New Year for schoolchildren is not just a holiday with a round dance and gifts. Preparing for the holiday together is an important team effort that helps us unite and have fun after school. The first thing children, of course, want to do is decorate their classroom smartly for the New Year. New Year's toys and elements of holiday decoration are traditionally made by hand. A greeting wall newspaper, snowflakes, silhouettes of Father Frost and the Snow Maiden are not a complete list of crafts that children can make for the New Year 2022.
In today’s article we will tell you in detail how to make modern and interesting New Year’s items to decorate your classroom:
- Decorating the doors
- Classroom Window Decorations
- How to decorate the ceiling
- Classroom wall decor
- Simple ideas to decorate your classroom together
- Christmas tree in the classroom
- Photo ideas
Decorating the doors
The door to the office greets schoolchildren every day; decorating can begin with it. The easiest option for a white door is to make a snowman. A carrot for the nose is cut out of orange paper, and eyes and coal buttons are cut out of black paper. Snowman Olaf from the cartoon "Frozen" is a popular New Year's character. You can use his recognizable smile or make a regular snowman.
You can hang fir wreaths on the door, add colored mugs-garlands and silhouettes of candy canes.
You shouldn’t hang a real garland on the door, but you can make “light bulbs” from colored paper.
The door to the classroom can become the entrance to a gingerbread house, you just need to add “drips” of sweet white snow, cut out of paper, and multi-colored dragee candies. The candy wrapper will be crepe (crumpled) paper; it is soft and pliable. The gingerbread man himself can greet children warmly.
Modern New Year's decoration of the school facade
The first thing that needs to be decorated at school is the facade of the building. This is the part that students see first when they come to class every day. Already approaching the doors, children will understand and feel that a fairy-tale and magical festive world has reigned at school. It’s not just that competitions are held annually for the best design of the façade of an educational institution. We invite you to take a creative approach to the design of the school yard and use the creative “yarnbombing” technique. The essence of this technique is to knit brightly colored clothes for outdoor items and trees. You can also place various designer bouquets made in the New Year theme at the entrance to the school.
Classroom Window Decorations
A whirlwind of bright white snowflakes on the windows is a traditional sign of winter in our country. Even small children can make them. Just in case, let us remind you how openwork and graceful snowflakes are made. A sheet of square paper must be folded several times through the center, making the folds the same. Then use sharp scissors to cut several holes. Moreover, the more small holes you cut, the more interesting the pattern will be.
There are many paper snowflake templates here.
You can hang a garland of cardboard figures on the window. To celebrate the New Year 2022, silhouettes of deer, snowflakes, Christmas angels, hearts, and balls are suitable. You can decorate your office with a window stand. From thick paper such as Whatman paper, you need to cut out the silhouette of a snow-covered New Year's forest, and bend the base for stability.
A garland of brightly colored pompoms will look impressive. You can complement them with snowflakes with contrasting centers.
Interesting ideas
Snowflakes are always cut out small. Maximum - from a 20x20 square. Look how impressive giant snowflakes with a diameter of 50-60 cm look! Cut them out no longer than regular ones, the effect is amazing. You can use rolled paper for drawing; children over 10 years old can handle the task easily. If your class is planning a New Year's tea party, attach giant snowflakes to the board with magnets.
How to decorate the ceiling
You can attach a serpentine made of white or colored paper to the ceiling in the classroom. To do this, the circle is cut in a spiral, one end is fixed to the ceiling, the other must be left free. The addition will be paper snowflakes and Christmas balls.
You can hang a paper garland of figurines under the ceiling. The silhouettes of ballerinas in openwork skirts will look unusual and elegant. Skirts are cut out like snowflakes.
Clusters of multi-colored Christmas balls attached to ribbons will look impressive. Balls can be in the same color scheme or contrasting.
You can decorate your classroom for the New Year in a universal way: multi-colored garlands of triangular pennant flags and voluminous pom-poms made of soft paper.
Fairy lights
The easiest way to decorate a school classroom is with paper garlands, fringe or glitter. Elements of pendants can have a traditional thematic shape - stars, flags and lanterns, figures of Santa Claus or Snowman.
In addition to the traditional plot, you can include details of various shapes in the design. Garlands in the form of circles, triangles and snowflakes are easy to make with your own hands together with students of any age, even elementary school. They are suitable for the Christmas tree and ceiling, windows and chalkboard.
Hanging garlands will look great on walls and near chalkboards, over curtains or on the front door. Any decorative items made of paper, cardboard or fabric are suitable for decorating a school office. Bright ribbons of different colors will be an excellent material for needlework. Small soft toys are suitable as additional elements.
Classroom wall decor
What would New Year be without a festive wall newspaper?!! Traditional New Year's heroes - Santa Claus, bunnies, squirrels, bullfinches - bring a traditional touch to the most modern interior decor.
One of the walls should be draped with blue fabric and complemented with white trees, snowflakes, bright-chested bullfinches, and cotton wool snowballs.
In the corridor, the decorations can be made large and voluminous. A large Christmas tree made from paper cones will look picturesque - and you won’t have to cut down a real one. Against the background of a dark wall, silhouettes of houses with luminous windows will look beautiful. The same composition can be done in the classroom.
New ideas can be realized if you decorate the walls in a modern style - with geometric patterns and bright stylized details.
By the way, you can install a fireplace near the wall next to the Christmas tree, made of cardboard boxes and with a painted imitation of red brick.
New Year's decor elements for placement throughout the school
There are plenty of ideas for New Year's school decorations. When creating jewelry with your own hands, all kinds of boards, threads, beads, buttons, lace, etc. are used. From any available material you can create an unusually festive New Year's composition, examples of which we invite you to see below.
Simple ideas to decorate your classroom together
Simple ideas often look beautiful and impressive if you make a lot of the same toys. Only a whole class can handle this! It is worth making a garland or snowmen from threads. If you don't know how to make a ball of thread, it's worth a try. You will need an inflatable balloon, PVA glue diluted with water and threads of your choice (cotton, twine, knitting yarn). The threads are moistened with glue and wound around the ball. After complete drying, the ball is pulled out.
Below is a video master class on how to decorate your office for the New Year in a fashionable eco-style. You will need hemp twine and an ordinary plastic bottle. This work is best done under the guidance of adults - a teacher or parents.
Bells should be complemented with an elegant bow. By the way, bows are a universal decoration that can be used to decorate walls, windows, ceilings, a Christmas tree in the classroom and gifts under it.
Children can decorate the classroom with colorful garlands of paper rings and a “forest” of decorated Christmas trees. Christmas trees can be made from paper, ribbons, tinsel and beads.
Another craft that children can make in class is a New Year's wreath to decorate the office. You can stick pine cones, acorns, and pine branches onto a cardboard ring.
Or wrap a cardboard ring with threads and add a bow and red berries.
A voluminous wreath is created from crumpled paper wrapped in rope. Manufacturing instructions are shown in the photo below. You can decorate the wreath with cotton bolls, nuts, and textile stars.
Balls of thread
Even such familiar Christmas tree decorations as balls can be unusual. From ordinary threads you can make wonderful toys that are completely empty inside.
For the balls you will need:
- Balloon,
- PVA glue,
- Threads,
- Ribbons, beads, cones.
To make such toys you need:
- Soak the threads in glue and wrap them around a balloon inflated to the required size.
- Let the glue dry, pierce the ball with a needle and take it out.
- Decorate the craft with beads, cones and ribbons.
- Carefully thread the ribbon through the frozen threads.
Christmas tree in the classroom
The main decoration of the office is, of course, the Christmas tree! We'll tell you a few original ways to make it.
The simplest one is to make a tall cone out of cardboard and wrap it with satin ribbons, paper strips or floral packaging material. By the way, on the Christmas tree you can place photos of children from the class in frames made of New Year's tinsel.
In the library, a Christmas tree can be made from several tiers of textbooks, wrapping them in tinsel.
A large and unusual Christmas tree can be made from colored paper. Each child traces and cuts out their own palm silhouette. Then, with the help of the teacher, the palms are glued onto a large cone base. You can decorate such a New Year tree with a garland with photographs of all students.
The symbol of 2022 is a pig
2019 according to the eastern calendar is the year of the Pig. The pig must be added to the classroom decoration in order to earn its patronage over the next 12 months.
You can make a symbol of the year in different ways: gluing, molding, sewing. What is enough imagination!
Photo ideas
This section contains inspiring ideas that children can implement - on their own or with the help of adults.
You can decorate your classroom for the New Year with simple elements, the main thing is that they bring sincere joy to the children, help them unite and have a great time together!
