Simple and quick DIY gifts for the New Year

New Year is a magical holiday, not only children, but also adults are waiting for it. But his main secret is that anyone can be a wizard! Creating a festive atmosphere, they decorate the house, decorate the fir-tree, give gifts. They want to congratulate relatives, friends, and colleagues, which sometimes leads to significant financial spending. And if you put in a little work and make small presents with your own hands, your friends, parents and colleagues will be pleasantly surprised!

Of the tools, you need the most common ones that we use every day: scissors, glue, a needle. For baking gingerbread you will need: a saucepan, measuring utensils, a knife, baking paper, and for the preparation of icing - a whisk.

Crafting materials can be very different. Most of them can be found in every home. Suitable for gift wrapping and decoration:

• boxes;
• ribbons or braid;
• bright shreds;
• leftover wallpaper, old calendars (wall) and gray wrapping paper.

For souvenirs:

• white and multi-colored paper;
• thick cardboard;
• thick threads of different colors;
• colored felt.

For decoration:

• tinsel;
• sequins;
• artificial snow.

For sweet presents:

• jars with a lid;
• acrylic paints;
• a napkin with a New Year theme;
• small candies.

For the gingerbread house:

• flour;
• sugar;
• honey;
• butter;
• spices;
• powdered sugar;
• lemon;
• eggs and water.

The warmest memories connect people with each other: parents and children, brothers and sisters, lovers. There are moments that are nice to be reminded of, seeing off the old year and meeting the new one. Photos help with this.

Making a decoration for a New Year's tree and giving it is an original idea. Such a thing will remind of the donor every year.

Such a toy is made in 5 minutes. What you need:

• transparent ball - a Christmas tree toy;
• sequins, artificial snow or rain;
• ribbon, you can with a bow;
• square photo according to the diameter of the ball.

Procedure:

• check if the photo fits in size;
• place it inside the toy, having previously rolled it into a tube.
• gently straighten with a toothpick or knitting needle.
• sprinkle glitter or artificial snow on top.
• decorate with a bright ribbon, you can also use a bow.

To make such a simple gift quickly.

The manufacturing process includes several steps.

• Transfer the pattern to a clean sheet and then to the felt.
• Cut out felt details.
• There will be two parts for the sock, put one on top of the other, sew along the edge. The top edges are not sheathed. You do not need to use the overlock stitch, as shown in the figure, the machine stitch also looks nice.
• We fill it with padding polyester or holofiber over the top.
• The edging is cut out of white felt, but it is also possible from faux fur.
• A holly leaf and scarlet berries are cut out of green and red felt. The twig is sewn on or glued with superglue.
• We attach the detail to the sock, a loop of braid is inserted between the edge and the toe and glued or sewn on.
• The edge is sewn on. Threads are chosen either contrasting (green, red), or to match the edge.

Other felt toys are also sewn: stars, hearts, snowflakes.

To glue a homemade souvenir in the form of a Christmas tree - such a craft will delight colleagues or become a very beautiful decor for a festive table.

Homemade Christmas tree:

• roll a cone out of thick cardboard (or whatman paper);
• cut off excess and glue at the junction;
• after the glue dries, attach tinsel to the cone so that there are no gaps, a glue gun, stapler or scotch tape is suitable for this;
• decorate a souvenir with bows, beads.

Spruce is also made from sweets. Only on the Christmas tree is not tinsel attached, but candies - they are glued from the bottom up in a circle, along the edge of the wrapper, and the remaining gaps are closed with tinsel.

From the ideas of simple and quick DIY gifts for the New Year, you should try to make a frame for a photo.

Let's look at the step-by-step instructions.

1. Cut out a frame, a back and 3 narrow strips from cardboard. Cut carefully.
2. Lubricate the cardboard frame with glue, one small area after another.
3. Wrap the greased areas with threads and press down carefully. At the corners, you need to be more careful: the threads can move out without having time to stick.
4. After the glue is dry, glue 3 strips of cardboard on the wrong side of the frame. Glue the backrest onto these holder strips. There is no third strip - a photo will be inserted here.
5. Attach a stand or loop for standing or hanging.

What a holiday without sweets. You can also make them yourself.

A surprise that is so easy to prepare is a jar of sweets.

1. On a dry jar, paint simple attributes with paints, for example, a spruce branch or a snowflake.
2. Glue a piece of napkin or a picture to the lid of the can.
3. The lid is varnished (but not required).
4. Fill the jar with various medium-sized sweets (marmalade, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, lollipops).
5. Close with a lid, decorate with tinsel or paper snowflake. Attach the addressee's name and congratulations.

Store-bought sweets are available every day, but how nice it is for your loved one to present baked goods made from the bottom of your heart with your own hands for the New Year.

The gingerbread house is made from:

• gingerbread dough;
• protein glaze;
• decorate with marmalade, chocolate, nuts, dried fruits.

Dough recipe:

• premium flour - 3 glasses (it must be sifted);
• dark honey - 4 tablespoons;
• granulated sugar - 100 g (cane can be used);
• butter - 50 g;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• water - 50 ml;
• mix cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg - 1 teaspoon.

The dough is prepared by yourself, but you can use the blanks purchased at the store.

1. Heat the water, add sugar, honey and oil. The mixture should not boil.
2. Heat to 60-70 degrees, add spices and 1.5 cups of flour, stirring so that there are no lumps. If lumps form, rub the mixture through a sieve.
3. Cool the resulting mass, pour in the eggs, mix.
4. Gradually add the remaining flour and knead until you get a homogeneous dough.
5. Wrap in foil, put in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
6. Remove, roll out on baking paper about 6 mm thick, if the dough is thinner, it will crumble after baking.
7. Cut out parts of the house according to a pre-cut template, cut with a knife.
8. Remove the scraps, transfer the paper along with the parts to a baking sheet. From the scraps, you can bake figures of men or Christmas trees.
9. Bake at 180-190 degrees for about 15-20 minutes. Do not let the cakes dry out in the oven.
10. The cakes need to be cooled and then just start building the house.

To decorate the facade, you need glaze. Its ingredients for cooking:

• protein of 1 egg;
• icing sugar - 150 g;
• lemon juice - 1 teaspoon.

The ratio shown is for one small serving.

The composition is whipped in small portions, it dries quickly and hardens:

• beat the protein with powdered sugar until a thick mass is obtained;
• add lemon juice a little, if lemon juice is poured, the mass will become very liquid.

We will tell you how to build a gingerbread house below.

1. You must first try on the details. The house should stand by itself, it is enough to lean the walls against one another.
2. If the windows and door will be slotted (and not painted), it is better to outline and cut them at this stage.
3. It is recommended to decorate the roof and walls before assembly. Glasses on the windows are made from marmalade plates and glued from the inside to the glaze, smearing along the edge of the frame. Outside, the walls are covered with glaze, and on top - patterns of sweets.
4. Connect the walls and roof. The glaze is applied using a piping bag or, if not, a regular plastic bag. The mixture should be placed in it, tied on top. Cut the corner, squeeze through the resulting hole into the joints and carefully connect them. The walls are supported with supports until the composition is dry.
5. Lastly, the roof is glued: carefully apply the mixture to the upper edges of the walls and put one half (greased on the ridge), then the other. You can also decorate with Christmas trees. The gingerbread surprise is ready!

A package for a New Year's surprise can be made quickly and easily in 5 minutes.

1. Fold the A4 paper rectangle in the middle to the corner.
2. Glue the edges of the folded sheet along the edge with a slight overlap.
3. Bend about 5 cm up on one side (if the sheet size is larger, for example, A3, then the bend is 7 cm). So the bottom is outlined.
4. In the place of the fold, two edges that are next to each other should be spread in opposite directions, tucking the corners inward.
5. Bend the resulting wings in a straight line a little closer to the center.
6. The folded edges should overlap so you can glue them together.
7. Bend the rectangular workpiece on one side and the other.
8. Carefully open the resulting bag and tuck the folds inward. Write a congratulation, decorate with a drawing or applique.
9. Pack by fanning the top or sideways. Tie with braid. With a hole punch, you can punch holes, pass a tape through them and tie aesthetically.

Making paper bows is also fast:

• transfer the finished pattern to multi-colored sheets;
• cut and glue.

This craft is easy to attach to a box or gift bag.

Before the holiday, sometimes there is not enough time at all, but there is a great desire to prepare and decorate gifts.

For this, an ordinary box is taken:

• the box is pasted over with colored paper or wallpaper;
• ribbons and confetti are suitable for decoration (they are easy to make with a hole punch yourself or by hand from colored foil);
• put tea, sweets or something else in the box, do not forget to write holiday greetings.

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