Crafts for the New Year 2013

Crafts for the New Year 2013 can be done from a variety of materials and in a variety of techniques - from origami and quilling to weaving of beads and crocheting. It all depends on the availability of your materials, the skills of this or that kind of needlework and free time.

You can involve in the making of New Year's crafts of a child - then you need to choose crafts easier. Very easy to manufacture, for example, handmade snake made of plastic boxes from kinder-surprises. To make it you will needmulticolored boxes (the longer you want to make a snake, the more boxes you need to take), as well as some dense red paper, stickers-eyes, wire, superglue and awl.

First, divide all the boxes into halves and make a hole in each half with the help of an awl, except for two. Then you can start to collect a snake. At the end of the wire, make a knot. Take one half of the box, pass the wire through the hole and close the half piece without a hole. Now string all the halves on the wire, tie the knot on the second end of the wire and close the last half with the second piece without a hole.

From red paper, cut out a forked snaketongue and glue it with super glue to the part that will be the head of the snake. Also glue your eyes (if you could not buy special eye-stickers, you can make them out of paper or simply draw an indelible marker). Handicraft by 2013 ready!

Due to the fact that the details are strung on the wire, the snake can be given various bends. If you do not have a lot of boxes from kinder-surprises, you can do with two - for the head and tail, and As the details for the torso of the snake use multi-colored caps from plastic bottles.

You can still to sew the original snake from old ties. To make this craft for the New Year 2013 you will need two old ties, a filler (cotton wool, sintepon, etc.), eye buttons, a red ribbon for the tongue, threads and a needle.

Fold the ties facing each other and sew, leaving a small hole. Turn out the future snake, so that the seams are inside, and tightly fill with the selected filler. Sew a hole, not forgetting sewing in it a tongue from a ribbon. Sew your eyes from the buttons. The handicraft is ready!

If you know how to crochet, you can Make a funny knitting snake for the New Year. You can use threads of any color andthickness, and the thickness of the hook, of course, will depend on the thickness of the thread. Knit the snake from the head. First, make an air loop and begin to tie the first column, which will consist of ten air loops.

Hold the collected hinges with your right hand, and the lefttighten the common loop for the free end of the thread. Next, knit half-columns in a circle, in each loop of the previous row, stitching two loops. Do so in two or three rows (the number of rows depends on the desired size of the snake).

Then run four or five rows without addingloops (that is, the hook must be pinned into each loop of the previous row). In the upper part of the head, the snake should be tied with columns with a crochet, two semicircular rows - so you will form a bulge for the eyes. After this, make a decrease in the loops in the area in which you added to get a pronounced head.

Continue to knit the snake until it reaches the desired length. Every five to ten rows need to be reduced by two loops. As you knit, you need to stuff the snake's body with the selected filler (sintepon, cotton wool, etc.). When there are three loops left in the circle, close all the hinges. Finally embroider the snake tongue and eyes.

Of course, you can do other crafts for the Year of the Serpent - everything depends only on your imagination!