New Year's crafts, Christmas decorations made of paper, a Christmas tree of paper with your own hands, various variations of creating flashlights from paper, tips and recommendations for work.
Some people are used to preparing for the New Yearholidays, buying expensive decorations in stores. This, of course, will make your interior elegant, but nothing can compare with decorations made with your own hands. The process of creating paper decorations warms up our anticipation of the holiday and gives unforgettable moments of happiness spent with family. Making a small Christmas treeCardboard is used as the base for this tree.cone, and the only tools you will need are scotch tape, scissors, glue and colored paper. As for the manufacturing stages, everything is simple here. Cut paper strips of the same length and width. Each of them needs to be glued together to form peculiar loops. Each of the loops is glued in turn to a strip of scotch tape. Next, take a paper cone, which needs to be made in advance. You should glue the scotch tape to it in separate layers, to which the loops were previously glued. You should get a Christmas tree like the one in the picture below. Variations in creating paper lanternsTo create a flashlight like the one in the photo,cut many strips of colored paper. Their width and length should be the same, but the longer the strips are, the larger your lantern will be. Focus on a length of about 15 cm. Fold all the strips and make holes on both sides with a needle. On one side you need to fasten a string, but do it so that it does not pop out. Then thread the string through the other hole and pull the thread, the strip will take the shape of a semicircle. If you used only one color of paper in your work, then the toy can be decorated. For example, you can make many small flowers, or you can just prepare various sequins, glitter, beads in advance, and decorate the lantern with them. As a result, you need to straighten all the strips so that you get a lantern in the shape of a ball. Small Chinese paper lanternLet's continue making lanterns by preparing the paper.different colors, a pencil, a ruler, scissors, a needle, threads and two beads. Now get to work. And the first thing you need to do is cut the paper into 18 strips, their length should be about 10 cm, the approximate width is 1-1.2 cm. Additionally, you need to draw 2 small circles, their approximate diameter is about 2 cm.Next, you need to put the bead on the thread and thread the double end of the thread through the eye of the needle. You should get it like in the photo.Fold all the strips in half. First, string a circle on the thread, and then all the strips (for a greater effect, you can alternate strips of different colors).In the same way, string the opposite sides of the stripes onto this thread and finish the work with the second circle and bead. In the end, you need to straighten out all the stripes like a fan.Now the paper decoration is ready.