New Year's Eve is a special time that we spend with our loved ones. Important elements of these holidays are the New Year's decoration of the home and the gifts that we make to each other. Here the question often arises as to what is the best gift to give. It is advisable to choose something practical that will come in handy at home. Of course, the interests of the recipient, his favorite taste and the style he prefers, should always be taken into account. Armed with such knowledge, we can safely go shopping.

However, there is nothing more soulful than a one-of-a-kind handmade gift. In addition, the search for presents for all family members takes quite a lot of time. And the queues and crowds in the stores are not conducive to spending long hours in malls. Therefore, when planning purchases for the New Year, it is worth considering the possibility of making gifts with your own hands and making a list of items in advance. This will save time and avoid additional costs.

The simplest crafts

A great idea for gifts can be to purchase souvenirs or necessary and practical items for every room of the house. It could be something for the kitchen, dining room, bedroom or bathroom. Ideally, such an object should be distinguished by both good design and high practical properties.

Original budget egg cups, bowls, teapots, pots, trays, wine buckets, plywood and plasticine crafts and other items are just examples of interesting New Year's gifts that will always come in handy at home.

However, many more original gifts can be made with a little imagination combined with some knowledge.

• Painted wooden bowls. Decorate a plain wooden bowl or bowl with small designs like polka dots, stripes or flowers.

• Make a cool collage of newspaper clippings on a topic such as sports. You can also add your favorite quote.

• For women, you can make a gift of small hand towels and fragrant soap. All that is needed is to wrap the soap in a certain way with a towel. Such a gift can become a favorite "mascot for the bathroom." To do this, place the soap on a towel folded in a triangle. Roll up. Bring the ends together and tie with an elastic band. Decorate with a red bow. The original antlers and "moving eyes" can be bought at a stationery or other small store. And make a nose from a piece of any red sticker.

• For grandmother - a jar of sewing supplies. Go to a haberdashery shop and buy colorful spools of thread, needles of different sizes, and pins with different colored heads. Take the original jar with a decorative lid. Put a homemade pin cushion on top of it. Attach with thread. Add a note from Santa Claus and you're done. Grandma will be delighted.

• For grandfather - a frame with pictures of grandchildren. A photo frame is a good gift for any occasion. Grandpa (and grandma) will surely love the original gift with photos of all their grandchildren. All you have to do is find an old frame and paint it your grandfather's favorite color. Drill holes and thread the wire or thread through the frame to secure it. Insert photos of all grandchildren into one or more frames.

• You can pack a bottle with wrapping paper (this applies not only to alcohol, but also to all types of cosmetics). Then make a Santa Claus hat. All we need is a piece of fabric or felt, cotton and a button. We glue the materials in the form of a hat, attach a nose from a button and a beard. We put the whole structure on a bottle.

• Pictures from plasticine. To obtain a picture from this plastic material, it is necessary to apply plasticine in layers. The first layer is placed on the elements that are farthest from the eyes, for example, the sky (blue plasticine). Then layers are applied, which should depict closer objects (the sun is yellow) and so on until a landscape is obtained. Such paintings depicting the New Year theme can be presented for the New Year. They will make a pretty original present.

• plywood gifts. This material has a wide range of applications. From it you can build a birdhouse, toys in the form of different animals, shelves, hangers or even a table lamp. Plywood is used to make furniture - stools or coffee tables. This is a pretty durable material. But he is afraid of moisture. Therefore, it is desirable to proliferate and paint products from it.

Plywood is easy to process. Even schoolchildren can easily cut out simple objects from it.

We create original souvenirs

Handmade crafts are good, first of all, for their uniqueness. Here are some original items that can be presented as a New Year's souvenir.

• Bird's nest necklace. From thin wire and glass beads, form a cool necklace that looks like a bird's nest. For an even more special necklace, gemstones can be combined with pearls.

• fancy lamp. Paint the base of the lamp a color you like, such as green, blue or pink. Apply any pattern to the lampshade. Connect the base to the patterned lampshade.

• Scarves with stencil. Decorate your scarf with a simple design like flowers or feathers. Use your own design stencil and fabric paint for this.

• stone photo frame. Match the photo frame with stones of the same color. Glue them to the frame. Place a suitable photo inside to personalize your gift.

• Colored vases. Paint the vase with wide stripes of different colors. Place fresh flowers in it.

• Bowls with own design. Give your chinaware a stylish look with ceramic paint. Your miniature patterned bowls will be a beautiful, creative surprise for anyone who loves to cook.

• Painted handkerchiefs. The dresses are universal. Make your own series of these items by painting them with various patterns to your liking. And you can always have ready-made souvenirs for guests.

• Bottle lamps. A glass or plastic bottle (preferably multi-colored) can be a unique Christmas decoration. All you have to do is put white or colored light bulbs inside and then turn them on. In an instant, an ordinary bottle will become a beautiful lamp!

• Balloons with confetti. Confetti balloons are a very impressive Christmas decoration. To do this, place confetti in a simple transparent balloon. Then place the colored balloon in the clear balloon and inflate it. And everything is ready!

• Colorful rain from balloons. Another way to use balloons is to place them on silver or gold foil attached to a lamp or ceiling. At midnight, simply pull the string to release the foil from the mount. The balloons will fall to the ground like colored rain.

• Fire inscription. The original idea of ​​\u200b\u200bdecorating a New Year's Eve is to decorate any inscription with matches. On New Year's Eve, it could be the phrase "Happy New Year!". Spread it, for example, on a baking sheet. Matches can be glued to the surface with weak glue. Shortly before midnight, we light all the matches, and when twelve comes, ask the guests to blow them out.

• Colored rosettes made of paper. Paper rosettes made from multi-colored sheets of paper are ideal as New Year's wall decorations. To prepare them, you will need colored gift wrapping paper, a metal ruler, a pencil, a craft knife, a hole punch, scissors and string. Paper cut into strips can have different widths - the wider the strip of paper, the larger the rosette you bend.

• Sew a bag to carry books, magazines or crafts. Choose a fabric that matches the style of the person you are giving it to.

• Create a custom laptop case for the person who travels frequently.

• Give a pillow, which will have an interesting drawing or an original (funny) quote that will lift your spirits.

Or add an appropriate photo that emphasizes the individual approach.

Useful gifts

Homemade gifts can also be useful. Consider some ideas for such presentations.

Handmade candles

Making a candle yourself is quite easy, following simple recommendations.

• The master class begins with the items used for this work. You will need wax (paraffin), a heavy-bottomed saucepan, a bowl for dissolving the wax in a water bath, dye, a container (for example, a plastic cup or beer cans), a ready-made wick, a knife, a spatula to level the surface of the wax and a hair dryer.

• Instead of buying ready-made paraffin, you can also use leftover unburned candles - this is the idea of ​​recycling unwanted items. If you want the candle to contain additives, be sure to prepare them - for example, lemon zest and others. You will also need aromatic oils.

• Start by mixing the wax. It should be heated, but not in the microwave. It is best to use a saucepan with a very thick bottom, dissolving the wax in a water bath. To do this is quite simple. Fill a saucepan with hot water about halfway, and place a suitable bowl on it in which to place the wax. The steam rising from the pot heats the bowl and slowly melts the wax. As already mentioned, you can use either paraffin bought in the store, or the remains of different candles.

• Prepare the mold for making the candle. It can be, for example, a beer can or a plastic cup. Remember that when the candle hardens, you must cut the mold. It should be an item that you can easily cut with a knife. Of course, you can also make a candle in a glass. At the bottom of the finished form, place decorative elements, such as shells or chopped lemon zest.

• To make a scented candle, add a few drops of scented oil and dye to warm wax. If you don't want to use pre-made oils, you can opt for a natural flavor—a pinch of cinnamon or cake vanilla would be ideal. Stir gently so that the paint and oil spread throughout the mass. If you do not want the candle to smell and stain, skip this step.

• Place a wick in the middle of the prepared form. You can buy a ready-made one or use a wick from an old candle.

• While carefully supporting the wick (be careful not to burn yourself), gradually pour out the liquid wax mass. Using a spatula, level it so that it is evenly distributed in the mold.

• Freeze the candle. Depending on how hot the wax was, this can take up to 12 hours. To speed up the process, you can dry the candle with a hair dryer.

• When your decorative candle is completely dry, remove it from the mold. Cut open a plastic cup or jar and throw it away.

If you used glass, skip this step.

Washi Tape Candles

Start decorating with regular simple candles and then decorate them with washi ribbon patterns. Place them in candle holders for a better display.

beeswax candles

Pour the melted wax into the candle holders. Add flavors like mocha or cinnamon. And the room will be filled with pleasant incense.

Mittens

Do-it-yourself mittens can be a wonderful New Year's gift. This gift is suitable for both adults and children.

With open fingers. These are very practical mittens that do not cover half of the fingers. Thanks to this design, they warm your hands. But at the same time, you can freely make a phone call or take your wallet out of your bag. They appeared in the 18th century in France and at first were an elegant addition to the costumes of the ladies of that time. For their manufacture, silk was mainly used. Now they can be extravagant, attractive and warm addition to the wardrobe. It is easy to tie them yourself. To do this, you only need a skein of any yarn and a needle with a large eye. A pattern of snowflakes or deer is applied to the product.

Patterns can be made from felt of a different color.

Soap

Making New Year's soap is not at all difficult, and accessories can be anything. You can make fragrant soap with cinnamon and orange.

Materials:

• white glycerin base;
• aromatic oil (orange);
• orange dye;
• ground cinnamon;
• Orange peel;
• forms;
• Plastic container;
• skewers;
• wrapping foil;
• ribbon;
• scissors.

Let's take a step-by-step approach.

• Put the dried orange peel into molds and pour over the cinnamon.
• Cut the soap, heated in a plastic container in the microwave (this can also be done in a water bath).
• Add aromatic oils to the dissolved soap and stir.
• Pour soap into molds.
• Add a few drops of dye to the soap.
• At the end of the process, pour in some more cinnamon and add the orange zest.
• Leave the soap to dry. To speed up the process, you can put it in the refrigerator until it hardens.
• Take the soap out of the mold.

How to make soap with your own hands, see the following video.

Other types of gifts

And some more useful gifts.

• Necklace holder. Create a beautiful display for hanging jewelry such as necklaces, beads, bracelets and hair bands. Choose your favorite board design and matching hooks.

• Long knitted scarf. These scarves can be worn in spring, autumn and winter. Make it from colored yarn using a knitting machine.

• Hanger with flowers. Create your own hanger by sticking wrapping paper with flowers. Paint the base and hooks nice colors.

• Personal notebook. For a friend who loves to write and jot down memories, you can personalize a notebook or journal. Add phrases to the cover that will inspire him.

• Wire photo frame. Create a unique frame where you can store many photos. Fasten the wire to the old frame, for example, from a small window. Insert photos with holders into it.

• Elastic bookmark. Made from elastic bands and fabric, these bookmarks hold the right page and won't slip when you travel. Add a book or magazine to your gift.

• Elastic headband. Such products can be made from scraps of fabric using a simple pattern. These hair accessories can be used for workouts or morning runs.

• Zip bag. Clutches or mini wallets for everyday outing or cosmetics storage. Sew or remake such a bag, personalizing it with a monogram.

• Pillows. Create customized color fabric pillows to suit the tastes of your family or friends. Choose a fun pattern and pair it with more neutral tones.

However, not everything can be done by hand. Sometimes things bought in a store, chosen with love and attention to a person, will also be perceived as something individual.

• For lovers of cooking, we recommend buying a kitchen apron decorated with a New Year's motif. Original cups will also be useful.

• An interesting mirror, linens, a designer bedside lamp, a toiletry bag, a good quality towel or a nice soap dispenser.

• For women: cosmetics, jewelry, clothing and fashion accessories.

• "Beautiful" household appliances or massage equipment for body care.

• Books are always a proven gift. Before the New Year, good topics will be: guides that are related to the search for happiness; dietary and sports advice. After all, the coming year is conducive to new beginnings and decisions. Biographies, science fiction and fiction are also popular.

• The most popular gifts for men are watches and various types of electronics (phones with accessories, RTV equipment and multimedia).

• If you are dealing with a fan of computer games, you should ask the seller what is currently at the peak of popularity. And you need to find out in advance what topic the player is interested in.

If he likes strategy games, maybe he shouldn't buy the new version of FIFA.

Remember that toys for children should not only give joy, but also teach and shape the imagination. A common mistake parents make is buying toys that are too big. A four-year-old child will not be able to cope with a huge set of Lego bricks. Perfect gifts for:

• interactive globe;
• singing doll;
• password diary;
• interactive dog;
• bear;
• holiday car for dogs;
• interactive map of the world;
• cyber robot with remote control.

edible gifts

And of course, where without sweets. Here for culinary expanse. You can cook a lot of interesting things.

Lemonade in a jug

Refreshing gift: lemonade set - a jug (with lemonade) and a cup. Add fresh lemons (or tangerines) and sugar to the drink.

Special oil

Whip up delicious butters along with honey and berries. Then pack them in small jars. This appetizing gift can be spread on toast, bagels and pancakes.

Fancy cupcakes

Bake a batch of vanilla or chocolate cupcakes and decorate them in style.

Top with fresh berries, whipped cream and syrup.

Muffins and balls

To make the muffins look festive, decorate them with ready-made confectionery flowers and put them in a souvenir box.

Recipe:

• 250 g flour;
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda;
• 150 g of sugar;
• 150 g of chopped chocolate (you can give 100 g of milk and 50 g of bitter);
• 2 tablespoons of cocoa;
• 1 large egg;
• 90 ml of oil;
• 250 ml of milk;
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.

Combine all the main ingredients in one bowl (except the chocolate for dusting the muffins) and mix them together. Fill cupcake molds with mixture and top with chocolate. Bake for about 20 minutes at 200ºC.

How to pack?

As gift wrapping, you can use ordinary white, gray or colored decorative paper, cardboard boxes, bags and even old newspapers. If you choose a template with a clear graphic motif in black, white, silver or gold material for gift wrapping, then it will look very impressive located under the tree.

Glossy paper with a metallic effect will make the packaging elegant. Remember that careful execution is important. There should be no visible glue, wrinkles, or tape. If you cannot pack the goods yourself, buy decorative boxes.

Wrapping gray paper is the basis of packaging. Colors that are harmoniously combined with it are green, red, black and even white. Using a sprig of spruce, a bunch of mountain ash, or an ordinary black plastic card, you can beautifully highlight the gift.

Using a printer, you can print, for example, a deer by adding elements cut out of colored paper. Brown cardboard jars look beautiful, decorated with a festive accent - a Christmas tree or a red bow.

A holiday gift will also look very attractive if it is packaged in a decorative package.

• You can use different materials such as velvet, embossed leather, felt, thick canvas. Each gift box should always be decorated with an elegant satin ribbon, a ribbon with a winter motif, snow-white lace or a colored cord.
• Several different colors can be used. For example, if we pack gifts in fashionable eco-style in plain gray paper, then a decorative thread of white and red colors will perfectly fit into this festive packaging.
• New Year's gifts should also be decorated with small items that we can fasten with tape or glue to the package. There are enough accessories that can be used to decorate gift wrapping. For this purpose, small trinkets, paper or metal stars, cones and pieces of bark, twigs, mountain ash or wild rose, dry flowers, and even figurines of small animals are perfect.

Plain gray or white gift wrapping paper also looks great when stamped with Christmas motifs like a snowflake.

Packing sweet gifts can be very interesting.

• Giving cookies, candies, homemade preserves, handmade spices or oils is a lot of fun. Sweets are best placed in decorative boxes or jars. Tie them with a pretty ribbon and put in some cakes.
• Jams, preserves, spices are most often found in jars that can be decorated with ribbon or lace. Don't forget to ennoble the lid of the jar with a beautiful festive pattern.
• Instead of gray paper, you can use an unnecessary newspaper, an old book, a notebook with notes. A few Christmas accents - and you get an unusual finished package. The newspaper will be interesting to contrast with red and green ornaments. This packaging will delight lovers of simplicity and vintage style. Admittedly, this is an interesting alternative to paper with Christmas themes sold in stores.

There is a pre-New Year tradition: buying gifts at the last moment helps, you know, not to lose the rhythm of life. But such a number will not work if you decide to make them yourself. We offer you to look at a dozen interesting directions for finding ideas for a New Year's gift and already start working on them. After all, this will take time.

Check out ready-made Christmas gift ideas from our experts

We have collected 10 interesting ideas for New Year's gifts and souvenirs that you can make with your own hands. Small crafts, cute warming accessories and nice holiday trifles - everything that will help create the right atmosphere on this most magical night of the year. So, it's time to work miracles.

1. Commemorative Christmas decorations with a photo

2. Gifts from your baby

Parents of a small child probably already know the cool “Baby’s First Footprint” sets, from which you can make 3D prints of a hand or foot. By the New Year, this idea can be modernized and unusual Christmas decorations prepared - just paint the prints with bright colors.

Balls can also be made with palms

Children's hands will turn the simplest things into magical things - for example mittens with handprints of little helpers. And also try to print small legs inside slippers for dad or grandpa. Or do t-shirt with imprinted baby hugs.

You can also make New Year's cards with the baby - this is a very fun and ticklish activity!)

For more family holiday gift ideas, check out our collection.

3. Handmade ideas. Knitted gifts for the New Year will warm you in winter.

If you still have in your memory school lessons on work or grandmother's parting words on knitting, then it will not be difficult for you to realize these New Year's gift ideas.

Let's start with the classics. We knit warm and cozy scarf! Such a gift will be appreciated by both a girlfriend and a loved one, and, of course, parents and grandparents will be delighted!

To knit such a scarf, you need to master only 2 steps - a set of loops and a garter stitch. This video tutorial will help you:

It remains to choose the color and thickness of the yarn and the size of the knitting needles - you can knit a light, neat scarf made of fine yarn or a massive, incredibly warm and cozy coarse knit scarf.

Try switching to a different thread color while knitting to create stripes. You can add buttons or a small beading pattern. Add fringe, braids or fluffy thread pompoms around the edges (see).

If you are confident in your abilities and have sufficient skills, then you can try to tie socks or mittens. On the Internet, on specialized sites, you will find many detailed lessons and tips.

You can also sew something unusual. For example, a great gift for the New Year - warmer in a knitted case, and knitted "clothes" - cover for cups keep your favorite drink hot for a long time.

4. Fragrant Christmas decorations

From vanilla sticks, cones, fragrant spruce twigs, orange slices and star anise stars (star anise), you can build pretty Christmas trees, houses, stars, and even assemble garlands from them. Even after New Year's Eve, such toys can be used as natural flavors - to decorate, for example, your workplace with them for the rest of the winter.

5. Delicious New Year's gifts

Gifts that are never enough. Especially under the tree. Especially in a big company!

Bake something delicious gingerbread cookies on this recipe and pack it in a beautiful Christmas box. You can make holes in it in advance and add ribbons so that it can be hung on a Christmas tree.

Very popular in the west gingerbread men- they have already become a kind of symbol of Christmas and New Year. And it's really easy to make nice souvenirs out of them, for example, for colleagues or classmates. Cooked little men can be "individualized" with the help of colored glaze - add glasses, just like the accountant Olya, a beard, like the programmer Vitka, and a tie, like Pal Andreevich's, and arrange them in CD packaging (genius - easy!) - edible ginger colleagues are ready to please their prototypes!

If you get gingerbread men, then you can move on to the next level of culinary skill - cook Gingerbread house, just like in the fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel. Details for it can be baked on the same cookie recipe, then assemble the resulting "constructor" with the help of glaze and decorate the exterior of a fabulous building with it. Here is an example diagram -

From the same series - homemade, fragrant and fragrant jam. The traditional and proven one is best to ask your grandmother or mother, but you can also search the Internet for something exotic. On jars we hang tags with wishes ( "Raspberry Jam for Cough and Winter Blues", "Jam from Garden Cherry and My Love", "Currant for Luck!", "Gooseberry Jam for the Best Dad in the World") wrapped in a pretty colored fabric or paper, tied with ribbons. Don't forget about honey- the most important and delicious protector from winter snowstorms and blizzards.

And here is how you can pack sweets for a child in an original way. Make a personalized New Year's gift from your baby's favorite treats.

6. We remember the lessons of fine arts. Christmas origami

Well, the easiest way to make Christmas decorations is from colored paper. Such souvenirs can be built with children. With them, children will be able to decorate their room or classroom at school.

Here, for example, are the simplest origami toys - Santa Claus from a square of red paper.

And here is another instruction Santa Claus from colored paper.

On the Internet you will find many other schemes. And the easiest way to make toys is from video tutorials. Here, for example, a detailed lesson on modular origami "Christmas Star".

As a result, such stars are obtained -

7. Ball "Melting Snowman" and Snowman from an old light bulb

Another unusual Christmas toy. Pour some sugar-snow into a transparent Christmas ball, throw a mini bag of orange paper - it will be a carrot and a few peas of black pepper - the eyes and buttons of a melted snowman. The winter ball is ready!

Another idea is a snowman made from a burned out light bulb. Cute, right? It is very easy to make it - read ours.

8. Winter in miniature - snow globes

Try to make such fabulous New Year's souvenirs - snow globes. Plastic toys are placed in a jar and covered with artificial snow - read our detailed guide on creating such winter wonders in a jar.

By the way, Christmas decorations can be made in the same way - put small Christmas trees inside a transparent ball and cover with artificial snow -

And you can insert into the ball and branches of a real Christmas tree, cones, forest moss -

The New Year 2020 is coming soon and this is a great occasion to make simple and beautiful crafts with your own hands from improvised materials: cones, paper, tubes and much more. They can not only show off at school exhibitions, but also decorate an apartment, but also present as an invaluable gift to your family and friends. We have prepared the best crafts for the New Year for you and we will start our article with crafts of the symbol of 2020, which will be held under the sign of the Yellow Metal Rat, and we decided to show you a simple and useful craft.

Symbol of 2020 from paper and cardboard

In order to make this Christmas craft you will need:

• Cardboard
• colored paper
• Scissors

Carefully make a toy:

1. We cut out our future rat, as well as its details and clothes.
2. Using glue, we glue crafts, clothes and small parts. The toy is ready!

Clay rat craft

Even a child can make such a simple craft, prepare:

• Polymer clay
• rolling pin

Progress:

1. We roll a ball of clay, then stretch it out and give it the shape of an egg.
2. With the help of a knife, we designate the paws and the circle on the sides of the rat.
3. We take clay of a different color, form a scarf and attach it to the figure
4. We make small balls from the clay of the main color, then press them down, forming the feet and palms. Fingers can be marked with a needle. Attaching them to the shape
5. Making and attaching the ponytail
6. We make the head of a rat. To do this, roll the ball, then gently pull it out to make it as similar as possible to the muzzle of a rat
7. Let's make the eyes of a rat. You can make them in one color, or you can mold them using white, black and blue clay.
8. It remains to bake the resulting figure, according to the instructions on the packaging of polymer clay. The craft is ready!

Crafts for the New Year 2020 felt rat

Even a schoolboy can make a rat out of felt, for this, prepare:

• Rat torso template, dress for her and a flower for decoration (you can print or draw and cut yourself)
• Felt of the desired color
• Needle, thread
• The lace is thin

Making a rat:

1. According to the finished template, we cut out their felt of different colors, the body of a rat, a dress and a flower
2. We fold the body and dress together and carefully stitch along the edge. It is better to do this in the "needle forward" technique.
3. We sew a tail on the rat, using a lace or thick threads for this.
4. Now we embroider the muzzle of a rat with colored threads: eyes and antennae
5. We sew a flower. The craft is ready!

balloon snowman

To make this beautiful craft you will need:

• 3 balloons
• Thick white thread
• Decoration accessories

Manufacturing process:

1. inflate three balloons according to the principle of a snowman figure (large, medium and small)
2. We carefully lubricate the thread with glue and wrap the balls in turn. We are waiting for drying
3. We collect three balls together and fix with the same glue
4. We decorate the snowman with accessories, designate the eyes, nose, mouth, etc.
5. Snowman is ready!

paper lantern

Making this simple craft will take quite a bit of time:

• colored paper
• Scissors

The manufacturing process is very simple:

Following this instruction, we measure and cut out the necessary parts from paper, glue them with glue. The craft is ready!

Beautiful DIY candlesticks: 3 ideas

One of the most popular and understandable gifts for everyone are candlesticks. They can be given to anyone, whether a colleague or a close relative. A young man, a student, and a person of age will be happy with such a present. You can make a candlestick with your own hands from improvised materials, and the cost of a souvenir will please those who do not have a large budget.

To make an original candlestick, you will need a glass cup and regular nail polish in different colors. On the glass from the outside, you can draw any pattern using varnishes, and after drying, the pattern will not be erased or washed off with water. The choice of drawing depends only on the preferences and imagination of the author himself.

Idea #1

To make an original Christmas tree candlestick, you need a green ribbon, several small branches of spruce or pine, white, blue and green nail polish, and a small heat-resistant glass cup.

On the outside of the glass, you need to draw snowflakes, Christmas trees, or simply write a congratulation by hand for the coming New Year. If the candlestick is large, then you can leave fingerprints on it as a keepsake. From above you need to put a few branches around the perimeter of the glass and tie them with a ribbon. Make a bow out of the ends of the ribbon.

Idea #2

A lace candlestick is an original little thing that will appeal to the female sex. On a smooth glass of heat-resistant glass, you need to stick a lace ribbon. In the work, you can use Moment glue or a glue gun. Do not worry if the edges of the fabric protrude slightly beyond the edges of the glass - this will give the souvenir an extra zest.

Idea #3

A small candlestick made of twigs is a good gift for those who appreciate handmade things and know how to use them in the interior. Along the perimeter of a transparent glass cup, small branches cut to the size of the container are glued with a glue gun. The branches must be dry, pre-treated with an antiseptic. If such a present seems small for a gift, then a few more candlesticks of different sizes can be made into the kit. They will look great on a shelf together.

Aromatic bath bombs

A gift in the form of a set of bath bombs looks stylish and original. With the help of such balls, you can perfectly relieve stress, relax in a foamy bath. Products are completely safe for human health, as they contain only natural ingredients that do not cause allergies.

To make a bomb with your own hands, you will need:

• 4 tablespoons of baking soda;
• 2 tablespoons of citric acid;
• A few drops of any essential oil;
• 2 tablespoons of cosmetic sea salt.

Mix all dry ingredients thoroughly in a separate container, add a few drops of your favorite essential oil to them. For example, you can use the essential oil of lavender, bergamot, orange or lemon, rose. Then the mixture must be gradually moistened with water from a spray bottle until it begins to hold its shape when compressed. When it will be possible to sculpt "snowballs" from the powder, this means that bombs can be formed. The mixture can be compacted tightly into any shape, making funny bears for children or a flower for adults out of it. In this position, the bomb should dry for several days, after which it can be used.

Instead of colored food dyes, you can use natural ones - coffee, colored sea salt, cocoa.

Boot for gifts

A handmade boot for gifts is a wonderful interior decoration. Even a beginner can sew it and give it to each family member. To do this, you need to draw a pattern of the desired size on paper and cut out all the details of the future product on it. Then they are sewn with a machine, choosing a not too small line. Remember that the boot must have a lining, which is also sewn according to a paper pattern. The lining is fixed on the top of the boot with a hidden seam, after which a loop is attached so that the souvenir can be hung on a hook.

Amulet with your own hands

An interesting option for a New Year's souvenir can be an amulet, which is given as a symbol of prosperity, happiness, abundance of money, love, career growth. It can be a small ball - Temari, which can bring laughter, happiness, health into the house. Or original amulets for the home that will protect you from everything negative for a whole year. And you can make "temari" in 10-15 minutes, thanks to our video, which is below.

Do-it-yourself New Year's clapperboard

Everything is appropriate in the New Year: both noise and fun. Therefore, a bright holiday cracker will be a great craft. After all, who among us has not dreamed of finding himself in the rain of brilliant confetti. This DIY craft is done very easily and quickly from simple improvised materials, and to make it easier for you, we found suitable videos with a master class.

New Year's diary

A super cool craft for the New Year is a diary in which you can plan and schedule all your tasks and meetings for the whole year. Ideally, if the symbol of the upcoming year of the Rooster is depicted on it. On the first page, you can write your wishes to a person in the New Year. It would seem banal, but such a necessary and cute gift that can be made in just 30 minutes if you watch our video with detailed instructions.

Christmas cookies

If you have a wonderful relationship at work and you need to congratulate a large number of colleagues, do not rush to buy expensive New Year's souvenirs for everyone. You can also congratulate in a very original way with confectionery products made in the form of small symbols of the holiday. It can be cakes, sweets or cookies. They can be made with your own hands or ordered in almost every pastry shop. Such gifts will not only delight your colleagues, but also serve as an excellent dessert.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups wheat flour
• 1 cup of sugar
• 2 pcs. egg
• 125 g butter
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 3 tbsp honey
• 1 tsp citric acid
• a pinch of salt

Cooking:

1. In a convenient dish, add honey, water, sugar, stir and heat over medium heat.
2. Add soy sauce, oil and spices and stir until smooth.
3. Let it cool down a bit, then salt it.
4. Then transfer everything to the pan, add flour and knead the elastic dough.
5. Then put it in a cold place for 40 minutes.
6. Roll out the dough with a thickness of 1-2 mm, cut out with molds.
7. Transfer the cookies to a sheet and bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 5 minutes.
8. And finally, you can decorate with anything you like: caramel, chocolate, eggnog with dye.

Video cooking instructions

DIY Christmas tree star

You can make a beautiful decoration for the Christmas tree with your own hands, using only those materials that are at home. Economical and stylish.

What we need:

• PVA glue;
• Thread for knitting;
• Styrofoam;
• Matches;
• Possible template for a Christmas tree.

Cooking process:

• Pour glue into a small bowl, dilute it with water if necessary.
• Prepare a template for the future star and attach matches to the foam.
• It is good to impregnate the thread with glue. And we begin to wrap the matches counterclockwise, alternately above the match, under the match. Pre-fix the end of the thread on one of the matches.
• Then we fill the entire space with a thread. We leave our masterpiece to dry.
• We tie a rope to our asterisk from above and can be hung on a Christmas tree. Our original toy is ready.

Christmas tree made of cotton pads

How can the New Year be without a Christmas tree? Recently, most people are accustomed to putting up and decorating an artificial Christmas tree. We can make it with our own hands. Festive and elegant.

What is necessary:

• A large number of cotton pads (more than three packs);
• White paint;
• stapler;
• Convenient scissors;
• Glue;
• Beads and braid;
• A2 format cardboard.

Cooking process:

• First we need to prepare the needles for our Christmas tree. To do this, you need to fold the cotton pad in half, then again and fasten it with a stapler.
• We take a sheet of A2 format, twist it with a bag, align the bottom with scissors.
• But we begin to glue our needles from below. Lubricate the fold with glue and fix on the base. We pass each row again with glue.
• Row by row we glue the cone.
• Then we decorate our Christmas tree at our discretion, stick stars. The top can be decorated with a big star. The Christmas tree should look beautiful and stylish.

Snowman from disposable cups

A beautiful, original masterpiece from absolutely inexpensive materials can be prepared for everyone. Your craft will be appreciated, take the time to please yourself and your loved ones.

What we need:

• Plastic disposable cups;
• Cardboard, preferably black and gold;
• stapler;
• Textile;
• Carrot.

Manufacturing process:

• We fasten the cups with a stapler, forming the torso in the form of a ball, and then the head.
• When the snowman frame is ready, we attach a nose from a carrot, and we make eyes and a scarf from shreds of fabric.
• We make a hat from cardboard, make a circle and a cylinder. We glue. Decorate with a golden ribbon. Our cute snowman is ready.

Original Christmas tree made of threads

Do you want to come up with something extraordinary and extravagant? Try to make a voluminous Christmas tree from threads. It will decorate your interior and add a touch of novelty.

What is needed for manufacturing:

• Woolen threads;
• Convenient scissors;
• Glue;
• Thick paper;
• Film;
• Incomplete tablespoon of starch;
• Four tablespoons of water;
• Decoration elements.

Manufacturing process:

• Make a cone of thick paper, cut and align the bottom, glue.
• Mix the glue with starch well;
• Cut the thread, the longer the better. And leave to soak in glue and starch for at least twenty minutes.
• We take the film and carefully wrap our cone.
• Next, we pull the thread out of the solution and wind it around the cone in random order.
• After that, let it dry for a day.
• Then we take out the cone. We decorate our Christmas tree with decor: beads, confetti. Our stylish Christmas tree is ready. Nothing complicated, but unusually beautiful.

Souvenir "Snow Tale"

Everyone in childhood loved to play with a ball of snow. He fascinated, there was something intriguing and mysterious about him. It's time to create this fairy tale with your own hands. It turns out that it is not so difficult. And if you also involve a child in the process, then this will become an exciting adventure.

Materials required for manufacturing:

• Glass jar of any size, lid;
• Any small details in the form of figures of people, animals, plants;
• Glue waterproof;
• Glycerol;
• Distilled water;
• snowball

Manufacturing process:

• We take the figures and glue them inside the jar, as we like, we can put it on the lid;
• Now you can pour water and dilute glycerin in it. Thanks to glycerin, the snowball will fall to the bottom of the jar slowly.
• Add glitter and turn the jar over. If they settle quickly, you need to add more glycerin.

Add glycerin until we reach the desired result. Our fabulous toy is ready.

Snowflake

Now I want to tell you about a very original New Year's craft that you can make from salt dough with your daughter.

Necessary materials:

• For the dough, 1 cup of flour and salt and 0.5 cups of water;
• Gouache blue;
• Ribbon;
• Glue;
• Sequins.

Work process:

1. Knead the dough and add blue paint to it.
2. We roll 7 peas and make a flower out of them as in the photo. We make small indentations in them with a toothpick.
3. We roll the flagellum and make an element out of it as shown in the photo. To him we sculpt the second one. We attach the resulting part to the center of the snowflake.
4. We make 5 more of the same rays.
5. When the snowflake dries, cover it with paint again on both sides.
6. We apply glue in a thin layer and sprinkle with sparkles and the snowflake is ready with our own hands.

Salt Dough Candlestick

Today, the market offers us a variety of goods for every taste. Finding a gift for the New Year is not difficult, and you can even get lost in such a variety. But due to the development of technology, people are again beginning to appreciate manual work, and it is much more pleasant to receive a gift made by hand.

DIY Christmas Gift Ideas

Preparing gifts is an exciting and enjoyable period. A festive mood appears and I want to please every friend and family member with an interesting and unusual gift.

Here are the main options for gifts for the New Year with your own hands.

Knitten things

For such a gift, of course, you will need certain skills. If you know how to knit, then a hat, scarf or mittens will be a great New Year's gift.

DIY scarf as a gift

Knitted Christmas toys

Souvenir

This general concept hides a lot of ideas. On the Internet you can find many master classes on creating New Year's souvenirs with your own hands. Here are some interesting options:

DIY candlestick

Christmas tree from a cone

DIY beaded gifts

A toy

Such a gift can be both simple and professional. It all depends on your skills. Since the next 2018 will be the year of the Dog, a toy symbol of the New Year will be an excellent option.

DIY dog toy

You can sew a dog toy, for example, from a sock. It is very simple to make it, and if you show imagination and add accessories, you will get a beautiful and original thing.

sock dog

Christmas tree toy

Christmas tree decorations are another great gift option. You can make a toy from any improvised materials. For example, sew from felt or mold from salt dough.

Christmas toys made of felt

fabric toys

Salt dough Christmas toys

Souvenir with photo

A cute and simple DIY gift can be made using photos. For example, if you insert a photo into a transparent Christmas ball, you get a beautiful personalized gift.

Christmas ball with a photo inside

With photographs, also do:

• calendars;
• magnets;
• phone cases;
• mugs;
• t-shirts;
• crockery and more.

Puzzle with a photo for the New Year

Sweets

Since childhood, the New Year has been associated with sweets, chocolates and other delicious gifts. If you know how to cook and love to cook, this option is definitely for you.

Gingerbread for the New Year

DIY sweet gift ideas:

• gingerbread;
• cookie;
• cake;
• cakes;
• candies.

But even if you do not want to cook, you can make an original sweet gift from purchased sweets.

Do-it-yourself candy tree

We offer a small master class on making Christmas trees from sweets.

You will need:

• a bottle of champagne;
• scotch;
• tinsel;
• sweets, gingerbread and other small sweets as desired.

Christmas tree on a bottle of champagne

The bottle will serve as the basis to which we attach green tinsel with adhesive tape. Corrugated paper can be used instead of tinsel. It remains to hang sweets on the resulting Christmas tree, like New Year's toys.

Christmas wreath

To create such a gift, any improvised means are useful. A wreath can be assembled from spruce branches and decorated with cones.

DIY Christmas wreath

Or you can build a wreath from the cones themselves and decorate it with ribbons and beads.

Cone wreath

Postcards

A handmade card will be a great addition to a New Year's gift. In the store you can find everything you need to create a really beautiful postcard: from a cardboard blank to the smallest decor elements.

DIY postcards

A few ideas for inspiration:

New Year cards

Postcard for the New Year

Original postcards with your own hands

Home decor

This category includes any items: from candlesticks to paintings. Of course, you should focus on the preferences of the person to whom the gift is addressed. For example, if your friend is into football, it is best to make a mural or a decorative watch in a sporty style.

To create such a gift with your own hands, you need to try, show patience and imagination. But the result will definitely please.

A relatively simple option is to create a multi-colored candle.

DIY candle in a glass

To do this, you will need wax crayons, a glass cup, paper cups, essential oil, paraffin and a wick. You can find all these materials in any needlework store.

1. First of all, you need to cut the crayons into small pieces. Don't mix colors.

2. Then, in a plastic cup, mix paraffin and pieces of crayon of the same color. Repeat this for each piece.

3. We heat the contents of the cups in the microwave and mix until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

4. Add essential oil with the desired scent. Citrus and coniferous aromas are ideal for the New Year.

5. Pour the resulting colored mass into a glass beaker. Each color must harden before you add the next.

Step-by-step instructions for creating a candle

A more complex version of the gift is a panel of threads. We hammer small carnations into a wooden base in a certain order, and then wrap them with threads.

Several do-it-yourself panel options:

DIY thread panel

Original gifts for the New Year

DIY thread gift

To create such a gift with your own hands, it is best to follow the detailed video instructions.

You can buy anything in the store, but you know that getting homemade gifts is a thousand times more pleasant. Here are 17 cozy, useful, simple and very budget options. Instructions are included.

Great gift for tea lovers. "Tea connoisseurs don't drink sawdust from bags!" - you say. But who prevents good expensive tea from being packaged in envelopes?

You will need:

• foam or thick cardboard cone;
• round cardboard box and rice for the stump;
• tea packed in small paper bags (the amount depends on the height and diameter of the cone);
• glue gun;
• star, bows and other decorations of your choice.

Cover the cone with tea bags, applying glue to the top of them. Move from bottom to top in a checkerboard pattern. It is better to use bags that contrast in color: the tree will turn out more elegant.

Glue the lid of the cardboard box to the bottom of the cone. Fill the box itself with rice so that the tree is more stable, and then attach it to the lid. If you don’t have a ready-made box of the desired diameter at hand, make it yourself. Take as a basis a tube from a roll of paper towels or glue it from cardboard according to this pattern.

Decorate the Christmas tree with bows, rhinestones and other decorative elements, and glue a star to the crown.

Such a gift will be highly appreciated by the girls. After all, this is an individual fragrance, no one in the city will have such perfume.

Before you create, find out what smells the person you want to please prefers. For example, if a girl likes citrus scents, you will need lemon or orange. To add woody notes, you need sandalwood or cedar oils, powdery ones - roses or vanilla.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup almond oil;
• ½ cup grape oil;
• 100 g beeswax;
• 1 teaspoon of vitamin E;
• 60 drops of lemon oil;
• 25 drops of eucalyptus oil;
• 20 drops of lavender oil;
• 20 drops of rosemary oil.

Mix almond and grape oil with wax in a separate saucepan and put on a steam bath. When the wax is completely dissolved, let the liquid cool slightly and add essential oils and vitamin E. Pour the future perfume into molds. A bottle of old hygienic lipstick, vaseline jars, and more will do.

When the wax hardens, the perfume is ready to use. It remains only to pack them beautifully.

A great gift for cold girls. A pair of warm, quite sturdy socks that you don't wear can be turned into fingerless gloves.

Additional materials:

• needle with thread;
• heart cut out of felt.

Cut and sew the sock as shown in the photos. Be sure to hem the edge so that it does not fray, and make all seams from the inside out.

Sew a felt heart on top. You can use any other decorative means. For example, embroider the inscription "Happy New Year!" or embroider mittens with rhinestones.

Another DIY gift for those who are always cold -. Heating it for 1-3 minutes in the microwave, you get an excellent heating pad, which also smells good.

Paracord is a cord made of nylon. It was originally used as a material for parachute lines, but then paracord began to be used wherever a light and durable cable might be required. For example, stylish men's bracelets are woven from it. In ordinary life - just a decoration, in an extreme situation - a saving rope.

There are various techniques for weaving paracord. Here is one of the most common.

You will need:

• 150 cm of paracord of one color and the same amount of the other (it is desirable that the shades are contrasting);
• 75 cm black paracord;
• scissors;
• ruler;
• needle with thread.

From paracord, you can weave not only a bracelet, but also a keychain, make a braid for a knife or a car steering wheel. You can easily find diagrams on the web. Even easier - watch the video tutorials on YouTube, there are many of them.

From such a mug you can not only drink. On it you can leave messages to the household or just draw.

Materials:

• white porcelain mug without relief;
• slate paint;
• masking tape;
• brush.

Slate paint is most often used to update the surfaces of blackboards. Now there is a large selection of such colors. Need one that can work on ceramics. For example, like this.

Choose an area of ​​the mug that is comfortable to write on but that won't come into contact with your lips when you drink. Cover the rest of the mug with masking tape.

Degrease the unglued area and apply a thick layer of paint on it. Remove the tape and leave the mug overnight in a well-ventilated area.

When the paint dries, send the mug to the oven preheated to 150 ° C. After 30 minutes, turn off the stove, but remove the mug when it has cooled down.

Now the mug can be washed in the dishwasher and put in the microwave.

If you are one of those who likes to give not material things, but experiences, you will love this idea. After all, not only a delicious warming drink, but also a reason to go or invite guests.

Take beautiful glass jars and fill them with about a third of the powder for making hot chocolate or cocoa. Put in some sweets or chocolate chips. Fill the remaining space with marshmallows.

Decorate the jars to your liking. For example, put a piece of fabric under the lid, and attach a heart made from candy canes on top. The label can serve as a postcard, write your wishes on it.

Another variation of such a gift is a set for mulled wine. Take an orange, an apple, a clove and a cinnamon stick. Pack it all up nicely, make a wish label, and add a bottle of good red wine.

Candles are a traditional New Year's gift. But one thing is a glamorous shop, another is a personalized candle or a candle with a phrase that is understandable only to the giver and the recipient, or even with a photograph.

Take:

• white candles with a diameter of 5–7 cm;
• A4 paper for printing;
• parchment paper;
• scissors;
• glue stick;

Cut the parchment paper so that it is 1-2 cm wider than the A4 sheet. Glue the parchment to the printing paper, folding the edges over to the other side. Insert the sheet into the printer with the glossy side, that is, the one where the parchment is. Print out the image you would like to transfer to the candle.

The drawing will be on parchment paper. Now you need to transfer it to a candle. Cut out the image, attach it to the candle, wrap it tightly on top with another layer of parchment and direct a jet of hot air onto the resulting design. If the picture brightened, then it was imprinted on the candle. Carefully remove the top layer of parchment and let the wax dry.

The gift is ready! If desired, you can decorate it with rhinestones or sequins.

This cosmetic bag greatly simplifies the search for the right items, because any lock can be opened.

You will need:

• 10 zippers 15–20 cm long;
• safety pins;
• needle or sewing machine;
• threads.

Sew the zippers to each other from the inside, for convenience, you can first bait them with pins. Close the resulting canvas in a ring and sew. Sew the zippers also across in front of the dogs, and then turn the cosmetic bag inside out.

This is a gift for a person who does not part with gadgets. By the same principle, you can sew a phone case.

Materials:

• a cut of felt suitable for the size of the tablet;
• 2 buttons;
• sewn-in magnets;
• safety pins;
• dense thread in the color of buttons;
• thread in the color of felt;
• needle;
• scissors.

Fold the fabric so that the bottom is longer than the top: this is the future cover of the case. Sew along the edges and turn the product inside out.

Cut the lid in a wave or semicircle. Sew on a button in the middle. Attach the second one below, on the case. Make a loop between them, as shown in the photo.

Sew a magnet on the left and right to the base and lid of the case. Fashion case is ready!

You can also make a stylish organizer for headphones, flash drives, phones and other gadgets from an old book in a beautiful cover. Here is the detailed one.

A gift from which not only children, but also adults with a sweet tooth will be delighted. Making a Santa Claus sleigh is very simple.

You will need:

• glue gun;
• ribbons and other decor;
• sweets: chocolate, sweets, lollipops in the form of canes.

Here is a detailed video tutorial.

A gift for a bosom friend or colleague. Beer can come in handy on January 1st, and the brown bottles are easy to style as Rudolf and his friends. (Rudolph is one of Santa's reindeer, distinguished by a red glowing nose.)

Materials:

• beer in dark glass bottles;
• decorative wire;
• toy eyes;
• red pompoms;
• ribbon and bows;
• box;
• Super glue.

Remove labels from bottles. Make antlers from wire for future deer.

Glue them to the back of the bottle. Attach the eyes and nose to the front. Tie the tape (so that it does not slip, you can fix it with glue).

Do the same for the rest of the bottles. Put them in a box and decorate it.

A gift for economic women and men who love to cook.

You will need:

• cotton fabric with a New Year's pattern;
• batting for lining;
• threads;
• scissors;
• needle.

If you have a sewing machine, the work will not take much time. A detailed video instruction - from the pattern to cutting the threads - is attached.

Inside such a mitten, you can put a spatula, a ladle and other little things useful for the kitchen.

A little more imagination, and the New Year's gift will become even more original. Attach a ring to the spatula, and hang your favorite family recipes printed on cards and laminated on it.

Glass snow ... wine glass

Balloons with a miniature figure and artificial snow inside are very popular. Lifehacker is already how to make something similar from an ordinary glass jar. Today it's the turn of wine glasses.

Materials:

• transparent glass;
• thick cardboard;
• figurine that fits easily into a glass;
• artificial snow;
• bows and other decor;
• glue.

From the cardboard, cut out a circle of the same diameter as the wine glass. Glue the figurine to the cardboard. It can be a Christmas tree, deer or, for example, a car with a Christmas tree on the roof.

At the bottom of the glass, pour artificial snow, finely chopped white paper or foam. Glue the cardboard base to the edge of the glass and turn it over. Decorate the leg with a bow or ribbon.

In the past year, very large knit blankets are incredibly popular. Finished products are quite expensive, so it is more profitable to make a blanket yourself.

Merino wool works best for this, but other thick threads can be used. Video tutorial is attached.

Hands, without knitting needles and a hook, you can also knit a beautiful warm scarf. Lifehacker has already done it once.

This gift will help remember the best moments of the outgoing year. Just choose the best photos and print them. Get some clear glass jars and vases. Round and cylindrical vessels work best.

Many people have flaky skin in the winter. If there are such people among your friends, prepare a sugar-lemon scrub as a gift for them..

According to the Chinese calendar, the symbol of 2017 is the rooster. Therefore, gifts with the image of a rooster or in the form of roosters and hens will be especially relevant. A universal version of such a gift is a Christmas tree toy.

You will need:

• cardboard blank in the shape of a rooster;
• dense fabric;
• filler for toys;
• twine and lace ribbon;
• white outline;
• scissors;
• needle and thread;
• glue gun.

The manufacturing process is shown in the following video.

You can sweeten such a gift with sweet cockerels on a stick. For many, the form for them has remained since Soviet times.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup granulated sugar;
• 2-3 tablespoons of water (to just wet the sugar);
• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (some recipes add regular table cider vinegar or a pinch of citric acid).

From sugar, you need to boil the syrup and pour it into a form richly greased with vegetable oil. Then stick the sticks in and wait until everything hardens.

If you know other original DIY solutions, share them in the comments.