How to make Christmas paper toys: ideas, features and recommendations

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

How to make Christmas paper toys? This question is asked not only by parents of children of kindergarten or primary school age, when the children are asked to master some kind of creative activity and make decorations on the eve of the holiday as homework. Joint creativity is an opportunity to spend time doing interesting activities with your soulmate or grown-up children. So why not make your own Christmas toys out of paper? This is the simplest and cheapest material, working with which does not require special knowledge and skills. And how many interesting things can be done, armed with colored paper, scissors and glue, felt-tip pens, desire and imagination. So, let's begin. How to make a Christmas tree paper toy?

Paper Christmas balls

Traditional Christmas tree decoration - balls. They can be glass, plastic, they can be bought at the store.or do it yourself from improvised materials, including paper. For this, thick colored paper or cardboard, old magazines and postcards are suitable. You can even use the covers of unnecessary notebooks.

How to make Christmas paper toys with your own hands? You need to take several sheets of thick paper or cardboard, covers of old magazines, use a compass to circle 21 even circles of any diameter on them and cut them out. The preparation is ready. Now each circle needs to be folded in half on one side and the other to mark the center point.

Further, bend only one side into the center, bending two more sides in the same way, you will get an even triangle. In one of the circles, this triangle needs to be cut out - it will serve as a stencil for other details. Now it remains to impose the cut out triangle on the rest of the circles, circle it with a simple pencil and bend the edges along the contour.

The first 10 circles need to be glued into a strip, but always alternating - five down and five up. Fold the resulting part into a ring, this will be the basis for the future Christmas tree toy. Divide the remaining 10 blanks into 5 pieces and glue them into a circle, you get two kind of caps. These caps need to be glued to the base-ring. Don't forget a loop to hang the toy with.

A simple ball of paper strips

Paper toys for the New Year can be very simple, but no less interesting. To quickly make a Christmas tree ball, you will need scissors, colored paperand ribbons for wrapping gifts. Cut out several strips of colored paper. Five pieces of such blanks will be enough. They should be the same width, but different lengths, from larger to smaller. Along the edges of the strips, you need to make holes with a hole punch or an awl. Now, using a clerical clip, you need to assemble the ball so that you can thread the tape into the holes. It remains only to secure the entire structure with packing tape.

Simple Christmas toy

A simple ball-shaped toy that can be used to decorate a Christmas tree is even easier to make. From colored paper (you can use the pages of old magazines, special paper with a pattern, and so on), cut out at least 4 identical circles. Now you need to fold each one in half, and glue each half to the other circle. Before gluing the latter, you need to put a loop into the toy, for which the ball can be hung. If you glue more circles, the ball will be more voluminous. By the same principle, you can make crafts of other forms: in the form of a Christmas tree, a snowman, a cone, a berry or a candy.

Christmas ball of strings

What and how to make a paper toy if you are tired of traditional smooth Christmas balls? You can experiment with other crafting techniques, such as making a ball of cords, decoupage or quilling. For such a craft, you will need old glossy magazines or colorful newspapers (thin pages will be easier to twist and stick), scissors, a glue gun, a base - a ball of foam, foil, crumpled paper soaked in glue.

Needcut out several strips of paper and twist them into tight bundles, but so that the blanks do not tear. Next, you can begin to paste over the base-ball with these blanks using a glue gun. Press each tourniquet well so that it does not come off, but be careful - the glue is very hot, they can burn themselves. When the balloon is ready, let it dry for at least 10 minutes.

Decoupage balloon

Homemade decoupage decorations look very nice on the New Year's beauty. To make such an author's ball, you will need a base (such, by the way, are sold in needlework stores), glue, napkins with a beautiful pattern or pages of an old book, magazine, threads and felt-tip pens to decorate the toy. Napkins or sheets with which you will paste over the toy must first be soaked a little in a solution of glue and water, and only then applied to the base ball. This is done layer by layer until the toy acquires the desired look. If you paste over the base with dull sheets (for example, pages from a magazine or a book without illustrations), you can write something on the ball with a felt-tip pen, wrap it with a shiny thread several times. Also, do not forget to form a loop.

Quilling decorations

Very original paper toys are made using the quilling technique - this is the art of making three-dimensional or flat compositions from twisted strips of paper. For such beauty, you will need glue, scissors, baking dishes, a ruler, old newspapers or magazines, and better - special paper forquilling. A variety of decoration elements will also come in handy: braid, beads, beads, and so on.

If there is no special paper already cut into strips, cut colored paper, newspapers or magazines into strips. The optimal width is 5 centimeters. Now you need to fold each strip in half, straighten it, fold the edges to the center and then bend in half again. Lubricate the strip with PVA glue and start twisting. The same steps must be repeated with all stripes.

In a pre-prepared baking dish, place the twisted strip along the contour. Next, fill all the free space with twisted strips, between themselves, and also on top they need to be fixed with PVA glue. Wait until everything dries well, it will take several hours. Now you can take the toy out of the baking dish. It remains to carefully attach the loop and decorate the toy at your own discretion.

Original Christmas toy

Bright ice cream in a waffle cup is associated with hot times and relaxation, but such crafts will look quite original and festive on the New Year tree. To make such a paper toy, you will need thick beige paper for cups (it is better to take kraft paper or the one from which paper bags are made), as well as corrugated paper of different colors for ice cream balls.

Cut out circles from craft paper for a waffle cup, cut them into two parts and form a cone from each semicircle. Glue it. Glasses are ready, leftmake only bright balls of ice cream. Crumple the corrugated paper of different shades with your hands into lumps. For one do-it-yourself Christmas tree toy made of paper, you will need two such lumps. Now it remains only to string "cups" and "ice cream" on a thread. Don't forget to leave loops on the top so you can hang decorations on the Christmas tree later.

Christmas paper candles

Paper candles are rather not a Christmas toy, but an original decoration for a festive table. Such candles can be placed between dishes to create a festive atmosphere. It is very easy to make Christmas toys out of paper. All you need is glue, scissors and two shades of colored paper: yellow and red. Use an orange, yellow, or red felt-tip pen to draw the flames.

First, cut out two identical strips from yellow (orange is also suitable) or red paper. Glue the edges of the strips perpendicularly, at a right angle. Now you need to bend one strip over the other, alternating them. It will be an accordion. Separately cut out the base on which the “candle” will stand in the form of a circle or other shape, as well as the flame. Do not forget to leave a place at the bottom of the "flame" to stick it on the harmonica. Next, you just need to glue the accordion on the base-circle, and glue the flame to the “candle” itself.

3D snowflake

Snowfields are an obligatory attribute of the New Year holidays. Snowflake toys for a Christmas tree made of paper can be made large, voluminous using the origami technique. To make such beauty, you need to cutfrom white paper six squares of the same size, then fold each of them diagonally and in half. Along the fold, you need to make cuts, make sure that they are parallel to each other. Now you need to expand the square, and wrap the resulting tongues and fasten them together. The outer parts of the snowflake are connected in the same way with the edges of other squares. You can fasten a paper toy with a stapler, which is more reliable, or with glue.

When the snowflake is ready, you can additionally sprinkle it with sparkles or sequins, wrap it with a shiny thread. You can make a garland from large paper toys with your own hands or decorate the entire wall, Christmas tree with them.

The easiest DIY garland

This really is one of the easiest DIY paper Christmas toys to make. Probably everyone in elementary school or even in kindergarten made such garlands from white or colored paper. You can diversify the craft if you use crafting paper with drawings or pages of old magazines instead of ordinary paper. First you need to cut a lot of strips of the same length. The first strip is glued into a ring, each subsequent one is glued in the same way, but first it must be threaded into the previous link of the garland. You can make such a garland paper toy with your own hands with a child of 4-5 years old.

Christmas paper wreath

Traditional paper Christmas decorations - balls, snowflakes and snowmen, cones, sweets, but wreaths are not so common in our country. But they actively decorate houses in Germany, because this is an attributeLutheranism. But you can make such an easy-to-make and interesting decoration for a Christmas tree without going into details of the origin of the wreath.

For a Christmas tree toy made of paper, you will need green and red colored paper, a stapler, a stationery knife, a ruler, PVA glue, a felt-tip pen and a simple pencil. It is better if the colored paper is dense. A sheet of green paper should be folded in half, retreat a few centimeters from the edge, and then draw lines under the ruler with a simple pencil at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other. Now you need to cut the paper with scissors or a clerical knife along these lines and unfold the sheet. Roll a sheet of green paper into a tube in a horizontal direction and secure the edges along the entire length with a stapler. The wreath is ready, it remains only to decorate it with a red bow cut out of paper and "berries" of mountain ash.

Origami stars

In the origami technique, you can also make stars, which (when combined with a luminous garland) will truly create an atmosphere of magic. Each star will require a long strip of paper. It is better to take the pages of old magazines or special paper for crafts with drawings. The manufacturing scheme for such an original toy is below. Stars can decorate a Christmas tree or decorate an apartment on the eve of the holiday. These paper Christmas toys are easy to make, they attract the eye with their originality.

Christmas tree decorations made of paper - this is room for imagination. Even based on the above options, you can come up with a few moreinteresting decorations that will create a festive atmosphere.