Christmas tree toys made of colored cardboard. Christmas toys made of paper

15.08.2019

The Christmas tree is the eternal embodiment of joy and celebration. And not only for children. Adults, too, with poorly hidden trepidation await the coming of the New Year, when all the most cherished dreams come true. And for this you don't need much - just decorate the tree with cute trinkets. They say that it is this ritual that helps any desire come true. Moreover, if these are done.

Of course, it is easier to decorate the Christmas tree with expensive purchased toys: huge glass balls, cheerful electric garlands, bright rain. No one disputes that such a tree will look very presentable and elegant. But will there be so much soul in a cold glass toy, as in a touching cardboard toy, made by oneself, and even with children's hands. Over the years, of course, both purchased and home-made toys will decay, lose their former gloss. But if you just throw away an impeccable, but aged factory decoration without a drop of regret, then a hand will not rise to throw away the toy that you made with your child. And then you will try to breathe new life into it, fix torn parts, glue or touch up. And not because you will be sorry to throw out a piece of paper or fabric, but because this naive product contains a piece of your soul, a fragment of your life with your child. By touching this craft, you seem to relive the moments of years gone by, which can be returned, perhaps, in such memories.

So, let's see what we can do. The simplest and most affordable thing that we can do is fix the old toys of our children and sew ribbons to them, if they are soft toys, stretch the braid through the hole or tie it to the thinnest part of the toy made of hard materials. Such a small toy will look very cute on a Christmas tree branch.

The most common way to make Christmas tree decorations is paper toys. To make a simple but very cute holiday toy-RING with your own hands, you only need sheets of colored cardboard and paper, as well as scissors and glue. First, you will have to work on a cardboard ring, which, however, can be replaced with a decorated one - pasted over or painted, an adhesive tape ring or any other suitable element. Then, from a strip of white or colored paper, less than the radius of the ring, an accordion is made and glued from the inside into a base ring. After that, it remains only to add bright strokes using squares contrasting to the color of the base. They are folded in half and glued symmetrically into the folds of the accordion.

How to make Santa Claus with your own hands?

To make a Christmas toy with your own hands, you can come up with something of your own, unusual and interesting. The decoration in the form of a felt lamp or a magic snowflake made of beads, shining like a diamond scattering, will look original. Or you can make a real GRANDFATHER FROST. To create this kind old man, who will become an original decoration of the child's room, you will need a paper plate, cotton wool, sheets of colored paper, felt-tip pens, watercolors, white glue, white acrylic paint, scissors and, of course, a good mood. So, you can start.

First, a paper plate is taken and painted white with acrylic paint. After the paint has dried, a nose from a ball of crumpled paper is glued to the back of the plate, which is pasted over with shreds of white paper according to the papier-mâché principle. By the same principle, you need to make grandfather's cheeks and eyebrows, and after the glue dries, paint everything white.
After the nose is completely dry, mix a little white and brown paint until you get a natural complexion. The resulting shade is applied to a plate. A little red is added on the cheeks and nose.
It is checked whether all the paint has dried, after which the facial features are painted on with felt-tip pens. When a child does not really like to draw, or he is not very good at it, you can glue the mouth and eyes from the same paper bundles, paint it white, and then in a natural color: reddish lips and blue eyes.
Further, a hat is made from the red paper triangle.
On the tip of the hat we glue a small cotton ball, from which a pompom will turn out. After that, a wide strip of cotton wool is taken and glued to the lower part of the face. This will create the beard of Santa Claus. To make the eyebrows and mustache, thinner small strips are taken to mimic a chic mustache and bushy eyebrows.
After the glue dries, the toy is ready!

By exactly the same principle, you can make the head of a SNOWMAN, BURATINO or another funny face. There would only be a desire!

Another easy way to make a beautiful toy is to decorate a foam heart with beads. For this, a string of beads is fixed on the edge of the toy with a glue gun. Then the beads begin to stick, and they are laid strictly in one direction, forming turns from the edges to the center. The beads do not have to be the same. They can be selected in different colors and sizes. Having reached the middle of the heart, the bead thread needs to be cut and only small parts of it should be glued further, cutting off the required number of beads with scissors. After filling one side of the heart completely, you can move on to the other. At the end, a thread or ribbon is attached to hang the toy.

DIY Christmas toys: garlands and balls

On December New Year's Eve, decorating the house and creating a festive mood will help christmas tree garland... And if you involve the whole family in making it, then the soulfulness of winter evenings will be ensured. So, one of the simplest, but very original options for such a decoration is the GIRLANDA, made of paper tassel pom-poms. To make it, you need paper of different colors and textures, scissors, rope and glue.
First, a piece of paper is folded in half in width, then - again in length.

On the side without folds, an incision is made with scissors - a strip of half a centimeter in full length, leaving a fold of 6 centimeters. The sheet is unfolded and cut in the middle into two parts, one of which is set aside. The sheet is fully opened and a leaf is obtained, cut on two sides into strips with a whole part untouched by scissors in the middle. Then you need to grab the middle with your fingers and twist the sheet without touching the cut edges. After the center of the sheet is completely twisted, you need to bend it to form a loop and then glue it at the base. After stringing this brush onto the rope, you can start making the next one. This furry caterpillar is a fun addition to your Christmas tree decor.

DIY Christmas paper garlands

There are many types of garlands that are easy to whip up, remember, we already wrote about how to make a garland yourself. So on the rope you can string pieces of colorful fabric.

If a rope is threaded through the fabric triangles, you get a great garland of flags! If you make pom-poms from shaggy yarn and string them on a thread, you get a garland that the child wants to just play with, it is so cute and fluffy.

And when the fabric strips are tied to a rope with bows, you get a very flirty garland. And the remnants of old wallpaper can also be successfully used to create a New Year's garland. And even if the carved paper napkins are folded in half, put on a rope, glued together at the corners, you will also get an excellent garland. A vintage garland can be obtained by cutting hearts out of multi-colored paper and threading them with thread. Such a touching romantic garland can become not only a Christmas tree decoration, but also an attribute for Valentine's Day. This symbol of love may well provoke its appearance on the New Year. Don't believe me? Check it out: invite your friend to help you decorate the Christmas tree, and, as if in passing, make a garland of hearts together. See for yourself that the pleasant consequences will not be long in coming.

Such dIY Christmas garlands It is most convenient to make from ordinary colored paper for manual labor, but it is better if it is double-sided. For example, you can take red, pink and white paper. The combination of these colors will create a very delicate ribbon garland. Also for its manufacture you will need: a pen, scissors, a ruler and a stapler. Strips are cut from paper, the width of which is 3 centimeters. In order for your child to participate in the work, you can draw each cut line with a ruler, and offer him to cut them. Then each strip is folded in half. The tips are bent and stapled to each other. The same actions are performed with each subsequent strip. Each heart connects with the previous and the next. Work continues until the desired length of the garland is obtained. And so that the hearts do not stretch while pulling the garland, you can pierce the heart at the base with a stapler paper clip. So much for a garland of the heart.

In addition, or rather - most often BALLS are attached to the Christmas tree as decoration. These traditional homemade toys come in a variety of glass, paper, and foam. By the way, if a glass ball can quickly break, then a foam toy is very easily scratched, broken, crumbled. If you have such spoiled-looking balls, then they can be very quickly turned into a real precious piece of jewelry using a bobbin of small plastic beads and decorative cords - for example, milky white - for decoration.

From the tools you will need a hot glue gun, scissors and tweezers. In this way, you can not only update old foam balls, but also design not very interesting plastic ones. And the diameter of the beads and cords used can be very different. But, naturally, it is better to decorate small balls with a thin cord and a thread of small beads, and large toys can be pasted over with both large and small beads. Balls decorated in three cords or threads at the same time look even more original. First you need to untwist the finished garlands in separate threads. Then the cord is taken, and its end is immersed in a foam ball using nail scissors or ordinary tweezers. A little glue is applied to the section of the ball near the place where the cord is attached, and the tip of the bead string is attached to it. The next part of the ball is gradually covered with glue and slowly, layer by layer, beads and a cord are laid until the entire surface is completely filled. The excess is cut off, the end of the lace is heated in foam. At the end, using a thread with a needle passed through the cord, a loop is made to hang the toy.

We often do dIY Christmas toys FROM BEADS. It really makes very nice Christmas tree decorations that can be hung all over the house, which will help create a great New Year's atmosphere, we have already written how to weave a tree from beads. To make these adorable toys, you need red beads, ribbon and wire. So, beads are strung onto the wire, and then wire toys are formed from ready-made hard beads, for example, stars, hearts or Christmas trees. Special work is not required, but if you hang such toys on a Christmas tree, after decorating them with ribbon bows, the result will be very pretty.

Returning to the same balls, you can try to make Christmas decorations using the decoupage technique. To do this, you need an aged glass Christmas ball, sheets from a music book, PVA glue or special for decoupage, glitter and silver paint, a special stamp with an inscription on the New Year's theme, ink, a small bell, a ribbon for tying a bow, as well as a thin string for loops. Although all these components can be replaced with what you have at hand, leaving the main thing - the ball, glue and napkins. The technique for performing the toy is very simple and does not require additional skills. First, a little white acrylic paint is laid out on the palette, then the sponge must be gently blotted into the paint and applied with whitewash on the entire surface of the ball. You need to constantly draw paint on the sponge, then you get a kind of snow coating. So all the balls are harvested and left to dry completely. In the meantime, you need to prepare napkins. For this, the top layer of the napkin, the most colorful, is separated. Then PVA glue is diluted half with water and the motif is glued to the ball. Gluing starts from the central part of the motif with a uniform advance to its edges. All motives are attached in the same way. In general, everything is done in a standard way, as with any decoupage, just with a greater share of glitter and decorations.

Interesting balls are obtained from ... book pages or, for example, pieces of felt. So, on the scraps of the material you have chosen, the contours of the circle are indicated (you can circle any household item, for example, a cup). With a sewing machine, approximately 10 circles are sewn together in diameter. In the absence of a typewriter, you can cope with a stapler. The line must go exactly in the middle through the centers of all circles. Staples connect the faces in a checkerboard pattern: either one joint in the middle, then two joints closer to both ends of the seam. Etc. It turns out a semblance of a book unfolded 360 degrees with oval pages fastened in two, now in the middle, now at the edges. This gives the paper toy the effect of a three-dimensional corrugated ball. At the end of the work, a loop is attached. Already such a toy can be hooked to the Christmas tree, but it is better to additionally apply decoration with sparkles and glue. Better, of course, if there is a ready-made glitter glue.

A spider-web ball looks very unusual and elegant. To make it, you need a simple balloon, any thread, good glue (best of all, PVA), as well as your imagination and perseverance. Naturally, the balloon is inflated to the required size (according to the volume of the future decoration), it is well tied and lubricated with ordinary oil. Then the thread is wetted in glue, excess glue is removed from it, passing the thread through tightly squeezed fingers. Although you can make a special container into which glue is poured, and a small hole is punched in the lid. The skein is placed in a container, the end of the thread is passed into the hole made and it is gradually pulled out, due to which it is dosed with glue. Then the whole ball is gradually entangled with this thread. In this case, you will have to stock up on remarkable patience, since the first rows of the thread can simply slide off the ball. The thread should be kept in a slight tension (slightly tense). After finishing the winding, the ball must be hung to dry. But you should not dry it with a hair dryer or over a heating battery, as this can cause the balloon to burst. The thickness of the thread can be selected at your own discretion. But there is no need to rush. Let the ball dry for a day, and then it will be necessary to carefully pierce it with a regular needle and gradually remove the frame from under the threads. Cured threads soaked in glue will hold their shape well. But that's not all: the ball can be decorated, again, at your discretion.

DIY Christmas toys: trees and snowflakes

Most Popular dIY Christmas toys made of paper - these are ordinary SNOWFLAKES. They do not require any special skills from the performer, no expensive material, no special investment of time. Everything is more than simple, if not elementary. For such a New Year's decoration, you will need ordinary paper - from white to colored, glue - it is better, of course, the same PVA, stationery clips and scissors.

The methods of cutting them out are very diverse: from simple ones, such as those that we cut out in school years from notebook sheets, to complex volumetric snowflakes. Folding with origami or cutting with kirigami is done according to special instructions with a demonstration of each step. If everyone is more or less familiar with origami, then snowflakes using the kirigami technique are made first by folding the square diagonally, then bending the corners to the middle of the triangle, which will divide it into three identical triangles. Then, along the folds and on top, several parallel curly cuts are made, the tongues of which, after unrolling the snowflake, will need to be tucked to the center under the base to create the semblance of petals. In addition, you can embellish the snowflake by smearing it with glue and sprinkling it with sparkles. This will make the snowflake even more beautiful and brighter. A card in the shape of a snowflake is made by ball-glueing individual parts.

Unexpected dIY soft Christmas toys are obtained, for example, in the form of a Christmas tree, we have already written about how to make Christmas trees with our own hands. To make such a Christmas tree from tools and materials, you will need:

a crochet hook that fits the thickness of the thread,
soft material (as for filling pillows),
packing of white beads,
remnants of three shades of green threads,
needles and fine sewing threads, matching the tone,
golden waxed threads.

First, according to the scheme, a stand, a tree trunk and a triangular base are knitted. When knitting a triangular base, a pattern is used in which each row is repeated four times. The tree is knitted with a striped one, each strip will be three rows wide. The alternation of stripes is carried out according to the scheme: green in a dark tone, green, green in a light shade.

So, first, five air loops are closed in a ring, and then knitting occurs according to the following pattern:

three identical rows of 8 single crochet (dark green);
a row of 8 single crochet (green);
two identical rows of 14 single crochets (green);
two identical rows of 14 single crochets (light green);
a row of 20 single crochet (light green);
three identical rows of 20 single crochets (dark green).

The toy is decorated with large white beads or beads as if it were christmas toys... Beads are randomly sewn to the base. Then the base is filled with soft filling material.

The tree stand and the trunk are knitted according to the following pattern:
five air loops close into a ring, then three identical rows of 8 single crochets are knitted (brown). This will make the trunk of the tree;
then the base is knitted according to the same scheme as shown at the beginning of the work (dark green).

To strengthen the base, a circle is cut out of cardboard, the diameter of which is equal to the diameter of the knitted stand. Then the tied stand is sewn onto the cardboard. The first row of loops runs around the trunk of brown threads, the second along the outer edge. All that remains is to tie the Christmas tree and the stand together, and a real New Year's beauty will delight you, and more than one year. And the real spruce can be preserved at the same time.

There are many more options for homemade Christmas toys. You just need to turn on your imagination and try a little. And then any of your wishes will certainly come true. After all, the first thing - to make a creative Christmas tree decoration - came true. Well, who else doubts the magic of a Christmas toy?

Someone is preparing for the new year, decorating the Christmas tree with designer expensive decorations, and someone with cheerful multi-colored electric garlands and glass balls from the store.

Such Christmas tree decorations will undoubtedly make the New Year's beauty stylish and beautiful, but, unfortunately, they will not be able to compare with handmade toys. After all, the very process of their creation not only enhances the anticipation of the holiday, but also gives invaluable minutes of communication to all family members.

There are a lot of options on how to make Christmas tree decorations with your own hands for the new coming year, but the most affordable and not requiring special skill in manufacturing are New Year's toys made of paper. You only need materials at hand that can be found in any home, a little patience and creative imagination.

Balloons

The most common and versatile toys for the New Year are Christmas balls. You can make them yourself from any thick paper: colored cardboard, colorful postcards or old magazine covers. Single-colored balls will add a single style to the room, and multi-colored ones - an atmosphere of fun and fairy-tale magic.

So, before you start making such paper toys, you need to prepare the following:

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

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

2. Prepare the mugs as follows:

bend the circle twice in half (this is necessary to determine the center);
unfold the circle and bend one side of it so that the edge of the circle is exactly in the center;
bend two more sides of the circle to make a triangle with equal sides;
cut out the resulting triangle, which will play the role of a pattern for the rest of the details;
overlay the triangle over the remaining circles, trace with a pencil, and bend the edges outward along the lines.

3. Glue 10 circles together with two sides so that you get a strip: 5 circles on top, and 5 - below. The strip must be glued into a ring. This will be the base for the balloon.

4. Divide the remaining 10 pieces by 5 pieces and glue them in a circle. We got two "caps".

5. Glue the top and bottom "caps" to the base in sequence.

6. The loop for hanging the ball can be made from a thread threaded through the top of the toy with a needle, or from a beautiful ribbon. A ribbon loop is fixed with a knot and passed through the top of the ball cap before gluing it to the base. The knot remains inside the toy, and the loop is outside.

An original paper toy with your own hands is ready for the coming year!

Volumetric snowflake

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

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

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

Such a voluminous snowflake can be sprinkled with sequins, sequins and decorated like the tree itself, a wall, or assemble a whole garland.

Cubes with a photo

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

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

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

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

Magic garland

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

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

All that remains is to thread the garland bulbs through the finished snowflakes and hang it on the tree, wall or window. Flickering colored lights through intricate patterns will create a truly fabulous New Year atmosphere.

Cardboard Santa Claus

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

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

In a similar way, you can perform a whole New Year's landing of Santa Clauses and decorate the whole Christmas tree with them.

For the new coming year, such unusual toys with their own hands will remain in the memory of all households for a long time, especially the smallest ones.

Homemade Christmas tree toys can be made not only by a needlewoman. There are fairly simple options that will not take long. They can be done with children or on their own. The most important thing is that your fluffy beauty will not look like others. And the warmth of your hands, transferred to the toy, will be noticed by everyone close to you.

Greetings to all readers of my blog, New Year is a magical holiday! He carries so much warmth, kindness and inspiration that should be enough for all 365 next days! Preparing for the New Year is a real sacrament. Buying (or even better - making with your own hands) gifts for family, relatives and friends, planning a New Year's menu, decorating apartments and houses and, of course, the most important New Year process ... It's time to decorate the Christmas tree!

But now the next question arises: with what? Surely every home has a box with Christmas tree decorations. Someone has old, still Soviet houses with a snow roof, ruddy Santa Clauses and bullfinches there. They, of course, are dear to the heart, but already old, boring, and the paint has worn off. By the way, I advise you to read it, because the holidays are so fleeting.

Others have bright identical balls in the color of the curtains and golden bows.

Stylishly, I admit it. But the same - like everyone else. And what to come up with? The answer is the simplest: making homemade toys for the Christmas tree! Everything is great in this process: from searching for ideas to preparing materials, from the first detail to the final result.

The flight of imagination is not limited! You can create from any materials, by any means, and any crafts. But sometimes it is difficult to come up with an image on your own. In this case, it is not at all shameful to look: how others are doing? And taking the proposed options as a basis, come up with something of your own, well, or just repeat some very cute little thing.

That is why I "climbed" on the Internet in search of all tasty and interesting. Mine was not opened for nothing. There are a lot of tips. We'll look at some of them.

Christmas tree toys made of paper

Cardboard, paper and glue are the most readily available materials. They are always in the house, especially when the baby is growing. In addition, such homemade Christmas tree toys are easy to make, do not require special handicraft skills and can be done by a child aged 8-10 years independently or with a little parental help, if your child is younger.

Paper balls

These balls are quite simple to make.

Decoupage glass jewelry with old German newspapers

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We will need:

1 ball (you can use foam balls or plastic ones that are sold in craft stores as blanks for Christmas tree decorations) or a hemisphere (for example, sculpted from plasticine);
glue (better liquid, it would be ideal to dilute the paste, but PVA can also be used);
newspapers;
thin wire (you can use a paper clip);
a thread;
glitter, stickers or scrapbooking paper - optional.

We tear the newspapers into thin strips, smear each of them with glue and gradually glue the ball over with them. As soon as the base is not visible under the layer of newspapers, we put the product aside and let it dry - about 40 minutes. Then we create layers 2, 3, 4 and 5 - similar to the first. If a ball base is used, it does not need to be removed. If you have made only half of the base, then you will first have to make the decoration in separate parts, and then glue them together.

After completely dry, you can apply a layer of varnish and sprinkle glitter. Homemade Christmas tree toys are valuable because they can be decorated with anything and anything!

When the ball itself is ready, we start making the "top". If the work was carried out with New Year's balls, then we attach their holders on top. It is even easier to glue a tinsel bow to the ball and tie a thread or ribbon on top so that you can hang the product.

To make "personalized" balls, it is enough to attach a leaf with a name to the tinsel using a thread. You can write wishes, compliments and any other pleasant little things on such stickers.

Gift decoration with vintage paper

In the same source, I saw a New Year's craft, which is done in 10 minutes! From a sheet with notes you need to make an "accordion", alternately bending the paper in strips of 1-2 cm in one direction or the other. Repeat with one more sheet. Bend each accordion in half and glue along the free side to form a kind of "half-toy". Then connect the resulting semicircles to each other along the sides without folds.

It can be used to decorate a gift to someone dear to you. Take a simple box, which you can find at any craft store, decorate it with an antique card and the resulting paper toy.

Musical muse

To make beautiful homemade Christmas tree toys with your own hands, you need a true love of music!

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Would need:

glue;
scissors;
old notes;
rhinestone (you can just cut a circle out of cardboard in color).

Cut three A4 sheets with notes each into 4 parts. From the first two we will make big rays, and from the third - small ones. We fold the quarter of the sheet into a cone and glue the joint. Please note that the glue will first need to be applied so that both sides of the cone stick together into one. And then carefully glue the rest. There are 8 such elements.

The next step is to cut the quarters of the last sheet in half. We get 8 details. The scheme is the same. After that, each ray must be glued to a rhinestone or cut out circle. The back part can be closed with a layer of music paper, and a thread can be glued under it.

Another tip: to age the paper, you need to soak it in a plate of strong tea and then dry it. Afterwards, crumple and iron with an iron at a minimum temperature. I really like the way the paper looks scorched around the edges.

Be careful, set fire to the sheets only in the immediate vicinity of the water source!

DIY vintage toys

Do-it-yourself vintage Christmas tree toys will harmoniously fit into any interior.

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To make such a New Year's beauty, you will need:

colored paper (or scrapbooking paper);
glue;
scissors;
wooden stick for the base.

Cut strips out of colored paper. Their length should be the same, but the width of each next one is 1 centimeter larger than the previous one. The number of stripes and their size can be any - it depends on how you want to see homemade Christmas tree toys.

Twist each strip into a tube, glue the joint. Then connect all the strips together and all of them together - on a wooden base (you can cut them out of cardboard). Don't forget the star and the thread!

If ordinary colored paper is used, then I would additionally decorate such a madam with cut out balls, circles, stars, sparkles, pieces of tinsel. Give your child room for imagination. Let him paint stripes, stick bright stickers. Homemade Christmas tree toys for the New Year can be as colorful and catchy as you like. The main thing is with a soul!

Christmas tree toys made of cardboard

If your New Year's homework is a do-it-yourself Christmas tree toy for school, then you can make just such an owl.

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For this you will need:

toilet paper roll;
paint;
glue;
scissors;
colored paper;
white stickers with glitter.

You will need to glue the edge parts of the base, paint the product with white paint. Cut out all the details from paper and attach them on top. I would also knit scarves for owls and add tassels to their ears made of thread.

Another interesting and unusual idea is to make a cup of hot chocolate out of the sleeve.

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You will need:

sleeve;
cocktail tube;
colored paper;
glue;
scissors;
cardboard.

We prepare a paper cylinder from the sleeve - cut it to the desired size. Then from thick cardboard we cut out one cylinder of the same diameter - for the bottom, and the other - for "coffee" - a little smaller so that it fits inside, but does not fall out. A small circle needs to be smeared with glue and put on top of a circle of brown paper, a little larger. Next, we will deal with the mug itself. According to the "recipe" we are offered to paste over it with a strip of colored paper, leaving the protruding part on both sides. At the bottom, cut it with a "fringe" and glue each of its fragments to the bottom separately.

But I would just wrap the Christmas homemade toys on the Christmas tree with packaging material, fixing the joints with glue or a stapler. Or even just foil! But if according to the recipe, then do not forget to glue the circle to the bottom.

After the packaging is ready, you need to put our "hot chocolate" inside, applying glue to the paper from the inside. After that we deal with the upper edge: carefully cut the free edge, glue it piece by piece. We insert the “drink” into the vessel. Here, in the side edge, we make a hole for the future thread.

Now a pen: Rolled paper dipped in water and left to dry will do just fine. We glue to the mug.

The base is ready, then the decorations. There are no restrictions here: you can do it like the author's, you can decorate it differently, for example, add a "lemon slice" using a curly eraser, or draw a picture from "foam" using a corrector or a contour. Homemade Christmas tree toys for the New Year can be very non-standard.

There are many guides on the Internet on how to make Christmas tree toys with your own hands, incl. video. For example, to make a ball, you need:

foam base;
many different buttons;
hot glue;
ribbons.

We glue the ball with buttons, make a bow from a ribbon - and you're done!

For me, threads are a closer material. About how many different graces can be linked, write and write, this will be a post for a lifetime. In addition, this is an activity for moms, hardly a child. Therefore, I will just show a few interesting things that I found, without details.

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The knitted ball can be made in any color and size. It is enough to simply sew a thread. You can tie the foam base, or you can stuff the toy with a padding polyester or other similar material.

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But you can make things much easier from threads. Homemade Christmas tree toys made of threads always look very interesting, tasty and unusual.

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These wonderful pieces of jewelry can be ordered, but easier to make!

You will need:

twine;
foam base for the ball;
double-sided thin tape or hot silicone;
scissors;
lace.

If you don't have scotch tape, you can try using silicone, but this is more painstaking work. Carefully, one row after another, it is necessary to wrap the base with a rope, gluing the thread.

If you decide to use scotch tape to make these homemade toys for the Christmas tree, then it is enough to make a "belt" ball from an adhesive strip (from left to right), and then two more lines perpendicular to the belt (from top to bottom).

Be careful not to glue one strip on top of another so that there will be no problem with removing the protective strip. Attach the rope to half of the ball. Then form a free part by unwinding a little twine, and, as if making a "dead loop", return to the ball winding in the same direction as you started. Once the first round is over, fix the "starting point" with a small pin or nail. And begin your moves around this pin, gluing new pieces of duct tape as needed.

In principle, you can use any thread - thin or thick wool, yarn. In addition, strips of felt, braids woven from fabric or threads, and anything else will do. When the winding is finished, you need to let the product dry and soak, if an adhesive mass was used, and then start decorating.

Here's how to decorate a ball base with twine. In addition, a wonderful option for decorating the resulting craft with ribbons, lace and beads is offered.

You can wrap any figures in the same way. The convenience of this manufacturing method is that the subsequent decoration can be made with any elements. They can be sewn on, glued, tied, attached with Velcro and anything else you can do with them!

Here's another option - this is the famous striped candy wrapped in twine. Fortunately, now these plastic imitations can be bought in packages and quite cheaply. Working with them is easier than with balls. It is only necessary to secure the twine with silicone from a hot gun, and then, having wrapped it along the entire length, do the same from the other end.

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And another option is to do without foam at all. For example, as in this video on how to make DIY Christmas tree toys. The neck of a regular plastic bottle is used as a base. First, close the lid area with mounting tape, making it even. Then put the bag over the bottle. And with the help of glue, carefully wrap the container to a certain level (it depends on what size the bells you want to end up with. As soon as the product dries, you should remove it from the neck and release it from the bag. And the final stage is decoration.

Homemade Christmas tree toys can be made from threads with your own hands, using practically nothing but this very thread!

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To make such a lovely snowman, you need:

white yarn;
small cardboard;
scissors;
needle;
some felt.

All action is based on the principle of making pom-poms for a hat. You have to wrap the cardboard in 30 circles with wool, cut the thread. Carefully remove the resulting skein, bandage it in two places, preparing areas for the head, abdomen and legs. Prepare one more hack, smaller, for the hands. Remove it from the cardboard, make two tapers. Then spread the threads in the second segment in the frontal plane and thread the future handles through the hole.

Schematically, the snowman is ready. Cut the thread loops on your arms and legs. And then proceed with the design. Trim all the ends of the wool so that nothing sticks out. From felt you can make a face and a scarf for our gentleman, as well as a hat. Or you can tie it. Decorate the belt or buttons on the belly. Tie a string so you can hang the toy.

Star for christmas tree

So, the decorations for the branches are ready! Now our beauty is waiting for her "finest hour" - when we put a star on her top. But how, from what can you make it?

While I was leafing through the pages in search of something interesting, I came up with an idea: why not decorate the Christmas tree ... with a Christmas tree ?! And here, for example, an option!

We need:

sheet of cardboard;
glue;
green tinsel thread;
bag of chocolates.

We make a cone from cardboard, glue it along the joint. Glue a layer of tinsel to the base. Then a layer of sweets, one to one. Then again tinsel, and again candy! Or you can replace sweets with a garland of lights and then our top will sparkle and sparkle, as it should be in the New Year!

If you made the musical decorations, which were discussed at the very beginning of the article, then the star must also be musical!

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You can do this by cutting out the details. by pattern... Then you have to fold along the dotted line, glue the joints - voila, you're done! The only difficulty is that the template will have to be redrawn or printed initially on music paper. However, any other material can be used.

For balloons pasted over with newspapers, the corresponding star is suitable.

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It is quite difficult to make such a decoration. There is a special two-part workshop for making it. The first is about how to make an even pentagon, and the second is how to make a star out of it.

A star can also be made from book pages, just like a toy from sheet music.

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You have to fold cones-rays from pages or their fragments and glue them to the base.

A good option would be to make a three-dimensional star, for example, from papier-mâché, from cardboard, or buy a blank.

Disassembling an old book.
We divide each page in half.
We make an envelope from the half.
The cardboard or plastic blank of the star is pasted over with ready-made envelopes according to the scheme in the photo.
Grease the edges with PVA glue and sprinkle with sparkles.

To make it easier to install such homemade toys on the tree, I would advise making one large cone as a support. In addition, in order for the star to turn out to be voluminous, the rays must be glued not only on one side of the base, but also on the other.

Christmas is a holiday that is as important and significant for many as the New Year. Therefore, the festive tree must be decorated with themed decorations.

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You can make them, for example, using:

a wooden ring (you can use a special blank, a spare ring from the cornice or a foam ring);
several beads;
bead cap;
rondel (separator);
crochet hook;
scissors;
threads.

But this do-it-yourself Christmas tree toy can only be made if shells are lying around in the house. However, finding decorative material in stores (in the same Leonardo chain, which has representatives in 35 cities of Russia) is not so difficult today.

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To make such a charm, you will need:

shells of different sizes;
hot glue;
a thread;
decorations for every taste.

In my opinion, it will be superfluous to talk about the production process, everything can be seen without words.

In this master class, they tell in great detail how to make an angel from a sheet of cardboard, thread, a Christmas tree ball, ribbons and a set of decorations. These homemade Christmas tree toys will do and can be used as decorations on a New Year's or Christmas table.

I sincerely hope, dear readers, that such a selection of tips on how to make homemade Christmas tree toys will help you find your inspiration, catch a wave and get carried away with your work! I wish you new ideas and great results!

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It's time to actively prepare for the New Year: while there is still a lot of time left before it, it is worth using such a valuable resource and making New Year's toys with your own hands out of paper and not only. The editors of the site, which also prepares their houses and apartments for the New Year, will help you with this.

Let's start making New Year's paper toys with our own hands: options for holiday decorations

It is amazing that a great variety of different decorations can be made from paper, in addition to the well-known lanterns, garlands and snowflakes. We deal with paper beauty and try to make a Christmas toy with our own hands using photos from master classes.

Beautiful figures of Santa Claus, Snow Maiden are made of paper, even pigs as a symbol of the coming year look great like a Christmas tree. We study tips for making various decorations for the Christmas tree and try to put them into practice!

Cute Santa Claus

One of the favorite handmade toys for children will be the wonderful Santa Claus. This animated fairytale character from a childhood dream will find himself the most prominent place on the Christmas tree.

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Origami for the New Year do it yourself : postcards, classic and modular origami, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, origami Christmas tree, snowflake, origami star, origami animals - in our publication ..

Snowman without snow

The snowman is also a traditional winter symbol that children will be interested in making with their own hands. There are several ways to make a nice little snowman.

Angels in different ways

The cutest DIY Christmas tree toy is an angel. Such a Christmas tree decoration always cheers up and will serve as a decor for the coming Christmas.

Garlands - large-scale apartment decoration

Excellent DIY Christmas toys can be made together with children. The process of creating a garland would be such a suitable option.

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: a photo. a Christmas tree, paper circles, an accordion, a corrugated garland and origami, a garland made of fabric or felt, cones and other material, the decor of an LED garland - in our article.

Flower wreaths and more

Christmas wreaths immediately give a festive and solemn mood to anyone who glanced at them. They also make chic wreaths from paper!

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

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

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: the art of quilling and beauty from strips of paper. Stencils for New Year's snowflakes, modular origami, geometric shape, fluffy snowflake, a star on a paper Christmas tree - in our publication.

Making Christmas balls in different ways

What about without the Christmas balls familiar to us? Paper also makes its own adjustments in the production of New Year's decor. Let's try to create beautiful balls?

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corrugated paper, kusudama, origami, paper flowers; a Christmas ball made of felt and fabric, a Christmas ball decor on a Christmas tree by different means - read the publication.

Christmas tree lanterns and more

The flashlight is a versatile toy, suitable even as a handmade decoration for a city tree. There is always a place in the apartment where a New Year's flashlight is clearly lacking.

How to make a DIY Christmas toy from yarn, ribbons, beads, felt and cones

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

DIY Christmas tree toys: a new life for grandmother's yarn

Any dense threads 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: an example of a toy made of threads for the New Year

We make a New Year's toy from ribbons, beads, sequins

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

From fabric, ribbons, beads, it is easy to make even a large toy for a Christmas tree with your own hands. Ready-made foam blanks of large size are on sale, which you just need to decorate.

Felt toys for the New Year

Small and large DIY Christmas toys are easy to make from a material such as felt. This is an exciting process that always has a positive result for both experienced craftsmen and beginners.

You don't need to spend a lot of time to learn the basics of working with felt: the material is easy to cut, it is not difficult to sew it by hand or sew on a typewriter. The edges are decorated with any kind of seams.

Most often, felt serves as the base on which the decor is located. Decorative elements are also cut out of felt of a different color, or embroidery is done on it, various beautiful decorations are pasted on.

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

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

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

Christmas balls made of paper 2016

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

Christmas balls made of paper 2016: making stencils

So, in order to do this with your own hands christmas ball on the tree, you must perform the following sequence of actions:

Print the stencil on the printer. We suggest using the following pictures:

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

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

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

Christmas balls made of paper-2016: main work

Further work will require manual dexterity.

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

Advice! Use different colored paper to make the toy more interesting and colorful. And so that the toy does not disintegrate during weaving, use clothespins.

When you are almost done braiding, glue the ends of the paper ribbons together.
In the part of the ball where you glued the circle (see step one), make a small cut in the form of a line. Insert a nice tape into it and glue it on. P it is better to burn it beforehand so that it retains its original appearance.

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

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

Magic lamps

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

Take two sheets: one is yellow, the second is contrasting, for example, purple. Cut out two rectangles. Yellow - 100x180, purple - 120x180 (in millimeters).
Take a yellow rectangle and glue its edges in a tube shape. Next, set it aside and move on to the purple part. Fold the sheet in half and make cuts with scissors, leaving space at the edges. We also glue in the form of a tube, like a yellow sheet of paper or cardboard. The photo shows how to make a red flashlight. The sequence of actions is similar.
If you cut everything neatly, then the yellow tube should go into the purple one. Moreover, it must not be pushed through to the end. Its edge must be greased with glue, and only then insert the resulting yellow flashlight into the purple tube completely. The same must be done on the other side of it. Pull the purple part up slightly to release the yellow part. Cover it with glue. This will lock the yellow leaf into the purple.
To make the flashlight more realistic, you should make a handle. To do this, cut a narrow strip of purple paper or cardboard and glue it to the flashlight.
Your magic flashlight is ready. This is one of the simplest crafts, even a child can handle it.

How to make a do-it-yourself flashlight for the celebration of 2017, you can see in this video:

3D paper star

Another popular Christmas tree toy for celebrating 2017 is a star. A rare tree does without it. This toy is both effective and easy to make. To do this, you will need the same materials as for the previous jewelry. All that remains is to add a thread. Read a master class or watch a video.

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

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

Advice! Hold the corners while gluing with your finger. This will make them stick together better.

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