The holiday is served by a bell. In the form of such an object, they make toys for the Christmas tree, decorate a spruce wreath, which is hung on the door, and bells decorating a lamp also look beautiful. How to make a paper bell with your own hands? This question worries many masters. In fact, there are quite a lot of options.

As a Christmas tree decoration, you can cut out the shape of a bell from cardboard, cover it with colored paper, sprinkle the smeared outline with chopped golden rain and hang it on a branch by a string. This is the easiest option a preschooler can do.

If the child is already 4-5 years old, then you can offer him the option volumetric crafts. Before you make a paper bell with your own hands, you need to draw a template. Then trace several outlines on colored paper. You can use paper of the same color, or you can make different ones. Then each bell cut out according to the template must be bent in half and glued the halves together. You will get a voluminous Christmas tree toy. All that remains is to pierce a hole at the top and tie a string.

Crafts from disposable paper cups

Next, we will also talk about how to make a bell out of paper with your own hands. You can take different ideas. It's easy to make toys from white paper cups. To do this, you first need to punch a hole in the bottom using an awl and thread a string. Next, the cups are painted with gouache paints in different colors.

You can immediately pick up solid colored ones in the store, then the finished toys will be even brighter. After the paint has dried, you can cover the surface with PVA glue and sprinkle with finely chopped rain, paste it with cotton balls, and make an applique. You can decorate it in different ways, it’s up to your imagination. Then the bells are hung on a branch on a bright ribbon. You can tie several toys in a bunch at once and tie a large satin bow on top.

Quilling

If you are interested in the DIY paper bell technique, you will understand it after viewing the photo below. You will need:

• stripes in two colors - yellow and brown;
• quilling hook;
• sample;
• PVA glue.

Start making the picture with a brown twisted circle (the tongue of the bell). Glue it to the bottom of a sheet of cardboard. Next, you need to twist identical loose circles according to the template and, gluing the edge of the strip to the last turn, press it with two fingers, creating the shape of a leaf.

You need to make a lot of such details. Then we begin to create the shape of an object from individual elements. It is better, before making a paper bell with your own hands, to draw its outline with a simple pencil. You can arrange the “leaves” in different ways, but the main thing is that they touch each other without leaving voids on the cardboard.

The last stage of the work is to make a stick for holding the bell. It is made from brown stripes. To create it, just twist two “leaves” of the same size, placing them vertically.

Crafts from disposable plates

It's very easy to make New Year's bells from paper plates. It is desirable that their edges be curly, then the finished toy will look more impressive. Each plate needs to be rolled into a cone and smoothed out the edges with a ruler. For beauty, you can put a round metal bell tied to a beautiful string in the middle. Then the bells hung on the door or on the Christmas tree will be able to make beautiful melodic sounds.

The plates can be painted in any color, but gold, yellow or silver is preferable. If you cover the product with glitter, then in the light of the garland the bells will shimmer beautifully.

To prevent the ends of the plate from moving apart, before making a paper bell with your own hands (see photo above), you can fasten the edges with a stapler, since the glue may not hold tight edges. If you have a glue gun, then you can use it.

Ribbed bells

To make such ribbed bells from cardboard, you will have to draw a template and cut out 5-6 individual elements from it, which will then need to be glued together.

Here's what the pattern is:

• Draw an isosceles triangle.
• From the corners of the base, we lower two parallel lines of any length, depending on the size of the bell, and connect them together. It turns out to be a rectangle.
• All that remains is to draw a trapezoid from below. This will be the lower extension of the bell.

In order for the parts to be glued together, you need to leave an additional 0.5 cm of paper on each side, onto which glue will be applied. Then all the wedges are put together. After complete drying, all that remains is to beautifully paint the product and hang it on the Christmas tree.

Papier mache

Master class on how to make a paper bell with your own hands using the papier-mâché technique, read on. You can take a real metal bell for pasting. Or you can choose a similar shaped cup or glass. You will need:

• paste;
• vegetable oil;
• old newspapers or scribbled unnecessary notebooks;
• water;
• colored or white napkins.

Let us remind you how to make papier-mâché:

1. The mold is greased vegetable oil so that the product comes off well after drying. They do this with cotton wool.
2. Then the first layer of torn paper is applied without paste, and the pieces of paper are simply dipped in a bowl of water.
3. The next layers need to be dipped in paste and applied in layers. There must be at least 4 layers.
4. Then place the mold in a warm place to dry.
5. When the bell is completely dry, it can be painted or covered with a compressed napkin, as in the photo.
6. Then a small hole is punched in the upper part and a bow or rope is tied.

Bouquet of bluebells

Now you know how to make a paper bell with your own hands. It’s also easy to make a flower of the same shape. It is enough to cut out a rectangle from tissue paper and cut one edge into semicircles.

Then you just need to fold the paper. The bottom of the cylinder is glued to a wire wrapped in green paper. Having made 3-5 flowers, you can put a bouquet of bells in a vase.

As you can see, creating masterpieces is not difficult. So get your kids involved manual labor. This develops the child well and brings him closer to his parents.

We present to your attention a master class on creating a ritual doll, the Bell. This doll came to us from Valdai; according to legend, it carries the powers of a talisman against diseases and other evil spirits. Cheerful and playful, the Bell doll is considered a doll of good news and good mood.

Our ancestors have long attributed healing and protective properties to the ringing of a bell. In difficult times, be it the invasion of plague or enemy force, bells were always rung so that troubles would pass by. And on holidays, bells were added to the harness, and then their chimes were heard throughout Valdai.

The doll was considered a good gift for weddings and christenings. After all, having given such a doll to a loved one, you wish him family well-being, happiness and health. We will tell you how to make a bell.

Making a bell charm

To make a bell with your own hands, we will need the following materials and tools:

• three scraps of fabric for skirts;
• a piece of fabric for a shirt;
• a piece of fabric for a scarf;
• wide braid on the warrior;
• ribbon on the belt;
• a ball of synthetic fluff;
• threads for dressing;
• scissors;
• ruler;
• compass.

Operating procedure

1. The bell doll traditionally has three skirts, symbolizing the three components of a person: body, mind and soul. It was believed that only then a person is happy when his mind is in harmony with his body and soul. We take a flap for the petticoat and draw a circle with a diameter of 30 cm. The most convenient way to do this is with a compass.
2. Each subsequent skirt will be 5 cm smaller than the previous one. Cut out the circles. We should get three circles: 30.25 and 20 cm in diameter. Next, we take synthetic fluff and roll it into a small ball, to which we tie a bell.
3. We place it on the largest circle, on the wrong side. Turn it over and make sure that the ball is strictly in the center of the workpiece. Then we tie it with red thread.
4. There is a red thread in master classes on creating amulets dolls for a reason. It's all about the protective properties of red color against the evil eye and other troubles. And it is the red woolen thread that has long been the very first amulet for a baby.
5. A doll is already beginning to emerge. In the same way, we put two more skirts on her, tying each with red thread. On top we will put a shirt on our amulet doll.
6. For the shirt, we will need a square piece of fabric measuring 20 by 20 cm. We place the opposite corners of the square on top of each other and put it on top of the doll. We bandage the head ball in the place where previous bandages have already been made.
7. We need to make arms from the ends of the shirt protruding from the sides. First, we bend the edges of the material inward, then fold it in half and tie it, departing 1 cm from the edge. We make the sleeve on the other side in the same way.
8. All that remains is to make a warrior and a scarf. The warrior of a talisman doll should traditionally have embroidery. You can take thick fabric and embroider it or use ready-made embroidered braid.
9. We put the warrior on the doll's head. For the scarf, we cut out a triangle from thin cotton with 30 cm sides. We bend the edge of the scarf inward and put it on top of the warrior.
10. We tie the scarf crosswise across the doll's chest and tie it at the back. All that remains is to put on the belt and decorate with ribbons. The bell amulet doll is ready to protect you and your family.

And finally, I would like to give some advice. You need to start making amulets in good mood, tuning in to positive thoughts. Only then will the doll become a real amulet for you. Good luck and creative success.

New Year is the most joyful and magical holiday. Preparing for it takes a lot pleasant troubles. To create a fabulous atmosphere in your home and give yourself festive mood, you can start making New Year's crafts. Making them with your own hands is simple and interesting. Involve your children in this entertaining hobby so that they don’t get bored and also prepare for the main winter celebration. Try making your own New Year's bells together

Beautiful symbol of the New Year

The custom of decorating a home with bells came to us from Europe. There was a superstition that their ringing could scare away evil spirits. To prevent dark forces from interfering with New Year's celebrations, bells were hung on the Christmas tree along with other toys. This tradition has taken root well all over the world. And today even people who are far from superstitious decorate their houses with bells for the New Year and Christmas. Because it's very Beautiful holiday souvenir.

In those distant times, people made huge bells from bronze. They were used not only as amulets, but also as a signaling tool. The bell notified the population about various events or called for a meeting. Nowadays such a signal is used in educational institutions. Every September 1st the first bell rings, and before summer holidays we hear the last school bell. So we can safely consider the bell as symbol the beginning of another year.

What can you make a bell from?

New Year's crafts can be made from various available materials. For example, from paper or cardboard, from a plastic bottle or disposable cup, from fabric or rope. The bell shape can be knitted, woven from beads or using the papier-mâché method. Excellent crafts are made from spruce and pine cones, ts twig pots, foam, egg trays and shells.

In a word, a souvenir can be made from any assistants materials similar in shape to a bell. Therefore, look for items in your home that have not yet found use. Thanks to simple master classes they will turn into bright original Christmas tree decorations.

First, let's figure out what any bell should consist of:

• dome;
• tongue;
• suspension.

Since we have a New Year's souvenir, we will need all kinds of thematic decorations. For additional decor you need to take: pine branches, tinsel, sparkles, rhinestones, beads, sequins, lace, ribbons and bows. You can use a special figured hole punch with the shape of a snowflake or star.

Bells made of paper and cardboard

The most simple crafts made from paper or cardboard. You can take white landscape sheets and then colorize souvenir. It is more convenient to use colored paper and cardboard. The following tools are useful for working with them:

• pencil;
• compass;
• scissors;
• PVA glue;
• needle and thick thread.

Yellow paper bell

Let's make a three-dimensional Christmas tree toy out of paper step by step. For this you need colored paper(yellow, green, red), wool thread and large beads.

Instructions:

1. Using a compass, draw a circle with a diameter of about 8 cm on yellow paper and cut it out.
2. Draw 2-3 small leaves on green paper. We cut them along the contour.
3. We make small circles from red paper. These will be rowan berries.
4. We take a piece of thread about 15 cm. We string 2-3 beads on it on both sides, and then tie knots at the ends. This will create the tongue of the bell.
5. We place the thread on the yellow circle so that the loop looks out from above. Lightly fold the paper and glue the base. Glue leaves and berries on top.

Now the cute bell is ready. They can decorate a Christmas tree or hang on the wall.

Christmas bell made of cardboard

A cardboard craft will become original decoration each Christmas tree. Prepare a cardboard sheet, scissors, needle, yarn and decorations.

A step-by-step diagram will tell you how to make a bell from cardboard:

1. Prepare the cone shape. To do this, cut a circle out of cardboard and cut it in half. Fold the semicircle and glue the cut sides together. Wait for the glue to dry.
2. Lubricate the finished cone with a layer of glue and wrap its entire surface with thread. Choose the color of the yarn at your design discretion.
3. Let's take two large beads. We will hang one on a thread and leave it as a tongue. Now you need to thread the thread through the top of the cone and string the second bead, and then make a knot and loop. This way the structure will be securely fastened.
4. Add decor to the Christmas tree decoration: sequins, lace or other decorations.

New Year's crafts from plastic cups and bottles

Plastic cups are an excellent inexpensive consumable for all kinds of crafts. You can also use unnecessary plastic soda or milk bottles. Small glasses make wonderful Christmas tree bells. The bottle shape is larger, so it is better to make from it decorative decoration for the interior or a toy for a very large Christmas tree.

Holiday bell from a bottle

What materials are needed:

• plastic bottle;
• festive paper napkin;
• tinsel;
• bow.

Let's start the master class:

1. Cut off the top of the bottle.
2. Apply glue to the outside and wrap with a napkin. Tie the top of the neck with thread. Fold the bottom edges inward.
3. Glue a bow to the dome. We attach tinsel along the bottom edge using a stapler.

A bright New Year's bell is ready to decorate your home. It can also be made functional. Take a small real bell and use universal glue to attach it inside the craft. Now the New Year's souvenir will be able to make a beautiful ringing sound.

The cut half of a plastic bottle is decorated in different ways. You can leave it transparent and cover it with miniature stickers, wrap the bottom and lid with tinsel. If you make a hole in the lid with an awl, you will be able to hang the bead on a ribbon and also make a loop.

The surface of the bottle can be coated with paint, and then lacy lace can be glued on. We decorate the lid with sequins and add a pendant made of a thin ribbon.

Gold and silver bells from glasses

Try making Christmas decorations from cups.

Collect the following set of items:

• two disposable glasses;
• artificial spruce branch;
• spray can with golden paint;
• glue;
• wide ribbon;
• white lace;
• beads.

Let's start doing the craft:

1. We paint the glasses with paint. Apply some gold spray to the branches.
2. The cups will dry for now. Therefore, you can cut beautiful elements from lace. For example, flowers. Glue beads into their centers. After the paint has dried, glue the flowers onto the dome.
3. The edges of the cups can be wrapped with fleecy yarn.
4. We make a lush bow from a ribbon, tying it in the middle with a thread.
5. We fasten the bells, bow and spruce branch together.

Instead of ordinary plastic cups, you can use yogurt containers. Now let's make a silver bell to decorate the Christmas tree. You will need: a glass, foil, tinsel, lace, scissors, an awl and a hook.

1. At the end of the lace we tie a piece of colored tinsel to make the tongue of the craft.
2. Wrap the glass tightly with foil.
3. Use an awl to make a hole in the bottom of the glass. Let's pull the lace through it; a hook will be useful for this. Let's make a loop and a knot.
4. Wrap fluffy silver tinsel around the loop.

Not only Christmas decorations are made from cups. From this simple material you can even make a whole Christmas tree. You can make a Christmas tree out of cups if you fasten them together with a stapler. To do this you will need many identical green glasses. The finished design is decorated with beads, seed beads and rhinestones.

Souvenirs made from eggshells and trays

To prevent egg shells and trays from going to waste, make them colorful New Year's toys. Shortly before the New Year, start collecting the necessary materials at hand. Try to break raw eggs not in the middle, but from the edge. We should have complete molds for the bells.

For crafts, take eggshells, gauze (bandage), thick thread, PVA, paint and brush. For decoration, you can add semolina, beads or putty.

There are two ways to make a Christmas tree toy from a shell.

Manufacturing method No. 1:

1. Cut the gauze fabric into pieces. We glue them on the outside of the shell. This procedure is needed to strengthen the fragile material.
2. After the glue has dried, cut out sharp petals on the shell. Cover the surface with white paint.
3. Use an awl to poke a hole for the lace.
4. We glue a mosaic of husks onto the shell and paint it.

Manufacturing method No. 2:

1. We glue the shell with gauze and inside. To quickly dry the glue, you can place the workpiece on the battery.
2. Paint the outside with white.
3. Use scissors to cut the shell evenly.
4. Let's do the decor. Apply putty to the shell to create relief patterns, then paint the dried surface. You can smear the craft with glue and sprinkle it with beads or semolina. Use your imagination to create a bright design for the toy.
5. Make a hole at the top and insert a loop.

For a MK with a cardboard tray for eggs, you need to take colored paper, glue, scissors, and string.

1. Cut out cells from a cardboard tray.
2. We cover the cells with paper of different colors.
3. We pierce the top to attach the lace. You can also hang a large bead on it.

If you start collecting colorful candy wrappers from foil in advance, you can replace colored paper with them. You will get very beautiful shiny bells.

Bells made from other unusual materials

Make your Christmas tree truly festive and different from others. The green beauty, dressed up with her own crafts, will look cool and original. Let's try to make a few more New Year's toys from different materials.

From flower pots

Let's take clean ones flower pots and let's start decorating them:

1. At the bottom we immediately drill a hole for hanging the future toy.
2. Now we decorate the surface. You can simply wrap it in foil and glue on tinsel.
3. Another decorative option is using pine cones. Using pliers, carefully separate the “leaves” of the pine cone. Then we cover the pot with them. It is better to use a hot glue gun. Additionally, we will decorate the craft with artificial spruce, beads and sparkles.

From twine

A DIY bell craft can be successfully made from linen thread. We take the twine, plastic bottle, bag, PVA, tape, glue gun, scissors and decor (beads, ribbons).

1. The bottle will act as a mold. Therefore, you need to wrap the transition from the cap to the bottle with tape. This way we will level it so that we can easily remove the craft from the mold.
2. We put the bag on the bottle and secure it by tying it at the bottom.
3. Lubricate the surface of the bag with glue and wind a linen thread onto the bottle. This way we reach the middle of the bottle. Waiting for it to dry.
4. Remove the blank from the bottle and remove the bag.
5. We decorate as you wish.

From papier-mâché

We prepare a mold - a real bell, glass or other similar object. We will also collect the following consumables on the table: paper, paste or PVA, cling film.

Papier-mâché bell master class:

1. Wrap the glass in cling film. This is necessary so that the future craft can be easily detached from the mold.
2. We tear the paper into pieces, soak them in glue and place them on the glass.
3. We wait for the workpiece to dry and decorate it as your imagination dictates.

To knit bells and make them from beads, you will need special patterns.

Choose any method to create a New Year's craft. Decorate your Christmas tree and interior with bells and use them as gifts for family and friends.

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15. Bell or Christmas tree- whoever likes it more.

If the bottom of the base is solid, we cover it with a round piece of dense material, for example, craft felt, with a pendant exactly in the middle. If the base is hollow, we paste over the inner area of ​​the cone.

Next, we decorate the toys at our discretion with anything from beads and sequins to beads and miniature pom-poms. Don't forget to attach a loop on top for hanging on the tree. If the base is made of foam plastic, the loop can, in principle, be secured with a pin.

16. Scenes and individual elements in transparent balls.

Expanding transparent plastic shapes - including balls, apples, hearts, etc., etc. - provide vast scope for imagination and handicraft on the theme of Christmas tree decorations. Such balls are sold in sets for pennies through foreign stores (AliExpress, eBay and others), here also (in RuNet), but as much as a set costs there, 1 ball costs us. Although, as girls from other cities write, similar Russian-made items have already appeared at a much lower price - also in sets. Moreover, there are two types of balls: those that open from the top (removable “crown”) and those that open into 2 halves. Choose depending on the future content.

In balls, you can recreate entire scenes, glue together landscapes from three-dimensional parts, fill the balls with paint, glitter, colored balls and anything else of appropriate weight and size that you could never hang on the Christmas tree in its original form. To help, hot glue (and any other suitable materials) glue, paint, glitter, small toys from children's sets with animals and houses, bridges and lanterns, artificial fir branches, and also, as usual, craft felt, tinsel and bright ribbons, colored paper and cardboard, polystyrene foam and foam rubber (from the latter you can cut various shapes and then cover them with cloth), etc., etc.

Paint mixed with glitter, or just liquid glitter, is poured inside and rolled around inside the ball until all the walls of the Christmas tree decoration are evenly painted.

You can use decoupage on such balls (as well as on unnecessary ordinary plastic ones), a drawing with 3D paint, you can draw a simple pattern on top, stuff bright ribbons inside, you can paste them with pieces of disks (to make it easier to cut the disks, heat them a little in the oven) - in fact, the ideas here are seemingly countless.

In transparent plastic balls put and hang volumetric snowflakes, fabric flowers, sprinkles, Lego pieces and bright pom-poms, Styrofoam filling, candy and, in short, anything else!

17. The next idea is Christmas decorations made from cardboard circles “dressed” in fabric.

How to make such elements (called “yo-yo”) - we read on the basis of coasters. The elements are ready - glue the circles together slightly overlapping with hot glue. Then we add details from ornamental felt and other items to the figures. simple materials.

18. Hard wire toys.

Bend simple shapes from fairly stiff wire (snowmen, stars, gifts, bows, etc.), then simply wrap them with short-pile Christmas tinsel! Or apply glue and drop into a bag of glitter.

19.Christmas trees on a cinnamon stick.

Indescribable charm, which also spreads a festive feeling throughout the house. Take 1, across it, starting from the very top, fix a small artificial spruce branch with hot glue, below another one - larger and with a small indentation, and again below another one - even longer and with the same indentation. We decorate the Christmas tree with beads, sequins, small bows, bright buttons and other things as desired.

To be continued. The upcoming articles in the series will be devoted to Christmas tree toys from felt and decoration plastic balls.

Sources including:
www.craftpassion.com
www.theornamentgirl.com

Toys in the form of bells - classics New Year's decorations. Bright, cute, spectacular - it seems that now they will emit a melodious ringing, announcing the onset of the holiday.

Of course, Christmas tree decorations are not required to ring - after all, these are only symbols, they have other tasks. These cute New Year's toys using the decoupage technique will be of interest to those who know this technique or are just planning to master it.

What will we make New Year's bells from?

• The cups are disposable.
• Three-layer napkins for decoupage with a New Year's motif. If you don’t have such a napkin, you can cut out a fragment from New Year pictures(for example, magazine). It is only advisable that the paper be thin, not thick, glossy, otherwise you will have a hard time gluing it.
• Glue - suitable for decoupage, but PVA is also perfect.
• Wire for a loop to hang bells on the branches of a Christmas tree.
• Bead balls will act as bell tongues.
• Colored ribbons.
• Acrylic varnish.

How to make a bell for a Christmas tree - master class

Take a new one disposable cup made of plastic. Cheaper than the base for such a spectacular Christmas tree decoration and not to be found. It is advisable to use a cup made of denser plastic so that the toy does not wrinkle during storage, even if up to next holiday put it in a box with other decorations. But if the plastic of the cup is thin, it’s okay - sticking it on it will strengthen the surface. Just be careful when storing it. made of thin glass are also vulnerable, and some are stored for decades.

Instead of a disposable plastic cup, you can take thin, easily bendable cardboard and make a cylinder out of it.

We immediately make the tongue of the bell and a loop for hanging the bell. To do this, you need to pierce the bottom of the cylindrical cup and pass a ribbon with a bead (or other small ball) attached to the end through the hole. Fastening is simple - we tie a knot that will prevent the ribbon from slipping through the hole. We also secure the wire for the loop, but you can get by with another piece of ribbon.

Cut out the fragment that you want to see on the bell from a three-layer napkin with a New Year's motif.

Separate the layers of the napkin - you will only need the top, colored layer.

Degrease the surface of the plastic cup - simply wipe with alcohol or an alcohol-containing liquid.

Apply glue to the surface with a soft brush.

Distribute a piece of napkin over the surface, stretch it a little to remove paper wrinkles.

It will not be possible to carefully stick one piece of napkin onto a circle; it is better to cut the drawing into several fragments.

Applying a piece of napkin, carefully remove all bubbles from under it with a soft cloth. If the fragment is small, there will be few or no bubbles. But we still smooth out the glued element so that it sticks well. He does this until the entire surface of the cup is decorated.