DIY New Year's decor (ideas, photos)
Excellent decorative compositions are easy to make from available materials. It is important to maintain harmony of color combinations.
- With coniferous branches . To create tabletop compositions, pine, spruce or fir branches are used, which can be powdered with white, silver paint from spray cans. Then they are placed in a beautiful vase and decorated with any decor: beads, toys, berries, flowers, cones, braid, ribbons.
- With citruses . First, citrus fruits must be dried whole, in slices or halves in the oven at 30 degrees, with the door slightly open, for five hours. To add gloss, you can coat them with a layer of clear varnish. They complement the citrus splendor with beads, rhinestones, and graceful branches. When creating a composition, they pay attention to its stability, so a ceramic vase is used for the base.
- With Christmas tree toys . Having selected beautiful Christmas tree decorations, they are used as decoration, in harmony with the overall style of the interior. You can place the balls on an elegant tray and place them on your mantel or dressing table. When a candle is lit, the glare of the flame will be reflected many times in the shiny surfaces of the balls, giving a special charm to the surrounding atmosphere.
Bright, juicy, unusual!
Christmas balls look amazing on a white background
Stylish shelves with mugs in the shape of a Christmas tree
Such a stylish candlestick will certainly be the center of attention at the upcoming celebration.
New Year's decorations made from natural material
How to make an original decoration for the New Year without spending a large amount of money. The answer is obvious - use natural materials.
Interesting compositions using natural materials coated with silver paint quickly transform the room, bringing a winter festive mood to it. Place the branches in transparent vases, decorating them with additional mesh ribbons. You can add dry leaves, berries, stylized flowers.
On a note! Improvised Christmas trees made from branches look very beautiful. It will take very little time to create them, and the end result will definitely please you.
Simple but tasteful
You can use such Christmas trees as New Year's decor for more than one year.
Christmas trees under the snow
Tabletop miniature
If you have mastered the skills of modeling, you can create a fabulous landscape on a regular cardboard or plywood base. You can use salt dough. For it you will need to combine a glass of fine salt and wheat flour. Add water and knead into a homogeneous elastic dough. It is convenient to work with it, creating the necessary figures for the composition. After drying, paint the created miracle with gouache.
Cookies in the form of various shapes
New Year's decorations can be not only beautiful, but also delicious.
New Year's crafts from branches
An unusual decoration will be the intricately curved branches that you can collect in the park during a walk. They must be carefully painted, dried and fixed on a block of wood or placed in a tall vase. Adding original bright decorations enhances the overall perception. You can glue miniature cubes from thick white paper and paint them, creating the image of charming houses.
Unusual use of branches and cones as decoration
Chandelier decoration
Light pendants made of stars, which are cut out of shiny foil, strung on a thin cord and attached to a chandelier, enhance the pre-holiday charm of the room. The dynamism is complemented by the different lengths of the garlands, as well as the alternation of golden and silver shades.
A New Year's style chandelier is a beautiful decorative element
A chandelier decorated with pine legs looks very stylish and unusual
New Year's crafts from pine cones
Large cones collected during a walk will help you quickly decorate your room. They need to be placed in a colander and poured with boiling water.
- After cooling, the cones are dried on a napkin.
- Carefully open the scales, glue balls and a star cut out of colored cardboard or painted foam rubber and place them in a small pot.
- If desired, the cones can be painted, giving them silver, gold or any other shade.
Advice! Painted pine cones will serve as an excellent Christmas tree decoration. They are turned into birds, hedgehogs, or even simply given a solid, rich color. Any variation produces original toys.
Multi-colored felt balls can be glued to the open petals of a pine cone, thereby you will get an original decoration for the New Year tree
Cute miniature Christmas trees made from colored paper, pompoms and pine cones.
An easy option for making the main New Year's attribute
You can diversify your Christmas tree decor with the help of figurines of forest animals.
Having collected a sufficient number of cones, you can easily assemble them yourself into a New Year’s wreath, complemented by bright inclusions of leaves, berries, and ribbons. When decorating a table, shelves of pine cones become the central decor when creating compositions with transparent vessels and a candle inside.
The easiest way to make a wreath from spruce branches and pine cones is to connect them with a pre-prepared round frame made of metal wire
Beautiful wreath for the front door
What decorations for the New Year can be made from threads?
Lovers of hand knitting always have plenty of colorful yarn left over. Threads can easily be transformed into interesting decorations for the New Year's interior.
Knitting is a rather labor-intensive process, but crafts and decorations made using threads and knitting needles are rightfully considered one of the most beautiful.
Soft Christmas trees
Openwork balls . Openwork balls filled with air can easily be made yourself from multi-colored threads.
Algorithm of actions:
- Inflate the balloon to the desired size and tie the hole.
- Using a soft wide brush, generously and evenly coat the surface with PVA glue.
- Quickly, without allowing the glue to dry, wrap the ball with yarn, creating an interlacing of the desired degree of delicacy.
- Leave until the workpiece is completely dry.
- The ball is carefully pierced with a needle and its remains are removed.
Advice! You can decorate a Christmas tree, arched openings, stairs, and wall shelves with elegant spheres. Openwork balls of the same color or several harmoniously combined shades make excellent garlands.
Making crafts from glue and thread will require certain skills
Balls made of threads are an excellent budget-friendly New Year gift for friends and family.
Air compositions . Amazing elegant products of various shapes can be created from ordinary threads, guided by creative ideas.
Step-by-step master class:
- PVA glue is poured into a disposable bowl, which is first diluted with water in equal proportions.
- The yarn is placed in loose layers in the adhesive solution, pressing so that the threads are saturated along the entire length.
- Cut out a template of a Christmas tree, star or other shape from paper.
- Place it on a sheet of dense foam.
- Stick toothpicks into the corners, outlining the outline of the future product, after which the template is removed.
- The impregnated thread is laid along the contour, and then the inner space is filled with graceful twists and weaves.
- Leave until completely dry.
On a note! You can use thread openwork crafts to decorate walls, windows, Christmas trees, and make garlands.
This type of decoration can be used not only for decorating a Christmas tree.
Decorative Christmas tree . Children will be happy to join in the creative activity of creating a miniature Christmas tree from threads.
How to do it correctly:
- Fold and glue a thin cardboard cone along the side joint.
- Carefully trim the bottom so that the cone can be placed strictly vertically on a table or shelf.
- The workpiece is wrapped in a spiral with white or green woolen thread soaked in PVA glue.
- Fix the Christmas tree on a circle made of thick cardboard, which is covered with lace, cotton wool, and artificial snow.
- Shells, beads, bright buttons, rhinestones, and sequins are used as decorations.
A simple but very beautiful DIY decorative Christmas tree
Styrofoam can be used as a basis for creative crafts.
Christmas trees made from ice cream sticks
The sticks left over from the ice cream can be used to create light Christmas tree crafts. Basic materials you will need:
- 3 or more wooden ice cream sticks;
- paints;
- glue.
Additionally, you can use rhinestones, buttons, threads, colored pompoms, etc. for decoration.
How to do:
- For the first option, three sticks are glued into a triangle and painted green. The tree trunk can be made from scraps of sticks, brown paper or using a clothesline. After this, the wooden sticks are decorated. For greater splendor, you can wrap a triangle of sticks with green threads.
- For another option, stick it across a brown stick (trunk) from larger to smaller size, decorate it and attach a pendant. This toy can also be used to decorate a real Christmas tree.
Elegant New Year's hats - step-by-step master class
Using leftover yarn and a cardboard ring, you and your children can easily make charming hats that will decorate a window, shelf, wall, or Christmas tree.
Sequencing:
- Cut off the ring from the sleeve remaining from the toilet paper. You can glue a ring from cardboard tape, choosing the width and diameter necessary for the future product.
- The scraps of yarn are folded in half, applied to the ring and the ends are threaded through the loop. Gently pull them up so that a knot forms under the lower cut of the ring.
- Attach the threads tightly to each other around the entire circumference. You need to try not to let the base show through the yarn.
- The loose ends are tied with thread. Trim the edges, forming a beautiful, even pompom. Sew a loop to the stylized hat and place it in the chosen place.
New Year's hats made of bright colored threads
Simple Christmas trees from baking molds
Mom loves to bake delicious cupcakes and she has a lot of molds for baking them? With the youngest children you can turn them into beautiful Christmas trees, for this:
- I fold the cupcake pans in half one to three times.
- These blanks are glued onto a thick cardboard base.
- Decorate the craft.
New Year's tablecloth
It’s easy to quickly make a delicate fairy-tale tablecloth for the whole family for the New Year’s table. You need to cut out a sufficient number of different or identical snowflakes, glue them together with tape, creating a product of the desired shape and size. With such creativity, many ideas usually arise.
You can make a colored tablecloth, focusing on the overall style of the interior. Interesting options include applying specks and paint strokes to finished snowflakes.
A festive tablecloth with white snowflakes is a great option to decorate a New Year's table
Everyone knows how to cut snowflakes out of paper, but not everyone knows that they can serve as an excellent decoration for a table for the New Year's holiday.
Simple and easy paper crafts
What you can't come up with out of paper: snowflakes, postcards, a New Year's mobile, a voluminous fluffy spruce, safe candles for decorating a Christmas tree, paper garlands and much more.
These crafts are quite budget-friendly since most of them only require scissors, glue and paper. You can use not only colored paper for creativity, but also bright packaging paper, paper towel rolls and even old magazines.
You can repeat any of the works without a photo description, and for children such an activity will have a beneficial effect on the development of fine motor skills.
Unusual Christmas toys
You can use the most unexpected items to create an exclusive decoration for your Christmas tree. Creative imagination will allow you to transform them into original Christmas tree decorations.
- Painted spoons . It is more convenient to use aluminum spoons. They are painted with white acrylic paint. After drying, a New Year's drawing is applied. If you don't have drawing skills, you can use stickers. The handle of the spoon is bent and the decoration is hung on a tree branch.
Luxurious painted spoons for Christmas tree decoration
New Year's motifs on an old spoon
- Original cutlery . Disposable cutlery, complemented with braid with New Year's paraphernalia, looks great against the backdrop of snow-covered greenery.
New Year's beauty
- Updated balls . You should not throw away Christmas balls that have lost their splendor over the years. They can be updated with lace details, which can be easily crocheted if desired. The use of beads and decorative braid in the design gives an interesting sound.
You can use absolutely any decoration to decorate New Year's balls.
Festive balls can be used to decorate not only the Christmas tree, but also decorate the interior of the room with them.
Use special needles to secure the glitter to the foam piece.
Step-by-step master class on making a New Year's ball using felt pom-poms
- Light bulb toys . Old light bulbs can serve as the basis for original Christmas tree decorations. They are painted, creating a variety of bright images. After drying, it is recommended to coat the surface with varnish to stabilize the tone. Beads, tinsel, braid, beads, etc. act as additional decor.
Interesting idea for using a regular light bulb
Handmade New Year's toys will add a special atmosphere to the holiday.
Beautiful and original decoration for the Christmas tree
- Memorial balls . The Christmas tree balls, inside of which there is a photograph of your favorite pet, will not leave you indifferent. If you wish, you can place images of household members, memorable trips, and interesting landscapes there.
Manufacturing algorithm:
- From the assortment of Christmas tree decorations available at home, choose transparent, fairly voluminous balls, houses, and pine cones. Carefully remove the fasteners.
- Coarse salt and beads are poured inside the ball. Using tweezers, carefully place miniature spruce legs, pieces of tinsel, snow-white cotton wool and other suitable decor.
- Cut out a fragment from the photograph, making it smaller than the diameter of the ball. Roll it into a tube and place it inside.
- Then you need to straighten the photo using tweezers. All that remains is to return the fasteners to their place and hang the updated Christmas tree decoration in the designated place.
Family archive on the New Year tree
New Year's lamps
On New Year's Eve it's nice to sit by the light of candles or shining garlands. Homemade lanterns and lamps will help enhance the charm. Let's talk about how to make such New Year's decorations with your own hands.
Beautiful paper lanterns
To make such lanterns you will need colored cardboard, glue and small candles.
Openwork candlestick
To make a charming lamp yourself, take an ordinary glass jar. Cut out a ribbon from paper of any color and texture that can be wrapped with an overlap around the container. They draw and cut out a simple landscape - urban, rural, forest. It is attached to the lower sector of the vessel. All that remains is to put a candle inside and light it.
Stylish New Year's lamp made from an ordinary can
Imitation of snow on a can can be achieved using glue and crushed polystyrene foam
Christmas balls
Christmas tree balls, dried pine cones, and green pine branches placed in any transparent vessel and complemented with a sparkling garland will help create a festive atmosphere.
With the right approach, you can successfully use ordinary glass jars
Step-by-step production of a cardboard lamp
Shadow play
For this amazing lamp, parts are cut out of thick cardboard, providing for fixation on the base. An LED garland is attached to the inside, which creates a fantastic effect when turned on.
New Year's light garland with an original design
An electric garland with voluminous paper lanterns will help create a magical atmosphere for the New Year.
The garland is a traditional attribute of the New Year's celebration, so its presence in the interior will always be appropriate
Mini fireplace
Sparkling garlands placed in a colorful basket among pine cones, twisting branches, and pine spruce branches create the feeling of comfortable smoldering coals in a warm fire. It’s nice to turn on such a cute lamp in the evening twilight after a hard day, not only on New Year’s holidays.
Unusual lamp with soft, pleasant light
Floating candles
Compositions with floating candles will decorate the New Year's table. Transparent vessels of any shape are filled with bright berries, citrus slices, branches, leaves, and cones. Pour in water and place special floating candles.
Red rowan and green pine paws are an effective addition to a candle floating in water
Beautiful and sophisticated New Year's art object
Using tubes, twigs and ropes in work
You can make Christmas trees from such improvised materials as cocktail straws and small twigs (similar to making ones from popsicle sticks).
Another option for spruce: thread a tube into a triangular piece of paper, similar to a sail. If you insert the tubes into a base ball, for example, made of plasticine, you will get a beautiful three-dimensional snowflake-star.
DIY stylized snowman
You can quickly create a New Year's mood if, together with your children, you cut out circles of different sizes, a triangle for the nose, an elegant scarf from self-adhesive film or paper and decorate the door leaf, depicting a stylized snowman on it. This image will decorate the door of a refrigerator or cabinet.
Snowmen made from boards and plywood are very beautiful. Everyone can find similar material. You just need to be creative and set aside some free time.
Funny snowmen made from old boards
Snowman made from a sock - master class
A snowman, which requires a white sock, can serve as a fun gift for guests or as a coffee table decoration.
Manufacturing sequence:
- Cut off the toe. On the reverse side, tie the hole with a strong cord. Pour in rice.
- The body is bandaged with thread. They also add rice to form a head and tie the hole at the top.
- Beads are sewn on to form the face of the snowman. Tie a decorative scarf.
Give each friend an interesting snowman as a gift.
Step-by-step making of a snowman from a sock with your own hands
Cute decoration for New Year's celebration
Wall decorations
- Plywood Christmas tree . Mark the outline of the Christmas tree on a sheet of plywood. They are cut out, painted in the desired tone and decorated with sparkling garlands.
- Outline Christmas tree . If desired, the silhouette of the Christmas tree is laid out directly on the wall using an LED garland.
- Coniferous pendant . It is not always possible to install a Christmas tree at home. In such a situation, a fluffy fir or spruce branch will help create a New Year's entourage. It needs to be fixed on the wall and decorated with toys hanging on decorative cords of different lengths. If desired, you can add a garland or artificial snow.
The brighter and more creative the decorations, the more memorable the holiday will be.
To create the atmosphere of the New Year's holiday, it is not at all necessary to buy a live Christmas tree.
Spectacular Christmas trees made from branches
Simple crafts from decorative pompoms
Plush pompoms for creativity can be used both for decoration and for creating individual works from pompoms. They can be glued, sewn or strung on thread or fishing line.
For the baby they will be bright decorative elements. If the child already goes to school, he can make a three-dimensional Christmas tree from pom-poms on a foam base and take it as a school New Year's craft. This is a simple job, but there is a high probability that preschool children simply do not have enough perseverance to cover the entire workpiece.
Options for decorating windows for the New Year
Funny snowmen can be painted on glass using water-based gouache paints. Such bright toys will not only create coziness at home, but will also bring smiles to people passing along the street.
You can cut out colorful hearts, silhouettes of animals, birds, and funny cartoon characters. They are attached against the background of the window on a cord in the form of a New Year's garland. Funny images on the window will lift your spirits in any weather.
New Year's window decoration
The New Year's plot is depicted on a sheet of white Whatman paper. Carefully cut out all the details. A stapler is used for fastening.
An original decor will be created on the window with garlands of painted gingerbread cookies. Children will especially like this decoration. It is worth considering an alternative option made of thick cardboard if some sweet fragment suddenly disappears from the exhibition.
Cotton pads strung on a fishing line and secured in several rows on the window will create the feeling of fluffy snow flakes flying behind the glass.
Snowflakes on the glass should give Santa a hint that he is definitely welcome in this house
Using paper snowflakes you can create a real masterpiece on the window
Easy crafts from cotton pads
From cotton pads you can create a real winter landscape with a snow-covered tree, a snowman, deep snowdrifts and snow-covered roofs of houses. To work, you will need a cardboard base, glue, cotton pads, felt for colored elements, scissors and a little imagination.
