Crafts from paper for the New Year: how to decorate a house for the holiday with your own hands (56 photos)
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On the eve of the New Year, many begin to think about the design of their home. The tradition of decorating the Christmas tree appeared a long time ago, but people's imagination is not limited to this. Bright garlands, toys, tinsel, a brilliant rain hang out everywhere: on the walls, under the ceiling. Of course, you can buy holiday decorations, but it’s much more pleasant to make them yourself. The simplest and most popular material for crafts is colored paper.
Paper and cardboard in the New Year's interior
In the design of residential premises, paper is not only wallpaper. The fantasy of needlewomen is so limitless that it allows you to craft absolutely any object from this material: vases, lampshades, and even furniture. Another thing is the functionality of such crafts, mainly it depends on the density of the paper.
However, is it worth it to focus on durability and functionality when it comes to decorations for celebrating the New Year? In this case, another criterion is more important - brightness, creating a mood, and attractive appearance.
Also, do not forget about the harmony of colors. Choose shades so that they blend well with each other. The most popular New Year's gamut: green, red and white. Luxury and charm will add sparkles - gold and silver. According to Eastern traditions, the Yellow Dog is the patron of the coming year, so in order to attract good luck, it is worthwhile to use this color in the design of the apartment.
Using a combination of materials for crafts, choose eco-friendly and lightweight. For example, they combine well with paper and add New Year's mood to the interior with glass beads, ribbons, tinsel, rain, cotton wool, tree branches, dried rowan berries.
10 ideas for paper creativity for the New Year
- On New Year's Eve, it is advisable to choose at least one thematic decoration. It is believed that home decoration on the eastern calendar brings good luck and prosperity to the owners. Make an applique paper or panel depicting a cute puppy. Also consider making origami for the New Year. Such paper dogs can be used as seating cards for table setting.
- However, paper crafts for New Year 2019 do not have to have the shape of a dog. For example, do-it-yourself paper Christmas trees look original, they can be either voluminous or in the form of a flat applique, panel. The color and size of the crafts also depends on individual preferences. An interesting option is to replace a real living tree with paper decoration.
- It is customary to decorate windows with paper snowflakes. This decor looks especially beautiful in the evening. However, openwork snowflakes will be appropriate not only on glass, but also on walls, doors, curtains, they can even be hung from the ceiling. It is not necessary to make such decorations from white paper, focus on the background: dark on light, and vice versa, light of different shades on dark. Also, snowflakes can be not only flat, but also voluminous, try combining several options.
- Crafts from corrugated paper for the New Year are no more difficult to accomplish than from ordinary ones. They look quite impressive, such material gives additional volume. For example, try making Christmas tree cones similar to real ones.Or by choosing corrugated paper in different colors, make a bright garland of pompons.
- The front door can be decorated with a bright Christmas wreath of colored paper. The combination of materials looks great, so add a variety of ribbons, beads, rowan brushes, needles to the craft. Since the paper is afraid of moisture, it is not worth decorating the dwelling with such a wreath on the outside, it is better to hang it on the interior door or on the front door, but from the inside.
- The New Year tree can be decorated not only with purchased toys. Make multi-colored volumetric balls, paper beads. Such decor will look elegant, creative. Even a star on the top of a spruce can be paper.
- If you want to make paper crafts for the New Year with young children, then stripe toys are a great option. Cut multi-colored paper and give the craft the desired shape with your fingers, fix the ends with glue. It can be ovals, squares, rhombuses, triangles - it all depends on your imagination. For example, from 2-3 circles you get a nice snowman. Add him a hat, a scarf and hang the toy on the Christmas tree. Or, from the many red stripes, form two balls and make a cute Santa Claus by attaching a hat and a white beard to him.
- Another interesting option for creativity with children is applications and panels from napkins. The essence of the craft is to tear the colored pieces of the napkin, roll up the balls and fill them with a glue on the cardboard. The image can be printed on a printer or drawn by hand. Such simple crafts are used as postcards for relatives and kindergarten teachers.
- In addition to the Christmas tree, champagne and tangerines, the chimes are an invariable New Year attribute. To prolong the Christmas mood, make a watch from paper that always shows midnight.
- What is New Year without sweets? And if for some reason you can’t eat sweets, then why not use them as a room decor. Not real, of course, but paper ones. Such decorations will look great both on the Christmas tree and in the form of a garland along the wall. Making them is quite simple: you just need to wrap pieces of cotton wool or twisted cardboard in bright colored candy wrappers from paper. Additionally, the craft can be decorated with brilliant rain.
What you may need for paper crafts
To create crafts, you need to provide all the details, the necessary materials should be at hand. Most often, paper is not the only item that you may need.
- To fasten paper parts, you need glue (regular stationery, PVA) and a brush. It can be replaced with a stapler, scotch tape or even a thread with a needle;
- To cut parts, prepare scissors or a stationery knife;
- So that the made toy can be hung on a Christmas tree, think over a loop. To do this, you need a thread or ribbon;
- If you want to further decorate your man-made masterpiece, use various accessories (buttons, beads, sequins), natural material. For Christmas crafts, tinsel and the crumb of a Christmas tree toy are especially relevant;
- Do not forget that you can also draw on paper. You can also make the corresponding inscriptions “Happy New Year!” Or “Happy New Year!” Pencils, felt-tip pens, paints and shiny helium pens will maximize the horizons of creative possibilities.
All of the above materials are readily available, as is the paper itself. You can usually buy everything you need for crafts in one place.
So, in order to decorate your house for dogs on New Year's Day, you do not need large financial expenses. Such a simple and affordable material for creativity as paper will allow you to create unique holiday decorations. In addition to the office, you just need a little patience and imagination. Good luck and inspiration!