Snowmen made from socks
What do you need
- children's white socks;
- foam balls of various sizes;
- scissors;
- white thread;
- wide red ribbon;
- thin red ribbon
- a piece of colored felt;
- pins;
- black buttons.
How to do
Place two foam balls in a baby's sock so that the big one is at the bottom and the smaller one is on top. Drag the sock between the two balls with white thread.
Tie a wide red ribbon on top and cut its edges.
Tie a thread over the top segment of the snowman. Turn the remaining part of the sock inside out. Cut a rectangular piece of felt and wrap it around the snowman's head to create a hat. Secure it with pins and fold the brim.
Now tie a thin red ribbon around the top of the snowman's hat. Make a loop from the long ends of the ribbon.
Pin two black buttons to the bottom ball of the snowman. Use small pins with different colored heads to make the snowman's nose and eyes.
Salt dough toys
What do you need
- 1 cup flour;
- ¹⁄₂ glass of water;
- ¹⁄₂ glass of salt;
- baking paper;
- cookie cutters or paper templates and blade;
- cocktail straw;
- stamps or toothpick;
- baking tray;
- acrylic paints or gouache;
- thin brush;
- rope or thread.
How to do
Mix flour with water and salt and knead the dough. Divide it into several pieces and roll each one out on baking paper. Using cutters or templates and a blade, cut out the desired shapes.
Use a straw to make holes in the corners of the toys. You can stamp the pattern with stamps or a toothpick.
Place the pieces on a baking sheet and place in the oven. Bake for 10 minutes at 130°C.
Color the finished decorations to your taste. Red and white colors go best with green pine needles.
When the paint is dry, you can make loops.
Sweet decorations
The following options are clearly for those with a sweet tooth.
Caramels
The appearance of Christmas tree decorations can be deceiving, because they may well turn out to be sweet candies. It's very simple: first, mix 300 g of sugar and 100 ml of water, put on fire, stir until the sugar melts and the syrup begins to boil, acquiring a golden hue. The finished syrup is poured into molds, pre-greased with vegetable oil, and left to cool completely until the caramel hardens. Then we carefully wrap the candy in crispy plastic, tie it with a ribbon and you can safely hang it on the Christmas tree. It's even easier to melt caramel in molds.
Christmas tree made of candies
The New Year cannot be complete without a Christmas tree; a candy tree is not only a decoration, but also a delicious gift with which you can please your friends or family. But even a small child can handle the manufacturing technology:
- Make a cone out of cardboard, glue it or secure it with a stapler.
- Using the same stapler or glue, attach the candies.
- Lightly wrap the Christmas tree with tinsel.
- Ready.
A lot of toys can be made from scrap materials, the most important thing is imagination and the desire to make something unusual.
Dragon eggs from Game of Thrones
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What do you need
- sheet of cardboard;
- a set of pushpins (at least 200 pieces);
- multi-colored nail polish;
- foam blanks in the form of eggs;
- Super glue;
- earrings from unnecessary earrings or paper clips;
- ribbon or thread for a loop.
How to do
Place cardboard on the table, stick pushpins into it in rows and cover them with nail polish. Leave to dry overnight.
In the morning you can decorate the eggs using foam. Carefully insert the buttons into the workpiece. It is important that one row slightly covers the other.
Use superglue to glue a wire or paperclip to the top of the toy. Attach a decorative ribbon or thread to it.
Crafts with the symbol of the year rat for New Year 2020
Friends, now let’s move on to the most important part of our article. Probably all of you are eager to receive a selection of crafts that will feature pigs made from improvised materials. In other words, from what is always at hand. So, I want to immediately remind you that I have a cool article on knitted rats on my blog, if you need diagrams and descriptions, then contact me.
Another article will be published soon, in which you will find a bunch of new and cool ideas on how to make the main symbol of this year. By the way, is this a boar or a pig?
Well, for now, allow me to introduce such a character made of wool pompoms.
Probably the simplest option is a paper craft in the shape of a face.
Or create an applique with your children.
You can also make a postcard or greeting sheet.
A souvenir made from pine cones also looks wonderful, what cute little pine cones the author came up with. Bravo!
You can create a rat like this from polymer clay or modeling dough.
And if you want to find an easier job, look at this photo of a plasticine mouse:
Let's look further, and here is a work made from a plastic bottle. Impressive? Even a smile appears on your face from what you see.
Well, now friends, I want you to watch a couple of videos, maybe you can take something new and interesting from there as a basis. I tried to find a variety of stories for you.
Look what a magnificent mouse with flowers.
And this is a craft for our youngest children made from chenille wire; you can create a puppet theater:
For those who are interested in soft fabric toys. Here are a couple of ideas for you.
Take felt, it turns out great work, look at the mouse). Moreover, it comes with a cutting diagram.
In general, choose the one you like.
Do not forget that for volume, a felt toy must be filled with padding polyester or cotton wool.
Button Christmas trees
What do you need
- multi-colored buttons;
- wire;
- wire cutters;
- thread.
How to do
Sort the buttons by color. Line up each set according to size. Bend the wire in half. Step back from the bend and cross one end of the wire over the other to form a loop. You can finally attach a thread to it to hang the toy.
Thread on the smallest button. Add increasingly larger buttons one at a time. Important: push the wire through two button holes each time. For buttons with four holes, work the holes diagonally. Then add several dark buttons of the same small size: this will be the tree trunk.
Twist the wire again and cut off the rest. Tie a thread to the loop.
New Year's piggy bank of ideas - 2020
We invite you to take part in the script competition! Prizes for every participant! Read more.
Dear friends, we are starting the long-awaited New Year's crafts competition - 2020!
See the entire collection of master classes for the New Year here. You can also download and print out a desk calendar for the Year of the Pig:
Download calendar for 2020
And first, let's come up with a name :). Write your options in the comments to this article. We will transfer a prize of 300 rubles to the author of the best title. to a mobile phone.
Many thanks to our dear readers for such a huge number of options for the name of the competition! This is unexpected and very pleasant! Having overcome the agony of choice, we settled on the name “New Year's Moneybox of Ideas” . We will transfer the prize to Katerina. And immediately a small continuation: whoever is the first to find crafts from the competition poster and write links to them in the comments under the article will receive 100 rubles. to your phone :).
Send us your descriptions of making New Year's crafts using any handicraft techniques! These can be either complex products that require experience and skills, or very simple but effective crafts. Even ordinary paper snowflakes can be stunningly beautiful! Just don’t copy those that we already have on our website :). This year we have slightly changed the procedure for issuing prizes. I wanted to encourage the author of the best master class and give the main prize just before the New Year, but many asked for more time to prepare. We accept work from any materials, the main thing is hand-made (handmade).
Conditions of the competition "New Year's Moneybox of Ideas"
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3. A master class means step-by-step instructions for making a product: at least 5 photographs of the manufacturing stages and the final photo of the work, a text description of the process of at least 1500 characters.
4. Work requirements:
- Finished works must be aesthetic, attractive and original.
- Photos must be original, unique (not previously published on the Internet), of sufficient brightness, contrast, sharpness, and at least 2000 pixels wide. Blurry, dark or too light photos will not be accepted
- The text describing the manufacturing process must be literate and unique (not previously published on the Internet).
5. All submitted works are pre-selected according to the following criteria: aesthetics and attractiveness of the work, quality of photographs and text. Those who have passed the first stage of work are published on the website. The site administration reserves the right not to accept unsuitable works for the competition without explanation. The site administration reserves the right to minor editing of text and photographs in order to improve them.
7. In the “Photo” nomination, works will be divided into groups: 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, participants. The authors of works that took 1st, 2nd and 3rd places will receive free diplomas of the winners of the competition in electronic form .
Cones with bows
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What do you need
- cones;
- Super glue;
- a coil of thin rope;
- colored tape.
How to do
Glue a rope loop to the base of each cone. Tie the required number of bows. Secure them to the pine cones with glue.
Gift boxes
What do you need
- ruler;
- pencil;
- sheet of cardboard;
- scissors;
- glue gun or superglue;
- thread or thin rope;
- wrapping;
- thin decorative tape.
How to do
Using a ruler and pencil, draw a grid of identical squares on a piece of cardboard. The length of the sides can be any, it all depends on the desired size of the future Christmas tree decoration.
Cut out cardboard squares. Glue them into cubes. Before gluing the last segment, secure a loop inside the cube. Let it dry and then attach the box lid.
Wrap the workpiece in paper and tie a ribbon on top.
Who wants some ice cream?
Do you like ice cream? Why not decorate the Christmas tree with your favorite delicacy for the New Year, especially since you don’t need a lot of materials for this. It is enough to find thick paper to imitate waffle cones and colored napkins or small pieces of compressed paper, a needle, and thin fishing line. Having formed a cone from thick paper, we make ice cream balls from colored paper, the number of which depends on your desire. Then we form a loop from the fishing line, by which our sweets will be hung on the tree, and we thread it through our balls, as was done in the photo.
Rope balls
What do you need
- Balloons;
- Bowl;
- PVA glue;
- a skein of jute rope;
- glue gun or superglue;
- spray paint optional.
How to do
Blow up a small balloon. Pour PVA into a bowl and soak the rope in it. Tie the end of the rope around the tail of the ball and randomly wrap the future toy. As an option: you can first wrap the ball and then dip it in a container of glue.
Let the toy dry. Then puncture the balloon and pull it out of the frozen frame of the toy. Don't forget the loop to hang your decoration.
Make several toys of different sizes using this principle. Such rope balls look impressive on a Christmas tree or under the ceiling. Especially if you paint them.
Funny ninjas
Small ninja toys with cute moving eyes will save your home’s beautiful Christmas tree from being too formal. After all, looking at such New Year's decorations, you involuntarily want to smile.
To work, you will need very few materials: dark opaque balls (they can even be made of plastic), narrow ribbons of different colors, toy eyes (a pair for each ninja).
- We wrap each ball with two turns of ribbon, securing the improvised fighter’s bandage to a knot at the back. For greater reliability, the tape can be placed on glue.
- Glue the eyes to the ribbon on the front, that’s it – decorations for the New Year can be hung on the Christmas tree.
Colored light bulbs
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What do you need
- Super glue;
- broken light bulbs;
- a skein of thread or ribbon;
- gouache or glitter paints.
How to do
Glue loops of thread or tape to the light bulbs. Dip the bulbs one at a time into different colored paint. Let the toys dry.
