Crafts for the New Year with their own hands made of paper and cardboard, photo master-class

Decorate your house in the New Year 2014 with your ownhands! Even if you have never done anything yourself, for example, from paper and cardboard, crafts-ornaments made from these materials are quite easy to create. Handmade helps to relieve stress and calm down, and also - to have a good time with the whole family, if you make jewelry all together. Here are some instructions on how to make such crafts at home.

Christmas toys made of paper and cardboard

Herringbone

A voluminous Christmas tree-pendant for a real Christmas tree can bein several ways, and the simplest of them is to glue two folded cardboard in the form, in fact, the Christmas tree. Take the colored cardboard, glue, scissors, awl, thread (to hang after) and a pencil. Draw a tree - in the most primitive, childlike form, with ridiculously spread out "paws" branches, but always symmetrical, and cut it out, and then circle on another sheet of cardboard to get exactly the same workpiece.

Crafts for the New Year with their own hands made of paper and cardboard, photo master-class

Do this twice more - you will get 4tree. Bend all the blanks along the line of vertical symmetry, and then glue the inner parts together. You will get a Christmas tree on each side of a large, assembled of them and a three-dimensional one, with four sides. You can make exactly the same toy of three pieces - then the Christmas tree will have three sides. Decorate it with sequins or metal markers, punch a hole for the thread from above, thread the thread and hang it on a real tree or houseplant.

Flashlight

An old toy, whose manufacturing principle is notchanges at least a century. Take two rectangles of bright color paper, one wider than the second, and the one that is wider, fold along and make cuts after 1 cm, 1.5 cm. Not reaching the edge of the sheet. The most extreme of the resulting "tapes" cut at all, leaving the side to stick out two small "tails" of paper.

Crafts for the New Year with their own hands made of paper and cardboard, photo master-class

Then expand the rectangle and straighten it likecan be bent more outward, all the other ribbons. Fold the second, smaller sheet into a tube and glue it, and from the top, glue the first rectangle, spreading only the top and bottom, entire strips of paper with glue. Tie a string - and the flashlight is ready!

Snowflakes

Simple paper snowflakes are done this way - you need totake a square piece of paper, fold it four times, and cut several abstract holes with scissors on the fold (remember to round off or make a jagged outer corner if you want, so that the snowflake is not square). It looks more complicated if you fold paper five, six, seven times. It is better to take colored paper - for example, silver. Most often they are attached to windows, but sometimes they are hung on the ceiling or cabinets - so that the snowflake turns in the air from the slightest blow and creates a festive atmosphere.

Crafts for the New Year with their own hands made of paper and cardboard, photo master-class

You can still slightly complicate this craft: dress in a snowflake, as in a pack, a cardboard silhouette of a dancer carved according to pattern or inspiration - if you want to decorate the room more exquisitely. Most likely, you saw snowflakes on the windows and mirrors in stores, as if stencilled with white paint from a can. You can make these at home using a paper stencil, and it is not necessary to take paint, which is very difficult to wipe off the glasses - the usual toothpaste will do, if it is white.

Attach the cut out paper in the usual waya snowflake to the glass with adhesive tape, put a little paste on a brush or toothbrush, bring it closer to the mirror, and then forcefully draw a finger along the bristles - the paste splashes forward on the mirror and the snowflake stencil. Do this several times, and then open the stencil. Now you have on the mirror or window there is an elegant frost in the form of a snowflake, which is also easily washed with soap and water!

Author: Masha Larina