New Year's decorations with their own hands

Preparation for the upcoming New Year is not only the installation and decoration of the Christmas tree, but also the creation of a winter, pre-holiday atmosphere in the apartment. To decorate your home, you can use tinsel, garland, rain, fir paws, cones, glass and plastic balls, artificial or natural wreaths, bells, snowflakes and other decor elements. All this charm can, of course, be bought in the store, but it is much more interesting to make a "winter" mood with your own hands, especially since many tasks are even for children.

Christmas decorations made of paper

Christmas decorations for the house can be made of white or colored paper, and later decorated with sequins, painted or otherwise decorated. The most popular Christmas decoration from this material is snowflakes . They can be white or colored, large or small, from plain paper or elegant packaging, shiny and overflowing. The more times you fold the workpiece and the thinner the pattern, the more original and beautiful your snowflake will turn out to be. By the way, the Christmas decoration of windows can be done with the help of such snowflakes, just attach the workpiece to the glass with water, and then with a toothbrush, sprinkle it with white paint or diluted toothpaste. After gluing off the workpiece on your glass you will get a real winter pattern.

From paper it is possible to glue multi-colored garlands-chains , drawing to this occupation of children. Color the paper before cutting into strips of the same length and width, and then, connecting the strips in the rings with glue, create a chain of any length. Heavy paper will become the basis for greeting cards made by own hands or original boxes for gifts. To make jewelry from paper you only need scissors, glue, a little imagination and decorative elements, for example, colored threads, buttons, sequins, crystals and others.

Christmas decorations of cones

Collected fir or pine cones can after a little processing become works of art of New Year decor. Lowering the cone into a saturated hot salt solution, let it lie there for 6 hours. After that, get the bump and dry it, the result will be a peculiar white coating, reminiscent of hoarfrost. Christmas decorations from needles can be decorated with such cones, adding a little sparkles or threads of rain, so the fir paws will become unusual and completely New Year's. In addition, you can apply a little glue to the branches and cones, and then sprinkle the treated places with a polystyrene rubbed on the grater, and here is the real snow on your spruce branches.

From branches of spruce, "snow-covered" cones, candles and New Year's toys, you can create a beautiful ikebana, which will take a worthy place in the decorated apartment, and in addition, one or several candles can be placed in the center of it.

And how to make a tree of cones, you can read the whole master class .

Christmas decorations from beads

This technique requires a certain skill, knowledge of the basic techniques of working with beads and the presence of imagination. Using a wire or fishing line, you can weave from the beads original snowflakes , Christmas decorations or a garland on the Christmas tree. Depending on the planned project, you will have to stock up with the required materials, because for the garland you will need a lot of beads, and for snowflakes quite a bit. Beaded garland can be collected on a string, intermingling small and large beads of different colors, for snowflakes and toys it is better to use a thin wire or fishing line, which will give the products the necessary rigidity and will not allow losing the given shape.