Master class on making New Year's toys with their own hands

For the upcoming winter holidays it is worthwhile to prepare in advance. Make decor for the interior and original gifts can be easily hand-made. A master class on making New Year's toys will teach you how to carry out different versions of products in accessible ways and from improvised materials. Very beautiful souvenirs can be made from paper or fabric. With work, even children can easily cope.

Making New Year's toys with their own hands: a master class on sewing simple souvenirs

To work, you will need the following:

• Felt, fleece or any available material;
• Patterns, patterns or paper, cardboard for their manufacture;
• Pins;
• a piece of chalk;
• scissors;
• Thread with a needle;
• Filler for bulk products (sintepon, holofayber);
• Adhesive or thermal gun;
• Decor (satin ribbons, beads, beads, sequins).

A simple master class for children "Making a New Year's Toy" can be used as a basis for conducting classes on the topic of artistic creativity or for organizing home entertainment. Consider how the toy is performed, for example, the fir-tree made of green fleece.

Stages of work

The sequence of manufacturing will be as follows:

1. Draw a paper on the shape of a toy or circle it (the easiest thing is to take an isosceles triangle).
2. Place the template on the wrong side of the fabric, pin with pins so that it does not budge, and circle the chalk along the contour and cut out the workpiece. Do the same for the second part or simply fold the fabric in half.
3. Connect the elements with the inside sides and sew on the contour, having stepped off the edge a few millimeters and leaving a hole for the eversion.
4. Turn out the product by preliminary making cuts along the allowances in places of complex shape transitions (in corners and rounds).
5. Fill the toy with the prepared material and gently sew the hole. By the way, it can be left in the top of the Christmas tree, in order to sew a loop-pendant there.
6. Decorate the Christmas tree, pasting sequins, beads and other prepared elements.
7. If you do not have a filler or you do not like to turn out stitched parts, you can make such a toy from fleece or felt, sewing details with a decorative seam. These materials do not crumble, so the elements look good and sewn on the front side.

In addition, the cut out small decor of felt can be easily glued to the base, and not sewed. Toys from this material can be made even from one detail without stitching the two elements, since the felt is dense and bright on both sides.

This simple master class for making Christmas toys will allow you to easily make not only a Christmas tree pendant, but also an element of a New Year's garland for decorating a room or a souvenir magnet. All such things will be performed using a similar technology.

Decoupage of balls: the necessary materials

This master class on making Christmas tree toys will teach you how to make balls of different sizes that will look no worse than purchased products. For work you will need:

• Foam blocks or any other;
• Primer, for example acrylic;
• Paint for the background (white or other suitable shade);
• Dekupazhnye cards, rice paper or ordinary table napkins;
• Adhesive PVA or special for decoupage;
• Brushes;
• Sponge (sponge);
• Varnish;
• Decorative gels, sequins;
• Stencils;
• Artificial snow, for example in the form of a spray.

All of the above is easy to buy in a specialized store, even in the form of a set.

Decoupage of balls: step by step instruction

The work will proceed as follows:

1. Take the foam block and cover it with acrylic primer using a sponge. So you can get an even background color. You can immediately cover with white acrylic paint, although irregularities and stains may result. The next layer is applied only after the previous one has dried.
2. After the shade and background density suit you, go on to decorating. Cut it neatly from the decoupage map, and it's better to use the fingers to manually extract the desired images. If you use a regular table napkin, be sure to separate the layer with the picture from the base.
3. Attach the image to the ball and apply the glue from the center of the picture to the edges, smoothing the workpiece over a spherical surface.
4. If the background of the cut image is not white, cover the ball around the image with the acrylic paint of the appropriate shade, making a gradual transition to white.
5. After drying, cover the bowl with a clear varnish. If you do this in several layers, the toy will turn out to be more glossy. Apply new layer only after the previous one has dried.
   
6. If desired, decorate the toy with sequins, a pattern made with a brush or gel on the stencil.
7. Make a beautiful bow of satin ribbons and attach it to the pendant.

Your masterpiece is ready.

Master-class "Manufacturing of New Year's toys-gifts in the technique of quilling"

To work you will need a beautiful paper, glue, scissors or clerical cutter, a tool for twisting the blanks (an ordinary toothpick will do). You can buy a ready-made set for quilling and immediately begin to perform the toy yourself. The master class will teach you how to make a simple Christmas tree in this technique.

The sequence of work is:

1. Take a sheet of green paper and cut it into strips about 5 mm wide.
2. From each strip, twist the dense workpiece using a toothpick. Fix the edge of the tape with glue. If you want the herringbone to turn out to be openwork, similar to lace, you need to unwind the element a little and make from a received circle, for example, a leaf, bending a paper ribbon and gluing it in certain places.
3. Glue the shape of the Christmas tree from the finished pieces in the form of a triangle or a more complex pattern. If time allows, you can make a three-dimensional toy from twisted parts.
4. Make a loop-pendant from a narrow satin ribbon and braid and attach to the toy so that it can be hung on the Christmas tree.

Christmas trees made of paper

In this section there is another master class on making New Year's toys in the form of three-dimensional Christmas trees. You will need decorative paper, scissors, a Christmas tree pattern, glue and a ribbon for suspension. Work like this:

1. Cut out several identical Christmas trees from beautiful sheets.
2. Fold each piece in half along the vertical axis.
3. Glue together the elements so that a three-dimensional Christmas tree is produced.
4. Glue the top of the loop-suspension.
5. If desired, use additional decor for the created toy.

So, a short master class on making Christmas toys is over. You have learned how to make simple holiday decorations in many ways. Choose your favorite. Do it yourself or with the children.