The times when preparations for the New Year were limited to cutting out snowflakes from white paper and garlands from multi-colored paper have sunk into oblivion without a trace. Now everyone is trying to decorate the interior of their home for the holiday as original as possible. You can surprise your guests with items made from woolen threads. This work is exciting and uncomplicated, so you can safely start it with your children.
New Year themed crafts
The range of crafts related to New Year's themes is quite wide. Everyone will choose something they like. Very interesting works are made from woolen threads. You can make appliqués and three-dimensional figures from them. Each of the works has its own specifics, without knowing which you will not be able to make a craft. But after reading our detailed instructions, you will make beautiful themed things. Hurry up to be in time for the New Year holiday!
New Year's crafts made from wool threads
Today we will learn the basics of appliqué using thread scraps and an interesting technique of thread printing. We will also decorate the interior with unusual Christmas trees - voluminous, cone-shaped and made in the form of an applique on a board.
Application "Snowman"
A child may get tired of making paper appliqués. Then offer him a fun and not very difficult activity - thread applique. Prepare everything you need for work:
- A4 sheet of paper;
- wool threads in white, red, blue, light blue, orange, brown and lilac;
- pencil, scissors, glue.
Now let's get to work. On a sheet of paper, draw a snowman from two balls in a hat with a pompom and a scarf, holding a Christmas tree toy on a string in one hand. Be sure to draw all the details - eyes, triangular nose (carrot), mouth and blush on the cheeks.
We take the threads and cut them with scissors into small pieces so that each color is in a separate container. Make sure that scraps of different colors do not mix, otherwise nothing will work.
Apply glue to the large snowman ball and sprinkle this area with white threads. We carry out the same procedure with the head. Let the glue dry and shake off any remaining unadhered scraps from the picture.
Cover the snowman's hat, scarf and palms with glue and sprinkle them with blue scraps. We make the hands and eyes blue, the cheeks and mouth red, the nose orange, and the Christmas tree decoration brown.
All that remains is to make a lilac background for the picture - and the product is ready. If your son or daughter likes this kind of work, you can start working on other New Year-themed pictures - a bullfinch or titmouse on a branch, a New Year tree, a winter forest and everything that your imagination tells you.
Christmas tree
It is impossible to imagine the New Year without a Christmas tree. But there can never be too many Christmas trees, and next to the living green guest from the forest you can always put a copy made by yourself. For this you will need:
- wooden plank;
- small carnations;
- green, white, red and brown threads.
Attach tracing paper to a suitable Christmas tree drawing and transfer the contours. Then place the tracing paper on the board. Hammer along the contours of the cloves (It’s unlikely to get by without Dad’s strong hand). Remove the tracing paper and the child will be able to work independently.
Braid the Christmas tree with green threads, and the tree trunk with brown threads. And when everything is ready, decorate the product with Christmas tree decorations made of red threads, and you can make fluffy lumps of snow from white ones.
Such a craft will look unusual and attractive. It is not necessary to lay out a Christmas tree on the board; you can also have a deer’s head, Santa, or any other New Year’s drawing without small details.
Bullfinch
This work can hardly be called appliqué. It's more of a thread pattern. To make this beauty, prepare:
- thick sheet of cardboard;
- a piece of white satin to the size of a cardboard;
- red, green, black, white and brown woolen threads of the same thickness;
- PVA glue, scissors.
Thread printing is not a difficult job, but it requires accuracy and perseverance. Cover a sheet of cardboard with satin fabric. Draw a picture - on the right is a bullfinch sitting on a spruce branch with cones. On the left is a sprig of viburnum.
First, smear the outline of the bullfinch’s tummy with thick glue and trace it with red thread, pressing it to the drawing so that it sticks well. Then coat the middle of the pattern with glue and lay it with threads. In the same way, glue each detail - the head, wings, tail, twig, cones, viburnum berries. Then make snowflakes from white threads.
Having mastered the technology of thread printing, you can begin to work on other more complex paintings.
Cone-shaped Christmas tree
To make a cone-shaped Christmas tree, prepare everything you need:
- threads;
- soft cardboard;
- cling film;
- a string of beads, a star and other decorations.
Form a cone out of cardboard, connecting the structure with tape. Wrap it in film. Wrap the workpiece with threads, starting with figure eights, so that the threads do not move off the slippery film. When you have wound enough layers in a chaotic order, cut the thread and secure with glue.
Now you need to saturate the entire Christmas tree with glue, then blot with a cotton towel to remove excess glue. Set the workpiece aside for a while to dry.
Using a rotating motion, carefully pull out the cardboard cone and decorate the thread Christmas tree with a string of beads, a star and other decorations, placing them on hot glue.
As you can see, from the simplest raw materials you can make original and unusual crafts that will fit perfectly into the atmosphere of New Year's holiday paraphernalia.
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