entire surface of the toy with beads;
- We attach a braid or ribbon to the ball, using which we will hang the decoration on the Christmas tree.
Funny ninjas
Small ninja toys with cute moving eyes will save your home’s beautiful Christmas tree from being too formal. After all, looking at such New Year's decorations, you involuntarily want to smile.
To work, you will need very few materials: dark opaque balls (they can even be made of plastic), narrow ribbons of different colors, toy eyes (a pair for each ninja).
- We wrap each ball with two turns of ribbon, securing the improvised fighter’s bandage to a knot at the back. For greater reliability, the tape can be placed on glue.
- We glue the eyes to the ribbon on the front, that's it - decorations for the New Year can be hung on the Christmas tree.
Beauty cone
An ordinary pine cone will fit perfectly into the New Year's decor. It would seem how unpretentious an accessory it is, and what wonderful toys can be made from it and how many ideas can be realized. The cone can simply be hung by a coarse twine, and the top can be decorated with a beautifully tied bow made of satin ribbon to match the overall color scheme. Or make New Year trees from pine cones, crowning them with numerous multi-colored plasticine balls. It seems simple, but it looks really unusual and creative.
Snowflakes made from... pasta
For a thrifty and creative housewife, even pasta can become the basis for creating amazingly beautiful decorations in the New Year 2018. You can give free rein to your imagination here - after all, each new snowflake can be completely different from the previous one. All you need to do is stock up on as many different types of pasta as possible in the nearest supermarket (flowers, Christmas trees, spirals, shells, etc.). You also cannot do without glue, white paint and braid (ribbon, fishing line, thread) for hanging.
We form the pattern starting from the center, maintaining symmetry. How the toys turn out depends only on your imagination. We glue the parts of the decoration together with glue. At the end of the work, paint the snowflake white, additionally decorating the decor with sparkles to your liking.
New Year's toys with sequins - festive glamor
You can surprise your loved ones on Christmas and New Year's Eve by making unusual, shiny decorations for the Christmas tree with your own hands. The special beauty of creating such balls is the process itself, which is addictive and very simple. So, we stock up on a small foam ball that fits easily in your hand, sequins of any color, and sewing pins.
We fix the sequins to the ball with pins, as shown in the photo, proceed sequentially, placing the shiny elements close to each other, avoiding gaps. When the ball is ready, all that remains is to place an element in its upper part to fix the decoration on the tree.
Who wants some ice cream?
Do you like ice cream? Why not decorate the Christmas tree with your favorite delicacy for the New Year, especially since you don’t need a lot of materials for this. It is enough to find thick paper to imitate waffle cones and colored napkins or small pieces of compressed paper, a needle, and thin fishing line. Having formed a cone from thick paper, we make ice cream balls from colored paper, the number of which depends on your desire. Then we form a loop from the fishing line, by which our sweets will be hung on the tree, and we thread it through our balls, as was done in the photo.
Rooster on the Christmas tree
It will look good made of paper or other materials. You can make a lot of these cockerels and collect the pendants into a garland to decorate your home. If you are going to make a paper cockerel, use cardboard as a base, which you will cover on both sides.
- You will need multi-colored sheets of colored paper (you can use colored cardboard) and a sheet of cardboard. Draw the silhouette of a rooster on cardboard and cut it out.
- Using a cardboard blank as a template where necessary, draw the details on colored paper (cardboard): head, torso, wings and tail - first fold the sheets in half so as not to waste time preparing blanks for the second side.
- The next stage: we cut out our blanks.
- Now we glue the parts made of colored paper (cardboard) onto the cardboard blank. After the cockerel has assembled into a whole picture, you can decorate it with sparkles, beads - whatever comes to mind.
- Make a hole in the blank, thread a ribbon and hang it on the tree.
You can make a similar toy from felt and also use it to decorate a Christmas tree.
Draw the pattern by hand or use any ready-made one, for example, this one:
Homemade cockerels made using the origami technique will look original.
pillow toy
A difficult, but very exciting activity in making toys is creating a pillow in the form of a symbol of the year, which will delight you not only in the year of the Rooster, but much longer. You will need a pattern, fabric, filler, felt (depending on the chosen model), thread and needles. Here it's a matter of small things, we trace the pattern, sew the parts together, leaving a hole to fill the pillow with filler. We turn it inside out, put the stuffing inside the toy, and sew it up until the end.
There is also a more complex plan with fabric painting - this is batik, thanks to which the pillow will acquire a bright color. After you have traced the cockerel on the fabric, paint it using special paints; they can be replaced with gouache if you mix it with PVA glue. We leave it for a day so that the paint dries and continue to finish the pillow in the shape of a rooster.
From salt dough
Children are often asked to bring some New Year's crafts to school competitions. Make it from salt dough. A craft made from bioceramics can also be an excellent gift from children to grandparents. Moreover, this activity is so exciting that it quite claims to be a hobby.
Before you make a toy from salt dough, you need to prepare the dough itself. To prepare the dough, use fine table salt, regular wheat flour and water in a ratio of 2:4:2, respectively. First, mix flour and salt, and then add warm water, kneading the dough thoroughly for at least 10 minutes.
There is another recipe for making dough. In this case, take flour and salt in the same proportions, only the flour is pre-sifted. You need to take a little less than 1 1/3 cups of water. The cooking method will vary. According to this recipe, water must be brought to a boil and salt dissolved in it. Only then is flour added.
When the dough is ready, start making crafts. If you are doing crafts with your child, simplify the task by taking cookie cutters, for example, in the shape of Christmas trees or bunnies - you will get wonderful Christmas tree decorations. Make a toy (you can use beads or seed beads for decoration), don’t forget to make a hole at the top. To harden the toy, it is left for 24 hours or baked in the oven. After the toy has hardened, it is painted with acrylic paints, gouache, watercolors, allowed to dry thoroughly and coated with either colorless nail polish or nitro varnish for wood. Thread a thread or ribbon through the hole. So the New Year's gift is ready.
Photo ideas for crafts made from salt dough
Soap figures
Soap is always useful. A little unexpectedly, soap can also be used to decorate a Christmas tree. Soap toys for the Christmas tree are made by hand. The process is simple. First, we grate the baby soap on a coarse grater, melt it in a hot bath (make sure no bubbles form), pour the liquid into a mold and leave until it hardens.
- If you want to make colored soap with a pleasant aroma, then add dyes to the base - these can be either food coloring or the juice of berries or vegetables, for example, cherries, beets, carrots. Smell can be added using perfumes or flavorings.
- If you use a ready-made transparent soap base instead of baby soap, you can make soap with a “filler”. After you fill the mold halfway with melted soap, let it sit for 20-30 minutes, put a slice of lemon or orange on top, coffee beans and fill the mold completely with soapy liquid.
- In order for the soap to also have a beneficial cosmetic effect, ground coffee is added to the base, which will work as a scrub, various oils, lemon zest, and ground oatmeal. Such a toy, which doubles as an excellent gift, will definitely not go unnoticed.
Big toys
Using threads, you can also create wonderful jewelry of rather large size - giants. Just inflate the balloon, wrap it with a thread soaked in PVA glue and leave it for 24 hours. After drying, the ball is burst, leaving an airy New Year's toy made of threads, which, for decorative purposes, can be coated with silver or gold paint, decorated with beads, seed beads, sequins, and ribbons. Thread the ribbon and the accessory is ready. If you prepare two or three balls of different sizes, you can make a snowman.
Christmas trees are made from threads using the same principle. Use a Whatman paper cone as the base on which you will wind the thread. You can make such a toy in miniature if you take a simple sheet of cardboard instead of whatman paper. Light beads and ribbon bows are useful for decoration.
By the way, use a cone of whatman paper for the base if you are going to make Father Frost and the Snow Maiden. It is enough to glue such a cone, paint it, or make clothes from paper or fabric. The head can be an inflated balloon with a painted face.
Boxes from household appliances are also useful for giant toys; they can be covered with foil, colored paper, appliques, or even made into a Nutcracker.
Neither bright balls from the supermarket, nor lights flashing in different colors, nor expensive designer kits for decorating Christmas trees can compare with homemade decorations.
Of course, such decorations from the supermarket will make your evergreen guest bright and modernly decorated, but they are unlikely to be able to carry the New Year’s mood as joyfully as home-made toys.
There are a lot of ways to make Christmas tree decorations, but the simplest, most attractive and not time-consuming are paper-made toys. To create them, you may need very little, improvised materials that are stored in every housewife. Stock up on a little patience and wings for a creative flight of fancy.
New Year's balls
What is the most common decoration on a Christmas tree? Of course, balls! You can always buy glass and plastic ones in the store, but we will try to make them from thick paper. This includes colored cardboard, old postcards and covers of unnecessary magazines. Balls made of colored cardboard, plain, will give the tree or room that you want to decorate a single style, and multi-colored balls will bring an atmosphere of celebration, magic and a winter fairy tale.
Before you sit down to make a new toy, prepare:
- thick paper;
- use old magazines, cardboards or candy boxes with bright designs;
- glue, PVA is best;
- scissors;
- a compass or any other object that you can trace to get an even circle.
Take your cardboard and draw twenty-one identical circles on it, then cut them out with scissors. Each circle must be folded as follows: bend the circle in half twice, on one side and the other, then straighten it, this will mark the center of the circle.
Fold only one side of it again, so that the edge of the circle is exactly in the intended center. Fold the two sides again, so you get a triangle. Cut out this triangle in one of the twenty circles; it will serve as a kind of stencil for the rest of the circles. All that remains for you is to place the triangle on the remaining circles, trace it and bend the edges of the circles outward along the contour.
Take the first ten circles and glue them into stripes, alternating: five down - five up. Glue the resulting strip into a ring, this will serve as the basis for the toy.
Divide the remaining ten into fives and glue them into a circle. By gluing them together, you will get two lids.
The top and bottom covers will need to be glued to the base in the same way. Consider a loop to hang the toy from.
Children can easily help you make such a New Year's toy: you will need scissors, colored paper, and packing ribbons.
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Large volumetric snowflake
Snow is obviously the most important attribute of winter, and a snowflake is the main decoration of the house for the New Year. A snowflake can be cut out of paper and glued to the window, as is often done. What about voluminous snowflakes? Making it is as easy as cutting it out. To create it you will only need scissors, a stapler and, of course, paper.
Cut out 6 squares of the same size, fold each square diagonally, and then in half. Make parallel cuts along the folds with scissors. Unfold the squares, wrap the inner strips and fasten them together. The resulting petals are connected to each other with a stapler, although you can also use glue. Such a large snowflake can be sprinkled with sparkles or put together as a garland. You can decorate it with a window, a wall, or hang it under a chandelier.
What could be easier to decorate than large, voluminous paper candies? They are very simple to make, for example, from old foil or beautiful wallpaper left over from renovation. There will definitely be paper with a bright pattern. And to do this, you just need to measure out a small rectangle, twist it into a tube, and tie ribbons at the ends. If you are afraid that your toy will lose its shape, then by twisting it, you can put any unnecessary thing in the shape of a cylinder, for example, a cardboard cylinder from toilet paper, between the paper.
Toys with family photos
Some types of paper balls can be made using family photos. Such New Year's toys will be the most special, because the important and significant moments of the outgoing year will remain with you, and in the next New Year, the toy of memories will again remind you of pleasant moments. By the way, don’t forget about your pets, let them also remain on your memorable toy, because a dog, cat or even guinea pigs are also waiting for the New Year holidays!
Lanterns from childhood
What about flashlights? You must remember from childhood how to make paper lanterns. With a little imagination, you can easily come up with a new design for a simple flashlight. To diversify a very simple craft, you can decorate it with sparkles, make it from colored paper or printed paper, paint it with paints, and add new details. Everything is to your taste.
Paper angels for the Christmas tree
What about New Year's angels? You also remember how to make them, right? Angels can be made from gold paper or newspapers, painted or added glitter.
New Year's paper cones
What's a Christmas tree without pine cones? You can decorate the Christmas tree with ordinary pine cones from the forest, but you can make your own magical ones. There are several ways to make paper cones: it all depends on your preferences, availability of free time and patience. The simplest option is a cone made from old postcards.
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Lace garland
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Cardboard Santa Claus
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New Year's house on the Christmas tree
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Stars
You can decorate the Christmas tree with paper stars. They are made very simply, even kids can cope with this task, but they look very original!
A New Year or Christmas wreath is usually decorated with the front door or hung on the wall. But you can make a mini paper wreath that will look great on the Christmas tree as a toy.
The toys that you made for the holiday with your own hands are the key to a cozy holiday atmosphere. Happy New Year!
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Tips for making New Year's paper toys with your own hands
It’s worth trying to make both big and small with your own hands. What kind of paper is most convenient to work with: for crafts, use any paper, but paper with good density and high quality is preferable, otherwise it won’t last even a couple of days intact.
For paper work you need sharp scissors, a simple pencil, a ruler, and PVA glue. Products can be decorated with sequins, beads, ribbons, and the necessary details can be colored with felt-tip pens or paints.
Grandfather Frost - paper nose
A nice, kind Santa Claus would be an excellent toy for a paper Christmas tree. There are several schemes for its manufacture; let’s look at the simplest and most convenient ones.
Snowman without snow
With round sides, it is also made of paper. This is a very exciting process - it will be easy to make many small snowmen at once.
To make all the parts movable, we make holes with an awl and connect the parts with thin wire or thick thread.
The head can be made using the same method or simply be in the form of one circle. In this way, you can prepare the symbol of 2019 for the holiday.
Different ways to create an angel
A very delicate Christmas tree toy in the shape of an angel made of paper will delight both adults and children. You can create an angel on a Christmas tree with your own hands without much difficulty.
The fan blades are fastened with a stapler or glue; the joints can be decorated with ribbons, feathers, and beads.
Such an angel should definitely be decorated with beads, sparkles, cotton wool, and braid.
Garlands are an excellent decoration not only for the Christmas tree
Paper ones, which look great on a Christmas tree, are also good at decorating walls, and, and. Let's see how to make a variety of interesting garlands.
Advice! To make several leaves and berries at once, the paper is folded several times.
Stars and snowflakes
Of the classic New Year's toys, do-it-yourself ones stay with the children. And if you have never done them, now is the time to start!
Christmas balls: use decoupage
We tear off or cut along the contour a piece of a napkin with a pattern, take a wide flat brush and, dipping it in PVA glue, straighten the element on the toy with gentle movements. The design is straightened with glue and immediately printed.
Lanterns for the Christmas tree and more
You can make an interesting New Year's toy with your own hands with your child: lanterns will remind us of a happy childhood and New Year's anticipation of a miracle and gifts.
Paper wreaths
Paper wreaths also perfectly decorate the New Year's interior. Wreaths are made using the origami technique, or simply made into paper-based compositions.
How to make your own New Year's toy from different materials: we use yarn, pine cones, beads, felt and pasta
There are always a couple of skeins of wool or a few pine cones in the house that a child brought from a walk. And if you don’t find one, it doesn’t matter: there are many ways to create beautiful Christmas tree decorations from different materials.
DIY Christmas tree toys made from yarn and threads
Yarn of different colors can easily turn into a sparkling miracle: a thread passed through PVA glue with glitter will itself begin to shine and sparkle when it dries. At the same time, this is an easy way to give the yarn any shape.
We inflate the balloons to the desired size and carefully tie the putku - this will help us save on balloons and reuse them. But you can get by with the required number of balls at once. We grease each ball with oil or cream, and, after passing the thread through PVA glue, we begin to wrap the ball with yarn. We hang the product to dry, burst it or untie the ball. We take out the base - and we are left with wonderful round transparent balls in our hands!
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How to make a New Year's toy from ribbons, beads and beads
Beads or beads are a small thing, but they will help create a beautiful product. The base is either a ready-made ball, which is perfected with decor, or a foam blank.
DIY Christmas toys made from scraps or felt
From scraps of satin or other fabric you can make bright and beautiful toys for the city Christmas tree with your own hands.
You can choose a suitable color for the product, but leftovers from various bright fabrics will also work well. The products are sewn from the wrong side, and then turned right side out, stuffed with padding polyester or cotton wool and sewn with a hidden seam.
Do-it-yourself funny and soft children's New Year's toys are made from. An easy-to-handle material from which children can create an original holiday decoration themselves. You can play with such toys and hang them up again. Felt is easy to cut and easy to sew, so this work should also attract younger family members.
You can also make your own New Year’s tree toy from pine cones.
A beautiful large Christmas tree toy is created with your own hands from pine or spruce cones. A simple natural decoration is made using hot glue. The cones are pre-painted, rolled in glue and glitter, or left in their natural form.
Pasta on the Christmas tree looks great
Some people are prejudiced against pasta creativity, but they really look very beautiful and stylish. Working with pasta elements is easy and interesting; the products have many shape options, each of which can be used to create toys.
Wishing you bright creativity and lots of inspiration for the main holiday of the year!
DIY outdoor Christmas toys
If the space of your home allows, you can make a variety of outdoor Christmas toys with your own hands. For example, make a snowman out of plastic glasses, as shown in the photo, and put an LED garland inside. If there are children in the house, they will be truly surprised by finding candy in the cavity of the cups.
You can also design cone-shaped floor Christmas toys with your own hands. You need to make a cone base from thick cardboard, and then decorate it in the form of a Christmas tree, a gnome, Santa Claus and other figures. Use colored paper. Cut out decorations from it and glue them to the base. You can also use foamiran, felt and other materials. You can make a cone-shaped frame from bendable strong wire, wrap it with green thread, and attach an LED garland in the middle - you will get a Christmas tree.
Making Christmas toys with your own hands in large and small sizes
Making New Year's toys with your own hands using the most ordinary materials allows you to create the most unusual products, which sometimes amaze not only with their originality, but also with their size.
DIY mini Christmas toys
To decorate a small Christmas tree or a bouquet of fir branches, we recommend making mini Christmas toys with your own hands. The easiest way to make such decorations is from salt dough. Take 250 g of water, a glass of salt and 2 glasses of flour, knead the dough and start modeling. You can form three-dimensional figures or flat ones by first rolling out the dough in a thin layer. Sculpt whatever you want.
These can be snowflakes, Christmas trees, balls, snowmen. It wouldn’t hurt to make a small puppy - a symbol of the coming year. All these “semi-finished products” must be dried in the oven (5 - 6 hours on low heat) or 2 - 3 days in the fresh air. You can decorate such New Year's toys with your own hands, sprinkle them with glitter, cover them with tinsel and other decorative elements.
Huge DIY New Year's toys
Spectacular decorations that differ in their scale are often used to decorate a private home. These can be large garlands and huge DIY New Year's toys: New Year's creatures, balls, bells. Such decorations can also be found at city festive events and fairs. A large DIY New Year's toy ball can be made from an ordinary gymnastic ball; you just need to decorate it and beautifully decorate the loop, disguising the handle with a satin ribbon with a bow.
A huge DIY New Year's toy “clock” can decorate not only the exterior of the house, but also the interior of a spacious room, if you install a flat structure against the wall. They can be an excellent element of a corner for a photo shoot, and the arrows will remind you of the upcoming holiday. Such a watch can be made from plywood, and the mechanism may be missing altogether, or you can get it along with an old watch at a flea market. Like all DIY New Year's toys, the clock should also be decorated. This can be done with multi-colored tinsel, an image of Santa Claus on the dial, or artificial snow.
How to make New Year's toys with your own hands in different stylistic directions
It has become quite fashionable to decorate the New Year's interior in compliance with one or another stylistic direction, on which the design of New Year's toys with your own hands largely depends. Let's look at some options.
DIY New Year's toys in Provence style
Provence is the style of an old French village, characterized by comfort, warmth, natural materials, textiles and floral prints. To make New Year's toys in Provence style with your own hands, take old ball toys, wrap them in a bag made of natural patterned fabric, make lace bows on top and decorate with beads. An excellent solution would also be a variety of toys made of felt or decorated using the decoupage technique with images of small flowers.
DIY New Year's eco toys
Eco style has become more and more popular over the years, as humanity has appreciated the priority of natural materials. You can make your own New Year's eco-friendly toys from wood, pine cones, branches and other natural materials. For example, having collected acorn caps in an oak grove, you can paste them over a simple New Year's ball. To make such a toy look impressive, treat each hat with varnish, dip it in gold glitter and glue it on. An addition will be a loop of gold braid.
Vintage DIY Christmas toys in retro style
You can make interesting New Year's toys with your own hands if you decorate them in an antique style. To decorate your Christmas toys with your own hands in an antique style, you can use the decoupage technique. Paint the ball initially not with white, but with light brown paint to create an antique effect. You can choose napkins with images of angels, since decorating a Christmas tree was previously considered a purely Christian tradition. Apply it with PVA glue and, after drying, open it with varnish. The toy can be decorated with a satin ribbon bow, beads or pebbles.
You can make antique New Year's toys with your own hands from salt dough according to the recipe that we discussed earlier in the article. When decorating them, you should not use bright unnatural colors, but rather choose muted ones. Scuff marks on toys would be an ideal addition.
DIY New Year's toys in modern minimalism
The minimalist trend in its purest form presupposes the absence of unnecessary non-functional decorations, but during the New Year holidays some exception can be made. When decorating your New Year's toys with your own hands in this style, you should choose one or two primary colors that will be present in the interior. It can be white with blue or yellow with red, etc.
The shapes of toys should also not be full of variety. Make neat bows from satin ribbons, paint the balls one color and hang it all on the tree in a checkerboard pattern. You will see that even such a seemingly modest design will have a rather impressive look.
There are a large number of different ways to make New Year’s toys with your own hands, and in our article we tried to outline some ideas for their design, and it’s up to you to decide which technique to use. In any case, you will get an exclusive and original decoration.
