Every person anxiously awaits the New Year holidays, because they are always associated with some kind of magic, childhood, warmth and fun among their friends and loved ones.
New Year's holidays are an excellent occasion to meet with your family and in a festive atmosphere, which is created with the help of various decorations and products, many of which are made by hand using improvised materials.
A beautifully decorated house will give you unforgettable emotions and leave a long, pleasant aftertaste after the winter holidays are over.
In order to creatively and originally decorate your home for the New Year holidays 2022, it is worth considering all the possible options for decorating the space that are available in this article.
New Year's garlands
Garland is the most common type of New Year and Christmas decorations. There are many options for its variations and ways of creating it.
Tinsel garland
Simple tinsel, which appears in supermarkets long before the holidays, is the most popular. But the most interesting thing is to make it with your own hands, using completely different materials at hand.
From colored paper
The snake garland is created from colored paper. It is necessary to cut out a large circle and, retreating 1 cm from its edge, you need to draw with a simple pencil several circles that converge towards the center and look like a snake that has curled into a ball. Next, you need to cut along the contour of the drawn circles, moving towards the very center.
The result will be a voluminous ribbon that resembles a hanging snake. Many of these “snakes” can be attached to a chandelier or to any other surface.
New Year's garland of socks
A garland of Santa Claus socks is an attribute of every American New Year's film, where parents put Christmas gifts for their children.
It is necessary to prepare several socks in advance in a color scheme suitable for the holiday and secure the socks one by one with a thick satin ribbon. This garland can be placed on the fireplace, on a cabinet or on a shelf.
From fruits
A citrus garland is a product made from citrus peels that not only looks beautiful and fits the holiday theme, but also fills the room with a pleasant light aroma.
From the peels of lemons, oranges, grapefruit or tangerines, you need to cut out various figures with scissors: stars, snowflakes, Christmas trees, bells and other silhouettes of New Year's attributes. Holes are made in the resulting parts, where they are put on the lace.
Fireplace decoration
If you have a fireplace, a great solution would be to decorate it too. To do this, take garlands of spruce branches and small figurines of fir trees. Place candles, china and framed photos on the mantelpiece.
Taking any thing that comes to hand, for example, a cardboard box, it is easy to build something like a stylized decorative fireplace. It will be a stunning addition to the interior of the room and will give a festive atmosphere.
To make one, cover the box with paper with a print of stone, wood, or brick. The role of the flame will be played by a luminous garland placed inside along with spruce branches and twigs.
Thus, you can create absolutely any product to decorate your home for the New Year. The main thing is just to be patient, use all your imagination and call your loved ones, because working together is much more fun and exciting.
Christmas wreaths
Wreaths are an indispensable element of New Year's decor on entrance doors. They can also be located on walls and on fences. There are many creative options for making New Year's wreaths.
Button wreath
One of the easiest wreaths for the New Year is a wreath made of buttons. The basis is a ring with a wide outline, cut out of thick cardboard. The surface of the cardboard is painted green, white or red, and on top the entire painted space is filled with various decorative buttons from clothes.
They can be either the same color or different shades. The resulting product is hung on the door or wall using satin ribbons.
From coniferous branches
For a coniferous wreath, you need to arm yourself with sprigs of pine needles or a fir broom, threads and strings for fastening, a durable frame in the shape of a circle and Christmas tree toys to decorate the wreath.
Coniferous branches are firmly attached to the circle with the help of threads, and excess branches that stand out too much from the overall picture can be cut off.
The resulting coniferous wreath is decorated with small Christmas balls, cones, bows, bells and other New Year's attributes.
Snowball game
It’s very easy to make fluffy lumps of snow that won’t melt no matter how warm it is in your house. We use foam blanks in the form of balls, mother-of-pearl beads, sewing pins, glue, scissors, and braid. The process of making such a toy comes down to the following steps:
- string beads onto pins;
- Having coated the end of the pins with glue for better fixation, we stick them into the ball;
- We continue this way until we cover the entire surface of the toy with beads;
- We attach a braid or ribbon to the ball, using which we will hang the decoration on the Christmas tree.
Wall compositions made of snowflakes
Three-dimensional compositions made of snowflakes look very creative on the walls. They are very easy to make. For the product you will need a lot of wooden popsicle sticks, which you can collect over a period of time or order at a very low price in some online store.
If the walls are white, then the red, golden or blue color of the composition will look very advantageous, so you also need to prepare gouache of the chosen shade. You will also need glue.
Wooden sticks are laid out on the floor in the shape of a snowflake. The intersections of the edges of the sticks are glued together. When the glue has dried, the snowflake design is placed on a newspaper and all surfaces are painted red, gold or blue.
After the snowflakes dry, they are hung on a satin ribbon and hung on the wall.
What decorations can be made from branches and cones
One of the most accessible winter materials is pine cones. Just take a walk in the forest or park and you can pick up a whole bag of them. And they make wonderful New Year’s decorations. You can make hedgehogs or Christmas trees from pine cones.
But that's not all. Their convenient shape allows you to connect them individually with each other. As a result, you get a real garland. It can be hung on the wall or placed on the fireplace.
If you paint over the surface of the cones, you can get a bouquet of them. It is especially beautiful when they take fruits of different species and varying degrees of opening.
Their tandem with candles turns out to be extraordinary. But we remember that this material is easily susceptible to fire, so it is better to use diode candles.
Another decor idea in a glass. Instead, transparent salad bowls, candlesticks and vases are suitable.
One of the simplest decorative elements is to use a bunch of pine cones in a hanger.
They can be used to decorate a door handle.
The tape is glued to the wide side of the fruit using a hot gun or hot glue.
A similar bow can be tied according to the pattern below.
Natural material looks very advantageous in decoration. Nowadays it is very popular to make beauty out of ordinary things that lie under our feet. This is literally true. Here, for example, are twigs. What can be done from them? If you use your imagination, you will get wonderful Christmas trees.
Snowflakes and stars. They don't even need to be decorated particularly. All the charm is in natural lines and shapes.
And they are made in literally ten minutes. And they are often used for creativity with children.
Of course, you can combine different materials with natural ones. There are no restrictions here.
Window decorations using toothpaste
Looking at the winter landscape from the window, you want to see something else New Year’s, besides snow-covered streets. Using a snowflake stencil and toothpaste, you can recreate beautiful holiday silhouettes on glass.
You will need a glass of water, toothpaste and a brush, and a snowflake stencil. The paste is diluted in a glass of water, where the brush is lowered.
A cutout of a snowflake is applied to the glass, and diluted toothpaste should be sprayed on top of it and along the contour at the borders. You need to wait until it dries completely, then carefully remove the snowflake stencil.
Felt fantasy
Here are some more fun DIY crafts. The toy can become either an independent element of holiday decor or act as an integral part of an entire garland.
- Cut out a square from felt of the desired color;
- draw it out as shown in the photo;
- cut along the lines with a stationery knife, not reaching the center;
- glue the strips together, folding the corners on top of each other;
- we alternate actions alternately from one side to the other;
- We hang the finished toy on a fishing line, decorating it with beads.
If desired, you can create a whole vertical garland from several similar parts, interspersing them with beads. The toy can be hung on the Christmas tree or placed in the interior.
Volumetric balls for decoration
Volumetric balls made of frozen threads are the most common New Year's product that decorates many public places and educational institutions.
For the product you will need several simple inflatable balloons, PVA glue and a skein of strong long thread. The balls are inflated to the desired volume, and a thread is wound on top of them according to the volume.
The thread wound in random directions is covered on top with several layers of PVA glue. After waiting for it to dry completely, you need to burst the ball with a thread.
Christmas decoration on the ceiling
Various decorations on the ceiling look extremely enchanting and impressive. The most interesting ideas: a scattering of helium balloons on silver ribbons that fly to the ceiling and remain at its base, cut out snowflakes, bells, ballerinas and other silhouettes attached to numerous ribbons and threads.
You can also attach small Christmas tree decorations to the ends of the ribbons. With such decor, the room will truly turn out to be fabulous and magical.
Deer
Although the Russian Grandfather traditionally rides a troika with gifts, and his Western counterpart rides deer, deer are preferred as New Year’s decorations. We have a couple of master classes on creating original jewelry in the form of deer.
Deer made of logs - an original New Year's decoration for the street
To create a deer, we need to select a suitable log. We make shallow holes in it and insert legs from branches there. We make a neck from a thick short branch and attach the head to it. Glue a red ball as a nose. Add a cone for the tail, horns and a scarf. It turned out to be a nice street decoration.
Wooden deer for home photo zone
This deer is suitable for both indoors and outdoors. Using a photo with step-by-step instructions, we cut out all the details of the deer. We paint them gray and connect them together. Add a bow to the deer.
Homemade Christmas tree toys
To add more soul and warmth to your Christmas tree decorations, you can get the whole family together and make several Christmas tree decorations from scrap materials. You can make citrus aromatic toys consisting of dried lemon and orange rings, various figures from lemon peel and vanilla sticks.
Using thin, strong ropes or twine in a certain combination, these elements are fastened together and form an aesthetic toy that not only decorates the Christmas tree, but also fills the room with a pleasant citrus aroma with the presence of vitamin C, which is so necessary for the human body during the winter cold.
Christmas trees - how to replace the traditional forest beauty
If you prefer to decorate your home with a non-traditional forest beauty, then you will like this section! Here we have collected original ideas for Christmas trees that you can make with your own hands.
Christmas tree made of garland
Let's make a large Christmas tree that takes up very little space. Draw the outline of the future Christmas tree on the wall. Using tape, safety pins or self-adhesive hooks, secure the garland along the outline. You can leave the tree as is or add tinsel to it. An ideal Christmas tree for small apartments or for owners of four-legged friends!
Interior Christmas tree made of beads
For the next Christmas tree we will need a cone and beads (Christmas tree beads are possible). You can buy a cone or make it yourself from thick paper or cardboard. Glue the beads onto the cone, moving from bottom to top. The gorgeous Christmas tree is ready!
Miniature Christmas tree made of feathers - we will make decorations for the office or study
Another interesting idea is a feather tree. We twist the cone and glue feathers onto it. Glue a bead onto each feather. This simple Christmas decoration is suitable for kindergarten.
New Year's candlesticks
Scented candles on the holiday table create an incredibly festive and special atmosphere. To decorate them beautifully, you can make a beautiful candlestick from several round-shaped Christmas tree cones.
On a strong cardboard circle, they are fixed alternately along the contour of the circle, also forming a ring.
You can spray gold paint or glitter on top of the cone. A candle is placed in the center hole.
Snowmen
Snowmen made from socks – there is nothing more primitive, but it looks very original. To do this, we fill the sock with sand, buckwheat, and with the help of threads we give it a shape and sew on buttons. A white sock can be used to make a base, and a colored sock can be used to make clothes. Cute snowmen can also be made from an unnecessary light bulb; it is simply painted with acrylic paints and decorated with cotton wool and sparkles.
Composition of New Year's characters
To create a festive atmosphere, you can recreate an entire New Year's composition on a table or some other surface. There are a lot of ideas on this topic. Using two liter milk bottles you can make Father Frost and the Snow Maiden.
Santa's fur coat and hat are made from red paper and attached with double-sided tape or glue to the surface of the bottle. For the Snow Maiden, the fur coat is made from blue colored paper.
As fur for a fur coat and Santa Claus's beard, you can use ordinary cotton wool or padding polyester filler, gluing it in even pieces to the surface of the fur coat and cap.
Vytynanka
The festive interior will be perfectly decorated with vytynankas. These templates can be printed on colored paper, cardboard, or drawn on thick fabric. These pictures can be used to decorate your home for Christmas or New Year.
Decorating your home for the New Year according to Feng Shui
To enter the New Year 2022 not only with a great holiday mood, but also with a clean home, ready for positive and happy changes, it is important to prepare your living space for the arrival of the new period with the help of several Feng Shui rules:
- It is necessary to do a general cleaning, throwing away all unnecessary things that pollute the space: old worn clothes, broken items, broken equipment, etc. Cleaning your home will free it from the negative energy that is found in old broken things.
- All windows should be cleaned so that before the New Year the house is filled with sunlight. The surface of the furniture must also absorb this light, so it is also necessary to get rid of dust.
- To update the space, you can rearrange the furniture in the room and definitely and definitely buy a new rug for the front door.
- The Christmas tree needs to be placed in a certain place depending on your intentions. If you want to improve your health, the tree should be in the middle of the room; if you want to improve your financial situation, it should be in the southeastern part of the room; if you want to find your soulmate this year, place it in the northern part of the room.
- The best color scheme for a New Year's outfit is silver or golden. Also an excellent choice would be the color of the symbol of the coming New Year according to the eastern calendar.
We hope our new New Year's ideas for 2022 will bring joy and inspiration. Below are the best photo ideas.
Winter flowers
It’s not difficult to make a beautiful New Year’s tree bloom. In order to make such Christmas and New Year toys with your own hands on the eve of 2022, you don’t even need to use special colored paper, opting for old books or newspapers. Such buds will look original, and you will pay tribute to the currently fashionable eco-trend. So let's get started:
- cut out a perfect square from paper;
- fold it in the same way as shown in the photo;
- repeat this with the remaining 4 sheets of paper;
- glue the resulting blanks together to form a flower;
- We decorate the middle with tinsel, beads, in a word, anything that seems suitable to you.
