New Year's toys with their own hands: photo and video master-class

Christmas decorations made of felt

Such flat soft toys - loved by many inlast time decoration for any holiday. Actually, in their manufacture there can not be clear instructions, except for the use of simple forms. You will need a felt of different colors, a little stuffing material (cotton wool will do) if you want to make a toy not quite flat, threads of different colors, tapes with different textures, beads, ribbons - in general, any decorations that can be sewn.

Choose a fairly simple figure with a common clearsilhouette (ball-toy on the Christmas tree, snowman, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden), this will be the basis; cut it out from the felt of the main color (for example, you want to make Santa Claus and choose red), and then add on this background the details cut from the felt of other colors (in the case of Santa Claus - a pink face, a white beard and fringing of a fur coat, etc.). Just sew them.

Part of the parts are replaced with ribbons and braid toThe toy did not look too homogeneous. Do not hide the seams - the line should be clear and clear, this is part of the concept of such toys. Then sew a thread, and you can hang the toy on the tree. No less popular and knitted toys - tie ordinary toys in the form of a character or small animal, just a very small size, using bright "New Year" colors and their combinations.

"Air" balls on the Christmas tree

Or balls of yarn, braids, ribbons, looking likeA very light frame in the shape of a ball, held in some kind of magic. But it's very simple to make the same with your own hands. Take the thread, the yarn, the braid, that is the material from which you want to make the frame, one small balloon, cream or petroleum jelly and PVA glue.

Dissolve the glue in water and soak the threads in it.solution, spread the inflated ball (on its size depends on the size of the future toy) vaseline and just wrap the threads around, making a pattern that you want, or not making any. After leave the ball to dry (at least for 20 hours), and blow off the balloon inside it. Remains only the outer shell of the thread. The toy is ready! Decorate it with sequins, a bow or anything else, and hang it on the Christmas tree.

Toys-bulbs and toys-bottles

Imitation of Christmas balls of these two typesglass items are now quite popular, especially if you want to decorate a tree with elements of unusual design. Take the most standard lamps, "pears" of the old type, you can burned out, and paint them with acrylic paints; you can draw abstractions and patterns, a snow theme - snowflakes, a snow-covered glade or some New Year's characters.

If you do not want the toy to be transparent,color the entire surface of the bulb in a matte white color (it's best to use a can) and paint on top of it. After tie a light bulb with a thread behind the socle and hang it on the tree. Small bottles of thin glass with natural stoppers, the size of those in which iodine is usually sold, can easily be bought separately.

They are also often painted, but, since in them,unlike light bulbs, there is no original "stuffing", most often the bottles are decorated from the inside, filling with fine silvery sand with sparkles, pine needles, one or two sequins in the form of snowflakes. In each bottle you can create a small masterpiece, decorating it from above, if you want, with ribbon or braid, and then hang on the tree.

Author: Masha Larina