10 unusual ideas on how to decorate your home for the New Year with your own hands

There is very little time left to wait until the New Year’s holiday. Therefore, it’s time to look for Christmas tree decorations, cozy blankets, scented candles, beautiful dishes and thousands of little things dear to the heart. However, you must admit that it is much more enjoyable to make the decor with your own hands. We have collected a few ideas that will help you create a winter fairy tale atmosphere in your home.

More Christmas trees!

You probably already have an artificial tree at home, or maybe you buy a real tree every year. Decorating a tree for the holidays is a great way to strengthen your relationships with your family. But why limit yourself to just one? If you have bare walls at home, we recommend arming yourself with colored paper and cutting circles of different sizes from it. The dominant color will be green, while the rest will be multi-colored lights. Glue them on the Christmas tree-shaped Whatman paper and hang the poster on the wall.

Let’s say you moved to a new apartment and you don’t have a Christmas tree; No problem! If you have a staircase, you can wrap it with a wreath of fir branches and decorate it with toys. You can also put your books to good use by folding them into the shape of a Christmas tree and then wrapping the structure in a bright garland. You can also make a holiday symbol with your own hands from old magazines: you just need some glue.

art wreath

New Year’s wreath can be made not only from spruce branches. For example, you can fasten balls of yarn into a single composition. An art wreath made from farfalle, that is, bow-shaped paste, will also be very beautiful. They need to be spray-painted green or gold and then glued onto a pre-cut cardboard base. Add the finishing touch – bows, faux red berries, sprigs of pine needles or pine cones. Ready!

Train Your Dragon

According to the Chinese calendar, the patron saint of 2024 will be the Green Forest Dragon. You can soothe it with your favorite things so that the symbol of the year comes to you during the holidays and gives you good luck. For example, add more wood to the interior, as well as blankets and napkins with its image. The most creative option is to make an origami dragon figurine. Red is the favorite color of the symbol of the year, so there should be a lot of it. Brown, beige, terracotta, milky, sandy, green, pistachio, olive, gray-green decorative elements will also bring good luck.

make confetti

Don’t rush to get rid of your toilet paper roll, you can use it to make confetti. You just need to wrap it in corrugated colored paper and tie the ends of the New Year’s cracker with string or ribbon. Don’t forget to put some shiny confetti inside!

Add frosted patterns

In winter, many windows are painted with beautiful frost patterns due to the temperature difference between the indoor and outdoor environment. But modern windows do not have this, so you will have to recreate the atmosphere of childhood yourself. Arm yourself with a box of artificial snow and paint the windows with it. If you do not have it at hand, you can mix toothpaste with water and apply it to the windows in a thick consistency, having previously prepared stencils in the form of snowflakes and complex patterns. Gently wipe the resulting pattern with a sponge to give it a natural look.

fluffy snowflakes

You will need beige parchment paper, white tracing paper, and black ink paper. To start, fold the white paper several times into a rectangle and cut the rays from the free edge. They can be any shape. Now you can straighten it out and make an accordion, then fold it in half and glue it on. Must look like a fan. Now six such fans need to be glued together. You will get a lush snowflake. We cut circles from thick paper and glue them to the middle of the snowflake. Now we make the same snowflake a little smaller and attach it to the circle. Likewise, the third snowflake is also smaller. The result will be something similar to a pyramid of snowflakes. And finally, we cut a star from shiny foamiran or glue transfer gold leaf. Now we repeat the same with the other three snowflakes and you can hang them on the wall.

snow candlesticks

You will need square jars containing honey or jam. First you need to degrease the surface. Then we prepare templates showing small houses. We put them under the glass and draw the outside with paint. And so on with all four sides. The corners of the jar can be painted with Christmas trees. You can draw wreaths and snowflake dots on another jar. For greater durability, the product can be heated in the oven. We also cover the covers with white acrylic paint. Now pour some salt into elegant jars and place a small candle in the middle. These will make wonderful candlesticks!

Gingerbread men wreath

We fold sheets of brown felt in several layers and cut out cookie shapes from them. You will get deer in the sleigh, bell, Christmas tree, snowflake and gingerbread man shapes. Now we draw internal patterns on them with a pencil and “glaze” them with white threads. Now glue the cardboard onto the “cookies” on the back and attach the clips. The resulting homemade toys can be used to decorate the Christmas tree. You can also attach them to a string to create a cookie wreath. Felt gingerbread cookies can be added to gift wrapping.

magic ball

You will need a baby food jar or slightly larger, a small toy, a faux pine branch, glycerin, glitter, a piece of foam, a hot glue gun, scissors and pliers. Now make a snowdrift from foam plastic, place a “Christmas tree” of pine needles on it and attach a toy next to it using a glue gun. Fasten the structure to the cover. Fill the jar with glycerin (can be diluted 1:1 with water) and add glitter. Close the lid and watch how beautifully the snow falls!

New Year’s socks on the fireplace

Purchase velsoft fabric in red and white. Draw your foot on a piece of paper and cut out along the outline. Place the resulting template on the fabric and carefully cut it. Now measure the top of the foot using a measuring tape and add 2cm to the number, then do the same but from the bend of the foot to the tips of the toes. Transfer the measurements to paper. Use the resulting pattern to cut red velsoft. Now place it on the insole with the top facing out. Clamp the pieces together and sew the two pieces together with thread using a sewing machine or by hand. It turned out to be a soft slipper. Then we measure the height and width of the heel separately. We make a pattern and attach the pieces cut from the fabric. As a result, you will receive a New Year’s stocking that will decorate the walls or fireplace. It can also be filled with sweets and lollipops.