How to make toys for the New Year
In the New Year's holidays always want tofeel unity with your family and warmth. Joint creativity and the appropriate environment will allow you to "soak in" the festive spirit and raise your spirits, which will last for several months ahead! And if at this time someone spends money on pre-holiday shopping, you can say: "And we make toys for the New Year on our own!".
Toys for the New Year from paper
Handmade has always been a great way to save money.and get more experience, so why not combine business with pleasure? Take care of the applied art with a second half or take the children of an interesting occupation. We offer you several instructions how to make toys for the New Year with your own hands. Video material on this topic will help you more quickly learn skills.
Kusudams
Let's start, perhaps, with the most complex, but mostbeautiful decoration - kusud. From paper you can make incredible voluminous balls with floral motifs. As you may have guessed, the Kusudams are one of a kind of ancient origami art. There are many schemes of these intricate toys made of paper, but we propose to try our hand at creating one of the simplest kusuds.
All that is required of you is to act according to the proposed scheme and step-by-step to fold paper sheets. The video-instruction will help to deal with difficult moments.
Manufacturing process:
A square piece of paper is bent in half, so that you can draw diagonals. Then the upper and lower corners must be bent to the central part.
Lateral corners press to the center and bend back to chart the lines. Then press the corners to the center point of the lines.
On the planned lines, you need to press the triangles to the center and turn the paper over.
The edges of the sheet must be bent to the central vertical line and turn the paper back.
Corners bend to the central vertical line. Bend the top and bottom layers of the squares back and flip the figure.
Now you have to bend the upper and lower triangles back and the part will be ready!
For kusudama need to do 10 such details, so in the end you can make the right folds with your eyes closed!
When all the details are done, you will have to connect them. To do this, insert one element into the other, passing it like a cross.
You will get a module, the edges of which need to be folded and filled into the formed "pockets". It will take 5 modules, of which Kusudama will be collected.
To connect all the modules, you need to insert the triangles of one element into the "pockets" of the other. For strength, you can grease "pockets" with PVA glue.
Garlands
The second no less popular way of creatingtoys made of paper for the New Year - garlands. To cut a garland, download and print the motif you like or create your own. We suggest you choose one of the samples below.
Paper is made very simply and will allow a big catch of good wishes and joyful moments!
Such a garland of colorful paper cuts will enliven any room!
Ringlets of colorful paper will appeal to both children and adults!
Toys under the Christmas tree Toys for the New Year with their ownHands of paper can be done with the help of old-good technology papier mache. There are two ways of making: by gluing the base with paper scraps soaked in a paste or PVA, or by using a paper "dough".
To make a paper "dough", you needgrind the material, place in a saucepan, add water and cook for several hours until a nearly uniform consistency is formed. Then make a paste and mix the paper, wrung from excess water. From this mass, you can dazzle anything, then place in a warm place, cover with paint and decorate with decorative elements.
So you can make toys for the Newyear in the form of family members, pets, etc. New Year's holidays are a time of unity with your family and friends, but nothing unites people like joint creativity. Do with your family toys for the New Year with your own hands and enjoy the time spent together.
