Original garlands for the New Year: 7 directions for creating a festive surroundings (61 photos)

The Christmas industry offers hundreds of variations of interior decorations that can bring a magical holiday atmosphere to your home. For all their diversity, those garlands for the New Year that were made by oneself are still higher. What could be more interesting than finding materials, cutting parts and assembling them together? Such an activity will help to get closer to different generations, will allow in a natural, relaxed atmosphere to voice wishes for next year, share dreams and plans.

Before you make a garland, measure the space that you plan to decorate - it will be easier to determine the required amount of materials. The latter, by the way, do not have to be bought at all - habitual household items, foodstuffs, items of clothing and gifts of nature that have become irrelevant can be used.

How to make edible interior decoration?

Nobody will refuse a couple of gingerbread cookies, and they can literally decorate a holiday - if you string them on a narrow satin ribbon of scarlet or juicy green and hang them in the kitchen. To do this, when baking in the widest part of them, you need to make 2 holes with a distance of at least 1.5 cm - a connecting link will pass through them (cookies will not be collected sideways, but on the front side).

Garlands made of sweets look very beautiful - they are assembled into a single composition using a dense thread or fishing line tied around a wrapper. If it is planned that the product will be long, it is better to take light variations of sweets, especially if the choice fell on chocolate - so the bunch will sag less.

Coloring large pasta can be a great idea for a garland and creativity with a child. When they dry, they should be strung on a thick thread (you can use bright yarn for knitting) so that the pasta hangs vertically. A tight knot or eyelet should be tied under each hole so that the workpieces do not slip off.

If aromas are the priority, you can string dried slices of oranges, lemons, candied fruit on a thick thread - such a delicious decoration will definitely not be left without attention!

Colorful magic snowfall - felt or snowflake sets

Snowfall from felt is a felt garland that looks like threads with circles from this material, hung vertically in the room. You need to cut out circles of arbitrary size (not necessarily the same) and put together on a thick fishing line. Felt can be white and color - both options look quite impressive, the main thing is to leave the distance between the elements, then they will seem to soar in the air like a light snowfall in calm weather.

If households like to cut snowflakes, you can do the whole family for holiday decoration - make the maximum number of openwork blankets and string them into a garland.

You can hang the fishing line both horizontally and vertically: in the first case, you will create a traditional New Year decoration with your own hands, in the second, a colorful snowfall will form. For the manufacture of snowflakes, you can use not only special paper, which is sold in stores for homemade art, but also table napkins, ordinary notebook sheets - the lining will not be noticeable on an elegant lace pattern.

In search of a couple - a garland in the nursery

To decorate a nursery with an original garland for the New Year, it is worth stocking up in advance for a lost couple:

• woolen or knitted socks of bright colors;
• mittens;
• gloves;
• stockings.

Also here are already useful unnecessary hats for babies and other similar children's paraphernalia. All elements need to be sewn to a thick cord, alternating with brushes and pompons, Christmas-tree or simple toys. If there weren’t any such things on the farm, look at the children's stores: sales of small things are often arranged before the holidays, during this period you can buy a pack of mittens / gloves literally for a penny.

Such a garland does not have to be hung under the ceiling - it can be pulled between the columns of the bed, including the parent.

Decor from disposable plastic cups

The New Year will not be complete if you do not take the time to decorate with garlands that blink and shimmer with all the colors of the rainbow, living room or bedroom. To transform an already boring combination of bulbs, you can use such a cheap disposable container. For decorating cups, any materials can come in handy:

• fabric with an interesting thematic ornament;
• rhinestones, sparkles, beads;
• colored paper;
• foil;
• lace, braid, ribbons;
• napkins for decoupage.

The glue should be such that after drying it retains its transparency, it is also advisable to choose the simplest cups from translucent plastic.

First of all, the container needs to be decorated: glue it with something from the above list. If it is difficult to do everything “by eye”, you can pre-draw a stencil - roll a glass on paper, while tracing it with a pencil. The result should be a silhouette - the same if we cut the glass and laid it out on a plane. Let each disposable item be decorated in its own style - as a result, a truly designer composition is formed.

To connect the container with a garland, you need to make a cross-sectional cross-section of the same size on the bottom of each already decorated workpiece that is suitable for light bulbs. Next, carefully insert each bulb into its cup.

After the holidays, it is advisable to disassemble the decor - remove all the bulbs from the glasses and stack the latter on top of each other. In this case, the garland will last more than one year.

Fragrant natural compositions - needles and cones

If you have access to the gifts of nature, you can make a voluminous garland for the New Year 2019 with your own hands from spruce legs. Such decor can be fixed on the stair railing, hung on the walls, decorated windows - laid out on window sills. In this case, strong twine and glue for fidelity are used to connect the components, Christmas balls, tinsel, beautiful ribbons will serve as bright notes on a green background.

From dried cones you can also collect a wonderful composition. Each of them must be equipped with a loop:

• the easiest way is to run a rope through the scales and leave the tail;
• if there is a drill, a hole is carefully made using a narrow drill, a drop of glue is placed in it, plus a compact screw with a loop at the end.

Cones can be covered with sequins using transparent glue, garnish with rhinestones. Then they are strung on twine, fixed in place by auxiliary knots (so they will not slip and gather in a heap). An even more beautiful garland can be made up by alternating the cones with intricate Christmas toys.

Brightness and Zero Gravity - Compositions of Thread Balls

This idea for a garland came to us from the East, where for every major holiday it is customary to decorate streets and houses with lanterns and colored balls. To make such a garland for the New Year with your own hands is not at all difficult, the technique does not require special financial costs. You will need:

• multi-colored threads of a mouline thread or similar in thickness, multi-gauge yarn residues are also suitable;
• air balloons;
• PVA glue and colorless varnish;
• petroleum jelly or cream;
• shallow bowl;
• decorative elements - beads, spangles, rhinestones;
• twine or lamp garland.

The first stage is to inflate the balls, they will serve as a frame, they also need to be lubricated with cream so that the threads do not pester. Next, you need to pour the glue into a bowl and, dipping the thread, wrap the balls with yarn. When the entire surface is covered with thread, the base needs to be hung to dry, and until it is dry, you should do decoration - lay out the ornament from shiny components. When the thread winding is completely dry, the rubber ball must be pierced and carefully removed.

Ready-made crafts can be strung on a twine or supplement an existing factory garland by putting balls on light bulbs.

A variety of Christmas garlands of colored paper

Do-it-yourself paper garland for the New Year is a traditional holiday decoration of the interior, especially if there are children in the house. Everyone remembers multi-colored chains assembled from strips of rings that were performed at school at labor lessons. And who has not forgotten how to make "flashlights", cutting in a special way whole sheets of colored paper?

Of course, we can repeat such masterpieces at home with our children. Volumetric Christmas trees made of paper are a little more laborious: you need to cut out several identical parts on a stencil, put them along and glue them in halves, alternately connecting them with each other.

If you make certain bends on the blanks, you can make convex stars from paper yourself, they are also offered in the origami technique.

Armed with a stapler and paper strips, it is easy to make a garland of hearts: the beginning of one heart will become the middle of the next. If several strips of different lengths are used simultaneously, the elements of the composition will be multilayer.

When it is difficult to give preference to any one style, you can assemble "assorted" or a garland of components created during family creativity - string on origami figures, light Christmas decorations, snowflakes, voluminous spruce. Let everyone take part in the process - then at the festive table it will be possible to look at the decorations and be glad that everyone could leave a piece of good wishes in it.