DIY New Year's toys made from Christmas balls. Master classes on unusual decoration of New Year's balls. Volumetric balls for the New Year: a ball made of foam and fabrics

Using balls to decorate a Christmas tree - old tradition. But glass decorations have to be constantly updated if there are small children and beloved pets at home. And plastic is no longer so interesting and festive. Therefore, it is worth remembering Japan. Origami masters can suggest many ways to make Christmas balls out of paper with your own hands.

Eat complex ways, but with an incredibly beautiful result. Some decorations can be made in literally 5 minutes if you try a little and involve the whole family in preparing for the New Year 2018.

For 2018, it is recommended to use paper pastel colors for the manufacture of . It is best to use shades of beige, yellow and brown. To prepare the most simple jewelry You only need 16 strips of paper and a thread and a needle.

A stack of long rectangles is stacked together.
A hole must be made at both ends. It is desirable that it be in the middle, and there should be a space of about 5 mm from the edge of the paper. This way there is less chance that the ball will break. You can further strengthen this part by placing a cardboard circle on top and bottom.
A stack of sheets is bent in an arc and a thread is threaded through the holes. Knots are tied on both sides, or the edges of the rope are glued to the paper.
You can add charm to the decoration if you string beads behind the knots as an additional element.
The strips are pulled apart until a ball is formed.

Made from plain white paper, such a decorative element may look unsightly. But if you experiment with different colors or try to make kinks on the stripes, you can get a unique and inimitable New Year's decoration.

Ball of 12 circles

One of the easiest DIY ways to make beautiful Christmas balls out of paper requires only a dozen round pieces, double-sided multi-colored paper of the same size and glue.

You can use one tone or several at once to create more festive atmosphere. A stapler will also be useful to fasten the parts of the workpiece together and a beautiful thread on which the ball will hang.

Using a compass, 12 identical circles are drawn. Then they are cut out with scissors and folded into a neat stack. When using several colors, it is better to lay out the workpiece parts one by one, using 2 circles of the same color at a time.
The entire stack along the axis is fastened with a stapler. One staple at the top and one at the bottom to securely hold the paper in place. Then along this line the workpiece is bent in half.
A thread is glued into the middle of the resulting book, from which you can hang a New Year's ball. You can also secure it by making a loop and carefully tightening it around a stack of circles.
The last stage is gluing the layers. To do this, the semicircle is divided into approximately 3 equal parts. First, glue is applied to the upper third and the “page” is turned over. Then glued Bottom part and again the layer is shifted. So, observing the order, the operation is repeated until all the circles are glued together.

To prevent the layers from coming apart, they can be secured with ordinary paper clips.

After the ball is ready, all that remains is to hang it on the Christmas tree and start preparing other interesting decorations.

Puzzle ball

Some decorations don't even require glue and are a fun puzzle you can make at home.

The easiest way to do this is to use ready-made diagrams and templates that are printed on thick paper, so that you can then prepare New Year’s balls in literally 5 minutes with your own hands.

But you can draw the base yourself. To do this you will need a compass and a pencil with a ruler:

A circle is drawn.
An equilateral triangle fits inside.
The circle is cut out. Cuts are made along the sides of the triangle for half the length.
Prepare 8 circles according to the same pattern.

By connecting the parts with puzzles, you need to make a single structure from 2 pyramids of 4 triangles each.

The square bottom remains empty so that it can later be attached to a second similar structure. The first attempt to assemble such a puzzle can take quite a lot of time. But later you will be able to create jewelry without hesitation.

The basis of the decoration, if you look closely, is geometric figure– octahedron. By analogy, you can make more complex decorations if you use not a triangle, but a square or pentagon at the base.

But it will be more difficult to make the blank:

The required polygon is drawn.

Each side is the diameter of a circle. The compass needle is placed exactly in the middle and a semicircle is drawn connecting the vertices of the polygon.

The resulting figure is cut out.

A cut is made on each side of the polygon to the middle, marked by a dot from the needle.

All that remains is to assemble from the received parts three-dimensional figure. A cube is made from squares. This will require 6 blanks. The pentagons make a dodecahedron.

To make it you will need 12 parts, but the result will look much more interesting.

Cones

To make some New Year's paper balls with your own hands, you don't even need a special step-by-step instruction. They are made phenomenally simply and quickly.

Decorating with cones is very convenient and easy to do together with children, without worrying that everything around will be smeared with glue, and unevenly cut parts will spoil appearance finished Christmas ball.

To make it you will need:

10 circles of paper;
needle and thread;
scissors;
2-sided tape.

An incision is made in each circle exactly to the middle. If they were drawn using a compass, then this place will be marked with a puncture. The edges are folded towards the middle into two cones and glued with tape.

The resulting double parts remain to be strung on a thread. To do this, a puncture is made with a needle in the place where the tips of the cones connect. All that remains is to carefully pull the thread so as not to tear the paper and tie a loop at the end.

Flower kusudama

IN Japanese tradition origami - paper balls are called “kusudama” and are not used for New Year celebrations. They are believed to accumulate positive energy, so they are often given to hospital patients with wishes for a speedy recovery.

On New Year's holidays can be used to decorate the house instead of glass balls and toys such as “energy lanterns” made with your own hands from paper. But this may require the patience of a real samurai.

One of the most beautiful traditional kusudama is made from 60 parts. Accordingly, all you need is 6 dozen identical small squares and glue. The easiest way is to buy origami paper in a specialized store so that you don’t have to worry about cutting it out.

There is a cheaper option - office notes. Their quality may be worse, but the price will be significantly lower. If you look in office supply stores, you may even find many interesting colors.

The square is bent in half. It is important to ensure that you get a neat double triangle.
The edges of the triangle are applied to the vertex. The layers should not move, and it is advisable to iron out the folds with a fingernail.
The triangles bent to the top are again bent in half in reverse side. You will get a schematic flower. A pocket will form on the outside.
A layer of paper is taken out of the pocket and folded in the opposite direction along the fold. You will get 2 irregular rhombuses on both sides of the square.
The short vertices of the diamond are folded inward so that the vertex is on the fold line.
The resulting triangles are folded in half towards the center of the figure.
The edges of the folded triangles are glued and joined. The result is a petal with stamens inside.
The petals are connected and glued together in groups of 5 to form flowers.

Roll ball

Some New Year's balls are easy to make from paper with your own hands just by looking at the photo with instructions, without going back to it step by step.

Unlike other New Year's balls, this one will be quite dense and will require a lot of materials to make:

9 five-meter paper strips. Each should increase in width from 2 centimeters to 6, in increments of 5 mm.
15-20 cm of tape for making a loop.
A roll of mounting tape and a piece of 2-sided tape.
PVA glue.

The ball is made quite simply. The widest one is selected first paper strip and a mounting tape is glued along its middle. A loop is glued to one edge and the future New Year's ball begins to roll tightly around it.

After the first paper strip will be rolled into a tight roll, a second layer is wound on top of it, gradually moving to narrower parts.

The last strip is not completely glued with mounting tape. Apply 2-sided tape to the last 3 cm so that the outer side of the ball is nice and smooth without sticking out. On top, you can additionally decorate the ball using quilling techniques or use decorative ribbons with patterns.

Paper cones

To decorate the Christmas tree with your own hands with New Year's paper balls so that in the video from the holiday it seems that they were used expensive toys, just use a wide hole punch.

You will need:

foam ball IR for the basis of a future cone;
twine for a loop or a beautiful narrow ribbon;
glue;
a lot of thick paper circles 1-2 cm wide, depending on the diameter of the ball.

The easiest way to make circles is to use a special hole punch. At the same time, this will help get rid of the stress that has accumulated before the holidays.

A hole is made in the first circle, where a loop of thread is attached, and then it is glued to the ball. The edges of the “scales” should remain unglued.

The result will be very elegant decoration, which is not a shame to hang on the Christmas tree.

New Year rushing towards us! New Year's Ball Parade!
Christmas balls made of fabric

For creating New Year's ball from fabric you will need:

A foam ball with a diameter of about 7 centimeters;
- colored synthetic fabric;
- a lot of safety pins;
- a string of white beads;
- scissors, heat gun.

Christmas balls made of fabric step by step:

Cut the fabric into squares with sides about 5 centimeters. For special texture, it is advisable to use squares of two shades (photo 2).

To simplify the workflow, draw median lines directly on the foam ball. In total, you need to make eight lines located at an angle of 45 degrees to each other (photo 3).

Take a square of fabric and fold it in half, then in half again. Attach the square to the axis of intersection of the median, pin it with a safety pin (photo 4).

Also fold squares of a different color into four parts and pin each ball crosswise to the surface (through one median) (photo 5).

Next comes a layer of squares that need to be pinned in the same way as the first, but stepping back a little from the center and closing the gaps (missing medians) (photo 6). Continue pinning fabric squares to the ball until you have covered exactly half the surface of the ball (Photo 7). It is advisable to make the second half plain (photo 8).

On back side Glue a thread of beads to the surface of the ball using hot glue, twist this element in a spiral (photo 9). While working, a cobweb of glue may remain on the beads - this is not scary. After a few minutes, when the glue has completely dried, the cobwebs can be easily removed (photo 10).

The New Year's ball made of fabric is ready! As you can see, there is nothing complicated in this technique. With great desire and perseverance you will receive an original decorated christmas tree.
MK author: Madame Gritsatsueva (Margarita)

New Year patchwork ball.

To make a New Year's patchwork ball you will need:

Scraps of fabric;
- foam ball blank (any size);
- pins;
- felt-tip pen/pen;
- tape measure/centimeter;
- glue stick;
- wooden skewer;
- breadboard knife, compass, scissors;
- lace, ribbon, etc. for decorating the ball.

New Year's patchwork ball step by step:

Take a foam ball as a base, in this case 60 mm in diameter. Using a centimeter, mark the center line on the ball, divide the circumference in half, mark with pins - these will be the lower and upper points of the ball (photo 1). Using a centimeter, draw another line through these points, dividing the ball into four equal parts (photo 2). By analogy, divide each part of the ball in half, so you will divide the ball into eight equal parts (photo 3).

Now draw a transverse line along the center of the ball. To do this, divide each line from the bottom and top points of the ball (where it was marked with pins) in half, and draw a transverse line along the marks (photo 4-5).

Next, take a compass, place it first at the top point of the ball, draw a circle, then do the same on the other side (photo 6). As a result, you will get a blank, as in photo 7. Make cuts along all the lines (that were marked) using a stationery knife to a depth of approximately 1-2 cm (photo 8).

You will need two templates, one in the shape of a triangle, the other in the shape of a trapezoid. Draw templates on paper, adding an allowance of about 7-8 mm. We advise you not to rush and not to cut out all the elements at once. First, try to cut out one part and secure it to the ball. It is likely that you will need to adjust the pattern, increase or decrease the allowance.

In this case, only two types of fabric were used, so 8 triangles and trapezoids were cut out of plain red fabric and the same number of elements from fabric with branches (photo 9). To secure small elements, use a glue stick, which fixes the fabric parts and prevents them from moving (photo 10).

Then, using a wooden skewer, begin to carefully tuck the excess fabric into the slits, paying due attention to the corners. For convenience, use a large needle with a blunt tip. For large items, a sandwich knife with a rounded tip is suitable (photo 11-12).

By analogy, fill all the parts (photo 13). And after a couple of hours, admire the result (photo 14-15). Now all that remains is to decorate the ball with ribbons, cords, beads, bells, pompoms, and caps for beads (photo 16).

New Year's balls made of threads.

To create Christmas balls from threads you will need:

Air balloons
- dense decorative threads or thin multi-colored cords
- PVA glue + glue container in which you will need to make holes
- needle, scissors

Christmas balls made of threads step by step:

Take balloon ik and inflate it up suitable size. Tie it up. You can knead the ball a little in your hands to give it a more rounded shape.
Thread the decorative thread through the needle and pierce the empty plastic glue container all the way through. It is better to do this closer to the bottom of the container.

When the thread passes through, pour PVA glue into the container, of which you will need quite a lot. It is not advisable to dilute it with water.

When using a thin ribbon, you can soak it completely in glue (Figure 3).

Pull the thread through a container of PVA, soaking it entirely with glue, and wind it around the base ball. When winding the thread, the ball must be turned frequently. At the same time, do not forget that the balloon will need to be removed later, so leave a little space in the area where the balloon is tied.

Once the desired density of the ball winding has been achieved, cut the thread, leaving a small tail to create a loop (for hanging).

Next, the ball must be left until completely dry for 1-2 days or blow dry for about 5-10 minutes. After the glue has completely dried, pierce the balloon with a needle and carefully remove it. It is more convenient to do this through the place where it is tied. Make a loop from the remaining tail of the thread and tie it to the ball.

Decorate the resulting ball as you wish. You can paint it, cover it with sparkles and sequins, or leave it without decoration.
The ball is ready!

New Year's ball made of fabric

To create these New Year's balls you will need:

A foam ball with a diameter of about 10 cm
- tailor's needles with a metal cap
- three types of fabrics (three colors).

Process of creation Christmas balls from fabric:

The first step is to cut a lot of fabric squares. If your ball is 4 inches in diameter, cut the fabric into 3-inch squares. Make 8 squares of one fabric and 16 squares of 2 other fabrics.

You can also use two small pieces of the first type of fabric so that the foam ball does not show through the first layers. First we will make one half of the ball.

Pin one of the 2 fabric squares into the center of the ball; it may bulge a little, but in any case it will be completely covered by the next layer (Fig. 2).

Then take one square of the first material and fold it 4 times to determine its center (Figure 3). You need to insert a pin into the center of the square from the inside out (Fig. 4). Insert a pin with a fabric square into the foam ball (Figure 5). The fabric needs to be folded in half again, pinning the corners (Fig. 5).

You need to pin three more fabric squares (first material) to the ball. The result should be a completely closed fabric top (Figure 6).

Take the squares from the second fabric and start pinning them onto the ball (Figure 7).

Start with 4 squares, which seem to be a continuation of the previous layer. Adjust the distance between layers as desired. In this case it is about 1 cm. Use something like a template to keep all the pieces of fabric the same distance.

Secure four more fabric squares between them, as in Fig. 9-10.

You can stop at two layers or make a third layer similar to the previous one (Fig. 12).

Next, you need to turn the ball over and repeat the above steps with the second half of the ball. However, when placing pieces of fabric on the second side of the ball, it is necessary to take into account the first half, but 100% compliance is not necessary, since the joint will be covered with fabric.

So, the excess material at the junction of the 2 sides can be trimmed off. After which you can cover the joint with the material of the second layer, decorate with an organza ribbon. Pin one edge of the ribbon and sew the other.

You can also make a bow from a ribbon, by which the ball can be hung on a Christmas tree.
Glue or sew, as desired.

Ball made of fabric using the artichoke technique. Master Class.

An excellent master class on creating a completely textile ball with your own hands from scratch.

To create a fabric ball using the artichoke technique you will need:

Fabric for base;
- template paper + pencil;
- needle + thread, sewing machine;
- padding (sintepon/cotton wool).

To decorate the fabric ball:

For the lining there are two red squares, 8 beige squares measuring 5*5 cm, 16 squares of the same size, but of a different color (in this case with green stars), 16 squares of a third color.
- beads for decoration.

Artichoke fabric ball step by step:

1. Creating a fabric ball - the base.

Prepare a pattern from paper (Figure 1). Transfer to the fabric from the wrong side (Fig. 2). You will need to create 4 petals. Cut, remember to leave a seam allowance (Figure 3). Sweep the petals together in pairs (Figure 4-5).

Machine stitch on one side (Figure 6). As a result, you will get “pockets”, as in Fig. 7. Fold them together front side(Figure 8-9).

Sweep or pin. Then we grind it down (Fig. 10-11). Leave a hole on one edge of each petal through which the future ball will turn out and be stuffed (Fig. 12-13).

Fill the ball with filler and then sew hidden seam(Figure 14-15). As a result, you will get a ball, as in Fig. 16.

2. Ball decoration:

Take all the squares for decoration (except for those for lining), fold in half and iron (Fig. 18).

Place the squares intended for lining in the middle of the ball and pin them with pins so that they do not fidget (Fig. 19).

Then take the ironed beige squares (rectangles) and fold them into triangles (Figure 20-21).

Place such a triangle in the middle of the future fabric ball, as shown in Figure 22, and pin it in place.

Pin the 4th triangles and get a blank, as in Fig. 23. Start sewing the corners of the triangles. Sew opposite corners of some triangles (Fig. 24), and then others (Fig. 25).

Sew a bead for beauty at the junction (Fig. 26). Bring the needle under the triangles, as shown in Fig. 27. And carefully sew the triangles along the edge to the base of the ball (Fig. 28).

As a result, you will get something like in Fig. 29. Do the same with rectangles with asterisks. First, fold them in the form of triangles, and then put them on the ball and pin them with pins. Place the triangles in the proper order (Figure 30-31). Sew similarly to the previous steps (Fig. 32-34).

Apply triangles of the third color (Fig. 35-38).

As a result, you will get a half of the ball like this (Fig. 39), make the second one by analogy.

After that, cut strips measuring 5*10 cm and fold them in the same way as in Fig. 41. Iron everything. Attach it to the ball and pin it with pins (Figure 42). This must be done in order to decorate the sides of the ball.

Once again, cut strips 5*10 cm long and fold them as in Fig. 43-44.

Place these triangles on top of the previous ones, as in Fig. 45. Overlap (Fig. 46). Pin everything with pins (Fig. 47) and sew (Fig. 49-50).

A ball made of fabric using the artichoke technique is ready!
Thanks to the author - Natalya Semenova for the excellent MK.

Cone using the kanzashi technique. Master Class.

To create a cone using the kanzashi technique you will need:

Satin ribbon about 2.5 cm wide (two colors);
- base ball for ping pong;
- thread, monofilament or thin fishing line;
- thermo gun;
- tweezers;
- bead or attachment to Christmas tree decorations.

Cone using the kanzashi technique step by step:

Initially, cut squares of ribbons of two colors with a side of 2.5 cm and fold them in half in triangular modules(photo

1). One fabric square needs to be secured to a ping pong ball, gluing the center and edges well (photo 2). The base ball should be placed on a small jar, for example, a cream jar - this way it will not roll around on the work surface.

Fold the triangular modules in half again (photo 3). Then make the first row - glue four modules at once onto the surface of the ball so that it looks like a square (photo 4). Subsequent rows should consist of 2 parts, four modules in each.

Glue the second row of modules. Glue the first part of four modules between the parts of the first row (photo 5). And glue the second part between the parts of the first part so that the lower part of both parts of the second row is at the same level (photo 6).

Also glue all subsequent rows, alternating the colors of the modules (photo 7-8).

After gluing the penultimate row of modules, glue a piece of satin ribbon, hiding the surface of the ball (the same as at the beginning of the work process) (photo 9-10). Next, glue the last row of modules (photo 11-12).

The almost finished kanzashi cone needs to be decorated, starting from the top of the Christmas tree decoration. Why collect satin ribbon onto a thread and pull it together to form a bow (photo 13). Hide the middle of the bow by gluing a mount for Christmas balls to it (photo 14).

A cone made using the kanzashi technique is ready to decorate the New Year tree.

Christmas tree ball using kanzashi technique.

To make a Christmas tree ball you will need:

Satin ribbon 2.5 centimeters wide in primary color (about 2.7 m) + ribbon for spirals (about 1.1 m);
- ping pong ball;
- wire, awl;
- decor: sequins, beads, pins, cord for hanging;
- heat gun and all other tools for Kansas production.

Christmas tree ball using quilling technique step by step:

The base will remain inside the Christmas tree decoration, so inexpensive ping-pong balls, which are very light, are best suited. The ball tolerates hot glue well, so there is no need to wrap it in anything and you can glue the “petals” directly onto it.

You will also need to securely attach a ribbon for hanging. Of course, you can simply glue the bead, but you can also secure it more securely by marking the middle approximately on both sides and piercing it through with an awl (photo 1). Then secure the wire with the fixed bead (photo 2). Try on the top (photo 3).

Glue sequins or other decoration and form the top (photo 5). And start gluing the petals.

1st row: 2 white, 2 red, 2 white, 2 red
2nd row: 1 white, 3 red, 1 white, 3 red
3rd row: increase, glue 2 petals. 2 white, 6 red, 2 white, 6 red

Continue in the same spirit without increasing the quantity.

In photo 10 it is noticeable that the petals are starting to “crowd” too much; it is clearly necessary to reduce them to the original 8 petals. And the last row is also 8. It took 144 petals to make this ball.

You can, of course, take not 8, but 10 petals in the first row, and then the ball will turn out more magnificent, since the petals will be attached more tightly.

The Christmas tree ball using the quilling technique is ready!

New Year's toys made of sequins and beads.

To make New Year's toys you will need:

Foam ball (about 6 cm in diameter);
- sequins and beads;
- needles with pearls.

New Year's toys made from sequins and beads step by step:

Sequins on a foam base can be attached in a chaotic manner, using fittings of different colors. So, take a sequin and put it on a needle with a pearl. You can also attach several sequins at once different forms. For example, first put a sequin on the needle blue color in the shape of a snowflake, with blue and/or purple on top.

Begin to carefully insert the needle into the foam ball, trying to fill its entire surface without gaps. You can place one sequin on top of another, but in this case you need to make sure that all the sequins are located at an equal distance from each other.

New Year's toys made of sequins and beads are ready!

DIY unbreakable Christmas balls

To create unbreakable toys you will need:

Floss threads different colors+ needle
- a foam ball, you can cut it yourself from polystyrene foam or make it from foil, newspapers, tightly tied with threads. Can be used different materials, just make sure that the balls don’t turn out too heavy.
- all kinds of decor (you can even use ready-made New Year’s applications)

Unbreakable Christmas balls step by step:

First of all, you will need to wrap a round workpiece with threads, for which you take it and start wrapping it crosswise several times. You need to wind it tightly enough. Finally, secure the end of the thread to prevent unraveling.

Now let's start decorating the ball (here everything will depend on your imagination and the availability of decorations). If you know how and love to embroider, you can embroider all kinds of New Year's ornaments. You can also sew a suitable applique to the toy, decorate it with beads, beads, or fabric flowers.

Finally, do not forget to make a holder for the finished Christmas tree decoration in the form of a rope, by which the ball will be hung on the Christmas tree.

Sweet New Year's balls. Master Class.

To create New Year's balls you will need:

Chocolate glaze;
- Balloons;
- kandurin;
- soft wide brush;
- baking paper;
- mastic/marzipan;
- wire;
- colander.

Sweet New Year's balls step by step:

Dial in balloon water, tie and place in the freezer for 24 hours. Melt the chocolate glaze and fill it into a bag made of baking paper. Remove the ball from the freezer and remove it from the ice ball that formed from the water in the freezer.

Place the ice ball on the sheet baking paper and paint the ball on all sides with chocolate icing. Any glaze that accidentally gets onto the baking paper rather than onto the surface of the ball, after hardening, remove it from the paper and use it again.

While the ice is melting and flowing through the holes in the chocolate painting, prepare the top for the balls. Twist a loop from the wire, and form a top from mastic or marzipan. Cover everything with silver/golden kandurin. Connect the top to the ball using melted chocolate.

Note: for pearl and silver balls, we recommend using white chocolate icing.

New Year's openwork paper balls.

We invite you to make these bright, openwork New Year's balls for the New Year that will fit perfectly into the interior or help you decorate the New Year tree.

To create openwork New Year's balls you will need:

Sheets of thick colored paper in A4 format;
- knife for artistic cutting;
- needle and thread;
- glue, scissors;
- beads for decoration;
- template (presented at the end of the article).

The process of creating Christmas balls from paper:

First of all, you will need to print out the templates on paper. If desired, you can resize the template proportionally.

Next, start cutting out patterns using a pattern knife. Part of the paper with the design can be covered with a sheet of paper so as not to accidentally erase the diagram during operation (Figure 2-4). After cutting the pattern, begin cutting out the unfolded ball along the contour (Fig. 5).

Now you need to give each part of the cut out diagram an o round shape, for which you can use a round pencil (Figure 6-7).

Then punch holes on both sides at the end of each petal (Figure 8).

Roll the cut paper into a ball and glue the edges of the development (Fig. 9).

All that remains is to make a loop from the thread - and the New Year's ball is ready for hanging.

MK author: Olga Kachurovskaya

New Year's ball made of fabric and foam.

To create these New Year's balls you will need:

Styrofoam ball with a diameter of about 7-8 cm;
- satin fabric or other fabric as desired;
- braid or ribbon, decorative beads;
- glue gun;
- scissors, knife.

New Year's ball made of fabric and polystyrene foam step by step:

First of all, mark the ball. To do this, take a thread, wrap it around and tighten it so that a small groove is formed on the ball for further work. The ball can be divided into any number of parts - 4, 6, 8, etc. In this case it was divided into 4 parts. You can draw the lines with a pencil for convenience.

Next, using a knife/scalpel, make cuts along the marked lines, about 7-8 mm deep. This should be done quite carefully so that the ball does not fall apart in your hands, especially if its diameter is small (less than 6 cm).

Cut a petal out of fabric large size than the slices on the foam ball and start tucking in the edge satin fabric inside in a neat manner. First insert to a depth of about 3-5 mm. After you go around the entire outline, cut off the excess fabric and hide the edges. Thus, cover the entire surface of the ball, slice by slice.

Then start decorating. Place the ends of the beads inside the ball. Secure the loop with a drop of hot glue. Moment type glue can cause the foam to begin to melt. Pull the beads tightly until finished form they didn't hang out. And also with the second half of the beads.

Cut the loop to the desired length, add a drop of glue, insert the tails, and press.

The New Year's ball made of fabric and foam is ready!

You can tie a bow, draw snowflakes or glue sequins!

Such a ball will become a great gift for the New Year!

Decoupage of New Year's balls.

To decoupage Christmas balls you will need:

Plastic balls with a diameter of 8 cm;
- three-layer napkins with a pattern;
- acrylic paints different colors: white, blue, yellow + brush;
- PVA glue;
- acrylic lacquer;
- a little semolina;
- sparkles;
- contours on ceramics and glass;
- a piece of sponge for washing dishes;
- plastic board for modeling.

Decoupage Christmas balls step by step:

You can purchase simple balls without a pattern of any colors (gold, purple, silver, matte or glossy.

Take a ball and a piece of sponge, put a little white paint on the board, dab the sponge into the paint and apply it with point movements onto the ball. Make sure that there is always paint on the sponge, then you will get the effect of a snow coating on the ball.

Paint all the balls in this way and hang them to dry for about an hour.

Meanwhile, prepare your napkins. Why separate the top bright layer from the white one. Carefully cut out the design.

Dilute the PVA with water by half and glue the design to the ball. Start gluing from the center of the picture, gradually moving towards the edges. Do this action with all motives.

For balloons with bunnies, make light yellow paint and apply it with “smacking” movements around the motif on a white background.

After the paint has dried, coat the ball with varnish.

Next, let's create a winter effect, for which take a small amount of white paint and mix it with semolina until you get a thick porridge. Using a thin brush, apply to the ball in those places where there will be snow.

Let it dry. After that, take varnish and small silver sparkles, and cover the semblance of “snow” first with varnish, and then apply glitter.

Decoupage of New Year's balls is completed!
MK author: Elena Slastina

Wool Christmas ball.

In this master class you will see the process of making New Year's wool balls. The process is quite simple and does not require you to master wool felting skills.

At first glance, it may seem that it is very difficult to learn how to felt felt toys. But such beautiful things can be done without certain skills and special tools. However, in this case, you will still need to purchase wool from a craft store, and then you can make exactly the same woolen Christmas ball. Children will be delighted with these balls - they can be removed from the branches and played with snowballs right in the apartment!

To make woolen Christmas balls you will need:

Felting wool in different colors;
- padding polyester (other filler);
- sewing needle+ thread, scissors;
- pins with pearls;
- nylon stocking;
- optional decor: beads, sequins.

Wool Christmas ball step by step:

Form a ball of padding polyester and tie it with thread so that it holds its shape. Then evenly wrap colored felting wool around the padding polyester blank, secure it with a felting needle or using regular pins.

After completely wrapping the ball in wool, place it in a nylon stocking and tie a knot. All you need to do is wash the workpiece in hot water(in the washing machine) on the “boiling mode” and spin at maximum speed. Then remove the ball from the stocking and dry it.

Start decorating - mark the future design with pins. Decorate the ball with woolen threads, securing them with pins with “pearls”, thereby laying out the desired pattern. Secure the resulting decor using sewing threads, while decorating the ball with beads and sequins in the places where the pattern is secured.

Attach a beaded loop to the top of the Christmas ball and you can hang it on the tree.
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painting glass ball to the Christmas tree.

To paint the ball you need:

Glass bowl;
- contour for glass and ceramics;
- stained glass paint on a varnish base (here from Hobby Line);
- paint for creating pearls (here from Viva Dekor);
- thin synthetic round brushes number 1 or 2 (ideally, each color has its own brush);
- the most inexpensive nail polish remover (acetone);
- cotton pads, rag.

Painting a glass ball on a Christmas tree step by step:

First, think about what you will depict on the ball. Here, elements of lace served as inspiration (photo 2). Apply the design with a silver outline. First, you can draw a schematic drawing using a washable marker and make sure that the outline is located next to the line and not on it. While painting, the ball can be placed on a mug or glass - this way it will be fixed and will not turn over (photo 3). Since the ball is round, first paint one part and let it dry (this way you don’t accidentally push the drawing together while working) (photo 4).

After you have painted the entire surface of the ball and allowed it to dry completely, proceed directly to painting. For this ball, white and blue stained glass varnish paints were used. For the third color they were mixed together in the lid (photo 5). Carefully drop paint onto a fragment of the design and stretch it to the edges. To the benefits varnish paints include - quick drying and complete absence there are air bubbles on the surface, which is quite important when painting small elements (photo 6). Let the paint dry before starting to paint the adjacent element so that the paints do not mix (photo 7).

Slowly paint the entire surface of the glass ball. Let it dry by hanging it somewhere, just make sure first that the paint will not bleed (photo 9). Decorate the ball with paint to create pearls (photo 10). Place drops different sizes wherever you want. Let dry.

Clean paint brushes using nail polish remover and cotton pads. By changing the color of the outline and paints, you can paint a couple more balls.
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Christmas ball decor using polymer clay.

To create such a ball you will need:

Clay of two colors (in this case red + white);
- glass ball;
- two 18-inch strips about 2x4 long;
- extruder;
- wax paper;
- glue;
- rope/ribbon for hanging.

We decorate the Christmas ball with polymer clay step by step:

Drill a hole in the top of the bar that is slightly larger than your extruder. Fasten the two planks and attach with connecting loop. Next, you need to close the slats and create a shallow hole in the bottom of the slats in the same place. This will prevent the piston from slipping. To use this design, simply insert an extruder with clay into it.

Then put two pieces of clay of different colors together and wrap them in wax paper, the ends of which should be slightly longer than the “sausages” (Fig. 8-9).

Now, using an extruder, you need to squeeze out two-color strips of clay (Figure 10). Then clean the piston from the extruder and proceed to the next step (Figure 11).

Take one of the resulting thin strips and lay it out on your work surface. Cut one end and start twisting into a spiral (Figure 13).

Then place the twisted spiral of clay in the lower center of the glass ball and gradually begin to wind this strip onto the ball in a spiral (Figure 13-14). Use glue to hold the clay on the surface of the ball. When you have covered half the ball, carefully trim the end of the “sausage”.

It’s easier to work with clay when it’s not raw, so hang the ball on a wooden stick or toothpick, and place the ball itself in glass container and bake in the oven for 30 minutes at 265F. After the ball has cooled, remove its iron top and continue wrapping it with clay.

Continue until you completely cover the surface of the ball with clay. Try to connect the “clay sausage” as clearly and evenly as possible. Then replace the iron ball mount and bake for 30 minutes.

Decorate the finished ball with a beautiful bow!

Our website publishes materials for those who want to make Christmas and New Year a real holiday for their children, a holiday that they will remember for a long time. long years. Here, to help parents, we publish articles and materials on preparing and conducting New Year's holidays. This includes New Year's master classes on making original Christmas tree decorations and New Year's decorations with your own hands. If you start making New Year's decorations, Christmas tree decorations and gifts for friends and relatives in advance, then by December 31 your home will turn into a real New Year's fairy tale! We offer to make New Year's balls to the Christmas tree. You will learn how to make a New Year's ball with your own hands with your child, get acquainted with patterns of New Year's paper balls, and photos of Christmas tree decorations.

1. DIY New Year's ball (option 1)

To make this New Year's decoration you will need colored paper, thin wire, a stapler, and glue. The ball you see in the photo above was made from paper of three different colors (pink, blue and cyan).

Work plan

1. Take a small glass or glass (wine glass) and trace it on paper with a simple pencil 12 times. You should have 12 circles (4 circles of each color). Cut out the circles with scissors.

2. Fold each circle in half and stack them together as shown in the picture below. When making this Christmas ball we use three colors of paper (A,B and C). Stack the mugs in next sequence— ABBCCAABBCCA. If, when making a New Year's ball, you used paper of two colors (A and B), then in this case you would have to fold the circles in the following sequence - ABBAABBAABBA.

3. Fasten the paper circles together using thin wire, wrapping it around them along the fold line. Twist the ends of the wire together. If you don't have wire, you can fasten the circles together using a regular stapler.

4. Spread the circles and glue adjacent halves of the circles together. Each half should be connected to one adjacent at the top, and to the other at the bottom.

2. DIY Christmas balls (option 2)

Cut out three circles of the same size but different colors from colored cardboard or thick paper. In the first of them, cut a cross (Fig. a), in the second circle, make a horizontal cut in the middle and two cuts perpendicular to it in the direction from the circle to the center of the circle (Fig. b), and in the third - four cuts in the form of a cross, also along direction from the circle to the center (Fig. c). Pass circle “c” into circle “b”. In circle “a”, bend the corners formed as a result of its incision; you will get a square hole. Thread circles “b” and “c” into it, having previously folded them. Then bend the corners again (Fig. d). Attach a thread to the resulting ball.

3. Christmas balls made of paper (option 3)

From old postcards or colored paper you can make these cute Christmas tree decorations - New Year's balls.

You can print ready-made colored circles to make a colorful New Year's ball using this technique.

4. Making a New Year's ball (option 4)

A very easy to make New Year's paper ball. To make it, you will need colored paper and glue.

Work plan:

1. Cut out eight identical circles from paper of different colors. Although, in fact, the number of circles can be any, but not less than three.

2. Fold each circle in half, right side inward.

3. Glue the halves of the circles together as shown in the photo below. Glue is applied to the underside of the circle halves.

4. Before finally sealing the New Year's ball, thread a thick thread or ribbon through it. You can also make a wonderful Christmas garland from a large number of paper balls.

Note: this New Year's decoration can be made not only in the shape of a ball, but also in any other shape. To do this, use different stencils.

5. DIY New Year's ball (option 5)

To make these wonderful New Year's lanterns you will need to cut colored paper into strips of equal length and width. The length and width of the strips depends on the size of the lantern you want to make. To make one paper lantern you will need on average 14-16 strips of paper

When making New Year's balls, you can use strips of paper of different colors and beads to decorate New Year's toys with your own hands.

If you bend the strips of paper in the middle, you will get this New Year's decoration.

6. How to make a New Year's ball (option 6)

We suggest you make this cute and easy-to-make New Year’s craft from old cards with your child.

1. Using a small glass or wine glass, draw and cut out eight identical circles.

2. Using another object with a round base but a smaller diameter, draw and cut out two small circles.

3. Fold each big circle in half, and then in half again.

4. Glue four folded large circles onto one small circle, and the remaining four onto the other. As a result, you will have two halves of your future Christmas ball.

It is very IMPORTANT to correctly place the quarters of the large circles on the small circle. Try to carefully straighten the “pockets” of folded circles and in advance, before gluing, estimate the correctness of their location. In this case, focus on the very first photo, which shows a ready-made ball.

5. Now all you have to do is glue the two finished halves together and, when the glue dries, straighten all the pockets. The New Year's ball is ready!

7. DIY thread ball (web balls)

Balls made from threads look very attractive and do not require any special skills or money. Many did them at school during labor lessons. And the use of these web balls is limitless: simply as a decorative element, as a lampshade, and as New Year’s toys. From several of these balls of thread you can make all kinds of toys: snowmen, birds, fish. In general, everything that is enough for your imagination.

Making balls from threads:

1. You will need: scissors, balloons, rich cream (vaseline), any yarn, PVA glue, bowl.
2. Dilute PVA glue with water, approximately 3:1.
3. Inflate the balloon until the right size, give it a round shape, tie it with thread.
4. Rewind required amount yarn, put it in a bowl and leave for 5 minutes.
5. Spread the ball thick cream and wrap it with yarn, first leaving a large distance between the threads.
6. Gradually reduce the distance between the threads until the entire ball is wrapped in yarn and resembles a cocoon.
7. Cut the thread and glue it to the ball. Leave it to dry (at least for a day).
8. Gradually untying the balloon, carefully deflate it, and then remove it from the thread cocoon; We tie a rope to the top of the ball of thread for fastening.

When making a ball, you can use yarn (threads) of any color or paint it with any paint or glitter (spray). Especially for the New Year, you can decorate this thread ball with tinsel and stars. Hang small balls on the Christmas tree, decorate the room with large ones. Fantasize boldly!

If you are unable to wind glue-soaked thread onto a ball, you can wind dry thread and then thoroughly soak it in glue using a brush or sponge.

Instead of glue, you can use sugar syrup or starch paste. To prepare the paste, take 3 teaspoons of starch per glass of cold water, mix thoroughly and bring to a boil. Instead of thread, you can take a thin one copper wire and also wrap it around the ball.

Old Christmas balls can be updated by wrapping each of them in a piece of paper. beautiful fabric and tied with a ribbon.

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New Year is coming and everyone wants a fairy tale, a holiday, joy, so that the house is cozy and beautiful. And what would New Year be without a Christmas tree, New Year's toys and balls?

Today we will offer several creative ideas how to make Christmas balls with your own hands.

How to make a New Year's ball from fabric

Every home has bright fabric scraps, ruffles, and ribbons. First you need to make the base. We take different rags (you can use old socks) and make a tight ball out of them. You can also take a foam ball. And then - the flight of your imagination. You can sew the shreds to the ball in the form of ruffles, or first give the shreds the shape of triangles, rectangles and sew them tightly to the ball. As a result, we ended up with interesting, squashed balls.

We take strong threads, PVA glue, small balloons, glitter.

First, we inflate the balloon to the size we want our balloon to be. We tie it with thread. We coat the remaining length of the thread with glue and wrap our balloon. Cover the thread with glitter and wait until it dries and becomes hard. Then we burst the ball and carefully pull it out of the middle with tweezers. We got a beautiful openwork ball.

We can also use lace and cover it with glue just like thread.

DIY Christmas balls made of polystyrene foam

For the base of the toys, you can take foam plastic. It can be decorated with multi-colored soft felt, beads, sparkles, paper products, and ribbons.

Interesting ideas for DIY New Year's balls

When you have a huge Christmas tree, you want what would be on it more toys. Let's make balls from a floral sponge that can be cut out in the shape of any figure and use pins to pin small toy flowers and twigs.

For those who love antique things, you can make matching New Year's balls. We take the lace, glue it onto the toy and apply paint using a brush or sponge.

You can also decorate discs.

It’s funny when toys in the form of sweet treats hang on the Christmas tree. It's very easy to do. We roll a glue-covered foam ball in glitter, and glue a thread on top to which we will hang the toy. For a twist, glue on a berry. Then we put our ball into a special cupcake pan pre-coated with glue.

Original DIY Christmas decorations

IN New Year's Eve I want everything to sparkle and shine. Let's decorate our balls with beads, beautiful stones, jewelry, artificial pearls, fragments from old glass, New Year's toys, bright shiny sequins.

There is never too much sparkle on New Year's Day.

New Year's decorations made from natural materials

Cones can also be used as decoration, fir branches, rowan berries.

Using paper for decoration is inexpensive and creative.

Knitted Christmas toys

For those who know how to knit or crochet, you can use bright, beautiful threads tie the “outfit” into balloons.

Edible Christmas tree toys

If you have a sweet tooth, you can make balls from candies, cookies, peanuts - it’s not only interesting, but also delicious. Your kids will love this idea.

With such toys, the New Year will be joyful, cheerful and happy.

DIY Christmas balls video

The first New Year's balls appeared in Germany in the 18th century. In those days, Christmas trees were decorated with apples and hand-made decorations, but 1848 turned out to be a lean year, glassblowers urgently made the first apples from glass, and they were liked by the local population. Thus they gradually replaced natural jewelry and artificial crafts. But time does not stand still, and now everything is returning to manual creativity. Handmade may not be perfect, but the soul is put into it, and nothing can replace the warmth of handmade products. Today in this review of the site we will tell you and show you several master classes on how to decorate your home in an unusual way by decorating Christmas balls yourself.

Paper as decoration is the most budget-friendly and simplest option for decorating New Year's balls. Even if something doesn’t work out the first time, don’t worry, you can try again.

Unusual decoration with corrugated paper roses

Before you make unusual New Year's balls from corrugated paper, you need to prepare a glue gun, scissors and beads.

The operating procedure is as follows.

Cut the wrapped paper into 5 cm pieces.
Cut each piece at an angle in the form of a scallop, not cutting about 1 cm to the end.
Unravel the workpiece and twist it into a rosette shape, gluing the edges.
Glue all the roses onto the foam ball. You can additionally decorate beautiful beads or rhinestones.
Glue the loop tape.

Step-by-step decoration of balloons with paper tubes

To decorate New Year's balls with paper tubes, it is better to use bright glossy magazines. As a blank, you can use polystyrene foam or twist a ball out of newspaper and wrap it tightly with thread.

Roll several long tubes from magazine pages, then twist them into flagella.
Lubricate the surface of the ball with glue.
Press one end of the tube tightly to the top of the ball, then begin to twist the strip in a spiral.

This is interesting! Instead of magazine pages, you can use old newspapers or fabric.

Decorating New Year's balls with paper flowers

To surprise guests on New Year's Eve with unusual and tender Christmas balls decorated with paper flowers, you need to buy a special hole punch for scrapbooking, with which you can quickly make identical parts.

To decorate a foam ball, you can use either plain paper or a combination of 2-3 shades. All flowers are attached with safety pins and decorative beads.

We decorate the interior with balls made using the origami technique

The main feature of a ball made using the origami technique is that it does not require a base. Today we will tell you how to make a beautiful ball of lilies with your own hands, which can be used to decorate not only the Christmas tree, but also the interior of the room.

Illustration	Description of action
	Make a square out of a sheet of white A4 paper, fold it in half into a triangle, fold the edges so that it forms a square again.
	Unfold the edges and smooth out the middle.
	Bend the tips of the protruding triangles, and then their edges inward, so that the figure again takes the shape of a square. Roll the workpiece into a cone and glue the sides with tape. For one flower you will need 5 blanks.
	Connect the two pieces with tape, first top edge, then from below. In the same way, fasten all the parts together.
	Using this technique, collect 10 flowers from paper of different shades.
	Glue the flower petals one by one using double-sided tape. You can use a stapler or PVA glue.

Beautiful felt decorations for Christmas balls

Soft felt has long been loved by needlewomen. The material is easy to work with, it does not fray, is easy to drape, and bright colors can be chosen to decorate the interior for any occasion.

How to make felt roses to decorate Christmas balls

Pre-prepare felt different colors, a blank foam ball, scissors and a set of safety pins with beads. The operating procedure is as follows.

Glue the decorative braid-loop to the workpiece.
Prepare circles from felt, then cut in a spiral no more than 1 cm thick.
Roll the strip into a snail shape and secure the base with thread. You can take a ribbon of two shades and roll it together to create a more voluminous and colorful flower.
Make blanks from different colors.
Secure to the foam ball using safety pins.

This is interesting! You can make multi-colored felt blanks, place 2-3 pieces on top of each other and connect them with a safety pin.

Soft Christmas tree decorations made of felt

For the manufacture of New Year's toys we will need felt, some padding polyester or any stuffing, rhinestones, decorative ribbon and a needle and thread.

Description of work.

Cut 2 circles from felt.
Glue rhinestones or any decor on front side both parts.
Connect two circles together and sew buttonhole stitch along the perimeter. Shortly before finishing work, put the padding polyester inside and sew on a loop.

How to make a New Year's ball with fabric decor

New Year's crafts look fascinating, decorated with fabric. They can be made in the general style of the interior and in any color scheme.

Master class on decorating Christmas balls with ribbons

Before you make a New Year's ball with your own hands, you need to prepare:

satin ribbons from 2 cm wide in two colors;
glue gun;
decor made of beads or rhinestones;
foam ball;
decorative cord for loop.

Let's look at decoration in more detail.

Illustration	Description of action
	Cut the ribbons into squares. Apply a little glue to the top of the ball and glue one element.
	Make a triangle out of a square of the second color, then bend it in half and secure the edges with a drop of glue. Make several of these blanks.
	Apply glue to the long side of the triangle and glue it to the corner of the square with an angle to its middle. Glue 3 more elements in the same way to completely cover the square.
	Glue the next row of triangles with the corners to the center of the ball.
	Lightly burn the edges with a lighter to prevent them from unraveling.
	Next, all rows are glued in the same way. We alternate pink and blue colors.
	Glue one square of blue color on the bottom of the toy and fasten the triangles almost to the end.
	Take the tape Pink colour 15 cm long, singe the edges and stitch along the edge with a needle and red thread.
	Gather the bow, secure the edges and glue it to the base.
	Glue a special fastener or a satin decorative loop to the top.

You can watch the master class in more detail in the video:

DIY decoration of New Year's balls using patchwork or kinusaiga techniques

There are two ways to decorate New Year's balls in patchwork style:

pre-sew a blank from scraps;
decorate the ball without using a needle.

A simpler and more interesting idea is execution using the kinusaiga technique. Using this principle, you can create entire paintings not only for the New Year. For work we will need:

foam blank;
pieces of fabric;
glue stick;
thick darning needle, awl or stack needle;
decor.

The order of the work is as follows.

Illustration	Description of action
	Make markings on the foam piece and cut the lines with a stationery knife.
	Apply glue to one area of the workpiece, attach a piece of fabric and use a thick needle to press the edges inward.
	Trim off excess fabric.
	Carefully tuck all the edges of the fabric inward. Process the entire workpiece in the same way.

You can learn more about this technique in the video:

Additionally, you can decorate the New Year's ball with ribbons, beads and rhinestones, and also perform more complex patterns

How to decorate New Year's balls with hand embroidery

Looks beautiful and unusual hand embroidery as a decoration for New Year's balls. To do this, you need to do it on a pre-prepared fabric or canvas, and then cut it out and glue it to the workpiece. The rest of the surface should be decorated with an applique made of a suitable material. You can embroider several pictures separately for each side of the toy, and then glue them onto the foam, then complete the decoration with rhinestones, sequins or beads.

Master classes on unusual decoration of New Year's balls

You can also use unusual objects to decorate Christmas balls. The result is a completely unique product that will not leave anyone indifferent.

How beautifully you can decorate Christmas balls with your own hands using cords and beads

New Year's balls decorated with beads look very beautiful. To do this, you can disassemble an old necklace or buy elements in craft stores. In addition, we will need a foam blank.

1 option

String the beads on a cord and cover the entire ball with them. A selection of different shades will look beautiful.

Option 2

String beads onto safety pins and attach them to the workpiece. Repeat similar steps until the ball is completely closed. The finishing should be completed with a loop for fastening.

Buttons, coins and pasta for unusual decoration of Christmas balls

New Year's balls decorated with buttons look unique on the tree. Buttons can be matched to different colors and sizes, this makes the jewelry more unusual.

This is interesting! Can buttons be replaced? pasta or coins. You must first wrap the workpiece in foil so that the base does not show through. Additionally, the entire ball can be painted with spray paint, covered with glue and applied with glitter powder.

Fabulous patterns made of threads and beads for decorating Christmas balls

New Year's balls made of threads can be used not only to decorate the Christmas tree, but also as a decoration element festive interior. To work we will need a balloon, PVA glue, thread and decorative braid. You can decorate old ones in this way. Christmas tree toy, which over time began to look unpresentable.

The operating procedure is as follows.

Inflate the balloon and coat it completely with glue.
Wrap it in random order with threads, then coat it with glue again.
After the glue has dried, puncture the balloon and carefully pull it out through any hole.

Decorating a New Year's ball with beads is a painstaking task that requires professional skills. You can simply string it on a fishing line in in a certain order beads and glue them to the base. Experienced needlewomen They use complex schemes to create a real masterpiece, which you can always figure out on your own if you wish.

Magic painting of New Year's Christmas balls

Another option for decorating New Year's balls is decorative painting. You can draw whatever you want, and additionally decorate the balls glitter powder, semolina or sequins.

Creativity for the little ones: handprints and fingerprints on balls

Even kids will like this kind of creativity, and you can make decorations in a playful way. To work, you need to prepare the ball, first degrease it. You will also need acrylic paints and thin brushes. Appears here large field for fantasy:

You can paint the child’s entire palm and let him hold on to the ball. After the paint has completely dried, you need to apply a design: your fingers can be snowmen, and your palm can be a snowdrift;
You can draw an angel from handprints;
Fingerprints will make funny faces.

Artistic painting of New Year's balls with stained glass paints

painting stained glass paints– this is a real work of art. You can perform it according to a sketch or apply arbitrary lines in thin lines in the form of falling snow or drops, additionally sprinkle the design with shiny powder or add phosphor pigments that will glow in the dark.

How to decorate Christmas balls with your own hands using decoupage technique

The decoupage technique is already familiar to many. With its help, they decorate not only New Year's balls and small objects in the house, but also furniture, giving it a second youth. To work you need to prepare:

workpiece;
napkins;
sponge and acrylic paints;
PVA glue, finishing varnish.

It is important! Patterns made from napkins for decoupage must be torn off by hand: this way the uneven edges will not be so noticeable under the layer of glue on the finished product.

Step-by-step master class on decorating a New Year's ball with snow using decoupage technique.

Illustration	Description of action
	The surface of the ball must first be degreased.
	Apply the paint with a sponge using blotting movements.
	Tear off a design you like from a napkin.
	Attach the design to the workpiece and glue it using a brush and PVA glue, applying movements from the middle to the edges.
	Sprinkle uncovered surfaces with semolina.
	After drying, coat the finished ball with varnish.
	Using the decoupage technique, you can decorate the entire ball or its individual sides.

You can watch the master class in more detail in the video:

Conclusion

For the coming year Yellow Pig It would be relevant to decorate Christmas tree balls with acorn caps, pine cones or small twigs. Toys decorated with openwork lace or simply wrapped in translucent fabric in the form gift packaging. As you can see, there are a lot of ideas for decoration, and such products look completely different in the interior than those bought in stores. Besides, joint creativity will unite all family members.

Did you like our ideas? Which of them are you already planning to implement? Tell us in the comments.

Finally, be sure to watch a video selection of unusual decorations for New Year's balls - perhaps you will find something for yourself in this video great idea.