Winter has come merry
With skates and sleds
With a sprinkled track,
With a magical old tale.
On a decorated Christmas tree
Lanterns swing.
Let the winter be merry
It doesn't end any longer!

Winter crafts

Winter has come! Snow, frost, sledges, skates - WHERE? Our Latvian weather again unpredictably canceled winter. Well, let's make the winter ourselves, with our own hands. And create a festive New Year's atmosphere! And to help you I offer a small selection of ideas.

There has already been a lot about postcards, so I won't go deep into this topic, I'll just post a few new ideas. Yarn, buttons, threads, ribbons, paper, pencil shavings and some magic!

Last year there were Christmas trees made of stripes, this year we will make the Christmas trees a little more voluminous - we will twist the tubes from colored paper.

Unusual candlesticks are obtained by simply cutting out a black and white picture of a city or castle and wrapping it around a jar. You can make a whole fabulous city. And candlesticks made of tin cans, on which an openwork pattern is pierced, will support the fabulous atmosphere.

The pine cone is already a tree in itself. And a lot of cones is a big tree.

Since we are talking about Christmas trees, here is such an option. Elegant and original. And by the size and number of Christmas trees, it will be possible to understand how big a wine lover you are.

And finally, I propose to remember about our smaller brothers and make such unusual feeders. Gelatin dissolves in water, then the food is poured, laid out in molds and cooled in the refrigerator.

I hope that some of the ideas are useful to you and yours. winter evenings filled with creativity!

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We offer to do creative work and return a little to childhood, when any fluff is a ballerina, any - a box - a house, and, any leaf is something magical and unusual. In childhood, the imagination is very well developed. It is better to make crafts on the theme of winter with your own hands for kindergarten together with the kids. Children can suggest and come up with a lot, but the technical side of the issue is up to adults. Further in the article you will find descriptions of crafts on the theme of winter, which are made by hand for kindergarten and a lot of ideas and tips. It remains only to select the evening and, together with your favorite toddlers, start to create magic!

We associate winter with snow, snowflakes, snowdrifts and, of course, with the New Year. Crafts for a competition or exhibition for a kindergarten on the theme of winter, which you can easily do with your own hands, just should reflect these ideas. Based on this, we will select ideas and material for their implementation.

You can make a panel or drawing. But it may not be a simple drawing, but made in interesting technique... Here's what you can fill in a canvas for a drawing or a panel on the theme of winter:

1. Drawing with semolina.
2. Application from cotton pads.
3. Cotton wool applique.
4. Drawing from white crushed eggshell.
5. Sugar drawing.

All these types of design and applique work involve gluing the ingredients onto a base with a pattern applied with glue.

New Year's installations are a favorite type of creativity for kids. For him, you can take an empty unnecessary box, and cut off 2 walls from it. There will be a floor with two corner walls. This will be the basis for an amazing fairy-tale landscape or scene. Snow can be made from cotton wool, houses and trees from cotton swabs or brown-dyed newspapers rolled into a tubule, peculiar logs. Further in the article will be given a master class of one of these installations.

DIY winter-themed crafts for kindergarten can be made from paper or empty plastic bottles, from burnt out light bulbs, and in general from everything that you find at home. Next, consider a penguin from an empty plastic bottle and doggies from light bulbs.

And also crafts on the theme of winter for kindergarten can be done with your own hands from threads, photos of such crafts with a description later in the article.

Craft "Winter's Tale"

And now we propose to consider the photo and detailed description how to make some DIY winter crafts for kindergarten.

We craft from what is at home

We suggest using for crafts everything that is unnecessary in the house, for example, a burned-out light bulb. If there is a big sweetheart, that's very good. Let's turn her into a real New Year's penguin. What is needed for this magic:

• burnt out light bulb (preferably bigger size);
• acrylic paints or gouache and brushes;
• some firt or fabric in black, red and white;
• ribbon;
• glue (use a heat gun, if possible).

So let's start:

1. We paint the whole light bulb in White color and let it dry well.
2. Draw the front part with a pencil: the face and the belly, which will remain white, the rest is painted black, except for the place where the bulb is screwed into the cartridge. We paint this place with red paint. Let it dry.
3. We draw on the eyes and beak, let it dry.
4. Cut out oval wings from black felt or thick fabric and glue on both sides.
5. Cut out the red rectangle for the scarf and cut the ends, tie the scarf.
6. We attach a ribbon to the crown and glue it over with a strip of white felt or fabric. You can stick a pompom on the top of your head.

The funny penguin is ready.

Penguin from a plastic bottle

Now let's see how to make a penguin or Santa Claus from a plastic bottle. The circuit is very similar and simple. For the craft, you will need 2 empty identical bottles. Cut off only the bottom from one, and cut the second in half and glue the bottom of the first eggplant to it with tape or glue. It turned out to be such a block.

Now paint it white and let it dry. Then, in the same way as with the light bulb, we draw the outlines of the front part for the penguin or the face, if we are making Santa Claus. We leave them white, paint the rest either black (for a penguin) or red (for Santa Claus). Then we draw the face and draw other necessary details. We put on a cap and a scarf, if we made Santa Claus, then we glue a beard out of cotton wool or felt. Like these ones interesting crafts can be done with children from unnecessary things.

Panel "Snowman from cotton pads"

What a winter without a snowman! Children are very fond of making snowmen in the yards and poking around in the snow, rolling lumps for him. But they will also really like to make such a winter hero at home from improvised material. What you need for the creative process:

• thick cardboard for the base in blue or blue;
• cotton pads;
• colored paper or thin felt;
• White paper;
• paints and a brush;
• scissors;
• PVA glue.

We start sculpting a snowman:

1. First, let's make the landscape around. Cut out 2 colored rectangles from felt or paper, glue them onto cardboard. Cut out the brown tree trunk and glue it on.
2. We glue snow roofs or cotton pad halves to houses. We make the base of the snowman from two cotton pads. We glue a felt or colored paper cap and a scarf to the snowman.
3. We glue discs as snowdrifts and snow on tree branches.
4. Cut out small snowflakes from white paper and glue them at random.
5. Now it remains to draw the details with paint: the face of the snowman, the windows.

A wonderful winter panel for the kindergarten is ready.

Winter panel made of semolina or sugar

Another fascinating and interesting version of a picture or panel on the theme of winter is drawing with semolina or sugar. Kids will be delighted with this activity. In order to make such a panel, take colored cardboard, PVA glue, a simple pencil and sugar or semolina.

On cardboard, draw any winter drawing with a pencil. For children in the kindergarten, the easiest is possible. Then cover all the details that should be painted with glue. Now pour boldly and thickly semolina or sugar over the whole picture. It must be left in this form until the glue dries. Then just pick up and pour out all the remnants of the grains that have not adhered.

You can make a panel with a winter scene from plasticine with your child. To do this, you will need thick cardboard as a base, plasticine and a simple pencil.

On cardboard, you need to draw a simple winter story. Mom can help here. It can be a landscape, a tree, a snowman, or any animal. And then decorate the picture, but not with paints, but with plasticine, as if rubbing small pieces of the desired color, filling in the details of the picture. The child will cope well with this, only under the control of the mother.

A similar panel can be made from thread crumbs. Everything is exactly the same until the moment of coloring. Before coloring, you need to finely cut the threads. different colors and place each color in its own container. Then coat each element of the pattern with PVA glue separately and apply crumbs from threads to it. So we fill in all the elements of the picture.

Crafts from threads

Snowman made of thread

You can try to make a beautiful, delicate and big snowman from threads. What is needed for this:

• two balloons and polyethylene;
• white cotton threads;
• PVA glue;
• branches for pens;
• cap and scarf for decoration;
• buttons for the peephole;
• orange paper for making the nose a carrot.

We start tinkering:

1. We inflate the balls and wrap them in plastic.
2. We wrap the balls randomly with a thread smeared with PVA glue. The thread must be passed through a tube of glue and wound.
3. Let the balls dry and pop the air base, pull it out through any gap air balloons from the inside.
4. We glue together 2 balls, put the snowman on a stable surface. To do this, you can glue a ring from a strip of thick cardboard.
5. Now we decorate the snowman with a cap and a scarf, glue twigs instead of hands.
6. Glue the buttons in place of the eyes and nose with a carrot from a cone twisted from paper.

In general, you can decorate such a snowman at your own discretion.

Christmas trees from balls of thread

And now we will make a cozy, home and christmas tree from the balls of threads. For this you need:

• threads of different colors. Better to take wool blend or acrylic;
• thick paper, from it we will make a cone base or a purchased foam cone;
• any beads or flowers from ribbons and tulle for decoration;
• thick wire;
• a pot or empty low jar;
• fabric, mesh or tulle for decorating the pot.
• jute rope.
• glue in the gun.
• gypsum.

We start to create:

1. Making the base. First, bend a nice little piece of wire for the tree leg and wrap it with jute rope.
2. Dissolve the plaster in a bowl and transfer the required amount to the tree pot, stick in the leg and wait until it dries.
3. We decorate the pot with a cloth, decorate with a cone or a flower.
4. Now the tree itself. We make a cone out of paper or take a ready-made one from foam and put it on the leg.
5. We wind balls from different threads. Children can be involved in this activity, they will willingly help.
6. We glue the cone with balls tightly, leaving no gaps.
7. It remains to decorate our cozy woolen beauty. We glue beads, fabric flowers or whatever you want.

You can make such a Christmas tree without a base from a pot and a leg, just a cone from balls. It is both easier and faster. You can add sisal balls to the balls, if any, or make balls from coffee beans by simply pasting over dense lumps of paper, painted in Brown color coffee beans.

Winter new year wreaths

Such wreaths are classics of the genre. They decorate the room in winter, preparing for the new year. They can be made from everything that is at hand, they can be used:

• spruce branches;
• cones;
• chestnuts;
• pieces of paper or cardboard;
• acorns;
• bay leaves;
• dried flowers;
• coffee beans;
• paper flowers:
• flowers made of fabric or ribbons;
• just branches;
• Christmas balls of different sizes;
• the same skeins of thread and so on.

To make a wreath, the main thing is to understand the principle: first we make a base from cardboard or buy a foam ring in a store for creativity and decorate the base of our own free will. On the base, you need to stick the selected elements tightly, you can combine them, and then decorate with a ribbon bow on the side and hang on cords.

Such a wreath can be sprinkled with glitter or golden varnish or silver paint from a spray can.

DIY crafts for the New Year for kindergarten on the theme of winter, many are asked to bring to kindergarten... Of course, the kids themselves already from the end of autumn begin to create beauty in order to decorate the group and the premises of the kindergarten. However, homework is usually given too. For parents, this is a unique moment when you can spend a lot of useful time with your child, and at the same time learn something new and learn to do something unusual.

As a rule, they make them at home and take them to the kindergarten for the Winter Crafts competition, which has been traditional since Soviet times. It is clear that the most popular craft here will be a paper Christmas tree or just a postcard, but in this material we offer several simple, beautiful and original master classes so that this year not only to celebrate with participation in the competition, but also to take an honorable prize.

Crafts for the New Year with your own hands for kindergarten on the theme of winter with a photo

"Winter window"

When there is snow outside the window in winter, the houses are always warm and cozy. Such a craft will help create a magical fairy-tale atmosphere, and creating it together with a kindergarten child will also strengthen the kid's skills in using scissors. Even if there is no real snow outside the window, this craft option will always create the right mood.

What is required for work:
* A winter window template that is easy and free to print from the web.
* Cardboard or just high density paper.
* Pouch (as for sandwiches).
* Glue and sugar.
* Spoon and felt.

Cut off the part above the zipper from the bag, but do not cut off the zipper itself. Carefully glue the cut out template to thick paper. On a blue leaf, make a trace around and outside the window. The base should be as strong as a rectangle. Now put one and a half large spoons of sugar in the bag, press on the bag so that all the air comes out of it (if you ignore this moment, you will not wait for snow).

It remains to place the sugar in the center of the bag, and put the bag between two sheets of paper. Pour glue on the edges of the bag, as well as in the front and back, and there should be glue on the top edge of the paper window. Around the template, make felt curtains for the window (if it is not at hand, then simply use colored paper). Glue all the details of the winter window onto the bag. When the glue is dry, you can play with the window: turn it so that the snow falls.

Christmas tree made of pasta

On any themed video, you can see that the most popular DIY craft for the new year for a kindergarten on the theme of winter is a Christmas tree. The materials for making it can be different, as an option, consider ordinary pasta!

For the base of such a tree, you can take a conical plastic wine glass. If you don't have a glass at hand, you can quickly make such a base yourself from cardboard or plastic, from thick paper. It is important to choose a solid material for the base so that it does not deform under the weight of pasta and glue in the process of creating a unique Christmas tree. For this version of the craft, we take pasta in the form of small bows. But this is not necessary at all! Choose the shape of the pasta as you wish - spirals, horns, even stars.

Interesting! Small pasta of any shape can be painted with ordinary paints and used on a finished Christmas tree as a decor, such as Christmas balls and garlands.

To keep the pasta well on the base, you can use PVA glue. But perfect option, this is if it turns out to fix the elements with a special thermo gun. Green spray paint will help the tree to make realistic, for coloring small pasta like Christmas decorations you can use gold paint.

A glass, if it was taken as a basis, has a base leg. It does not need to be removed until the very end of the craft process. Only when the pasta is already dry will the paint hold firmly, the leg can be removed and the Christmas tree can be placed on its natural pasta base. You need to fasten the pasta to the base carefully and close to each other, focusing on the checkerboard pattern. You need to make sure that there are no holes left between these elements, otherwise, the plastic of the glass will shine through. If so, then this distance is also painted over with green paint.

"Winter picture"

To make such a picture with a child, you need to prepare blue (you can take gray) cardboard, thick paper and glue, you will also need a pencil, cotton balls and rice, as well as green food coloring, water and pouch sealed with a zipper.

Put a little green dye in a teaspoon of water and send it to a bag. Put half a glass of rice there and seal the bag, mix everything well so that the rice is completely covered. Put a painting on a piece of paper to dry. Once the rice is dry, you can use it further in your craft. This usually takes about half an hour.

On the cardboard of the selected color, draw a line for the border of the sky and snow. Also draw trees, triangular Christmas trees. Apply glue to each shape of the tree, and then sprinkle green rice on it. Now there are thorny pines in the picture, place cotton balls under them, cut out the sun or a month from bright paper, add stars to the sky.

Pine cone hedgehog

Many parents are in search of what to do with their own handicrafts for the new year for a kindergarten on the theme of winter from cones. Consider this ultimately delicious and easy-to-manufacture option. On the one hand, it is just a hedgehog, on the other hand, this animal will decorate any New Year's scene.

To make a hedgehog, in addition to a cone, you also need dry pine needles, as well as brown plasticine, black peas, you also need an acorn cap. Collect dry needles in bunches so that they form 7-9 pieces each, attach a little plasticine to the ends and fix a large cone behind the scales. From the ends, the needles can be trimmed slightly.

Use brown plasticine to make a pointed muzzle of a winter hedgehog; eyes and a nose are made from pepper. Now place the muzzle at the beginning of the cone, and gently put the acorn head with a small amount of plasticine on the needles (this is an imitation of mushrooms).

DIY crafts for the new year for a kindergarten on the theme of winter can be so varied and beautiful. More more ideas on their creation with a thematic description, step by step photos and the video can be found in

Long winter evenings, quiet family atmosphere, new year holidays- and now a desire wakes up in us to create unprecedented beauty with our own hands. And if you also connect to your own imagination that huge mass of ideas that the Internet is simply overflowing with, then you can specifically get hooked on homemade products. Moreover, you will not need any unusual materials for this. Quite the opposite: on winter crafts everything in the house will do.

Such funny snowmen made of felt, socks and even.

A funny penguin made of colored paper will amuse your child and teach you the basics of geometry.

Snow-white winter for many of us is a favorite season, and New Year- one of best holidays... Just imagine: it's frosty outside, the roads are covered with snow, everything is covered with huge snowdrifts, and the whole family gathered in a warm cozy house on a weekend. And when the kids start fiddling with colored paper and scissors, then normal parents will not be able to stand aside and will definitely join handicrafts, which will delight both themselves and the kids. The desire to create wakes up even more with the appearance of a fluffy Christmas tree. That's when children with mom and dad open a real workshop of Santa Claus, so many toys for the Christmas tree, garlands, snowflakes and decorations for gifts appear from under their hands. It is not only beautiful, but also gives great joy to those who are engaged in homemade products, and those who see them.

Christmas crafts "Christmas tree"

Christmas crafts "Christmas tree"

New Year's crafts "Penguin"

Christmas crafts "Christmas tree"

Christmas crafts "Christmas tree"

These openwork Christmas trees are made using stationery knife and white cardboard.

Draw a pattern on the cardboard and cut the pattern with a knife.

Snowflakes made of beads and wire. What could be easier?

Beads make very delicate snowflakes.

Joint family activities are always very beneficial for the atmosphere in the house. And making crafts on New Year's Eve is a long-standing wonderful tradition in many families. But for all the seeming simplicity, this work is quite painstaking, and it takes a lot of time and effort. But what you can't sacrifice for this fun, meaningful activity. After all, from such a pastime, the hearts of all family members are united. And because adults together with children are engaged in New Year's crafts, the kids will not only get a lot of joy, but will also try very hard to make their parents like their work. Therefore, it is important to choose options for crafts in which the child can fully express himself. You also need to properly distribute responsibilities, highlighting the leading role for the baby. And believe me: your efforts will not be in vain.

These snowmen are made from socks. Let's try?

Stuff the sock with cotton and tie it as in the photo.

From the rest of the sock, make a hat for a snowman.

Sew on the eyes and carrot nose.

Put a hat on the snowman and he is ready!

One of the uncomplicated Christmas crafts maybe a GRANDFATHER FROST, for the manufacture of which you need a walnut and an apple. These delicious decorations can be placed under the tree or on the party table. A head is made of a walnut, on which a face is painted with paint. The sharp end of the nut is the neck. Then you need to attach cotton wool and the same beard. The cap is made of a triangular piece of felt rolled up in a cone and glued together, a cotton pom-pom is attached to its top and the cap is glued to the head. After that, a large red apple is carefully polished with a napkin. A drop of glue drips onto its tail and the head is glued. If the family has small children who are used to testing everything with a tooth, then the glue can be replaced with caramel or gelatin. You can also use a toothpick to connect the parts.

Christmas crafts "Snowman"

Christmas crafts "Snowman"

Christmas crafts "Snowman"

Christmas crafts "Snowman"

Christmas crafts "Snowman"

Christmas crafts "Snowman"

Christmas crafts "Snowman"

And here's more knitted snowmen.

Christmas toy from cinnamon sticks.

Snowmen made from bottles, marshmallows and bread.

You can make penguins from plastic bottles.

DIY winter crafts

If you took up winter crafts, do it yourself can make very cute SNOWFLAKES. Moreover, according to the degree of complexity, they can also be very different. For example, simple ones - from a sheet of paper folded into a corner and cut off in the center and along the edges (either a simple notch or more complex figures). Snowflakes can be made voluminous if, according to the standard principle, a sheet of paper is folded several times through the center onto a corner, and then counter cuts are made in a checkerboard pattern, but not reaching the edge of the opposite side. In such a snowflake, the top may not be cut off, but the opposite side is cut with a simple straight cut parallel to the opposite cuts. After unfolding, the resulting corners through one are gently wrapped towards the center and glued. The unused corners are wrapped on the other side of the product. It turns out a beautiful lush snowflake. You can make this invariable winter attribute from beads and beads. The central circles are made of small beads, and the top ones are made of ordinary beads. Such a snowflake must be woven from the central circle. You need to take a needle with a fishing line, put 5 beads on it, close it in a ring, and then put on 5 more beads, from which to make loops again. They must be attached to the beads in the central circle, and then gradually increase the number of beads to be collected, and attach the loops to the already formed petals. Wire is also suitable for beaded snowflakes, which will make the decoration smoother. Such a snowflake will not bend and it will be more convenient to hang it on the tree. This is also better because you don't need to put a needle on the wire with this kind of weaving.

Angel from a napkin.

Wire and yarn can make a wonderful Christmas decor.

This is a snowflake made of salt crystals. Remember ours.

If you remember, we will detail how to make a crystal solution.

Our inventive mothers, if they wish or need, can adapt any item for decoration. So New Year's crafts FROM FIGURED PASTA PRODUCTS have become very popular. You can dream up with your child and make unusual toys and funny garlands. Even if you just paint them in gold or white, sprinkle them with piece frost, then the tree will sparkle from them, and the baby will simply be delighted. For the smallest, simple toys made from cardboard templates are suitable. The child will be able to cut figures out of paper, felt or foil on them. You can also adapt unnecessary beads and buttons, different in shape and color, found at home. Their child can sew according to his own taste to the figures made earlier. Then they must be hung on the tree at the most honorable place.

For crafts you will need different shapes pasta, glue and glitter.

Kids winter crafts

For older guys, you can offer more serious kids winter crafts requiring certain skills. So younger schoolchildren can easily cope with a New Year's craft - SLIPPERS WITH FATHER FROST. Of course, they can be made "in an adult way" - from thick felt, insoles, padding polyester. But in our case, a simpler one is suitable - a souvenir version of slippers that can be hung, for example, for combs in the hallway. They are made either from thick fabric or from cardboard. In this case, the child traces his foot on the cardboard and cuts out the base. Then, from another piece of cardboard, he cuts out the top of the sneaker, and you can offer him to cut its shape according to the template you made in advance. Before joining both workpieces, top part decorated under the face of Santa Claus. To do this, you can take a braid of a suitable tone, thick fabric, colored paper, two white buttons and two black beads from which eyes are made, multi-colored yarn, a synthetic winterizer for a mustache, beard and cap hem. You can decorate everything with white gouache and sparkles. If your child gives such a souvenir to his beloved grandparents, then their happiness will have no boundaries.

And here is another card with a snowman.

A funny version of New Year's crafts - decorations for the Christmas tree FROM EGG SHELL. At the beginning, white and yolk are carefully blown out of a whole egg (fresh) through punctures at its ends. Then the most creative stage begins - the decoration of the shell. The easiest way is to paste over the entire surface. eggshell small shreds of colored paper. Can be glued from the same colored paper different applications... If you add wadded hair, a mustache, a beard and a paper cap to the drawn mouth, nose and eyes, you can get a cute gnome, clown, Santa Claus or someone else. You can also glue over the egg with sparkles, decorate with finely chopped "rain", different ribbons, as well as absolutely everything that comes to hand. And you can simply paint the shell, but not with watercolors and gouache. They do not adhere well to the surface of the egg, so an oily or acrylic paint... A thread for hanging a toy, pre-threaded through both holes, is fixed at the lower end of the egg, for example, with a thread brush or bead.

Sugar snowmen.

And you still don't know how to use it correctly plastic bottles?

But for the PARADISE APPLE, everything in the kitchen will do. This will crumple up the foil and shape it into a small apple. On top of it, you need to wrap it with a finishing layer of the same foil. A pea of ​​pepper is glued into the recess at the bottom of the apple, and two holes are pierced in the upper recess, into which a stalk, a leaf and a fastening thread will be inserted. For the cutting, you can use a twig, a real tail from an apple or a piece of twine, and the leaf can be successfully replaced with a bay leaf, which is better tinted for greater naturalness. Now all that remains is to sprinkle the apple with snow. It can be replaced with scraps of paper, small balls of styrofoam, or ordinary sugar. In order for the snow not to fall off, the apple should be greased with glue or transparent varnish(for nails) and roll in a prepared material for snow ahead of time. Moreover, you do not need to roll the whole apple, but only one side or top of it. When the apple is dry, it is ready to hang on the tree.

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V kindergarten Or did the school have an exhibition of winter-themed crafts? Or do you just want to keep your little one busy with creativity on these cold days? In one material, we have collected for you 6 ideas for winter crafts from natural and scrap materials with step-by-step master classes, a selection of 60 photos and videos.

Idea 1. Tabletop diorama with a winter storyline

A tabletop diorama will allow you and your baby to show all your talents - from modeling to construction. Moreover, using the most different materials and objects: branches, cones, toys (eg, from eggs "Kinder Surprise"), plasticine, salty dough, cardboard, cotton wool and much more.

The first thing you need to do is come up with a storyline for your diorama and plan your composition. You can recreate any of your imaginations or be inspired by our selection of themes with photos and small tips for making crafts.

Topic 1. "Winter in the forest"

The craft is made of polystyrene and plasticine. The bear can also be made from polymer clay or salted dough

If in kindergarten or school you were given an assignment to do winter craft from natural materials then you can use cones. They make excellent Christmas trees, owls, deer, squirrels and hedgehogs for the winter forest. By the way, we just have several master classes on how to make them.

Want to do simple craft more effective? Just light it up with an LED string! To embed light bulbs into cardboard, you need to make cross-shaped cuts in it.

This winter forest completely made of felt. In this case, animal figurines can be worn on the fingers.

Topic 2. "Winter House"

A favorite theme at exhibitions of winter crafts. The house can be surrounded by a forest or a courtyard with paths, a gate, a mountain ash, a skating rink and a snowman. And the hut itself can be beautiful not only outside, but also inside.

This video tutorial shows a simple and quick way making winter crafts from natural materials, namely from twigs and cones.

Topic 3. "Christmas in the village / town"

If you build a couple of houses and connect them with beautiful streets, you get a whole village or town.

The easiest way to make houses is paper, more precisely, from printed templates, which only need to be cut, painted and glued. The following video presents step by step master class for the manufacture of such crafts.

Topic 4. "The North Pole and its inhabitants"

Want to do more original craft? We suggest making a diorama on the theme of the North Pole.

To make such a craft, download and print templates (click on the picture to download), transfer them to cardboard, then cut, connect and paint the parts

Topic 5. "Winter fun"

Craft on the topic winter fun illustrates all the joys of winter. For example, sledding, making snowmen, or playing snowballs. To recreate winter scenes, Lego men (pictured below), Kinder Surprise figures from eggs and any small toys are well suited. You can also make people with your own hands from plasticine or polymer clay.

Topic 6. Winter sports

Another very original idea crafts - a diorama on the theme of skiing, figure skating, hockey, bobsleigh, snowboarding. By the way, the Sochi Olympics can serve as an inspiration and model for modeling.

To make such figures of skiers, download, print, color and cut out templates (to download templates, click on the picture), then glue a toothpick to the little men’s hands, and an popsicle stick to the feet.

Topic 7. Scenes from fairy tales

Choose your favorite fairy tale story and recreate one of its episodes. For example, it can be a fairy tale "12 months", " The Snow Queen"," Frost "," The Nutcracker "," By the Pike's Command. "

Everything in this craft on the theme of the fairy tale "By the Pike's Command" is molded from plasticine and only the mill is assembled from matches

To make such a craft, you need to cut several holes in a piece of plywood and insert tree branches into them

This composition is dedicated to the theme of the ballet "Nutcracker". The figures in it are made of ... clothespins. Unfortunately, in Russia, clothespins with a round top are not sold, but you can order them on the Aliexpress website or use the usual ones.

From this video you will learn how to make a winter craft with your own hands based on the fairy tale "By the Pike."

Idea 2. Skating rink with a steerable figure

The originality of this winter craft lies in the fact that the skater can be smoothly "rolled on the ice" by moving the magnet along the back of the box.

What you need:

• A shallow can of cookies, tea, etc.
• Paper;
• Paints and brushes, pencils or markers;
• Paperclip or coin;
• Glue;
• Magnet.

How to do it:

Step 1. Decorate the tin box so that it resembles a skating rink: paint the bottom with blue and white paint and cover with clear varnish (glitter nail polish is good), garlands and flags can be placed on top of the box, and snow-covered trees on the sides.

Step 2. Draw a skating figure of a girl or boy on thick paper or cardboard, then cut and glue it to a coin or paper clip.

Step 3. Attach a magnet to the back of the box. Voila, the ice rink is ready!

Idea 3. Picture painted by prints

Painting with fingerprints, palm prints, and even footprints is a lot of fun, especially for preschoolers. All you need is fantasy, gouache and a piece of paper! In the next selection of photos, you can see examples of such drawings.

Idea 4. Mini-tree made of paper

Another winter craft idea for the little ones is paper Christmas trees. They are made very easily and quickly, and you can use them as you like: as a decoration for the same diorama, applications for new year card or a panel to decorate a garland or a Christmas tree.

What you need:

• A sheet of green paper and some brown paper for the trunk;
• Glue stick;
• Scissors;
• Sequins, rhinestones, beads and other decorations for the Christmas tree.

Step 1. From a sheet of green paper, make a square by bending one corner of the sheet, as shown in the photo, and cutting out the excess.

Step 2. Cut one of the short sides of the triangle into equal narrow strips, not reaching the fold of about 1 cm (see photo above).

Step 3. Now straighten your workpiece and begin to alternately glue the ends of the strips to the center fold line, moving from bottom to top.

Step 4. When you have all the strips in place, bend and glue the bottom corner of the tree up. Further in the same place, but with back side, glue a small rectangle (tree trunk) cut out of brown paper.

Step 5. Decorate the tree with colorful beads, sequins, buttons and other decorations. If you wish, you can make several of these trees, glue loops to them, so that you can then assemble a garland or decorate a real Christmas tree with crafts.

Idea 5. Snow globe ... more precisely a bank

Now we propose to make a real souvenir with your own hands - a variation of a snow globe. True, it will be made from an ordinary glass jar. The child will be able to present the craft to a loved one, present it at a winter crafts competition, or simply leave it on the shelf for beauty.

What you need:

• Glass jar with a lid;
• A piece of styrofoam;
• Glue (hot or "Moment");
• Acrylic paint to decorate the lid (optional);
• Artificial snow or just sea salt, sugar, white soap or foamed polyethylene grated on a fine grater;
• Figurines that will fit in the jar;
• Styrofoam balls or any white beads;
• Fishing line;
• Needle.

How to do it:

Step 1. Repaint the lid to the desired color and leave to dry. In this project, spray paint was used to redesign the lid.

Step 2. While the paint is drying, let's make a "snowfall". To do this, you need to string several balls of polystyrene on a fishing line threaded into a needle. Use scotch tape to attach the "snowflakes" to the jar.

Step 3. Trace the bottom of the can directly over the styrofoam, then use a knife to cut the resulting circle out of it. This circle will become the base for the figures.

Step 4. Glue your figures to the foam circle, then glue the resulting composition to the bottom of the jar.

Step 5. Pour artificial or homemade snow into the jar, close it with a lid with snowflakes and enjoy the view of a winter fairytale.

Idea 6. New Year's card

There are never enough New Year cards, so we suggest making a few with your child.

What you need:

• A sheet of white paper;
• A sheet of colored paper;
• Scissors;
• Glue stick;
• Markers.

How to do it:

Step 1. Fold a sheet of white paper with an accordion three times so that each top layer of the accordion is smaller in width than the previous one.

Step 2. Spread out your accordion, cut the leaf diagonally and slightly in waves as shown in the photo above, then reassemble the accordion. You have got a slope of a snow-covered mountain.

Step 3. Now take a sheet of colored paper, glue a blank on it and cut off the excess. Hooray! The postcard is almost ready.

Step 4. Decorate the mountain with Christmas trees, draw snowmen and skiers, and finally sign the postcard.

In the same way, but using larger paper, you can make a winter craft for kindergarten.