DIY snowflake crafts from polystyrene foam blanks. How to make a tank from ceiling tiles? Volumetric paper snowflakes.
On at the moment, market New Year's decorations replete with a variety of proposals, however, sometimes it is much more interesting to make DIY Christmas crafts than to buy. In addition, the process of making crafts itself will be interesting for our children.
For your attention, I would like to present 39 ideas for New Year's crafts that will create a festive atmosphere for you on a magical New Year's Eve.
It’s not for nothing that genius is considered simplistic. Many snowflakes that were studied in childhood can become excellent home decorations. You just need some imagination in snowy “shock” gnomes, “flying” birds or “drowning” deer. Both white and colored paper and scissors will be enough for this job.
Snige's "production" begins with folding the sheet. There are several ways to do this, but it's probably easier to take a square piece of paper and throw it halfway, then roll it again better to get the square right. Then fold it diagonally so that the sheet looks triangular. Draw the shapes, designs or designs you want on one of these triangles. To make the work look more like a snowflake rather than a scraper sheet, the scissors were rounded at the edges.
1. A Christmas tree decoration - a snowman - can be made from beer caps; to do this, just glue three caps to a ribbon, and with inside paint with paints.
2. Transparent Christmas balls give us unlimited flights of imagination. You can realize your most extraordinary fantasies in them, for example, pour luminous paint inside, make stains or fill them with colored beads.
If you choose small ornaments, then fold the sheet slowly, otherwise the snow will blow. With snowflakes you can wrap the windows with both by tightening them long thread and applying adhesive tape. In addition, the composition of the snowflakes in the window can be supplemented with cotton wool, or more precisely, with balls made from it. Brush them with a long thread, sparkle, if you have, glossy varnish and tie it between the snowflakes - this will create an attractive composition.
Almost anything can become a Christmas toy - from paper or straw figures to felt or cotton shaped ends. Of course, the biggest Christmas tree can be made with some candy or homemade fried gingerbread.
3. If you work a little on the Christmas ball and attach a cardboard basket to it, you can turn it into an unusual balloon.
So the first step in toy making is to see what materials you need at home. Perhaps you live in a village or have relatives who can provide at least a pinch of straw. Cut them out to create a few centimeters of hollow tubes. Remove the string and combine the four tubes to form a square. Make six individual squares, then tie them to a six-walled spherical cube. This is a toy. And with the help of your imagination, you can create more varied shapes from straw.
Great, take the scissors and cut out different shapes - a star, a silhouette of a person, a bell or just a circle. Decorate the clippers by pulling some buttons or colored fabric material. Turn the hole into a pair of scissors, cut the string and place it on the spruce. Great, cut out a few small strips with scissors and draw little shapes, stars or angel shapes out of them. Apply glue and scrape off pieces of cotton wool or finely ground foam and attach the lace.
4. You can make very original ones out of wire balloons which will be an excellent decoration for the Christmas tree
5. Computer fans will truly appreciate a Christmas tree ornament made from computer components that have failed or become obsolete.
This way the wire mold will turn into an original white Christmas tree. Bumblebee - both for a festive crown and for a garland. When decorating a home, one should not forget the country doorway. It's so much fun when they come home from the wreath. permafrost and wrapped with glitter or colored ribbon. And if you don't have a garden next to your house, don't you have a forest or the smallest bush lying around you? Next, make a wreath using twisted wool yarn bombs.
Before starting work, it is recommended that the wool threads be slightly heated over steam, so the yarn will become softer and bristly. Then cut out two cardboard circles with smaller circles inside them to create two "hollow buns". Place them on top of each other and wrap the threads tightly until the middle of the cutter is completely full. After trimming, trim the thread from the outer edge. Carefully peel the cardboard circles and pull the threads tightly in the middle. Finally, cut the circles, cut the twisted threads. This is a blow.
6. From spruce branches, using glue, you can make quite cute snowflakes that will become an integral New Year's decor.
7. You can make a very original snowflake from cocktail tubes. To do this, cut tubes of equal length, collect them in a stack, and tie them in the middle with wire. Straighten the tubes and, if necessary, paint them with golden spray paint.
To make the wreath more interesting, we can make balloons in different colors and sizes. When you make enough balloons, stick them onto a previously prepared cardboard stencil in the shape of a crown. By the way, from various forms and bubble colors, thread threads, you can make festive garland, which you will place on the Christmas tree, window or prayer.
Admittedly, the tradition of gift stockings is slowly becoming more and more of a place on the list of holiday decorations. This is a decoration and convenient way present gifts. To create a sock like this, you simply need to find sections of material and cut two identical silhouette soles from it.
8. You can make a very original candlestick with your own hands from a glass. To do this, the glass must be turned over and decorated. The stem of the glass will serve as a candlestick.
9. On the other hand, you don’t have to spoil the glass, but in the meantime, make a very stylish New Year’s candlestick. To do this, you need to assemble a small composition of miniature figurines, pour artificial snow into a glass and cover the composition.
10. According to the previous principle, you can collect New Year's craft with your own hands using a jar and compositions of miniature figurines. This craft will be an excellent decoration for your table, window sill or fireplace.
11. Another version of the New Year's composition can be used as a Christmas tree decoration; for this, the composition is assembled on cardboard and a plastic cup is glued on top.
12. For festive table setting, you can use colored cardboard.
13. A very cute Christmas wreath can be made from ordinary balls of thread, you just need to use your imagination.
14. If there is not enough snow, you can use plastic cups to make a snowman.
15. Using paint or glitter glue, you can transform any glass vase into something extraordinary.
16. You can leave your historical mark on life and make an unusual Christmas picture.
17. Using golden paint and glitter you can create a very interesting New Year's composition.
18. You can make a bright and colorful Christmas ball with your own hands just using a foam ball, sequins, and pins.
19. A very unusual and stylish New Year's decoration will be a picture of New Year's tree balls.
20. Unusual New Year's crafts can be made from ordinary things, such as in this case, New Year's crafts can be made from burlap and paints.
21. Original Christmas tree decorations in the form of ice cream can be made from scrap materials - cardboard and colored paper.
22. Leave your and your child's mark on Christmas tree decorations using safe finger paints.
23. On the other hand, you can use the print of not the entire palm, but only one finger, which will later become a cute face.
24. Using a foam ball, lace, glue, and paints, you can make a very original New Year's craft with your own hands, which will become the main decoration of the New Year's tree
25. An unusual Christmas tree decoration can be made from threads; to do this, inflate a ball and wrap it with thick threads or yarn, constantly coating the threads with PVA glue. After the glue has dried, the ball can be deflated and removed. After which you can coat it with glue again and sprinkle it with glitter.
26. Using the previous technology, instead of threads, you can use wire strung with beads and crystals.
27. Using glue and glitter you can make very beautiful New Year's decorations.
28. New Year's crafts can be made literally from waste, for example, you can make your own snowman or Santa Claus from a toilet paper tube.
29. A very interesting chandelier can be made from paper snowflakes, just by tying them with a thread to the frame. If your imagination is limited, you can download snowflake templates, where you just need to print the template on a printer, fold the sheet and cut it out.
35. Snowflakes can be made not only from paper, but also from pasta; to do this, the pasta must be glued together and painted with some kind of shiny paint.
36. A New Year's candle can create that magical atmosphere in your home, which is sometimes lacking. To do this, fill the jar with New Year's attributes (cones, spruce or juniper branches). The jar is filled with paraffin oil. We install the wick in the lid and voila, New Year's candle, made with your own hands is ready.
37. You can make an original New Year's candle in a jar. To do this, we use a regular jar, decorated with paints and. A wick is inserted into the jar itself and filled with paraffin.
38. You can make New Year's penguins from plastic bottles using just paints and pieces of fabric that will be used as a scarf or hat.
39. Using the bottoms of plastic bottles and paint, you can make very original snowflakes.
You can make unique decorations and crafts from ordinary foam ceiling tiles. New Year. The article contains examples of these and a description of how to do them.
Often there is a desire to decorate your home with holiday crafts. This ritual is especially important on the eve of the New Year. After all, it is for this celebration that people expect some kind of miracle. Children expect magic first, so they try the hardest.
Crafts can be made from various materials, and there is a lot of information about this online. Very original toys for the Christmas tree are made from ordinary foam tiles, which are glued to the ceiling. Next, let's look at examples of New Year's decorations made of polystyrene foam in detail.
How to make a white fairy house from ceiling tiles: diagrams, description, photos
To get started, first of all stock up free time. This process will require patience, skill, and desire. And the kids will be delighted with this work.
Prepare materials and tools in advance:
- scissors, marker, glue
- tile, sharp knife
- felt-tip pens, gouache, colored paper, foil
The house can be made in one plane, or rather, simply cut out a pattern of the roof, front panel with a window and a pipe on the roof from foam plastic. Or you can build a whole 3-D model of a real fairy-tale gingerbread house or Baba Yaga’s hut.
For the second option do the following:
- Cut out four walls of the house from polystyrene foam
- Two identical roof parts
- Two isosceles triangle for the front and back of the attic part of the building
- Then carefully make openings where the windows and doors will be
- In the future, you can decorate them with colored paper and make curtains inside
- Glue all finished parts of the product
- Cut the pipe and glue it to the roof
- To make the house more fun, you can also make a whole courtyard
- There, make a Christmas tree in the yard (again, from polystyrene foam)
- Use felt-tip pens and paint to decorate it and draw toys on the branches.
How to make snowflakes from ceiling tiles: cutting templates, photos
What would a New Year's holiday be without beautiful white snowflakes? different shapes. They are cut out not only from paper, but also from ceiling tiles. It’s just worth considering that you can’t fold polystyrene foam like paper so that the snowflake turns out strictly symmetrical.
To create neat products you will need patterns (templates that you can make from cardboard). Such patterns are subsequently not difficult to transfer to the material using a regular felt-tip pen; you just need to outline the contours.
You will see a number of such examples of patterns in the image below.
They can be printed on a printer, and then carefully cut out and glued to stronger paper. Again, cut them out, after which you can safely transfer them to the foam tiles.
Now cut out the intricate patterns of snowflakes on the foam with a sharp knife. Hang the finished products on the Christmas tree or decorate them with garlands and chandeliers in the house.
IMPORTANT: When you cut out snowflake figures from ceiling tiles, keep in mind that the material is brittle and perform the process carefully, with maximum accuracy.
How to make a Christmas tree from ceiling tiles?
If the tree is already in the house, then the children know that gifts will definitely appear under it for the New Year. But there are unexpected situations when adults did not have time to buy the most main symbol New Year. In this case, don’t be upset; a nice Christmas tree will turn out from different sizes of ceiling tiles.
True, the product will require thicker tiles. In addition, you need to collect more squares, then the artificial beauty will come out large.
Fold the squares into a pyramid, as in the picture below. Glue a small top on top.
Christmas tree - do it yourself IMPORTANT: Any decoration for the Christmas tree will do. Silver rain, garlands, beads will be very useful.
How to make Christmas tree decorations from ceiling tiles?
As Christmas tree decorations, you can use a variety of figurines with a suitable New Year theme.
Santa Claus with gifts 
Deer - do it yourself 
How to make decorations from ceiling tiles?
From one ceiling tile you can cut dozens of small decorations that hang on front door or to other places on the eve of New Year's celebrations.
Anyone who knows how to draw well will, without much effort, beautifully decorate products using felt-tip pens, gouache and other auxiliary materials. To keep them on the garlands, Christmas tree, stars, bells, snowflakes, tie threads.
Beautiful decorations for the New Year IMPORTANT: Follow safety rules. After all, polystyrene foam melts and easily ignites when exposed to high temperatures, fire. Therefore, it won’t hurt you to explain to your child that you can’t play around with fire to avoid a fire.
How to make flowers from ceiling tiles?
Flowers, like snowflakes, must be cut out after you transfer the design from the template to the foam. So that they are different colors, decorate them with gouache. A varied pattern will be created on the surface of the flowers, as there are interesting patterns on the ceiling tiles.
How to make a snowman from ceiling tiles?
Using the appliqué technique, make a snowman from ceiling tiles. Then place it under the tree on a small stand made of another tile so that it does not fall. Cheerful snowman will delight you and your children and charge you with positivity throughout the winter holidays.
Snowman on New Year holidays from ceiling tiles How to make Santa Claus from ceiling tiles?
You will get a cute Santa Claus on the Christmas tree in the form of a toy if you cut him out according to a template from ceiling tiles. In addition, for a beautiful design, you can dress him in a hat or a fur coat made of red fabric. And paint your face with paints. Make the beard, mustache, and edges out of white plush.
Santa Claus - do it yourself How to make a tank from ceiling tiles?
It is better to make a tank from combined materials. To do this, prepare:
- several sheets of ceiling tiles
- cardboard, knife, glue
- paint, markers, scissors
First, make a tank pattern, like in scheme below, on plain paper.
Work progress:
- Cut out the foam pieces
- Start by assembling the bottom of the tank
- Glue all the other parts of the craft together
- Carefully color it with felt-tip pens and paint.
Polystyrene foam is an excellent material for this type of craft. If you have imagination, you can come up with various toys for the New Year yourself. Thus, please yourself and your little family members by making them together.
