How to make New Year toys with your own hands: super ideas for NG
Interesting, colorful Christmas toys can be made from a wide variety of materials. In this article, detailed instructions will be presented, thanks to which needlewomen will be able to understand how to make their own hands Christmas toys - paper, fabric, plastic. Namely, the processes of making paper Christmas balls and paper openwork snowflakes will be described, as well as variants for making plastic toys, and ways of performing fabric Christmas decorations will be described.
A selection of training video lessons
This article will offer a selection of videos in which needlewomen share ideas and talk about the options for making New Year toys using fabric and plastic bottles.
Balls with weaving
In order to make paper Christmas balls with weaving, you will need sheets of colored paper, sheets of white paper, templates, pencil, scissors, glue, brush, clothespins and pieces of satin ribbon.
First of all, you need to prepare templates for all the component parts of the ball. Below in the photo will be offered three variants of templates, each of which allows to make a ball decorated with an unusual weaving. Selecting one of the templates, you need to cut out two sets of parts: one set of colored paper, the other - from white paper. Then, the colored parts should be laid out in the shape of a flower, and in the middle, glue the circle to keep the parts in a single structure. Also you need to lay out the details cut from the white paper, only the parts must be laid in the opposite direction. Then it is necessary to put a design of white parts, and on top to put the design of their color parts and twist them, ie, superimpose each row of strips one upon another. After the rows are woven, you need to attach a piece of satin ribbon.
Openwork snowflake
In order to make an openwork snowflake, you will need an old book, fishing line, scissors, glue and glitter. First, on the pages of the book, you need to make a markup, that is, to designate bands of the same width, but of different lengths. Then the strip should be cut. Then each selection of five bands should be bent in the form of a drop so that one of the crystals of the snowflake is formed. The edges of all drops must be joined and secured with a fishing line. Similarly, several more such elements should be made. Further one selection of strips should be twisted in the form of a circle and fasten the edges of the line. After that, the crystals-billets should be glued to it in a circle. The side parts of the elements that make up the crystal must also be glued. At the final stage, the snowflake can be sealed with sequins and attach a loop from a fishing line or ribbon.
Christmas toys from ordinary bottles
Christmas toys made of plastic bottles will look great. The process of manufacturing such toys will not take long, besides, plastic bottles are sure to be found in every home. Below is the master class.
In order to make snowflakes, you will need plastic bottles, acrylic paints, satin ribbons, narrow double-sided adhesive tape, a knife.
- To form one snowflake you will need two identical plastic bottoms, therefore first of all it is necessary to cut off with the knife of the bottom of bottles.
- On the inside of each workpiece, draw a snowflake pattern.
- Then the resulting blanks must be connected using double-sided adhesive tape. Then you need to decorate the tape with a satin ribbon, in a tone that matches the color of the paint. The edges of the tape can be tied in a bow and attach a paper clip so that it is convenient to hang the toy on the Christmas tree.
From felt
Soft Christmas toys are also a wonderful decoration for a Christmas tree for the New Year. In order to perform a New Year's toy made of fabric, for example, from felt, you will need the actual fabric, scissors, needle and thread, ribbon.
First of the piece of cloth, you need to cut four identical circles, which must be joined in the middle with a seam. Then each half of each circle must be joined in the middle by small seams. At the top should attach a ribbon.