The Christmas tree, a symbol of New Year's joys, the whole family dresses up with pleasure. They bring new balls, beads, funny figures to the house and take out their favorite jewelry from the boxes for a long time.Every year, fresh ideas for crafts arise, with which the Christmas tree becomes especially attractive: the joy of own creativity makes the holiday even more enjoyable.
In order to make Christmas decorations with children, the creative impulse should be backed up with useful information: what crafts will look spectacular, what to do easily with kids even without much skill, what improvised materials will be useful. Most often, paper is at hand.
It can be new - colored, shiny, smooth or corrugated. But old newspapers, magazines, books, sleeves from rolls will do as well. What is considered waste paper will be indispensable: crafts will be even more spectacular and original.
Interesting crafts on the Christmas tree do-it-yourself from corrugated paper
Corrugated paper makes wonderful voluminous toys-lanterns, balls, Christmas trees. It is flexible and therefore ideal for wrapping gifts of any shape.From it you can make cute imitations of a bag in which there are candies and toys. Bright colors of this paper create a New Year's mood.
Home-made Christmas trees made of corrugated paper delight with a play of light and shadow, imitating the modulations of the needles of a real fir.
To place a voluminous application in the form of a New Year tree, balls, flowers on a postcard is a fresh look at the congratulations of loved ones and relatives. Several shades of green corrugated material are well suited. Add sparkles and beads - and the composition is ready.
Crackers, flashlights, "sweets" can be made of this material by wrapping bushings from rolls into it (after cutting them into small parts).
The most beautiful paper crafts on the Christmas tree
Favorite childhood activity before the Christmas holidays - cut out snowflakes. This technology is well mastered in schools and kindergartens. To make more complex images - a castle, a forest, houses, sledges are more capable for more experienced hands.
Quilling is a popular technique for do-it-yourself Christmas tree toys made of paper: thin strips are twisted into patterns and glued together - this is how Christmas trees and snowflakes do.To do this, use not only colored paper, but also sheets from old unnecessary books, booklets, brochures.
Origami flashlights
Flashlights of different shapes are obtained simply: it is enough to make several cuts (not completely) in a paper blank and glue it in the form of a cylinder.
In the origami style, DIY paper toys for the Christmas tree are very effective. Although this technique is not so simple, you can still choose good schemes for children. The simplest way: fold the cardboard in the form of an accordion and give it a cylindrical shape, make an origami Christmas tree from paper with your own hands.
Shining stars
Shiny stars can be obtained in several ways.
- Cut five circles from the paper towel sleeve into a pointed shape, glue them in the shape of a star and paint.
- Cut two stars from bright paper and combine along the cut line in the first of them.
- According to the pattern (with a margin for gluing) cut two stars. Along the lines leading from the corners to the center, the rays add up, creating volume. Then the two sides are glued to one.
- Connect three stars into one by gluing matching halves.
Stars are painted, complemented with sequins, beads.
Floral and Christmas balls
There are many ways to make Christmas balls or flowers to decorate the Christmas tree: there are very complex techniques.To take master classes with older children and get an excellent result is not just to dress up a Christmas tree, but to master artistic technologies.
The easiest way to make a ball is to roll it out of napkins, paste over and colorize it.
Volumetric toys
If you tinker a bit more with newspapers and napkins, you get the perfect snowman. Roll small balls from the newspaper, paste over with white napkins, stick the nose, draw eyes. To make a hat and a scarf from pieces of fabric. Children are proud of this work: it can be presented to friends or grandparents.
If you twist a cone out of colored cardboard, put a ball rolled from a paper towel on top: you get ice cream, it looks great on the Christmas tree.
On the Internet you can find many patterns for bonding bulk crystals and other shapes: houses, feeders, bird cages.
Cardboard Christmas tree crafts
Love for the garland of flags as an ornament to a wide variety of holidays has long been established in England. In Russia, this tradition also exists, but on the Christmas tree - a mandatory attribute. Do I need to buy flags in the store?
The easiest way is to take scissors, cardboard and choose the shape of the flags - any (a triangle, a rectangle, with a cutout, etc.). A durable thread or string will connect the flags cut out from the pattern. A glue or stapler will help with this. As for the material, old bright calendars and brochures will serve perfectly. And maybe someone wants to make a garland of family pictures, which is also original.
"Christmas tree" on a Christmas tree - a toy on a Christmas tree with cardboard do-it-yourself hands? Why not! How many ideas for such a toy from cardboard: it is made of multi-colored cones: single, decorated with a star on top, or inserted into each other with edges trimmed from below. There are many options: glued rosettes twisted from corrugated paper onto the cylinder or just bright sparkles, beads, patterns. An entertaining toy is a green triangle folded in the form of a pleated and the sushi sticks inserted into it. In the quilling technique, green strips for twigs are twisted, combining them into a holistic composition in the form of spruce.
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