It is a long tradition to make New Year decorations with your own hands by the whole family. Unfortunately, due to our employment, we increasingly prefer buying jewelry, rather than making them ourselves. But, if you want to return to childhood, please yourself and your family, cheer up the children and involve them in a very interesting lesson, 12millionov.com invites you to make original New Year hand made paperwork!

Here you will find everything you need: garlands and balls for the Christmas tree, appliqués and three-dimensional figures. It’s very easy to do this if you follow the step-by-step instructions on the photo.

New Year’s articles from paper for a Christmas tree

To make manual decorations for a Christmas tree, you can use ordinary white paper of A4 size as the main material, colored, papyrus, velvet, cigarette, grilled, quiet. For volumetric decor – cardboard and felt. Crafts can be of various shapes and types – artificial flowers, chains and lanterns in the form of garlands, outlines of animals, a star (peak) on the tree and balls. To make any decorations you will need: a paper of suitable color design, scissors, ruler, simple pencil, decor in the form of large beads, sequins, rhinestones and Christmas tinsel, thread and needle. Read also: The most popular New Year’s Eve for 2019 Step-by-step instructions for each craft are different, so it’s better to see clearly than to read.

Paper handicrafts for the New Year 2019

3D paper figures

For children of school age it will be interesting to make an original New Year’s hand-craft yourself. Especially they will be pleased with the ideas of three-dimensional figures (see the photo below) in the form of angels, Santa Claus, snowman, Snow Maiden, animals. As a basis for making jewelry it is recommended to use a plastic bottle or cups.

Christmas garlands of paper with their own hands

To make an original decoration for a tree or decor of an apartment (walls, windows) use any paper and thread (satin ribbon). Also can be used in combination with paper – cotton wool, large beads, felt.

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Applications on cardboard

Applications of colored paper pasted onto cardboard can be used in the form of New Year cards and paintings on the wall. Make it yourself you can animals, fairy-tale heroes and inscriptions.

Multicolored garland of paper for children

A very unusual and original garland for the New Year 2019 can be made with your own hands of colored paper of the brightest shades. If you use templates of geometric shapes, you can create wonderful layouts, from which then easily and easily collect the garland. This interesting New Year crafts will bring liveliness and colors both to the nursery and to the common room, because from an amusing garland the mood will rise in both children and adults. Also, a garland can be hung on a Christmas tree as a Christmas tree.

To make a paper garland you will need:

  • colored paper or colored
  • cardboard;
  • pencil
  •  ruler;
  • scissors; glue.

Step 1.

Download the patterns of geometric shapes and print them on colored paper, or, armed with a ruler and a simple pencil (preferably with an eraser), make a drawing of voluminous geometric figures, again, on colored paper or colored cardboard.

Step 2.

Using scissors, you need to cut out each future geometric figure along the contour

Step 3.

Now glue the figures, not forgetting to stretch the thread in time, so that in the assembled form, the string of garland remained inside the figure. The garland is ready! 

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