Options for decorating a street tree for the New Year

New Year's bustle is always accompanied by joy and good mood. Children write letters to Santa Claus, prepare gifts for their parents. Adults make up a festive menu and, instead of Santa Claus, run around the shops in search of the present they want. Well, on the pre-holiday weekend, the decoration of the house and yard begins. Yes, the courtyard should also be decorated so that the New Year mood begins on the doorstep. And if a spruce or pine tree grows in the yard, it would be a big mistake not to decorate it.

To date, a huge amount of New Year's decor has been developed. But despite this? the main symbol of the holiday is the tree. This green beauty attracts the enthusiastic glances of adults and children, round dances are performed around her, Santa Claus hides gifts under her.

When decorating a festive tree on the street, I immediately recall the Soviet cartoon "Prostokvashino", where a variety of utensils lying in the attic were used as toys. And what is interesting, even today this approach is considered the most acceptable. However, before you get the dacha consumer goods, you need to decorate the street spruce with a garland.

Modern manufacturers of Christmas tree decorations offer customers glowing ribbons of various shapes and sizes. Consumers can only choose the appropriate option, given that the electric garland will decorate the street tree.

• Garland thread. The most common version of the glowing tape, presented today in lengths of up to 200 m.

• Garland network. The intertwining threads, when stretched, create different geometric shapes. Moreover, each filament is filled with bright LED bulbs.

• Garland fringe. The peculiarity of such a garland is volumetric. Additional wires with light bulbs are attached to the main thread at their intersections.

• Garlands-icicles. A unique modern version of LED Christmas tree decoration. The maximum effect is obtained when the lights flow down inside each icicle.

• Garlands toys. Interesting LED design, in which each light bulb is hidden inside the Christmas tree decorations. This garland allows you to save on the purchase of additional Christmas tree decorations.

It's no secret that street lights must have a number of technical features, as they will interact with harsh weather conditions. Sometimes on New Year's, the air temperature drops to 30 degrees below zero, and in the morning the bright sun's rays begin to melt the snow that has fallen.

When buying LED strips, it is important to pay attention to the IP rating. This is a parameter of the degree of protection against moisture and abrasives. The first digital indicator speaks of resistance to solid objects, the second to water. Experts recommend opting for garlands with IP44 and IP54 ratings. The larger the numbers, the higher the protection level of the light thread.

Having decided on the garland, you can proceed to the selection of Christmas tree decorations. First of all, it is important to remember that the decor of the Christmas tree decorated in the yard must be safe. It is worth giving up glass balls: in case of strong gusts of wind, they can break off and break into small fragments, which can cut themselves adults, children, and well, pets.

Ideally, you should choose plastic or foam balls with moisture resistant paint. Poor-quality coating of toys from exposure to extreme cold can crack and even fall off, which will negatively affect the beauty of the holiday tree.

For a large street tree, you should choose large-sized toys. Small balls will look ridiculous on a holiday tree. Well, as for the shapes of toys, here the designers can use a variety of options.

You can decorate a Christmas tree near the house not only with standard balls, garlands and tinsel. Basement and attic trash can be used as a decoration. The main thing is to choose the right utensils you don't need.

First of all, it is important to remember that the tree growing in the yard is alive, respectively, large and tall. The toys to be picked up must correspond to its dimensions. Ordinary balls in this case will be inappropriate. But, for example, a pair of old boots, painted with golden paint, will turn out to be a creative solution in the design of a street New Year's beauty.

Old mittens, complemented by tinsel and snowflakes, will look original. Kids toys sent to the loft are a stylish idea for decorating a holiday tree.

The Christmas tree can be decorated with unnecessary kitchen utensils, for example: a hand whisk, mugs, even a colorful teapot. If the head of the family goes over the household equipment before the holiday, it will be possible to send everything that is out of order to the Christmas tree: screwdrivers with knocked down tips, saws with pre-removed teeth and much more. The main thing is to show imagination, you can decorate a New Year tree with any spoiled thing, while dressing it up so that a real light show is formed.

Particular attention should be paid to the area around the tree. If dogs are running around the yard, they can accidentally take down several toys. Or, out of interest, they can grab a garland that sparkles with their teeth and pull it to their booth. To prevent this from happening, it is recommended to place dummies - boxes with gifts around the edges of the tree. This will make it harder for pets to get to the holiday tree and ruin its decor.

For work you will need: a knitting thread, PVA, a plastic cup and a balloon.

• A balloon of the required size is inflated.
• PVA is poured into a glass.
• The knitting thread is lowered into the PVA, after which a ball is wrapped around it in a chaotic manner.
• The craft is postponed for a day.
• The next day, when the PVA dries up, you need to pierce the ball with a needle and pull out its remnants from the thread-like craft.
• It remains to tie a thread on top to fix it on the Christmas tree "paw".

Beaded crafts will become a stylish decoration of the street tree. For work, you will need: the beads itself, wire, a satin ribbon and stones for weighting the toy. It is important that the wire is tight, otherwise it may burst in the cold.

• The end of the wire must be bent so that the stringed beads do not fall off.
• Next, the wire is given the required shape.
• Beads must be strung from bottom to top.
• After stringing all the beads, the end of the wire must be wrapped several times and bent so that the craft does not crumble.
• The last step is to fix the satin ribbon. It must be passed through the top loop of the toy. With her help, the craft will hang on the Christmas tree "paw". And the junction of the wire must be hidden under a satin ribbon bow.

The presented master classes are actually very simple to perform. However, there are more complex crafts, which take much more time to create. For example, a sock snowman. The finished result is so cute and attractive that it is almost impossible to distinguish it from the crafts of highly qualified craftsmen.

For work you will need: white socks, a colorful terry sock, rice filler, scissors, a few buttons, white yarn, black yarn, beads to create a face, fabric for a scarf, glue and a needle and thread.

• The upper part is cut from the white toe to the heel. Rice filler is poured into it - so that a little free space remains.
• The upper part is sewn with large stitches and tightened.
• The middle of the stuffed sock is tied with white yarn so that the smaller part of the filler is on top.
• The top is cut off from the colorful terry sock. A heel and a toe tip are cut off from a piece with a foot. It is this part that is sewn with a blind stitch so that the fabric does not unravel. Here it is and a blouse for a snowman.
• The top of the terry sock is turned inside out, the hem is sewn with simple stitches. After that, the workpiece should be turned back. It turned out to be a square hat.
• Next, white yarn is taken, several threads are interconnected, and then cut off, turning into 2 pom-poms. This very decor should be the decoration of the cap on both ends.
• A blouse and a hat are put on a snowman figurine. Next, buttons are sewn onto the clothes. The nose and mouth are glued to the face. Beads are used for the nose, black thread for the mouth.
• A scarf should be made of knitted material and tied around the neck of a snowman.

Decorations for the Christmas tree in the yard can be very different. From ordinary CDs, which almost no one uses anymore, you can make beautiful Christmas balls. And from old burnt out light bulbs, you can even make a bright garland.

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Best use for old buttons.

The simplest, and most importantly, win-win toys for decorating a New Year tree.

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