materials and tools
To work with your child, you will need different types of paper, including designer paper, wrapping paper, tracing paper, corrugated paper, metallized paper, colored paper, etc. In general, any paper that you can find at home and buy additionally in stationery and design stores will do.
It would also be a good idea to purchase cardboard for creativity. Both regular sets of white cardboard for children in folders and embossed, colored, metallized, corrugated, packaging cardboard are suitable.You can look for cardboard packaging at home for anything, from breakfast cereals to large boxes of electronics. Look in your closet, there are probably a couple of boxes you can donate for the benefit of creative projects.
Tools you may need include stationery scissors and a knife, an awl, a glue gun, brushes, a stapler, a ruler, and a compass. You definitely need to stock up on good PVA glue, paints, markers, pencils, glitter, and plasticine.
DIY felt toys ideas with patterns
Now a topic for those who like to craft with their own hands from such a pleasant-to-touch material as felt. Soft and voluminous toys have always been something unusual and pleasant for me.
You can build such a beautiful Christmas tree from cut out pieces of felt.
We cut the flaps and then assemble them into a single composition.
Or try using this Christmas tree as a basis. Here you will have to tinker.
And if you want, make a larger Christmas tree out of green felt and hang it on the wall. All that remains is to make beautiful toys for her and decorate her.
You can make a Christmas tree toy. Here is an example and patterns.
Here's an idea for making toys for the Christmas tree. You can sew balls, crackers and bells.
Well, of course, what would a New Year be without Santa Claus? Video about how to sew Santa Claus from felt.
options for finished works
Here let's look at the most popular paper crafts among modern mothers and children, which will not take a lot of time and money, but will bring a lot of positive emotions to the child and parent, and will certainly help in the development of fine motor skills.
Gift snowman
You will need: a glass jar with a screw-on lid, a foam ball with the diameter of the jar's circumference, chocolate candies, a glue gun, a brush, PVA glue, white glitter, scissors, white Christmas tree tinsel, small black pompoms, orange polymer clay, colored lace, red felt and green, cotton wool, knife.
Master Class
- Using a sharp knife, cut off a small portion of the foam ball to create a flat bottom.
- Attach the ball to the jar lid using a glue gun.
- Grease the ball with pva and sprinkle with glitter.
- Make a carrot from clay.
- Glue a carrot as a nose, and use pompoms to make eyes and a mouth.
- Cut 2 circles of the same diameter from felt and glue them together.
- Glue 2 candies and glue them onto a felt circle, forming a cylinder hat, then wrap the fastening area with lace.
- Make headphones from a strip of felt and two candies, glue them to the snowman's head, and attach a hat on top.
- Place cotton wool at the bottom of the jar and fill the rest with candy.
- Connect the head to the jar and wrap the white rain as a scarf.
The gift snowman is ready! You can find even more snowmen HERE!
Snowflakes
Snowflakes remain the most popular paper crafts.
We ourselves, as children, cut out snowflakes for every New Year, and for modern children, despite the presence of gadgets and interactive toys, this activity never ceases to delight and bring a lot of positive emotions. Ready-made snowflakes can be glued to glass the old fashioned way with glue or plain water, or you can decorate walls, furniture, or a Christmas tree with them. Snowflakes made from designer or metallized cardboard look good, although they are more difficult to make.
Souvenirs made of fir and pine cones for the New Year
Crafts made from natural materials always turn out very beautiful and attractive. Let's start with the simplest and continue with the most complex.
It’s very easy to create a beautiful candlestick using pine cones and threads. You need to take a small jar, a few cones, natural thread and hot glue.
We tie a thread around the neck of the jar several turns and make a beautiful bow. We glue the cones with hot glue to the thread. It turns out to be such beauty.
We put the jar on a tray which we decorate beautifully with fir branches and the craft is ready.
If you want to make it a little more beautiful, you can decorate the neck of the jar with semolina, which from a distance will look like snow.
You need to first tint the semolina with chalk. Coat the neck of the jar with PVA glue and sprinkle the area in the glue with semolina. We tie a beautiful bow on the neck of the jar.
You can decorate pine cones in the same way. But for the biggies, we’ll prepare something cooler. Add some glitter to the semolina. Now coat the corner of the cone with glue and sprinkle with semolina and glitter.
You can do without semolina at all, just take golden glitter. And then follow the familiar pattern. In glue then in glitter.
Using white acrylic paint you can make these cones in the snow.
Add a couple of beads and a bow and you will get a beautiful Christmas tree decoration. Next, the decorated cones can be combined on our candlestick.
Now I propose to make beautiful Christmas trees from large cones. You will need small pots, acrylic paints, small stars and hot glue.
We attach the cones to the pot and paint them white or green. And we attach a small star on top.
Using the same principle, you can make a larger Christmas tree. We make a cone out of cardboard. The height depends on the number of cones. We attach the cones to the cone using glue. Decorate with beautiful bows and beads.
Now the craft is a little more complicated. This technique is called topiary. With the approach of the New Year, a bunch of craftsmen have appeared who make crafts in this style.
Fairy lights
Our grandmothers also made paper garlands. But even today, children will gladly take on such a creative project, especially if you approach the task in a non-trivial way. It’s great if you can prepare different designer paper with drawings for the garlands, it will look more elegant and prettier.
To cut out the links, you can use curly scissors, this will add some zest. Photos of New Year's paper crafts will help diversify even the most familiar types of creativity with children.
Button pendants and panels
By stringing buttons of different colors and different diameters onto a thick thread or thin wire, you can create cute keychain pendants. The simplest of them is a Christmas wreath or spruce, but if you choose the buttons more carefully, you can make a snowman in a hat and even Santa Claus.
A simpler option for working with buttons is applique. To do it:
- The contours of the future image are drawn on thick cardboard. The simpler it is, the better.
- Using glue, fill the picture with buttons of the corresponding colors. You can use buttons of different diameters and textures.
If you cut out, for example, a star from cardboard and paste it on both sides, it can become a pendant for decorating a Christmas tree.
Christmas tree
You can even make a Christmas tree with toys from cardboard and paper. The scale will depend on your mood and patience, and there are a huge variety of layouts. Most often, the tree itself is made from cardboard by connecting 2 or more pieces of patterns so that the tree stands stably on a horizontal surface.
But decorations can be very different - from paper to plasticine figures, or you can simply paint the New Year’s beauty.
New Year cards
Anyone can make a handmade New Year's card with their own hands. You just need to show a little imagination when creating an original New Year's composition.
To work you will need:
- colored cardboard;
- glue;
- scissors;
- beads, buttons, various types of decor;
- lace;
- glitter;
- corrugated cardboard;
- decorative clothespins;
- scrapbooking paper;
- thin paper of different colors.
Making a card should always begin with developing the design of the New Year's composition. It can be created from what you have at hand. This could be a New Year tree, a snowman, a reindeer sleigh, Santa Claus or any symbol of winter and the New Year holidays.
The base of a postcard measuring 13x20 cm is cut out of cardboard. You can make a beautiful and simple composition with mittens or felt boots.
On a cardboard base, you should cut out a background from scrub paper, which should be 2-3 cm smaller than it. Draw stencils of mittens, hats or felt boots, cut them out of corrugated cardboard. Make two knots along the edges of the decorative cord. Glue the scrub paper to the cardboard. Glue the lace in the places of the knots in the middle of the card. Using decorative clothespins, attach mittens or felt boots cut out of cardboard to it. Sprinkle the card with glitter to imitate snow.
Photos of New Year's paper crafts
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Candy train
You will need: chewing gum, packaged candies, lollipops, chocolates, glue gun.
Master Class
- Glue a package of chewing gum to a package of candy.
- Glue candy canes as wheels.
- Glue 2 chocolates to the top of the train.
- Make the required number of trailers this way, then connect them together.
The candy train is ready!
Beautiful New Year garlands for the Christmas tree for school and kindergarten
You can buy a lot of ready-made decorations and hang the Christmas tree. Undoubtedly beautiful. But something made with your own hands can add soulfulness. And in this part of the article, we’ll look at beautiful New Year’s garlands for the Christmas tree that kids can bring to school or kindergarten. While at the event, children will definitely find their product on the decorated Christmas tree and feel their importance and involvement in preparing the matinee.
How do you like the idea of making a garland from multi-colored stripes of fleece?
Volumetric paper balls that can be folded in a certain way look original.
The pictures show a master class on how to make such a garland. Choose your own color scheme.
In such a chain, every detail is unique. You can cut out several shapes at once and then decorate each one as you wish. This is also a good topic for joint creativity in children's groups.
A fragrant scattering on a string can decorate a Christmas tree or walls.
Or this idea with repeating elements.
Multi-colored light bulbs look beautiful and festive. Use thick paper so that it holds a smooth bend well.
Fold the paper several times and draw any outline. Snowman, Christmas tree, hare or mouse. The main thing is that when unfolding the workpiece, they seem to be holding together by the paws or handles. And now you can draw unique faces and dress them up in clothes.
Perhaps needlewomen who knit a lot or grandmothers have a lot of small skeins of yarn left. Look how beautifully they can be assembled into a New Year's garland.
And if you make pompoms from yarn and weave a multi-colored rope, then this beauty comes out.
Well, this option is again from my childhood. And they could just glue meter-long decorations. It is made very simply from flats of multi-colored paper and simply fastened with a chain.
A more complicated option with pointed stars. Looks very nice.
Don't forget corrugated paper. It makes an interesting craft.
What do you think of the idea of making an edible popcorn garland? But so as not to eat it while it is hanging at the holiday, I recommend painting it with paints.
You might like the ideas for garlands made from multi-colored strips of paper. Moreover, they can be folded in different ways. For example, in the shape of hearts.
Or voluminous balls
This is how you can glue strips of stickers that already have an adhesive side. Or simply secure it with a strip of tape on the other side of the thread.
There are a lot of fantasies, as well as materials from which you can make a festive scattering of multi-colored lanterns, stars or pompoms. The main thing is the alternation of bright shades.
