Christmas toys (crafts) from light bulbs with their own hands for the New Year

The New Year is already on the threshold and it’s time to prepare the house for its arrival, and for this you can make New Year’s toys from light bulbs. Decorating your living room and bedrooms with flashing and glowing toys is easy. The decorations will look magical, and guests will definitely appreciate the unusual crafts.

How to make a Christmas light bulb toy

To create a New Year’s toy with your own hands, you need a light bulb. It can be of different sizes, shapes, made of any material. But it is better to use cheap glass ones – they weigh little, and when decorating, you can use their transparency. It is convenient to work with plastic or energy-saving ones, but on a Christmas tree they will look bulky and bend branches.

For crafts you will need a light bulb, glue, glitter and fabric

There are many options on the Internet on how to decorate and decorate: just choose a photo of a New Year’s toy from a light bulb and create it yourself.

For this you will need:

• light bulbs (round, elongated, cone-shaped, “bumps”);
• glue and glue gun;
• glitter (several jars with different colors);
• acrylic paints;
• scissors;
• ribbons, bows, plastic eyes, sequins, beads (anything you can find at home or in a needlework store);
• brushes (thin and wide);
• thread.

The work set can be supplemented with tools, depending on the design idea for the future New Year’s Christmas toy from a light bulb.

How to make a snowman Christmas tree toy out of a light bulb

The snowman is a frequenter of the New Year holidays and holidays. And since you can’t bring a snowy friend home, then it’s time to create small copies.

To create a snowman you will need:

• a piece of fabric (for a hat);
• white paint (acrylic);
• plasticine (red or orange);
• marker.

For desktop decoration, it is better to use large energy-saving lamps.

You can make a complete snowman, but it will consist of one ball, or you can make only the head.

Instructions:

1. Paint the light bulb white and let dry.
2. Fold and glue the fabric with a cone around the base.
3. Draw the face of the snowman or all the components of the body. Mark a place for a carrot with a cross.
4. Blind the nose from plasticine and glue it to the indicated place.
5. Tie threads to the cap and form a loop.

If desired, add threads of yarn, bows, makeup (if it was planned to make a girl). Snowman – do-it-yourself Christmas decoration made of light bulbs is ready.

Painted toys from light bulbs for the New Year

If the family has an artist or children, then the fun in making crafts from light bulbs for the new year is guaranteed. In this case, everything is simple: you need to take a ball of the required shape and determine which animal it will turn out to be. Then it’s up to paints and brushes, as well as talent.

You can stick a scarf on a snowman

Penguins

To make a New Year’s toy in the shape of a penguin, you need to choose an elongated light bulb. Further actions:

1. Paint in the main color (white).
2. Outline the drawing with a thin brush (you can practice on paper).
3. Fill with black paint show jumping on the head and back. Draw the wings, legs, eyes and beak.

You can use not acrylic paints, but nail polish

Some bottles have a thin brush, they are usually used in nail art.

Minions

It is even easier to make minions of great evil – these “guys” come in different shapes (round, elongated, flattened).

Instructions:

1. Paint the glass bright yellow.
2. While it dries, cut out the overalls, shoes and gloves from the blue fabric. Glue everything to the light bulb.
3. Draw glasses, eyes and mouth.
4. Glue a cap, a homemade wig to the base.
5. Attach a thread to it and make a loop.

The finished minion can be hung on the Christmas tree

It will be very bright and eye-catching decoration. And if you decorate the Christmas tree only with minions, then the thematic style will be maintained. The kids will love it.

Mishata

New Year promises to come to the house under the guise of a white mouse. Therefore, at least one toy in the form of an attribute of the coming year must be made.

Master class on making a Christmas toy from a light bulb with your own hands:

1. Select the main color of the mouse.
2. Draw a contour, muzzle and paws.
3. Glue a thick thread (tail).
4. Make a plinth, wrap it with a cloth and make a loop.

There is another version of the New Year’s toy that you can make yourself. But the process is very painstaking.

You need:

• dense yarn;
• glue in a tube;
• plastic eyes and nose;
• plasticine;
• multi-colored satin ribbons.

You can sew simple covers in the form of mice and put them on incandescent lamps

It takes a lot of time and patience to make a soft mouse.

Instructions:

1. Starting from the base, wrap and at the same time glue a dense thread around the light bulb.
2. A thin thread must be placed under a thick layer, then to make a loop.
3. Blind the nose, wrap it with a thread. Glue in place.
4. Make a muzzle: eyes, nose, ears (glue).
5. Wrap the wide part of the light bulb with ribbons and make clothes (dress or vest).
6. Twist the threads and form four paws and a tail. Glue in place.

New Year’s toy in the form of a mouse is ready.

Christmas decorations from light bulbs using decoupage

Christmas tree decoration is called “decoupage”, light bulbs using this technique will turn out to be very beautiful and bright. First of all, you need to decide on the ornament and color scheme. Then you need to wipe the light bulb with acetone using a cotton pad.

Next steps:

1. Cut white napkins into small squares of two centimeters.
2. Glue the pieces with PVA glue to strengthen the structure.
3. Each new square should be overlapped so that there are no gaps.
4. When the light bulb is pasted over in several layers, you need to wait until the glue dries.
5. Apply paint.
6. Take the prepared drawing (cut out of a napkin), stick it on.
7. A thread with a loop is glued to the base.
8. Paint the base with paint, immediately sprinkle with sparkles, sequins or beads.

Acrylic lacquer will help to complete the craft

Such handmade Christmas toys can be presented as a gift.

Christmas decoration “Light bulbs in the snow”

For this craft, you need small elongated light bulbs, a lot of white sparkles or finely grated foam.

Instructions:

1. Paint the light bulb white or pale blue and let dry.
2. Apply PVA glue to the surface of the bulb.
3. Roll in glitter or foam.

Thanks to dry glitter, Christmas tree decorations will sparkle and shine.

Next, the structure is strung on a thread, the plinth is decorated and placed on spruce branches.

Christmas tree decoration made of light bulbs and sequins

Making crafts is quick and easy. Ideal when there are not enough toys to decorate the Christmas tree.

Steps:

1. Paint the glass product to your taste.
2. Wait until dry.
3. Apply PVA glue with a brush.
4. Sprinkle sequins or glue one on the light bulb and base.
5. Decorate the plinth with ribbons and tie a loop for the branch.

Sequins and decorative stones are best chosen in the same color scheme.

Do-it-yourself toys from light bulbs, fabrics and ribbons for the Christmas tree

New Year’s toys from light bulbs can be decorated with satin ribbons and hand-sewn fabric covers. For decoration, you will need pieces of fabric of different colors. From them you need to sew caps, covers, scarves, mittens and other attributes of winter clothes, and dress up a future toy in them. You can sew a cover in the form of a mouse, a snowman, a squirrel or a hare, as well as make a Baba Yaga or Santa Claus.

This method of making toys is suitable for those who love hard work.

Other New Year’s crafts from light bulbs

From an unremarkable glass ball, you can create “Crystals in Openwork”. To do this, you will need knitted elastic threads and a hook or knitting needles. But if there is no talent for knitting, then it is enough to weave simple knots, bows and weaves with your hands. It will look elegant and easy.

For such crafts, you will need a light bulb, a ball of thread, a hook or knitting needles.

From thick yarn, you can weave a Christmas tree with your own hands and put it on a light bulb. It will not look very similar to a real Christmas tree because of its rounded shapes, but such a decoration can be placed on a fireplace or a festive table.

Balloons

From an old light bulb you can get a romantic Christmas decoration – a balloon.

To do this:

• transparent incandescent lamp;
• henna, acrylic or oil paint;
• thin brushes;
• glue;
• loop thread.

At the bottom of the ball you can make a basket and put toy passengers there

Making a craft from light bulbs for the New Year is simple: you need to carefully apply the drawing. Glue a loop of thread to the upper glass part. The plinth can be decorated with a pattern, ribbons and rhinestones – this will be a “balloon” basket.

“New Year in a Light Bulb”

To create a “holiday” in a small light bulb, you will have to work hard, since it is not easy to extract the core in the base.

Instructions:

1. Remove the core of the plinth.
2. Divide a piece of foam into small balls (this will be snow).
3. Send snow into the light bulb through the hole in the base.
4. Optionally place a Christmas tree or miniature gift boxes, sequins, bows, etc. inside.

Small foam can be used as snow

You need to prepare the stand in advance. This may be a stack or other container in which the base can be placed. “New Year’s ball” must be strengthened in a vessel and decorated with tinsel, sparkles, put on a fabric cover.

What else can be done from light bulbs for the New Year

In addition to New Year’s decoration, you can use the rest of the year. For example, put sand, stones, flowers, dried leaves and herbs inside the light bulb. Also, as a filler, you can take colored decorative sand, orange and lemon zest, add cinnamon.

The more diverse the toys, the more fun the Christmas tree will look like.

Fans can make their own Christmas toys from light bulbs: superhero emblems or their mini versions, characters from cartoons, video games and books.

You can bring mystical elements to the holiday and draw magic runes, Scandinavian ornaments or Egyptian hieroglyphs on the light bulbs.

History lovers can depict historical figures on light bulb crafts and create their own collection. Believing families will be happy to place icons and faces of saints on homemade decorations, hang them on a New Year or Christmas tree.

Basement design rules

Usually the plinth is hidden under impromptu clothing items, decorated with sequins, coarse threads or sprinkled with sparkles. It depends on how the plinth will be used: as a stand or hinge attachment. It would be better to hide this part if casual or ethnic style is not expected when creating a New Year’s toy.

Conclusion

New Year’s toys from light bulbs are an excellent replacement for purchased decorations. Everyone can create a unique collection of holiday crafts that can be used as a New Year’s gift.