Preparing for the New Year's holidays usually includes not only the selection of decorations for the home and the preparation of a suitable menu, but also the search for original gifts for loved ones. Of course, the easiest way to buy creative products is in modern stores. But you can also make good souvenirs and gifts for the New Year with your own hands. We considered the most interesting ideas for creating crafts for adults and children who are still in school or just went to kindergarten. Detailed master classes will show you how to make unusual gifts easily and easily using the available materials. You just have to choose the right ideas and start making amazing presentations. Also, don't forget about beautiful gift wrapping. You can find out how you can pack different gifts in just 5-10 minutes in our step-by-step instructions.

Interesting: what is customary to give for Christmas and New Year in different countries

You can get ideas for inspiration and find out what unusual and interesting things are presented in different countries using the following tip:

• Spain.

Candy is considered a classic Christmas gift for children in Spain. For adults, you can present a dried pork leg along with a special carving knife and a beautiful stand. The Spaniards will not refuse such New Year's gifts: a certificate for professional make-up, a visit to the spa, a flight for two on an airplane.

• France.

The book remains the best gift for the French. But also French women will not give up a stylish cape or an original hat, but any French woman will appreciate a good gadget.

• Italy.

For Italians, the best Christmas gifts are plane tickets, travel packages, branded clothing, and gadgets. "Prohibited" presentations include cosmetics and underwear.

• Germany.

For practical Germans, the best gifts will be household appliances, for fans of relaxation and culture - books or CDs with world classic cinematography, as well as sets of sweets. A universal option is a poinsettia flower.

• Denmark.

The inhabitants of Denmark mainly give each other cute little things for Christmas and New Year: pendants, decorations, home decor.

Gift options and ideas

Our short master classes will help you quickly and easily make homemade gifts from scrap materials for the New Year and Christmas:

• Beads and bracelet from magazines (newspapers, design paper).

Old magazines are cut into strips 2 cm wide and 4-5 cm long. Each strip is rolled up (leave a small hole inside). The edge is fixed with glue. Dried scrolls are put on a thread. Depending on the number of scrolls, both beads and a multi-tiered bracelet can be made.

• Bright photo frames.

A frame blank and its back are cut out of cardboard. The cardboard frame is painted with gouache and decorated with glitter glue (rhinestones, sequins). Additionally varnished.

• Christmas tree and home pendants.

You can make small Christmas tree crafts from branches, threads and beads. Pine cones and glitter glue make great pendants for home decoration.

A couple of chocolate bars are glued together with a glue gun. Christmas candy hooks are glued on the sides. Store-bought candies and bars are glued on top. Additionally, you can decorate the craft with bows or ribbons.

Warm mittens

It is quite difficult to knit warm mittens on your own, therefore, knitting mittens will be an easier solution for making an unusual gift for your mother or friend. You can make them using the following step-by-step master class in the table. Please note that knitting is done using knitting needles.

Handmade candles

To make original candles, you can use different silicone molds. The work on creating unique products is quite simple: in a water bath you need to melt paraffin or white candles grated on a grater. Next, a wick is immersed in a silicone mold (you can use it from a ready-made candle or buy it separately), filled with paraffin. After 3-4 hours, you can remove the candle from the mold. The technology of decoupage candles is also very interesting. The work is carried out in stages according to the following scheme:

• The napkin chosen for decoupage is divided into 2 (or 3) white sheets and one colored one.
• Details are cut from a colored napkin sheet that will be used for decoration.
• A white (preferably as thick as possible) candle is wrapped with a cloth on the side from which the work will not be carried out at the moment. A piece of napkin is applied to the left part, you can first wet it pointwise so that it does not move. The drawing is blown off with a hairdryer (due to the fabric behind, the burning sensation on the hand will not be felt). The blowing continues until the paraffin appears.
• The work is carried out for the parts of the candle remaining without decoupage.

Warm and cozy blanket and other yarn products

Do-it-yourself New Year gifts can be not only practical, but also give their owner special coziness and comfort. These presentations include knitwear. For example, using coarse yarn, you can knit a warm blanket. In this case, knitting itself will be carried out without the use of knitting needles or a hook - you need to knit such a blanket with your hands. For work, you need yarn with a thickness of 26-29 microns. For a children's blanket, you will need about 10 skeins, for an adult - 20-25. Knitting is carried out according to the following pattern:

1. A chain of 15-30 air loops is typed by hands.
2. From the second to the 7th row, a regular elastic is knitted (only it is knitted by hand) with alternating front and back loops. With each new row, the purl and front loops do not move and are located one above the other.
3. The main part (for example, another 10-15 rows) is knitted with front loops. Knitting ends with 6 more rows of elastic.

Using this knitting technology by hand, you can make decorative pillowcases, snood or an ordinary scarf.

New Year's souvenir

You can make New Year's souvenirs to present to your friends, girlfriend or boyfriend from various materials at hand. Below we have reviewed the most interesting master classes for making simple crafts:

A cone is made of cardboard. Green threads (regular or knitted) are soaked in PVA. The cone is wrapped with cling film, then tightly wrapped with threads. After drying, the Christmas tree is removed from the frame and decorated.

• Christmas tree toys from old lamps.

On old lamps, you can draw a snowman, Santa Claus or Snow Maiden, a Christmas tree. In the work you need to use a primer and acrylic paints.

For the manufacture of souvenirs, you will need plastic ball blanks, consisting of two parts. The parts are separated, painted inside or filled with sparkles, tinsel. Then they are glued together.

You can also sew cool felt pendants. To do this, you need to draw a cool and simple drawing, cut it into pieces of different colors and transfer it to felt. Further, by sewing the details with seams "forward needle", "backward needle" and an overhanging seam, you can make bright toys. They can be filled with holofiber or padding polyester. They can also be supplemented with a strap or hanging cord.

Photo gifts

Making gifts from photos requires the involvement of specialists, since it is simply impossible to make such non-standard gifts yourself. But the gifts you receive will always be appropriate: they can be presented to parents, grandparents, friends, or your soul mate. The most original options include:

• calendar;

The calendar, each month of which is decorated with a new photo, will help the gifted to always remember the support and love of his family and friends.

• phone case;

A good gift for a friend. For the manufacture of such a cover, it is better to use funny and cool photos.

• dishes;

Mugs and even plates with cute photos of family or friends will look cool and cozy in any kitchen.

• decorative pillows;

Ideal for New Year's greetings to your soul mate. Joint photos can be printed on pillows.

• photobook.

Unlike a photo album, it is not filled with photographs, but consists of pages with photos. The best can be considered photobooks from various collages. Such a gift can be given to both parents and grandparents.

Gifts-sweets

Sweet gifts are ideal for presenting to colleagues, friends and family in honor of the New Year holidays. And if not every person can make caramels on their own, then baking beautiful gingerbread cookies is as easy as shelling pears. It is recommended to use the following recipe as a basis:

1. Mix 3 tbsp. honey and 2 tbsp. Sahara. Add to them 2 tsp. grated ginger, cinnamon and a pinch of ground nutmeg. Transfer the mixture to a saucepan and place over low heat. When the mixture becomes liquid (do not bring to a boil!), Add 1 tsp. soda and 70 g of butter, mix thoroughly and remove from heat.
2. Add 1.5 cups flour and 1 chicken egg to the mixture cooled to room temperature. Knead the dough until smooth and leave for 15 minutes.
3. Roll out the dough and make figurines using cookie cutters. Bake in the oven (on parchment) at 180 degrees for about 10-13 minutes.

At the end of baking, the gingerbread cookies can be decorated with icing, purchased pencils with food gels. The drawing should be applied to completely cooled gingerbread cookies. After the gel has dried, finished products must be packed in cellophane. It is better to give them in beautiful wicker baskets, you can give them along with chocolates and lollipops.

In a similar way, you can bake the "details" of a gingerbread house, and then assemble them into a three-dimensional figure, gluing together caramel or protein glaze.

String art style paintings

Fashionable paintings from carnations and threads are made without much difficulty. At the same time, an original gift can be given to both a friend and beloved parents. For work, a sheet of plywood, chipboard or a piece of board is usually used. Novice needlewomen are advised to try working with a small and simple silhouette. Gradually increasing your skill, you can move on to multi-color images and pictures with complex shapes. You can make an original and simple picture using the string art technique using the following master class:

1. Print the silhouette of an object, attach the paper to a sheet of plywood with masking tape.
2. Drive small carnations into the board along the perimeter of the silhouette through the paper. Carefully remove the paper itself.
3. Fix the thread on one of the studs (so that the knot is inconspicuous) and start pulling the thread between the studs located on opposite sides.
4. Tie the new thread (when the used one ends) carefully to the old one and continue weaving. At the end of the work, fix the thread on the stud and remove it under the bottom of the pattern.

Handmade postcards

First you need to make the basis of the future postcard. For this purpose, plain thick cardboard is suitable. A blank with dimensions of 15x20 cm should be cut out of it. Then the card is folded in half. The outer part can be decorated with:

• Stickers and stickers (this option is perfect for congratulating a child or youth).
• Rhinestones (in addition, you can make a congratulatory inscription with a marker).
• Scrapbooking kits (Christmas kits can be bought at any stationery store).
• Sequins, felt or foamiran cuttings and ribbons (they can be glued to transparent silicone glue from a tube).
• Cuttings from old postcards and ribbons (you can use fabric ribbons or paper, which is recommended to be preliminarily corrugated, bending from side to side to obtain an "accordion", or wind it with scissors).

Handmade fragrant soap

Making fragrant soap does not require any special skills and allows you to make a very cool and useful present. You can present handmade soap to your beloved man, friend or colleague. For ease of creating such a souvenir, it is recommended to initially purchase a textured silicone mold (for example, in the form of a snowflake, a Christmas tree). Soap is made according to the following scheme:

1. The base (purchased or grated baby soap) is melted in a water bath. It is most convenient to work with a 100 g base.
2. 1/3 teaspoon of fatty oil is added to the melted base. You can use coconut, wheat, almond oil.
3. Perfume (3-5 drops) and dye (1 drop of liquid) are added to the prepared mixture. Everything is thoroughly mixed.
4. The mixture is poured into a silicone mold. After hardening (this can take from 12 hours to a day), the finished soap can be removed from the mold.

Scented bath bombs

A gift in the form of homemade aroma bombs will surely please every girl. Moreover, such products can be made by everyone. Below we described the ingredients used to prepare such "cosmetics" step by step:

• In a glass container, mix 300 g of soda and 150 g of citric acid. It is better to sift soda beforehand.
• Add 10 ml of aromatic oil and 5 ml of regular (olive, almond or even refined sunflower) oil. Mix the ingredients quickly and thoroughly.
• Divide the prepared mixture into 2-3 parts. Leave one white, add dyes to the rest.
• Sprinkle 1-2 times into each container with water from a spray bottle (but do this only before using different types of mixture). Fill the molds with colored layers. Leave to dry for 3-5 hours in a dry place. Then transfer to cellophane packaging.

In the prepared mixtures, you can add not only dye, but also different glitters.

Gifts from your baby

You and your baby can pleasantly surprise your grandparents, aunt and uncle by making unusual New Year's gifts together. For example, you can make pieces of salted dough and leave prints of the child's legs and arms on it. Then you just need to carefully cut off the extra pieces of dough, bake it and paint it like snowmen, a Christmas tree or Santa Claus. You can make cool postcards in a similar way. On them, a child can leave his prints with different colors, which, with a simple drawing of muzzles, gluing decor, will turn into funny deer, bullfinches or Christmas trees. The baby can also leave his prints on plastic Christmas-tree balls (blanks), and parents, if they wish, can decorate them with sparkles or add funny faces. Baby prints can be a beautiful decoration for potholders, New Year's T-shirts.

How to wrap a gift

Before presenting a gift, the donor must definitely take care of the beautiful packaging that can complement the present. To choose simple and original packaging materials, as well as to easily pack a gift with your own hands, the following master classes will help you:

• Multilayer paper packaging (suitable for souvenirs, small gifts).

3-4 sheets of thin paper are stacked on top of each other with offset corners (the corners should not coincide). A gift is laid out in the center of the paper sheets. The corners of the paper go up, the package itself is gathered in a "knot". The knot is tied with a ribbon, jute thread, can be decorated with a fabric bow or pasted over with stars made of shiny paper, foil.

• Cloth packaging.

A small bag can be sewn from a piece of fabric in 10-15 minutes. You can also make a knot out of it, according to the above master class. Another piece of fabric can be simply wrapped around a rectangular, square box and carefully wrapped with ribbons. For packaging, it is recommended to use textiles with New Year's motives: images of Christmas trees, balls or snowflakes.

Conclusion

With the help of our master classes, you can easily find the most interesting and creative gifts for your family and friends. For example, parents and grandparents can knit warm yarn products or prepare simple crafts together with their child. A friend or girlfriend will definitely like the original New Year's souvenir, candle or soap made by hand. For lovers of sweets, you yourself can prepare a prefab gift, which includes sweet food: gingerbread, sweets, lollipops. The step-by-step instructions are easy to repeat at home. At the same time, the materials used are available to everyone and it will be easy and simple to work with them. In addition, take care of the beautiful packaging of presents: both paper and textile cuts can be used as wrapping materials.

New Year's chores begin suddenly: 1-2 weeks before the holiday, we already begin to plan the celebration, negotiate with friends, draw up a menu for the festive table.

You can think about what to buy as a gift for the New Year in advance. There is not always enough time to find souvenirs for loved ones, friends and colleagues.

Start now to look closely at what is close and dear to the hearts of your friends, what they dream of, what they would like to receive.

We will help you with helpful tips on what to give for the New Year 2020 and how to surprise your loved ones.

New Year's symbol Rat - in souvenirs and gifts

They are often selected for this holiday in accordance with the symbolism of the coming year. New Year 2020 is the year of the White Metal Rat. Therefore, souvenirs are brilliant, catchy, positive.

Good pillows or blankets - with a pattern or plain, homemade embroidered or related souvenirs with the symbol of the year, figurines, Christmas tree decorations, fancy-shaped candles covered with silver dusting, sparkles, etc.

In the year of the Rat, the following shades should prevail: white, gray, silver, beige. Silver jewelry, sparkling metal jewelry, and shiny home decor will be especially popular on New Year's Eve.

The very design of the gift wrapping should also correspond to the celebration of this night. If the present itself turned out to be not as bright as it is supposed in the year of the White Rat - pick up a metallized or iridescent packaging.

The wrapper with silver designs and patterns, ribbons and a large white bow will appeal to both adults and children. Stylish, laconic - nothing more. Therefore, look at photos and videos with design ideas to surprise your family and friends not only with an abundance of flowers, but also with an original approach to design.

Most popular ideas

What gifts can you give for the New Year? You can choose something themed as a small souvenir for your guests. Close ones are often given things that have practical application. You can look for unusual creative gifts that will remind you of this holiday for a long time.

It is better to start your search by drawing up a gift list for the New Year. Knowing what to look for will save you time and effort.

Read what gifts are given for the New Year to parents, friends, colleagues, children, spouses. If you still don't have any ideas, stop at the New Year's sets, which can be found on the eve of the holiday in most stores. It can be gift personal care products, home decorations, household items, practical dishes, metal services.

We invite you to consider the most popular New Year's gift ideas in 2020:

Universal souvenirs for the New Year 2020 - magnets, mugs, Christmas decorations, calendars, candlesticks. They are inexpensive, suitable for people of different ages and status.

How to do it yourself

Unusual, but always enjoyable - DIY crafts. They can be made from cardboard or paper (for example, create themed cards for each guest), textiles (toys, decorative pillows or tablecloths), jewelry (home or Christmas tree decorations, bracelets or earrings, etc.) and many others. materials.

Looking for creative and healthy New Year gifts? Try to make them yourself: you can save time, money, and put your soul into the craft.

One interesting idea is home pillows. Making them is easy. Knowing what the interior of your family looks like, you can choose a festive fabric design. To make such a pillow associated with the New Year holidays, embroider Christmas trees, snowflakes on the surface or decorate the front side with a rat pattern.
The rat is the symbol of 2020 according to the eastern calendar.

A similar approach can be applied to decorating blankets, tablecloths, plaids, curtains, and other textile items for the New Year.

In accordance with the symbol of the coming year, you can sew New Year's gifts for children with your own hands. It can be not only toy rats, but also Christmas trees, snowmen, Santa Claus and other characters.

What can you give for the New Year made of fabric, besides toys and pillows? Housewives can make cute bags for storing cereals, bottle covers, kitchen towels.

A photo frame decorated with stones, beads, beads, ribbons, sparkles will also become a lovely decorative gift for your home. You can put a family photo or a picture from a shared trip in it if you are going to give it to your friends.

What else can you give? Themed fridge magnets (decorated with beads, beads, coffee beans), homemade Christmas tree decorations (glass, papier-mâché, felt, cardboard), quilling postcards.

Unusual gifts are New Year's knitted souvenirs. Therefore, we quickly master the technique - and we knit socks, scarves, sweaters, mug covers, gloves and potholders for the New Year 2020: your relatives and friends will be delighted!

Other ideas for a New Year's Eve gift - crafts with shared photos, accessories with a pleasant scent (for example, decorative candles with a relaxing effect), origami from cardboard and paper for home decoration, homemade Christmas trees made from rain, plastic, cardboard, wood or fabric.

Watch a video on how to make a toy rat - a symbol of the New Year 2020:

Edible gifts for children and adults

As an option, a sweet gift made by yourself is good. For those closest to you, you can bake a delicious cake or pie, decorated in the New Year's manner.

You can also involve your children in this procedure: then your guests will be doubly pleased.

Another idea is to bake the sweet symbol of 2020. In the form of a rat, you can make gingerbread cookies or gingerbread cookies with icing.

On New Year's Eve, the center of the table is decorated with an edible gingerbread house: why not present the same to each of the guests?

And here is a variant of a delicious gift - tangerine jam in a decorated package. Other healthy exotic fruits can be used in place of tangerines. It can be prepared long before the New Year, in order to save energy during the pre-holiday rush.

Unusual chocolate figurines are another tasty and easy-to-implement idea. These and other sweet gifts for the New Year 2020 can be wrapped in colorful packaging or placed in boxes wrapped with ribbons for an even more solemn look.

But the surprises don't end there. A popular and successful gift idea this year is homemade candy pineapple. A sweet fruit in a gift design can be presented to family, friends, and colleagues.

Making such a masterpiece is very simple. The base will be a bottle of champagne: wrap it in a cardboard or paper case. On its surface, begin to glue round candies wrapped in white or silver packaging.

When the craft takes on the shape of a pineapple, let the glue dry. Start decorating the top.

For the leaves, green paper, cardboard or thick fabric is suitable, which will hold its shape. Decorate the visible joints with rope or ribbons.

What could be more sincere than celebrating the New Year with your most beloved people? Only giving them your gifts. With our simple tips, you can make this moment unforgettable.

It remains only to pick up gifts for everyone you plan to wish a Happy New Year 2020. Let this holiday be cheerful, warm, full of only pleasant emotions!

Video

What other do-it-yourself New Year gift can be made - see this video:

There is a New Year's Eve tradition: buying gifts at the last moment helps, you know, not to lose the rhythm of life. But such a number will not work if you decide to make them yourself. We suggest taking a closer look at a dozen interesting directions for finding ideas for a New Year's gift and starting to work on them. It will take time.

Check out ready-made Christmas gift ideas from our experts

We have collected 10 interesting DIY ideas for New Year's gifts and souvenirs. Small crafts, cute warming accessories and pleasant festive little things are all that will help create the right atmosphere on this most magical night of the year. So it's time to do miracles.

1. Commemorative Christmas tree decorations with photos

2. Gifts from your baby

Parents of a small child are probably already familiar with the cool sets "The first footprint of the baby", from which you can make 3D hand or foot prints... For the New Year, this idea can be modernized and unusual Christmas tree decorations can be prepared - you just need to paint the prints with bright colors.

Balls can also be made with palms

Children's pens will turn the simplest things into magic ones - for example mittens with handprints of little helpers. And also try to print the little feet inward. slippers for dad or grandfather. Or do T-shirt with an imprinted toddler's embrace.

You can also make New Year's cards with your baby - this is a very fun and ticklish activity!)

Find even more family holiday gift ideas in our collection

3. Handmade ideas. Knitted gifts for the New Year will warm you in winter.

If you still remember school lessons on labor or grandmother's parting words on knitting, then it will not be difficult for you to bring these New Year's gift ideas to life.

Let's start with the classics. We knit warm and cozy scarf with your own hands! Such a gift will be appreciated by both a girlfriend and a loved one, and, of course, parents and grandparents will be delighted!

To knit such a scarf you need to master only 2 steps - a set of loops and a garter stitch. And this video tutorial will help you:

It remains to choose the color and thickness of the yarn and the size of the knitting needles - you can knit a light neat scarf of fine yarn or a massive, incredibly warm and cozy chunky knit scarf.

Try changing thread colors as you knit to create stripes. You can add buttons or a small bead pattern. Add fringes, braids or pom-poms made of fluffy threads around the edges (see).

If you are confident in your abilities and have sufficient skills, then you can try to knit socks or mittens... On the Internet, on specialized sites, you will find many detailed lessons and tips.

You can also sew something unusual. For example, a great gift for the New Year - warmer in a knitted cover, and knitted "Clothes" - a cover for a cup will keep your favorite drink hot for a long time.

4. Fragrant Christmas tree toys

From vanilla sticks, cones, fragrant spruce twigs, orange slices and star anise stars (star anise), you can build cute Christmas trees, houses, stars, and even collect garlands from them. Even after New Year's Eve, such toys can be used as natural flavors - to decorate, for example, your workplace for the rest of the winter.

5. Delicious New Year gifts

Gifts that are never enough. Especially under the tree. Especially in a large company!

Bake delicious gingerbread cookie on this recipe and pack it in a beautiful Christmas box. You can make holes in it in advance and add ribbons so that it can be hung on the tree.

Very popular in the west gingerbread men- they have already become a kind of symbol of Christmas and New Year. And it is really easy to make nice souvenirs from them, for example, for colleagues or classmates. The cooked little people can be "individualized" with the help of colored glaze - add glasses, just like the accountant Olya, a beard like the programmer Vitka, and a tie, like Pal Andreevich, and put them in CD packages (ingenious - simple!) - edible ginger colleagues are ready to please their prototypes!

If you get gingerbread men, then you can move on to the next level of culinary skills - cook Gingerbread house, just like in the fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel. Details for it can be baked according to the same cookie recipe, then assemble the resulting "constructor" with the help of glaze and decorate the exterior of the fabulous building with it. Here is an example diagram -

From the same series - homemade, fragrant and aromatic jam... Traditional and tried-and-true is best to ask your grandmother or mom, but you can also search the internet for something exotic. We hang tags with wishes on the jars ( "Raspberry jam for cough and winter blues", "Jam from garden cherries and my love", "Currants for good luck!", "Gooseberry jam for the best dad in the world") we wrap it in a nice colored fabric or paper, we tie it with ribbons. Don't forget about honey- the most important and tasty protector from winter snowstorms and blizzards.

And here is how original you can pack sweets for a child. Create a personalized New Year's gift from your baby's favorite treats.

6. Remember the lessons of fine arts. Christmas origami

Well, the easiest way to make Christmas decorations is from colored paper. Such souvenirs can be made together with children. With them, children will be able to decorate their room or classroom at school.

For example, the simplest origami toys - Santa Claus from a square of red paper.

And here is another instruction Santa Claus made of colored paper.

New Year in three days! This thought makes you want to shout the letter "A". I’m always running out of time. And I want everything to be beautiful and elegant around. It's so good that there are wonderful people in the world, sharing their ideas, how to do it easily and quickly, with your own hands .. I hope they will please you too. Holiday greetings!

What a holiday without sweets

Gummy figurines in a jar of sugar. For eyes and buttons, you can use cake sprinkles and glazed seeds.

Sweet decoration. Place about five lollipops in a circle. Wet the next circle of sweets with water or syrup so that it sticks to the bottom circle .. Decorate with cinnamon or powdered sugar. Let dry for two to three hours.

Cookies are the best toys for the Christmas tree. That's just, they won't decorate for a long time)

Sausage boots. One sausage makes one pair.

Snowmen

Oh no ... They melt! Put marshmallows on a cracker in an oven preheated to 400 degrees. Cover the baking sheet with foil so that the marshmallow does not darken. Bake for 11 minutes. At this time, paint the heads of the snowmen. Place heads on heated marshmallows and press down. You can decorate the cooled snowmen as you like.

If you know how to cook something, for you another idea for a melting snowman cookie

Woolen pom-poms can be used to make such a wonderful snowman wearing a felt hat. Add an eyelet to the hat and it will become a decoration for the Christmas tree.

Something like a snowman. Perhaps it will turn out more beautiful if you use round skeins of thread.

Funny faces for a snowman Can be printed and glued to the top ball of white thread.

Snowmen on the street can blush their cheeks. Mix five drops of red food coloring with a cup of water, then use a spray bottle to spray onto the snowman's cheeks.

The second snowman made of ice cream balls in coconut flakes.

Christmas trees

Christmas trees from old magazines. Incredibly effective at a minimum cost. In the photo on the right, America's First Lady teaches children how to make these trees. Here is a video of a master class on making such trees from Martha Stewart.

And these are very simple Christmas trees, but a large number of them make a beautiful spruce forest. Their special charm is the gifts inside. The authors made their forest in five sizes and from several shades of green. If the trees are made of thick paper, then it is better to use double-sided tape for gluing and additionally strengthen the seam from the inside with ordinary tape. Cones pattern.

This is a wonderful example of the New Year's lottery.

Print the first page of the template, then a page with a background image on the back of the same sheet. Cut out the strips, glue them in the indicated places. The arrow with a circle indicates the beginning of the puncture. pass a wooden stick through these places. glue the apples on the top. Stick the trees into the cupcakes.

Christmas tree made of sweets. We need a styrofoam cone. toothpicks and soft candy.

The second option is simpler, but not so beautiful.

Your whole family will probably be involved in the creation of this tree. We take an apron (preferably white), paint on fabric and hands of all sizes.

Christmas tree decorations

Has anyone guessed that this is pasta?)

Snowflake designs are limited only by your imagination. Just use good strong glue. Place the snowflakes on wax paper to dry. Move them periodically to prevent sticking to the paper. When dry they can be painted, but overdo it otherwise the pasta will soften and lose its "marketable" appearance. At the end, you can lightly walk over them with a brush with glue and sprinkle with sparkles.

Garlands of cones and other natural materials. The rope is also best used from natural fiber. For example, in this version, the cord is made of hemp.

Lovely jewelry from Martha Stewart.

Postcards

Very simple 3D postcards

Use child labor) Of course, if you have children) Can you buy these postcards? Grandparents will be happy.
here . Glue two large pom poms together. Download and print templates for legs and ears, cut out. Using the templates as a mold, cut 2 ear shapes from pink felt, and 2 legs from white.

A list of New Year's wishes on a spool of thread.

Have a wonderful new year!

Time flies, and the new year 2017 is not far off. Of course, on the eve of the new year, everyone will ask themselves what to give their loved ones for the holiday. Some buy gifts in stores, and some give their gift a special meaning. They make them with their own hands. Indeed, handmade gifts are much more valuable than gifts purchased in stores. When making gifts for someone, a person tries to convey in him all his soul and a part of himself, and most importantly, to make it exactly for the person to whom this gift is addressed.

On this page we will talk about how to do DIY gifts for the New Year 2017... We will suggest some gift ideas for parents. We will tell you how to make truly original gifts with your own hands.

DIY gift for parents for New Year 2017.

It is no secret to anyone that the closest to each person are his parents. And it is on New Year's Eve that you want to pamper them with something special. To buy a gift in a store is so commonplace. I would like to do something with my own hands, something special and beautiful.

Here are some DIY gift ideas for parents:

• DIY Christmas toy.
• DIY photo frame with your family photo
• Commemorative photo album

For Mom:

• Gloves
• New Year's toy.

This is probably the most symbolic gift for this holiday. And the photo toy is not only original, but also memorable. To do this, you will need: a transparent Christmas tree toy, photography, artificial snowflakes and a ribbon. The size of the photo depends on the size of the toy. Use a funnel to place the artificial snowflakes in the toy. Then you should fold the photo into a tube so that it fits into the neck. Using long objects such as a toothpick, straighten the photo. And attach the ribbon on which you will hang your ball. With this gift you can convey the most unforgettable family experiences.