How to make decorations out of paper? Templates, instructions

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Paper decorations for the New Year are very easy to make and the result is light and airy decor. We offer you several workshops on creating holiday crafts.

Origami Santa Claus

We suggest you start by making a paper Santa Claus that can be hung on a Christmas tree, used as a decoration for a postcard, and so on.

Instructions on how to make Santa Claus:

1. Take a square sheet of thin paper. It is advisable to take a piece of paper with one side red and the other white. If not, then take two sheets and glue them together.
2. Put the paper red side up and fold it in half to form a triangle.
3. Unfold the sheet, turn it over and place it so that you have a diamond in front of you.
4. Fold the top down.
5. Pull the folded end up.
6. Unscrew the triangle and bend its small tip.
7. Fold the triangle along the folds.
8. Twist the bottom of the diamond.
9. Flip the end down as shown in illustration 8.
10. Flip the shape.
11. A littlewrap the sides of the part.
12. Fold the left and right sides to the middle of the figure.
13. Twist ends as shown in illustration 12.
14. Fold the left wing as in illustration 13.
15. Pull up the lower part of the right side.
16. Place the raised part into the resulting pocket.
17. Do the same with the left wing.
18. Turn the figure over (picture 17). You have made Santa Claus out of paper.
19. Draw a face.

Craft done!

Paper cones

Christmas tree decorations made of paper in the form of cones look very nice. Making them is quite easy, the main thing is to have the right shape at hand. It can be a Styrofoam ball or an oval, a Kider Surprise egg, and other similar things.

Take a big hole puncher and make a lot of confetti. It is desirable that the resulting circles be about two to three centimeters in diameter.

Take the shape and stick the finished circles on it with a glue gun. Start at the narrower end. Glue so that half of the circle is free. Each new row starts over the previous one. When the cone is done, attach a small loop of ribbon and glue on a spruce branch.

Second version of the cones - pendants

You don't need a hole punch to make a slightly different shape, but you will also need an egg-shaped base.

Working order:

1. Cut out a square from paper and fold it left andright side to make a triangle. In this case, you need to leave a small piece at the bottom (see the diagrams above).
2. Make many more similar blanks out of paper.
3. Take the shape and stick four blanks on the narrow end so that they touch their vertices at one point.
4. Stick the next layer of blanks. It should start immediately above the previous one, and the top of the triangle should be placed between the two previous elements.
5. Stick all rows in this way.
6. Attach a ribbon.

Christmas cone is ready!

Paper Christmas wreath

To make paper door decorations, you will need to take sheets of cardboard or cardboard rollers, a glue gun and scissors.

How to make a wreath:

1. If you have cardboard rollers, then squeeze them a little and cut circles of the same width.
2. If you have sheets of cardboard, then cut them into strips of the same width and length. Then glue the edges of the stripes to make rings, and then squeeze them to make ovals.
3. Glue together five ovals with sharp tops. As a result, you should get a flower.
4. Make many similar flowers.
5. Glue the flowers into a circle. Choose its value arbitrarily. Each flower is inserted into the previous one between the petals.
6. Make the wreath smaller.
7. Stick a smaller wreath onto a larger wreath.
8. Decorate in multiple placesfinished wreath with beads.

Craft done!

Colored paper Christmas tree

Of course, this craft will not replace a living forest beauty, but it will quite cope with the role of an item for interior decor. It can be put in a room where there is no real Christmas tree, on a festive table, in the hallway.

Instructions on how to make a Christmas tree out of colored paper:

1. Take a sheet of thick green paper or cardboard.
2. Draw a circle with a compass, and in it, approximately in the middle, another one.
3. Draw a few lines through the center that will divide the circles into sectors. Remember that the more divisions, the more "branches" your Christmas tree will have.
4. Cut out the outer circle.
5. Make some similar blanks. Each new part should be a couple of millimeters smaller than the previous one. The number of blanks depends on how tall your Christmas tree will be.
6. Make cuts with scissors along the divisions to the circle inside.
7. Fold the cut pieces to form a cone and glue the edges together.
8. Turn over piece.
9. Do the same for all other elements.
10. Poke through the center of the first piece with the wire.
11. String all the other components on the wire like a pyramid: first there are larger parts, then smaller ones.
12. Adjust the rows so that the "twigs" do not overlap.
13. Make a small cone and place it on top of the tree.

Craft done!

3D papermonkey

With the help of thick double-sided tape, you can make funny voluminous monkeys out of paper. Templates for cutting will simplify the task, but if there are none, then it's okay. To make the craft work, you need to choose thicker sheets or take cardboard.

Master class on how to make a 3D monkey:

1. Take a suitable paper and draw on it the elements that will make up the monkey. For example, you want the head, legs, and tail of a monkey to stand out. Then these elements are drawn separately from the body.
2. Next, cut out all the details.
3. If you used white cardboard, then color in the details of the monkey.
4. Now you need to connect all the elements. To do this, take a double-sided thick tape and cut off several small pieces from it. Glue them to the junctions and glue the parts. It is worth noting that the 3D effect of crafts is achieved by superimposing one part on another.

The paper monkey is ready! You can hang it on a Christmas tree or decorate a greeting card with it.

How to make paper volumetric snowflakes?

There are several ways to make voluminous paper snowflakes. Let's take a look at the not-so-famous one. A craft made in this way will look very beautiful and unusual.

A master class on making a three-dimensional snowflake is given below.

1. Take two square sheets.
2. Fold each leaf so that it takes shapetriangle.
3. Twist the sheets into a triangle again.
4. Cut off a curly part from one triangle, as shown in illustration 3.
5. Then make two more cuts on the right and left sides, repeating the edge of the figure.
6. Expand detail.
7. Wrap the middle cut-out part on each petal under the first, as in illustration 6.
8. Make the same flower from another triangular blank.
9. Flatten the second snowflake element so that it is flat.
10. Rotate the first flower 45 degrees from the second and glue it on top.

Fancy snowflake is ready!

The second way to make a three-dimensional paper snowflake

The most popular way to make voluminous paper snowflakes is as follows.

1. Take five equal-sized sheets of square paper.
2. Bend one piece of paper in half so that you have a triangle in your hands.
3. Make the cuts as in the diagram above. The more cuts, the more magnificent the snowflake will turn out. The recommended amount is three to five.
4. Open a piece of paper.
5. Now carefully wrap the cut out center diamond and glue its edges.
6. Flip the shape.
7. Glue the edges of the next diamond.
8. So turn the figure over in turn and glue the edges of each rhombus.
9. When one part is ready, proceed to the second. Do all five elements in the same way.
10. Now you need to glue everything together. ForTo do this, simply put glue on one end of the part and glue the other to it. So glue all the petals.
11. If your snowflake is large, then you need to additionally glue the petals together in the center.

Volumetric snowflake is ready! This craft will look great as a wall decoration or chandelier.

Christmas ball

Master class on how to make Christmas balls with your own hands:

1. Prepare paper templates for cutting. To do this, draw twelve circles with a compass. You can take any paper, except cardboard. The toy will look best if you take colored sheets or for decoupage.
2. Cut out the drawn circles.
3. Pile your blanks on top of each other and fold in half.
4. Spread out the stack of circles and secure them with a rubber band or wire at the fold so they don't fall apart.
5. Now, using a glue stick or thin double-sided tape, start gluing the slices of circles, each time alternating the junction.
6. Spread the balloon.

Craft is ready! To make it easy to hang on the Christmas tree, attach a ribbon or string.

What other paper decorations can you make?

You can make a lot more decorations out of paper: various figurines, decorative elements, Christmas tree pendants and so on. Sheets can be folded using the origami technique, glued together, cut out patterns.

Paper is sometimes amazingbeautiful things. For example, if you take decorative cardboard or sheets for decoupage or crafting and simply cut out any New Year's silhouettes (ball, deer, Christmas tree, star, Santa Claus, and so on), make a small hole with a hole punch or an awl and thread a beautiful ribbon or twine, then you will get amazing Christmas decorations. It is enough that moisture does not get on them, and such crafts can be easily stored for more than one year.