Probably, almost everyone likes the holiday itself, but its expectation and pre-holiday efforts. And winter holidays, such as the New Year and Christmas, are also distinguished by the possibility of making toys with their own hands. For example, such Christmas crafts as the stars made of paper almost everyone. But you can still weave beautiful crafts for Christmas from beads, sew for Christmas crafts made of cloth or present to your friends as a gift a Christmas bouquet.
Christmas crafts made of paper
What kind of Christmas without the figures of angels? We are going to do such a figure from paper now. You will need white, blue and gold paper, a black pen, a pink pencil, scissors and glue. We draw out the outlines of an angel (except hair and wings) on thick paper or white cardboard and cut out. First, we form the head of an angel - draw a face, glue the hair from golden paper. Further behind the head we attach the neck, and on it already wings made of gold paper. Then we turn the biggest detail out with a cone and fasten it with the rest of the details. We glue the golden collar and decorate the angel with asterisks carved from gold and blue paper.
Christmas Crafts from Beads
If you are tired of messing around with glue and paper, then you can take on more laborious work - weaving from beads. Yes, this process will take a long time, but the result will pleasantly surprise you and your loved ones. To begin with, you can try to weave a snowflake from the beads. It will take gold and silver beads, white and pink beads larger (4 and 6 mm in diameter) and a fishing line. Make a snowflake as shown in the picture. Remaining after the first weaving holes, we cover holes with pink beads and attach a ribbon or string to the snowflake so that it can be hung on the Christmas tree.
Christmas articles made of cloth
And one more essential attribute of this holiday is the Christmas star. A very beautiful and soft star by Christmas can be sewn from fabric. It will need two pieces of satin fabric of different colors, filler (for example, sintepon), ribbon (satin or organza of gold color), thread, pencil, scissors, pins and beads or small beads for decoration.
- Draw on the paper a star of the desired size (a Christmas star is usually 6 or 8-final).
- Cut out a pattern and attach it with pins to the fabric.
- Cut out two stars from fabrics of different colors (do not forget about seam allowances).
- Fold the details face-down inside and spread out along the perimeter on the typewriter. Leave a small hole for packing.
- We twist the asterisk, straighten the seams and fill the star with filler. If the rays do not want to fill up - use a pencil.
- Cut a small piece of tape or organza for the loop.
- We put it in the hole through which the star was stuffed.
- Sew the hole with a hidden seam and decorate the star with beads.
Christmas bouquet
Of what only do not make Christmas stars: from paper, beads, fabric and even from flowers. So, in the Christmas bouquet, the idea of a star is used. Such a bouquet will require scissors, a pencil, a ruler, a cardboard, hot melt, a wire, spruce cones, pine twigs, beige felt, golden and red paper, fresh flowers (here 3 red gerberas and 2 cluster green chrysanthemums are used) and Christmas decorations in tone basic composition.
- We make a frame from a cardboard for a bouquet. To do this, draw on the cardboard a circle with a diameter of 25 cm, and inside it we inscribe the star. In the center of the star, draw another circle with a diameter of 10-12 cm and fit into the second star, so that the rays of both figures are parallel to each other.
- Cut out the blank along both lines.
- We cut the beige felt with strips and wrap the frame around them. The tips of the fabric strips are fixed from the inside with hot melt.
- On the outside of the frame, glue the cones at a close distance from each other.
- We pierce the wire frame in three places, hide it under the felt, and from the back part we twist the wire together.
- We make of "golden" and red wrapping paper "sweets".
- We fix in the center of the frame flowers, Christmas decorations, "candies" and cut the stems.
- The bouquet is ready, it remains only to put it in the vase.