Souvenir for the new year. Gifts for the New Year. DIY New Year's gifts - ideas and master classes

Greetings, dear friends! On the eve of the new year, we think about gifts for relatives and friends, but we want not only to please them, but also to pleasantly surprise them. In this case, you will come to the aid of unusual gifts for the new year with your own hands. After all, a product made with one's own hand is unique, it is very difficult to make it exactly the same a second time. While making a gift, you constantly think about the donee, put a piece of your soul into the product, and this is very much appreciated. At the same time, these are creative DIY gifts for the new year!

DIY Christmas Gift Ideas 2019

1. Knitwear: mittens, scarf, hat, socks and so on. If you are a needlewoman and know how to knit, then it will not be difficult to create not only a beautiful, but also a useful, practical gift!
2. Candle decorations. Candle decorated with coarse salt (“candle in hoarfrost”). A candle is an essential attribute of the New Year and Christmas. For such a craft, you need a large colored candle, PVA glue and coarse salt. Gently smear the candle with glue and dip in salt, let dry. The foot of the candle can be decorated with a small composition of coniferous branches, cones, ribbons, beads.
   Also, a candle can be decorated with a candlestick. Here is such a wonderful and fragrant candlestick of their cinnamon sticks and twine (rope):
   And for such an uncomplicated candlestick, you need an ordinary glass jar or a glass, which are decorated on the outside with an openwork fabric:
   Or a composition of cones and coniferous branches:
   Bleached pine cones are perfect for decorating a candle:
   You can bleach them in the following way: wash the cones well with a brush, place them in a jar and pour bleach over them, press the weight on top so that the cones are completely in the liquid. Remove the jar for a day, and preferably for 2 days in a distant place, inaccessible to children. You will be surprised, but the cones will close, become smooth, like young ones that have not opened. Don't worry, once you take the buds out of the bleach, rinse with water and dry them, they'll be fluffy again.
3. Jewelry and decor from beads. Those who like to work with beads can not only make excellent beads, voluminous souvenirs, but also, for example, decorate a New Year's ball. To work, you need to buy PVA glue and multi-colored beads.
   
4. Ball of thread. Step by step instructions with photos in the article ""
   For work you need: balloons, PVA glue, fat cream or petroleum jelly, thread and water. Inflate a ball with a diameter of about 10-20 cm. Mix water and PVA glue in a ratio of 1: 2, respectively. Gently soak the thread in the mixture, hold for 5-10 minutes so that the thread is soaked. Then smear the ball with a fat cream so that later it is easier to separate from the threads. Wind wet threads around the balloon in a chaotic manner, leaving gaps. Now the ball should dry for 20-22 hours. After the specified time, gently pierce the ball and pull it out of the sphere. From similar spheres of different diameters, you can make a snowman:
   
5. Almost any housewife in the house has a bunch of unnecessary scraps of fabric from which you can sew an apron for a bottle, a keychain, a handbag for headphones, or, for example, a toy:
   
6. Candy tree. Such a Christmas tree can be made using a cardboard cone or a bottle of champagne as a basis. Candies are attached to the base with adhesive tape, starting from the bottom row. Between the rows of sweets, you can skip the tinsel.
   
7. More options for crocheted Christmas trees (a thick cardboard cone is taken as the basis):
   
8. Christmas tree made of pasta painted with spray paint (from a spray can):
   
9. Tree of threads:
   
10. Herringbone of cones (instead of fabric balls, you can make cotton balls):
    
11. Bakery. New Year is associated with gingerbread or cookies. They can be baked in the form of New Year's characters and decorated to your taste and color.
    
12. Painted Christmas balls. For work, you will need one-color balls without decor, paint (watercolor, acrylic or gouache) and child's pens.
    
13. DIY soft toys:
    Snowmen from socks:
    
14. Diary. For such a craft, you need the diary itself and decorations for it. In needlework stores, you can purchase a scrapbooking kit and decorate a diary, for example, like this:
    
15. Topiary is an ornamental tree, a "tree of happiness". This interior decoration came to us from Europe. There are a lot of ideas for creating a topiary: from coffee beans, from buttons, from satin ribbons, from cones, from sweets, and so on. A sphere is taken as the basis (you can also purchase it in needlework stores or make it from a balloon: mix water and PVA glue in a ratio of 1: 2 and smear a balloon with this mixture, inflated to the required diameter. Let dry and then decorate the surface.
    
16. Souvenir with falling snow. Want to do? A detailed master class in the article "".
    Surely, you have seen such souvenirs of industrial production on sale, and now try to make it yourself. For work you need: a jar with a screw cap, ceramic, glass or plastic figures for decoration, sparkles, distilled water (you can replace it with settled boiled water) and glycerin (you can buy it freely at any pharmacy). You can decorate both the bottom of the container and the lid. But if the decoration is attached to the lid, then such a souvenir will stand on the lid. First you need to firmly fix the composition on the base (the bottom of the container or the lid), pour the glitter into the container and pour it with a mixture of water and glycerin in a ratio of 1:2. You can add more glycerin, then the sparkles after shaking will slowly fall down. The lid must be tightly screwed and treated with silicone sealant and glue so that liquid does not leak during storage.
17. Salt dough souvenir.
    On the eve of 2017, it is important to blind the symbol - the Rooster. To make this craft, you need: 200 grams of flour, half a glass of salt (preferably fine, extra grade), 125 grams of water, paint, colorless varnish and PVA glue. Mix salt, flour and water, sculpt a souvenir, if you need to fasten the parts, then use PVA glue. The finished product is painted with paints and, after drying, with a colorless varnish.
18. A classic gift for the new year is a do-it-yourself postcard. You can make both a simple school-level postcard and a scrapbooking postcard.
    
19. Christmas wreath. It can also be made from anything. Here are some examples:
    Christmas wreath of cones. The base can be bought at needlework stores or made independently from foam or newspapers and tracing paper, tightly crumpled into a ring:
    From Christmas balls. The basis for this wreath will be the wire. Before stringing the balls on the wire circle, it is necessary to fix the metal loops with glue to the ball, since during the stringing the balls will simply slip off the loops.
    
20. Christmas star from threads:
    
21. Candy pineapple:
    

I hope you find the handicraft to your liking! Creative gifts for the new year with their own hands - this is the peak of the popularity of our time, it's great! Happy New Year to you! Health, happiness and fulfillment of desires!

Sincerely, Daria!

New Year is on the list of holidays that are dearly loved not only by children, but also by adults. They look forward to it and believe that on this day something magical and fabulous will happen. The main tradition of this holiday is the exchange of gifts with friends and relatives. It is pleasant for someone to give gifts, for someone, on the contrary, to receive, but in any case, each person asks the question of choosing a gift. Consider, how to make gifts for the New Year 2017 with your own hands.

When choosing gifts, the main task is to find an unusual and original present. Of course, modern stores offer a wide range of various interesting things, but it's much more pleasant to make original gifts for the New Year with your own hands.

Christmas photo frame

A photo frame is a fairly common gift, so it can also be given for the New Year holidays, casting aside doubts. She will always remind loved ones of your love for them and, of course, please the eye. There are a lot of advantages in such a gift, the main of them is ease of implementation. The frame can be decorated with any decorative elements that seem suitable to you.

• Any frame;
• Beads, rhinestones, sequins;
• Glue;
• Cardboard or photograph;
• Coating varnish.

As a basis, you can take any frame: wooden, plastic or metal. In addition to it, you will need various beads, rhinestones, sparkles, glue and varnish for coating. From felt you need to cut out snowflakes, each of its own size and color. Also, a cardboard base is useful for work, on which wishes will be written or a photograph pasted. Glass can be used as desired. A cardboard base should be attached to the frame, snowflakes, beads and other decorations should be glued to it. At the end of the work, apply varnish and allow the product to dry. Such a gift will become a pleasant and warm memory for those to whom it is intended.

Other DIY Christmas Frame Ideas:

DIY Christmas tree

A homemade Christmas tree is a gift that anyone will surely like. It is unique in that it is able to create a real New Year's atmosphere and will perfectly replace a large real spruce. After all, some people do not always manage to put this tree and decorate it.

• Paper, drawing paper or cardboard;
• Tinsel;
• small toys;
• Garland.

It is not difficult to make such a gift, for this you need to take cardboard or whatman paper. The size of the sheet or roll depends on how big the tree you want to make. The paper needs to be folded into a cone shape and tinsel wrapped around it, after applying glue there. The main thing is to wrap the cone tightly with tinsel so that there are no gaps. The finished Christmas tree can be safely decorated with small toys or garlands. This will create a real feeling of the New Year holiday.

Other options for homemade Christmas trees:

Sweet gifts for the New Year with your own hands

Many people associate New Year with sweets. It is doubly pleasant to give or receive something tasty and original as a gift.

Sweet Christmas decorations

An excellent gift is an appetizing and edible decoration for the Christmas tree. These gingerbread cookies will look great as decoration and will be a great addition to other sweets on the table. Such delicious gifts for the New Year with their own hands will pleasantly surprise everyone.

• Good quality butter;
• Linden honey;
• Cinnamon;
• Cardamom;
• egg yolks;
• Lemon juice;
• Sugar;
• Flour;
• Chocolate;
• Powdered sugar;
• Ginger;
• Carnation.

1. 120 g of sugar and ½ of a pack of butter must be mixed and heated until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.
2. Add 250 g of linden honey to this mixture and mix.
3. Grind 20 cloves.
4. Add ½ kg of flour, cloves, 2 tsp. peeled and grated ginger, 3 yolks, 1 tsp. cardamom grains and 2-3 tsp. cinnamon.
5. Next, all the ingredients must be mixed and brought to a homogeneous mass.
6. Roll out the layer with an oak rolling pin so that its thickness is at least 0.5 cm. Cut out the desired figures with molds or a glass.
7. On gingerbread, make small punctures with straws for cocktails.
8. Bake products for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of at least 190 degrees.
9. Then you need to prepare the icing sugar. To do this, grind 50 g of sugar in a coffee grinder. Pour in a tablespoon of lemon juice and stir.
10. Sprinkle gingerbread with sugar glaze. You can also melt 120 g of chocolate in the microwave and dip the gingerbread into it.
11. Ribbons should be stretched through the holes made, decorate the gingerbread.
12. Natural food coloring, such as beet juice or carrot juice, can be added to the icing for vibrant colors.

Sweet Christmas ball

A sweet ball on the Christmas tree is a genuine joy for real sweet tooth.

• Round Christmas toy made of transparent plastic or glass;
• cocoa powder;
• Powdered sugar;
• Small sweets;
• Chocolate drops or bar pieces;
• Little marshmallow.

1. From the transparent ball, you need to remove the upper part, rinse it and dry it.
2. Pour cocoa powder, powdered sugar and chocolate drops inside. Mix.
3. Add small sweets, marshmallows.
4. Put the top on the ball.

Such a gift can be safely given to friends and relatives. It will be an excellent decoration for the Christmas tree, and after the celebration, the contents of the ball can be poured into a cup, poured with milk or boiling water and enjoy a fragrant drink.

Other options for sweet Christmas gifts:

DIY symbolic gifts for the New Year 2017

You can prepare a gift in the form of a Fire Rooster. This mythical bird in 2017 is a symbol of the New Year. For example, make an original souvenir in the form of this bird.

• Flour - 200 g;
• Water - 130 g;
• Salt - 125 g;
• Paints;
• beads;
• Glue.

In order to make such a souvenir, you need to mix flour, salt and water. From the resulting dough, mold a rooster: head, beak, eyes, tail, comb. Fasten all the details together with glue and paint with bright colors. You can also glue beads on a colored rooster for decoration.

Rooster bottle

Turn a bottle of champagne into a rooster - an invariable attribute of the New Year's table. Its appearance will please children and, undoubtedly, will surprise adults.

• colored paper;
• Scissors;
• Feathers.

Even a first-grader will have no difficulty in making such an original gift. From yellow paper you need to make a cone and cut out the wings. Cut out small details from red paper: beak, scallop, eyes. The tail can be made from feathers, or it can also be cut out of paper. Glue all the details together, and the symbolic original champagne rooster is ready.

Unusual gifts for the New Year with your own hands

A gift with a real New Year's mood is a Christmas toy with a photo. It will be a pleasure to receive such a present for everyone without exception. After all, photography is pleasant memories, and in this performance it will not leave anyone indifferent.

• Transparent Christmas ball;
• artificial snow;
• Ribbon;
• The photograph is approximately 5x5.

To get started, print a photo. Its size depends on the size of the toy itself. Next, pour artificial snow into the hole of the toy and insert a neatly folded photo. Using a needle or toothpick, straighten the photo inside. Tie the toy to a bright ribbon, and the gift is ready.

Light bulb snowmen can perfectly complement the New Year's interior. The proposed gift for the New Year will definitely please its new owners, especially if it was made by hand.

• Bulb;
• Glue;
• White paint;
• Brush;
• colored paper;
• Markers and markers;
• Scraps of fabric;
• Scissors.

Light bulbs for this option can be taken burned out. To begin with, they must be painted white and allowed to dry. Then cut out rectangles from scraps of fabric - these will be snowmen's scarves. They should be glued to snowmen. With markers and felt-tip pens, you can draw eyes, pockets, mouth and buttons, and cut out a carrot nose from orange or red colored paper. A small smiling guest will certainly decorate the festive table.

DIY creative gifts for the new year

You can give your loved ones warmth, comfort and a piece of magic very simply. A beautiful and festive candlestick will help create that very atmosphere.

• Glue;
• Glass vase, glass or jar;
• White paper;
• Scissors;
• Brush;
• Candle;
• Decor elements.

To make such a creative candle holder, cut snowflakes of different sizes from white paper. The container that will become the candlestick must be perfectly clean and dry. You need to take a brush, dip it in glue and carefully apply it over the entire surface. Then glue on the snowflakes. After the snowflakes are glued, you need to apply another layer of glue to create an uneven texture. After that, leave the candlestick to dry for 1 day. Next, you can take beads or beads, string them on a thread and tie a candlestick with it. Bright ribbons are also suitable for this. When the candlestick is ready, you will need to place a candle inside.

What else the New Year holidays are associated with is cones. From them you can also create an original gift that will be remembered for a long time.

• Wreath from a frame with a diameter of 40-50 cm;
• Green nylon thread;
• Glue gun;
• Fir cones.

To build a wreath of cones, the frame must be carefully wrapped with nylon thread. It can be made independently from wire and foam rubber. Using glue, large cones need to be glued to the moss. Small cones fill the empty space between the large ones. Next, you should wait until the wreath dries, and then the present is ready.

The listed gifts with instructions will help bring to life the most original and creative ideas for the New Year. Do not be afraid of difficulties, because everything is much simpler than it might seem. In order to create a universal gift for loved ones, you absolutely do not need to have special knowledge, it is enough to want it and make it with love.

Other New Year's crafts from cones with your own hands

What should be a New Year's gift? Everyone makes demands on him. Some believe that it must be practical, others symbolic, and still others do not recognize anything but handmade gizmos and strive to make gifts for the New Year with their own hands. How to make them and to whom to give them?

To kid

Not everyone considers something made by yourself. After all, a thing may not be bright and modern enough. Namely, these requirements are most often put forward by children for presentations. But real needlewomen are able to make a gift that will be even better than bought in a store. What to make for kids? Toys, sweet bouquets, bags and covers for gadgets, educational books (for the little ones), table organizers, jewelry boxes, etc.

A sweet bouquet is one type of candy gift that Santa Claus usually gives in kindergarten or elementary school. But in the purchased version, only a standard set of sweets, many of which the child may simply not like. And if you pick up your favorite sweets, then the present will cause much more emotions. How is this bouquet made?

1. First you need to prepare the necessary material: wooden skewers, threads, double-sided tape and, of course, sweets.
2. Sweets are sorted into large and small. The first will be in the center of the bouquet, and the second - at the edges.
3. For each candy and chocolate bar, you need to stick a piece of double-sided tape, and not a skewer. To keep sweets better, they can be wrapped with threads. An easier option is to stick a skewer directly into a chocolate bar or soft candy.
4. Lollipops and lollipops, if you plan to include them in a bouquet, are simply tied with threads to a skewer. And chocolate eggs (a favorite sweet of many kids) are attached to skewers like this: they are wrapped in transparent cling film and twisted from it into a “tail”, which is attached to the skewer.

When all the components of the bouquet are prepared, they are gathered together and tied with a beautiful ribbon. Also, such sweet gifts for the New Year with their own hands look great in a basket (the skewers will need to be stuck into a floristic sponge placed at the bottom of the basket) or in the form of a cake (the round base for it is made of cardboard).

Mom

Girls and girls often prepare New Year's presents for their mothers with their own hands, rightly believing that such things keep much more warmth and care than those bought in a store. What can you do yourself for your beloved mother?

• original decorated photo frames;
• candlesticks made of glass or tin cans;
• candles (you can make them yourself or buy the simplest white candles in the store and decorate them);
• photo album, recipe book or scrapbooking notebook;
• sofa cushion;
• patchwork blanket or knitted blanket;
• topiary (tree of happiness);
• vases from old bottles and jars of unusual shape, etc.

Handmade vases can be made in a variety of ways. You can color them using a stencil, wrap them with thread, decorate with artificial snow, coffee beans, old CDs cut into small pieces, etc. The same goes for glass bottles. Decoupage is considered the most difficult decoration technique. How are vases made using this technique?

1. First, the glass jar or bottle must be washed, all stickers and labels removed from it, dried without wiping, so that no lint remains.
2. Then the glass surface is degreased with alcohol.
3. A primer is applied to the entire surface (special paint in several layers, allowing each layer to dry).
4. Glue is applied to the part where the drawing is planned. There is a special glue for decoupage, but PVA can also be used, only it must be diluted with water. When applying glue, make sure that there are no brush hairs left on the surface.
5. A drawing is torn out of a single-layer paper napkin (do not cut out!) And glued on using a soft brush.
6. When the drawing is all on the surface of the future vase, it is allowed to dry and transparent acrylic varnish is applied to the entire jar (bottle) in several layers.

Sometimes the finished product is coated with a craquelure agent. This creates the effect of an aged object cracked by time. Mom can use such New Year's gifts with her own hands later all year, putting not only flowers there, but also storing various little things, pens, pencils, etc. Or just leave this craft as a souvenir.

Beloved

Or just a beloved young man also deserves a handmade gift for the New Year. But often girls and women are lost, not knowing which thing will be both useful and reminiscent of her. What to offer in this case?

• knitted items: hats, scarves, mittens, sweaters, etc.;
• leather key holder;
• Case for tablet;
• homemade notebook;
• Frame;
• purely masculine jewelry made of genuine leather and wood;
• self-painted mug, etc.

Among the original ideas for gifts for the New Year, hand-painted mugs occupy a special place - after all, this way you can not only give something useful, but also write wishes right away. This is easier to do than it seems at first glance. You just need to find the right materials. The dishes themselves must be necessarily ceramic and white (milk, ivory, etc.), and for painting it is worth choosing acrylic or stained glass paints.

1. The surface of the dishes must be degreased with acetone.
2. Apply the contour (you can transfer it from paper) and let it dry.
3. Fill the outline with the desired colors.
4. Wait about a day and process thermally to fix the result. After placing in a cold oven, heat it up to 170 ° C, wait 30 minutes, turn off the oven and let the dishes cool down without removing them.

Before you make a New Year's gift with your own hands in this way, you need to practice drawing (preferably the same thing) on ​​paper in order to "fill your hand."

In general, homemade gifts should be prepared even earlier than choosing purchased ones. After all, it takes time to get them of high quality and beautiful. And presentations made in haste often look, unfortunately, sloppy and are unlikely to cause delight.

The tradition of giving gifts to relatives and friends on New Year's Eve dates back centuries. It is believed that the custom of "appeasing" others with valuable gifts on New Year's Eve is rooted in ancient Rome, where the cult of offerings and sacrifices flourished. Of course, the modern tradition of giving New Year's gifts does not carry such a sacred function. Rather, today this custom embodies the desire to please dear people and mark the beginning of the new year with positive emotions. Along with expensive material gifts that are customary to give on New Year's Eve, there are also handmade gifts. As a rule, these are cute trinkets, simple but functional items, decor elements and sweet gifts. But despite its outward simplicity, a do-it-yourself New Year's gift has a "soul" and carries a special positive energy. Next, you will find the best master classes with step-by-step photos of original New Year's gifts for mom, dad, boyfriend, girlfriend, other relatives and friends. For their manufacture, very simple materials are used, for example, paper and thread. And the master classes of New Year's gifts themselves are painted in great detail, which will greatly simplify the process of your creativity!

Gift "Snowball" for the New Year 2017 with your own hands, a master class with a photo

Thanks to countless Hollywood movies about Christmas, it's hard to find someone who doesn't know what a snow globe is. This simple decor element does not carry any special function. But how much the snow-white snow of this souvenir-gift pleases the eye! For a long time, a snow globe was considered an exotic and original gift for the New Year. The reason for this is the high price of this glass miracle and the shortage. Today, buying a "snow globe" in any gift shop is not a problem. But we suggest you make a gift "Snowball" for the New Year 2017 with your own hands at home according to the next master class with a photo.

Necessary materials for a gift "Snow globe" for the New Year 2017 do-it-yourself

• jar and lid
• polymer clay or snowman figurine
• waterproof glue
• sequins
• distilled water
• piece of felt

Instructions on how to make a gift "Snow globe" for the New Year 2017 with your own hands

DIY New Year's gift to mom and dad from salt dough, master class step by step

Our next salt dough master class is sure to appeal to children who want to give a memorable gift for the New Year 2017, made by themselves, to mom and dad. In addition, it will be not just a memorable souvenir, but also a completely functional present. For example, a DIY New Year's gift from salt dough to mom and dad can act as a decoration for a Christmas tree or a keychain.

Necessary materials for a gift from salt dough to mom and dad for the New Year 2017

• flour - 4 cups
• fine salt - 2 cups
• warm water - 2 cups
• gouache and brush
• decorative ribbon

Instructions on how to make a gift from salt dough with your own hands for the New Year 2017

Sweet paper gift for the New Year 2017, a master class with step by step photos

Of course, the basis for a sweet gift for the New Year 2017 will be made of paper, and not its filling. Our next master class with step-by-step photos will show how simple and very original you can present sweets for the New Year holidays. In it you will find step-by-step instructions on how to make an unusual box for candies or other small sweets. Read more about how to make a paper gift with sweet filling for the New Year 2017, read on.

Necessary materials for a gift made of paper for the New Year 2017 do-it-yourself

• colored cardboard (green and brown)
• Ruler and pencil
• ribbon
• chocolate candies

Instructions on how to make a paper-based gift with your own hands for the New Year 2017

1. First, we cut out a strip of green cardboard with the following parameters: length - 18 cm, width - 6 cm. We bend it in half in width and coat it with glue. Connect and let dry completely.
   
2. We form a triangle with equal sides of 6 cm. Glue the edges and let dry.
   
3. We prepare three more strips with the following parameters:
   • length - 22 cm, width - 2 cm;
   • length -14 cm, width - 2 cm;
   • length -8 cm, width - 2 cm;

   

4. On the longest strip we make marks every 4.5 cm. Then we bend the strip along the marks, forming a zigzag, as in the photo below.
   
5. We insert the strip into the base of the large triangle, after smearing its edges with glue. Let's dry.
   
6. We repeat the same with the second strip, but we already get 3 triangles. We also insert into the base and glue it.
   
7. We fold the shortest segment into a triangle and fix it on top.
   
8. We fill our "herringbone" with sweets, for example, truffles or drunken cherries - they have the most convenient shape and pleasant taste.
   
9. We decorate the "herringbone" with decorative tape, smeared with glue for better adhesion.
   
10. From brown cardboard we cut out a strip 12 cm long and 4 cm wide. We fold it into a square and glue it. You can also decorate the top with decorative tape.
    
11. We fill the stand with sweets and stick it to the main part of the box. Our sweet paper Christmas tree is ready!

    

Do-it-yourself gift "Money Tree" for the New Year 2017 to a boyfriend or girlfriend

They say that when you do not know what gift to present to your loved one, it is better to give money. In this case, the amount will depend on the proximity of the relationship and the importance of the occasion. Due attention should be paid to the method of registration of the gift. For example, prepare a colorful envelope, make a postcard with your own hands, or come up with something more original. Our do-it-yourself "Money Tree" gift for the New Year 2017 belongs to the last category and will be a great gift option for a boyfriend or girlfriend. In addition to the original presentation, such a “herringbone” fits perfectly into the theme of the holiday and can even serve as an unusual interior decor for some time. How to make a gift "Money Tree" for the New Year 2017 to a boyfriend or girlfriend will learn step by step further.

Necessary materials for a cash gift for the New Year 2017 boyfriend, girlfriend

• orange sticks
• tin can or small pot
• floral sponge
• strong thread
• bright fabric
• colored paper, glue, scissors
• banknotes

Instructions on how to make a gift "Money Tree" with your own hands for the New Year 2017

An original DIY candlestick gift for the New Year 2017

The original DIY candlestick will be a great gift for the New Year 2017 for both relatives and friends. The process of making this gift will not take much time, but the result will demonstrate warmth and care. Learn how to make an original candlestick gift for the New Year 2017 with your own hands from our next master class.

Materials for an original DIY candlestick gift for the New Year 2017

• green acrylic yarn
• PVA glue
• cardboard
• cling film
• led candle
• beads, beads, pearls

Instructions for an original gift-candlestick for the New Year 2017 with your own hands

New Year's gift with your own hands in the technique of modular origami "Cockerel", video tutorial

An original gift for the New Year with your own hands can be made using the modular origami technique, as in the video tutorial below using the New Year's cockerel as an example. Such a cockerel will be an excellent element of decor, and will bring good luck in 2017 of the Fire Rooster. In addition, a do-it-yourself New Year's gift using the modular origami "Cockerel" technique can also be used for children's New Year's performances, games, contests and other fun. Believe me, both adults (mom and dad, boyfriend, girlfriend) and kids will like such a New Year's gift made of paper with their own hands. And don't be afraid of mastering the technique of modular origami, as in master classes with photos, this video demonstrates the step-by-step process of making a gift. And this means that even a child can master such a gift for the New Year 2017!

Show me a person who doesn't like gifts? And, of course, many people love to give them. But often the process of finding a suitable present turns into a real hell, especially if you need a lot of them at once, as is usually the case two or three days before the New Year. Money was running low, only consumer goods remained on the shelves, and what to give to a suddenly announced second cousin is unknown!

What a pity that the days when a book was a universal gift have sunk into oblivion (today almost everyone has both a tablet and an electronic book). Yes, and I don’t want to give some banality, which will immediately be re-gifted or thrown out as unnecessary. Thinking about all of the above, I found that there are at least 25 gifts that you can easily make yourself, moreover, without much money, using mostly improvised materials.

1.Soft toys and cushions

Toddlers will never turn down a big soft toy, and most adults will too. And sewing any funny face is not as difficult as it might seem at first. Do not throw away old clothes, bright children's socks, shreds, buttons, beads, and you will always have the right material at hand. You can stuff a toy with a holofiber specially purchased for this occasion, or you can use the same shreds or padding polyester. Make a pattern yourself, or find a simple master class on the Internet. Do not be afraid of difficulties, the Internet is simply replete with the easiest video tutorials on any kind of needlework! With their help, even a child can sew a pillow!

2. New Year's wreath

The perfect Christmas gift for a friend, mother, sister or colleague. Everything related to decor, which is done with taste and a sense of style, will be appreciated! Such a traditional wreath, hung over a door or decorating a table, will become a bright accent in a festive interior.

One of the easiest master classes ...

Take an unwanted aluminum tremble, flatten it with pliers until it becomes a circle (this is not hard to do by hand, even without using other tools). String New Year's balls of different sizes and different colors on the wire (pre-lubricate the places where they touch each other with glue so that your wreath holds the desired shape) until you fill the entire space. The colorful wreath is ready!

Anything can serve as a material for a New Year's and Christmas wreath - from clothespins to foil! Fantasize!

3.Vintage DIY painting

With the help of clippings from gloss and canvas, in a couple of hours you can make an unusual and stylish gift that will suit your girlfriend, your beloved, your second cousin, Zoya the hairdresser, and your English teacher. Cut out a beautiful photo or drawing from a magazine, paste it onto the canvas with the pattern “down” (you will get a “mirror” reflection) and leave the picture to dry completely. Then you take a spray gun, a sponge and begin to gently remove the top layer (see photo), splashing water on the canvas and rubbing it with a sponge until the picture appears. The paper will be removed with fibers - they must be removed immediately and excess water removed. When the painting is completely dry, you can rub it a little with a dry abrasive sponge to give it a worn, vintage effect, so to speak. Now you can open it with varnish.

4.Handmade soap

Soap is a unique gift. Everyone uses soap. Especially if it is made by hand with the addition of oils and herbs ... Mmm ... The easiest way to make it: grate a bar of baby soap and heat it in a water bath with 2 tsp. olive oil. Then add 100 g of water and cook everything until smooth, stirring occasionally. Along the way, add (optional): finely chopped herbs, dried fruits, ground coffee, dyes. Add the essential oils last and take your brew off the heat right away! Lubricate the soap molds with oil and you can pour the soap! A couple of hours in a cold place and your unique handmade gift is ready. To remove the product from the molds, you need to turn them upside down and tap lightly. If there are difficulties, hold the molds over the fire for a while - the soap will melt and slip out easily. You can also freeze it in the refrigerator for a few hours and try to pull it out again.

8. Birthday calendar for the most forgetful friend

And how do you like the idea of ​​​​a calendar, where the birthdays and anniversaries of all, all relatives and friends will be entered? In my opinion, this is cool, especially if among your friends there is someone who consistently forgets these dates! Put additional cells in the kit for such a very useful little thing, in case new dates appear, and the calendar will serve its owner for a very, very long time!

9. Original postcard

Don't forget postcards! A large, beautiful postcard with a "zest" can be both a full-fledged gift and an addition to the main present.

10. A gift for a needlewoman

Is your friend interested in sewing? Does your mom make things all the time? Give them a beautiful needle bed! Such things are sewn quite simply, but the needlewomen themselves always have little time for themselves. What can I say, shoemaker without boots! How to sew .

11. All kinds of decorations

Decorations are never enough! Therefore, you can safely give your girlfriend, mother, mother-in-law, colleague a necklace or brooch made with your own hands, but only if you know at least a little of her taste preferences!

12. Towel - bathrobe

Giving just a towel is trite, but presenting a towel that, if desired, transforms into a very comfortable and stylish dressing gown, is already something. The secret is simple: buy a large bath towel, a pair of buttons, ruffles and "matching" ribbons and start collecting the "transformer". Make a couple of loops on the towel from one end in the chest area, and sew buttons on the other (here, of course, you need to know the volumes of the one to whom you are preparing this gift). On the bottom and sides, you can sew on ruffles or ribbons. You can also make an embroidery, a monogram with initials, an appliqué on the "robe". Such a gift will be appreciated by many, because this thing is not only beautiful, but also practical - it can be used both at home and on the beach. If it seems to you that this will not be enough, you can buy bright slippers for a dressing gown or a set of useful “bath” little things: bombs, bath foam, body scrubs, essential oils, handmade soap.

13. Bath bombs

Another gift from the “bath” category is home-made “pops” filled with fragrant oils and skin-friendly starch. Many people will love this gift.

The easiest recipe for making "bombs": take 2 cups of soda; a cup of citric acid and the same amount of cornstarch (it can be replaced with potato starch or milk powder); 0.5 cups of sea salt; 2 tbsp any oil (olive, coconut, walnut…); 1-2 tsp any essential oil; dye as desired.

Also, if desired, you can add herbs, coconut, ground coffee, etc. The main thing is in moderation, otherwise your bombs may not form well. Now mix the starch, citric acid, baking soda and sea salt. If you use the dye in dry form - and it too. Mix well to completely eliminate lumps. Then mix: base and essential oils, as well as dye (if it is liquid). Shake the mixture to a creamy consistency and mix it with the starch-soda mass, dripping drop by drop into the center and gradually knead everything until a homogeneous mass. If the resulting mass is smooth and does not crumble, you can form bombs, if it does break up, sprinkle it with water and knead again.

Special molds or any materials at hand can serve as molds for bombs: an ice cream spoon, an “egg” from Kinder Surprise ... Dry the finished products on a napkin until they become hard as a stone and you can start packing!

14. Sweets

Today, confectionery factories produce a lot of “thematic” goodies for the New Year holidays: snow-covered houses made of gingerbread or almond cookies, chocolate trees and Snowman figurines, gingerbread snowflakes ... You can do all this yourself if you wish! Moreover, both adults and children will be delighted with such gifts!

15. Beautiful decoration of bottles or glasses

An ideal gift option for those who are fond of making homemade wines and liquors. In any other case, you can give good wine or cognac, while decorating the bottle with something “New Year and Christmas”.

Before you start decorating the bottle, it is better to remove all labels from it and wash it thoroughly. When it dries, start decorating. You can use a syringe filled with glue to apply a drawing on it, and then quickly sprinkle with semolina and let it dry. The resulting pattern will resemble frost.

The second decor option is decoupage. On a clean bottle, apply a good coat of primer (it can be paint or glue), then take a regular table napkin with a pattern and remove the topmost layer from it. Using a brush and a solution of glue with water (1: 1), glue the napkin onto the bottle, smoothing out the bumps with your fingers. Let the work dry completely, and then cover it with varnish. You can also additionally decorate the bottle with sparkles, inscriptions, stamps, etc.

The third option is to decorate with cotton fabric or elastic bandage. To do this, soak the bandage fabric for a couple of minutes in glue, and then carefully stick it on the bottle, modeling beautiful folds and irregularities. The fabric is applied in one layer, but with a bandage, you may need to tinker and put it in two or three layers. When the glue is completely dry, the bottle can be painted or decoupage. The final stage is the opening of the finished work with varnish.

In the same way, you can decorate glasses: paint them with acrylic paints, decoupage, make openwork molding from thermoplastic or polymer clay.

16. Christmas decorations

The most popular Christmas present. There are a lot of beautiful Christmas decorations today, but none of them can compare with the one you make with your own hands, because it automatically becomes unique. Consider the characteristics of the person to whom you give such toys. Musician - decoupage the balls with music sheets, architect - glue mini models out of cardboard, loves dancing - fashion ballet flats out of plastic, crazy about cars - attach a ribbon to a small Ferrari model ...

17. Boring flash drive decor

A flash drive has now become as necessary a thing in our everyday life as a phone or a hairbrush. Without a flash drive - nowhere. But presenting a friend or relative with just a flash drive is somehow ... boring. But to give the photographer a miniature "Kenon", which, if necessary, quickly transforms into an information carrier - this is, at least, funny! How to make a work of art out of an ordinary flash drive? With polymer clay. But only self-hardening, since the usual one will have to be baked along with the technique, and this, alas, is deplorable for the latter.

18. Gloves

In such a snowy winter, a pair of gloves will never be superfluous! They, of course, can be knitted, but easier and faster - sewn from an old sweater, a piece of dovyaz or thick felt. The scheme is simple - draw a hand on paper or cardboard - a mitten of the desired size and cut it out, adding another 2 cm for the seams. Now take a fabric or an old sweater, attach your stencil to it and circle it twice (the second time is a mirror image). It remains only to cut out both parts of the mitten and sew. The rest of the decor is up to you.

19. Clothes for your beloved pet

If the person you are looking for a gift for has a cat or a dog, a warm “fur coat” for his beloved pet would be a good gift. And if this "fur coat" is sewn with funny New Year's prints (with a hood in the form of a Santa hat or with deer horns) - this is a double plus. You can use unnecessary knitted items, broken towels, any other shreds as a material. And to make it easier for you to navigate - here is an elementary cut scheme ...

20. Housekeeper

Maybe, for me alone, the keys bring a lot of trouble - they tear the lining of pockets, get lost in the depths of the bag, get confused with the player's headphones ... Maybe. But, if you know another such person - give him a housekeeper! Believe me, he will be very, very grateful to you!

21. Warm slippers, socks or a blanket

In winter, warm clothes become our fetish! We buy gloves en masse, run to supermarkets for duvets, get bags with extra insoles from the depths of cabinets… Therefore, everything soft and warm will be an ideal gift for the New Year! With a strong desire, you can sew a large and warm blanket from fleece, or you can make a more modest gift - socks or slippers.

22. Passport cover

Today, handmade passport covers have become very popular: made of felt, jeans, lace. You can try to sew the same. And you can decoupage the usual plastic cover.

23. New Year's bottle decor

A bottle of champagne in a fluffy bright “fur coat” (it can be a costume of Santa, a deer, a Snow Maiden, a snowman or a Christmas tree) will be a good gift for lovers of all kinds of New Year's decorative things. They will drink champagne, but the fur coat will remain, and it will be possible to use it more than once! The simplest cut of such “clothes” looks like mini-aprons with ties at the bottom and at the neck.

24. Gift socks

If you go to visit the whole family, then you can present traditional nominal socks that are hung over the fireplace and then caring Santa Claus lays out gifts as a present. Sewing them is not difficult, just draw and cut out a stencil of the desired size from paper, transfer it to the fabric twice (the second time - mirror), leaving a couple of centimeters for the seams and sew both blanks, having processed the edges beautifully before that. A couple of bright ribbons and Christmas tree decorations - the socks are ready!

25. Sweet candy bouquet

A good gift for any table will be a bouquet of sweets that you can easily make with your own hands. Watch the masterclass...