Spend the Old New Year interesting and fun. To do this, we propose in advance to make candles from plastic bottles, a wreath from bushings and please dear people with handmade gifts.
The tradition of celebrating the Old New Year is already 100 years old, and in 2019 it will be 101 years old. After all, it was customary to celebrate this holiday on the night of January 13-14, 1918.
Check out some interesting ideas to help you celebrate this date well.
Customs for the Old New Year
Check out an interesting tradition that originated 200 years ago in Britain. Perhaps you will take this idea into service and make pleasant gifts for loved ones.
Then a kind of candy was folded from tissue paper, a sweet surprise and a small poem were put inside. These presentations were called crackers. Make Christmas crackers for Old New Year. They will decorate the festive table, and loved ones will be delighted with such a sign of attention.
When the time came, it was necessary to break such a cracker, it was important that the cotton was heard at the same time. For the fair sex, you can place various decorations inside, women will certainly be delighted with such a surprise.
To do this, take a rectangle of cardboard, wrap its edges to make a small tube. Glue the free edge. Wrap this blank on top with a beautiful fabric. Now, on one side, fill this gift with jewelry items, tie narrow ribbons on both sides so that this attribute looks like candy.
Even if you are celebrating the Old Year at work, you can take a few minutes here to add a festive atmosphere. Prepare these gifts for your coworkers and hand them over during lunchtime. At the same time, surprises can be very different.
To make such a New Year's candy, take a rectangle of cardboard, cut it from the ends so that you get a kind of teeth. Draw a tree or other ornaments on the cardboard. You can also glue them on. Fold the rectangle to make a candy, put the surprise inside, and glue the edges.
If your work is related to music, then hand your colleagues surprises, which are also made of cardboard. But on the outside, you glue the printed sheets with notes to these sweets, and decorate the edges with shiny paper. Put gifts inside and tie ribbons.
The diagram will help you make the next New Year's souvenir.
You can use colored paper or wrapping paper to make the wrapper. Enlarge this diagram and cut out the part from the prepared material.
Then you will need to fold it to make a kind of candy, put a surprise inside and tie it with ribbons in the place of special grooves.
Put each such surprise on a certain guest's plate to make the old New Year 2019 a success. Then the guest will break the surprise prepared for him and extract the contents.
Here you can put a postcard made of the same material, as well as a small souvenir. To make it easier for the guest to split this cracker in half, you immediately create a cracker from two parts, so that at the place of their connection you can take apart the surprise in two.
For the next gift for the old New Year's, take:
- a sheet of wrapping paper;
- beautiful threads;
- silver paper;
- scissors with zigzag edges; small gifts.
Roll a kind of tube out of the wrapping paper. Place prepared surprises inside. Place this piece on pretty paper, roll it up to make a candy shape. Finish off creating a surprise by tagging the name of the person to whom the gift is intended.
Look at the diagram that will tell you how to twist the thick paper, glue its tip, put the prepared surprise inside.
To keep the hot drink hot longer, knit cup sweaters, but this garment will be shaped like cuffs. You can rip them off from the jacket, hem them, put them on a cup. Tie with a ribbon, decorate with a ribbon and a button. You can decorate disposable coffee toys with colored balls and flags. On the Old New Year, you can also please your loved ones with such cute trinkets.
Congratulate your friends or family on the old New Year, hand over the next craft, step-by-step photos will allow you to create it in a matter of minutes.
Take:
- shatterproof Christmas balls;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- tie.
First, disassemble the ball, remove from it the part for which the thread is tied. Cut out a rectangle of cardboard so that you get a square. Use scissors to remove all four corners. Glue a small piece of cardboard inside to make the workpiece more durable. Glue the corner of this blank to make a box. Use glue to fix the threads by attaching them to each corner. At the top, you will tie the piece from the ball. Then attach it yourself.
Please your beloved woman. Let her shoes shine in a new way in the morning. Usually it is the heels that give out the age of the shoe and how hard it was exploited. Clean them, wipe dry, then brush with glue and attach small glitter here. This is how Cinderella's shoes turn into princess shoes. Such a gift for the Old New Year will surely please your beloved girl.
And a woman can please a person dear to her by turning the cans, which he diligently stored in the attic or in the garage, into such a creative Christmas tree. On the Old New Year, this attribute will surely cheer you up.
The next New Year's ball can be presented by children to their parents. You will need to paint their palms with gouache or water-based paint, then take a ball in your hand and hold it for a while. Now you will need to hang it up to dry. Then you can dream up and turn each finger into a snowman, and write your name on the palm of your hand.
Crafts for the Old New Year from plastic bottles
This junk material will also make wonderful gifts that you can give for the Old New Year. Pictures show how to make them. For the next man-made masterpiece, take:
- transparent plastic bottle;
- scissors;
- shiny braid;
- tinsel.
Cut the bottle into strips, then hold them together to form the base of the ball. Glue various shiny objects to these elements. It can be sparkling braid, sequins.
Also from this material you will make beautiful snowflakes. Once you have the bottom of the bottles after creating the balls, cut it out so that you get the base for the five-pointed snowflake. Draw this element.
To apply subtle strokes, you can use a small brush or a regular cotton swab.
Having made many of these snowflakes, you will decorate the Christmas tree with them. Or wire them together to create a decorated Christmas tree.
After such needlework, you will have not only the bottom, but also the tops of the plastic bottles. Also put them into action. Make beautiful bells too.
Cut off the tops, if the bottle is not colored you can paint it. Glue flowers or stars here, as well as various tinsel decorations. You can also make such bells so that when mechanically they ring. Then you need to glue the thread inside to the neck, at the end of which the load is fixed. Decorate the outside of these bells with tinsel, make loops from a shiny cord, glue sequins of the desired shape.
Several bottom elements can be glued together to create a corrugated circle. Glue the snowflakes cut from blue colored paper here. Attach a cord on top so that you can hang such a creation.
A child can give his mother such a wonderful craft for the Old New Year.
Then he needs to take:
- flat plastic bottles;
- sequins;
- glue;
- acrylic paints and a brush;
- artificial snow or foam;
- decorative figurines;
- beads;
- sequins;
- tinsel;
- plants.
Cut off the top and bottom parts of the bottles, put the chosen gift inside the resulting tube. It can be a succulent, a figurine of a snowman or Santa Claus, or other attributes. Cut out two foam circles to fit the workpiece, glue one up, the other down the bottle.
Then you need to glue the remaining parts of the bottles from above and below. The junction with the main bottle must be covered with tinsel, shiny ribbons. Lubricate the top and bottom with glue, attach artificial snow or crumbled foam.
You can also make a wreath from plastic bottles for the Old New Year.
This is an original idea. Take:
- bottoms from plastic bottles;
- wire;
- bow;
- awl;
- beads;
- glue;
- paint with a brush.
Use an awl to poke holes in the bottoms of the plastic bottles. Paint these blanks white and green. If you have green bottles, then you don't have to. String the blanks on the wire, tie it on top and close this place under the fluffy bow. Glue a couple of beads here.
You can collect several bottoms from golden-colored bottles on a wire and make such a sparkling wreath. Each of its parts consists of two bottoms. First, they need to be cut so that they look like flower petals, then connect in pairs. Using an awl or a soldering iron, make holes in the center of each piece so that you can then string them onto the wire. Then you can decorate this wreath with a bow.
Candles are also invariable attributes of the New Year. Make candlesticks for them to decorate the Old New Year. For this, bottles from dairy products are suitable. Take two different sizes, turn one over and connect them with their necks, pushing one into the other. Paint the candlestick silver or gold and let it dry. Then put the candle inside.
You will also turn two necks from an ordinary plastic bottle into such a great thing. Take a beautiful candle so that it goes into the neck of the bottles. Cut out these blanks in the area of / u200b / u200bthe hangers so that you get petals. Decorate the elements with coffee beans by gluing them, or paint them, you can also use the contours or with a felt-tip pen. It remains to turn over one candlestick, put a candle in it, put on a second plastic blank on top. This is how you can decorate the room for the Old New Year.
See how you can decorate the top of a plastic bottle to create a beautiful candlestick.
You can make a candlestick. If you cut off parts of plastic bottles and burn them over a fire, they will take on an interesting shape. After that, they are glued together. Make 3 blanks from a red bottle that look like cups, also singe them over a fire and glue them to the base. Then hold the lower parts of the candles over the flame and stick them here.
Plastic bottles can be decorated with beads by gluing them along the edge. You will also get wonderful candlesticks for Christmas or Old New Year.
And if you cut the cord into pieces, glue them to the bottles, bend the edges, and then paint it in a tone like bronze, you get a candelabrum that looks like an old one.
But for the old New Year, it is still better to decorate all the elements so that they look like Christmas. Cover the tops of the bottle with red paint, and when it dries, glue the golden tape on top. Paint the cardboard with the same paint, glue and other decorative elements. Place a candle here, but do not light it, as the candlestick is made of flammable objects.
If you have an elongated glass heat-resistant container, place it in a cut bottle. Sprinkle semolina or salt between the two layers. You can also put transparent balls between glass and plastic containers to create beautiful candlesticks.
How to make a wreath with your own hands - a step-by-step master class and photo
If on New Year's Eve you made it from branches, then on Old you will make it from the most unexpected materials.
Take:
- cookie cutters;
- wire;
- paint;
- brush;
- braid.
Tie the molds together to form a circle. For this, you can use narrow red ribbons or wire. Tie a braid to the top mold to hang such a wreath.
If you want, cover the wreath with red paint and tie a large fluffy bow of the same shade to it.
A similar product can even be created from cardboard sleeves. These often remain after the paper towels run out. You can also use toilet paper rolls. Cut them into narrow rings with scissors, then give these blanks the shape of elongated ovals. Cut a circle out of cardboard, glue the elements from the bushings on its edges. Then it remains to paint and decorate them.
If you take large and small sleeves, you can create curls of different shapes from them. You can spirally cut some of the bushings straight away to make larger pieces. Use scissors or a utility knife for this, as well as glue. Then you can paint the product in the desired color and hang it.
