Simple and fast gifts for the New Year do it yourself

The New Year is a magical holiday, not only children, but also adults are waiting for it. But his main secret - everyone can be a wizard! Creating a festive atmosphere, decorate the house, decorate spruce, give gifts. They want to congratulate both relatives, and friends, and colleagues, which sometimes leads to significant financial expenses. And if you make a little work and make small presents with your own hands, girlfriends, parents and colleagues will be pleasantly surprised!

Of the tools we need the most common, which we use every day: scissors, glue, needle. For baking gingerbread you will need: a saucepan, measuring utensils, a knife, baking paper, and for making a glaze - a whisk.

Materials for crafts can be very different. Most of them can be found in every home. For packaging and gift decoration fit:

• boxes;
• ribbons or tape;
• bright shreds;
• remnants of wallpaper, old calendars (wall) and gray paper for wrapping.

For souvenirs:

• white and multi-colored paper;
• thick cardboard;
• thick threads of different colors;
• color felt.

To decorate:

• tinsel;
• sparkles;
• artificial snow

For sweet gifts:

• jars with a lid;
• acrylic paints;
• napkin with a Christmas theme;
• small candy.

For gingerbread house:

• flour;
• sugar;
• honey;
• butter;
• spice;
• powdered sugar;
• lemon;
• eggs and water.

The warmest memories connect people with each other: parents and children, brothers and sisters, lovers. There are moments that are pleasantly recalled, seeing off the old year and meeting a new one. Photos help with this.

To make a decoration on a New Year's tree and present it is an original idea. Such a thing every year will remind of the donor.

This toy is made in 5 minutes. What is required:

• transparent ball - Christmas tree toy;
• sparkles, artificial snow or rain;
• ribbon, you can with a bow;
• square photo of the diameter of the ball.

Procedure:

• check if the photo fits;
• place it inside the toy, pre-rolled into a straw.
• gently straighten using a toothpick or knitting needles.
• sprinkle or artificial snow from above.
• make a bright ribbon, you can and a bow.

To make such a simple gift quickly.

The manufacturing process involves several steps.

• Transfer the pattern to a clean sheet, and then to the felt.
• Cut out parts from felt.
• Details for the sock will be two, impose one on the other, sew around the edge. The upper edges are not sheathed. It is possible not to use a tapering seam, as shown in the figure, the machine line also looks nice.
• Through the top we fill with padding polyester or holofiber.
• A white edge is cut out of white felt, but it can also be made of artificial fur.
• From the green and red felt cut out the leaves of holly and scarlet berries. The twig is sewn or glued with superglue.
• We put the item to the toe, a loop of tape is inserted between the edge and the toe and glued or stitched.
• Edge sew. Threads choose either contrasting (green, red), or to match the edge.

Other felt toys are also sewn: stars, hearts, snowflakes.

To glue a homemade souvenir in the form of a Christmas tree - such an article will please colleagues or become a very beautiful decor of the festive table.

Homemade Christmas Tree:

• from a dense cardboard (or a Whatman paper) to turn a cone;
• cut off the excess and glue at the junction;
• after the glue dries, attach a tinsel to the cone, so that there are no gaps left, an glue gun, a stapler or an adhesive tape will do;
• to decorate a souvenir with ribbons, beads.

Spruce from candies is also made. Only a tinsel is attached to the Christmas tree, and the candies are glued from the bottom up along the circle, along the edge of the candy wrapper, and the remaining openings are covered with tinsel.

From the ideas of simple and quick do-it-yourself gifts for the New Year, you should try to make a photo frame.

Consider step by step instructions.

1. Cut out a cardboard frame, back and 3 narrow strips. Gently cut.
2. Lubricate the cardboard frame with glue, one small section after another.
3. Wrap the greased areas with thread and press gently. At the corners, you need to be more careful: the threads can move out, not having time to stick.
4. After the glue dries, glue 3 pieces of cardboard from the wrong side of the frame. On these strips-holders to glue the back. There is no third bar - a photo will be inserted here.
5. Attach a stand or eyelet, so you can put or hang.

What a holiday without sweets. They can also be made with your own hands.

The surprise that is so easy to prepare is a jar of sweets.

1. On a dry jar, paint simple attributes with colors, such as a spruce branch or a snowflake.
2. Glue a piece of napkin or a picture to the lid of the can.
3. The lid is varnished (but not necessarily).
4. Fill a jar with various small sweets (marmalade, nuts in chocolate, marshmallows, candy).
5. Close the lid, decorate with tinsel or paper snowflake. Attach the name of the addressee and congratulations.

Shop sweets are available every day, but how nice it is for your loved one to give New Year's Eve baking made from the heart with your own hands.

The gingerbread house is prepared from:

• gingerbread dough;
• protein glaze;
• decorated with marmalade, chocolate, nuts, dried fruits.

Dough recipe:

• high-grade flour - 3 cups (it is necessary to sift it);
• dark honey - 4 tablespoons;
• granulated sugar - 100 g (cane can);
• butter - 50 g;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 teaspoon baking soda;
• water - 50 ml;
• Mix cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg - 1 tsp.

The dough is prepared by yourself, but you can use the blanks purchased in the store.

1. Heat water, add sugar, honey and butter. The mixture should not boil.
2. Heat to 60-70 degrees, pour spices and 1.5 cups of flour, stirring so that there are no lumps. If lumps form, wipe the mixture through a sieve.
3. Cool the resulting mass, pour the eggs, mix.
4. Gradually pour the remaining flour and knead, should make a homogeneous dough.
5. Wrap in foil, put it in the fridge for 1 hour.
6. Remove, on baking paper roll thickness of about 6 mm, if the dough is thinner, it will crumble after baking.
7. On a pre-cut pattern to carve out parts of the house, cut with a knife.
8. Remove the trimming, transfer the paper along with the parts to the baking sheet. From scraps, you can bake figures of men or Christmas trees.
9. Bake at a temperature of 180-190 degrees for about 15-20 minutes. Korzham not let dry in the oven.
10. Cakes should be cooled and then just proceed to build a house.

To decorate the facade, you need a glaze. Ingredients for its preparation:

• egg protein 1;
• powdered sugar - 150 g;
• lemon juice - 1 tsp.

Shows the ratio of one small portion.

The composition is whipped in small pieces, it dries quickly and hardens:

• beat the protein with powdered sugar to obtain a thick mass;
• add a little lemon juice; if lemon juice is poured, the mass will become very liquid.

How to build a gingerbread house, we describe below.

1. We must first try on the details. The house should stand by itself, it is enough to lean the walls against one another.
2. If the windows and the door are slotted (and not drawn), it is better to outline and cut them at this stage.
3. It is recommended to decorate the roof and walls before assembling. Glasses on windows are made of marmalade plates and glued on the inside to the glaze, smearing along the edge of the frame. Outside the wall is covered with glaze, and on top - patterns of sweets.
4. Connect the walls and roof. Glaze is applied using a pastry bag or, if not, a regular plastic bag. It should put the mixture on top tie. Cut the corner, squeeze through the resulting hole to the joints and carefully connect them. The walls are supported by supports until the composition is dry.
5. At last, the roof is glued: carefully apply the mixture to the upper edges of the walls and put one half (smearing along the ridge), then the second. You can arrange more Christmas trees. Gingerbread surprise is ready!

The package for a New Year's surprise can be done simply and quickly in 5 minutes.

1. A4 paper rectangle folded in the middle corner to the corner.
2. Glue the edges of the folded sheet along the edge of a little overlap.
3. Up on one side, bend about 5 cm (if the sheet is larger, for example, A3, then the bend is 7 cm). So the bottom is scheduled.
4. In the place of the fold, two edges that are near, dilute in opposite directions, turning inside the corners.
5. The resulting wings bend in a straight line a little closer to the center.
6. The folded edges should be overlapped, they can now be glued together.
7. Rectangular workpiece with one and the other side bend.
8. Carefully open the received package and fill the hem inside. To write a congratulation, to issue a picture or application.
9. Pack, rolling the top of the fan or to the side. Tie up with braid. You can puncture holes with a hole punch, run a ribbon through them and tie them aesthetically.

Paper bows, too, tinkering quickly:

• transfer the finished pattern to the colorful sheets;
• cut and glue.

Such a craft is easy to attach to the box or gift bag.

Before the holiday, sometimes there is not enough time at all, but there is a great desire to prepare and arrange gifts.

To do this, take the usual box:

• paste over the box with colored paper or wallpaper;
• ribbons and confetti are suitable for decoration (they are easy to make by the puncher or manually from colored foil);
• put tea, sweets or something else in the box, do not forget to write holiday greetings.

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