Time runs inexorably forward and now white flies are flying outside the window, slowly falling to the ground and covering everything around with a snow-white fluffy blanket. However, despite the cold, my soul is warm and joyful. And all because suddenly appearing snowflakes herald the coming of the New Year. The most important holiday of the year is already very close, which means it’s time to think about New Year’s decor, gifts and, of course, crafts.
The days are getting shorter and the evenings are getting colder and longer. What to do with yourself, and especially with your little fidgets, when it’s too dark for outdoor winter fun? Well, of course, crafts. New Year's crafts can be made from the most unexpected materials: cotton pads, pine cones, dough, pasta, cocktail tubes and much more. But there are also more traditional materials, such as paper. In this article, we have collected for you more than 60 step-by-step master classes on making paper crafts for the New Year. If you still think that only appliques can be made from paper, then drop everything and carefully look at our article! Well, for those who are looking for something unusual and know what miracles can be created from ordinary paper, we can only advise them to immediately begin the process of creating New Year's paper crafts using our patterns and templates.
Paper garlands - making your own New Year's decor
Simple New Year's garland made of paper rings for children
One of the simplest New Year's paper crafts can rightfully be considered a garland. We all remember well from our childhood how we decorated the Christmas tree with such paper garlands not only at home, but at school or kindergarten. Making a paper garland is very simple: colored paper is cut into strips of the same width, the first strip is glued into a ring, and each subsequent one is threaded into the previous ring and also glued. This paper craft is ideal for 4-5 year olds.
DIY paper circle garland
If the task of entertaining children is not important, but you need to decorate the house, then here is another option for a paper garland. It is even easier to do than the previous one, but you will need a sewing machine. So, to create such a New Year's paper craft you will need: many circles of different diameters (the number depends on the size of the garland), a sewing machine. Sew circles through the center using a machine and hang the garland. Such a garland will “come to life” from any gust of air.
Volumetric New Year's garland DIY lanterns
So, if you have decided that the issue with garlands is closed and there is nothing more to come up with here, we hasten to upset you - this is only the very tip of the iceberg. Simple paper garlands are an activity for beginners. Professionals prefer more complex tasks, for example, voluminous paper crafts. Below is a master class on making a three-dimensional garland in the form of light bulbs.
Paper lanterns for a glowing garland + Scheme
By the way, you can decorate an ordinary LED garland with paper lanterns. This New Year's paper craft looks very cool, especially if you decorate a wall with this garland.
Interested in a garland? Then look for more ideas.
Garland of colored paper “Christmas light bulbs” + diagram
Make this cool garland using the papercraft technique. Print or redraw the template, cut out the bulbs from colored paper, glue and thread. All is ready!
How to print pictures onto A4 windows
We have decided on the pictures, chosen the templates, now I would like to print them so that they are as large as possible, at least in A4 format.
I will offer you three ways to do this.
How to print a picture directly on a printer
- Aim the mouse at the selected image and press the right button.
- In the window that appears, select “save image as...”.
- Next, you need to come up with a name and indicate the folder on your computer where we will place this picture.
- We put them in a folder of pictures, open it and work with each photo separately or with all of them at once, selecting them and holding down the Ctrl key.
- WITHOUT OPENING the picture(s) in the folder, select the “Print” mode.
- In the print settings window, you can select the paper size; most likely, by default it is already in A4 format, and you can see that the picture is stretched across the entire sheet. Under the image we see how many frames have been selected, you can scroll through them.
- All that remains is to click on the “Print” button.
In the setup mode, it is convenient to print several small pictures, for example, snowflakes, on one A4 sheet at once. To do this, enter the number of copies and select the placement option (right column).
Of course, different computers have different systems installed and the settings may look different, but they should be there everywhere. I have outlined the essence for you, then, I think, you will already get your bearings.
How to greatly enlarge a picture using Excel
If you need to enlarge the image to a very large size so that it occupies almost the entire window, you can use Excel and split the image into several parts.
- We go into the program, select the “Insert” mode, and in it “Drawing”.
- Find it in the folder and select the desired image.
- Usually, when inserted into an Excel sheet, it is immediately highlighted in a frame; if there is none, click on the picture with the mouse. Now we grab the corner of the frame and pull it down and to the right.
- In the preview mode, you can see how many A4 sheets the picture has stretched onto and bring it to the desired size.
- The prepared image can be printed using the appropriate button.
What to do if you don't have a printer
When the monitor screen is backlit, any image is clearly visible on a sheet of paper attached to it. Just carefully outline it with a pencil.
To enlarge the template, perform some simple manipulations.
- Hover your mouse over the photo - right click - open the picture in a new tab.
- Let's go to this new tab, the picture is still small. Using the Ctrl and + (plus) key combination, you can gradually increase it to the maximum possible size (as your monitor screen allows).
Christmas wreath made of paper - DIY paper decorations for the home
An original New Year's wreath made of colored paper - simple and quick
Since we are talking about apartment decor, it would be strange not to mention Christmas or, as they are also called, New Year’s wreaths. Anyone can make such a paper craft; in addition, a New Year's wreath made of paper is a reusable decoration that will not deteriorate or lose its appearance over time.
New Year's wreath made of paper roses - master class with photos
A very cool paper craft for the New Year - a wreath of roses. You will have to work hard to create such a craft, so if you decide to make yourself such a paper wreath for your door, be patient and in good spirits!
How to make a New Year's paper wreath for a Hawaiian party with your own hands
If you are planning a themed party for the New Year, say in a Cuban or Hawaiian style, then you will definitely need some kind of decoration to create the atmosphere. This simple but very original paper wreath will come in handy!
New Year's wreath made of paper palms - making New Year's decor with the kids
Surely your child at school or in the garden was asked to make a Christmas wreath together with his parents. Ostensibly for a competition, but the main goal of this task is to force parents to spend time with their children. But maybe you shouldn’t wait for assignments from school, but spend time with your child yourself. In addition, with such a New Year's craft you can decorate your home in a very original way, and most importantly, get a lot of positive emotions!
Need a New Year's wreath? See more ideas here.
Vytynanka fairy-tale heroes
We can't do it without our favorite characters. Place Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden next to the tiger cub and introduce him to the snowman - all the fairy-tale characters are already assembled. They are so elegant and cute, choose to your taste!
DIY paper Christmas trees
Do-it-yourself voluminous Christmas tree made of paper - a simple craft for children
So, we continue to decorate the apartment. There is a garland, there is a wreath. Something is missing? Oh, of course, Christmas trees! If you prefer to display a large forest beauty for the New Year holidays, it doesn’t matter. By the way, read where to buy a live Christmas tree in Minsk. Small paper Christmas trees will be a great additional decorative element, and they can also be used as small souvenirs for guests!
Christmas tree toy “Christmas tree” - decorating the New Year tree with children
A paper Christmas tree doesn’t have to be on a table or somewhere in the house. You can make a craft out of paper, which you can then hang on the Christmas tree itself, and if there is no Christmas tree, then you can simply hang such voluminous paper Christmas trees around the house. The pattern for making a Christmas tree is quite simple, but if you don’t quite understand what the point is, or you simply don’t have time to figure it out, then you can download a ready-made template.
DIY corrugated paper Christmas tree for the New Year
A very cute Christmas tree can be made from corrugated paper. This paper craft looks very realistic, and is quick and easy to do.
Making a Japanese-style Christmas tree with your own hands
If you are still interested in a paper Christmas tree, but want to make something unusual, then take advantage of this master class.
Christmas tree garland for the ceiling - how to make it yourself
The Christmas tree does not have to stand on the floor; it can also be hung from the ceiling. An excellent Christmas tree garland can be made from plain paper.
Miniature Christmas trees made of paper for New Year's table decor
How to distinguish a New Year's table from a regular holiday one? Everything is correct! By thematic decorative elements. Find out how to make a suitable New Year's dessert here.
Making a movable Christmas tree with your own hands from paper
Do you want more master classes on making a Christmas tree out of paper? See this article.
Origami toys
Origami is an endless ocean of ideas for the New Year holidays. In addition, these are easy crafts that are fun to repeat with children. Just look at any of the toy designs below and choose the one you like.
New Year's bouquets made of paper - decorating the house for the New Year with paper flowers
Simple paper flowers
In winter, wildflowers cannot be found, even in flower shops. But there’s nothing to worry about, you can make flowers out of paper with your own hands. And our step-by-step master class will help you with this.
Corrugated paper flowers
You can make a wide variety of flowers from paper, the whole secret is in cutting out the ends.
Making paper roses with your own hands
Craft paper flowers - how to make them yourself
A New Year's gift must be in beautiful packaging. In my opinion, the gift itself is not so important as the intrigue around it. After all, it is this intrigue that will remain in the memory, this pleasant expectation and unfolding of the paper. Use our DIY paper flower making pattern and decorate gifts for loved ones.
New Year's stars made of paper - step-by-step MKs
Composite volumetric star made of paper - MK + diagram
A composite paper star will be an excellent decoration for the New Year. You can download the ready-made template for gluing below.
A simple volumetric star made of paper + diagram
Nowadays, you won’t surprise anyone with ordinary paper cutouts. Volume crafts are much more delightful. This master class describes a step-by-step scheme for creating a simple three-dimensional star. You can download a ready-made template with a large, medium and small star using the link below.
DIY double-sided paper star + Scheme
It’s quite difficult to imagine New Year’s decor without all sorts of variations on the theme of stars. In this master class you will learn how to make a three-dimensional double-sided star out of paper with your own hands. You can download the finished diagram below.
DIY New Year's star using origami technique
Step-by-step diagram for creating an origami star with your own hands. You can decorate the top of the Christmas tree with such a star, you can simply create a festive atmosphere in your home, or you can combine it into one large garland.
You can make the base yourself, as in the first picture. Or you can download a ready-made pentagon blank and depending on the size of the pentagon the size of the finished star will change.
Making a big star out of paper with your own hands
If you want to make a large New Year's star to decorate a wall from paper tubes, then this master class is especially for you!
Paper cones for the Christmas tree
Do-it-yourself corrugated paper cones - step-by-step MK
A very themed New Year's craft made from crimple paper. This paper cone looks very natural and is quite difficult to distinguish, especially if it is used as decoration. With our master class you can easily cope with such a paper craft.
Cone made of colored paper
There is another technique for creating a paper cone with your own hands. This method is more labor-intensive and will take you longer. In addition, to create such a New Year's craft you will need: paper, foam blank, a lot of safety pins, ribbon and beads for decoration. However, if you have the time and desire, then pay special attention to this pattern for making a cone, especially if you want to make an impression.
New Year's craft cone made of paper circles
In continuation of New Year's paper crafts, I would like to offer you another scheme for making paper cones. In addition to paper circles, you will need an oval or round blank, glue and spruce branches for decoration.
Cone made of paper strips folded like an accordion
Openwork Christmas trees
Beautiful crafts always come out if you put in a little effort. If you want to decorate your desktop with a small Christmas tree, all you need is a piece of paper, a scalpel or knife and a lot of patience.
First, download and print this template. Place it on the table and cut out the inner filling with a knife. Then we cut out both halves along the contour and glue the base. This DIY New Year's toy craft is easy to make for school or kindergarten.
New Year's paper balls
Christmas ball made from strips of paper
It is customary to decorate the New Year tree with toys, but these toys do not necessarily have to be purchased. It's even better if they are made by yourself. What could be easier than making a paper Christmas tree toy? Use our step-by-step instructions and make your own Christmas ball out of paper.
Volumetric ball for the Christmas tree made of paper circles
New Year's ball using origami technique step by step
You can make very special crafts from paper using the Japanese origami technique. Our step-by-step master class will help you create a New Year's ball out of paper, which can be used to decorate both a room and a Christmas tree.
DIY prickly paper ball
DIY volumetric ball for a Christmas tree made of paper circles
Easy-to-make New Year's decorations can be made from paper. Our master class gives an example with a ball, but these can also be other shapes: hearts, stars, Christmas trees and much more. You can download ready-made templates below.
A ball of paper strips - a diagram for making a craft with a photo
Want more Christmas ball ideas? See:
New Year's balls
Paper ball? Why not? In essence, this is Japanese origami technology. You can’t do it with children, as it consists of 30 steps. But the effect is fascinating.
All you need is paper, preferably wrapping paper. And then, we follow the instructions.
Paper snowflakes
A simple diagram of a three-dimensional snowflake made of paper - step-by-step MK
Openwork volumetric snowflake made of paper + diagram
New Year's snowflake on a window made of colored paper
How to make a voluminous paper snowflake with your own hands - step-by-step instructions
At your service is a step-by-step diagram for making a three-dimensional paper snowflake. Follow the instructions and you will definitely get such a miracle.
Do-it-yourself large volumetric paper snowflake
Another great option for decorating an apartment with your own hands is a large voluminous snowflake on the wall. There can be not just one snowflake, but a whole ensemble. Plus, this Christmas background will make for great photos!
By the way, you can find more ideas for Snowflakes in this article.
Volumetric craft made from geometric shapes
If you know the templates for creating volumetric geometric shapes from paper, then creating elements of New Year's decor will not be difficult for you. And if not, then thanks to our ideas, you will learn very quickly.
Option #1:
We will need:
- Colored paper/cardboard;
- glue;
- scissors, pencil, ruler;
- ribbon or thick thread, lace.
- We take ready-made templates and transfer them to cardboard, or draw them using a pencil and ruler on cardboard:
- Cut out templates for future figures:
- Glue them together by passing the thread right through them. The garland is ready!
Option No. 2:
Using the geometric shape of a cube, we can create an amazing piggy bank with you. Minimum costs, maximum pleasure! This will be the second idea.
We will need:
- Pink cardboard;
- glue;
- scissors, ruler, pencil.
- Using the finished pattern, cut out a cube template from cardboard:
- Let's glue our template together. We bring our cube to life: we attach ears, a tail and a snout. To make the patch protrude a little, you can place cardboard folded like an accordion under it:
Christmas tree decorations made of paper
DIY Christmas tree crafts - step-by-step master class + diagram
Simple Christmas tree toy DIY paper lantern
Very simple, but incredibly cute three-dimensional lanterns can be made from ordinary colored paper. Even children can handle this craft, so feel free to get to work if you have little helpers. Well, if not, then you can handle it yourself!
Christmas tree toy made of paper rings - step-by-step MK
Christmas tree toy House made of paper
New Year's Christmas tree decorations diamond crystals + diagram
Download ready-made patterns and make your own diamond crystals from paper.
New Year's deer on the Christmas tree - master class and diagram
Paper Christmas tree lanterns step by step with photos
Mini angel made of paper for a Christmas tree with your own hands
Cute DIY paper angels - MK with diagram
Do-it-yourself geometric Christmas tree decorations made of paper + diagram
A wide variety of decorative elements can be made from plain paper, just download the ready-made diagram, print it, cut it out and glue it. A wonderful New Year's paper craft is ready!
DIY New Year's lantern: decorate the New Year's tree with paper toys
You can make a simple and original Chinese lantern with your own hands using our ready-made diagram.
Miniature wreath using origami technique for a Christmas tree
Master class: do-it-yourself voluminous paper house for a Christmas tree
See even more paper Christmas tree decorations here.
Angels
Another toy for cutting out paper for a window. Print the template and cut out the filling. This is an angel, so they are usually depicted as white, but why not decorate them?
The angel should be painted with beige or any pastel. The stars need to be tied to the body with fishing line or thin threads. It will look beautiful if you cover them with gold or silver glitter.
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Usually they cut out a lot of them and decorate the whole apartment, because New Year’s crafts are made with your own hands in just 5 minutes. By the way, an angel can lead the top of the Christmas tree.
New Year's crafts toys from paper cones: templates
Make simple paper cone toys with your kids. All you need to do is print the template and glue it together. If it is not possible to print the blank, make a toy yourself: roll a cone out of paper, after painting it.
Templates
Blanks make it easier for children to work, but they hinder their imagination. That is why they should be used only in cases where it is really necessary. You can use the printer to make toys with the symbol of the coming year or original gift boxes.
Blanks for flat applications, which you can print out or make yourself, can also be used for felt crafts. The principle of working with these materials is similar.
DIY Christmas packaging
Gift packaging “Big Candy”
You can make completely unexpected crafts from paper, including gift boxes. And not just boxes, but in the form of delicious sweets. For such a gift box you will need: a cardboard cylinder, colored paper, glue, scissors, satin ribbon.
Original packaging from a regular paper bag
Continuing the question of gift wrapping, we would like to offer you another budget, but very charming option. You can make such a gift elf with your own hands using our master class.
Festive packaging “Santa Hat” – step-by-step photo master class
Here is another option for original DIY New Year's gift packaging.
Need more gift wrapping ideas? See this material.
What you need for creativity
With paper and cardboard everything is almost clear. We create from what we find at home. A wide variety of paper products are suitable:
- white office paper;
- tracing paper;
- wrapping paper;
- old newspapers, magazines;
- old tattered books, scraps of wallpaper, scribbled school and music notebooks;
- paper for scrapbooking, designer and speckled;
- any colored paper, including corrugated and metallized paper;
- cardboard packaging for cereals, cereals, dairy products, sweets, disposable cardboard plates;
- large parcel boxes and shoe or clothing boxes;
- regular student cardboard is white or colored with different textures - from velvety to corrugated.
In addition, other auxiliary tools should always be at hand:
- cutting and piercing: scissors, stationery knife, awl, stapler (if available, then a special one - figured);
- ruler and compass;
- PVA glue or glue stick and glue gun;
- paints (gouache or watercolor), colored and simple pencils, felt-tip pens, colored gel pens, markers, brushes;
- plasticine, salt dough or other modeling mass;
- various materials for decorating products: sequins, beads, beads, braid, lace, scraps of fabric and fur, woolen threads... in general, everything you can find at home.
And for some crafts you will need stencils. If you know how to draw, you can make them yourself or print them from the Internet and then cut them out.
There's no point in starting a project to make something exciting and interesting if you don't have the essentials on hand. Of course, it is possible to postpone creativity until the next evening, but when it comes, this next moment is unknown and the child will be disappointed.
What else can you make from paper?
Carnival masks made of paper
The list of New Year's paper crafts must include carnival masks. Well, what New Year's party can do without masks? That's right, none! In fact, there are a lot of options for making paper masks, and if you use your imagination, you can make a lot of wonderful crafts!
Sample
More ideas for New Year's masks here.
New Year templates for a photo shoot
Note! The templates are very large and of good quality, so downloading may take some time.
DIY paper vase: diagram + step-by-step master class
You can decorate your house not only with standard snowflakes or stars. You can make such a wonderful vase out of paper. Download the finished diagram and assemble the vase following the instructions in the master class.
Decorating New Year's candies: Santa Claus's reindeer
New Year's paper craft Bow - step-by-step MK with photo
Paper bow for decorating gifts - diagram
Volumetric bow using origami technique for decorating New Year's gifts
Original DIY New Year's card
You can make not only flat or three-dimensional crafts from paper, but also movable ones. With our ready-made scheme, you can make a postcard with an encrypted greeting or message. Such an unusual gift will delight not only children, but also adults! You can download the finished diagram below.
By the way, we have a cool article on How to make New Year cards with your own hands.
Volumetric paper craft Heart using origami technique
Origami snowman - step-by-step diagram with photos
There are never too many snowmen. More crafts here.
Easy paper craft for kids - Santa star
Santa Claus made of colored paper
Or this cool craft can be made from ordinary colored paper.
DIY Christmas craft paper ball “Mistletoe”
You can make this mistletoe ball out of paper with your own hands using ready-made cutting templates. Be patient and have a New Year's mood!
Snowflakes: volumetric, protruding and 3D
Snowflakes are most often made to decorate interiors and Christmas trees. And not only because they are beautiful and “winter”. For children, this is perhaps the most interesting activity - cutting out paper and decorating windows with snowflakes or hanging them in garlands from the ceiling.
They are also easy to make. To make them, you only need to stock up on glue, scissors, a stationery knife and multi-colored sheets of paper. Even old newspapers and magazines are suitable for original retro-style snowflakes.
Schemes and templates for protruding snowflakes are usually downloaded or copied from the Internet. But if a child shows desire and imagination, he can always independently come up with and draw a pattern on paper. In these snowflake models, the main thing is to correctly fold the paper for the base. This is usually done according to different schemes.
Then a pattern is drawn on the blanks, which, after cutting and unfolding the paper, turns into an openwork snowflake.
Snowflakes are three-dimensional and in 3D format, a little more complex in their technique and require more perseverance from the child. But following step-by-step lessons in pictures or watching the process on video, it is much easier to cope with this task.
New Year's wreaths
This wreath will look equally beautiful on the doors to the children's room and on the front door. Made in different techniques and styles, wreaths will perfectly complement the holiday decor in your home.
This wreath will be easy to make. You will need a large pizza box and white printing paper. Well, of course, and glue, scissors, pencil and stencils downloaded in advance from the Internet. It is not necessary to make exactly such a drawing, the main thing here is a hint for the idea, and not blind copying.
On a pizza box, use the lid of a large pan or dish to draw a circle, and inside it is another circle. Cut it out to make a ring. This will be the base of the wreath.
If you know how to draw, then stencils will not be necessary. After all, drawing the silhouette of a Christmas tree, a house or a gingerbread man is easy and without any special skills. You just need to fold the piece of paper in half or like an accordion and draw, and then cut out only half of the figure, and the rest will appear when you unfold the structure. Like that.
You will also need to cut out a white ring, but smaller in size than the base. Next is a matter of technology. Glue a round dance of figures onto the base of the wreath, stepping back a few centimeters from the inner circle. To make it even, draw another circle, onto the base of which you will glue the silhouettes. Glue a ring of white paper on top of the figures, covering only the lower part. Hang a wreath on a beautiful ribbon on your child's bedroom door.
There are a lot of options for flat wreaths of this type. Use your imagination, call on a good mood to help you, and everything will turn out just fine.
Here are a few ideas for paper wreaths, but in voluminous shapes.
Paper garlands
Garlands are as traditional for the New Year holidays as snowflakes. They decorate the room and the Christmas tree. It is clear that garlands with smaller segments are used for the forest beauty than for interior decoration, but the manufacturing principle is the same. There are several types of garlands.
- All figures or snowflakes are cut out separately and then strung on a string, braid, or ribbon.
- All elements of the garland are fastened together with glue and form a single whole.
By the way, making such a chain of colored stripes is very simple. We think children will enjoy the process of making it.
Try making a garland like this from thick paper or one of those in the photo below.
Garlands of multi-colored snowflakes will look very beautiful.
Garlands can be hung horizontally or vertically, in one or in several layers.
And lanterns will look beautiful in garlands.
Flashlights
Lanterns have long been firmly established as a New Year's tradition. The classic flashlight, which we have been able to make since childhood, as shown in the diagram in the figure below, has long been passed down from generation to generation.
But it has already been joined by many other different versions of flashlights, made in different variations and techniques.
There are options for lanterns made of cardboard, in which it is quite acceptable to place a candle, and also use such a lantern both as New Year’s decor and as a lamp.
It turns out beautiful and practical. But it’s still not worth leaving such a lantern burning for a long time. And even more so - putting it in a children's room.
Volumetric figures
Three-dimensional figurines of New Year's characters can serve as interior decor. They are placed under the Christmas tree, hung on the branches of the Christmas tree, they are used to create a Christmas nativity scene or make up installations. Figures are made in different ways. As an example, look at the video on how to make a Christmas tree and a gnome out of paper.
We think that the youngest children will love the figures made from toilet paper rolls. For example, these are such funny bunnies.
The tube is either covered with colored paper (in this case, scrapbook paper), or painted with paints (gouache) and painted. Make the eyes either paper or buy ready-made ones. The craft is quick and simple to make, but what fun little bunnies you get! But it will be more difficult for a child to make a snowman from white papercraft paper. But if you like the idea, then make it for the child yourself. And let the child provide all possible assistance.
To make it easier, print out the templates for the head and torso and use them to bend the paper into three-dimensional polygonal balls.
In addition to the Christmas tree, snowman and hares, many other three-dimensional New Year's crafts are made from paper: angels, Father Frost and the Snow Maiden, deer, penguins, northern polar bears... In general, everyone associated with the New Year and Christmas holidays, winter and cold.
Firecrackers
If the baby is not the shy type, then he will definitely like a loud cracker filled with confetti or scraps of shiny paper. Moreover, making them yourself is not so difficult. The photo shows a step-by-step option for creating two different firecrackers.
For the first option you will need:
- tuba;
- balloon;
- 3-4 tbsp. spoons of confetti;
- tape, scissors;
- wrapping paper and tape or braid.
Tie the hole in the ball with thread, cut the other side with scissors and pull it onto a tube of toilet paper or napkins. Pour confetti into a tube and wrap it all in beautiful paper. Confetti will fly out of the cracker if you pull the “tail” of the ball and then quickly release it.
For the second option - candy-shaped crackers, you just need to cut the tube in half and pour confetti inside the halves and wrap them in corrugated paper. The ends of the “candy” are tied with a beautiful braid.
All you need to do is break the cracker in half so that multi-colored pieces of paper will shoot out of it.
Carnival masks and caps
Be sure to give your child a mask. See how easy it is to make it from a regular disposable paper plate. You just need to correctly measure the distance between the child’s eyes so that the mask does not cross-eyed.
For older children, for the New Year's ball at school, try making a different version of the mask, a more adult one. Using scrap paper and lace, you get a simply magical mask. It’s not a shame to show up at the carnival with this one in Venice.
Not confident in your capabilities and talents? Download a mask from the Internet and color it yourself.
To ensure that the mask is not flat, but three-dimensional, it should be drawn with special cuts along which it will then be glued together.
You can decorate a carnival mask made of cardboard and paper for a child with anything - confetti, glitter, feathers, lace, etc. Doesn't your child want a mask? Make a New Year's cap for him and him.
The cone for the cap and the entire cap as a whole are made according to the following template.
Christmas tree toys
They hang so many things on the Christmas tree! But toys made of paper, although not as durable as those made of glass, do not break if suddenly a baby or cat decides to drop the Christmas tree. It’s quite possible to place a small version of a New Year’s tree with such toys made of cardboard and paper in a children’s room, if the footage, of course, allows it.
“Fan” versions of toys look very nice on a large Christmas tree in the yard, when the paper is folded into an accordion, and then straightened and glued two fans into a circle. However, see for yourself how this is done, and take these ideas for yourself.
Toys made with an accordion or from strips of paper look very interesting. Even kids can handle these options for Christmas tree decorations. Mothers will only help them download templates of faces from the Internet or draw them themselves, but children of five or six years old are quite capable of making everything else on their own.
Paper balls that do not require gluing will also look great on the Christmas tree. The pattern and strips of paper (download the templates) are simply intertwined here, and the result is a beautiful sphere.
Paper crafts using the origami technique do not require gluing.
This Santa Claus will feel great both on the Christmas tree and under it. It's just a matter of size.
New Year cards and gift boxes
Everyone loves to receive New Year cards, especially if the card is made by hand. Originality and simplicity in execution are only two of the many advantages for making such a card for your little brother or older sister.
Kids will surely love this simple card with a Christmas tree. An older child will certainly appreciate a 3D postcard in the origami style.
Not only Christmas trees can be depicted on a postcard. When looking for ideas, look at the photo in Yandex. There is a lot of interesting stuff on this topic.
You don’t have to be a great artist to draw such cute New Year cards on paper for your child.
Applications and paintings made of paper on a New Year theme
As a child, everyone had to cut, glue and draw, and again cut and glue. Applique is perhaps one of the three most common types of creativity for children after drawing and modeling.
There are several types of applique using paper. An interesting option is made from finely chopped paper or paper balls.
To make such a winter New Year's landscape, you will need:
- two sheets of paper - white and blue;
- glue, scissors and black felt-tip pen;
- sequins for stars.
Glue stars to the top of the blue sheet, and draw a forest and a bunny on the white sheet.
Cut out the outline of the forest and paste it onto a blue piece of paper. Trace the picture with a felt-tip pen.
Cut the rest of the white paper finely and sprinkle it onto the outline of the forest, greased with glue. It turned out to be a great picture! If you put this applique in a frame, you won’t be ashamed to hang it in your child’s bedroom. At least for the winter. And in the spring a new, “warmer” plot will come to mind and replace the New Year’s applique with, for example, the eight-March theme - the first flowers, young grass, the sun.
Have you forgotten about the beautiful gift wrapping? If you like the ones in the photo, catch their patterns and get to work. The New Year is already looming on the horizon!
In general, dealing with paper is pleasant and useful. Therefore, parents make New Year's crafts from it together with their children or for children - everyone in the family will definitely enjoy it. Don't be lazy and cheer yourself up by decorating your room with handmade crafts and decor! And then the New Year will be a real magical holiday for the whole family, despite various harmful viruses and unpleasant price increases.
