Templates for making New Year's toys with your own hands. Volumetric Christmas tree decorations made of paper: step-by-step photo review. DIY paper Christmas decorations: ball for the Christmas tree

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How often do you spend time with your young children? Do you play games with them or build something together? I don't succeed very often. Work, everyday worries and other routines take up a lot of time and, unfortunately, there is not much time left for children.

All the more valuable are those moments when you are still together. And preparation for New Year's holidays, decorating a Christmas tree and an apartment is a wonderful occasion not only to play with children, but also to teach them something new. They love it so much!

Last year I made a small selection with my own hands for schoolchildren, and now I offer you several master classes dedicated to making simple but cute Christmas tree decorations from paper for children of kindergarten age.

Making them is not at all difficult. Spend 20-30 minutes teaching your children and then they will be able to cut out and glue colorful toys themselves and, from my own experience, I will say that they will continue to do this after the New Year exactly until the house runs out of colored paper and glue.

DIY paper Christmas decorations: ball for the Christmas tree

The most popular Christmas decorations are, of course, balls. They can be made in a bunch of different ways, but I suggest the simplest ones that a child can handle. Naturally, after adults teach him.

This figure is called a charcoal.

To make it you will need:

• Colored paper (4 A4 sheets per 1 ball)
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Any cylindrical glass

Assembly:

1. Take a glass (or mug), place it upside down on colored paper and trace it with a pencil to make an even circle.

For one ball you need to draw and cut out 27 to 32 circles.

You can take paper in different colors and combine it as you like.

2. Now you need to give the circles a three-dimensional shape. This is done in several stages.

First, bend the circle in half.

Then cut in half again. Press the folds well.

The result is a “piece of pizza”, which we mentally divide into three parts and wrap in a rectangle. First we bend the larger side.

Then a smaller one.

With these simple steps you need to fold all the cut circles.

This preliminary preparation allows me to distract the children and attend to urgent matters for about 20-30 minutes.

3. After the preparatory stage, assembly begins. We unfold one of the circles and see that it has now become “ribbed”.

4. Apply glue to the second edge on the left and the second edge on the right on the lower half of the circle.

It is better to use PVA glue in a tube with a spout for more precise application.

5. Connect and press the halves so that they stick together. We do this with all the circles.

And glue the next half to it. We coat and glue all the halves in the same way.

As a result, you will end up with this rather weighty thing that needs to be weighed down with a book or something else heavy and left for 15 minutes for the glue to dry.

7. After the glue hardens, the halves can be unfolded like a fan. The last step remains: grease the upper side part with glue and glue the thread. We also lubricate one of the sides of the future ball with glue.

And, opening the ball, glue it to the other side.

Let the glue dry and you're done!

Paper ball - master class for kindergarten

If the previous method is more suitable for entertaining one child, then this one can be done together with a whole group of children. Making the ball is very simple and will not cause any difficulties in explaining.

Only all the elements will need to be prepared in advance, because... you need a needle and children can’t handle it.

So, we will need:

• Thick colored cardboard A4 format
• 2 beads
• Needle and thread
• Scissors

Assembly:

1. We cut the cardboard along the short side of the sheet into strips 1.5-2 cm wide. We do not need perfectly even lines and strict adherence to the width, so it is not even necessary to use a ruler.

In total you need to cut 8 strips.

2. We put the strips in a stack and, having made a hole in the middle, thread a thick thread with an attached bead. We take the length of the thread to be 15-20 centimeters.

4. We pull the ends of the strips together and make the same hole and pull the thread from the inside of the opposite end of the stack.

5. Stretch and measure the length of the thread so that we get a circle, then thread the second bead into the thread and tie a knot on top, fixing the shape of the circle.

6. The ball is ready, all that remains is to “fluff” the stripes.

Christmas tree toy in the form of a three-dimensional ball - a simple assembly diagram

Well, another simple but beautiful version of a paper ball.

1. And again, using a glass, pencil and scissors, we make circles from colored paper. This time you will need 8 of them. Available in different colors.

2. On each circle we make a cut to the middle.

3. Apply glue to the places where the cut was made and roll one side into a tube first.

And then another. It turns out to be such an interesting figure.

4. Glue all the circles together in the same way.

5. Then we take a thick thread threaded through a needle, pierce the top of the cone and thread it onto the thread.

We do the same with all our blanks.

It is important to ensure that the figures are strung on the same side: either the front or the back.

6. And now all that remains is to tie and tighten the opposite ends of the thread.

And the workpiece will turn into a beautiful three-dimensional ball.

The simplest Christmas tree toy for children 4-5 years old

If your child has not yet mastered assembling a three-dimensional ball, then you can simplify the work even further and make just a round Christmas tree toy.

All you need is colored paper, scissors, a stapler and a ribbon for hanging.

Assembly:

1. From colored A4 paper, cut 12 strips about 1.5-2 cm wide.

2. Then we leave the first strip unchanged, shorten the second by 1.5 cm, the third by 3 cm, the fourth by 4.5 cm and so on.

3. And we collect them into one bundle, aligned along the bottom edge. Along the same bottom edge we fasten the strips with a stapler.

4. Consistently twist the ribbons into rings, again aligning them along the bottom edge. As a result, it turns out that each subsequent ring is larger than the previous one.

5. When all the rings are rolled, we fasten them with a stapler at the base.

Instead of a stapler, you can use glue, but then each strip will need to be coated separately.

6. Done, all that remains is to tie the ribbon and hang the toy on the Christmas tree.

DIY paper lantern

But I’m sure you all made this toy yourself in childhood. There is nothing simpler than this.

Assembly:

1. Take a sheet of A4 colored paper, fold it and cut it in half. For those who understand, the result will be A5 format. We will continue to work with him.

Fold the sheet in half along the long side.

2. On the folded side, make cuts at a distance of 1.5-2 cm from each other. The cuts should not reach the opposite edge by about 2 cm.

3. Open the sheet and glue the opposite sides together, rolling the sheet into a tube.

4. Done, all that remains is to glue another strip of paper on top, with which the lantern will be hung on the Christmas tree.

Video on how to make a Christmas tree toy out of paper

If all the previous toys seem banal to you and you want something unusual, then watch this video on how to make a Christmas tree decoration using paper and knitting needles.

Templates of Christmas decorations in the form of crystals

Now let me step away from classical forms and offer you something really interesting. I'm talking about Christmas tree decorations in the form of crystals. Surely, many have already come across these templates on the Internet; this topic has been popular for a couple of years now. But if not, then believe me, this is really the most interesting way, which can be used to make a Christmas tree toy out of paper.

All you need to do is print out the templates below, fold them along the dotted lines and glue them along the protruding flaps.

Short crystals:

Diamond:

Elongated crystals:

Important: when printing, make sure that the entire picture fits on the sheet and adjust the size if necessary. Most often, it is enough to uncheck the “Image to frame size” setting.

Well, with this I will finish my first article this year, dedicated to preparing for the new year. There are still 2 months ahead, so check back often, I'm sure I can surprise you.

That's all for today, thank you for your attention.

Stop putting things off, which the whole family can do, on the back burner! The time has come to make amazing and varied things with your own hands from paper and not only with the help of the editors of the site.

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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

From the classics New Year's toys with their own hands they 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 do it right away required quantity balls. 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!

Making a similar toy New Year You can see more details in the video:

How to make a New Year's toy from ribbons, beads and beads

Beads or seed beads are a small thing, but they will help create beautiful product. The base is either a ready-made ball, which is perfected with decor, or a foam blank.

DIY New Year's 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-colored, 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!

To decorate a Christmas tree with “precious paper stones”, you just need to print ready-made templates, cut them out and glue Christmas tree decorations from paper.

Before completely gluing the craft together, attach a loop from the inside, using which you will then hang the toy on the Christmas tree. Finished paper stones can be coated with glitter for beauty.

Small size templates: template-1 template-2 template-3 template-4 template-5

On the same site you can download a template for another, more difficult to make New Year's paper craft - a paper diamond. It can also be used as a Christmas tree toy or New Year's decoration. Download template >>>>

Print out the New Year's diamond diagram on thick colored paper, cut it out. Before gluing the craft, carefully, using a ruler, scratch the fold lines (marked with dotted lines) with a needle to make the paper easier to fold. Note: if suddenly you printed the template from the link given above, but the dotted line is not visible on it, you can use this template. Everything is the same here, only there is no dotted line.

And more New Year's paper crafts from the site www.minieco.co.uk:

New Year's paper decorations

2. New Year's paper crafts. New Year's paper toys

Paper bells

3. New Year's decoration. New Year decoration

The Creative Park website from Canon, probably already known to many, will help you decorate christmas tree handmade paper toys. Christmas tree toys - bells, hearts, candy canes, Christmas tree decorations in the form of New Year's boxes - all this and much more can be found on the Creative Park website.

4. DIY New Year's decorations. How to make New Year's

We invite you to make simple Christmas tree decorations from paper, decorated with photographs of family members. To do this, you need to download the Christmas tree decoration templates from the link, cut out individual squares, bend their corners and glue them together. A New Year's toy made of blue paper needs to be cut and the corners rounded. See photo below.

In the photo below, a New Year's paper toy with the image of Santa Claus is made in a similar way. You can download the template.

5. New Year's ideas. New Year's master class

Another interesting one new year idea- Christmas tree decoration origami wreath. To make such a paper wreath you will need to cut beautiful paper into strips 4 cm wide and 8 cm long. A total of 8 strips are needed. Each strip must first be folded in half lengthwise, and then crosswise in half. Holding the workpiece with the open edge up, bend its upper corners down as shown in the photo. See the New Year's master class at the link >>>> From the resulting blanks, assemble a New Year's wreath, inserting them one into the other.

6. Christmas tree decorations made of paper. How to make a New Year's toy

Most people associate ice cream more with hot weather and summer holidays, however, Christmas tree decorations in the form of waffle cups with a delicious delicacy look very festive and original on the New Year tree. To make these Christmas paper toys you will need craft packaging paper (for the cups) and corrugated paper of different colors for the ice cream itself.

Cut out circles from kraft paper and cut them in half. Fold each semicircle into a cone and glue it together. Crumple corrugated paper of different colors into lumps; for one Christmas tree decoration you will need two such lumps. Now you need to string the “cups” and “ice cream” on a thread, making loops on top, for which you will then hang the New Year’s paper decorations on the Christmas tree. See the New Year's master class at the link >>>>

7. Christmas tree decorations made of paper. New Year's schemes

In Denmark, there is a tradition of decorating the New Year tree with wicker paper baskets in the shape of hearts. The photo below shows traditional wicker paper baskets. They can be hung on the Christmas tree empty or filled with small candies, nuts, and cookies.

To make this DIY paper Christmas decoration, you need to print the following template on two sheets of paper in different colors. Cut them out, fold them in half, make three cuts. You should end up with two pieces like this.

Now you need to weave them together to make a paper heart basket. For a detailed New Year's master class on how to weave a paper basket, see the link >>>>

Here are a few more New Year's paper baskets for the Christmas tree:

With snowflakes

The New Year tree is the eternal embodiment of joy and celebration. And not just for children. Adults, too, with poorly concealed trepidation, await the coming of the New Year, when all their most cherished dreams come true. And for this you don’t need much - just decorate the Christmas tree with cute trinkets. They say that it is this ritual that helps any wish come true. Especially if these are made.

A house decorated with tinsel immediately becomes warmer and more comfortable.

Of course, it’s easier to decorate the Christmas tree with expensive store-bought toys: huge glass balls, cheerful electric garlands, bright rain. No one argues that such a tree will look very presentable and elegant. But will there really be as much soul in a cold glass toy as in a touching cardboard toy made with one’s own hands, and even with children’s hands? Over the years, of course, both purchased and homemade toys will deteriorate and lose their former luster. But if you simply throw away an impeccable but aged factory decoration without a drop of regret, then you will not raise your hand to throw away the toy that you made together with your child. And then you try to breathe into her new life, repair torn parts, glue or tint. And not because you will be sorry to throw away a piece of paper or fabric, but because in this naive product there is a piece of your soul, a fragment of your life with your child. Touching this craft, you seem to be reliving moments of long-gone years, which can only be returned in such memories.

For this voluminous garland you need to cut out several snowflakes according to the pattern and glue them together.

So, let's look at what we can do. The simplest and most affordable thing we can do is to repair our children's old toys and sew ribbons on them, if they are soft toys, stretch the ribbon through the hole or tie it to the thinnest part of the toy made of hard materials. Such a small toy will look very cute on a Christmas tree branch.

The most common option for making Christmas tree decorations is paper toys. To make a simple but very cute holiday RING toy with my own hands, you will only need sheets of colored cardboard and paper, as well as scissors and glue. First you will have to work on a cardboard ring, which, however, can be replaced with a decorated one - pasted over or painted, a ring made from adhesive tape or any other suitable element. Then an accordion is made from a strip of white or colored paper, a width less than the radius of the ring, and glued from the inside into the base ring. After this, all that remains is to add bright touches using squares that contrast with the color of the base. They are bent in half and symmetrically glued into the folds of the accordion.

How to make Santa Claus with your own hands?

To make a New Year's toy with your own hands, you can come up with something of your own, unusual and interesting. A decoration in the form of a felt lamp or a magical snowflake made of beads, shining like a scattering of diamonds, will look original. Or you can make a real SANTA CLAUS. To create this good old man, which will become an original decoration for a child’s room, you will need a paper plate, cotton wool, sheets of colored paper, felt-tip pens, watercolor paints, white glue, white acrylic paint, scissors and, of course, good mood. So, let's get started.

• First, take a paper plate and paint it white with acrylic paint. After the paint has dried, a nose made from a ball of crumpled paper is glued to the back of the plate, which is covered with scraps of white paper according to the papier-mâché principle. Using the same principle, you need to make grandfather’s cheeks and eyebrows, and after the glue has dried, paint everything white.
• After the nose has completely dried, you need to mix a little white and brown paint until you get a natural complexion. The resulting shade is applied to the plate. A little red tint is added to the cheeks and nose.
• It is checked whether all the paint has dried, after which the facial features are drawn on with felt-tip pens. When a child doesn’t really like to draw or is not very good at it, you can glue the mouth and eyes from the same paper strands, paint them white, and then in a natural color: reddish lips and blue eyes.
• Next, a hat is made from a red paper triangle.
• Glue a small cotton ball onto the tip of the hat to make a pompom. After this, a wide strip of cotton wool is taken and glued to the lower part of the face. This is how you get the Santa Claus beard. To make eyebrows and mustaches, thinner small strips are taken that will imitate a chic mustache and bushy eyebrows.
• After the glue has dried, the toy is ready!

You can put this Santa Claus on a postcard, or you can make a double one and decorate the Christmas tree.

For example, I throw away toilet paper bases, but now I won’t, because with their help and multi-colored pieces of fleece you can make such wonderful Santa Clauses.

And here's another one interesting idea for a three-dimensional Santa Claus and also from cardboard bases. In this way you can make the Snow Maiden and other fairy-tale characters.

If you are an expert needlewoman, then weave Santa Claus from beads.

Using exactly the same principle, you can make the head of a SNOWMAN, Pinocchio or other funny face. If only there was a desire!

Another easy way to make a beautiful toy is to decorate a foam heart with beads. To do this, use a glue gun to attach a string of beads to the edge of the toy. Then the beads begin to be glued, and they are laid strictly in one direction, forming turns from the edges to the center. The beads do not have to be the same. They can be selected in different colors and sizes. Having reached the middle of the heart, the thread of beads needs to be cut and then glue only small parts of it, cutting off the required number of beads with scissors. Once one side of the heart is completely filled, you can move to the other. At the end, a thread or ribbon is attached to hang the toy.

DIY New Year's toys: garlands and balls

During the December New Year's Eve, you can decorate your home and create a festive mood. Christmas tree garland. And if you involve the whole family in its production, the warmth of winter evenings will be ensured. So, one of the simplest, but very original options for such decoration is a GARLAND made from paper pompom tassels. To make it you will need paper of different colors and different textures, scissors, rope and glue.

First, a piece of paper is folded in half widthwise, then folded in half lengthwise again.

Garlands from corrugated paper They turn out very tender and light. For this garland, all you need to do is roll the paper and staple the strips together.

But this garland can be made within a few minutes. All you need is a hole punch, thread, glue and paper with brighter glitter.

You can make cute flowers from multi-colored napkins and put them on a thread. You will get a beautiful garland!

On the side without folds, an incision is made using scissors - a strip of half a centimeter in full length, leaving a fold of 6 centimeters. The sheet is unfolded and cut in the middle into two parts, one of which is set aside. The leaf opens completely and the result is a leaf cut on both sides into strips with a whole part in the middle untouched by scissors. Then you need to take the middle with your fingers and twist the leaf without touching the cut edges. After the center of the leaf is completely curled, you need to bend it to form a loop and then glue it at the base. After stringing this tassel onto a rope, you can begin making the next one. This furry caterpillar will be a fun addition to your Christmas tree decor.

The packaging material makes wonderful garlands, doesn’t it? What do you do with the packaging from your new iron and microwave? Save it and make yourself such a wonderful “star” garland.

You can create a masterpiece from napkins and LED garlands in just 10 minutes!

Using the quilling technique you can weave such a wonderful garland.

You can make such a fluffy garland from corrugated paper. I recommend buying corrugated paper today, otherwise everything will be taken apart)))

Cheap and cheerful, and most importantly - with your own hands and love.

DIY paper Christmas garlands

There are many types of garlands that are easy to whip up, remember, we have already written about that. So you can string scraps of multi-colored fabric onto a rope.

If you thread a rope through the fabric triangles, you get a great garland of flags! If you make pom-poms from fuzzy yarn and string them on a thread, you will get a garland that your child will just want to play with, it’s so cute and fluffy.

How do you like this popcorn garland? I personally really like it.

And if you string some berries (in our realities, more like rose hips) between the popcorn, it will turn out bright!

Popcorn is strung easily and simply using a needle. By the way, such a garland is a good snack!

Well and one more great option garlands of mint candies. where would we be without him)

And when you tie the fabric strips onto a rope with bows, you get a very flirty garland. And the remains of old wallpaper can also be quite successfully used to create a New Year's garland. And even if carved paper napkins are folded in half, put on a rope, and glued together at the corners, you will also get an excellent garland. You can get a vintage garland by cutting out hearts from multi-colored paper and threading them with thread. Such a touching romantic garland can become not only a Christmas tree decoration, but also an attribute for Valentine's Day. This symbol of love may well provoke its appearance on New Year’s Day. Don't believe me? Check it out: invite your friend to help you decorate the Christmas tree, and, as if in passing, make a garland of hearts together. See for yourself that pleasant consequences will not take long to arrive.

And such a garland is easiest to make with a sewing machine. Sew cardboard circles and it's ready!

Classics of the genre - bright New Year's chains.

If you decorate the most ordinary LED garland with snowflakes, it will light up with a completely different light. Give it a try.

Everything ingenious is simple. Sometimes you shouldn’t be too zealous in decoration, but limit yourself to a minimalist star garland.

How do you like this knitted garland of snowflakes? I feel warm when I look at her.

And this garland is also made of fabric and threads. Cut out different flowers from fleece and decorate the room.

A riot of colors. Don’t even think about saying that you wouldn’t regret it three times before taking such a garland off the wall after the holidays.

Such DIY Christmas tree garlands It is most convenient to make it from ordinary colored paper for manual labor, but it is better if it is double-sided. For example, you can take red, pink and white paper. The combination of these colors will create a very delicate garland ribbon. To make it you will also need: a pen, scissors, a ruler and a stapler. Strips are cut from paper, the width of which is 3 centimeters. In order for your child to participate in the work, you can draw each cut line with a ruler, and ask him to cut them. Then each strip is folded in half. The ends are bent and stapled to each other. The same actions are performed with each subsequent strip. Each heart is connected to the previous and next ones. Work continues until the desired length of the garland is obtained. And so that the hearts do not stretch while stretching the garland, you can pierce the heart at the base with a stapler. Here's a heart garland for you.

Besides all, or rather - most often, BALLS are attached to the Christmas tree as decoration. These traditional homemade toys come in a variety of varieties: glass, paper, foam. By the way, while a glass ball can quickly break, a foam toy is very easily scratched, broken, and crumbled. If you have such spoiled-looking balls, then you can very quickly turn them into a real precious decoration, using a reel of small plastic beads and decorative cords for decoration - for example, milky white.

Tools you will need are a hot glue gun, scissors and tweezers. In this way, you can not only update old foam balls, but also decorate not very interesting plastic ones. And the diameter of the beads and cords used can be very different. But, naturally, it is better to decorate small balls with a thin cord and a string of small beads, and large toys can be covered with both large and small beads. Balls decorated with three cords or threads at the same time look even more original. First you need to unravel the finished garlands along separate threads. Then the cord is taken and its end is immersed in a foam ball using nail scissors or ordinary tweezers. A little glue is applied to the area of ​​the ball near the place where the cord is attached, and the tip of a string of beads is attached to it. The next part of the ball is gradually covered with glue and slowly, layer by layer, beads and cord are laid until the entire surface is completely filled. The excess is cut off, the end of the lace is drowned in foam. At the end, using a thread and a needle passed through the cord, a loop is made for hanging the toy.

How do you like this ball? A very interesting thing that requires knowledge of geometry. Doing it is very educational. I advise you to try it.

To begin, prepare the base circles as shown in the picture.

To work you will need 20 circles of the same diameter.

Place them in sequence. It seems like nothing complicated.

But such a funny pinwheel is made from strips of paper according to the diagram.

A foam ball or sponge ball can be wonderfully decorated with flowers and bobby pins with beads.

Making such a ball is simple, but takes a long time. To work, inflate the ball, wrap it with thread, spread it with PVA glue and wait until it dries. Then puncture the balloon and take it out.

Balls can also be twisted from wire.

And this is how you can decorate a blank ball made of foam or sponge with sequins and bobby pins.

Knitted circles can be used as toys, and then as coasters for cups. How's the idea?

And here is another ball with sequins. I really like him.

Often we do DIY Christmas toys FROM BEADS. It really makes very nice Christmas tree decorations that can be hung throughout the house, which will help create a great New Year's atmosphere, we have already written before. To make such charming toys, you will need red beads, ribbon and wire. So, beads are strung on wire, and then wire toys are formed from ready-made hard beads, for example, stars, hearts or Christmas trees. No special work is required, but if you hang such toys on the Christmas tree, after decorating them with ribbon bows, the result will be very cute.

Returning to the same balls, you can try to make Christmas tree decorations using the decoupage technique. To do this, you need an aged glass Christmas tree ball, sheets from a music book, PVA glue or a special one for decoupage, glitter and silver paint, a special stamp with a New Year's themed inscription, ink, a small bell, a ribbon for tying a bow, as well as thin twine for loop. Although all these components can be replaced with what you have on hand, leaving the main thing - a ball, glue and napkins. The technique for making the toy is very simple and does not require additional skills. First, a little white acrylic paint is laid out on the palette, then the sponge needs to be carefully soaked in the paint and white is applied to the entire surface of the ball. You need to constantly pick up paint on the sponge, then you get something like a snow coating. This way all the balls are prepared and left to dry completely. In the meantime, you need to prepare napkins. To do this, the top layer of the napkin, the most colorful one, is separated. Then PVA glue is diluted halfway with water and the motif is glued to the ball. Gluing begins from the central part of the motif with uniform advancement to its edges. All motives are attached in the same way. In general, everything is done in the standard way, as with any decoupage, just with more glitter and decorations.

Decorating an old ball with new beads is a great idea.

Beaded snowflakes are a very delicate decoration.

If you want to make a ball for your Christmas tree out of beads, you don’t have to know how to weave, you can just stick the beads on.

Interesting balls are made from... book pages or, for example, pieces of felt. So, on the scraps of the material you have chosen, the contours of the circle are indicated (you can circle any household item, for example, a cup). Using a sewing machine, approximately 10 circles are sewn together along the diameter. If you don't have a machine, you can use a stapler. The line should go exactly in the middle through the centers of all circles. The edges are connected with paper clips in a checkerboard pattern: sometimes there is one connection in the middle, then closer to both ends of the seam there are two connections. And so on. It looks like a book turned 360 degrees with oval pages, fastened in twos either in the middle or at the edges. This gives the paper toy the effect of a voluminous corrugated ball. At the end of the work, a loop is attached. Even such a toy can be hung on a Christmas tree, but it is better to additionally decorate it with sparkles and glue. It’s better, of course, if you have ready-made glitter glue.

New Year's snowflakes from beads

The ball-web looks very unusual and elegant. To make it you will need a simple balloon, any thread, good glue (PVA is best), as well as your imagination and perseverance. Naturally, the ball is inflated to the required size (according to the volume of the future decoration), tied well and lubricated with ordinary oil. Then the thread is soaked in glue, excess glue is removed from it, passing the thread through tightly clenched fingers. Although you can make a special container into which glue is poured, and a small hole is punched in the lid. The skein is placed in a container, the tip of the thread is passed into the hole made and it is gradually pulled out, due to which it is dosed with glue. Then the entire ball is gradually entangled with this thread. In this case, you will have to stock up on considerable patience, since the first rows of thread can simply slide off the ball. The thread should be held in light tension (slightly tense). After winding is completed, the ball must be hung to dry. But you should not dry it with a hairdryer or over a heating radiator, as this may cause the ball to burst. The thickness of the thread can be selected at your own discretion. But there's no need to rush. Let the ball dry for a day, and then you will need to carefully pierce it with an ordinary needle and gradually remove the frame from under the threads. Frozen threads soaked in glue will hold their shape well. But that’s not all: the ball can be decorated, again, at your discretion.

If you braid a large bead with beads, you will get a beautiful toy.

The bead is woven according to this pattern.

Snowflakes-earrings and snowflakes-toys.

DIY New Year's toys: Christmas trees and snowflakes

Most Popular DIY Christmas toys made from paper– these are ordinary SNOWFLAKES. They do not require any special skills from the performer, no expensive material, no special investment of time. Everything is more than simple, if not elementary. For such a New Year's decoration you will need ordinary paper - from white to colored, glue - better, of course, the same PVA, paper clips and scissors.

The methods for cutting them out are very diverse: from simple ones, like those we cut out from notebook sheets in school, to complex three-dimensional snowflakes. Folding using the origami method or cutting using the kirigami method is done according to special instructions with each step demonstrated. If everyone is more or less familiar with origami, then snowflakes using the kirigami technique are made by first folding a square diagonally, then bending the corners towards the middle of the triangle, which will divide it into three identical triangles. Then several parallel shaped cuts are made along the folds and on top, the tongues of which, after unfolding the snowflake, will need to be tucked towards the center under the base to create a semblance of petals. In addition, you can decorate the snowflake by smearing it with glue and sprinkling it with glitter. This will make the snowflake even more beautiful and brighter. A card in the shape of a snowflake is made by gluing individual parts piece by piece.

This voluminous snowflake can be made using a simple pattern.

These giant snowflakes can be made from popsicle sticks. don't believe me? Watch the master class.

You will need a lot of Popsicle sticks. Didn't have time to collect? Then immediately treat your friends to popsicles and take away the wooden ones.

If you paint a snowflake in a shade contrasting with the color of the walls, then the New Year's ambiance will be 100% guaranteed.

This intricate snowflake is made from thin, thin strips of paper. she is extraordinarily beautiful. Carefully follow all the points of our tutorial.

Difficult? The main thing here is not to be nervous.

That's it, the finishing touches and it will be ready.

The result was worth it, right?

Unexpected DIY soft Christmas toys are obtained, for example, in the form of a TREE, we have already written about that. To make such a Christmas tree from tools and materials you will need:

1. a hook, the size of which matches the thickness of the threads,
2. soft material (as for filling pillows),
3. package of white beads,
4. the remains of three shades of green threads,
5. needles and thin threads for sewing, matching the tone,
6. golden waxed threads.

First, according to the pattern, a stand, a tree trunk and a triangular base are knitted. When knitting a triangular warp, a pattern is used in which each row is repeated four times. The Christmas tree is knitted striped, each strip will be three rows wide. The alternation of stripes is carried out according to the scheme: dark green, green, green light shade.

So, first, five air loops are closed into a ring, and then knitting occurs according to the following pattern:

• three identical rows of 8 single crochets (dark green);
• a row of 8 single crochets (green);
• two identical rows of 14 single crochets (green);
• two identical rows of 14 single crochets (light green);
• a row of 20 single crochets (light green);
• three identical rows of 20 single crochets (dark green).

The toy is decorated with large white beads or seed beads as if it were New Year's toys. Beads are sewn to the base randomly. Then the base is stuffed with soft filling material.

Tennis balls can be turned into wonderful toys with a simple movement of the hook.

The tree stand and trunk are knitted according to the following pattern:
five air loops are closed into a ring, then three identical rows of 8 single crochets are knitted (brown). This will create the trunk of a Christmas tree;
Next, the base is knitted according to the same pattern as given at the beginning of the work (dark green color).

To strengthen the base, a circle is cut out of cardboard, the diameter of which is equal to the diameter of the knitted stand. Then the knitted stand is sewn to the cardboard. The first row of loops runs around the trunk of brown threads, the second along the outer edge. All that remains is to connect the tree and stand together, and a real New Year's beauty will delight you for many years. And the real spruce can be preserved.

Stuffed Toys made of brocade and beads: royal decoration.

There are many more different options for homemade New Year's toys. You just need to turn on your imagination and try a little. And then certainly any of your wishes will come true. After all, the first thing - to make a creative Christmas tree decoration - came true. Well, who else doubts the magic of the New Year's toy?

It won’t be difficult for a craftswoman to crochet this Christmas tree.

A funny and cute Christmas tree made of felt and beads.

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