Interior decoration for the New Year
It’s worth a lot to create stylish interior items with your own hands! We offer you some simple and interesting tips from the book “Wonderful Time: Winter”, which will help create a magical holiday atmosphere for you and your children.
Arrange a revision before the New Year and collect all unnecessary small items and toys. Invite your child to use them to make their own holiday wreath, and help stick the items onto the base.
You can make the base for the wreath yourself by twisting it from newspaper, unnecessary bags wrapped in masking tape. The resulting wreath can be painted with spray paint from a spray can, for example, in white or gold, as well as wrapped with a Christmas tree garland. Use a hot glue gun to glue artificial spruce branches, cones and other natural materials or parts that you want to use to the base of the wreath.
Hang this beauty on your door.
Various items can be glued onto a large cardboard or foam cone to create an unusual tree. Or stick them in the shape of a Christmas tree on a wall or some other base. Figures can be left multi-colored or painted in one color.
With such an unusual tree it is very interesting to play the game “Find what I see!” Name the item that is on the tree, and the child should find it. For example: “I see a LEGO piece!”
Stick plasticine balls or balls of felt, cotton wool or tissue paper on the branches. The twigs can be painted with white paint or glue can be applied to them and rolled in sparkles, salt or artificial snow.
From an old, unnecessary winter sweater, you can sew a large sock for gifts. Cut out the largest possible blank of the future sock and sew the edges by hand or on a typewriter.
Pomander (natural flavor)
Fill your apartment with magical holiday scents. For example, you can poke a toothpick into the peel of an orange and have your child insert a clove into it. Lines can be marked in advance with a pen or marker.
For homemade Christmas tree balls, you can use foam blanks that are sold online. Cover such a ball with small objects using a hot glue gun (for example, beads, medium-sized felt balls, natural materials) or coat with plasticine and lay out patterns on it with cereals and seeds. Also, the balls can be painted or decorated using decoupage technique. A metal screw ring can be inserted into the ball for suspension. Or have a child cut out their own decorations for the Christmas tree from cardboard and decorate them. Cardboard blanks can be decorated with glitter glue, appliqués, stickers, drawings, or glue all kinds of small objects to them. On the bases covered with plasticine, you can lay out beautiful patterns of seeds, shells from pistachios, beads and various cereals.
Great Christmas tree toys are made from clay, salt dough, or plastic for modeling. On the tree, bright pompons, which the child can make himself, will look very elegant. To do this, you need to wind thick yarn on the palm of your hand, then remove it and tie it in the middle. Cut the loops and trim the resulting ball with scissors.
Decorate your apartment for the holiday with garlands that won’t take long to make! Such garlands can be hung on walls, windows, and also stretched from one wall to another under the ceiling.
You can sew on a typewriter or glue New Year’s silhouettes cut out of paper to a long thread: Christmas trees, stars, houses, squirrels, bunnies.
Children themselves can string colorful felt balls or homemade plastic beads for modeling. A snow garland of cotton balls strung on a fishing line or a garland of snowflakes will look beautiful on the window.
Invite your child to make their own garland. Let him cut various shapes out of paper, make bows, tie ribbons, add toys and pictures to the garland. An interesting garland can be collected from natural materials: cones, twigs, rose hips, dried orange slices.
Make a lot of gnomes, snowmen or just houses from plastic for modeling or from natural materials. About a month before the New Year, put one such figure in the apartment every day – as a messenger of the upcoming holiday. A child, knowing this tradition, will look forward to the appearance of the first messenger and then every day look for the next one, which can lurk on a shelf, on a windowsill or in a flower pot. Remove one figurine every day after the New Year.