Irina Nikolaevna Koklova
We are all looking forward to the New Year. He opens the door to the world for us magic. The chiming clock is undoubtedly one of the main symbols of the New Year. I suggest you do magic clock, which will become an attribute of the New Year. They can be used to decorate a group or give as a gift.
Master- the class is quite simple. Children can easily repeat it under the guidance of an adult.
We will need: a cut of wood, sushi chopsticks, numbers (I used counting material, New Year's decor- stars, beads, artificial twigs, gouache, glue gun, small New Year's balls.
Place the numbers in order on the cut and glue them with hot glue. You can use another glue that you use.
Let's make arrows from sushi sticks and paint them black with gouache.
Let's decorate watch and close the gap with New Year's decor.
Let's hang the balls on a branch.
Let's hang the beads.
Let's decorate our watches with stars.
Let's cover the base of the arrows with a New Year's plaster star, which the children also made. Grandfather is wearing it Freezing.
Let's decorate plaster herringbone clock.
Our the magic clock is ready. We are waiting Santa Claus and, of course, New Year's gifts under the Christmas tree. Happy New Year to you, dear colleagues. New creative works, inspiration, ideas.
Publications on the topic:
"Fixies and Santa Claus' Magic Clock." Matinee for older children FIXES AND SANTA'S MAGIC WATCH ENTRANCE TO THE HALL 1. Who is dressed up warm fur coat, With a long white beard, B New Year comes to visit, I.
The best holiday is New Year, it won’t leave anyone out. Who is hurrying along the pavement with a big bag behind him? This is good Santa Claus, He is in demand today.
Master class on making a New Year's toy Santa Claus from natural and waste material. To make a toy we will need:.
The following material was chosen to make the craft: a plastic bottle with a capacity of 5 liters, padding polyester measuring one meter by meter, a small piece.
Master class “Santa Claus’s Workshop” Master class "Santa Claus's Workshop" Purpose: Formation of a child's value-based attitude to the world and the social reality surrounding him.
On the eve of the New Year holidays, children 6-10 years old, parents, and teachers can make a craft - “Portrait of Santa Claus.” Craft for.
A magical winter has arrived, which inspires new creative ideas. In one of my works I brought to your attention a decoration.
Hello, dear friends and colleagues! Having created the work “Our Group”, I decided to come up with a continuation for it and place it in the mathematical zone:.
Svetlana Bezzubova
"Magic clock".
New Year is coming soon. We are all preparing for this holiday with great enthusiasm and desire to celebrate it with dignity. You always want something new and beautiful, funny and surprising. The whole family has great fun tinkers DIY toys for the Christmas tree, various decorations, gifts for relatives and friends.
I would like to demonstrate the sequence of making a watch using a variety of seemingly completely unnecessary items.
To do this, prepare everything you need for our craft. We will need
two computer disks, a dial from an old alarm clock or made by yourself from cardboard, disposable forks, braid, ribbons, beads, rhinestones, cord, arrows, spruce and pine cones, New Year's toys, glue, scissors, tweezers, paint, etc.
Place the forks in a circle and then secure them between the disks with glue.
Glue the dial.
Decorate with braid and ribbons, weaving them between the forks. Decorate the craft with rhinestones and beads.
Attach arrows. Attach the pine cones to the cord (they can also be pre-painted and decorated with rhinestones).
This craft will definitely decorate your interior and bring a lot of joy from joint creativity both adults and children.
I wish everyone good luck!
Publications on the topic:
"Magic New Year's clock." New Year's scenario for the senior group Program content: to cheer up children with anticipation New Year's holiday; remember the signs of winter; continue to teach children the elements.
Educational areas: cognitive development FCCM, cognitive development FEMP, social and communicative development, speech development.
"Fixies and Santa Claus' Magic Clock." Matinee for older children FIXES AND MAGIC HOURS OF SANTA CLAUS ENTRANCE TO THE HALL 1. Who in a smart warm fur coat, With a long white beard, comes to visit on New Year’s Day, I.
In the process of introducing children to various types hours, the principle of their work and their role in a person’s life, the guys and I found out that they are the most convenient.
Hello, dear friends and colleagues! Having created the work “Our Group”, I decided to come up with a continuation for it and place it in the mathematical zone:.
Master class " Magic snowflakes"You will need: paper, scissors and glue. 1. Take a square sheet of paper and fold it diagonally.
Scenario for the New Year's holiday “Magic Hours” (senior group) Magic clock. Scenario senior group The presenters enter to the music: Presenter: How nice it is that the Guests came here today. And without looking.
New Year's carnival. 2015-16 Magic clock of Santa Claus. Description of work. Holidays in kindergarten are an important part of pedagogy.
Good afternoon. Today I have prepared an article filled with children's crafts in New Year theme. This magical holiday is coming soon - they will announce it at school and kindergarten about do-it-yourself New Year's craft competitions. This circumstance will force you to go online in search of suitable idea for your future school masterpiece - and this is where my article will give you Family Bunch of New Year's ideas for 2019.
And we will have a lot of crafts - enough for kindergarten, and for school, and as a gift for mom, dad, grandparents . To make it convenient for you, I divided all the crafts into groups- according to the materials from which they are made. That is, I introduce the material and technique - and then show how this technique looks on real New Year's children's crafts in bright photo ideas.
In our article you will find...
- Crafts-characters from cardboard cone
- crafts from paper strips in the New Year theme
- crafts for the New Year - from disposable plates
- Christmas toys made from cardboard egg cassettes,
- toys from rolls from toilet paper
- voluminous New Year's applications from paper fans
And also on our website there are crafts and drawings for a competition for school or kindergarten
– in the article
So let's start our New Year Boom 2019 with your own hands.
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New Year's crafts from CONES.
Here is a simple paper craft for children for the New Year - Santa Claus from a cardboard cone. It’s very easy to do it yourself if an adult helps you twist and staple a cardboard bag.
Paper cone rolls up from a regular SEMI CIRCLE made of cardboard- or not even from half the circle, but from its third ( the smaller part of the circle we take under our cone bag, the thinner and more elongated the silhouette of the cone turns out).
Glued onto the finished red cardboard cone white paper overlay in the shape of a beard (triangular shape– right photo, or oval fringe with a long cut – left photo). After gluing the beard, glue it on top oval face(add a mustache appliqué on top of the face if necessary) – draw eyes, nose, cheeks. You can glue the legs of Santa Claus to the cone.
Such New Year's crafts are convenient to do with children in kindergarten - if you prepare red cones connected with a stapler in advance. Give children decorative options, details, glue scissors and let them turn a red cardboard cone into Santa Claus.
Here are some more design options for the same paper crafts for the new year. In the first case, the beard is one semicircular piece of paper. And in the second case, the beard is several oval layers of paper ( and each oval is shorter than the previous one) and the edges of each oval are cut into fringe strips. Come up with your own design - with your mind and imagination - and bring it to life with your own hands.
And here is a DIY version of Santa Claus, which can be folded right away of three cones.
FIRST lower red cone(this is Santa Claus’s coat) – we glue appliques of Santa Claus’s hands onto the sides of this lower red cone.
SECOND medium white cone(this is the beard of Santa Claus) - glue his face and mustache onto him.
THIRD upper red cone(this is Santa Claus's hat)
From the same THREE cones of different sizes you can make a Christmas tree for children.
And here is Santa Claus, made of two cones - the lower COAT and the upper FACE WITH HAT.
Craft template you can copy directly from your monitor screen if you place a piece of paper directly on the screen and trace the translucent image with a pencil. To enlarge the image screen - you need to press the Ctrl button on your keyboard, and with your other hand roll the mouse wheel forward.
And if the theme of Santa Claus and his Reindeer is to your liking, then on our website there are just such heart-warming article-lessons with master classes and templates
Well, we will continue, about the topic of cone crafts. In such crafts the cone can only be the BODY of the future character- and his FACE can be inserted into the slot on the top of the cone - as was done on the New Year's snowman craft in the photo below. A good and simple craft for kindergarten classes (for middle and older groups - children 4-6 years old).
And here is an original craft where a New Year's holiday couple is made from cones - Father Frost and Snow Maiden. Our mothers made this craft with their own hands on the forum. Very talented and skillful.
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New Year's crafts made from cardboard
You can use regular school cardboard. Cut out the details of New Year's characters from different colors of cardboard and glue them together. Make a SUPPORT at the back so that the figures stand vertically. Or instead of a support You can glue a box (of tea or cookies) to the back wall, cover it with colored paper, and fill it with sweets if you wish.
The craft in the photo below has a bag of sweets glued to the back of the snowman. Due to this, the figure does not fall.
You can use patterned paper in the craft - the kind that gifts are wrapped in. This way your craft will be even more elegant - with polka dots or flower patterns, like the New Year's penguin in the photo below.
Here is a compact Santa Claus made of red cardboard. You can use formiam or hard thick felt instead of cardboard.
Here interesting way make Santa Claus out of cardboard - an easy-to-make children's craft
You will find many more ideas with applique in the form of Santa Claus in a special article
You can make a three-dimensional cardboard pendant for the Christmas tree using other techniques. We form a New Year's character from cardboard and colored paper. And then we glue a belly to it, which in turn we decorate with rhinestones. A semicircular tummy can be made by cutting it in half foam ball, or make from salt dough, then bake or dry.
You will find a template for such silhouette crafts in our special article
And here is a beautiful craft for the New Year for the kindergarten - a Christmas tree made of coated white cardboard. We glue two sheets of glossy coated cardboard together. IMPORTANT!!! — glue sheets of cardboard using dry glue (glue stick, double-sided tape), without wet PVA glue, otherwise the cardboard will rise and go in waves.
You can glue two sheets, or even three.
As a result, we will get a solid plate white . We transfer the Christmas tree template onto it. Trace the template with a pencil and cut it out. We sew a fluffy green garland along the edge of the Christmas tree with thread or glue it on. We attach Christmas trees to the paws christmas balls, we hang glass beads and satin ribbons, you can decorate them in different ways, at your discretion. We fix the Christmas tree in a stand. To ensure that the Christmas tree stands well, we weigh down the stand with plasticine, a wooden board, or a book.
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New Year's crafts FROM Ribbons.
And here are crafts made from textile ribbons. You can use stiff ribbons of coarse, dense material and force the craft to hold its shape (as is done with the flower craft in the left photo below). There, solid red beads also act as a rigid frame and hold the ribbon petals in a clear shape.
You can use a soft ribbon and string it onto a thin wooden skewer to create the silhouette of a Christmas tree. A very simple and quick DIY craft for the New Year.
The same idea of a Christmas tree made from ribbons can be developed and transferred to other New Year’s characters - as was done in the children’s crafts in the photo below. You yourself, with your own mind and your own hands, can create new versions of this idea - and use any creative idea from this site only as a STARTING POINT for your own AUTHOR'S IDEA.
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New Year's crafts
FROM PAPER STRIPES.
And here are ideas for New Year's crafts, where the basis for creative thought is a base in the form of a ball folded from strips of paper of the same length. The balls are glued to each other - we get a base in the form of a HEAD and BODY. And then the work goes on - gluing the face, hands and other elements of personalization of the craft.
In the example below, we see that two balls make Santa Claus if you glue an applique of a beard with a face and a mustache to the front ball, glue hands in mittens and fur cuffs to the sides of the body, and crown the top of the craft with a white cotton wool pompom.
And here is an example of a children's DIY craft made from strips of paper where two balls turn into a snowman due to the eyes and nose of a carrot. Two round hands and an applique of a broom and shovel.
And a cheerful New Year's deer can be made from ONE ball. Please note that next to the deer there are flat stars - they are made according to the same principle - the strips are folded into a ball - and then flattened along the equator line of the ball.
And here is the master class itself, showing how to make such a New Year's from strips of paper volumetric ball. Strips are cut. On each of them we find the MIDDLE POINT. We thread the thread into a needle - attach a bead to the end of the threaded thread and use a needle to pierce the MIDDLE POINTS of each strip.
We move the pierced strips apart with rays in different directions - and then we pierce the ends of each strip again with a needle at a height - at the top of the ball. We secure all this with a bead on the top and then all that remains is to decorate the ball for the character or craft toy we need.
Using a similar principle, we can create such a children’s craft-toy for the Christmas tree from strips of paper (as in the photo below).
And here are alternative designs of strip technology. You see penguins that are made of stripes but are connected into a ball according to a different principle.
And in the example of the polar bear from the photo below, we see that the head part of the craft can be a ping-pong ball or a foam ball. And in the middle, beads can be strung on a thread (this will make the craft look more elegant). Think with your head, dream with your soul - and do it with your own hands.
A beautiful New Year's team for a competition in kindergarten or school.
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New Year's crafts
FROM ROLLS.
You can make a lot of beautiful New Year's crafts from toilet paper rolls. You can make elegant Santa Clauses like in the left photo below. Please note that the beard on this craft is made of white lace. And the cap on the head is sewn from fabric (you can use colored crumpled crepe paper).
But the snowmen (in the right photo below) - you can make headphones from fluffy wire brushes. Scarves are made from pieces of fabric, and real buttons are glued on.
But the craft is an angel. Very delicate and easy to make. We cover the roll with paint of two colors - pink gouache at the top, white at the bottom. For the wing we take lace paper napkin(in the absence of one, you can simply cut out an openwork snowflake from paper) fold it in half and glue it to the back of the angel.
The most interesting thing is the angel's hairstyle - it only looks complicated, but in fact - the upper part of the hairstyle is ordinary yellow paper circle, which are around the circumference fringed– these fringes fall to the side of the roll in the form of a circular bang. And then on the sides we add strips of paper, first we twist the lower part of each strip onto a pencil (or run a scissor blade along them so that they twist themselves into a tight curl). You will find a lot of ideas for paper angels in our article.
You can also make elegant Christmas trees and crafts from toilet rolls.
Here interesting idea round Christmas tree cut from a roll. We take the roll, flatten it into a plane, draw the legs of the Christmas tree on the sides of this plane, cut them out, and then flatten the roll back into a circle. Glue on rhinestones and a star.
Or the roll can only be used as a stand for a flat cardboard Christmas tree.
Rollo also makes excellent penguins. – the rolls must be covered with thick black gouache before making the craft. And so that during application the children’s hands do not get dirty with black paint and do not contaminate other parts of the craft, we must COVER our BLACK ROLLS with HAIR SPRAY - this will make the paint shine and stop staining your hands with black soot.
You can draw familiar features of your favorite cartoon character on rolls (as was done with the snowmen from the cartoon Frozen).
Can you decorate the craft? additional elements cuttings - as was done in the example of the deer from the right photo below. Here we cut out the crotch between the deer's legs (so that these legs, in fact, appeared). And we also cut top part roll - leaving a tail-neck - we will glue the silhouette of the head onto this bent tail.
We can come up with our own designs of familiar New Year's characters. It’s so interesting to pick up a gray, unremarkable external roll-sleeve and turn it into a piece of the New Year’s holiday.
But here is a children's craft made from rolls, but already cut into pieces. This can be made from ordinary flat cardboard, if you roll it into a tube using a stapler and cut it into the lengths we need. A simple and interesting three-dimensional craft for children for the New Year.
And also from rolls - you can fold it like this such a beauty - a big Christmas tree. It will look good in the office and in a kindergarten group. True, the rolls need to be assembled in advance and then painted for quite some time. There won't be enough gouache - it's better to buy a liter jar of white façade paint and a bottle of green color. Pour the color into white acrylic, stir and paint with a wide brush or sponge.
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New Year's crafts
FROM BARPLE.
But here are New Year's crafts, which are made from a cheap and very convenient texture material - ROUGH BARP.
Dense burlap starches well and takes on a rigid shape. It can be painted any color and folded into the rigid shape of craft parts.
You can cut out petals from starched, dyed burlap and fold the flower. You can glue the burlap onto cardboard and cut out the silhouette of an owl - add appliques of wings and eyes with a beak.
From inconspicuous-looking burlap you can make very delicate beautiful crafts for the new year. For example, this mitten has acquired a New Year's chic thanks to lace, beads, bells and pine branches.
A simple piece of gray fabric can sparkle in your imagination. And turn into a deer with twig antlers or a cute New Year's bird.
You can cut out stars from rough canvas by simply gluing them onto cardboard (as in the left photo below).
Or by folding diamond-shaped rays into modules from burlap and making a star out of them (as in the right photo below).
You can cover an ordinary toilet paper roll with a piece of burlap and decorate it with a red cardboard edging and an applique of colored paper. And we will get a cute craft-basket for the New Year tree. Simple and interesting work for a competition in kindergarten.
You can stretch burlap like a canvas onto a picture frame and draw a New Year's picture on it. You can safely take such a New Year’s children’s craft to a competition at school or kindergarten. It will decorate any exhibition of New Year's children's works.
And an even better idea for New Year's paintings, painted on canvas or paper sheet I collected it in a special article
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New Year's crafts
FROM BOXES
And here are crafts made from ordinary boxes. SMALL boxes of tea, cookies, toothpaste, cream, medicine are suitable. For large crafts, LARGE juice boxes, shoe boxes, or office paper boxes are suitable.
A nose, a shaggy Christmas tree, ears made of colored paper, horns made of thick tree branches - and here in front of us New Year's craft deer. Or stick a nose, eyes, buttons on a box covered with white paper, tie it with a scarf and put on a hat - you get a simple snowman craft.
Using the same principle, any rectangular surface of the box can be decorated as Santa Claus, a penguin, or any New Year's character.
You can turn the box into a toy snowy house.
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New Year's crafts HATS.
And here's the most simple ideas New Year-themed masks and hats. Deer, snowman, Santa Claus - any holiday character can be embodied from ordinary colored paper.
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New Year's crafts APPLICATIONS.
And here are applique crafts for the New Year. You can make small shaped appliques on rolled cardboard - as pendant toys for the New Year tree.
The simplest applique for school or kindergarten is a snowman. But it does not have to be done in traditional technique. You can show your imagination and make a snowman from non-standard materials - gypsum plaster diluted in water, or from finely chopped crumpled paper.
Children's New Year's applique craft can be multi-layered. And it doesn’t have to be done on a rectangular sheet of paper. On the contrary, a children's craft will look more elegant if it is done on a round sheet of cardboard. And cover the edges of the sheet with paper lace cut from a large paper snowflake.
And here are more examples of volumetric convex applique crafts. Any character that has a muzzle or face can be made in the form of a voluminous applique if a triangular DOT is provided on the silhouette of the face. You can see these darts on the templates in the picture below.
We simply cut them with scissors (we make a cut on only one side of the dart) - and then we glue the side of the dart under the cut (hiding the dart in the gluing).
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New Year's crafts NAPKIN HOLES.
But here are New Year's crafts that can decorate your festive table. The fact is that the Santa Clauses we see below are attachments for table napkins.
In the first case (in the left photo below), we make a bag out of spare paper, glue a beige face, a white mustache, and a white edging on the hat onto it (but do not make a beard). Next, we take a white napkin, fold it like a beard and put it inside the bag - part of the white napkin sticks out of the bag, reminiscent of the beard of Santa Claus.
In the second case (in the right photo below) we cut out a white circle from thick white paper (or cardboard). On the upper side of the circle we draw a face, a nose, and glue on a mustache. AND MAKE A SLIT over the straight line of the face. We fold a large red table napkin into a sharp triangle and insert the sharp end of the triangle into the slot - pull it through and get... at the top (above the slot) part of the napkin looks like a red cap... at the bottom under the beard, part of the red napkin looks like Santa Claus's fur coat.
A simple craft that your children will really like, especially since you can make several of these crafts for all the guests invited to the festive New Year's table.
And here are the napkin holders, which are made from cardboard toilet paper rolls. This is also a simple solution and a fun children’s craft for a garden or school on New Year’s Eve.
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New Year's CRAFTS-WINDINGS.
And here are ideas for simple children's crafts, where a cardboard silhouette is wrapped with colored threads or thin ribbons bright colors. So you can wrap a triangle with threads, sew a couple of rhinestones or beads on it and we will get an elegant Christmas tree craft.
You can pull the threads through the holes (punctures with a hole punch) - like in the snowflake craft from the left photo.
Or thread the threads through the slits - like on the round Christmas tree decoration crafts from the right photo below.
Any New Year's idea connect to the receiving thread winding. And get original and simple crafts for children. For example, this is implemented on crafts with a NEW YEAR'S DEER from the photo below.
The brighter and richer the color of the threads, the brighter and more festive your children's craft will be. Bright ribbons, adhesive rhinestones and stars cut out of thick foil will only add completeness to the thread craft.
And if the mother or grandmother in your family loves to crochet, then you can make crocheted New Year’s crafts - small or even large.
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New Year's crafts PENDANTS.
For a competition in a garden or school, you can make a larger-scale craft. For example, a beautiful New Year's pendant.
The general meaning of such a craft is that there should be a large holding part at the top and smaller elements of the overall craft design should emanate from it on strings.
You can hang the most... various crafts- pendants. Making them from openwork paper napkins for confectionery (as in the photo below) is very simple and quick.
Even from pages of scrap paper you can make bright New Year crafts and pendants. If only I had the desire and a little time. It's really not difficult. And even from the photo it’s clear how these are made paper modules and how they are assembled onto one central round piece - just with glue.
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NEW YEAR'S WREATHS.
And here is one of my favorite themes for children's New Year's crafts. Children simply jump with pleasure when you offer them such a serious craft. They like the donut format and like the fact that their work can be used as a real thing. christmas decoration, which is hung on the door in their family year after year.
In this article I will give just a few ideas to get you started. But in the future I plan to make a separate article on children’s crafts-wreaths for the New Year, and then the link will work here.
In the meantime, let's look at the basic ideas for creating the basis for New Year's wreaths. We will make the base in the form of a bagel. A standard A4 cardboard sheet will be too small in circumference. Therefore, the base for such a wreath can be cut from large leaf corrugated cardboard packaging - a pizza box is ideal.
If there are no large cardboard sheets (especially if you are preparing such a craft for a whole kindergarten group), then you can cut out SEMI CIRCLES separately from cardboard, and then use tape to connect them into one solid ring. So that in the place where the half rings are glued and joined the flimsy fold didn't work out we must strengthen the gluing area by slipping pieces of hard cardboard under it.
And we give this ready-made, wrapped blank to the child and let him figure out how to decorate his wreath. You can offer him templates or ready-made cut out figures and decoration options.
Or you can make pretty wreaths out of double-sided green cardstock—like these—with a bright red paper bow.
You don't have to wrap the donut base if it is completely covered with a finishing applique, as was done on the Christmas children's wreath in the photo below.
Or you can not glue the wreath ring, not wrap it, but paint it over with gouache. Dry and paste over with appliques - for example, these snowmen-snowflakes.
Also, a regular paper or plastic plate can serve as the basis for the Christmas wreath ring. We cut out the bottom from it and then decorate it according to our design plan.
Wrapping a wreath can be done quickly using thick woolen threads. Or knitted threads (made from knitted fabric cut into strips. You can decorate such a wreath with natural materials, figures made of thick felt, cardboard appliqués.
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New Year's crafts made from felt.
(nice and fast).
You can make quick ones from thick felt bright crafts. Here is a snowflake candlestick, it is created from a flat sheet of felt. I adjusted the diagram below to the size of a felt sheet of 30 by 30 cm. But you can reduce the picture to a size that is convenient for you by copying it onto a sheet of Word and pulling the corners of the image.
If you buy green felt in two or three shades of green, you can quickly make something like this with your own hands Christmas tree- a craft consisting of flat pancakes, which are slightly pulled together with a needle in the center (to form a wavy surface of the disk).
That is, in the center of a felt roundel, we draw a small circle with chalk, follow it with stitches of thread - and then we tighten these circular stitches (so that we get a bulge in the center (like a hat with large fields). We make discs with a screed in the center - of different sizes, alternating shades of green. And we assemble our Christmas tree like a pyramid.
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New Year's crafts from PLATES.
From plastic plates you can make not only the bases for Christmas wreaths, but also any New Year's characters. The round shape of the plate easily turns into the face of a snowman, deer, Santa Claus, or penguin.
You can cut the plate as you wish - to suit any of your plans. If round shape If you don’t create a New Year’s craft in your imagination, change this shape. Make a semicircle - and now the face of Father Frost with a sculpted beard appears.
Cut the circle of plates into quarters - and here they are unobtrusively folded into a Christmas tree. All that remains is to take green paint and colored beads.
You can cut a truncated trapezoid from the circle of the plate and turn it into the head of a Christmas reindeer.
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New Year's crafts
from a CASE from eggs.
And here are the ideas for the most inexpensive crafts for the New Year. Ordinary paper egg cassettes. Their convex rows of cells will help give birth to many New Year's crafts. Your imagination will breathe life into these cardboard honeycombs - and bright colors will give new life old packaging.
If you work as a kindergarten teacher, then you can find this material on the first floor of the kindergarten; several large egg cassettes are thrown out in the kitchen every day. Chefs will be happy to become your regular suppliers of this creative material.
You can cut out several rows of cells at once from a cassette maker and turn them into a bright Christmas tree or a convex snowman.
You can cut out individual cell bottoms and use them to form a snowman pyramid.
You can not cut the cassette at all and make a harness out of a whole one New Year's deer with a sleigh for Santa Claus.
Even one small cell can become a cute little New Year's craft - a tiny mingguin or a little deer.
And so that the little ones look like solid children's work, they can be surrounded by decorations - winter surroundings. Christmas trees or ice floes, as is the case with penguins. Pieces of ice floes can be cut out of foamed plastic - such liners are in your winter boots, or they are used as pads when transporting fragile goods or technical devices. Or you can just go to a hardware store (or to the construction department of the market 
a) and buy a meter of thick insulation for the walls there - it also has the same structure.
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New Year's crafts
FROM PAPER FANS.
We can also make crafts from an easy-to-design material - round fans folded from paper. The simplest design is christmas tree. Here we stack the fans on top of each other in a festive pyramid - we get a Christmas tree with our own hands.
Here is a visual master class showing the general principle of creating all-round fans. The main thing is to take a VERY LONG strip - so that its length when folded like an accordion is enough to round it.
If you don’t have such a long strip, you can fold 2 separate strips and then glue them into one common long accordion-snake.
And by the way, if you make a pattern on such an accordion on its edges - and on its tips - then when you turn the fan into a round shape, we will get an openwork snowflake. You can also make an independent New Year's craft with your own hands.
Paper fans can be used as decorative elements in the construction of multi-layer Christmas tree applique toys made of paper.
And you can also turn on your imagination and invent original New Year's voluminous applications from such paper fans.
The simplest thing that you can quickly and easily do with your own hands is a Christmas wreath craft. Just a base ring made of cardboard and a bunch of decorative fans to decorate the donut base of the wreath.
These are the ideas you found for yourself and your children today. Now the matter remains small. Evaluate the materials available at home. And get to work.
Making a piece of a magical holiday with your own hands is already small miracle. And the New Year's spirit of happiness consists of small miracles.
Let your hands create happiness. Happiness for the next New Year.
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Let's see what ways you can create unique New Year's crafts for a competition for school or kindergarten in the form of Santa Claus. I will also show you how to beautifully decorate gifts for the New Year with the symbol of Santa Claus. Let's start with gifts...
Santa Claus on a gift
How to do it yourself.
(simple options).
Here in the photo below we see an excellent New Year's decorations the most ordinary gift packages made of gray wrapping paper.
For the first idea you will need:
- a round shape made of white cardboard, a piece of red cardboard,
- red pompom (or regular cotton wool + PVA glue + red gouache)
- a piece of white foam packaging interlayer (which is often placed in boots in the store, or in boxes with equipment). Or (if you don’t have such material) you can take white cardboard and cover it with cotton pads.)
On a white round cardboard eye shadow or blush Draw spots on the cheeks and black beady eyes with a marker. In a bowl, stir red gouache and PVA glue (a couple of drops of paint per teaspoon of glue); dip a piece of cotton wool into this mixture. We form a ball from this sticky red cotton wool with our hands and dry it on a radiator (it will dry overnight).
Cut out a triangle-cap from red cardboard. We glue it to the edge of the white round piece (Santa Claus's forehead) - it is better to glue it dry, that is, use a glue stick or double-sided tape, since wet PVA glue will wet the cardboard and make it bend.
On top of the connecting line (between the hat and the head) we lay a “fur edging”, as I already said, it is better to cut it out of foam packaging material. Or cover the cardboard with cotton pads and cut out the edging of Santa Claus's hat from such “cotton-shaggy paper”
But two more ideas craft pendants in the form of Santa Claus - already from just cardboard... and cardboard with paper cupcake tins.
Here are the large bags with large size Santa Claus.
You can even make a bag yourself from a sheet gift paper. The template here is very simple. You can make such a drawing yourself with a pencil, cut it out, bend it along the fold lines and you’re done. A beautiful box - glue the face and beard of Santa Claus to it and you're done. 
You can make your own from cardboard (or from soft felt, or formiam as in the photo below) make PACKAGING POCKETS for gifts, decorated with an applique of Santa Claus on top.
Here is a diagram of such a pocket made of colored paper or cardboard. We bend along the lines, glue the sides and the container for sweets and chocolates is ready.
All that remains is to glue on top the head of Santa Claus with a beard and a hat. Simple and fast, no complexity. You will love making these quick pocket crafts with your own hands with Santa Claus, a snowman, angels and other New Year's characters.
Here is a pocket package made of soft felt or fleece, which is suitable for gifting a smartphone or jewelry. It will be nice to receive such a gift, decorated manual labor and the imagination of the donor.
Santa Claus WITH CANDY
(just do it yourself).
Here's more new craft for this year. Santa Claus hides a candy in a bright wrapper in his tummy. A simple children's craft that you will quickly understand and can do with your own hands in one sitting.
As you can see (in the photo below) there is nothing complicated or tricky here. It’s just that the tummy and back of Santa Claus are a FULL DETAIL - in shape it looks like a FIG. which has a hole only in the upper turn of the digit.
This “figure eight” is bent in half - and we get a tummy with a hole in the center in the front and a closed back at the back. At the top we fix our halves with a drop of glue, or a stapler or tape. And all that remains is for our Santa Claus to glue on the head with a beard and the legs-stand.
Santa Claus do it yourself
Craft using the spider web technique.
There is an article on our website where I show in great detail how to make these balls with your own hands from glue threads and a small balloon. In this article “Balls of thread and a sea of crafts using the spider web technique,” I posted a master class. Therefore, I will not explain in detail here, so as not to waste unnecessary words. Follow the link, everything is explained there.
Just look at the photo below and fall in love with these cute New Year characters made from thread balls. Simple and fast. In one evening we make balls, in the second evening we cover them with pieces of colored paper - and the craft is ready and worthy of going to a New Year's exhibition at school or kindergarten.
You don’t have to cover the balls with paper parts, but just put a cap like this on the top ball - where a face with a mustache and beard is already glued to the cone-hat.
In general, such cardboard caps (from the photo above) can be put on ordinary white inflatable balloons. And you’ll get a quick craft for the New Year in the form of Santa Claus. Such quick crafts comfortable . (By the way, the link contains a lot of quick ideas for crafts for decorating a New Year’s office).
DIY Santa Claus.
Balloon craft
using papier-mâché technique.
You can make such a pot-bellied, big-nosed, sweet and charming Santa Claus from the cheapest materials. PVA glue + white paper napkins + balloon IR + gouache for coloring.
What is the secret of the SIMPLICITY of this Santa Claus craft.
The papier-mâché technique is very simple. If you mix a paper napkin with PVA glue and mold something out of this mixture and dry it, we will get a dense, almost wooden, hard craft.
This principle of creating a durable material from fragile paper and liquid glue became the basis of the Papier-mâché technique.
Instead of white paper napkins, you can use regular NEWSPAPER. But then you will need to paint it on top with white paint (acrylic or gouache) before drawing Santa Claus on it.
What are we going to do?
Step 1 Let's buy a balloon with an elongated tail (that is, pear-shaped). Let's inflate it so that it retains its slightly elongated pear-shaped shape. Turn the ball upside down and insert it inside the vase (to make it easier to work with). You can even tape it a little to this vase so that it doesn’t jump out of it.
Step 2 Tear the white napkins into shreds (or leave them whole, whichever is more convenient for you). We coat part of the ball with PVA glue and place a white napkin on this puddle. On top of the napkin, again apply PVA glue with a wide brush and again place the napkin on this wet place. Thus, we glue the entire ball in several layers - generously pouring glue and generously laying down layers of napkin. Let it all dry (overnight).
Note – you can cover the ball with newspaper, dry it and paint it white. Or start the first layers from newspaper. And the last upper layers should be made from a white napkin, then there will be no need to paint it white.
Step 3. We crumple the napkins into large lumps - these will be tozhki. We also pour glue over it, and we also cover it with napkins, forming a wet crust of papier mache. We also leave it to dry.
Step 4. We take the ball out of the vase-pot on which it stood. We turn it with its tail up (we will cover this empty space that was in the vase with Santa Claus’s hat, it will not be visible. Using a marker on a dry round paper surface of the ball, we draw the silhouette borders of all the elements of Santa Claus - a face with a nose, a beard, a fur coat. We decorate this with gouache round decoration. Don't forget to glue the legs.
Note. For papier mache you need a lot of PVA glue. If you buy it in the stationery department (where the glue is in small tube jars) you will overpay 5 times the price. Better and It’s cheaper to buy PVA glue in liter buckets in the construction departments of the store. For one liter of glue you will pay about 2 dollars. And such a bucket will be enough for you for a whole bunch of crafts. Any PVA glue labeled “universal” or “construction” will suit you. In composition, it is no different from ordinary school stationery PVA glue. The manufacturer can be any company. With this bucket you will not only make Santa Claus from papier-mâché, but also a snowman and a penguin (also based on a balloon). Details in other articles on this site.
By the way, based on the BALLOON, you can make a variety of crafts with Santa Claus. You can decorate a ball covered with newspaper with strips of colored fringe. We buy rolls of crepe colored paper from the stationery store. cut it into strips, cut them into fringe, paste the BALL IN A CIRCLE with fringed stripes. It turns out another version of the Santa Claus craft with your own hands - mischievous and shaggy.
Or you can decorate a balloon covered with newspaper with a FLEECE WRAP - the soft material will make a very cozy and warm craft. 
Making our own Santa Claus
from stones and natural materials.
Ordinary stones - small or large river cobblestones can become the basis on which a New Year's fairy tale will grow.
You can simply find oval stable stones (or make them stable using play dough). Cover the stones with white gouache (spray with hairspray to fix the color and prevent it from staining your hands). Then draw all the lines of the future Santa Claus on a white background. Decorate each drawn sector with gouache. And then once again draw clear black boundaries between the elements of the drawing - make outlines with a black marker. Markers work great on rocks. It is best to use a marker for signing CDs - it does not wash off and does not stain your hands.
You can depict any New Year's theme on suitable flat stones. An article-lesson on creating beautiful New Year's drawings is already on our website “Family Heap”.
And from several stones (also painted with gouache) you can put together a whole plot applique on a single background cut out of plywood.
We buy a small sheet of plywood at a hardware store (or find a suitable one in a pile of trash near the entrance). We cut a round piece out of it. We tint with ink the color of snow and the color of sky. And against this background we lay out Santa Claus, his sack, his reindeer, his sleigh... whatever.
Please note that the stones perform only one part of the element - the rest are painted with paints, laid out from twigs, ropes and other natural material.
It is not necessary to choose smooth round stones. The most uneven curved stones can work to your advantage. Lay them out, try them on next to each other and try to see the outlines of your future craft in this arrangement. Who knows what masterpiece your little “rock garden” will give birth to on a piece of paper.
You can also use shells as a natural material for crafts in the form of Santa Claus. It will turn out interesting and beautiful.
You can come up with your own New Year's pictures from magic pebbles. Do not forget to spray the craft with hairspray - this will make it brighter and will not stain your hands with gouache or smudge. You can also sculpt some details of such a panel craft from plasticine (it can also be coated with hairspray)... or sculpt it from papier mache ( paper napkin mixed with PVA glue, see point above in this article).
Craft Santa Claus
Made from plasticine.
From ordinary plasticine (or from polymer clay) you can do it too handsome Grandfather Frost. The main thing is to work slowly and remember to wash your hands when moving from one color of plasticine to another. There we will get pure colors of the parts and the whole craft will look neat.
After making the craft, you need to dry it in a cool place and spray it with hairspray. This is necessary so that it stops being sticky and does not collect room dust. You can cover the craft with acrylic matte varnish soft brush. Acrylic varnish for crafts is sold at office supply or craft stores.
Such varnished, non-sticky plasticine figures are also good because they can be used inside small Snow capsules. Where the foam snowball will fall. You can make capsules for plasticine Santa Claus with your own hands - from transparent plastic bottles. Cutting off the top and bottom of them and joining them together. Sprinkle nail glitter, sequins or foam balls inside, or cut the fluff from pillows with scissors - the fluff will slowly settle, creating the illusion of snowfall.
Can be done flat crafts made from plasticine. Roll out colored plasticine with a rolling pin on the table. A wooden rolling pin is not suitable - it leaves rough marks on the plasticine. A round glass bottle or a can of any deodorant can be used as a smooth rolling pin.
Place a stencil image (details of Santa Claus, or his clothes) on the rolled out layer of plasticine. Let's circle sharp object. Remove the stencil and cut with scissors along the scratched lines. We get planar parts from which you can put together a plasticine graphic applique. Or make something like this to decorate the kitchen in New Year's style(as in the photo below).
You can get ideas for plasticine crafts in the form of Santa Claus from New Year's cakes decorated with mastic characters. Santa Claus is often sculpted from sweet confectionery mastic from different angles. Look through New Year's cakes on Google and you will find many ideas for plasticine New Year's heroes.
You can find even more New Year's plasticine ideas for children's crafts in the classroom and at home in a special article on our website
DIY Santa Claus
FROM CONES.
Pine and fir cones can also be painted with gouache (like the stones from the paragraph above). And when painted, the cone immediately becomes interesting basis for a New Year's craft in the form of Santa Claus. We insert beads and buttons, a fluffy dusting brush painted with white gouache becomes a fluffy beard. Cut out a hat from a piece of felt.
Also in the company of Santa Claus you can make a deer with your own hands (also from pine cones) (with antlers from fluffy wire), a snowman, a penguin in a felt scarf, and a green Christmas tree pine cone, decorated with beads and flowers cut from lace.
Other bright crafts-toys from pine and fir cones collected in a large article with photographs
Volumetric Santa Claus
From modular origami.
If you know how to fold an Origami module. It doesn’t cost you anything to create such a pot-bellied Santa Claus. YouTube is full of videos that will teach you how to fold a triangular paper origami module in 2 minutes. For 2 pm make yourself a bunch of modules (the family will help), and on the third evening fold Santa Claus. Assembly takes place without glue. Each module fits into each other - like a groove into a groove.
Green Christmas tree also consists of modular origami. And you can make a snowman and a deer, if you think with your head...
DIY Santa Claus
FROM PAPER CONES.
We all know how to make paper cones - like bags for seeds. We need a semicircle - which we roll into a bag and glue the side seam of the bag with glue (or not with glue, but with a stapler).
Or you can provide paper latches on the bag - slits and ears that fit into each other. On the template below we see that on the left we have an incision (short dotted line), and on the right there is a protruding eye (along the edge of the hem of the fur coat). We cut out such a template (diagram below), paint it and connect it into a bag - inserting the eyelet into the cut (or you can simply fix everything with glue without any ears).
Santa Claus is easy and quick to make based on a regular cone. Below I give large circuits for large figures. The actual size of the diagram corresponds to A3 format - it’s like two landscape pages. You won't be able to print it on a printer - you need to go to the printing center. But the craft will be large and nice in size.
Here is another large template for making Santa Claus out of paper - it is also in A3 format - print in the center of the printout.
But this template is smaller - if you want, you can also enlarge it to a large size. Each craft is beautiful - you must agree. You can just imagine how Grandfather Frost stands proudly on the windowsill and pleases the eye. Great craft - elegant and simple.
Children's craft Santa Claus
From toilet paper rolls.
Cardboard rolls are great for children's crafts. In the photo below we see how you can play up the image of Santa Claus based on this “toilet roll” form.
The elements can be made from paper, felt, cotton wool, formiam, fabric or knitted socks.
Santa Claus and dishes
(pots, cups, plates).
And in this section of the article I want to show how to make an original craft from non-standard materials with your own hands.
You can make Santa Claus from flower pots. We will make a beard for this grandfather from gypsum plaster. You can buy it at a hardware store gypsum plaster(it’s cheap in small packaging, you can buy half a kilo). We dilute the gypsum mixture with water to a thick porridge. And quickly, before it thickens and dries, we sculpt a beard for Santa Claus. Pots can also be coated with plaster porridge, in those places where we depict fluffy fur or snow. If sprinkled on top glitter(nail polish) it will turn out that snowy places sparkle in the sun.
Or here are New Year's crafts from disposable colored cups. Here the cups are placed in a circle on the floor (glue the round dance together using hot glue from a gun). Then on a round dance we make a second tier-floor, then a third - they themselves will be rounded into a spherical shape (because the cups at the bottom are narrower than at the edge). We make one ball for the belly and one ball for the head of Santa Claus. We make mittens, a belt, eyes, a mustache, and a hat from paper and fabric.
And we begin to make a green Christmas tree from cups according to the principle of a round dance. But we put a paper cone inside it. And we also attach the cups along the upper floors to the walls of this paper cone.
From the remaining red cups and toilet paper rolls you can make cute Frosties with a cotton wool beard.
And disposable flat plates can become a source of such children's crafts. Place beige paper on the bottom of the plate (this will be the background of the face). Without a beige or pink background (just on a pale plate) it will not be beautiful.
Craft Santa Claus
Made from felt and formiam.
Now a new ornamental material has appeared on sale - formiam. This brainchild of modern technology is very suitable for making voluminous, plump crafts that are well attached to each other using hot glue. In the photo below you see a Santa Claus craft made from formim (a porous thick material).
But crafts made from felt will still be more durable. And warmer to the touch. More dear, closer.
You can make Santa Claus appliques from felt on a round piece of paper - you will get a toy pendant for the Christmas tree.
Please note how in the photo below the fastening of the applique parts is done - with sparse stitches, parts are tacked here and there (the beard and mustache are held on by 4-5 stitches).
If you make a HOOP from cardboard, wrap it in fabric and decorate the front with a figure of Santa Claus, then we will get a headdress for the New Year. It can be worn for children's holiday dinners, or worn directly over a hat on the street - delighting passersby with its New Year's look.
In addition to hard felt, you can use SOFT FLEECE. This is the material from which sweatshirts and bikers are made. It is suitable for sewing soft toys in the form of Santa Claus or plump pillows (as in the photo below).
But Santa Claus, where FELT (wool for felting) is present, is in the left photo below. And also a figurine of Santa Claus made from a ball of red thread and a piece of white centipon and a felt cap. The face can be made from a tennis ball, tinted beige.
Knitted Santa Claus.
You can also knit a New Year's Santa Claus from threads with crochet or knitting needles. Below, for inspiration, I have posted several photo samples of such DIY crafts.
You can simply crochet a flat figure. Use it as an applique for a craft, or as a toy pendant for the Christmas tree.
You can make a beard from chopped bundles of thread (fluffy like a real one) or simply tie it with a wedge (like a knitting sprout).
And here is an example of Santa Claus knitted with his own hands. Choose your favorite knitting method and start making a real surprise for the whole family with your own hands. Such New Year's toy will accompany your holiday every year, like a tradition, like a family heirloom, made by your mother’s beloved hands.
Here are some ideas on the theme of Santa Claus with your own hands - from everything - from paper to knitting. Now you will definitely make yourself a magical Santa Claus who will fulfill your wishes this year. Because you deserve it. Because you are good.
Continuation of PAPER crafts in the form of Santa Claus - in our SECOND article
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