Very soon the pre-New Year bustle will begin, preparing for the festive fun, buying gifts, decorating Christmas trees and houses. Let's talk about how you can decorate a Christmas tree at home, in kindergarten and at school, and outside in the yard with your own hands. After all, from everything that is at hand, you can come up with and make amazing things on your own, including New Year’s decorations for the main beauty of the holiday.

In this article we will look at DIY Christmas tree decorations from scrap materials with detailed descriptions and photographs. We invite you to get creative and feel the spirit of the holiday now. Involve children in the process; they will be incredibly happy to make Christmas tree decorations together with their parents, and then hang them on the tree.

This time we won't spend money on buying expensive jewelry for a Christmas tree or materials for making them yourself, let's use everything that can usually be found at home.

Let's use a little imagination and as a result we will get amazing, exclusive and incredibly beautiful Christmas tree decorations.

Surely many people have light bulbs at home, ordinary incandescent lamps, that have already burned out and are not used. They can be of any size and shape. They can be used to create amazing Christmas tree decorations. We decorate these light bulbs with paints, sparkles, fabric, turning them into icicles, balls or interesting characters: Santa Claus, penguins, dogs, gnomes, or anyone else.

Let's take a step-by-step look at how to create an interesting Christmas tree decoration with your own hands from scrap materials using a light bulb. This will be a funny snowman.

Let's prepare everything you need:

1. Bulb. You can take more than one.
2. A little fabric, whatever you have for the cap.
3. Braid (for the loop for which we will hang the toy on the Christmas tree).
4. Paints. It is better to use acrylic, but gouache will also work.
5. Brushes.
6. Glue. You can use a second or thermal gun.

Let's start the creative process:

1. Paint the light bulb white and let it dry completely.
2. Let's paint the snowman's face and hands with mittens. The muzzle can be made completely primitive or whatever you want. You can draw a snowman and a broom into handles and buttons on clothes.
3. Now the cap. We cut out a small rectangle from the fabric, fold it in half and sew it together, tie the top with a ribbon and a bow. We put the cap on the snowman light bulb and glue it carefully.
4. He attaches a ribbon for hanging toys.

That's it, the snowman is ready. Using this principle, you can make any toy - an animal from simple light bulbs.

Moreover, you can simply decorate the light bulbs beautifully and attach a ribbon to them and send them to the Christmas tree. For example, a light bulb can be coated with PVA glue and thoroughly dipped in small glitter or any cereal, and then painted over with gold paint. Here you have it simple and original jewelry for the Christmas tree, made with your own hands.

We use any thread for toys

Christmas tree decorations can be created from simple threads for knitting or sewing. Don't be afraid, you won't have to sew or knit here. Everything is much simpler! Let's see what you can make from thread for a Christmas tree.

Option 1 – elegant, multi-colored, openwork balls made of threads

What you need for work:

1. Any thread, any colors.
2. PVA glue.
3. Air balloons.
4. Braid for loops.
5. Any decorations to decorate the balls: rhinestones, sequins, artificial spruce branches, in general, everything you can find at home.

Let's start creating balls:

1. First, let's make the base - the balls themselves. To do this, we inflate balloons of the required diameter. These can be very small balls or larger ones, for a street Christmas tree or for a school Christmas tree.
2. Wrap the inflated ball with regular plastic wrap. We pierce a tube of PVA glue and pass a thread through it. Now we simply wrap the inflated balloons randomly with glue and thread. We wrap it so that the threads cover the entire surface of the balls. We break the thread, hide the tip under any thread and coat the ball with glue again.
3. Let the balls dry overnight.
4. Now we burst the inflated balloons and take them out. We made filament openwork balls for the Christmas tree.
5. We tie a loop of braid to them and decorate them to your taste.
6. Such balls can be made in unlimited quantities and of different sizes and colors.

Option 2 – openwork stars and Christmas trees made of threads

You can make such DIY Christmas tree toys from scrap materials for children or together with them, using the instructions in the photo below and the description. The photo shows how to make a star. But using this principle, you can make a Christmas tree or any other figures.

Let's prepare everything you need for work:

1. Knitting threads of any color.
2. PVA glue.
3. A small bowl where you pour glue and soak the threads.
4. Foam base for work. You can use a disposable food tray.
5. Pins or simple matches.

We begin the process of creating an openwork star from threads:

1. Pour PVA glue into a bowl and soak the threads there.
2. We prick the shape of the toy on a foam base. IN in this case this is an asterisk.
3. First, we form the outline of the toy using pinned matches (or pins) by wrapping them with thread from a bowl.
4. Now we fill the middle of the figure with thread, laying it chaotically, making fancy curls.
5. Afterwards, you can blot the figurine with a sponge and glue again and leave it to dry overnight.
6. When our toy has dried, we tie a loop to it and hang it on the tree.

Paper toys

We must not forget and push into the background the good old paper snowflakes and toys. But today they can sound new if you use them to create modern technology. In general, DIY Christmas tree decorations made from scrap materials, in particular paper, are a great idea for children in kindergarten. They can decorate a Christmas tree in a group.

And the kids will be happy to look at the festive outfit of the forest guest and boast that they themselves and their mother made this or that toy.

Let's look at how you can make Christmas tree decorations using the quilling technique with your own hands.

For work we need:

Strips of paper, 1.5 or 2 cm wide. You can cut them yourself from thick colored double-sided paper or buy them ready-made in craft stores.

1. Scissors.
2. Thread or braid for a loop.
3. PVA glue.

Making a ball:

1. Take a strip of any color 20 centimeters long and close it into a circle, gluing the ends together.
2. We do this with several more stripes of different colors.
3. Now we thread each circle into one another randomly, changing and alternating colors. We do this in such a way as to form a ball. We glue the strips together at the points of contact.
4. We attach a loop to the ball. That's it, the ball is ready.

Making an icicle:

1. Take a strip of light color 6 cm long, bend it in half and glue the ends. The result is a loop.
2. Now take the next strip, darker and a couple of centimeters longer. We bend it into a loop around the previous loop and glue the ends on the sides of the ends of the small loop.
3. We do this with several more stripes of different colors and each time we take a strip 2 centimeters longer.
4. We wrap a strip around the junction of the loops and attach the braid.

In addition, you can make snowflakes out of paper by cutting them out according to a template and hanging them on a ribbon. And also, openwork snowflakes can be made from ordinary pasta, which is found in almost every home.

Pasta for the Christmas tree

You can create amazing Christmas tree decorations from ordinary pasta of different shapes. Let's see how you can make a snowflake.

Pasta snowflake in the shape of shells

Let's prepare everything you need:

1. Shell-shaped pasta (several large and one small).
2. Hot glue.
3. Braid for loop.

Let's get started:

1. Place a small shell in the center, and around 6 large pasta in the shape of shells. Glue the pasta together at the joints.
2. Attach the braid.

Openwork snowflake made of round pasta

Pasta round shape with veins.

1. Hot glue.
2. Gold acrylic paint (you can use an aerosol or regular acrylic in a jar and a brush).
3. Braid for loop.

Let's get started:

1. Place the pasta in rays from the center. Glue the pasta together at the joints.
2. Cover with golden paint and let dry.
3. Attach the braid.

This way you can make snowflakes of any shape using various pasta that you have at home.

You can also paste pasta onto any foam plastic ball, attach braid to it, cover it with paint and safely send it to your Christmas tree. Let's see how else you can decorate foam balls or any other regular old Christmas balls.

Snowflakes from pasta master class

Balloon decor using improvised materials

Any old ball can be decorated with improvised objects. To do this, you just need to glue what you found at home onto the ball, and if necessary, cover it with paint or glitter.

You can decorate with such improvised materials Christmas ball:

• buttons and buttons;
• disk fragments;
• pasta;
• coffee beans or any cereal;
• beads, sequins, rhinestones;
• pieces of newsprint;
• feathers;
• fabric flowers;
• even nuts and gears.

You can use everything you can find at home; the more unusual the parts you find, the more creative the toy will be.

Delicious toys for the Christmas tree

Returning to the topic of edible and tasty decoration for if, we suggest creating toys using cinnamon sticks, bergenia stars and orange slices. These will be stylish jewelry. They will not only add beauty and sophistication to your Christmas tree, but also add a touch of refined and refined aroma.

To make them, you just need to dry the cut oranges and combine the above ingredients in any composition. This could be a pair of cinnamon sticks with a star anise star glued to them, or just a round orange on a string.

You can also glue a cinnamon stick and a few coffee beans. The entire composition can be decorated with small bows or ribbon or jute rope.

Below is a selection of photos for inspiration for similar DIY Christmas tree decorations made from scrap materials. In addition, you can take regular candies in candy wrappers and hang them on the tree by a string. And tasty and beautiful and New Year's style. And on a lazy New Year's weekend, you can enjoy one piece of candy straight from the Christmas tree.

We decorate a street Christmas tree with toys made from plastic bottles and cups

Now let's see what Christmas tree decorations you can create with your own hands from scrap materials for a street Christmas tree. There is also a lot of room for imagination here. We offer for creative process use regular plastic bottles and cups of yogurt or sour cream.

Let's make a cute penguin for the street tree.

Let's prepare everything you need for work:

1. Two plastic bottles.
2. Acrylic paints and a wide and thin brush.
3. Some thread for knitting.
4. A scrap of fabric for a scarf.
5. Braid for loop.
6. Glue.
7. Paper patch or tape.

Let's start creating a penguin:

1. We cut off the bottom of one plastic bottle so that its height is 5-6 centimeters. Cut off the top of the second bottle and set it aside. The base should remain about 20 centimeters high.
2. We glue the two parts together with tape or adhesive tape, the bottom on top of the base.
3. The result was an oval figurine of the future penguin.
4. We paint the entire figure with black acrylic paint and let it dry thoroughly.
5. Now paint the penguin’s belly and face with white paint and let it dry.
6. We paint the upper part in any color for the hat and let it dry.
7. Draw the details of the cap and muzzle (eyes, key). Let it dry.
8. We make a pompom from threads and glue it on top of the hat.
9. We make a scarf from a strip of fabric, cut terry along the edges, and tie it to the penguin.
10. We thread the braid through, making a small through hole at the top.
11. The toy is ready.

A similar toy is suitable for a forest beauty in the yard if you use acrylic paints. When they are dry, they are not afraid of either snow or rain.

You can make a snowman or Santa Claus, or even a dog, in the same way. You just need to decorate the figurine accordingly. Put a cap on Santa Claus, and attach fabric ears to the dog.

Snowflakes from bottoms plastic bottles- another option for a street tree. How to make them:

1. Cut off the bottoms of the bottles.
2. Using acrylic paint we draw any pattern on them. Let it dry.
3. We thread the ribbon through the hole made on one side and hang it on the Christmas tree.

There is nothing easier than making these snowflakes.

Bells made from plastic cups of yogurt or sour cream can also decorate a street Christmas tree.

To do this, you need to take any glass, turn it over - this is the bell. You can hang a bead on a string inside and thread the braid through the bottom, making a loop. This bell can be decorated to your liking and depending on what you have on hand.

You can wrap it with braid, decorate it with rhinestones, sequins, beads, or paint patterns on it with acrylic paint.

In addition, you can make very simple but interesting toys from old children’s toys for your street Christmas tree. plastic toys. For example, you can use plastic or rubber dogs, dinosaurs, cars, simply hanging them on a ribbon. Or you can paint the toy a bright color, and only then attach a ribbon to it and send it to the branch of the street tree.

We've covered a lot interesting options for making Christmas tree decorations with your own hands from scrap materials, but this is not all that you can think of; for inspiration before starting the creative process, watch the video, which presents some more options.

Hi all. Yesterday in kindergarten I was given the task of preparing some kind of toy for the city street Christmas tree. I have only seen one of these toys - a candy toy, and one mother made it for 2 years in a row. But this year, such candy toys are not suitable for them (the district administration) and they told them to come up with something new.

Among the options proposed by teachers were:

1. Flower pot color it and make it in the shape of a bell.

2. Wrap the children's ball in foil so that it turns out New Year's ball ik on the Christmas tree.

To be honest, my head is occupied with something completely different, so we’ll look for what other craftswomen and sites offer. I’ll share the most interesting ones.

DIY toys for a street Christmas tree - a selection of ideas and master classes.

Insert an aluminum wire into the first tube (I got it from a “noodle” electrical wire) so that it does not break under the weight of the disk.

Place the disk on a reinforced tube and secure it with silicone glue (hot gun) so that it does not dangle.

To prevent hot silicone from flowing out of a sufficiently wide hole in the center of the disk, cut out 2 “washers” from cardboard. String a “washer” onto a tube, apply hot silicone onto it and glue the disk to the washer and, at the same time, to the center of the tube. Glue the second “washer” with the other side. This way the disk is securely attached to the center of the straw.
Thread a straw with a disk and 2 more straws onto a strong thread. Close them into a triangle.

The joints of the tubes and cardboard “washers” can be decorated with tinsel.
Interesting toy ready to decorate the street Christmas tree!
The description may seem incomprehensible, but in fact this toy is very simple to make.

From V E N E R A.

Mini mk.
1) 2 identical packages of semi-finished products - glued together. (Only with glue for ceiling tiles)
2) paint with silver (diluted with varnish on water based)
3) decoupage... for a festive touch I covered the edges with glitter and outlined the contours)))
4) I wrapped a ribbon around the joints. also with titanium glue...and I made a loop for it too
You can do the same with plastic plates...

I received an assignment from school to make a toy for a street Christmas tree, I thought about it and decided to make a ball. I took cut up bags, crumpled them up, rolled them into a ball, periodically dripped PVA glue, cake strings and sequins + gold paint. Diameter 20-22 cm.

Made from plastic bags, secured with masking tape, painted with gold spray paint and decorated, as they say, with what it was :), in this case, tinsel, bows, a garland of flat snowflakes

New Year's toy for the street tree House clock, author Olga Gulemina.

For work you needed:
two ceiling tiles;
ruler, pencil, scissors;
small rectangular box;
food foil;
colored foil;
small toys for decoration;
12 M&M`S candies;
clear nail polish;
braid 60 cm;
2 tubes of instant glue.

To begin, take a ceiling tile, place a box on it and draw a house using a pencil and ruler. Then measure the sides and prepare blanks for the side walls, roof and floor of the house. Then cut out all the parts. Cover large parts with food foil, and small parts with colored foil.

Glue the box to the front and back walls of the house. Cut two holes in the top of the box and thread the ribbon through them. Sew the ends of the ribbon to make a loop and tuck them into the box so that they remain inside the house.
Connect and glue all parts of the house. Cover the pre-cut circle for the dial with yellow foil. Glue it to the house.

Cover the M&M`S candies with two layers of nail polish, dry and glue them onto the dial instead of numbers. Cut arrows from colored foil and glue.
Decorate the roof of the house with small toys. To do this, simply glue them on with glue. The little house is ready.

Such a lamp will look good in a nursery, as children love bright and unusual things. The following polyhedra can be made from disks: cube (four faces), icosahedron (20 faces in the form of triangles), dodecahedron (12 faces in the form of pentagons - shown in the photo), tetrahedron or pyramid - 3 faces.
Each face is one disk. First, you need to make a template from paper according to the shape of the edge required for the figure. For example, for a cube it is a square, for a dodecahedron it is a pentagon, and so on. Using this template we mark the cuts on CDs. The cut itself is made on half the side of the template, and for all sides of this craft made from disks, this part of the side (the place of the cut) should be the same - for all parts it is left or for all parts it is right. The cuts can be made with a hacksaw, a hot awl, or even a grinder. In this case, the melted edges of the disks are cut off using stationery knife. When assembling, one element is inserted into the cut of the next and so on the entire lamp. It is necessary to carefully assemble the elements, as if the disks are bent, they may break.

, author Irina Yufereva.

New Year's ball made of 12 computer disks. Economical, environmentally friendly and long lasting. Especially good for street use Christmas trees, because it does not spoil. Connection with tape. Still a little unfinished.

I mark the pentagon with a protractor at 72 degrees, the distance between the edges is 8 cm. I cut it with scissors, I didn’t think they could cut it so well.

New Year's balls from CDs on a street tree, author I am Oksana.

Preparing materials:
1. old and unnecessary CDs (12 discs are needed for one ball)
2. Soldering iron with a sharp tip (I think you can somehow do without it, but with this device it will work faster)
3. Glue gun
4. Wire
5. Tinsel (I used thin) - approximately 4 meters
6. Good mood and time about 40 minutes.
STEP 1: cut out a template - a pentagon with sides approximately 6.5 - 7 cm. We will need it for the next step
STEP2: apply our template to the disk and, using a soldering iron, make 5 holes in the disk corresponding to the corners of the pentagon. And so with all 12 discs
Step3: cut the wire. In the future, we will use this wire to fasten our parts together.
Step4: We begin to assemble the ball. The ends of the wire look towards the underside of our future ball. Then we begin to connect the outer 5 disks to each other (see arrows)
It looks like a vase.
Step 6: place the second row of disks in a checkerboard pattern relative to the first row. and then we close everything with the last (12th) disk. Our ball is ready. You can decorate with tinsel.

In general, I found a ball made of plastic cups, just what I needed. It turned out to be very simple to make, and the money was only 28 UAH (200 cups - 16 UAH, a pack of paper clips - 2 UAH and 5 sprinkles - 10 UAH). I bought 300 cups. - that’s what it was written everywhere, but the ball took 190 pieces.

I want to tell you how I did it, otherwise I couldn’t find step-by-step instructions on the Internet. In general, there were two options on the net: 1) first make a circle of cups, and then build rows on top, reducing the number of cups in each, 2) first fasten 3 cups together, and then attach hexagon “flowers”, there were no steps, so I decided do it your own way, focusing on a soccer ball, which contains both hexagons and pentagons.

I stapled the cups at the bottom and at the top, but that was at first, then mostly only at the bottom, in general it depended on the situation, some couldn’t be stapled on all sides

And so, here we go:
1) fasten the cups into a “flower” (1 piece for now)
2) fasten the cups into a “flower without a petal” (3 pcs.)
3) and also fasten “a flower with three petals” (1 pc.)
4) lay it out like this. It turns out that the “flowers” ​​have 2 common petals
5) now we fasten these parts + 1 cup so that in the middle we get a “donut”-pentahedron (from 5 machines)
6) do the same for the “bottom” of the ball
7) make “taxi checkers” (10 pcs.)
8) attach 5 “checkers” to the “top” and “bottom” of the ball like this:
9) make “flowers” ​​(10 pcs)
10) attach 5 “flowers” ​​to the already created “top” and “bottom”. Attention!!! This is where difficulties begin - the ball begins to round, the cups begin to bend and even break a little, but this is not critical. So, when you attach the “flower”, then between the base and the “flower” you should get a “donut”
11) now you need to put the two halves together like a puzzle. When folded, you get “flowers” ​​without a center, into which you need to insert one more cup, there will be 10 such center cups. For now we are inserting 9 of them.
12) what do we do with the 10th middle glass? For strength, we insert another cup into it, pierce a hole with an awl, place metal washers in the cup and under the cup (for strength), and stretch a synthetic cord the right size in the form of a loop, tie it with several knots under the glass and tie a knot in the glass too. The result is a loop on which we will hang our ball. Then we also insert this middle glass with a loop into the ball.

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The time has come to actively prepare for the New Year: while there is still a lot of time left before it, it is worth taking advantage of such a valuable resource and making New Year's toys with your own hands from paper and more. The editors of the site undertake to help you with this, as they are also preparing their houses and apartments for the New Year.

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Cute Santa Claus

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Snowman without snow

The snowman is also a traditional winter symbol that children will enjoy making with their own hands. There are several ways to make a small beautiful snowman.

Angels in different ways

The cutest do-it-yourself Christmas tree toy is an angel. A Christmas tree decoration like this always lifts your spirits and will serve as decor for the coming Christmas.

Garlands - large-scale apartment decoration

You can make excellent New Year's toys with your own hands together with your children. So suitable option there will be a process of creating a garland.

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Flower wreaths and more

Christmas wreaths immediately give a festive and solemn mood to anyone who glances at them. They make gorgeous wreaths out of paper too!

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Stars and snowflakes fall in the apartment directly from the ceiling and walls

The familiar appearance of snowflakes is still popular, but there are other options for making these traditional elements. We also suggest trying to make beautiful paper stars with your own hands. You can make a garland from them, hang them from ceiling beams, a chandelier, glue them to walls and doors, to windows or to a Christmas tree.

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Making Christmas balls in different ways

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Lanterns for the Christmas tree and more

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How to make your own New Year's toy from yarn, ribbons, beads, felt and pine cones

In addition to paper for making New Year's decor, you should try using various materials. Interesting and beautiful works are made from natural materials, easy-to-handle felt, and beautiful yarn. Acrylic paints, hot glue and PVA glue, glitter and any decorative elements help in the work.

DIY Christmas tree decorations: new life for grandma’s yarn

Any dense thread can be turned into voluminous or flat original decorations for the holiday, which are so good that they keep their shape for many years.

Video: example of a thread toy for the New Year

Making a New Year's toy from ribbons, beads, sequins

A bag of sequins or beads is inexpensive. They decorate any surface or use them as decorative elements for finished products. Glue the decoration with hot glue or super-moment.

It’s even easy to make from fabric, ribbons, beads big toy on the Christmas tree with your own hands. They sell ready-made large-sized foam plastic blanks that just need to be decorated.

Felt toys for the New Year

Small and large New Year's toys can be easily made with your own hands from a material such as felt. This exciting process, which always has a positive result for both experienced masters and beginners.

You also don’t need to spend a lot of time learning the basics of working with felt: the material is easy to cut, it is not difficult to stitch it by hand or sew it on a machine. The edges are decorated with any types of seams.

More often than not, felt serves as the base on which the decor is placed. Decorative elements are also cut out from felt of a different color, or embroidered on it, and various beautiful decorations are glued on.

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New Year everything is closer, and for those who know how to do DIY Christmas toys, the time for fruitful work is coming. Making toys is a tradition that arose at a time when mass production of Christmas tree decorations had not yet been established. Today, there are plenty of factory-made toys in stores, but the tradition of making them yourself has not disappeared. This is explained simply - from jewelry and toys self made a special warmth emanates, they look homely and cozy. A nice bonus is that you can be proud that the toy you made yourself exists in a single copy.

How to make New Year's toys with your own hands?

New Year's outfits for the green beauty have undergone changes many times during the existence of the tradition of decorating the Christmas tree. In stores you can still buy standard decorations - glass balls of various colors and sizes, stars reminiscent of the Soviet past, glass cones, fruits and other traditional products. You can also bring it to Christmas and new year holidays an element of creativity, and try to make New Year's toys for 2017 with your own hands.

DIY New Year's toys from scrap materials

The choice for work is almost limitless - any available material can be used. Christmas tree decorations are sometimes made from the most unexpected materials. New Year’s creativity also has its own “leaders” - materials that are used most often:

• Wood, plywood;
• Paper;
• Beads;
• Felt;
• Textile;
• Beads;
• Natural materials - branches, vines, cones, etc.

Christmas tree toys made from salt dough

You can even make DIY New Year's toys for the New Year 2017 from flour. One of the simplest and most inexpensive materials for making New Year's toys is salty dough. There is flour in every home, the process is interesting (especially for children), and the result is a completely worthy replacement for ceramic and glass toys.

To work you will need:

• Wheat flour;
• Water;
• Salt (fine);
• Paints;
• Varnish (optional);
• Leg-split;
• Oil;
• PVA glue.

Important! To make the dough more flexible, you can add a little baby oil (can be replaced with vegetable oil or olive oil).

Dissolve salt in warm water, add flour, knead the dough. To get a variety of figures, you can use dough molds. The lack of shapes is not a problem; figures from salt dough can be sculpted by hand. To add texture, you can use anything - pencils, plastic bottle caps, lace. While the dough is still wet, you need to make holes for the rope holder.

After drying (1-3 days, depending on the thickness of the product), the toy can be painted, a pattern applied, small photos pasted and coated with acrylic varnish.

Christmas decorations made from branches

DIY New Year's toys are often made from scrap materials. Simple but effective way decorate a Christmas tree or house for the New Year - make toys from natural materials- for example, from branches. To make a stylish toy “Ball in eco-style” you will need wire and branches.

Lifehack! It is better to collect branches in October or November, when they still contain a sufficient amount of moisture. Later collected vines and branches may be brittle and unsuitable for making toys.

Make several (5-6) circles from the wire. Form a ball “skeleton” from them, fasten the circles together with hot glue or wire. Carefully twist small diameter branches or vines over the base. To keep the branches tightly, they can also be secured with hot glue. It is easy to thread a ring of twine or ribbon into the finished ball. The stylish eco-ball is ready!

New Year toys made of beads

You can also make spectacular New Year's toys from beads. It will not be easy for beginners to make jewelry that is massive or has a complex shape. But without any problems you can make hearts, Christmas trees, and stars. To make such a toy you will need wire and beads. First you need to string the beads onto the wire, and then form the desired shape, tightly securing the ends of the wire. You can use ribbons for hanging.

New Year's toys made from light bulbs

For those who are still puzzling over the question “How to make New Year’s toys with your own hands?” Wonderful suitable option using objects that previously had a utilitarian function. New Year is coming soon, so don’t rush to throw away burnt out light bulbs. They make charming Christmas tree decorations. A little imagination, and you won’t have to settle for the usual glass balls.

Attention! For the first (background) layer, it is better to use spray paint. It is easier to apply, and this paint goes on evenly. It is much more difficult to create an even coating with a brush or sponge.

DIY New Year's toys made of paper

Paper is a universal material, and Christmas tree toys and decorations made from it are cheap, practical and simple. To begin with, you can choose flat (not voluminous) jewelry. These can be snowflakes, Christmas trees, and other themed figures.

Important! Do not use paper or cardboard that is too thick high density: when cutting, the edges of these materials become “shaggy” and the product does not look neat.

Another accessible method is to use paper to decorate ready-made toys - for example, balls. An ordinary glass ball will look much more original if you stick decorations cut out of paper on it. Or, for example, a small collage of photos.

A more complex way is to make toys using the origami technique. Using separate paper blocks, you can assemble a variety of decorations - for example, a Christmas tree.

Even children can make New Year's toys out of paper with their own hands. Most of the diagrams and patterns are simple; it will not be difficult for a child to cut out a snowflake, a Christmas tree or the silhouette of a bird. And from individual paper figures and silhouettes you can make a New Year's garland to decorate a Christmas tree or room. To do this, you can use a ready-made diagram from the Internet or come up with a design yourself. Christmas garlands can be decorated with snowmen, balls, patterns, Christmas trees, and animals.

From felt

Felt is a soft, fairly dense felt. This material is perfect for making New Year's toys. It’s easy to work with – you don’t need to process the edges; you can buy felt in almost any color and shade in the store. To make a stylish New Year's toy, only two or three colors of felt are enough. For example, a combination of red and white - classic New Year's colors, is perfect for creating simple jewelry. It is not necessary to choose complex patterns; it is enough to cut out simplified silhouettes from paper. For example, these:

You can transfer the pattern to felt using chalk or a bar of soap. Then each type of figurine must be cut out in duplicate. Large DIY New Year's toys can also be made from felt, as it is sold in sheets of different formats.

Attention! Felt lends itself well to cutting, but you need to choose for the job sharp scissors. It is better to secure the pattern on the fabric with pins to get a neat silhouette.

In the photo: DIY felt Christmas toys:

It is better to sew felt parts with contrasting threads - if the toy is red, then you can use white or beige threads. If the toy is white, the decoration with red, green, and brown threads will look harmonious.

And don't forget the buttons!

Small felt toys can be used both to decorate the Christmas tree and to make interior garlands. Bright ribbons, regular white clothesline, and twine can be used as a base.

Christmas trees, hearts and houses are traditional details of New Year's design. Recently, toys in the form of animals with which the New Year is associated - deer and elk - have become increasingly popular.

DIY felt Christmas toys look bright and festive even without additional decor. If desired, you can give them additional flavor by decorating them with buttons, sequins, ribbons, or, for example, embroidery.

The advantage of a homemade garland is that it can be made taking into account the size and color scheme of the room that needs to be decorated. To make a garland you don't need sewing machine– felt parts are sewn by hand.

Thanks to the pliability and softness of the material, making toys takes very little time - about half an hour for each. If there is a need to make the toy voluminous, it is stuffed with cotton wool or holofiber.

Important! For stuffing, you can use either cotton wool or holofiber, but you need to take into account that when washed, the cotton wool inside the toy gets knocked down and the product loses its shape. If you are going to use toys in the future, it is advisable to use holofiber for stuffing - it tolerates moisture well and the product does not lose its shape.

From fabric

To make a New Year's toy from fabric with your own hands, it is not at all necessary to have sewing skills. For example, such a ball can be made using scraps of fabric. An ordinary Christmas ball or a foam blank is used as a base.

The fabric can be tightly wrapped around the base or glued. To work with fabric, you can use any glue available, but:

Important! When drying, PVA can leave a yellowish mark on light-colored fabric. The craft glue will hold the fabric to the backing, but since it is not designed to work with textiles, the product may not last long. Hot melt adhesive - a good option for working with fabric, but it must be applied in as thin a layer as possible.

DIY New Year's toy Cockerel

The coming year 2017 Fire Rooster, so toys in the shape of birds will be especially relevant. A DIY rooster Christmas tree toy is easy to make - just draw or copy your favorite sketch from the Internet.

Most easy way– make a rooster out of felt or paper. To do this you will need a piece of felt, a pattern, threads, and scissors. The toy can be flat or voluminous. From thick felt you can make parts for a garland, or toys - pendants.

You can use beads for decoration, and suede or waxed cord or twine to make a pendant.

There are many manufacturing options, and the approach of the New Year is the best way to inspire creativity. It is advisable to start preparing for this holiday in good mood– toys made with a positive attitude emit special warmth.

In fact, making a Christmas tree decoration is as easy as shelling pears. It is enough to attach a ribbon to a pine cone, a small toy, or a bright pom-pom made of woolen threads and hang it from the tree. If desired, the Christmas tree can be decorated with anything. In Europe it is becoming very popular to decorate the Christmas tree and the house in one color scheme. To do this, not only toys are purchased to match, but also candles, garlands, and dishes. Try it too...

1.Toys made from old light bulbs

Great idea for reusing burnt out lamps! To do this you will need: paints, brushes and varnish to fix the effect. You can also use glitter, ribbons, straws, buttons, paper scraps, etc. Those who are not comfortable with drawing can use the decoupage technique - gluing a napkin with a pattern onto a well-painted surface. You can do this handicraft together with your kids.

2.We use old newspapers and paper

Good old papier-mâché has never been canceled! You can also cover regular Christmas tree balls with pieces of newspaper. Bright cardboard Christmas trees, voluminous paper hearts, “lanterns”, “snakes”, snowflakes and garlands also look good on the Christmas tree.

3.Bead openwork

Experienced needlewomen can make the toy itself out of beads, but I advise beginners to simply try embroidering a fabric product with beads, rhinestones and beads.

4.Matchboxes

You can make a whole composition inside the box - place small angel figures, a Christmas tree, and gifts in it. Or you can simply glue a picture or lay out a bouquet of Christmas tree branches, poiscentia leaves, berries and cones.

5.Fabric crafts

The good thing about the fabric is that you can use it to sew a toy of virtually any shape. Bright striped or checkered Christmas trees, snowmen or bullfinches with polka dots, large lace hearts and vintage bells look very stylish. In most cases, you won't even need patterns. You can stuff toys with holofiber or padding polyester.

You can also try simply wrapping the Christmas balls with a piece of bright fabric, securing the entire composition with ribbons and all sorts of decor.

6.Felt toys

Felt is an even more interesting material than fabric, since it does not fray and does not need to be processed along the edges, has a huge range of colors and different densities, is perfectly glued and sewn, which allows you to make toys with small details.

Try to make such a funny Santa Claus...

7.Cross stitch

Those who love to embroider and who have accumulated a lot of small finished projects lying around idle can make full-fledged Christmas tree decorations. It is enough to cut out the embroidery (stepping back three centimeters along the outline) and glue it to the cardboard. Fold the excess edges and glue them to the back. To disguise all the unevenness, you can glue a piece of felt, cardboard or paper to the inside. Plus the ribbon and Christmas tree toy are ready!

8. Pebbles - drops

Such transparent stones are sold in decorative stores, often in flower stalls or lying next to vases in supermarkets. Take a bag of such “droplets”, superglue and begin to form the product in the form of a Christmas tree, a snowflake, a circle, a crescent. Glue the stones at the joints and remove excess glue in time.

9. Fun decor of simple balls

You can also not fool around with the material, but use bored monochromatic balls. Pour glue into a regular syringe and apply a design to the balls. Sprinkle everything on top with glitter or semolina. You get an exquisite and subtle “snowy” pattern.

You can also try to paint the balls by hand. Funny faces, snowdrifts, snowflakes, spruce trees, bare trees and bullfinches - everyone can do this!

10. Straws or threads

Remember craft lessons when we were taught to make lampshades for lamps using woolen threads and balloons? Why not do the same thing, but smaller and hang it on the tree? To do this: inflate balloon(very lightly, the size of a large Christmas tree ball), grease it with glue and wrap it in a chaotic manner with threads or straws. Once the glue is dry, puncture the ball and pull it through the mesh. Attach the ribbon and ribbons and you can hang it on the Christmas tree! Tip: to prevent the balloon from sticking, you can wrap it in cling film before starting work.

Another way to use threads or straws is to wrap them around wire frames in the shape of stars, hearts, or deer faces.

11. Old disks

Used waste disks can be used in different ways. They can be painted, decorated with modeling, decoupaged, broken into crumbs and made into mosaics. Glue your family photo and decorate it around the edges - you will get not only a Christmas tree decoration, but also a memorable photo frame.