Today, the shops have a wide assortment of Christmas tree decorations, so in many families the tradition of making decorations for the Christmas tree with their own hands is almost lost. Meanwhile, none, even the most expensive expensive products, can be compared with homemade ones. A variety of improvised means can be useful for New Year's decoration.
Instructions
Step 1
Natural material. If before winter you collected cones, acorns and chestnuts, just wrap them in foil and make loops of thread. Silver cones and balls are ready! From smaller acorns, you can make beads by stringing them on a long strong thread.
Step 2
Balloons and threads. With their help, you can create any shapes in the shape of a ball: - Inflate three balls so that each subsequent one is larger than the previous one
- Lubricate them with any cream;
- Take an empty pharmaceutical container made of plastic, and make holes on both sides with a needle;
- Fill the container with office glue and pass a white thread through the holes;
- Pulling the thread through the holes (it is evenly wetted with glue), tightly wrap the balls;
- Let the glue dry, pierce the balloons with a needle and remove them;
- Make a snowman by sewing on all the components. Draw the eyes and mouth with gouache, sew a carrot nose out of red cloth and stuff it with cotton.
Step 3
Eggshell. Carefully poke two holes at the top and bottom of the shell and blow out the contents. Paint the empty egg the desired color and decorate it with glitter. Pass the thread through the hole, forming a loop. Secure the knot at the bottom with a bead. You can glue ears, noses, paws, tails from colored paper onto whole eggshells - you get funny animals.
Step 4
Paper figures. To make decorations for the Christmas tree using paper, glue and paints, you can use the pages of print and electronic magazines "Do it yourself" or fantasize, creating toys from your own drawings. This is how a funny family of penguins will turn out from paper cones: - Draw a semicircle on the album sheet;
- Cut out the workpiece and glue it with a cone;
- Cut two strips on the sides with a blade;
- Make a figurine in the form of a boat (penguin wings) and paint it black;
- Insert the wings into the side holes;
- Draw a circle-hat made of double-sided colored paper and cut a small hole in the center with nail scissors;
- Put the cap on the tip of the cone;
- Now you just have to draw the eyes, glue a bow tie made of colored paper under them and sew an eyelet.
Step 5
Candy wrappers. Do not throw away candy wrappers from gifts that children received at New Year's parties. Make Christmas tree toys out of them. Even a preschooler can make bright butterflies from them. One butterfly will take two candy wrappers. Fold each wing diagonally into an accordion, then fold them in half and tie them with a long thin ribbon - for it you will tie the hovering "insect" to the Christmas tree branch.
