Making New Year's toys out of paper

New Year's paper toys are a tradition that can become a family one. Inexpensive homemade, very cozy paper toys set the mood for a holiday home that is beyond the control of the most exquisite store decor.

If you want to take creative work into your own hands and create just such an inexpensive, sincere, cozy decor in your house, you can spend a few evenings making paper toys. Everything that is usually involved in the production of crafts can be needed for this work. It will not be superfluous to connect imagination and resourcefulness. You need to take certain materials and tools.

• Paper. The more her choice, the more interesting. In stores for a long time, in addition to standard albums with standard colored sheets, embossed, glossy, textured, patterned paper has been sold. It comes with prints and patterns, velvet and metallic. Therefore, one has only to visit the store of goods for creativity only once, and the paper issue will be removed.
• Glue. PVA and glue stick are safe options. Moment glue and its analogues are required much less frequently.
• Scissors. Sharp, well-sharpened - there are enough of them in one copy. But if there are curly scissors in the arsenal, this is only a plus.
• Ruler and / or marking mat. They simplify the process and are responsible for the accuracy of the workpieces.
• Stapler, hole punch. These little things are very convenient in the course of making paper decor, sometimes they greatly simplify the work.
• Braid, thread, yarn. Required as pendants or as decoration for finished crafts.

Adults will remember how in childhood they made simple decorations with their own hands in the evenings before the New Year: a chain of colored links on a Christmas tree, voluminous colored paper lanterns. Such homemade toys were literally in every home and, without looking at modesty and simplicity, undoubtedly decorated the house. And now, when there is a great variety of materials, you can make gorgeous crafts.

From colored paper and from a variety of cardboard, from magazine covers and craft packaging, balls are interesting and bright. To make a stylish cardboard ball you will need:

• PVA glue;
• suitable thick paper: old magazines and analogs of such paper, sheet music;
• scissors;
• any round object (cup) that will serve as a circle pattern.

Master Class:

• You need to take cardboard and circle 21 identical circles on it, after which the circles should be cut out.
• Each circle must be folded in half 2 times, then unbent to mark the center of the circle.
• Next, you need to bend again, but only one side of the circle, so that its edge runs exactly along the marked center. You need to make 2 more folds, forming a triangle. In one of the circles, this triangle must be cut out so that it becomes a stencil for other circles.
• The resulting triangle is superimposed on the remaining circles and outlined. The edges of the circles along the contour are bent outward.
• 10 circles need to be glued into a strip, alternating: 5 down, 5 up. The resulting strip is glued into a ring, which will be the base of the ball.
• The remaining 10 circles are divided by 5, glued into circles. Get 2 caps.
• Attach the top and bottom caps to the base in the same way. It is worth thinking in advance about a loop for a toy.

It is difficult to imagine decorating a festive house without a lamp. And it can also be paper. For work you will need:

• corrugated board;
• garland (battery operated);
• White paper;
• standard cardboard;
• glue (PVA can be used);
• acrylic paint (but gouache is also suitable);
• stationery knife.

Manufacturing of a lamp from cardboard takes place step by step.

• First, you have to execute a template, according to it, the elements of the lamp are cut out. The template is traced on corrugated cardboard, the elements are cut out with a stationery knife and a ruler. In total, you get 13 framing parts, 1 main and 1 back wall.
• Now you can start the garland - the size of the bulbs is measured, because you need to cut the corresponding holes in the main wall. First, they are done in the template, and then on the back wall of the corrugated cardboard. It is convenient to make holes with a breadboard knife. To achieve the perfect shape of the holes, you need to scroll through each hole with a pencil.
• It is important to carefully glue the four parts of the lamp together. After that, you need to do the camouflage of the corrugated cardboard on the inside. Cut strips from strong white paper that match the width of the new part. These strips are glued to corrugated cardboard with PVA glue.
• The formed element should be fixed on the main wall with holes. After that, the house lamp is turned over, all other parts of the frame are glued to its reverse side.
• The width of the night light is already almost understandable. Now is the time to hide all external defects. For this purpose, simple cardboard is suitable - strips are cut out of it after measurements. Before pasting the house with strips, it makes sense to strengthen the top with a piece of thick paper.
• Now you can glue the cardboard, starting from the bottom and moving along the walls.
• Finally, you can pick up acrylic paint and change the color of the cardboard house. After the paint has completely dried, light bulbs can be inserted into the holes. Better to start at the top.To exclude the sloppy position of the wires, they need to be fixed on tape.
• Close the back panel, fix the switch (for example, fixing it with double-sided tape).

Stars are New Year's decor. There can be a lot of them, children especially like this design. You can make garlands from the stars.

• Option 1. From metallized colored paper or foamiran with sparkles, according to a pre-created template, you need to make many (from 50) stars. Then these stars should be sewn on a sewing machine to make a real garland. The distance between the elements is to the taste of the author. Such star garlands look great on the tree, on the window, and in the design of doorways. They can be used to decorate furniture.

• Option 2. Curtains can be made from star garlands in stages. It will take a lot of stitched stripes with stars that attach to the stretching base or braid. It is beautiful to hang such a curtain both in a small doorway and on the wall - you get a special New Year's photo zone.

• Option 3. Having made the simplest origami stars, they can be fixed on shiny threads and fixed under the chandelier or elsewhere on the ceiling. You will get a nice New Year's module.

The simplest Santa Claus can be made from an openwork napkin. For work, red cardboard, beige or flesh-colored paper (a faded pink will do), 2 openwork napkins, a regular marker, scissors, glue, and a pencil are useful. The manufacturing process is simple. In 10-15 minutes you will get a very cute Santa Claus - a win-win idea for children.

• Fold the red cardboard into a triangle.
• Cut the face out of flesh-colored paper, and then glue it to the triangle.
• Make a beard, mustache from an openwork napkin, prepare a hem and a pompom. Glue everything.
• Make a nose out of a flesh-colored circle and glue.
• Draw the eyes with black marker.

There is another way to quickly make Santa Claus.

• Use scotch tape to connect 2 sheets of paper - red and white.
• From the red half of the workpiece, you need to fold the cap bent to the bottom.
• The white part of the craft will have to be turned into a beard, cutting it into strips of the same width. Use a pencil to curl each strip.
• Cut out the face from beige colored paper and glue it under the hood. Glue a circle of white paper to the tip of the cap.
• It remains to draw the face of the New Year's hero.

You can implement many ideas from paper that set the New Year mood in the house.

• Musical balls. The notes look stylish, and the black and white scale decorates any interior.

• The simplest paper lanterns from childhood will also decorate a modern apartment. Instead of plain colored paper, you can take velvet paper.

• Garland of paper circles - you will have to tinker with the manufacture, but the result will please for a long time.

• Chic sprocket pendants in a Scandinavian interior will look very organic. And again music sheets help out.

• Muffin cups turn into elegant Christmas tree decorations. And the colors are chosen the most elegant, win-win.

• Garland of paper circles will definitely find a place of honor in the festive interior. In the nursery, she can temporarily replace an ordinary curtain.

• From flat paper colored snowflakes you can make a beautiful volumetric. The solution is not new, but it looks fresh and very winter-like in the house.

• Another example of very fluffy openwork snowflakesworthy of any room in a New Year's house. They look great near a mirror, for example, in a hallway.

• Quilling paper toys - light neat decor. Especially good in small spaces.

• Do not discount the good old paper garland chain. You can experiment with the quality and color of the paper, with the print.

For information on how to make Christmas tree decorations out of paper, see the next video.