How to make garlands by yourself: instructions, schemes

Decorate your house for any holiday, and even more so for the New Year, very simple. It is only necessary to show a little imagination. Of course, the easiest way to hang light garlands around the house, bought in the market or in the store, but it's much more interesting to decorate your house with "homemade clothes". Devote this interesting lesson to a couple of evenings, and your house will play with new colors, and children will finally break away from computers.

How to decorate your house on the eve of New Year's holidays

If you do not want to go shopping, and Dad "is friends" with electricity, you can make a garland of light bulbs and yourself. The scheme of the garland itself is quite simple and anyone who has ever dealt with wires will easily understand it. That it favorably differed from the purchase option, each light bulb can be zadkorirovat improvised material. At the same time, be sure to make sure that all your "decorators" that you cling to light bulbs and wires are made of non-flammable material. Well, for those who are in a difficult relationship with electricity or want to bring in the younger generation, a few tips.

Paper garlands

The easiest way to make garlands of paper. For the New Year it is customary to decorate not only the Christmas tree, but also the whole room. You can hang jewelry in the window and doorways, attach to the ceiling, cabinets or curtains.

The simplest garland of paper is a chain of ringlets. To make it, you will need:

• Colored paper, better two-sided;
• scissors;
• Ruler and pencil;
• Glue PVA or any other;
• Brush for glue;

Mark and cut the paper into small strips, approximately 80x10 mm in size. Take one strip and use glue to connect it to the ring. The next strip pass into the resulting ring and fasten the ends, again forming a ring. Do the same with all the other paper strips, forming a chain of the required length.

There is another simple way to make garlands yourself. Cut a lot of paper from a paper, such as circles, asterisks, fir-trees, fish or any other figurines of your choice. To simplify the work, you can use special tools for perforation, which are sold in every store for needlework. They are not expensive, and the garland will be much more accurate. Using a sewing machine or manually sew all the parts together in one line. Use a strong thick thread, so your garland will be much stronger.

If you do not have a sewing machine or you do not know how to sew at all, do not be discouraged. Just take two identical fragments and glue them together, laying in the middle of the thread, ribbon or cord. Repeat the procedure until you get a garland of the required length.

Ornaments from threads

Another very beautiful and uncomplicated ornament of any house is the garland "Balls". Make it yourself is very simple, you will need:

• Balloons of small diameter, 10-50 pieces - depending on how much garland you want to make;
• A few balls of colored threads, best of all natural, woolen or cotton;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• Tape or string for stringing - the basis of the garland;

Take the balloon and inflate it to the desired size. Glue the pot with a little water in a small bowl. Cut from the coil about 1-1.5 m thread and soak it with a glutinous mixture. A little squeeze, so that the thread does not drip. Wind the thread on the ball like a ball, leaving gaps. Should get a beautiful openwork glom. Fasten the end of the thread with adhesive and leave the construction until completely dry. After the glue has completely dried, puncture the ball and gently pull its remains through the holes.

Make as many of these balls as you want, and with a large needle or needle, assemble them on a tape or rope.

Garland of felt

You already know how to make garlands of paper. That they served you faithfully for more than one year - replace the paper with felt. It is quite dense and soft material, from which it is very easy to cut out various figures.

If you can even sew a little - you can make a garland of soft toys. Using a stencil, draw and cut out two identical parts of the future element of the garland, for example, a herringbone. Sew the parts among themselves, and in the middle place a little sintepon or ordinary cotton wool. If the characters of your future garland are little animals, then sew them eyes from buttons and decorate with ribbons. When all the elements are ready, connect them together by strung on a thick string or ribbon. The garland is ready.

We use natural materials

If you like to collect cones, acorns, leaves and other gifts of nature, then the question of how to make garlands for the New Year, and at all is solved very simply. For example, you can make a decoration of cones, you need to prepare:

• Cones (the right amount depends on the length of the garland);
• Special loops - such devices from one end of which is a loop, and the other is a screw, in everyday life the buttonhole of the door hook looks like; You can buy such things in the shops for needlework;
• Acrylic paints, sequins;
• Tape - the basis of the garland;

Color the cones with white acrylic paint and sprinkle them with sequins, although if you prefer natural materials, you can leave them as usual. Using pliers in the bottom of the cones, twist the eyelets and decorate the ribbon on the base tape. If you do not have a loop, then the bottom of the cones can simply be braided with a string or ribbon, forming a garland. Similarly, you can use acorns, branches of mountain ash and pine needles.

Knitted garlands

For those who knit crochet nicely, decorating your house is easy - for example, you can tie a garland of snowflakes. How to knit, knows any needlewoman - it's the same thing as small napkins, the benefit of schemes for them a great many. Incredibly beautiful garlands are obtained from small amigurumi toys crocheted and stuffed with sintepon. True, it is necessary to start making such an ornament long before the New Year. It's not so simple, especially for beginners.

Those who do not know how to knit, also do not despair - an excellent color garland will come from pompoms. To make them very simply - take the colored thread and begin to wind them on the three closed fingers of the left hand. When you get a fairly tight ring - remove the thread from your fingers and tightly tie them in the middle. Using scissors, cut the resulting loops and fan the pompon.

If the pom-pon for you is an impossible task - you can make it even easier. Take a pack of cotton wool and roll small balls out of it. Color Padded "pompons" with the help of old spoiled shadows or colored pencils, the slates of which is isotrite in fine dust. With the help of a needle, string the colored balls on a long string - the garland is ready.

Edible garlands "Bird's Joy"

The most unusual garland for the New Year with their own hands is obtained from orange and apple circles, branches of viburnum and other edible items. Take a medium-sized orange or apple and cut it into circles with a sharp knife. Each slice dipped in starch and put on parchment. Dry fruit in a warm oven for 1.5-2 hours. Collect the garland on the string. To make it even more beautiful, add to the composition brushes of dried mountain ash, "beads" of popcorn and dog rose or hawthorn. You can also use rings from a dry breakfast cereal.

The beauty of this decoration is that when the holidays are over, you can hang it on the street near the house or take it to the nearest park. All these delicacies are happy to snatch birds or chew the squirrels - because their winter diet is not so rich in vitamins.

And to please and their own, you can make a garland of sweets, nuts and gingerbread. Decoration of gingerbread will not leave your children indifferent, especially if they themselves (with your help, of course) will bake its ingredients. A variety of recipes can be found on the Internet or look in the cookbook of your beloved grandmother.

Garland with a surprise

And here is another idea how to make garlands for a holiday. If you have small children who adore "Kinder-surprises", you can collect "eggs" from under the prizes within a year. Before the holiday with the help of an awl, make holes in the opposite ends of the testicles and string them on a string in the form of a garland. Inside each put a note with a comic job. In the midst of the holiday, in turn, open the "testicles" and perform the riddle - joy and fun are guaranteed to all.

If the "Kinder-surprises" you do not work out - use instead of them the usual matchboxes. Of course, to make them look like New Year's, they need to be colored or pasted with colored paper.

Conclusion

As you already knew, there are an incredible number of ways to make a garland yourself. You just need to show a small amount of imagination and perseverance. Believe me, the decoration made by themselves, and even in close contact with children, will please you much more than the most "heaped up" bought gizmos.

And most importantly, the joint creativity will present an unforgettable festive atmosphere and provide everyone with a cheerful New Year mood.