At the beginning of winter in the stores you can buy Christmas decorations for every taste and wallet, but even the most luxurious jewelry can not be compared with those which are made independently. Of course, the Christmas decorations are hand-made in the factory to give grace, but they keep the warmth of the hands of their creators, and are made with love. A joint production of these toys brings parents and children.

Joy Creativity

Drinking hand-made objects in society is quite ambiguous. On the one hand, handmade - it is prestigious, unique, unique. But at the same time, many people remember the days when, for example, New Year's toys were making their own poverty and the impossibility to buy something nice in the store because of the perpetual deficit. Own crafts perceived without much enthusiasm, as something makeshift, unprofessional.

However, in the age of globalization and standardization, when exactly the same decoration can be bought anywhere in the world, one begins to yearn for original and unique things, made in one piece. And let these toys will give way to the factory, even if they are modest, primitive and even a bit lopsided - it will only emphasize their uniqueness.

Custom Christmas decorations alone - these are things that have invested in human labor, love of their creators. These Christmas decorations are perfect for creating a warm and cozy atmosphere of the most favorite family holidays - Christmas and New Year.

Materials and tools

What is needed to create toys? The list of materials that can be used to make beautiful Christmas decorations, very wide. It includes:

Colored paper of different thickness and density, including the unusual texture and shiny foil surface;

• White and colored cardboard;
• Rhinestones;
• Sequins;
• Beads and beads;
• Foil;
• Tinsel;
• Yarn;
• Scraps of fabrics;
• Wire;
• Tapes and braid;
• Clay;
• Colored thread;
• Buttons;
• Foam;
• Paints and brushes.

This list is, of course, incomplete. In fact, for the manufacture of toys, you can use almost anything that will prompt fantasy. For example, eggshells, keep in shape (egg blown through small openings and cockleboat washed). Suit and small cardboard boxes, plastic containers of chocolate surprise eggs or packages of hair dye Hair: structure, characteristics of growth and development , and much more. The shops sold products for needlework and special balloons for self-coloring.

Soft toys

Traditionally, Christmas toys made of thin glass (in recent years increasingly use plastic). Such toys are very light, delicate and fragile. One awkward movement - and from the luxurious shimmering ball leaving only fragments. Plastic toys are more durable, although they may break. And those who prefer unbreakable ornaments, can make their own.

For example, Christmas decorations can be stitched from scraps of fabric. Excellent fit and shiny metallic fabric, and the Christmas tree in the style of "country" will be a wonderful choice rather coarse cloth. The colors you can choose the traditional New Year - red, white, gold and dark green. Is it possible to experiment with unusual shades that can look very original. Interestingly will look toys in the style of "patchwork" stitched patchwork, hand-picked by color and style.

Making toys will not take much time to sew toys can be hand or machine, and used for stuffing cotton wool or hollofayber. Do not make toys too complex: stars, Christmas trees, hearts, birds, deer and diamonds will look particularly expressive. And decorate such toys can be anything: sequins, stones, buttons, lace Lace in the modern wardrobe , Braid.

If you wish, you can make and toys made of soft felt, and then decorate to your liking. These soft toys will last more than one year, you only need to protect them from moisture.

Toys made of paper

Toys made of paper may look very original. Use is possible as thick cardboard and finest translucent paper. The most simple and expressive paper decoration - flashlight. For its production need paper two colors. It is best to use paper coated with a thin layer of foil - then the flashlight will "burn" particularly bright. Making a toy under force even to the child: a strip of paper should roll cylinder. Another strip (of the same length but wider) should be folded in half lengthwise and make her a lot of parallel cuts, not reaching the edges. The next step is to roll the pre-cut strip of paper into a cylinder and attached to the first cylinder. It remains attached to a lantern loop and hang it on the tree.

Of course, those flashlights - is not the only thing that can be drawn from the paper. Toys made in the technique of "origami", too, will look very impressive. Multi-colored beads, chains, butterflies and tiny boxes with "gifts" will decorate the Christmas tree and give it a festive look.

Very good to use for creating ornaments paper pattern. Extremely impressive look in one toy combination of paper in one color (for example, the traditional red-white-green or red-green-gold), but with different patterns (stripes, in a cage, flowered and polka dots).

Toys wire

From a thin wire is easy to create different shapes. If these figures strung beads, beads or rhinestones will receive a wonderful decoration: light, thin, graceful. For example, the magical look of pure white beaded snowflakes or ice-blue beads. At the ends of these can be decorated with snowflakes sparkling rhinestones. Such decorations suitable for Christmas trees and for the whole house, for example, will look very impressive translucent snowflake on the window.

Snowflakes In addition, you can wire with beads weave hearts. Such ornaments, bows and ribbons tied, suitable not only for the New Year, but for Valentine's Day.

Maria Bykov

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