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The Christmas tree is one of the main symbols of the New Year.

We buy a Christmas tree to bring home or to the office and dress it up. In addition, many stores display decorated New Year's Christmas trees in their windows to attract buyers.

Most decorate the Christmas tree randomly, but there are many original ideas by its decoration.

Here are some interesting and original variants Christmas tree decorations for the New Year:

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Bright red Christmas tree made of fabric and red balls.

The top and bottom of the Christmas tree is decorated with white, and in the middle with a strap. Who does she look like?

A beautiful and easy way to decorate a Christmas tree with clay ornaments.

You can buy them or make your own. A bucket of sand or a Christmas tree stand is hidden in a basket.

Christmas tree decoration with flowers

Christmas tree decorated with flowers

You can buy artificial flowers or a garland of flowers, or you can make several flowers out of colored paper.

Check out our articles to learn about different ways to make paper flowers:

* Paper flowers

* 10 most beautiful DIY paper flowers

* How to make ruffled flowers

* Quilling paper flowers

* How to make origami paper flowers

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Red and white Christmas tree

Christmas tree decorated in white and turquoise

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Christmas tree decorated with handmade red and white paper toys

Beautiful Christmas tree

Christmas tree in pale blue

Christmas tree covered with artificial snow

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Christmas tree in gold

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White Christmas tree decorated with blue and silver toys

Christmas tree decoration for the New Year

We decorate the Christmas tree with different ribbons by adding some balls

Christmas tree decorated with sweets and gingerbread

Mini tree in pink

Idea for a festive decoration of the Christmas tree

We decorate the Christmas tree paper snowflakes and a garland

Christmas tree in purple and silver

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A few balls and a couple of wide ribbons that wrap around it

Christmas tree decoration for the New Year

How to make a snowman from a Christmas tree

To youneed:

Bucket (preferably small plastic, black)

Black spray paint (optional)

Hot glue or super glue

Scissors, knife, pliers

Buttons.

1. Making a hat.

Cut out a circle from cardboard. You can paint it black (optional).

Glue the circle to the bucket.

2. The snowman's arms are made from ordinary branches.

3. The eyes and smile are made from buttons. They are glued with hot glue.

4. The nose can be made from orange paper, cardboard or felt. It is also glued with hot glue.

5. White ribbons play the role of balls of snow, and red ones - a scarf.

6. You can put any boots on the bottom.

Here is another similar snowman:

Christmas tree decorated with handmade toys

Here is a paper crown, paper icicles and even a colored paper garland.

To make an icicle, you will need a square sheet of colored paper. Then follow the instructions in the pictures:

To make various decorations, you can use glitter paper, wrapping paper, glossy or corrugated paper.

DIY Christmas tree decorations

Making a round decoration:

* Cut a rectangle out of paper and fold it like an accordion.

* Spread the accordion and glue its ends. Get a circle.

* The circle can be decorated with a paper ribbon of a different color. You need to cut a rectangle out of colored paper a little longer and narrower than the first one.

* Also make an accordion, straighten, try on the main circle, trim if necessary, glue the ends and glue to the main circle.

* In the center, you can glue a rhinestone, button, ball or other decoration that fits in size.

DIY Christmas decorations

The spruce itself can be different, synthetic, real or in the form of a modest branch, which is no less capable of betraying a magical atmosphere to the holiday. So that the coming year yellow dog brought extremely positive emotions, happiness and well-being to the house, you need to take care of the correct selection of jewelry.

What tree to choose?

It is recommended to choose a live fluffy spruce in 2018. She will not only be able to fully saturate the house with comfort and joy, but also provide him with the necessary energy that will protect him from adversity over the next 12 months.

It is better to buy an artificial beauty only if there are no conditions or opportunities for installing a real spruce. It is worth learning a few rules:

• The tree must be checked for the presence of beetles or other living creatures that pose a health hazard.
• When purchasing a live spruce, it is necessary to clarify the date of the log house and pay attention to the color of the needles, they should not be yellowed.

• It is better to go for such a purchase during the day so that you can consider all the flaws.
• Spruce can be shaken, while needles should not fall off it.
• Most the best time for purchase December 25-27.
• It is recommended not to select trees in suspicious places. For this, there are specially designated markets and nurseries for Christmas trees.
• If you pick a few needles and grind them in your hands, the smell should be rich and pronounced.
• On the cut of the trunk, the presence of mold is excluded, dark spots or a fungus.
• The branches at the bottom of the spruce are directed upwards.

When it comes to purchasing artificial decoration for the home, you need to check the material for the presence of harmful chemicals. They can manifest themselves through an unpleasant odor and specific storage conditions.

If the family basically installs only a pine tree for each year, here it is also worth considering a few simple rules. The main thing for this tree is freshness. To check this, you need to examine the needles. They should be bright green and not blotched with yellow or brown tint. If there is a wax coating on it, this means that the pine tree was cut down quite recently, so you can safely buy it.

Each branch of the tree should be elastic and lush. It is also worth trying to lift the pine, if it is light for its size, it is better to continue the search.

Location selection

Before you start installing a spruce and decorating it, you should take care of the proper preparation of the room. The main goal in 2018 is to appease the owner of the next 12 months, that is, the Yellow Dog. Depending on the needs of the family, spruce can be installed in the following parts of the house:

• If family members have health problems, pine or spruce should be installed in the center of the room. It is there that the energy is concentrated, aimed at enriching the vital force;

• to improve the financial situation, you need to find the southeastern part of the apartment and put a tree there. This will help you get a long-awaited career advancement or a bonus at work;

• to increase mental capacity, it is better to install a New Year's pine tree in the northeast;

• those people who plan to go on a trip need to prepare a place indoors in the northwestern part;

• some couples will hope for replenishment in the New 2018, so that everything goes well, the pine tree needs to be moved to the west;

• if there is discord in the family and the relationship is on the verge of breaking, the spruce should be in the southern part of the room.

Colors for decoration

In order to decorate the Christmas tree beautifully and with maximum benefit for each family member, you need to use the teachings of the science of Feng Shui. The fundamental role is played not only by the correct location of the tree, but also by the objects used to decorate it and their color.

In the year of the dog, it is recommended to use yellow accessories and all its shades, as well as sand shades of tinsel. Balls of gold and red color will help to successfully dilute the composition.

The last color is best used for decoration with ribbons, hearts or threads. Yellow can be used with brown, it is also the main one in the Year of the Dog. It is desirable to use balls of bright orange and beige colour. In addition to the necessary energy, they will provide an atmosphere of comfort on New Year's Eve.

Decorate your pine tree with orange tangerines

To attract good luck, accessories with autumn shades can be placed on the pine tree. Other successful solutions will include blue, silver and green jewelry.

For those who are going to use two colors, the following combinations must be observed:

Yellow with gold

Green with its shades

White with silver

Beige with brown

If we are talking about colors not mentioned above, their number should be moderate. You can not oversaturate the spruce with red or purple.

Toys

The most important figure in 2018 will be the Dog. It can be made in the form of a figurine or a toy for a pine tree, which is recommended to be placed on top of it. On the festive table it occurs as a lettuce with the figure or muzzle of a dog. If the toy is large, it can be under the Christmas tree, this will also bring prosperity and good luck to the house.

Do not be shy to use all the paraphernalia associated with the dog. These can be dog kennels, bones, bowls or collars. All items can be bought or made independently from improvised materials or even food. As for other toys, standard symbolism, such as angel wings, is also great for the New Year 2018, stars of bethlehem, cherubs or postcards with scenes from the Bible.

Do not forget about other traditional characters, these can be Santa Clauses, Snow Maidens, penguins, deer, polar bears, snowmen and hares. All this will not spoil the energy of the celebration. You can also hang edible decorations on the spruce - nuts, fruits, tangerines, bagels, candies and oranges, and wheat grains packed in bags will bring financial prosperity to the house.

Feng Shui symbols

Families who use Eastern philosophy to ensure well-being and peace of mind should also resort to some tricks:

• to improve relationships within the family, you can hang bags of coffee beans on the Christmas tree;

It is very easy to get lost in the modern variety of Christmas tree decorations. Below are the most interesting options for decorating a Christmas tree, as well as recommendations for using decorations in 2017. Read on to understand how to decorate this year's Christmas tree the right way!

Traditional and original decorations

1. Garland - a decorative chain made of objects connected to each other. This year, the ideal solution would be to decorate the Christmas tree with an electric garland. She will add bright holiday lights and new year mood. Garlands hung in a spiral look best in the photo. It is also very beautifully decorated with windows, houses outside (roof, doorway, windows, bushes and trees) and mirrors. hang up holiday garland much safer than installing candles, but no one forbids you from doing so. The only thing - do not forget to install them correctly. The ideal option in 2017 would be to pack them in glass lanterns with a monkey sticker. Later, it is easy to remake such lanterns for an animal of another year with your own hands. It is enough to erase the old sticker from the glass, which is easily done with a blade, and stick a new one - with the symbol of the next year.
2. Christmas glass balls it is desirable to use 1 or 2 colors. If you have a lot of multi-colored balloons, then you can decorate them in one color with your own hands. To do this, you can use paints, paper (colored, white, newsprint, book), fabric, beads, beads and threads. For balls, you can even knit or sew interesting suits or just glue lace to them beautifully!
3. Do snowflakes on the Christmas tree, you can use wire painted with white paint or strung with beads, paper or thread. If you know how to crochet, then sewing a snowflake or an outfit-cover for a New Year's ball will not be difficult!
4. Handmade balls you can also crochet. There are many schemes, but you can easily come up with your own. Another option for balls is to make them from rings. plastic bottles. The main thing is to decorate beautifully and brightly!
5. If you are addicted carving then make a couple dozen wooden toys for a year will not be a problem for you. Even 3-5 wooden toys will add charm and originality to your Christmas tree. Be sure to color them in to add color and draw attention to them!
6. Look original on a festive spruce golden gears from watches, computer boards with bows and many other things that in ordinary life we ​​call rubbish. It will be especially chic to use your basic working tools to decorate a Christmas tree for a corporate party.
7. To use or not to decorate a festive tree classic bright rain- it's up to you, but every year its relevance is less and less. Perhaps, if you have it, then it’s worth hanging up, but if not, don’t buy it. A couple more years and it will completely lose its relevance. Hang the rain on Christmas tree can be done in three ways: vertically, horizontally (floor) and in a spiral. Try each of the options to see what you like the most! Advice ! Recommend using rain for decoration various items home, not a Christmas tree.
8. Unlike the rain holiday ribbons becoming more and more popular every year. They are at the peak of fashion as decorations for the Christmas tree. Today is very a large number of tapes on sale: from thin to very wide. One wide tape 5 meters long is enough for the whole spruce with a height of up to two meters. Advice! To decorate the Christmas tree with thin ribbons, use a maximum of 2 colors. Ribbons under the colors of the balls will look very beautiful and sophisticated if you used 2 colors. If the balls are of the same color, then it is better to take the ribbons of any two other colors. How to decorate a Christmas tree with a ribbon? The best choice- spiral. More options: lower a few thin tapes vertically or medium-width ribbons placed horizontally on branches.
9. Fashion trend for decorating a festive spruce - beads. You can make them yourself or buy them. They look very sophisticated. If you decide to do it yourself, then use silk thread or thicker threads for beads. To reduce the number of beads, use glue to fix them or put small beads of the same color between them.
10. In the year of the monkey, there must be some kind of zest associated with this animal. Most monkeys prefer greens and fruits, which means stands on the Christmas tree to hang various goodies of plant origin (bananas, grapes, tangerines, nuts). Thus, you will add nice tasty gifts for your children. The second option is to put the fruit under the spruce. Third - hang some images with monkeys. These can be industrial toys or do-it-yourself toys. It will even be enough just to stick a few images on already hung balls to seduce you to the main symbol of the next year!
11. Quick stitch toycan be from new colorful, multi-colored socks. So you can easily make a snowman or any animal, including a monkey.
12. Bright toys for the Christmas tree waste materials? Easily! Do penguins from burned out lamps or plastic bottles! They can decorate the Christmas tree or any other corner of the apartment.
13. Original delicious decorations Easy to bake or DIY. You can decorate tangerines or oranges. Most often, cinnamon is used for this, but we suggest doing another trick: decorate tangerines for Christmas balls! Of course, they will be quite heavy and only wide parts of the branches will be able to withstand them, that is, hang them correctly closer to the tree trunk. But on the other hand, you don’t need to spend a lot on such original balls, and at the end of the holidays you will eat them with pleasure!

    Adding under layer decor a small wish, you can surprise your guests by inviting them to choose from Christmas ball from the tree as a gift. The second simple version of delicious do-it-yourself Christmas tree decorations is Christmas gingerbread in the form of a snowman, Christmas tree, squirrel, monkey or gingerbread man. There are many recipes for baking them: almond, honey, mint and many others. Choose to your taste!

14. You can quickly and easily decorate the Christmas tree with sweets using sweets and chocolate figurines. Place them correctly: lower so that children can easily reach them. After all, these decorations are intended for them first of all! It's okay if these decorations are quickly eaten: you can always regulate the amount of sweets by stopping hanging sweets below.
15. Many quick and tasty decorations can be made from nuts. Enough to take walnuts, peanuts or beans and paint them from a can of paint, and then attach a thread. Such jewelry will make a wonderful garland or beads. The dyeing operation is quick, but you need to do it carefully! And decorations made from dry pasta dyed with paint will also look original! Advice! To prevent damage to furniture and other things during spray painting, place a thick layer of paper or film.

Wish unusual Christmas decorations? Do you want your guests to admire your delicate taste? Choose not the traditional green, but a white Christmas tree.

Why is she good? Firstly, this fashionable western trend has not yet become mainstream in our country, and therefore will be received with a bang. Secondly, a white Christmas tree will fit perfectly into any interior, especially one with a lot of white. And, among other things, snow-white coniferous beauties are incredibly elegant.

In addition, the coming year is the year of the Goat or the Sheep. As you know, both of these animals are white. And what can appease the patron of the coming year better than decor in his favorite colors?

A white Christmas tree can be either artificial or natural green richly sprinkled with decorative snow. Choose a forest beauty to your taste, and we will help you decorate it in the best possible way.

So where do you start? There is different ways present the white Christmas tree in the most advantageous light. We will talk about 7 secrets that decorators know, and your inspiration and imagination will tell you the rest.

1. Christmas tree lights and garlands:

A snow-white Christmas tree can become incredibly spectacular if you play with the light. And this is one of the most important rules.

The ideal option is a garland with the same white glow. She will emphasize the severity and elegance of the white beauty. But more traditional yellow bulbs will do. They will add warmth and hospitality to the Christmas tree, which is so lacking in monotonous white, they will help to fit it into the interior.

The more light, the more elegant your Christmas tree will become. Just do not forget about fire safety!

2. Vintage White Christmas Tree:

Is your interior the epitome of true femininity, retro style or shabby chic? Be sure to decorate the Christmas tree in Evening Dress in vintage style. Absolutely any elegant things will do: fabric flowers, brocade, old Christmas decorations, snowflakes - snow-white, silvery or in pastel colors.

There is nothing like that - it doesn’t matter, buy (or make) paper umbrellas, garlands. Calligraphy in all its forms will look no less chic: postcards, decoupage toys.

They look amazingly beautiful on a white Christmas tree - see more about this in our special gallery.

3. bright mix " Venice Carnival» for decorating a white Christmas tree:

And what about a fun carnival, fireworks of colors and colors? colorful toys will be an excellent addition to the white Christmas tree. Combine different forms, colors and textures - and your Christmas tree will certainly delight.

We have also prepared for you (part-2 of this mini-series). If you like a particular shade, be sure to check out this gallery.

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What other decor looks especially impressive on a snow-white Christmas tree? Here are 4 options that decorators especially like and, of course, look non-trivial.

bows and ribbons:
Monochromatic, with stripes or vignettes, contrasting or matching the color of toys, wide or narrow, gathered or in free waves - any of these decor options will emphasize the elegance of a white Christmas tree.

origami, fans and paper garlands:
Origami paper figures are another great decoration for a white Christmas tree. Fans, flowers and paper garlands will give the snow-white Christmas tree the mysterious charm of Japanese geishas.

only Christmas balls:
What if you only have balloons? It's more than wonderful! White needles are an excellent basis for experimenting with them.

White and silver balls emphasize the restrained elegance of a snow-covered tree. Contrasting - will revive it. Well, if you really want stylish Christmas tree- make a real rainbow out of balloons. Do what you want - the balls are in your hands!

Wondering how to decorate a Christmas tree New Year 2017? Then stay with us, because here and now we will talk about the most relevant ways to dress up a New Year's beauty for a meeting of the year. Fire Rooster! “What a New Year, but without a Christmas tree ...”, the hero of a famous cartoon lamented, setting off for the main symbol of the New Year.

And he was right - nothing creates a New Year's atmosphere so beautifully as a beautifully decorated Christmas tree.

There are a lot of options for decorating it to choose the right one for the symbol of the coming year, and for the interior of the room, and for personal taste.

How to decorate a Christmas tree for the new year for the Rooster

The Christmas tree also reflects the customs, character and taste of the owners of the house, like any other items of its interior.

Lovers of strict classics decorate the Christmas tree with restraint and accuracy.

A young family prefers stylish and unusual jewelry.

A large family, for example, hangs on green beauty edible sweets, figurines of cartoon characters and, of course, the hero or heroine of the coming year.

2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster, and if you have not yet decided on the style of your Christmas tree, choose it based on the characteristics of this animal - it will turn out interesting, relevant and funny!

Everyone knows that roosters love greens, they don’t mind eating fruits, so it will be important to decorate the Christmas tree for the new year in Eco, Retro or Provence styles, which are quite similar to each other.

And there - and there there are wooden, felt, knitted and glass toys, edible figurines (from dough, for example), various balls, cones, sweets and dried fruits on strings.

On the branches of the Christmas tree in the Retro style “in the theme” there will be toys from the strictly good USSR, paper serpentine, chocolate medals and hares, postcards.

As for fashion, in the last couple of years it has become popular to dress up a New Year's beauty in the Scandinavian style: this is an abundance of different snowflakes and stars, figurines of deer and other forest dwellers + flags of different countries.

A very interesting option is vintage-style decoration, which involves any antique toys, home-made toys and satin ribbons.

The Fiery Rooster hurries to us, so he will be glad to see an abundance of lights and tinsel, golden, red, orange, yellow and brown decorations on the Christmas tree.

Decorating the Christmas tree with ribbons

Satin and silk ribbons as an outfit for the New Year tree are relevant no less than large round balls.

Especially if the interior of the room where it is installed is made in a chic satin-silk style, when upholstery, curtains, wallpaper, etc. are made from this material.

However, even if there is nothing of the kind in it, silk or satin ribbons and bows on the Christmas tree will add solemnity to the room.

At one time they were made in the form of large bows - and how Christmas decorations, and as an interior.

Now it is very fashionable to use ribbons as garlands. You can hang these on the Christmas tree in different ways: vertically, horizontally, spirally and even randomly. You can make curls from ribbons, making them look like serpentine.

If you have an idea to decorate a Christmas tree in an eco-style, you should pay attention to Scottish fabric - ribbons from it will emphasize the brightness and naturalness of greenery.

How to decorate a Christmas tree with fruits

Fruit on the Christmas tree is, at least, interesting! And incredibly fashionable and useful!

After all, any member of the family or its guests will have the opportunity to receive a delicious useful prize at least for participating in any New Year's competition, removing the desired one directly from the Christmas tree.

As decorations, you can use almost any kind of fruit, most importantly - not very large. Apples, and oranges, and, of course, tangerines will do.

And if, in order to decorate the Christmas tree for the New Year, it is better to wrap them in colored foil or beautiful packaging material, then small red grenades by themselves will look on green spruce branches like real Christmas toys.

It is important to remember one thing here important rule- one type of fruit should prevail on the Christmas tree, the rest can be hung purely symbolically.

If spruce twigs are fragile and unable to support a whole fruit, there is another option to turn it into a Christmas tree decoration.

Oranges and tangerines, for example, can be cut into round slices and baked / dried in the oven on foil at a minimum temperature.

It will take about 4 hours, but these “candied fruits” will make light decorations.

After they have cooled, all that remains is to make a small hole in the top of the slices and thread the thread for hanging.

Well, and, accordingly, hang on a tree.

How to decorate a Christmas tree with toys

There are no special rules here - everyone is free to decorate their Christmas tree as they like. This is especially true for children.

No need to control them and constantly outweigh the elements hung by the child - let the kids enjoy the process itself!

Older children can, along the way, suggest options for hanging toys:

• inline : when every one or two rows make up a certain type of toys (a row - balls, another row - flashlights, etc.). This arrangement of toys will give the New Year's beauty harmony.
• alternate : when rows of toys are hung out according to size or shape (a row is large balls, another is smaller, etc.). It is important to know that the largest toys are hung from below, the closer to the top of the tree, the smaller the size of the toys.
• Chaotic : artistic mess suggests a spacious hanging of large toys. It can be balls and bows, for example.

You can decorate the Christmas tree beautifully and unusually for the New Year by alternating not only the size or shape of toys, but also colors and patterns, so nothing prevents a friendly family from showing their imagination by creating an exclusive design for their green beauty.

As for fashion, the most relevant and invariably popular are balls of any size.

In the coming year, these will be balloons with the image of the symbol of the year - the Rooster.

Always to the place on the Christmas tree are toys with the image of Santa Claus or in the form of his figurine.

Just this year, let there be more orange, burgundy, red, gold.

Attention:

You should not combine glass and silk jewelry, the latter claim to be a separate style.

A large Christmas tree - more large decorations, a small one - small ones.

Money decor option

Here's another one fashion trend dress up the main symbol of the year!

Only in addition to the role of decoration, money, in this case, can be considered as a talisman for attracting financial well-being.

The main thing is to believe in him.

Both real and chocolate coins wrapped in gold or silver foil will help to call big and small bills into the house.

You can also use walnuts and apples, which are a symbol of fertility and wealth.

Here's another option for you on how to decorate a Christmas tree for the new year - according to personal needs and dreams!

Christmas tree decoration ideas, photo