Let's see how you can create unique Christmas crafts. for a competition in school or kindergarten in the form of Santa Claus. I will also show you how to decorate gifts for the New Year with the symbol of Santa Claus. Let's start with gifts...

Santa Claus on a gift

How to do it yourself.

(simple options).

Here in the photo below we see a great New Year's decorations the most common gift wrappings made of gray wrapping paper.

For the first idea you will need:

• a round shape made of white cardboard, a piece of red cardboard,
• red pompom (or plain wadding + PVA glue + red gouache)
• a piece of white foam packaging (which is often put in boots in the store, or in boxes with appliances). Or (if you do not have such material) you can take white cardboard and glue it with cotton pads.)

On a white cardboard round eye shadow or blush draw spots on the cheeks, black beads-eyes with a marker. In a bowl, stir red gouache and PVA glue (a couple of drops of paint on a teaspoon of glue), dip a piece of cotton wool into this mixture. From this sticky red cotton we mold a ball with our hands - we dry it on a battery (it will dry overnight).

Cut out a triangle from red cardboard. We glue it on the edge of a white round (Santa Claus's forehead) - it is better to glue it dry, that is, use a glue stick or double-sided tape, since wet PVA glue will wet the cardboard and make it bend.

On top of the connecting line (between the cap and the head), we lay the “fur edging”, as I already said, it is better to cut it out of the foamed packaging material. Or glue the cardboard with cotton pads and cut out the edging of Santa Claus's hat from such “cotton-hairy paper”

But two more ideas crafts-pendants in the form of Santa Claus - already from just cardboard ... and cardboard with paper molds for cupcakes.

Here are large packages with Santa Claus in large sizes.

You can even make a package yourself from a sheet gift paper. The template here is very simple. You can make such a drawing yourself with a pencil, cut it out, bend along the fold lines and it's ready. Beautiful box - glue the face and beard of Santa Claus to it and you're done.

You can do it yourself from cardboard (or from soft felt, or formiam as in the photo below) to make PACKAGING-POCKETS for gifts, decorated with Santa Claus appliqué on top.

Here is a diagram-drawing of such a pocket made of colored paper or cardboard. We bend along the lines, glue the sides and the container for sweets and chocolates is ready.

It remains only to glue the head of Santa Claus with a beard and a hat on top. Simple and fast, no complexity. You will enjoy making such quick pocket crafts with Santa Claus, a snowman, angels and other New Year's characters with your own hands.

Here is a soft felt or fleece pouch that is suitable for gifting a smart phone, or jewelry. It will be nice to receive such a gift, decorated manual labor and the imagination of the donor.

Santa Claus WITH CANDY
(just do it yourself).

Here's another new craft for this year. Santa Claus hides a candy in a bright wrapper in his tummy. A simple children's craft that you will quickly understand and can do with your own hands in one sitting.

As you can see (in the photo below), there is nothing complicated or tricky here. It’s just that Santa Claus’s tummy and back is a ONE PIECE - in shape it looks like a GAME EIGHT, which has a hole only in the upper turn of the number.

This "figure eight" is bent in half - and we get a tummy with a hole in the center in front and a closed back in the back. At the top we fix our halves with a drop of glue, or with a stapler or tape. And it remains for our Santa Claus to glue his head with a beard and legs-stand.

Santa Claus do it yourself

Craft in the technique of "spider line".

There is an article on our website where I show in great detail how to make such balls of glue and air threads with my own hands. little ball. In this article, “Thread Balls and a Sea of ​​Crafts Using the Spider Web Technique,” ​​I posted a master class. Therefore, I will not explain in detail here, so as not to waste unnecessary words. Follow the link, it's all there.

And just look at the photo below and fall in love with these cute Christmas characters made from thread balls. Simple and fast. In one evening we make balls, in the second evening we glue them with colored paper parts - and a worthy craft is ready to go to the New Year's exhibition at a school or kindergarten.

You can not glue the balls with paper parts, but immediately put on such a cap on the top ball - where a face with a mustache and beard is already glued to the cone-cap.

In general, such caps made of cardboard (from the photo above) can be put on ordinary white balloons. And you get a quick craft for the new year in the form of Santa Claus. Such quick crafts are convenient. (By the way, the link has a lot of quick craft ideas for decorating the New Year's office).

Santa Claus with his own hands.

balloon craft

in papier-mâché technique.

Here you can make such a pot-bellied nosy - sweet and charming Santa Claus from the cheapest materials. PVA glue + paper white napkins + Balloon ik + gouache for coloring.

What is the secret of the SIMPLICITY of this Santa Claus craft.

The papier-mâché technique is very simple. If you mix a paper napkin with PVA glue - mold something from this mass and dry it, we will get a dense, almost wooden, hard craft.

This principle of creating a durable material from fragile paper and liquid glue became the basis of the Papier-mâché technique.

Instead of white paper napkins you can use a normal NEWSPAPER. But then it will be necessary to paint it on top with white paint (acrylic or gouache) before drawing Santa Claus on it.

What do we do.

Step 1 Let's buy a balloon with an elongated tail (that is, pear-shaped). We inflate it so that it retains its slightly elongated pear shape. Turn the ball upside down and insert it inside the vase (to make it more convenient to work with). You can even fix it with tape a little to this vase - so that it does not jump out of it.

Step 2 We tear white napkins into shreds (or leave them whole, as you prefer). We smear part of the ball with PVA glue - put a white napkin on this puddle. On top of the napkin, we again smear PVA glue with a wide brush and again put a napkin on this wet place. Thus, we glue the entire ball in several layers - generously pouring glue and generously laying layers of napkins. Leave it all to dry (overnight).

Note - you can glue the ball with newspaper, dry it and paint it white. Or start the first layers from the newspaper. And the upper last layers should be made from a white napkin, then it will not be necessary to paint white.

Step 3 We crumple the napkins into large lumps - these will be the same. We also pour glue over it, also glue it with napkins, forming a wet papier-mâché crust. Let it dry too

Step 4 We take out the ball from the vase-pot on which it stood. We turn it upside down (we will cover this empty place that was in the vase with Santa Claus's hat, it will not be visible. With a marker on the dry round paper surface of the ball, draw the silhouette borders of all the elements of Santa Claus - a face with a nose, a beard, a fur coat. We decorate this gouache round coloring Do not forget to glue the legs

Note. For papier mache, you need a lot of PVA glue. If you buy it in the stationery department (where the glue is in small jars-tubes) you will overpay 5 times the cost. Better and cheaper to buy PVA glue in liter buckets in the construction departments of the store. For one liter of glue you will pay about 2 dollars. And such a bucket will be enough for you for a whole bunch of crafts. Any PVA glue with the inscription "universal" or "construction" is suitable for you. In composition, it is no different from the usual clerical PVA school glue. The manufacturer can be any. With this bucket, you will not only make Santa Claus out of papier-mâché, but also a snowman and a penguin (also based on balloon). Details in other articles on this site.

By the way, on the basis of the BALLOON, you can make the most different crafts with Santa Claus. You can decorate a ball pasted with newspaper with stripes of colored fringe. We buy rolls of colored crepe paper in stationery. we cut it into strips, cut them into a fringe, glue the BALL IN A CIRCLE with fringe strips. It turns out another version of Santa Claus crafts with his own hands - mischievous and furry.

Or you can decorate a balloon covered with a newspaper with a FLEECE WINDING - a very cozy and warm craft will turn out from a soft material.

We make our own Santa Claus

from stones and natural materials.

Ordinary stones - river small or large cobblestones can become the basis on which the New Year's fairy tale will sprout.

You can just find oval stable stones (or make them stable with plasticine). Cover the stones with white gouache (sprinkle with hairspray to fix the color and so that it does not stain your hands). Then, on a white background, draw all the lines of the future Santa Claus. Decorate with gouache each drawn sector. And then once again draw clear black boundaries between the elements of the picture - make the outlines with a black marker. Markers are great for drawing on stones. It is best to use a CD signing marker - it does not wash off and does not get your hands dirty.

On suitable flat pebbles, you can depict any New Year story. An article-lesson on creating beautiful New Year's drawings is already on our website "Family Bunch".

And from several stones (also painted with gouache) you can put together a whole plot application on a single background, cut out of plywood.

We buy a small sheet of plywood in a hardware store (or find a suitable one next to the entrance in a pile of garbage). Cut out a round piece. We tint with ink in the color of snow and the color of the sky. And against this background we lay out Santa Claus, his bag, his deer, his sleigh ... anything.

Please note that the stones perform only one part of the element - the rest are painted with paints, lined with twigs, ropes and other natural material.

It is not necessary to choose smooth rounded pebbles. The most uneven curved stones can work to your advantage. Stack them, try them on to each other and try to see the outlines of your future crafts in this styling. Who knows what masterpiece your little "rock garden" will give birth to on a piece of paper.

Also, shells can be used as a natural material for crafts in the form of Santa Claus. It will turn out interesting and beautiful.

You can invent your own christmas pictures from magic stones. Do not forget to spray the craft with hairspray - this way it will become brighter and will not stain your hands with gouache, smear. Also, you can sculpt some details of such a panel craft from plasticine (it can also be covered with hairspray) ... or sculpt from papier mache (a paper napkin mixed with PVA glue, see the paragraph above in this article).

Craft Santa Claus

From plasticine.

From ordinary plasticine (or from polymer clay) you can also make a beautiful Santa Claus. The main thing is to work slowly and remember to wash your hands when moving from one color of plasticine to another. There we will get the pure colors of the details and the whole craft will look neat.

After making the craft, you need to dry it in a cool place and sprinkle with hairspray. This is necessary so that it ceases to be sticky and does not collect room dust. You can cover the craft with acrylic matte varnish with a soft brush. Acrylic lacquer for crafts is sold in stationery or craft stores.

Such lacquered, non-sticky plasticine figures are also good because they can be used inside small Snow capsules. Where will the foam snowball go. Capsules for plasticine Santa Claus can be made with your own hands - from transparent plastic bottles. Cut off the top and bottom from them and docked them together. Pour glitter for nails, sequins or foam balls inside or cut fluff from pillows with scissors - the fluff will slowly settle creating the illusion of snowfall.

Can do flat crafts from plasticine. Roll out colored plasticine with a rolling pin on the table. A wooden rolling pin is not suitable - it leaves rough marks on the plasticine. As a smooth rolling pin, a glass round bottle or can of any deodorant is suitable.

We put a stencil image on the rolled out layer of plasticine (details of Santa Claus, or his clothes). Circle with a sharp object. Remove the stencil and cut with scissors along the scratched lines. We get planar details from which it is possible to fold a plasticine graphic application. Or make this craft to decorate the kitchen in new year style(as in the photo below).

You can learn ideas for plasticine crafts in the form of Santa Claus from New Year's cakes decorated with mastic characters. Santa Claus is often molded from sweet confectionery mastic from different angles. Scroll on google New Year's cakes and you will find many ideas for plasticine New Year's heroes.

You can find even more New Year's plasticine ideas for children's crafts in the classroom and at home in a special article on our website.

Santa Claus do it yourself

FROM CONES.

Pine and spruce cones can also be painted with gouache (like the stones from the paragraph above). And in a painted form, the bump immediately becomes interesting basis for New Year's crafts in the form of Santa Claus. We insert button beads, a fluffy dusting duster dyed with white gouache becomes a lush beard. Cut out a hat from a piece of felt.

Also in the company of Santa Claus with your own hands (also from cones) you can make a deer (with fluffy wire horns), a snowman, a penguin in a felt scarf, and a green Christmas tree cone decorated with beads and flowers cut out of lace.

Other bright crafts-toys from pine and fir cones collected in a large article with photos

Volumetric Santa Claus

From modular origami.

If you know how to fold the Origami module. Then it doesn’t cost you anything to create such a pot-bellied Santa Claus. YouTube is full of videos that will teach you how to fold a triangular origami paper module in 2 minutes. For 2 pm make yourself a bunch of modules (family will help), and on the third evening fold Santa Claus. Assembly takes place without glue. Each module is nested into each other - like a groove in a groove.

green fir tree also made up of modular origami. And you can make a snowman and a deer, if you think with your head ...

Santa Claus do it yourself

FROM PAPER CONES.

We all know how to make paper cones - like bags for seeds. We need a semicircle - which we roll into a bag and glue the side seam of the bag with glue (or not with glue, but with a stapler).

Or paper latches can be provided on the bag - cuts and ears that fit into each other. On the template below, we see that we have an incision on the left (short dotted line), and on the right is a protruding eyelet (along the edge of the hem of the fur coat). We cut out such a template (diagram below), color it and put it into a bag - inserting the eyelet into the cut (or you can simply fix everything with glue without any ears).

Santa Claus is easy and quick to make based on a regular cone. Here below I give big schemes for large figurines. The natural size of the scheme corresponds to the A3 format - it's like two landscape pages. Printing on the printer will not work - you need to go to the print center. But the craft will be large, pleasant in size.

Here is another large template for Santa Claus paper crafts - it is also A3 - print in the center of the printout.

But this template is smaller - if you want, you can also increase it to a large size. Each craft is beautiful - agree. So you can imagine how Grandfather Frost proudly stands on the windowsill and pleases the eye. Great craft - elegant and simple.

Children's craft Santa Claus

From toilet paper rolls.

Cardboard rolls are great for kids crafts. Here in the photo below we see how you can beat the image of Santa Claus based on this “toilet-roll” form.

Elements can be made from paper, felt, cotton wool, formiam, fabric or knitted socks.

Santa Claus and dishes

(pots, cups, plates).

And in this section of the article I want to show how to do it yourself original craft from non-standard material.

From flower pots you can collect Santa Claus. We will make a beard for such a grandfather from gypsum plaster. You can buy at a hardware store gypsum plaster(it is cheap in small packaging for a pound you can take). We dilute the gypsum mixture with water to a thick porridge. And quickly, until it thickens and dries, we sculpt a beard to Santa Claus. Pots can also be coated with gypsum porridge, in those places where we depict fluffy fur or snow. If sprinkled on top sequins(with nail powder) it turns out that snowy places sparkle in the sun.

Or here are New Year's crafts from disposable colored cups. Here the cups are stacked in a circle on the floor (glue the round dance with hot glue from a gun). Then, on a round dance, we make the second tier-floor, then the third - they themselves will be rounded into a spherical shape (because the cups at the bottom are narrower than at the edge). We make one ball for the belly and one ball for the head of Santa Claus. From paper and fabric we make mittens, a belt, eyes, a mustache, a hat.

And we begin to make a green Christmas tree from cups according to the principle of a round dance. But inside it we put a cone of paper. And we still attach the cups along the upper floors to the walls of this paper cone.

From the remaining red cups and toilet paper sleeves, you can make cute Frosts with a cotton beard.

And disposable flat plates can be a source of such children's crafts. We put beige paper on the bottom of the plate (this will be the background of the face). Without a beige or pink background (just on a pale plate) it will be ugly.

Craft Santa Claus

From felt and formiam.

Now with the sale a new ornamental material has appeared - formiam. This brainchild of modern technology is very suitable for making voluminous puffy crafts that are well fastened together with hot glue. Here in the photo below you see Santa Claus crafts made from formim (porous thick material).

But crafts made of felt will still be more durable. And warmer to the touch. Kinder, closer.

You can make applications of Santa Claus on a round ball out of felt - you get a pendant toy for a Christmas tree.

Pay attention to how the appliqué details are fastened in the photo below - with rare stitches, details are stuck here (the beard and mustache are held on 4-5 stitches).

If you make a HOOP out of cardboard, wrap it with a cloth and decorate the front with a figure of Santa Claus, then we will get a headdress for the new year. It can be put on for a festive dinner for children, or worn right over a hat on the street - delighting passers-by with its New Year's look.

In addition to hard felt, you can use SOFT FLEECE. This is the material from which hoodies and hoodies are sewn. It is suitable for sewing soft toys in the form of Santa Claus or puffy pillows (as in the photo below).

But Santa Claus, where there are FELT (wool for felting) - in the left photo below. As well as a figure of Santa Claus made of a ball of red thread and a piece of white sentipon and a felt hat. The face can be made from a tennis ball tinted in beige.

Knitted Santa Claus.

And New Year's Santa Claus can be crocheted or knitted from threads. Below, for inspiration, I posted a few photo samples of such crafts with my own hands.

You can crochet just a flat figurine. Use it as an applique for a craft, or a toy pendant for a Christmas tree.

You can make a beard from cut bundles of threads (fluffy like a real one) Or simply tie it with a wedge (like a knitting process).

And here is an example of Santa Claus knitted on knitting needles with his own hands. Choose your favorite knitting method and start making a real surprise for the whole family with your own hands. Such a New Year's toy will accompany your holiday every year, like a tradition, like a family heirloom made by mom's favorite hands.

These are ideas on the theme of Santa Claus with your own hands - from everything - from paper to knitting. Now you will definitely make yourself magic grandfather Frost, who will fulfill your wishes this year. Because you deserve it. Because you are good.

Continuation of PAPER crafts in the form of Santa Claus - in our SECOND article

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New Year- this is a magical and fabulous time, the onset of which children and adults are looking forward to. It is customary to decorate your houses beautifully for the holiday, and you can do this using not only toys purchased in the store. You can make various and very beautiful crafts with your own hands, for example, a decorative winter house.

Snow-covered hut of Santa Claus

The decor made of natural material looks very impressive. Try to make a snow-covered hut. Collect in advance a sufficient number of medium-thick twigs, rinse them well and dry them. Prepare the base - glue the walls of the house out of cardboard or use a box that is suitable in size. Windows and doors can be cut or made using the appliqué technique. Paste the prepared frame with twigs, vertically or horizontally, cutting off the appropriate length. Make a separate roof from two identical rectangles or one bent in the middle. Move on to the decor: the winter house should be all snowy or at least covered with frost. Use white paint, foam shavings, cotton wool or glitter for this. If you don't have sprigs handy, you can replace them with popsicle sticks or

New Year's house from waste material

You may be surprised, but actually do interesting crafts it is possible from the most banal materials that can be found today in any home. Empty plastic bottles and food trays, food cartons - we throw away all this every day. Beautiful craft"Winter can be made from just such waste material. As a base, take a cardboard box from milk or kefir, the lower part from plastic bottle or a small square container. Interesting idea- use toilet paper tubes or wallpaper tubes to make the walls of the houses. If necessary, cut the selected blank, then glue it with white paper or paint it with paint. When the facade of the future "building" dries, you can make a roof, windows and a door. Your winter house will turn out to be more interesting if you combine several design techniques at once and use different materials for decoration.

How to make snowdrifts?

We figured out how to make winter houses with our own hands, now it's worth talking about decorating and decorating crafts. Souvenirs “seen” or overgrown with snow on the sides look interesting. How to make such snow caps at home? This is easier than it might seem at first glance: pour PVA glue into some kind of container and moisten a thin layer of cotton wool in it. Squeeze out the excess and spread a piece of mass on the base, gently pressing. In this way, you can decorate the entire roof, the stand on which the house stands, or form real snowdrifts near the walls and porch. In a similar technique, you can try to create from thick white paper napkins. house "can be snowed in another way. Coat the base with transparent glue and sprinkle liberally with sugar, salt or semolina. After creating a snow cover, leave the craft to dry for at least 4 hours, and even better - for the whole night.

Important Composition Details

A snow-covered decorative house will look more spectacular if you place it on a stand and decorate it with decorative elements. As a base, you can use a piece of cardboard or a lid from a cardboard box with sides. The finished winter house must be glued to the stand, after which we proceed to create the surrounding landscape. Make a snow cover using one of the techniques described above. The composition can be added christmas tree or a snow-covered tree. You can also make a beautiful veranda, ladders, benches, maybe even sleds or skis. Any decorative elements can be cut out of cardboard and painted as you wish. A snow house with a yard can be supplemented with figures of snowmen, fairy-tale characters. Try making figurines out of cotton wool, fabric, and cardboard. If you have enough free time and patience, you can even build an entire winter town and populate it with magical characters.

Souvenir or useful item?

Minimalism is in fashion today, and many people try not to purchase too many beautiful decorative items that are not capable of fulfilling some practical function. Can the craft "Winter House" be not only beautiful and decorative, but also useful? Why not? Do not be too lazy to make the roof removable and beautifully decorate the interior of the base box - and you will get an unusual box or even a small hiding place. An interesting idea is to decorate a "house" for tea in the New Year's style. This craft is easy to make from a liter package of kefir, milk or juice. All you need is to wash the workpiece well and dry, and then decorate to your liking. It is not difficult to make such a tea winter house with your own hands. The craft is designed to store tea bags and is worthy alternative factory boxes. Such a house should have a removable roof, and at the bottom it is necessary to cut through and beautifully decorate the window. Accordingly, bags can be loaded through the top, and it is convenient to get them through the bottom if necessary.

How to make a candlestick in the form of Santa Claus's house?

V new year holidays It is customary to decorate your home with garlands, candles and light figures. If desired, it is easy to make a luminous New Year's house. The easiest option is to place a part of the garland inside the craft and consider connecting to the network. You can also use an electric candle or any other battery-powered luminous element. You can also make a full-fledged candlestick. However, if you have a winter house made of cardboard, you should pay attention to fire safety. Use the smallest "tea" candles; they can only be placed in a figure made of flammable material in heat-resistant glass cups. It makes sense to make a candlestick, focusing on the size of the candle and the stand for it. The souvenir figurine itself should be larger in size and not heat up.

cat house

With your own hands you can make not only small decorative items, but also quite useful things. You may be surprised, but the do-it-yourself craft "Santa Claus's Winter House" can be made as real housing for our smaller brothers. In the New Year's way, you can decorate, for example, a street bird feeder. Of course, decorating with paper and other materials that are afraid of water will have to be abandoned. But you can always use waterproof paints for painting or make a bird feeder of an unusual shape.

An interesting idea is to make a winter house for a cat. Many animals living outside feel the need for warm and dry shelter in cold weather. can be made from various materials- wooden beams, unnecessary boards, chipboard and plywood. Make a box of the right size, insulate it from the inside, and decorate the outside to your taste. The most beautiful house will turn out if you decorate it with a stylized gable roof. If desired, you can paint such a dwelling outside under a Russian hut or fabulous tower. Do not be afraid to create and make a variety of crafts using familiar and so cozy images!

You will need:

white cardboard

sequins

Ruler

Latex primer (optional)

Glue stick

Scissors

Stationery knife

Decorations (tinsel, bells, balls).

1. To get started, download the template from THIS link or you can draw a house of similar size yourself.

2. Cut out all the details from paper and stick them to white cardboard using a glue stick or double-sided tape.

3. Cut out the pieces from the cardboard. Use a utility knife to cut out doors, windows, and other details.

4. Fold all the elements along the fold lines and glue everything together.

5. If desired, you can apply a primer to the paper house so that it does not deform.

6. Paint your house and after the paint has dried, start decorating it.

The house can be hung on the tree with a thread attached to the roof so that it hangs evenly, or you can simply place it on a flat surface to decorate the house.

Craft "House of paper tubes" do it yourself

You will need:

Thin paper (you can use plain paper)

Scissors

Pencil

Decorations.

1. Roll each sheet (or identical pieces of sheets) into a tube. It is better to use a pencil - it's easier to twist.

2. Draw windows and a door on paper or cardboard and cut it out.

3. Glue the tubes together as shown in the image (to make a hut).

4. Glue windows and a door to the hut.

5. Decorate the house to your liking.

Another option:

Do-it-yourself house of Santa Claus (master class)

You will need:

carton or

Scissors

Sandpaper

Stationery knife

Tassels

Mounting foam and gun (optional).

1. Prepare a cardboard box and make a house out of it. You will need to cut into pieces and glue them.

2. Use a utility knife to cut out windows and a door. You can draw them in advance with a simple pencil.

3. Color the house or you can decorate it mounting foam. To do this, apply foam in strips so that each strip has a width of 1.5 cm. During drying, the foam will swell, so it is better to leave 3-4 mm between the strips.

4. After you have covered the house with foam, leave it for 30 minutes for the foam to dry.

We make a stand for the house.

From cardboard, cut out a rectangle that should be larger than the base of the house.

Glue the house to the stand and decorate the stand around the perimeter with foam.

* The use of foam is optional. To imitate snow, you can use cotton wool, which should be glued with PVA glue.

* You can also cut out snow slides, snowdrifts, a snowman or Christmas trees from paper or white cardboard and glue them to the base, bending lower part and put glue on it.

If you used foam, then after it dries, cut off the excess parts stationery knife and polish with sandpaper.

Paint all the details you want.

Do-it-yourself cardboard house: gnome's dwelling

You will need:

Toilet paper rolls

White paper

colored paper

Black marker

Glue stick

Hot glue or PVA glue

Sequins of different colors (including white).

1. Cut one cardboard toilet paper cylinder in half, and the second and third so that you have two long and two short parts. So you will have houses of different sizes.

2. Cut white paper into strips 15 cm long and 2-3 cm wide more than the height of the cylinder that you will wrap with this strip.

3. Cut out windows and doors from colored paper. Use a marker pen to draw the door handles and window details.

4. Use a glue stick to glue the windows and doors to the white stripes.

5. Wrap the strips around the respective cylinders and secure them with glue. Bend the excess paper into the cylinder.

6. Make some cones out of colored paper different color, glue the ends of the cones, and glue the cones themselves with PVA glue to the house cylinders.

* You can add some glue to each roof of the house and sprinkle glitter on it to simulate fallen snow.

DIY paper house: paper New Year's village

You will need:

Corrugated cardboard (cardboard from regular packaging)

Stationery knife

Scissors

Ruler

Pencil

White acrylic paint and brush

LED garland.

1. Prepare cardboard and draw on it with a pencil several houses connected to each other. You can use a ruler. You will get a small village. Cut out a village from cardboard.

2. Bend the cut piece with an accordion along the lines that connect the houses. To make even folds, place a ruler on the fold line and fold the cardboard.

3. Draw and cut out a Christmas tree on cardboard. Trace the Christmas tree on the other piece of cardboard and cut out the second Christmas tree. Make a top half cut on one tree and a bottom half cut on the other and connect both parts to get a 3-D tree.

4. Paint rooftops and Christmas trees white to simulate snow.

5. Put the village and Christmas tree on white fabric or felt and put a LED string next to it.

Do-it-yourself house (photo)

Paper or white cardstock that you can print on.

* You can draw a similar drawing yourself and cut it out.

Scissors

Stationery knife

Glue stick

Battery operated candles.

1. Print and cut out the drawing of the house. Cut windows and doors with a utility knife.

2. To make the roof, cut a 15x9 cm rectangle. Bend in the middle.

3. Assemble and glue the house and glue the roof to it.

* You can make several houses to make a small village.

* You can also cut out Christmas trees from green cardboard.

4. Put a candle with batteries inside the house.

* You can decorate the house to taste. Use felt-tip pens, glitter with glue, cotton wool (snow), etc.

Do-it-yourself house from the box

You will need:

Box (from cereal, pasta, for example)

Ruler

Pencil

Scissors

PVA glue

Clothespin or masking tape (if necessary).

1. Open the box completely and lay it out on the table.

2. Along the unfolded box, draw a straight line 2.5 cm below the middle.

3. Make cuts from the original fold lines of the box to the line you have drawn (see image). White dots indicate the places where you need to make cuts.

4. Cut off those parts of the box where the X character is written.

5. Turn the box over and apply glue to the small fold (see image).

6. Fold the box with the pattern inside and secure with glue.

7. Bend opposite narrow sides to form a roof. Each part needs to be bent in half (see image).

8. Cut the wide sides so that they can be glued to that part of the roof that was formed in step 7. You need to cut with a margin so that this margin can be bent and glued.

New Year's decoration of the group room in the preschool educational institution "We celebrate the New Year"

Group decoration for winter and New Year in kindergarten- this is an exciting activity not only for educators, but also for the kids themselves and their parents. Children always enjoy beautiful and new crafts, and adults show their creativity. Parents help teachers cut snowflakes, draw New Year's posters, and bring crafts. Tinsel, garlands, crackers, fancy toys, various New Year's figurines - this is exactly what can be used as decorations for any kindergarten group.
New Year is the brightest and most magical holiday! I want fairy tales, magic! Therefore, the week before the holidays was interesting, creative and productive! Children, together with teachers, parents, drew, glued, worked miracles with their own hands.
A magical holiday is coming to us,
After all, we have been waiting for it all year.
Snowflakes are flying white
They rush to the tree to us.
Magical, bright New Year,
And the children dance!

This year we have turned our group into "Residence of Father Frost".
On the front door Santa Claus welcomes us to the group.

All people are waiting for the arrival of the New Year, especially children. Therefore, we decided to create a festive atmosphere in the dressing room.
"FATHER FROST'S WORKSHOP"
Our beloved moms and dads gladly took an active part not only in the design of the group, but also made crafts on the New Year theme. We presented it as a workshop of Santa Claus, where an exhibition of creativity of children and parents was organized. Everyone took part! We gave everyone the opportunity to admire the result of their work!

"MAIL FATHER FROST"
Why do we love the New Year? For the feeling of a fairy tale, a miracle. Our children, together with their parents, wrote letters to Grandfather Frost in Veliky Ustyug. How to send letters? Well, of course, Father Frost's mail and Good Snowman will deliver all letters to the address. After all, Grandfather Frost is attentive to all the requests of the children and their wishes. The children can only wait for gifts.

"MUSEUM OF FATHER FROST"
With great joy and pride, we gave the most honorable place to the old New Year's toys. This Christmas tree has toys from the 60s and 70s. Every family has old Christmas toys. And the older the toy, the more we value them. New Year's toys its own energy. Contacting them, we find ourselves on that holiday, which could only be in the carefree childhood years of our grandparents.

"CONGRATULATIONS AND WISHES OF OUR CHILDREN TO THEIR PARENTS"
Hurry up to read our wishes! Moms and dads! We wish you in the New Year .... Each child wrote on a small postcard all the kindest, most sincere wishes for good, happiness, health and a declaration of love. With what joy they presented these postcards after the matinee!

"OUR FIR-TREE IS HIGH!"
In order to feel special magic and in group room, we decided to put our Christmas tree in the most honorable place. Children could calmly approach the Christmas tree, examine toys, and dance. And the toys on the Christmas tree are made by the hands of the children themselves and their parents: toys from waste material, from salt dough, fabric and paper crafts…

"TEREM DED FROST"
There is a marvelous, fabulous tower. It is famous for the fact that a fairy tale lives in this tower. There is a tower, flaunts, plays with rainbow lights. And the master in that tower is the white-bearded Wizard, the lord of blizzards and blizzards, free-flowing snows and crackling frosts, Santa Claus!

We are not afraid of the crackling frosts, so Masha and the Bear are in a hurry to the Christmas tree!

"Father Frost's Gathering"
Grandfathers Frosts gathered for a training master class for Santa Clauses and Snow Maidens: how to greet children, what comic contests to hold, a fabulous sense of humor and a loud voice, the ability to have fun in the New Year for kids.

"FOREST DANCE"
Get into a round dance, into a round dance,
We won't be cramped.
cute little bear
Invite you to dance
White hedgehogs and hares
The round dance will spin.
Many songs, many dances
We will give the New Year!

Happy New Year!!!

December 16th, 2012 02:35 am

It's time to start actively preparing for the upcoming holidays, and therefore my today's master class will be devoted to how to make such a house with surprises or, in other words, an advent calendar, although, of course, it is not quite right to call it a calendar, because. there are no numbers on it, but this is not the main thing here;)

Before starting, I’ll say that it’s really possible to do it in 1 day (and if you get help, it’s even faster) and it’s much easier than it seems!

Initially, I wanted to make such a house out of wood, but as always, without doing anything, I decided to get by with cardboard. I'm lucky! I found a perfectly matching puzzle box! If you do not have one, just assemble something similar from separate pieces of cardboard

Let's deal with the bottom of the box first. Let's draw it into the number of squares (future cells) we need, leaving a place for the "scene" on top. We cut off the upper edge of the box from its bottom and cut the resulting strip in the middle. this is our future roof, which we lengthen and connect with a strip of cardboard of the same width.

Now we need to make a grid for the cells. To do this, we cut the cardboard into strips of the desired length and width, then at the intersections we make cuts to the middle of the strip. Assemble your mesh to make sure the locations and depths of the cuts are correct.
If you, like me, use cardboard "from under something", prime it, after which it can be decorated. Personally, I covered everything with decoupage paper, but because I'm far from being a great decoupage artist, I didn't photograph the process;))

Now the lid of the box. It must be cut off in that place. where will the "scene" be, so that when you close the box again you can see it;)
Again we draw places for cells and, most importantly, doors! Then we make cuts, taking into account how you see the opening of the doors. I cut like this. that would be bent like a regular door, but it can open up and down!

We assemble, or rather close our box, having previously smeared the sides of the box with glue, and wrap it tightly with threads for better pressing. We leave to dry.

And also, while our box dries, we cut out a triangle from cardboard to close the hole and glue it. I glued it on masking tape, but you can also glue it with plain paper.

By the way, the photo shows that a window has already been cut out in the box (as well as a door that is not visible here). It is really better to cut them out during the assembly process of the box.

Inside the "scene" we make the floor, I also fixed it with masking tape.

When the glue is dry (make sure everything sticks), prime the box well. There are already 2 layers of soil in the photo! But there are almost no traces of the previous pattern of the box =)

Now that the preparatory stage is over (yes, it was just a preparatory stage, because everyone can assemble a box with a house, but what to do next with it!?)))) let's move on to composing the decor.

I always advocate using the materials already in the house, the main thing is to understand how best to use them!)

Having rummaged around with my child in the designer, I found excellent windows, a door and a fence! Now we need to give them the right look! Because the plastic does not really like to be painted, I recommend that you first prime it and then paint it in as many layers as you need for a beautiful look (I needed 2 layers)

It's all about the little things! Therefore, we will make such a pleasant trifle as a Christmas wreath on the door. To do this, we will make a ring out of wire, wrap it with a strip of green corrugation (fix the tip with glue), make a bow and glue it to the ring.

I will not modestly say this detail, I consider it my find! With the help of beads and buttons we will make door handles.
We glue the "moment" bead to the button and when the glue dries, cover them with gold paint.

In order to make a Christmas tree in a house, I used a green corrugation, a light bulb as a base and plasticine, into which a light bulb is stuck to obtain stability. By the way, and here I was lucky, I found plasticine in a child, which becomes hard when it dries, but, of course, such plasticine is not necessary, the main thing is just to fix the light bulb.

The corrugation really does not like water (and everything liquid), so I fastened it with adhesive tape and only the very top I already glued with glue.

Sled! What is Santa Claus' house without Santa Claus? and what a frost without a sleigh!
We take matches and cut off the sulfur, put the sticks into the parts we need and coat WELL with PVA, when everything dries (leave for an hour, to be sure), we collect the parts together and paint over them.

Again, I was lucky, I found a deer (broken) in toys from Kinder Surprise, but since there is a sleigh, a deer is also needed. The deer was brown, I dyed it gray, then serrated it, painted the antlers gold and sprinkled it with gold glitters (sparkles).

We need thick cardboard, cut out squares right size, glue them, glue the sides with a strip of paper and ... draw a fireplace =)
For greater beauty, you can cut socks out of felt =)

Glue something transparent to the back wall to create the effect of glass. I glued the cellophane in which flowers are usually wrapped.

We glue corrugated cardboard to the roof. First you need to paint the cardboard to match the paper. We cut snow from fleece and also glue it =)

We glue the window, the door, if necessary, make "jambs" =)))

It's time to arrange and glue everything that we thought up

Having done this work, I’ll say that if it weren’t for the soil, the result would be much worse, so I still recommend purchasing it if you don’t have it. Or you can use white gouache... a lot of white gouache. But it must be dried well, otherwise when you apply a layer of already colored paint, it may mix.
Be sure to use a sharp knife so that the cuts are even and not torn. I did not have a very sharp knife and the result was torn edges that I had to sand to improve the look.
To do everything quickly, do not lose everything while the house dries in glue and in the ground, do stuff!
Before you start doing, go through your bottomholes =) to understand what and how you can do from what you have =)
The number of cells can be anything, you can do it like me, you can do it like a calendar, the numbers do not have to be from the 16th to the 31st
(2 weeks before New Year), it can be, for example, from 31 to 10, in general it can be any numbers that you want to make a holiday for the child (or who you will do there))))

And... legend... what to tell the child?
We said that we made a house for Santa Claus, who will arrive on the night of December 15-16 and will live in our house until the new year. For every day that he lives with Ans, in gratitude, he gives us a small gift. Once a day, you can come up and open the door, taking a gift.

That's all! I hope you find it useful and... Happy New Year ;)