New Year's Eve crafts 2021 - step by step master classes, photo ideas and examples, practical tips

On the eve of the New Year, you can open a "Santa Claus Workshop" at home, in which all family members can participate. Making Christmas crafts, which decorated the Christmas tree and the house, as well as giving each other as gifts for the New Year, was once a family tradition, which can be revived today.

New Year needlework does not cost much, helps to develop creative imagination and creativity, allows you to create an exclusive New Year's interior of the house. As materials you can use for such handicrafts improvised means, creating from them real masterpieces of handmade.

New Year Cards

Everyone can make a handmade New Year card with their own hands. You only need to show a little imagination, creating an original New Year's Eve composition.

For work you will need:

colored cardboard;
glue;
scissors;
beads, buttons, decorations of different types;
string;
sequins;
corrugated cardboard;
decorative clothespins;
scrapbooking paper;
thin paper of different colors.

Making a greeting card should always start with the development of a design for a New Year's Eve composition. It can be created from whatever you have at hand. It can be a Christmas tree, a snowman, a reindeer sleigh, Santa Claus or any symbol of winter and the New Year holidays.

From cardboard, cut out the base of the card 13x20 cm. You can make a beautiful and simple composition with mittens or valenki.

On a cardboard base you should cut out a background of scrub paper, which should be smaller than it by 2-3 cm. Draw stencils of mittens, hats or valenki, cut them out of corrugated cardboard. On a decorative cord, make two knots on the edges. Glue the scrub paper to the cardboard. Glue the string to the knots in the middle of the card. Using decorative clothespins, attach mittens or valenki cut out of cardboard to it. Sprinkle the card with sequins imitating snow.

Making snowflakes out of PVA glue

Snowflakes are classic symbols of the New Year. They decorate windows and Christmas trees. They are used to make garlands. Snowflakes made with PVA glue will look very impressive. It will take a little time to make them.

To work you need to take:

a glue gun or a plastic container with a thin dispenser spout;
PVA glue;
threads;
parchment paper;
sequins.

Step-by-step making:

Make snowflake stencils on parchment paper with a thin, indelible marker. Lubricate the surface with dishwashing liquid. Use glue to trace the stencils so that the outline of the snowflake appears. While the glue dries, sprinkle the product with glitter, so they will stick to the snowflake and not fall off.

After the Christmas decorations dry, carefully remove them from the paper, glue a loop on one of the edges, so you can hang such a toy on the Christmas tree.

Making Christmas trees

Small Christmas trees can be made from different materials. They can be used to decorate a large Christmas tree, they can be used to make garlands, create a Christmas installation, decorate the windowsill with them.

To make the main symbol of the winter holiday any material can be used:

felt;
candy;
plastic bottles;
colored paper;
threads;
plywood;
feathers.

The Christmas tree can be glued, sewn, sawed or knitted. Everyone can choose the most suitable for him technique of making.

Fragrant Christmas tree from coffee beans

You can make such an original Christmas tree very quickly. For the work you will need:

scissors;
A sheet of thin cardboard;
glue "Moment" with the consistency of gel;
beads;
small decorations.

A wide triangle is cut out of cardboard and glued together in the shape of a cone. On its surface, coffee beans are glued together with small beads, which will represent the Christmas balls. The entire surface of the cone is covered with coffee and small decorations, which are glued in the spaces between the beans.

Such a fragrant Christmas tree will decorate the kitchen or bedroom. It will also act as an air freshener in the house.

Candy Christmas tree

This Christmas handicraft is made on the same principle. Only candies in wrappers are glued to the surface of the cone not with glue, but with tape.

Christmas tree of felt

Green felt can be used to make Christmas trees of different types. They can be flat and volumetric, large and small. If you sew small felt Christmas trees in large quantities, they make a beautiful Christmas garland. Large flat silhouette of a Christmas tree can be hung on the wall as a panel and paint it, like a living Christmas tree, various small decorations.

To make volumetric Christmas trees out of felt, you need to take:

sheet or roll felt;
thread;
long wooden skewers;
sewing needle;
heavy paper for the stencil
padding synthetic padding;
gel glue "Moment";
beads, small buttons and other small decorations.

Step by step making:

Draw a silhouette of a Christmas tree yourself or download it from the Internet. Make a pattern-pencil out of heavy paper. Cut out the pieces of felt for the Christmas tree: each Christmas tree must consist of two parts.

Assemble the tree and sew it over the edge, leaving a small hole at the bottom for stuffing. Insert a wooden skewer underneath and sew to the end of the toy. Decorate the finished Christmas tree with beads and small buttons. The Christmas trees on skewers make a nice installation for a windowsill. They can be inserted into pots with houseplants.

If you sew a silk loop to such a toy, it will look great on a live Christmas tree.

Felt toys make a beautiful garland, which hang on the wall, in a doorway or above a window.

Christmas wreath made of cones

A Christmas wreath made with your own hands will be a spectacular decoration of the house. It is customary to hang on the front doors, put on the table in the center and decorate with candles.

For the work you need to prepare:

cones;
thick cardboard for the base;
Various Christmas decorations;
white paint and water-based varnish;
glue "Moment";
paper cutter;
scissors;
brush;
sequins;
silk ribbons.

The cones should be snowed in with white paint and put to dry. From cardboard, cut out a hoop with a wide edge, using plates of different diameters as stencils. First, the outline of the large plate is outlined. Then a smaller plate is inserted in the middle of the circle and also traced.

Cut out a circle with a box knife with a wide edge. Dried cones and Christmas decorations are glued tightly to the base. When the product is ready, a loop should be glued on its back side, if the wreath will be hung on a vertical surface. Sprinkle the finished handicraft with sequins and hang it in the desired place.

Toys made of felt, wool and old children's socks

New Year's toy can be sewn from thick felt, felted from wool, cut out of paper. Even a simple children's sock can become the material for a New Year's mouse, if you apply your imagination.

On the Internet you can find a suitable master class on making textile toys tildy, which will certainly like girls

A mouse, made in the dry felting technique

Even an inexperienced needlewoman can make a cute mouse from unspun wool. You will need very little material, a couple of beads and a thin wire for the tail

From gray wool to make a roll in the shape of a drop and start felting it with a needle until it becomes dense. At the same time you need to make sure that it has a drop-shaped shape.

The pointed end will become a muzzle of the mouse. On it you need to sew bead eyes. Then outline the pencil mouth and nose and go through them with a needle so as to get a relief image. Take a bit of light-colored wool and nail it in the cheeks of the animal. From a small piece of wool on the backing, felts round ears, leaving one edge open.

Felt the ears with the fluffed side to the muzzle of the mouse.

Take a wire, cut off a piece of it for a tail, which is wrapped with pink thread and dabbed with glue. On the side of the thick end of the body with sharp scissors to make a small hole and glue the tail.