DIY Christmas tree crafts made from paper

The whole family enjoys decorating the Christmas tree, a symbol of New Year's joys. They bring new balls, beads, funny figures into the house and take out long-loved decorations from boxes. Every year, fresh ideas for crafts arise, with which the Christmas tree becomes especially attractive: the joy of one’s own creativity makes the holiday even more enjoyable.

In order to make Christmas tree decorations with children, the creative impulse should be supported by useful information: what crafts will look impressive, what is easy to do with kids even without special skills, what available materials will be useful. Most often you have paper at hand.

It can be new - colored, shiny, smooth or corrugated. But used newspapers, magazines, books, and roll sleeves are also suitable. What is considered waste paper will turn out to be indispensable: the crafts will be even more impressive and original.

Interesting DIY Christmas tree crafts made from corrugated paper

Corrugated paper makes wonderful voluminous toys - lanterns, balls, and Christmas trees. It is elastic and therefore ideal for wrapping gifts of any shape. You can use it to make cute imitations of a bag containing candy and toys.The bright colors of this paper create a New Year's mood.

Homemade Christmas trees made of corrugated paper delight with the play of light and shadow, imitating the shimmer of real spruce needles.

Placing a three-dimensional applique in the form of a New Year's tree, balls, flowers on a postcard is a fresh look at congratulating loved ones. Several shades of green corrugated material work well. Add sparkles and beads - and the composition is ready.

Crackers, lanterns, and “sweets” can be made from this material by wrapping sleeves from rolls in it (after cutting them into small pieces).

The most beautiful paper crafts for the Christmas tree

A children's favorite activity before the Christmas holidays is cutting out snowflakes. This technology is well mastered in schools and kindergartens. More experienced hands can create more complex images - a castle, forest, houses, sleighs.

Quilling is a popular technique for DIY Christmas tree decorations made of paper: thin strips are twisted into patterns and glued together - this is how Christmas trees and snowflakes are made. To do this, they use not only colored paper, but also sheets from old unnecessary books, booklets, and prospectuses.

Origami style lanterns

Lanterns of different shapes are easy to obtain: just make several cuts (not all the way) in the paper blank and glue them together in the form of a cylinder.

In the origami style, DIY paper decorations for the Christmas tree are very impressive. Although this technique is not so simple, you can still find good patterns for children. The simplest way: fold the cardboard in the form of an accordion and give it a cylindrical shape, make an origami Christmas tree out of paper with your own hands.

Shiny stars

Shiny Stars can be obtained in several ways.

• Cut five circles from a paper towel roll, give them a pointed shape, glue them together in a star shape and paint them.
• Cut out two stars from bright paper and combine along the cut line in the first one.
• Using the pattern (with room for gluing), cut out two stars. Along the lines leading from the corners to the center, the rays are added, creating volume. Then the two sides are glued into one.
• Connect three stars into one by gluing the matching halves.

The stars are painted and complemented with sequins and beads.

Flower and New Year's balls

There are many ways to make Christmas balls or flowers to decorate a Christmas tree: there are very complex techniques. Taking master classes with older children and getting excellent results means not just decorating a Christmas tree, but mastering artistic technologies.

The easiest way to make a ball is to roll it out of napkins, paste it over and paint it.

Volumetric toys

With a little more fiddling with newspapers and napkins, you get the perfect snowman. Roll small balls from newspaper, cover with white napkins, glue on the nose, and draw eyes. Make a hat and scarf from pieces of fabric. Children are proud of such a work: it can be given to friends or grandparents.

If you roll a cone out of colored cardboard and put a ball rolled out of a paper towel on top: you get ice cream, it looks great on the Christmas tree.

On the Internet you can find many templates for gluing three-dimensional crystals and other shapes: houses, feeders, bird cages.

Cardboard crafts for the Christmas tree

The love for a garland of flags as a decoration for a wide variety of holidays has long been established in England. In Russia, this tradition also exists, and on the Christmas tree it is a mandatory attribute. Do I need to buy flags in a store?

The easiest way is to take scissors, cardboard and choose the shape of the flags - any (triangle, rectangle, with a cutout, etc.). A strong thread or twine will connect the flags cut out from the pattern. Glue or a stapler will help with this. As for the material, old bright calendars and brochures will serve well. Or maybe someone would like to make a garland of family photographs, which is also original.

“Christmas tree” on a Christmas tree - a do-it-yourself Christmas tree toy made of cardboard? Why not! There are so many ideas for such a cardboard toy: it is made from multi-colored cones: single ones, decorated with a star on top, or inserted into each other with the edges cut off at the bottom. There are many options: stick rosettes twisted from corrugated paper onto the cylinder, or just bright sparkles, beads, patterns. A fun toy – a green triangle folded into a pleated shape and sushi chopsticks inserted into it. Using the quilling technique, green strips are twisted for twigs, combining them into a complete composition in the form of a spruce.