New Year is the most joyful and magical holiday. Preparing for it gives a lot of pleasant trouble. To create a fabulous atmosphere in the house and give yourself a festive mood, you can start making New Year's crafts. Making them with your own hands is simple and interesting. Involve children in this entertaining hobby so that they do not get bored and also get ready for the main winter celebration. Try to make DIY Christmas bells together

Beautiful symbol of the New Year

The custom of decorating a home with bells came to us from Europe. There was a superstition that their ringing was capable of scare away evil spirits. So that the dark forces did not interfere with celebrating the New Year, bells were hung on the Christmas tree along with other toys. This tradition has taken root well all over the world. And today bells are used to decorate houses for New Year and Christmas even by people far from superstition. Because it is very beautiful holiday souvenir.

In those distant times, people made huge bells from bronze. They were used not only as amulet but also as a signaling instrument. By ringing, the population was informed about various events or called to a meeting. Now this signal is used in educational institutions. Every September 1st the first bell rings, and before the summer holidays we hear the last school bell. So you can safely consider the bell as symbol the beginning of the next year.

What can you make a bell from?

A New Year's craft can be made from various materials at hand. For example, from paper or cardboard, from a plastic bottle or disposable cup, from fabric or rope. The bell shape can be knitted, beaded, or papier-mâché. Excellent crafts are obtained from spruce and pine cones, c twig pots, styrofoam, egg trays and shells.

In short, a souvenir can be made from any assistants bell-shaped materials. Therefore, look at your home for items that have not yet found a use for themselves. Thanks to simple master classes, they will turn into bright original Christmas tree decorations.

First, let's figure out what any bell should consist of:

• dome;
• tongue;
• suspension.

Since we have a New Year's souvenir, so you will need all kinds of thematic decorations. For additional decor, you need to take: pine needles, tinsel, sparkles, rhinestones, beads, sequins, lace, ribbons and bows. You can use a special curly hole punch with the shape of a snowflake or star.

Bells made of paper and cardboard

The simplest crafts are made from paper or cardboard. You can take white album sheets, and then paint souvenir. It is more convenient to use colored paper and cardboard. To work with them, the following tools are useful:

• pencil;
• compass;
• scissors;
• PVA glue;
• needle and thick thread.

Yellow paper bell

Let's make a volumetric Christmas tree toy out of paper in stages. This requires colored paper (yellow, green, red), woolen thread and large beads.

Instructions:

1. Draw a circle about 8 cm in diameter on yellow paper with a compass and cut it out.
2. Draw 2-3 small leaves on green paper. We cut them out along the contour.
3. We make small circles from red paper. These will be rowan berries.
4. We take a piece of thread about 15 cm. We string 2-3 beads on it from both sides, and then we tie knots at the ends. This will make the bell tongue.
5. We put the thread on the yellow circle so that the loop looks out from above. Roll up the paper slightly and glue the base. Glue the leaves and berries on top.

Now the cute bell is ready. They can be used to decorate a Christmas tree or hang on the wall.

Christmas bell made of cardboard

This cardboard craft will become an original decoration for every Christmas tree. Prepare a piece of cardboard, scissors, a needle, yarn, and jewelry.

A step-by-step diagram will tell you how to make a cardboard bell:

1. Preparing the cone shape. To do this, cut a circle out of the cardboard and cut it in half. Fold a semicircle and glue the sides of the cut together. Wait for the glue to dry.
2. Lubricate the finished cone with a layer of glue and wrap its entire surface with thread. Choose the color of the yarn at your discretion.
3. Take two large beads. Hang one on a thread and leave it as a tongue. Now you need to thread the thread through the top of the cone and string the second bead, and then make a knot and a loop. So the structure will be securely fastened.
4. Add decor to the Christmas tree decoration: sequins, lace or other decorations.

Christmas crafts from plastic cups and bottles

Plastic cups are a great inexpensive consumable for all kinds of crafts. You can also use unnecessary plastic soda or milk bottles. Small glasses make wonderful herringbone bells. The shape of the bottle is larger, so it is better to make an interior decoration or a toy for a very large Christmas tree from it.

Party bell from a bottle

What materials are needed:

• plastic bottle;
• festive paper napkin;
• tinsel;
• bow.

Let's start the master class:

1. Cut off the top of the bottle.
2. Apply glue on the outside and wrap with a napkin. Tie a thread on top of the neck. Bend the bottom edges inward.
3. We glue a bow on the dome. We fasten tinsel along the bottom edge with a stapler.

A bright New Year's bell is ready to decorate your home. It can also be made functional. Take a small real bell and use all-purpose glue to attach it to the inside of the craft. Now the New Year's souvenir will be able to make a beautiful ringing.

The cut-off half of a plastic bottle is decorated in different ways. You can leave it transparent and paste over with miniature stickers, wrap the bottom and lid with tinsel. If you make a hole in the lid with an awl, you will be able to hang the bead on a ribbon, and also make a loop.

The surface of the bottle can be coated with paint, and then laced with lace. Decorate the lid with sequins and add a thin ribbon pendant.

Gold and silver bells from glasses

Try using cups to make Christmas decorations.

Collect the following set of items:

• two disposable glasses;
• artificial spruce branch;
• a can of gold paint;
• glue;
• wide tape;
• white lace;
• beads.

We start to do the craft:

1. We paint the glasses with paint. Apply some golden spray to the branches.
2. The cups will dry for now. Therefore, you can cut beautiful lace elements. For example, flowers. Glue beads into their centers. After the paint has dried, we glue the flowers onto the dome.
3. The edges of the cups can be wrapped with fluffy yarn.
4. We make a lush bow from the ribbon, tying it in the middle with a thread.
5. We fasten the bells, bow and spruce branch together.

Instead of regular plastic cups, you can use yogurt containers. Now let's make a silver bell to decorate the Christmas tree. You will need: a glass, foil, tinsel, lace, scissors, an awl and a hook.

1. At the end of the lace we tie a piece of colored tinsel to make the tongue of the craft.
2. Wrap the glass tightly with foil.
3. Use an awl to make a hole in the bottom of the glass. We will stretch a lace through it, a hook will come in handy for this. Let's make a loop and a knot.
4. Wind lush silver tinsel around the loop.

Not only Christmas tree decorations are made from cups. Even a whole New Year tree can be made from this simple material. A Christmas tree made of cups will turn out if you fasten them to each other with a stapler. This will require many identical green glasses. The finished structure is decorated with beads, beads and rhinestones.

Eggshell and Tray Favors

To keep the shells and egg trays from disappearing, make colorful Christmas toys out of them. Just before the New Year, start collecting the materials you need. Try to break raw eggs not in the middle, but on the edge. We should have whole bell molds.

For crafts, take an eggshell, gauze (bandage), thick thread, PVA, paints and a brush. For decoration, you can add semolina, beads or putty.

There are two ways to make a Christmas tree toy from a shell.

Manufacturing method No. 1:

1. Cut the gauze into pieces. We glue them on the outside of the shell. This procedure is needed to strengthen the fragile material.
2. After the glue has dried, cut out sharp petals on the shell. We paint the surface with white paint.
3. Use an awl to pierce the hole for the lace.
4. We glue a shell mosaic on the shell and paint it.

Manufacturing method No. 2:

1. We glue the shell with gauze from the inside. For quick drying of the glue, you can put the workpiece on the battery.
2. Paint on the outside with white.
3. With scissors we make the cut of the shell even.
4. Let's take care of the decor. Put putty on the shell to create embossed patterns, then paint over the dried surface. You can spread the craft with glue and sprinkle with beads or semolina. Connect your imagination to create a colorful toy design.
5. We make a hole on top and insert a loop.

For MK with a cardboard egg tray, you need to take colored paper, glue, scissors, a string.

1. Cut out the cells from the cardboard tray.
2. We glue the cells with paper of different colors.
3. We pierce the top for attaching the lace. You can also hang a large bead on it.

If you start collecting colorful foil candy wrappers in advance, you can replace colored paper with them. You will get very beautiful shiny bells.

Bells made from other unusual materials

Make your Christmas tree truly festive and different from others. The green beauty, dressed up with her own crafts, will look great and original. Let's try to make a few more New Year's toys from different materials.

From flower pots

Let's take some clean flower pots and start decorating them:

1. At the bottom, we immediately drill a hole for hanging the future toy.
2. Now we decorate the surface. You can just wrap it in foil and glue on the tinsel.
3. Another decor option is with cones. Using pliers, carefully separate the "leaves" of the cones. Then we glue the pot with them. Better to use a hot glue gun. Additionally, we will decorate the craft with artificial spruce, beads and sparkles.

From twine

A hand-made bell craft can be successfully made from linen thread. We take twine, a plastic bottle, a bag, PVA, scotch tape, a glue gun, scissors and decor (beads, ribbons).

1. The bottle will act as a shape. Therefore, you need to wrap tape around the transition from the cap to the bottle. Thus, we will align it, so that later it is easy to remove the craft from the form.
2. We put a bag on the bottle and fix it by tying it at the bottom.
3. Lubricate the surface of the bag with glue and wrap a linen thread around the bottle. We reach this way to the middle of the bottle. We are waiting for drying.
4. We remove the blank from the bottle and remove the bag.
5. We decorate as you wish.

Papier-mâché

Preparing a mold - a real bell, glass or other similar object. And also we will collect such consumables on the table: paper, paste or PVA, cling film.

Papier-mâché bell workshop:

1. Wrap the glass with cling film. This is necessary so that the future craft can easily detach from the mold.
2. We tear the paper into pieces, moisten them in glue and put them on a glass.
3. We are waiting for the blank to dry and decorate it as fantasy dictates.

For knitting bells and making them from beads, you will need special patterns.

Choose any method for creating a New Year's craft. Decorate the Christmas tree, interior with bells and use them as gifts for family and friends.

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How many beautiful things you can create with your own hands! The possibilities of human imagination and developed hand motor skills create masterpieces, sometimes unpredictable and incredible. A paper bell is not an ordinary masterpiece to create, containing various methods and techniques. This article presents you a master class on making a paper bell with your own hands in the shape of a square.

Origami flower

To create one bell, you need to prepare:

• sheets of double-sided paper in three colors: white, blue, green;
• scissors;
• glue.

Origami templates:

Origami execution process. On a flat surface of the table, place a blue worksheet, cut out to fit a square with 18 cm sides.

The sheet must be folded in half along the vertical axis, slightly pressed and returned to its original position.

Turning the sheet over to the other side, folds diagonally and again slightly pressed and returns to its original position.

The finished sheet with folds must be folded into a double square, for this it is necessary to fold the sheet so that the center of the square is the center of the sheet.

The resulting double square must be placed on the working surface with the ends up. The upper triangle expands into a square.

The resulting figure must be turned over so that the straightened square in the form of two triangles folded together is completely in front of your eyes.

The next manipulation is to re-arrange the triangle, only this time on the left side.

The angle is straightened into a square, after which the lateral corners of both sides of the triangles are folded towards the middle and returned.

There are already fold lines in the center of the triangles, which will make it easy to fold from the current side of the triangle to the fold of the next triangle.

The action described in point 9 is repeated for all the following sectors.

According to the diagram below, it is necessary to consider the dotted lines. These lines will serve as break lines to be made.

The corners that appear when kinks should be bent and pulled upwards with the corners. This action is repeated for all the resulting triangles.

All sectors created for the future bell must be moved in opposite directions from the center. As it shown on the picture.

The sheet assembled in a triangle must be expanded.

According to the figure below, bend the corner along the already completed fold lines.

The resulting corner should be bent towards the center of the sheet inward. Repeat this step for each corner of the bell.

As a result of the described action in step 16, the inner square should straighten itself. All sides of the triangle gradually extend towards the opposite side from the center.

The petals of the resulting flower must be twisted with any rounded object, for example, a pencil.

For the originality of the flower, the stamens must be placed in the center. The stamens are made of white paper cut into short strips and glued into the core.

In addition to the flower and stamens, it is necessary to make a stem with leaves. The stem and leaves are cut from green paper. The cut green rectangle is screwed onto a small round object, for example, a pencil, and glued in this position. The leaves are glued to the stem with glue. To create a bouquet, these bells should be repeated several times.

You can make a New Year's paper bell with your own hands using origami, quilling, decorative corrugation, weaving, or from traditional paper reamers.

From a paper cone

With a shortage of time, the easiest way is to roll up a paper bell in the form of a cone, glue the tongue inside and decorate the craft outside with a New Year's pattern / pattern. The most popular are two versions of hastily cone bells:

Whole

When drawing a scan from which the New Year's paper bell will be glued with your own hands, you must take into account:

• a circle segment is required to fold the cone
• the height of the product will be slightly less than the radius of the drawn circle
• base diameter depends on the segment width (usually 2/3 of the arc length)

Outside, an ornament or pattern of snowflakes or simple geometric lines is applied to the bell body. For hanging, a thread is passed through a funnel, a tongue from a paper strip is glued into the body.

Smart

An improved version of the previous version - a volumetric Christmas bell with an original tongue. The main differences are:

• the tongue is two threads with 2 - 3 beads at the end of each of them
• to emphasize this detail, a rounded cut is created in the bell cone, as in the below photo
• on top, the craft is decorated with an oak leaf or an ordinary bow

The whole composition is hung on a branch of a New Year tree or attached to the walls and windows of the room. To increase the artistic value, the craft can be made from corrugated paper with your own hands in a couple of minutes.

Corrugated

The corrugation in this case is created by figured gluing of several blanks, and not by simply folding the sheet with an "accordion", which sharply increases the decorative value of the craft. The design technology is as follows:

• blanks are cut from colored paper

• each of them folds in half along the vertical axis of symmetry

• then glued together at the point marked with a marker from the inside (on the left in the photo)

• all parts are glued to each other at three points marked with a marker outside (on the right in the photo)

• the stack unfolds, at the same three points the first part is glued to the last

• a tail is glued on top for hanging

• an elegant bow attached to the tail is glued from three blanks of a different color

By arbitrarily increasing the number of external / internal contact points, the aesthetics of the bell can be dramatically improved.

Quilling method

When using this technique Christmas toys guaranteed to be original, but spend much more time on production. There are several ways to arrange rolled paper strips:

Flat

In the upper part of the craft, two round serpentines are used, the rest of the body is constructed from elongated drop-shaped rolls, as in the lower figure.

Volume

For this craft, you will need a long roll of very tightly rolled tape. The formation of a bell from it occurs in stages:

• a pendant thread or decorative cord is passed through the central hole
• the thumb is pressed into the spool in a smooth motion
• an umbrella is formed, then a dome with a thickening in the lower part
• the inner surface is treated with glue to fix the resulting shape and the suspension thread
• after drying, decoupage is applied to the outside
• a bead of the bell "tongue" is attached to the bottom of the ribbon / thread

Combined

By mixing the two previous technologies, a unique craft is obtained. Drops and standard round serpentine bobbins are glued to each other on a workpiece of the desired shape. After the glue dries, the structure is removed from the template and hung on a ribbon.

Origami technology

Using the glueless method, corrugated paper bells can be folded using the origami method.

To do this, you need to use the scheme:

These crafts look best in pairs, connected with a textile tape.

From the sweep

It is enough just to build New Year's bells from ready-made sweeps that can be copied from the lower photos.

This version of the crafts has a simple configuration, it is conveniently fixed on the surface and on the paws of the Christmas trees.

It is made from this type of reamer.

The other option is a little more difficult as it has more petals.

In this case, a sweep of a different configuration is applied.

Braided from paper tubes

If you want and have enough time, the Christmas bell can be woven from paper tubes. For making with your own hands, there are simple schemes.

Since origami is the most complex technology, below is an introductory video for making a New Year's craft of this type step by step:

Thus, from the above methods of making a Christmas bell, you can choose the most suitable one, taking into account the qualifications of the home craftsman, the availability of free time. In addition, you can try all the options, and decorate the room for the New Year with a dozen different crafts.

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Materials and tools

■ Colored paper

■ Scissors

■ Glue stick

Bell making

1. For the background, take a sheet of beige A4 paper.

2. Cut 18 squares 3.5x3.5 cm out of blue paper.

3. Glue 15 cone-shaped squares (fig. 1).

4. Coat the sides of the 3 cones with glue and join them together (fig. 2).

5. Cut 1 square into 4 pieces and glue 2 squares to the wrong side of the workpiece. The result is a bell head (Fig. 3).

6. Cut a 2x2 cm square out of green paper and cut it diagonally to form a triangle. Cut the long side of the triangle as shown (fig. 4). It turned out to be a sepal.

7. Attach the sepal to the base of the flower head (fig. 5).

8. Make 4 more bell heads yourself.

9. Cut out 2 strips of 1x30 cm from green paper, glue them into 1 strip and glue it on the background sheet in the form of a snake. It turned out to be a curved stem.

10. Place the bell heads between the bends of the stem and glue them to the background.

11. Cut 6-7 narrow rounded leaves 5-6 cm long. Bend them slightly in half lengthwise. Glue randomly onto the stem. The work is ready.

We present to your attention a master class on creating a ritual doll Bell. This doll came to us from Valdai, according to legend, it carries the power of a talisman against diseases and other evil spirits. Cheerful and perky, the Bell doll is considered a doll of good news and good mood.

Our ancestors have long attributed healing and protective properties to the ringing of a bell. In difficult times, whether it was an invasion of a plague or an enemy force, bells were always rung so that troubles were bypassed. And on holidays, bells were added to the harness, and then their chime was heard throughout Valdai.

The doll was considered a good gift for weddings and christenings. After giving such a doll to a loved one, you wish him family well-being, happiness and health. We will show you how to make a bell.

Making a bell amulet

To make a bell with our own hands, we need the following materials and tools:

• three pieces of fabric for skirts;
• a flap of fabric for a shirt;
• a piece of cloth for a scarf;
• wide braid for the povoinik;
• ribbon on the belt;
• synthetic fluff ball;
• dressing threads;
• scissors;
• ruler;
• compass.

Operating procedure

1. The bell doll traditionally has three skirts, symbolizing the three components of a person: body, mind and soul. It was believed that only then a person is happy when his mind is in harmony with body and soul. We take a flap for the lower skirt and draw a circle with a diameter of 30 cm. It is most convenient to do this with a compass.
2. Each subsequent skirt will be 5 cm less than the previous one. Cut out the circles. We should have three circles: 30.25 and 20 cm in diameter. Next, we take synthetic fluff and roll it into a small ball, to which we tie a bell.
3. We put it on the largest circle, on the seamy side. Turn over and see that the ball is exactly in the center of the workpiece. Then we tie it with red thread.
4. There is a red thread in master classes on creating amulets dolls for a reason. It's all about the protective property of red from the evil eye and other troubles. And it is the red woolen thread that has long been the very first amulet for a baby.
5. A doll is already beginning to take shape. In the same way, we put on two more skirts on it, tying each one with a red thread. From above, we will put a shirt on our protective doll.
6. For a shirt, we need a square piece of fabric measuring 20 by 20 cm. We put the opposite corners of the square one on top of the other and put it on top of the doll. We bandage the head ball in the place where the previous bandages have already been made.
7. From the ends of the shirt protruding on the sides, we need to make hands. First, we fold the edges of the fabric inward, then fold it in half and tie it, stepping back 1 cm from the edge. In the same way, we make a sleeve on the other side.
8. It remains to make a warrior and a scarf. The amulet doll's day should traditionally be embroidered. You can take a thick fabric and embroider or use a ready-made embroidered braid.
9. We put the warrior on the doll's head. For the scarf, we cut out a triangle from thin cotton with sides of 30 cm. Bend the edge of the scarf inward and put it on top of the warp.
10. We tie the kerchief crosswise on the doll's chest and tie it at the back. It remains to put on a belt and decorate with ribbons. The doll amulet bell is ready to protect you and your family.