Make a candlestick for the New Year. It can be created from fruits, from cans, from glasses, from cones. The master class and 47 step-by-step photos will also teach you how to make original candlesticks out of ice.
A candlestick for the New Year can add fabulousness to this holiday. Such crafts can be made for the street from ice, made from ordinary glass, tin cans and other materials.
Candlestick for New Year made of ice - master class and photo
If you want to decorate the yard for free, then make a charming candlestick for the New Year. But it's better to make a few, place them in the country. You can also decorate the city courtyard in this way.
Take:
- bucket;
- water;
- citric acid;
- sugar;
- potassium permanganate or food coloring;
optional - small items of natural and artificial decor.
Take a bucket and fill it almost to the top with water. If you want the finished candlestick to be completely transparent, then do not use ordinary water, but take boiled one. You will need to add a little sugar and citric acid to it. Now leave the water in this position for 2 days. It will settle well, after which you can carefully drain the top water and use it.
But to make a craft for the street, you don't have to work like that. This skill will come in handy when you want to make a candlestick for your home to admire for a while.
You can add potassium permanganate or food coloring to the water. But you do not need to put gouache, as it can settle in flakes, and you will not get an even color.
Now the container filled with water must be exposed to frost. It is better to do this in the morning, then you will have time to see in the afternoon that the water is almost frozen. It will be necessary to see when the edges and bottom are frozen, there will be more liquid in the middle. Then you pour this water, turn the bucket over.
If suddenly cracks appear in the craft, then cover them with water and leave it to freeze still.
Then you can install a lighted candle inside and see what effect it will produce. LED ones will glow well, and if you have an electric one, then you can slightly raise the candlestick so that air gets inside, and the candle burns well.
If you want to make a small craft for the New Year, then take:
- rectangular food container;
- plastic glass;
- water;
- berries;
- sprigs of needles;
- stones.
If you need completely clear water, then prepare it as in the previous case, with boiling, adding sugar and salt, and settling.
Now place the plastic cup inside the container. Place stones in this central object so that it does not float when you add water. Pour it between the sides of the container and glass.
Now get into the creative process. After all, when you make a craft for the New Year, you can add here berries of black currant, mountain ash, viburnum. Also put small twigs of conifers in the water, or you can put greens here at your discretion, slices of tangerines, and so on.
If you want to make a candlestick for the New Year so that it is quite tall, then take:
- a couple of plastic bottles of different sizes;
- paper tape;
- decoration items such as branches with leaves, berries.
Cut off the tops of the bottles down to wide shoulders. Place a small container in a large one. Fill the small one with some weights. It can be coins, small stones. To fix the containers in this position, glue them together at the top with strips of paper tape.
Now pour water into a large container, place plant decoration items here.
It remains to take the future candlestick out into the cold or place it in the freezer. When the water hardens and turns into ice, you will need to lower the container in hot water for a few seconds, then remove the bottles.
You will get a beautiful New Year's candlestick, like the following.
If you don't want the candlesticks to melt, then put LED candles inside, not regular ones.
You can use a variety of containers, then you will give the candlesticks the desired shape. If you want to get such a semicircular, then use a container of a similar shape.
New Year is associated with tangerines, so when making your candlestick for this holiday, use citrus fruits. Cut them into circles, then place them between the walls of two containers.
Spread the citrus slices evenly to keep the citrus circles from floating. To do this, pour water in several stages, periodically placing slices of oranges or tangerines here.
Branches with leaves in such candlesticks look great. But if you do not have evergreens, then use ordinary branches or take fragments of conifers, berries. Use it all for decoration.
You can even freeze flowers to admire their beauty for a long time. And if you then arrange the ice candlesticks on the steps leading into the house, then you have a charming additional lighting.
Do-it-yourself fragrant candlesticks for the New Year from fruits
Make scented candlesticks for the New Year.
Take an orange and attach a candle to it to know what size the hole needs to be made. Cut it out with a narrow knife.
Remove the small cone-shaped pulp with a spoon along with the crust.
Place the candle inside. Start decorating the candlestick. You can stick dry inflorescences of fragrant cloves here. Then your creation will smell even more pleasant.
In the same way, you can make a candlestick from an apple by cutting out a part of it from the top. A variety of vegetables and fruits are suitable for such products. You can, for example, use a large portioned pumpkin, also making a hole in it for a candle. Additionally, you can decorate this vegetable outside with sparkles, fix small ribbons here.
How to make do-it-yourself candlesticks from jars?
If you want to have such beautiful candlesticks, use regular glass jars.
Here is a list of what you need:
- glass jars;
- a few bubbles of nail polish;
- gouache;
- brushes;
- PVA glue.
If you decide to use nail polish for decoration, then you just need to take a clean, dry jar. Its surface does not need to be prepared. Draw different patterns here. Then you can take a light outline and apply subtle strokes with it to get such beautiful ornaments.
And if you decide to make candlesticks using gouache, then first you need to prepare the surface of the jar. To do this, cover it with PVA glue and let it dry. Then afterwards the gouache will stick better here. If you want you to have such interesting points, then draw them using a contour.
If you wish, use stained glass paints and paint the jars with them. And if you decide to take gouache, then you can first draw the contours of the patterns with a thin brush and apply a certain color to each.
When all this is dry, then you can put a candle inside.
If desired, tie the jar with tape or a piece of cloth, but use a floating candle that will not heat up the sides of the container too much.
DIY candlesticks for the New Year made of dough
Surprisingly, you can even make a New Year's candlestick from food ingredients. To do this, you will need to prepare a salty dough from flour, salt and water. Step by step photos show this fun process.
When you've kneaded the dough well, cover it with a towel and let sit for 20 minutes. After that, roll it out with a rolling pin and cut out fragments of the future house according to the template. Be especially careful when cutting out elements of windows, doors, ornaments.
Take PVA glue and start connecting the parts with it. You can also roll dough sausages and fix the elements of the house with their help.
Then you will need to leave the house to dry, and then put it on a lighted candle. Now you can admire such a fabulous picture.
DIY candlesticks for the New Year from glass goblets
From them, you will also make amazing candlesticks and decor items for the New Year.
Take evergreen twigs such as fir. Spread them out on a flat surface with paper or cellophane underneath.
Apply some clear glue and attach these elements to a glass previously degreased on the outside. You can decorate other wine glasses in the same way. Put candles inside.
You can make an original glass candlestick. Take
a piece of cardboard, place an inverted glass on it and circle. Cut out this blank.
Glue small artificial Christmas trees onto a circle of cardboard. You can use other small New Year's paraphernalia.
Pour artificial snow inside the glass, glue a circle of cardboard here. Turn the glass over. In the same way, you can fix a decorative candle inside.
Decoupage technique will help to make amazing candlesticks. See how they turn out.
To make such New Year's crafts, you will need:
- wine glasses;
- napkin with New Year's motives;
- acrylic paints;
- glue;
- craquelure varnish;
- contours;
- candle.
Degrease the outside of the glass, then cover with white acrylic paint, which will become a primer at the same time. Apply two coats. When they dry, cover with craquelure varnish, then fancy patterns are formed, similar to old cracks.
Take a napkin with suitable motifs and cut the desired element out of it. Now take a white outline and add some strokes to the drawing to make it look like frosty patterns.
Try decorating your glasses as follows. Take paper napkins and cut snowflakes out of them. Then just glue them on the outside of the glass.
You will also make candlesticks from glasses, put a beautiful pebble here. These stones will decorate the glasses and allow you to place candles here in the desired position.
And if you turn the glass over, placing it on the Christmas tree decoration, then place a candle on the leg. But it is better to securely fix it here so that it does not fall. Tie this splendor with a ribbon, after which you can admire it.
And if you combine two master classes, also place a candle on top of the inverted glasses, then there will be a New Year's composition below.
Use floating candles as directed. To do this, pour water into glasses, you can put berries, small twigs here. Install the candles and light them.
Candlesticks from cones with their own hands for the New Year
You can also make a candlestick for the New Year from natural material.
Carefully remove the top of the bump, then place a small floating candle here.
You can make a whole composition by gluing cones, twigs with berries, small branches of a Christmas tree and other elements of New Year's decoration to the base.
Here is another master class and step-by-step photos for it. See what you need for it.
Take a rectangle of board or plywood and glue foil to it on all sides. The result is a solid, shiny stand.
Now paint the buds silver. Glue the glass inside the base, place a candle in it. Glue painted pine cones and a couple of silver Christmas balls to the composition.
How to make candlesticks from cans for the New Year?
You can also make a beautiful candlestick for the New Year from tin containers.
Wash all the jars, place a tall candle in each. Secure these elements in this position. Place moss or sisal on top. Decorate with pine cones.
You can make several of these compositions from cans, tie them with twine and decorate with paper stars made using the origami technique.
And if you wrap the cans outside with twine or rope rope, you get amazing candlesticks. Then you will turn these items over and place the floating candles on the bottom of the cans.
Even an aluminum container will turn into an elegant New Year's candlestick. It can be cut quite easily with scissors. Using a marker, draw pattern elements like Christmas trees or snowflakes. Now cut along these markings with scissors.
DIY plastic bottle candlesticks
This waste material will also make great candle holders.
Cut off the tops of the bottles, paint them. Now insert tall candles into the necks and fix them in this position with colored tape.
And you can make an even more original candlestick. Then the neck of one bottle should be slightly smaller.
Align the two tops of the bottles and tie with tape, hide this place under a satin bow. Now place a tall candle inside.
DIY paper candlesticks for the New Year
If you are familiar with the quilling technique, then you can create amazing New Year's compositions.
Make round curls, glue them together in the form of a ring. Immediately work near the candle, you get the desired size of the candlestick. Elements such as drops will help create the petals of the product. Glue them 2 at a time and attach to your creation.
You can make paper candlesticks in two tiers by attaching other quilling elements at the bottom. You will get such voluminous flowers.
You have learned how to make candlesticks for the New Year from the materials available. And how other people make these festive attributes, prepared video materials will show.
You have learned how to make candlesticks from glasses. Now watch this fascinating process.
Create a Christmas candle out of a regular glass beaker to create a composition as well. The second plot will teach this.
