Paper crafts for the New Year decorations. DIY decorations for the New Year from paper, photo

Good afternoon. Today we will do crafts for the New Year from paper and cardboard with our own hands. I collected the most accessible and easy-to-use crafts for children and adults. You can find here ideas for kindergarten activities for the new year (applications and paper crafts). Also here you will get ideas for home decor for the new year from paper and cardboard.

Let's start making a New Year's fairy tale with our own hands, turn paper into a smart New Year for our family. Let's apply our good mood and skillful hands and spin the round dance of New Year's crafts.

Candlestick for the New Year

(from colored paper and white cardboard).

These cute cardboard snowman candlesticks can decorate your New Year's interior.

Each paper snowman unfolds like a regular postcard. And it can be placed vertically on the edge (like a postcard). Punctured holes in cardboard allow you to use this paper craft for the New Year as a festive candlestick. Let me tell you in detail, step by step, how to make such a quick and simple craft with your own hands.

How to make this New Year paper candlestick craft.

Step 1 - on plain paper (draft), print or draw any graphic pattern (the one you want to pierce on the snowman's abdomen)

Step 2 - From thick white cardboard (preferably glossy, double-sided), cut out the silhouette of the snowman's body. This will be a silhouette in the form of a hill with rounded edges, growing from left to right (as in the photo above).

Step 3 - we apply our draft with a pattern to this silhouette and fasten it with paper clips. We put a terry towel in 2-3 additions on the table. On a towel we put a cardboard with a draft, a patterned draft side up. We pierce the drawing on the draft with a needle. So that the needle passes through the draft, through the cardboard silhouette of the snowman's body lying under it, and sticks into the towel. We cut off the whole drawing in all places.

Step 4 - from the same cardboard we cut out the oval hands of a snowman and a round head. Cut out a nose, a cap, eyes, and a mouth from colored paper. We paint the cap with colored felt-tip pens or markers. We assemble the craft entirely from these paper parts. And we get a beautiful handmade paper New Year's gift

And from the remnants of white cardboard, you can make just such a clamshell craft for the New Year. From colored paper we make candle flames and green holly branches with red berries.

It is also very beautiful to make Puff crafts in the form of houses and Christmas trees from white thick paper for the new year. Placed on the edges of the folds, they will be held vertically straight - between the rows of houses you can lay out a Christmas tree garland and turn it on - the garland lights will illuminate the windows, draw out silhouettes.

Snowman for the New Year

from paper.

From white paper rounds you can make funny puffy SNESHARIKOV. Decorate them with hats of different styles, tie them with colored satin ribbons (like scarves). Glue the paws and noses and draw a dotted smile and eyes with a black marker.

This craft is suitable for children of the middle group in kindergarten. Only the ribbons will need help to tie.

You can make a snowman out of three cardboard circles of different sizes. Between the layers of the rounds, lay a three-dimensional gasket (a thick piece of cardboard, a folding paper spring, thick Velcro tape, etc.). So the snowman will be voluminous puff. We attach paper paws to the first lower layer, put a scarf on the second round, and a nose, eyes, and a hat on the upper round. This paper craft for the New Year is suitable for children in the older group of kindergarten.

Here is a craft idea for the little ones. On a sheet of blue cardboard we attach a white snowdrift at the bottom. We stick a leaflet with a calendar print on it (it can be printed from the Internet and photocopied according to the number of children in the group).

It remains for children to glue round snowman muzzles, round pens on top of the calendar sheet. Then cover your head with a hat, add eyes, nose - draw a smile later with a marker. Decorate the blue background of crafts with paper snowflakes.

And from large sheets of paper (A2 format) you can make a beautiful craft for the window. Such a snowman can decorate the window frames in your child's nursery. And kindergarten workers can turn the group windows into a whole series of funny adventures of the snowman Vasya- here he is sweeping snowflakes with a broom, here he is showing an acrobatic number, here he is with birds, here he is juggling snowballs, here he is sleeping under the tree. The poses are easy to fold and change, just turn the body of the leg and head - and now the snowman himself has turned, rolled over - oh yes, Vasya!

And since we started making crafts for the New Year from white paper, let's continue. And let's see what else can be done from inexpensive landscape or office paper.

Craft - a wreath for the NEW YEAR

(white paper + pizza box).

Here is some beautiful work that can please your children this New Year. From plain white paper and an old cardboard box, you can make a New Year's miracle. Wreath with white lace New Year's silhouettes. All details are cut out separately - and from the side it seems that this is a single large paper cut-out.

How to make the basis for a New Year's wreath.

We take a box from a large pizza. We put on it the largest lid from the pan (or a round dish). Outline with a pencil. We get the contours of the outer ring. We put a smaller plate in the center, circle it with a pencil - we get the contours of the inner ring, that is, a hole. Cut out.

Note - to get an even-sided ring for a wreath, you need to put a small plate (for a hole) exactly in the center - so that the right and left and above and below the plate have the same distance to the edge of the ring.

From ordinary white office paper we cut out the details-symbols of the New Year:

• 3 large snowflakes
• 8 silhouettes of Christmas trees
• 4 house silhouettes
• 1 white ring (2 halves of the ring are possible - from two sheets of paper)

This white ring will lie on top of our round dance of houses of Christmas trees and snowflakes. And by inner diameter this white paper ring match the inner circle of our cardboard base wreath(which we cut out of a pizza box).

The process of assembling the New Year's crafts.

On our cardboard gray ring we paste in a circle - in any order - all the Christmas trees, houses, snowflakes. We make a round dance of silhouettes - not bringing them much closer to the inner edge of the wreath (since there they will close too much with a white paper ring). The thickness of the ring should not greatly overlap the New Year's paper silhouettes - but only cover their lower part.

We glued the silhouettes in a round dance and then put a white paper ring on top of them - also on glue. It is better to work with a glue stick - it is drier and the cardboard does not warp from moisture and the paper does not wrinkle from dampness.

And here's a snowflake template to help you , which is perfect for this paper craft for the New Year. To reduce the size of the template, press and hold the ctrl button and at the same time turn the mouse wheel - towards you (or away from you) to change the size. Then put a sheet of paper on the monitor screen and circle the contour of the snowflake glowing through the paper.

And here are some more ideas for silhouette round appliqués made of paper for do-it-yourself decorations for the New Year.

Cut out a ring from black cardboard. At the bottom we glue a semicircular white snowdrift. - we attach white silhouettes of Christmas trees to it. With a hole punch in the form of snowflakes or stars, we make a small scattering of stars and stick them on a black ring. With a cotton swab and white gouache, we apply small white dots on a black background.

Or we cut out the silhouette layers from white paper (a number of houses), and red paper (Santa Claus's sleigh and horse). Fold the layers within the round silhouette.

carved crafts

from paper for the New Year.

If the paper cuts are bent from their incised place, then we will get the effect of a voluminous paper craft. Below we see a paper Christmas tree made using this technique. A sheet of paper was folded in half - along the axial vertical line. And they made oblique cuts - 2 small ones at the top, then two more larger ones below, two more more, and so on. Then they unfolded the paper and folded each incised section down - it turned out a carved Christmas tree made of paper for the New Year (left photo below).

You can only make small CORNER cuts with a paper knife - and bend these corners, getting the shape of triangular teeth.

In the same technique, you can make three-dimensional. In the same technique, you can make three-dimensional 3D crafts. This is how it's made Christmas trees for the New Year from paper or white cardboard.

We take a flat triangular piece of cardboard - with a knife or blade we make it on it vertical notches(without touching the edges of the triangle with scissors). And then we bend these cuts - one forward, the other back, the third forward, the fourth back and so on - with alternation. Before starting to bend, we need to fold our triangle in half along the central vertical line - then all these bends will have an even central edge - both in front and behind.

If the cut lines are not straight-horizontal (as in the left photo), but wavy or oblique as on other Christmas trees with a photo, then we will get interesting silhouette volumetric crafts of Christmas trees made of paper.

And also a flat paper part can be turned into a voluminous convex Christmas tree (3D craft) in this way (as in the photo below).

We cut the usual flat cardboard round in a spiral - (we draw a snail on it, and make a cut along the line with scissors). And then we raise the middle of this snail up and teach a spiral-spring in the shape of a Christmas tree.

So that the Christmas tree does not fold back, it can be supplemented with a ROD - an axis holder, so to speak (as it is done in the right photo below). There, a wooden stick on top holds the center of the spiral (on glue), and at the bottom the stick is based on a piece of plasticine or another pedestal.

And pay attention - that the edges of the Christmas tree from the photo are curly to the right (with a lace border). This is achieved if the spiral snail is drawn not with straight lines, but with wavy ones, and cut accordingly along these lines.

And we also have a very large and detailed article on our website. There you will find a lot of ideas for creating paper Christmas trees for the New Year.

And in this article I will give the idea of ​​​​a very simple Christmas tree made of paper discs. Cut paper circles - 2 pieces of each size. Fold each paper circle in half. We put halves of the same size into each other - a corner in the shape of the roof of a house. It turns out 5 corners of different sizes. And from them we begin to collect our paper Christmas tree - first we paste the TOP PAIR of the smallest on the sheet, then inside it - we put a little more, then even more and so on until we collect the Christmas tree - a great idea for the New Year from white paper, which is always in excess.

Crafts for the New Year

FROM STRIPS OF PAPER.

And here are a couple of ideas for you on how you can make original Christmas wreaths with your own and children's hands from paper cut into short strips.

In the first master class, we cut green (double-sided in color) paper into strips 10 cm long. Fold each strip into a bell jar. From the pizza box, cut out the ring-base in the shape of a donut. And on this base we glue our pots of paper strips - we glue them with a serrated "scallop" up (as shown in the photo below).

And here is another idea for the New Year from paper - also from stripes and also in the form of a wreath craft. You can cut each strip on both sides into 2 cloves (like a flag). And just glue them on the base ring for the wreath. We glue them - wrapping around the ring and glue the two sides of the flag together. We decorate a paper wreath with sparkles with fluffy balls,

From two long strips of paper, you can roll up a SPRING - glue a bright light from colored yellow and red paper to it - and you get a candle.

Craft-CARD

for the New Year from paper.

For this folding bed craft in the form of Santa Claus, you need bilateral red paper - and a sheet of white or blue cardboard.

• Glue a red silhouette onto a rectangular sheet of paper so that its HANDS extend wide open beyond the edges of the blue cardboard sheet.
• Then it remains on this red silhouette of Santa Claus to stick a white silhouette of a beard, with a pompom and in the middle of the beard, stick a pink face detail.
• With a black marker draw eyes, buttons, pockets. Draw a nose with a red marker. And then draw a line on which the children will glue the chain of flags.

So I drew the outlines of all the details of this New Year's paper craft. You can outline the details of Santa Claus by placing a sheet of paper directly on the glowing monitor of your computer. To enlarge or reduce an image– roll the mouse wheel while holding down the CTRL button on your keyboard.

You will find even more ideas for creating Santa Claus paper crafts and more in our special article dedicated only to this character beloved by all children.

Paper accordion crafts

for the new year.

An ordinary paper fan that children love to fold in hot weather can warm you with a flame of warm ideas on cold New Year's days.

You can make such a multi-tiered Christmas tree out of paper for the New Year. In it, each tier-floor is a long wide strip of paper folded into a small accordion. Each harmonica is glued overlapping each other - starting from the bottom, and slowly moving to the top.

And if such a strip is twisted in a circle, we get the shape of a corrugated pancake. Different sizes of such corrugated rounds will give us a pyramid in the form of an elegant Christmas tree made of paper. For the new year, you can put a real masterpiece made by yourself in the center of the table. Tiers of colored paper can be sprinkled with hairspray and quickly sprinkled with fine nail glitter.

Such a Christmas tree made of paper will look elegant and beautiful if you take ordinary gift wrapping as paper material - it will already have a beautiful color pattern - for example, in cheerful polka dots, as in the photo below.

And from such round accordion fans you can make beautiful New Year's crafts in the form of a snowman or decorative paper snowflake pendant.

From music paper we make a round fan (before this we artificially age the paper, yellow tea or grease it with a brush dipped in coffee, dry it, smooth it with an iron). In the center of the round fan on hot glue from a gun klim shop plastic snowflake. And from the old New Year's card we cut out a round element of the picture and paste it in the center - we get a paper snowflake craft for the New Year.

Your round fan does not need to be in the shape of an EVEN CIRCLE. You can give the fan a patterned shape - jagged edges, openwork holes (as in the photo with the snowflake craft below).

Below I found a diagram that shows how to create such a patterned round fan in stages. Please note that the edge cloves are obtained from the fact that the fan, still folded, from one end is CUT OFF.

Holes are obtained from triangular slots in the side of the fan. And so that the fan itself can easily be assembled into a circle, we see a round hole punctured with a needle - from the opposite end of the fan - in this place all the blades are threaded through on a needle and thread - and thanks to this, the fan is pulled together tightly in its center and fixes this screed with a knot of the ends of the thread.

You can of course do and without thread with a needle- fold a round fan from several coal fans. Here is a photo diagram below showing how it is done by hand.

The shape of the teeth of the fan gives interesting shapes to such paper snowflakes. In the photo instructions below, we see different variations of such paper crafts for the New Year. Each new pattern of cuts and cuts gives us an interesting new snowflake when unfolded.

Angels for the New Year

From paper and cardboard.

Using the fan fold technique, you can make an angel craft from white office paper. First, fold a round fan out of white paper (just like we made it for a tiered Christmas tree above - also with the assembly of the middle on a thread). Then, on this fan circle, outline the outlines of an angel (head, wings, dress) on it and cut it off along the drawn line. You get a paper angel craft for the New Year as in the photo below.

And for children at school, you can make such simple crafts as angels from a narrow paper cone. The wings are a semicircle with two notches in the middle - the top of the cone is threaded through them (see photo below).

Then a face is glued to the top of the cone (a semicircle made of cardboard). Then we make hair - we bend the rectangle of paper - into two unequal parts - a short fold for the bangs, a long one for the back of the hair. We cut each part into a fringe.

You can make such a solid angel from thick paper with a foil side or from shiny cardboard for the New Year. For this craft, we make only one flat blank (as in the photo below). We make 2 cuts with scissors - then we wind the two sides of this workpiece back, dock and put the cuts on each other. It turns out a voluminous New Year's craft Angel (as in the photo below).

But a paper angel - as a window sticker for the New Year. Below I give a diagram for carving such an angel onto a window. You can translate a picture with a pencil directly from the laptop screen by placing a sheet of paper directly on the monitor screen. If you want to enlarge or reduce the drawing diagram, you just need to rotate the mouse wheel while holding down the Ctrl button on your keyboard.

If you have lacy paper napkins, you can make such an elegant angel for the New Year out of this openwork paper. They can decorate a postcard, front door, or use as a Christmas tree toy.

And even more ideas for crafts in the form of angels you will find in our special article.

Paper crafts for the New Year,

cut into strips.

And here is a bag of ideas for crafts for the New Year from paper strips. From colored paper (double-sided coloring), cut out strips of the same width. And by gluing them in a given position of the folds, we get curly-shaped frames - in the form of a snowman's hat, in the form of his body, the head of his hands. By connecting the strip frame parts with each other, we get a solid colored paper craft for the New Year.

For crafts from thin frame parts, it is better to use strips of paper glued to each other (3-4 pieces each, or cardboard (two-color) - this way we get a dense craft that will not deform under the weight of itself.

For the same technique (paper strips), you can use not only colored paper as an ornamental material, but also any other. Ordinary strips of paper can be cut out of a magazine, gift wrapping - as was done in the example of a snowflake scoundrel in the photo below.

After gluing the craft, the end edge of the cut is flat, you can first dip it in glue, and then in nail glitter.

You don't have to be a quilling master to make a fancy paper snowflake. It is enough just to cut strips of paper of the same length, then glue the loops out of them (they will also turn out to be the same size). And then fold these loops in a circle (gluing to the center) - and we get a round base for a snowflake (as in the photo below). We decorate the glued loops in the center with cardboard snowflakes (or plastic ones purchased at the store), then with roundels and small paper fans.

You can come up with a different pattern of paper loops of different sizes - and get new results. For example, you can hang such a paper star for the New Year as a Christmas tree toy.

New Year from paper

for quilling.

In the shops of the city you can find kits for children's creativity using the Quilling technique - these are packages with strips of colored paper - already cut evenly. From these strips you can fold any New Year's paper crafts. There are ready-made Snowflake patterns using the quilling technique, with a ready-made number of stripes of the desired color.

Or you can simply buy multi-colored quilling sets (without reference to a specific craft) and create your own fantasy works for the New Year from them. From paper, you can create whole little masterpieces. Look at the photo below - nothing complicated or scary - all shapes are simple (drops, circles, curved drops). A small Christmas picture inside a single ring.

By the way, the ring can be made from a round wide sleeve from adhesive tape. With a knife (or better with a file), saw off a narrow ring from the scotch sleeve. Paint it in white gouache, spray it with hairspray (to fix the color) or wrap it with a shiny ribbon. And then inside this closed shape create your New Year's picture. So you will get a Christmas tree pendant made by hand for the New Year from plain paper.

You can make THICK cast crafts from quilling material. This New Year's penguin is a large winding in the form of a droplet.

Several droplets of different shapes create the image of an angel using the quilling technique.

By the same principle, you can make Santa Claus crafts from paper rolls.

The youngest children, who are just starting to learn the basics of quilling techniques with their own hands, will be able to try their hand at crafts in the form of a simple laying of droplets. Round. In the form of a Christmas wreath.

Non-standard quilling technique

In crafts for the New Year.

Paper strips can be laid not in round twists, but in puff layers. In this laying technique, the Christmas flower craft was made from the photo below.

You can do the same thing with a regular comb.

Here in the photo below we see a master class on this craft. The paper is twisted through the teeth of an ordinary flat comb (or a special quilling comb).

In this technique, you can make elegant round decorations for the Christmas tree. Or create a decor for a postcard. Decorate the packaging of a gift for the New Year, with your own hands.

These are the ideas I have collected for you today in our article.

I am sure that you will find your craft for the New Year from paper and the magic of your hands. May the holiday be joyful and successful for the accomplishment of good deeds and good desires.

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If you consider yourself one of the people for whom the cost of New Year's paraphernalia is not among the mandatory purchases, then this article was written especially for you. DIY and paper toys can be in no way inferior to purchased analogues, this approach will not only save money, but also spend time excitingly and interestingly with your children. Yes, and home-made original ideas and toys will be deposited for a long time not only in memory, they will also be able to decorate the Christmas tree in your house for more than one year!

Few people think, but the sacramental meaning of Christmas and New Year is to bring all family members closer together. And what can bring relatives even closer, if not joint creativity? Creating original decorations with your own hands together with the household is perhaps the most exciting thing you can think of before the holiday, after cooking salads.

Creating toys using materials such as beads, porcelain or glass may require not only special skills, but also a lot of time, which is often simply not enough in modern realities. Given this, paper toys may be the best option to do on your own with a child. Below will be presented step-by-step instructions, as well as a video, for making Christmas decorations with your own hands.

Creating New Year's toys using paper does not require any special skills, and such an activity will not take much time.

DIY paper balls

For the manufacture of Christmas balls, a minimum of material is required. By and large, all you need is sleight of hand and patience!

Do not be upset if for the first time the toy does not turn out quite the same as in the photo - such manipulations with paper require some skill, which, if not with the first, then you will definitely have with the second or third toy. Given this, get ready that the first crafts will turn out to be not entirely accurate. But this is only with the first, then everything will be much better.

We carry out stencils

Well, to create a Christmas tree ball, you need to do the following:

• First of all, print or draw the stencils yourself. Alternatively, you can use the following blanks:

• Use colored paper, and thicker is better. Circle the stencils on it with a pencil;

You can save a little time and effort if you print stencils immediately on colored paper - the main thing is that your printer allows you to do this!

• Carefully cut the colored paper, cutting out blanks for the toy;
• Arrange the blanks in the shape of a flower, as in the photo below. The center can be fastened with a small circle of colored paper.

Making a toy

Christmas decoration will turn out more colorful and interesting if you use multi-colored paper. You can speed up the process by saving yourself from accidental decay of an already finished toy design using ordinary clothespins that gently pick up the edges from above.

At the end of weaving, the paper ends are simply glued together.

The final step is gluing the tape. To do this, in a circle that was originally glued into the center of the plexus, a small cut is made. A ribbon is inserted and glued into it. It is better to singe the ribbon in advance, thus preserving its original presentable appearance!

Thus, the New Year's paper ball will be ready. Get creative, use different colors and stencils, and repeat the steps to create a new piece of jewelry. Combine different solutions. Several ready-made options are presented below.

Alternatively, you can use cardboard cones that will perfectly decorate the Christmas tree.

In addition to balls, New Year's toys in the form of balls will be an interesting solution. This option of decorating the Christmas tree came to us from ancient times, when it was not easy to get New Year's crafts. Making a flashlight with your own hands is even easier than a ball. Even a child can handle the craft. Detailed instructions are provided below.

Santa Claus from paper do it yourself

Consider another version of the New Year's decoration. This toy is not only easy to do with your own hands, but also develops children's creativity along the way. In addition, the craft is good because it is great for decorating a Christmas tree and decorating various surfaces, whether it be a wall or a table. In addition, paper Santa Claus can be used to embellish a postcard in an original way.

For the toy you will need:

• Compass;
• Glue;
• Colored paper or cardboard packaging.

In our case (see photo), black, red, white, beige and green paper was used, although you can use any colors if you wish.

• Ribbons or threads;
• Scissors.

You can use other additional elements by embellishing the craft - a matter of fantasy!

How to do?

We cut out a hat for Santa Claus from red paper. We cut out a semicircle from beige, and similar diameter like out of red! Combining two semicircles, we get a circle. We make a beard from white paper, for this we cut out equal circles of a small size, as in the photo. One of the circles will go to decorate the hats of Santa Claus. Using the same color, cut out a long narrow strip. A pair of small black circles and one larger red circle will become the eyes and nose, respectively.

Align and glue all the elements together, as in the photo. It is better to make several Santa Clauses at once so that he has a company on the Christmas tree. The thread is attached to the top of the hat. Now an unusual New Year's craft will be ready.

You can make an original postcard for the New Year if you stick Santa Claus on green paper. This craft is sure to please both friends and relatives.

Below are a few more ideas for making paper Santa Claus with your own hands.

Volumetric paper star

No less popular before the New Year are paper toys in the form of stars, because no one can imagine a Christmas tree without this decoration. Such a craft will be very easy to manufacture, especially since all the same materials, plus a thread, will be required for work.

Work order

A pair of squares with sides measuring 10 by 10 centimeters are cut out of colored paper. Color can be used at will, no one limits your imagination. It can be pink, purple, blue, red, or whatever you want! Choose different colors and the tree will be able to sparkle with different colors in the New Year.

Fold the colored paper in half twice, as in the photo, then make two folds diagonally. Tiny cuts along the edges will help to fold the paper into the corners. The corners in the center are glued together so that the rest remains free. Due to such a solution, the star receives volume. Thus we get half a star.

For quick gluing and better quality, the corners should be held with your finger when gluing!

Similar operations are done with the second sheet of paper. After that, both halves are glued together, while not forgetting to insert a ribbon, for which the toy will then be hung. Leave the decoration for 20 minutes so that the glue can dry.

Often, do-it-yourself New Year's decor is in many ways superior to store counterparts.

Below we offer a short video instruction on how to create a three-dimensional paper star.

DIY Christmas lights

A paper lamp for the New Year can be easily made from improvised materials. For crafts, you only need cardboard packaging, scissors, colored paper and glue.

Instruction

• Let's use a pair of colored sheets: let one be purple, the other yellow. It is important that the colors are contrasting. We cut out a couple of rectangles of the following sizes: 180 by 120 millimeters for purple and 180 by 100 millimeters for yellow.

• We glue the yellow rectangle so that in the end we get a tube. We take a purple blank. Fold it in half and make cuts with scissors, leaving some space around the edges of the paper. Similarly to yellow paper, we glue purple in the shape of a tube. The photo below shows the whole process.

• If you did everything right, then the yellow tube should fit easily into the purple one. It is important to note that you do not need to push the tube all the way inside! First, you need to coat the edges of the yellow tube with glue, after which you can completely lower it inside the purple flashlight. A similar operation is done on the opposite side. Pull the purple part up a little to release the yellow. Lubricate the attachment point with glue, then fix the yellow sheet inside the purple one.
• For greater realism, the paper toy must be supplemented with a pen. For this, both ordinary cardboard and colored paper will fit. Cut out a narrow strip and, applying glue to it, fix it in the right place.

Thus, the New Year's lamp will be ready. This is another original decoration that is easily done on your own. Even a child can easily cope with such crafts.

Well, as can be seen from our material, it costs nothing to make New Year's toys and paper decorations with your own hands. Spend time with children, create an original and interesting decor for your Christmas tree and interior.

We hope our instructions, photos and videos have helped you in creating unique decorations with which you will not only beautifully decorate your home, but also have a good New Year's Eve.

If spending on New Year's paraphernalia is not included in your plans, then do-it-yourself New Year's paper toys will be your way out. In addition, such an original gift for the Christmas tree will be remembered for a long time.

The sacramental meaning of the New Year and Christmas is in the rapprochement of family members. And what brings people together better than joint creative work?! Making New Year's toys with your own hands in the company of household members is an exciting activity in itself, not to mention its results - original New Year's decorations that can be hung on Christmas tree.

If you make toys with your own hands from glass, porcelain, beads, then it will take a lot of time and require certain skills. Against this background, paper toys are a simple option that you can make with your child and put on the Christmas tree. Here are step-by-step diagrams and videos of master classes - 2017 making such crafts with your own hands.

Christmas paper balls 2016

To make this Christmas tree decoration with your own hands, you will need a minimum of materials. The main thing here is patience and sleight of hand. Do not be discouraged if you do not immediately get a toy, as in the photo - such decorations require some skill, which will come with time. Therefore, immediately tune in that the first toys will not turn out to be the most accurate. But the result will exceed all expectations and justify your efforts!

Christmas paper balls 2016: making stencils

So, in order to make this christmas ball on the Christmas tree, you must perform the following sequence of actions:

• Print the stencil on the printer. We suggest using the following drawings:

• Then take thick sheets of colored paper and circle the stencil with a pencil.

Advice! If the printer allows, stencils can be printed immediately on colored paper. This will save time and effort.

• Carefully cut out the details of the future toy.
• Arrange the resulting blanks in the shape of a flower. Fasten the center with a circle cut out of colored paper, firmly gluing it, as shown in the photo.

New Year paper balls-2016: main work

To carry out further work will require sleight of hand.

• The most responsible and interesting step is weaving. To do this, successively weave one strip into another, as shown in the photo.

Advice! Use paper of different colors to make the toy more interesting and colorful. And so that the toy does not fall apart when weaving, use clothespins.

• When you are almost done weaving, then glue the ends of the paper ribbons.
• In the part of the ball where you glued the circle (see step one), make a small cut in the form of a line. Insert a beautiful ribbon into it and stick it with glue. P It is better to singe it beforehand so that it retains its original appearance.

The original New Year paper toys of the new 2017 are ready! Using different stencils and colors, you can create a variety of balls. Another interesting version of the 2017 ball with your own hands can be seen in the video:

Interesting New Year's paper toys for the celebration of 2017 can also be made in the form of lanterns. This version of New Year's decoration came to us from our grandmothers and was popular in those days when toys were hard to find on sale. The flashlight is even easier to make than the previous toy. Even a child can be involved in the process of its creation. An interesting version of crafts in the form of a flashlight can be seen in this video:

magic lamps

Lamps for the new 2017 can be made from improvised materials. To do this, you only need scissors, glue and colored paper or cardboard packaging:

1. Take two sheets: one is yellow, the second is a contrasting one, for example, purple. Cut out two rectangles. Yellow - 100x180 in size, purple - 120x180 (with millimeters).
2. Take the yellow rectangle and glue its edges into a tube shape. Next, set it aside and proceed to the purple part. You should fold the sheet in half and make cuts with scissors, leaving room at the edges. We also glue it in the form of a tube, like a yellow sheet of paper or cardboard. The photo shows how to make a red flashlight. The sequence of actions is similar.
3. If you cut everything carefully, then the yellow tube should go into the purple one. At the same time, it must not be pushed through to the end. Its edge must be smeared with glue, and only then insert the resulting yellow flashlight into the purple tube completely. The same must be done on the other side. Slightly pull up the purple part to release the yellow. Coat it with glue. This will fix the yellow leaf in purple.
4. To make the flashlight more realistic, you should make a handle. To do this, cut a narrow strip of purple paper or cardboard and glue it to the flashlight.
5. Your magic flashlight is ready. This is one of the easiest crafts, even a child can handle it.

How to make a flashlight with your own hands for the celebration of 2017, you can see in this video:

Asterisk 3D made of paper

Another popular Christmas tree toy for 2017 is the star. Rare tree does without it. This toy is both spectacular and easy to make. To do this, you will need the same materials as in the manufacture of the previous decoration. It remains to add only a thread. Read the master class or watch the video.

• From colored paper, you need to cut out two squares measuring 10x10. You can use your imagination to the fullest: your stars do not have to be yellow. Use purple, red, blue, pink colors! And your Christmas tree will sparkle with different colors.
• On a sheet of colored paper, fold in half twice, and then two folds diagonally.
• Make small cuts on the edges of the paper and fold into the corners (as shown in the photo).

• Glue the corners in the center, leaving the rest of them free (this will give the future star volume). You should get some kind of rays.

Advice! Hold the corners while gluing with your finger. That way they stick better.

• Repeat the above procedure with the second sheet of colored paper.
• We glue the two halves of the star into one. Do not forget to put the edge of the ribbon between them, for which you will hang the star on the Christmas tree.
• Give the star time to dry. This will take approximately 20 minutes.

There are a lot of options on how to make Christmas tree decorations out of paper for the New Year, we tried to make an interesting selection of ideas and master classes. You only need improvised materials that can be found in any home, any paper, a little patience and creative imagination!

Balloons

The most common and versatile do-it-yourself toys for the new year are Christmas balls. You can make it from any thick paper: colored cardboard, colorful postcards or old magazine covers. Monochromatic balls will give a single style to the room, and multi-colored - an atmosphere of fun and fabulous magic.

So, before you start making New Year's paper toys, you need to prepare the following:

• thick paper with a pattern;
• scissors;
• PVA glue;
• a compass or any object, outlining which you can reproduce a circle (jars, lids, glasses, etc.).

How to do:

• Draw 21 identical circles on paper and cut them out with scissors.

Prepare the circles as follows:

• bend the circle twice in half (this is necessary to determine the center);
• unbend the circle and bend one side of it so that the edge of the circle is exactly in the center;
• bend two more sides of the circle to make a triangle with equal sides;
• cut out the resulting triangle, which will play the role of a pattern for the rest of the details;
• impose a triangle on the rest of the circles, circle with a pencil and bend the edges outward along the lines.
• Glue 10 circles together with two sides so that you get a strip: 5 circles on top, and 5 on the bottom. The strip must be glued into a ring. This will be the base for the ball.

• Divide the remaining 10 parts into 5 pieces, which are glued into a circle. Got two "caps".

• Glue the top and bottom "lid" to the base in sequence.
• The loop for hanging the ball can be made from a thread threaded through the top of the toy with a needle, or from a beautiful ribbon. A loop of ribbon is fixed with a knot and threaded through the top of the "cap" of the ball before gluing it to the base. The knot stays inside the toy, and the loop stays outside.

The original do-it-yourself paper toy is ready for the new coming year!

Paper strip balls

Making such Christmas balls is so simple that it doesn’t even make sense to describe in detail - see the pictures below. The secret of success: nicely colored paper and decorative beads for decoration.

Volumetric snowflake

Another indispensable attribute of the new year is snowflakes. They can be the simplest, cut out from a sheet of paper with an arbitrary pattern, or they can be voluminous using the origami technique. We offer to make the last version of the New Year's snowflake with your own hands.

To do this, you need to cut six squares of the same size, fold each of them diagonally, and then in half. Parallel incisions are made along the fold. The square unfolds, the inner tongues are wrapped and fastened together.

The outer petals are connected to the same petals of the remaining squares. You can attach them both with glue and with a regular stapler.

Christmas tree paper candies

This decor is available to manufacture even for kids. How good it is to create a New Year's mood with children, whoever did this knows what I mean :)

Many ideas and master classes on paper sweets for a holiday with your own hands.

photo cubes

Original and memorable toys for the New Year holiday will be obtained from paper cubes with photographs of family members or events of the past year.

Moreover, such Christmas decorations can be made with your own hands every year, pasting the current photo at the moment.

Thus, in a few years you will have a whole Christmas tree photo album!

To form such a cube, you need to cut out six identical circles from paper or squares. The edges of each element are bent so that a square is formed at the base. Then the bent edges are glued between the rest of the parts into a box. Favorite photos from the past year are pasted on the sides of the toy and a loop is threaded.

Christmas tree paper lanterns

I think everyone in childhood made paper lanterns. An old idea in a new incarnation:

More diagrams and photographs of paper lanterns.

Christmas paper angels

What is Christmas without angels? Masthev for each house is easiest to make out of paper:

A large selection of master classes with stencils of angels.

By the way, it can be just angel wings, see how simple and beautiful:

Stencil, click to enlarge:

magic garland

On the eve of the new year, you can make an original magic lamp from a simple LED garland. To do this, you just need to cut out ordinary paper snowflakes with your own hands.

If you do not have the time and desire to do this, then you can buy paper lace napkins in the store and use them as snowflakes.

All that remains is to thread the garland bulbs through the finished snowflakes and hang the Christmas tree, wall or window. The flickering of multi-colored lights through intricate patterns will create a truly fabulous atmosphere of the new year.

Christmas paper snowflakes

There is nothing new to say here, perhaps we will only advise you to try it out of paper.

Christmas paper flowers

A good idea to diversify the decor. Why only snowflakes, balloons and lanterns? Let's decorate Christmas trees with flowers! See the photos below and get inspired:

Christmas tree paper stars

The star on the tree is a classic. Let's make it out of paper, and the pictures below will help evaluate the options:

Cardboard Santa Claus

Funny paper Christmas toys are made with a small piece of cardboard, glue and a felt-tip pen. You can make any fairy-tale character for the new year, but the most relevant of them is Santa Claus.

A red cardboard square is rolled up and fixed with glue. The top of the toy is bent in the shape of a triangle-cap, the bottom is crumpled in a semicircle in the form of legs. A white triangle-beard is glued to the cap, a face is drawn with a black felt-tip pen. It remains only to fasten the loop.

In a similar way, you can complete a whole New Year's landing of Santa Clauses and decorate the entire Christmas tree with them. (Click to enlarge picture).

Such unusual do-it-yourself toys for the new coming year will long remain in the memory of all household members, especially the smallest ones.

Santas from cones

New Year's cards

You did not forget? ? See the video for simple and quick ways:

I really liked the simple and stylish postcards made of kraft paper:

Paper is by far the most inexpensive and easy-to-use material for holiday crafts, which is why we arm ourselves with scissors, glue, stapler and tape, as well as a pile of colorful leaves to make the most beautiful do-it-yourself paper Christmas decorations. And although some of the ideas are not new, you can start doing this right today, without any complicated and expensive preliminary preparation.

DIY paper Christmas decorations

The garlands that stretch around the entire perimeter of the room, curl the walls, furniture, ceiling, have been made by us since childhood. Colored chains are no longer the most popular long variety. DIY paper Christmas decorations. The hit of this winter is the starfall, the end of which is not visible.

To create these, you will need one template or stencil, a long rope and glue. On stencils, you need to cut out so many stars that it is enough to shower the whole house. Since the version of such a craft is very simple, it is necessary that the stars themselves have individual artistic value, therefore, if you take bright, colored sheets for them, maybe even with sparkles or metallic tints, then it will only get better. Another good option is wrappers, which are sold for gift wrapping departments, this material already has an interesting texture, but is not so expensive. One such leaf can become the progenitor for hundreds of stars. You need to assemble the garland on a rope, using glue for this, coat it on one asterisk, lay the rope on it so that it passes in the middle, and then cover it with a second asterisk on top and gently press it with your fingers so that the elements are fixed. You can string a string of strings, you can arrange an entire star curtain by placing them on a window cornice or doorway, or you can let them slide down from a chandelier, shining beautifully in artificial light. To complicate the task a little, you can glue together not two, but five elements in series, then you will get interesting voluminous Christmas decorations with their own hands made of paper. To save money, because several times more will go to this type of material, it is worth taking newspaper sheets.

You should not stop only on the stars, when there are still so many different elements for. For example, you can use large images of Christmas symbols - deer, Christmas trees, candy canes and gingerbread men - as such elements. They are not glued to a rope, but attached with an ordinary clothesline, making a creative garland in the style of photographic dryer exhibitions.

Volumetric decorative accents can complement garlands with a more uniform texture, for example, paper balls folded in any way you know always make bright strokes. They are both fragile and strong, large and neat, suitable for any interior, as the color for them is limited only by the palette of your colored cardboard box. Pay attention to how beautiful the heart pendants look, the photos of which you can see above, moreover, you can later use the idea of ​​​​creating such pendants for Valentine's Day decor, but without depicting snowflakes on the front of the hearts.

New Year's home decoration made of paper

What is good volumetric New Year's decoration of the house with your own hands from paper, is the fact that it can be used not only in hanging garlands, but also in desktop compositions, which can become no less in demand, especially if they are illuminated inside with an LED garland or in other ways.

In the photo example, you can see some ideas for both table and hanging decor. Such cones with the image of Christmas heroes can not only be printed on a color printer, but also drawn with your own hands. It is only necessary to first draw a diagram of the layout of such an ornament, for this it is worth arming yourself with a compass so that the circle turns out to be correct and even, the larger its diameter, the higher the cone will eventually turn out. The resulting circle must be divided into four parts in the middle and color only three, because you will need to cut off the fourth part. After cutting, the cone is twisted in just one movement and fixed with glue. It is somewhat more difficult to make such cute snow-white lanterns; for them, the vytynanka technique is used, when an openwork pattern is carefully created using a sharp breadboard knife or scissors. To get just such an elegant effect, you need to first fold solid candlesticks, but with the help of a more transparent material, such as tracing paper or parchment for baking, and the top layer, on which the pattern will already be cut out, is made based on the usual drawing format, it Holds its shape well and is easy to cut. But we will return to this beautiful technique when we study the options in more detail.

Apply all the cool techniques you know to get a great New Year's Eve result. Some people prove it to us DIY paper Christmas decorations, photo which are above. For example, the classic origami technique can be quite complicated, but if you want voluminous stars, then you can use its schemes, which can be found quite a lot on the Web. Such stars can generally be hung not as a common garland, but separately, as they certainly deserve. Pay attention also to, which is a folded book pages. As the basis for the Christmas tree, you will need a log or a small log in which vertical grooves are made. The villages are folded into identical right-angled triangles and inserted into these holes so that the sharp end - the top of the Christmas tree - is on top, and at the bottom there would be wide legs. From above, a decorative tree is simply obliged to complement a wooden star or a voluminous origami craft.

DIY paper Christmas decorations

Not so long ago, snowflakes thin as lace were used only as. Now, their grace is the best suited for decorating a modern interior in the Provence style or similar classical styles, so snow lace should definitely be considered in any material dedicated to DIY paper Christmas decorations.

Of course, the inspirers DIY Christmas decorations made of paper - snowflakes, may not be the most classical form. In all examples of decorative crafts, snowflakes of one variety or another are used, depending on the tasks that are set for them. So, for example, for an elegant garland that hangs in the most visible place, it is best to choose multi-layered snowflakes, with a dense middle, the shape of hearts, circles, crescents, which are shown in the photo, is suitable for this. But if you want to combine snow elements, for example, into a common wreath to decorate a window opening or front door with it, then you should make a lot of them, but in the simplest possible form, because the beauty will lie in their number, and not the delicacy of each individual part. It is for wreaths that you can deviate from the classic white color and make New Year's decorations from colored paper with your own hands, let them be pink, blue, red, to match the color of your interior.

But for windows today, not just snowflakes are cut out, but entire snowy landscapes, compositions that look especially impressive if they are highlighted. Above you can see suitable for similar Christmas decorations made of paper do-it-yourself templates.

DIY Christmas decorations from corrugated paper

Do not hold tenderness either do-it-yourself crepe paper Christmas decorations. This material seems to be created for the most festive crafts, what beautiful flowers, weightless garlands and so on turn out with it. If you stock up on several rolls of corrugated material in basic shades, you are guaranteed to be able to make the most fashionable and elegant varieties of New Year's decor.

For example, you and I know that they are often used to decorate large areas, this is a fairly simple element. Strips of corrugated material are twisted into roses and fastened with glue. So that there is a place for flowers in the winter interior, use them to decorate Christmas balls or a large ball that decorates the chandelier. Also an interesting idea is to make a wall-mounted Christmas tree using such green material. The strips are cut into fringes and glued to the wall (or even base), starting from the bottom. Or you can use known to you for do-it-yourself Christmas decorations from paper scheme, which will allow you to make garlands that differ in texture, more voluminous and bright. For example, such simple bows do not require special gluing or folding, but look very elegant.

Make your own paper Christmas decorations

Now let's take a simple example of how DIY paper Christmas decorations that will meet all the fashion trends of today. These include window decor, which has several layers. On sale, such cities, however, plywood, wooden, cardboard, are quite expensive, but if you use thick, high-quality paper, and even do everything yourself, you can get by with quite modest means.

You can either develop it yourself or download a ready-made Christmas window decoration made of paper. DIY you need to transfer the sketch to the material and carefully cut it out with a breadboard knife. If you iron the format first. It will be easier to work with him. Fold the cut out houses, glue the roof to them and place them in the prepared box.

On both sides of the box, you need to make the outer layers of the composition. For the layer that will be on the glass, an image of tall houses, a month in the sky, and so on, is suitable, for the foreground - walking people, a standing Christmas tree.

Inside, houses are installed and fixed, inside which garland bulbs are placed. To heighten the effect on the glass, with the help of artificial snow, draw the very last distant plan.