We have a magical holiday ahead - New Year. No matter how old a person is, there is always a small child in his soul who hopes for some miracle and waits with bated breath for New Year’s Eve. How to make interesting gifts for the New Year 2018 with your own hands?

You and I, dear mothers, grandmothers, aunties, girlfriends, will have to work hard in December to become fairy sorceresses, fulfilling the wishes of our loved ones. Practice shows that December is the busiest month either with searching for gifts or making them.

We are not against good purchased gifts, but you must agree that a gift from a store is impersonal, it will not fully reveal the feelings of the giver. If you prepare a surprise yourself, putting all your skill and soul into it, it will forever retain the warmth of your hands and will delight your loved one in difficult times. There is no price for such a gift.

Let's start preparing

How to properly organize the preparation of gifts for your loved ones so as not to forget anything or anyone? It's simple:

1. We make a list of all relatives and friends to whom we would like to give a New Year’s souvenir (for example: mother, grandmother, husband, son, grandson, girlfriend);
2. next to each name we write the intended gift;
3. We make a list of consumables, where we note in detail what is already in stock (yarn, knitting needles, threads, beads, etc.) and what needs to be purchased (tinsel, glitter, glue, photo frames, etc.).

When compiling a list of gifts, we are actively developing 2 large themes - symbolic gifts And personalized gifts. The first topic is simply a Klondike for ideas, in this case there is no need to work hard. We decide on the main symbol of the next year and put the idea into practice.

The coming year according to the eastern calendar will be the year of the Yellow Earth Dog. This topic is practically inexhaustible, because... Any item related to a dog can easily be turned into a gift.

options

Homemade dog toys of all kinds, keychains, dog-shaped jewelry, oven mitts, embroidered paintings, photo collages, slippers, blankets, scarves, hats, kitchen utensils with images of a four-legged friend - everything that your imagination is capable of can become a gift. Sometimes, in the process of work, new brilliant ideas come up.

For family and friends, who have a pet, choosing a New Year's gift is even easier - it's any thing their pet needs. But in this case, it is very important to properly present the gift itself - not just present the right thing, but make beautiful packaging and provide verbal accompaniment.

Remember! The intrigue in the gift is 50% of your triumph as the giver!

Make the recipient feel pleasantly excited in anticipation of the gift, languish with impatience while the wrapper is removed - and here it is! – a smile from ear to ear, admiration, gratitude.

Our plan is ready. We purchase the missing components and begin making gifts.

My task is to present different ideas for your choice of traditional, original and unusual gifts for the New Year.

DIY symbolic gifts for the New Year 2018: master classes and ideas

Gifts for the older generation

What to give to your grandparents or other elderly relatives? You can give them a warm gift - a knitted product made from dog hair. To do this, it is not at all necessary to have a dog, comb it and spin yarn. Everything is much simpler. Ready-made yarn is available for sale in craft stores or online stores.

If you have at least minimal knitting experience, you can knit a belt for radiculitis; if you have more experience, knit socks, knee pads, mittens, vests. And if your relative, among other things, has problems with the musculoskeletal system, such a product will both warm and heal. This will truly be a royal gift!

Other options are to sew a beautiful warm quilt from unkempt dog hair, but in this case it is better to mix the wool with any filler, otherwise it will mat. Or you can make warm insoles for your shoes.

Gifts for middle aged people

The most fertile age - you can give anything.

Keychains in the shape of dogs

Without much effort, you can make beautiful dog-shaped keychains from felt, thick fabric, or scraps of leather. To do this, you should find or draw the outline of the dog, cut out 2 of its silhouettes from felt or leather, decorate the eyes and nose with a few stitches and sew two blanks over the edge with a beautiful seam. You can add volume to the product by filling it with a small amount of padding polyester or cotton wool. All that remains is to sew on the key ring. Our gift is ready!

From polymer clay or salt dough you can make dog figures for keychains, pendants, or make a refrigerator magnet.

Soft, voluminous keychains for keys or for car interiors are made from woolen threads in the form of a pompom. You can make both a figurine and a dog’s face.

Soft towels and sheets in the shape of dogs or original packaging

A very good and necessary gift for any home is a terry towel, but we can also present it in an unusual way, magically turning an ordinary thing into a symbol of the year. Carefully roll it up, secure it with rubber bands or threads, outline the face, decorate with bows - a gift for your mother, auntie, grandmother, daughter is ready!

Dog slippers: a universal symbolic gift for any age, and hand-sewn slippers will simply create a sensation. Middle-aged people highly value coziness and comfort, and such a warm gift will melt even a cold heart.

Gifts for red maidens and good fellows

What can you think of for a perky teenager?

Handmade rings and pendants for teenage girls

If young woman loves jewelry and wears earrings, beads, rings - let's give her homemade earrings, rings or pendants in the form of silhouettes or figurines of doggies.

Delicate gift in a jar

If a friend wants to please a young beauty, then it’s easier for him to make a “jar of love” - put fashionable varnishes, hairpins, and ribbons in a glass vessel, tie it with a beautiful ribbon - and, voila, the gift is ready. You can also write a wish on a small piece of paper and attach it to the side of the jar.

Dog Print T-Shirts

For young men You can offer a T-shirt with a picture of a furry friend. But this work is not entirely manual, because... your main task is to select a suitable photograph from any sources or take a photo yourself and take it to a specialized salon for printing on textiles. A hand-sewn smartphone case and any warm knitted item with a picture of a dog are also quite suitable as a gift for a guy.

Photo collage with frame

If the younger generation loves dogs and keeps a pet at home, funny photo collages are suitable as a gift for an avid “dog lover”. You need to take a lot of photographs of your four-legged pet, and, having chosen the most interesting ones, create your own New Year's collage in electronic form, and if you print the photos, you can make a collage in a frame.

Symbolic gifts for kids

For the little ones, the best gift will be a symbol toy. Whether it will be a soft sewn or knitted dog, or a pom-pom dog sculpted from polymer clay is up to the manufacturer to decide. You need to focus on the age of the child.

Socks, hats, and slippers with dog ears, eyes and tails will amuse kids just as much as soft toys. Slippers, for example, can be ironed, “put to bed,” and a “place” can be found for them on the rug. This gift must include a mini-fairy tale or a funny story about a shaggy pet.

Individual gifts: with care and love

If symbolic gifts are universal and suitable for any category of people, then individual souvenirs are focused on a person’s personal preferences, taking into account his interests, dreams and fantasies.

Such gifts need to be prepared ahead of time. You can unobtrusively lead a person on this topic in a conversation, you can simply listen to him carefully and put some information “on the shelf” for yourself. For example, I just started conversations with my husband on the topic of fishing gear, his eyes immediately lit up, and I had all the necessary information by the end of the conversation. I clearly knew that for the New Year I would give him boilies, twisters and wobblers, well, maybe a good reel with a rear drag. Here the giver himself gets excited - to find his dear person everything he needs for his complete happiness.

Knowing the preferences of family members and friends, you can easily please them with a gift.

Knitted gifts

Any thing related to love with your own hands is suitable for a gift.

Fans of an active lifestyle, tourists, fishermen, and athletes should like warm sets such as scarf-hat-mittens for cold weather or high knitted socks and mittens. And dad, and husband, and brother will like this kind of care for them. For lovers of dancing and aerobics, leg warmers and a knitted headband are suitable, and all these knitted things can be made with or without New Year's symbols, you can embroider a person's name. For fashionable girls, it’s good to offer knitted collars - both warm and beautiful.

Wooden crafts

What to give for the New Year 2018: ideas for practical DIY gifts for lovers of home comfort. We take any thing made of unpainted wood or plywood - a bread box, a box, a shelf for dishes, a cutting board, a cabinet - and turn it into a work of art using decoupage.

A good option for a gift could be a set of cutting boards, and it is a set that looks more solid.

If you know how to work with wood and can cut a kitchen board yourself from thick plywood, do just that. If you don’t have such talent, you can buy a wooden blank in craft stores. Then all that remains is to choose three-layer napkins for decoupage work, buy PVA glue, base paint, wood varnish and get to work.

For housewives who zealously observe the sanitary regime in their kitchen, it is better to make such boards themed: for meat, for fish, for vegetables, for bread.

In addition to decoupage, you can use the wood burning technique; this work is painstaking and requires precision and perseverance, but the result is always pleasing. Middle-aged children can be involved in wood burning, because no one will refuse to make a beautiful thing for their grandmother with their own hands.

Glass products

With the help of decoupage, ordinary and faceless objects are transformed into original gifts. Any old New Year's balls will do the job. After pasting the ball with figures from a napkin, drying it and treating it with varnish, you can decorate the ball with beautiful ribbons, beads, lace, and artificially age them.

Empty bottles of various formats are an excellent material for creativity, as are any glass containers. And bottles of champagne or wine, decorated with decoupage, beads, tinsel, are a quick and profitable option for a New Year's gift, since champagne is a very popular product on New Year's Eve.

If there are incomplete champagne or wine glasses in the house, apply the decoupage technique to them and end up with a chic New Year's set - an original bottle and a couple of wonderful glasses. Naturally, several items need to be decorated in the same style. All that remains is to pack the gift in beautiful wrapping paper and go on a visit.

You can tightly wrap an empty bottle with multi-colored threads, decorate it with bows made of ribbons or coarse threads, lace, beads - that’s a vase for a gift. Place a spruce branch in it with toys you have decorated - and you will charm any esthete.

It is very practical to use any incomplete glass cups, wine glasses that are a pity to throw away, or wide-necked jars for New Year’s work. They can be decorated with either decoupage or polymer clay, bright fabric and turned into designer candlesticks. To create a complete set, you can buy or make holiday candles - it will make a wonderful gift.

DIY candles

We can’t do without candles for the New Year; this is also a necessary gift for the household. Make one large candle from several ordinary stearin candles, tie it with a beautiful ribbon with a bell or decorate it with fir branches with cones - and you can present a homemade gift to your friend. If, when making candles, you add essential oils to the stearic base, for example, roses or lavender, the candle will fill the house with an exquisite aroma.

Author's soap

If you know how to make fragrant soap, you don’t have to worry about gifts; your products will delight both your girlfriends and loved ones. If you don’t have such a skill, it’s worth putting in some effort and you will become a master soap maker. For the first experiment, you don’t need to buy anything special; you’ll probably find old remnants of soap, some essential oil, or a bunch or two of aromatic herbs in any home. The prepared soap must be beautifully packaged and include a label with a description of the gift and the addressee. This is an excellent gift option for a daughter, mother, aunt or friend, because any woman is sensitive to self-care.

Creative gifts for the New Year 2018 with your own hands

Creative gifts should surprise, delight, bring sincere joy to the recipients and be useful. DIY master classes and gift ideas for the new year 2018 will inspire you in your search for new solutions.

Massage mats

Very unusual rugs made of rounded pebbles will bring health benefits if you walk on them barefoot every morning and evening before bed. Sea pebbles are an ideal material for such healing mats. I advise you to stock up on pebbles and shells at the sea in the summer - in winter everything will be useful for creativity. Children will love both the rugs and walking on them, especially if they splashed in the salty sea waves in the summer.

If the pebbles are multi-colored, you can lay them out in the shape of a starfish or fish. Be sure to involve the kids in this activity if the gift is intended for another family member.

Talismans made from stones

If we're talking about pebbles, we can't help but talk about how popular talismans made from them are becoming. How much joy a pebble decorated to look like a dog will bring to any child! And for an adult, the accompanying text will be important, which should say that this talisman will bring good luck in the New Year of the Dog, especially since you can always carry it with you.

Dream catchers

For lovers of everything unusual and mysterious, dream catchers that protect a person’s nighttime peace will be a wonderful gift. There are so many options for decorating them! Beads, natural stones, feathers, leather straps, wooden rings - after the first completed catcher, your imagination will become unstoppable and you will begin to create to the delight of those around you!

New Year's wreaths

Festive New Year's wreaths are becoming increasingly popular in our country, although they are still included in the category of creative gifts. You can bring them into any home, and the atmosphere will instantly become festive. Making wreaths is not difficult at all, consumables are quite accessible, especially since every home has old toys, tinsel, and rain showers. This exciting work can be entrusted to older children. They will be happy to take part in making gifts for the New Year 2018 with their own hands.

What would a New Year be without sweets, tangerines, oranges, cakes and chocolate! Ordinary products, but you can also create a New Year’s masterpiece from them, if you skillfully package them and come up with something new in design. Such gifts are primarily intended for young sweet tooths, but the older generation will not refuse a sweet souvenir for the New Year.

Sweet gifts for children for the New Year 2018

Sleigh for Santa Claus

A sleigh for Santa Claus is prepared from a very small set of sweets, and now your child happily claps his hands after receiving this souvenir

Christmas tree made of candies

A Christmas tree made of candies will decorate any holiday table for children and even adults.

Gingerbread

And gingerbread or sugar gingerbread and cookies! They can be decorated with food paint and hung on the Christmas tree or connected with thread into a garland.

New Year's cakes

New Year's cakes are also a beautiful solution for gifts; modern finishing materials allow you to create any fairy tale or come up with your own!

Sweets for adults

Bouquets of sweets for women, decorated with a small spruce branch and a small bell, will immediately create a romantic mood for the entire New Year's evening.

All types of homemade baked goods are suitable for New Year's gifts, the main thing is a little imagination, bright packaging and good wishes, but the most interesting thing is to make sweet gifts for the New Year 2018 for children, their joy is a real reward for parents' hard work.

Homemade balms

For needlewomen who make strong drinks such as liqueur and herbal balm, preparing a personalized gift for the New Year will not be difficult. But such gifts are prepared in advance, because you need to collect herbs, fruits, and berries that will create a unique bouquet of the drink.

All plant materials are poured with vodka or diluted alcohol and left for at least a month, shaking occasionally. The strained tincture is flavored with honey, spices and herbs to taste. The intoxicating products, bottled in beautiful shapes and corked, will cause the constant delight of both the strong and weak halves of humanity.

These balms can be made themed: vitamin, soothing, anti-cold, strengthening. For such gifts, a label is required; it is advisable to indicate the composition and quantity of the balm for a single dose. You can decorate bottles with decorative burlap, vine weaving, and decoupage.

Author's teas

For connoisseurs of herbal teas, you can make creative gifts in the form of signature teas with various aromatic herbs, dried fruits, and spices. The scope of your imagination may be such that there will be a line of people wanting to taste the fragrant drink for your signature teas. And again I repeat - beautiful packaging and competent design are the key to stunning success. Don't be afraid to experiment!

Bath accessories

Even such a simple item as a bath broom can be the highlight of the season. There would be a lover of bath procedures available! Add medicinal herbs to the base of the broom - tansy, wormwood, yarrow, pack the broom in a shiny wrapper for bouquets and tie it with a beautiful ribbon, insert a personalized card, sew a bath cap from felt with your own hands, make handmade soap. Think about the funniest way to voice the gift, what riddle the lucky winner must guess, and a whole mini-play is ready!

In parting, I want to say - do not spare time and effort for your loved ones, family, friends. Create, burst with ideas, give Joy! Come up with new and unusual gifts for the New Year 2018 with your own hands! Happy New Year!

Choosing ideas to do DIY gifts for 2018, you will, of course, pay attention to the symbol of the coming year. 2018 is the year of the dog, so a variety of dog figurines will become the absolute leaders among souvenirs. You can make your own miniature “Dog” souvenir from thread, fabric, plaster and plain paper.

DIY New Year's gifts for 2018

Thematic DIY New Year's gifts for 2018 you can crochet, the result will be a warm, homey souvenir that you can present to a friend. A miniature dog is knitted very simply; for this you will need only the simplest knitting skills. You can complement even the simplest knitted toy with unusual accessories, so in one master class you can knit dogs that are completely different from each other, and you will have gifts for each friend, and you can also give them to work colleagues and even your boss.

Even if you have never crocheted toys before, then on New Year’s Eve you should try a new technique, and thanks to our master class you will see how simple it is. Perhaps this will be the beginning of your new hobby, and you will regularly crochet various souvenirs, for example, for your friends.

Since you will need 3-4 colors of yarn for one knitted craft, you can recycle various leftover threads or buy small skeins of 50 grams. In the store you can find inexpensive, high-quality acrylic and cotton yarn made in Russia. You will need white, red and green yarn, and some black. Depending on the thickness of the thread, you need to take a hook of the appropriate size.

For such a soft figure, it is best to take a thin cotton or acrylic thread suitable for hook No. 1.5. When you knit amigurumi toys of large or small size, you need to choose a slightly smaller hook so that the knitted fabric is dense.

For the toy you will also need filler, for example, padding polyester, and special toy eyes. Threads and needles are also useful for sewing individual parts of the Dog toy.

DIY gifts for New Year 2018

Soft toys - very popular DIY gift ideas for 2018, they can be given not only to children, but also to adults, and homemade soft toys, crocheted or sewn from fabric, will bring great joy to their future owners. We chose a toy in the shape of a Dog, but it can turn out completely different. Our dog will stand on two hind legs, and she will also be dressed in a sweater and a stylish beret; the knitting features of our toy are associated with these accessories. If it is difficult for you to knit a sweater with a lapel at the neck, then you can limit yourself to a regular scarf, which is knitted separately.

We start knitting with the body: a dense fabric is knitted only with single crochets, which are increased according to the principle of knitting a circle at the first stage of work. We need to knit the first part with white threads: 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 30. This shows how many columns there should be in each row. After you have knitted the extension of your part, you need to make decreases, reducing the number of loops to 24.

The next rows must be knitted, alternating red and green yarn, this will be part of our sweater. We knit four rows straight - 24 loops each, then we need to decrease by six loops and knit 18 in the next five rows.

Before finishing knitting the body, it must be tightly stuffed with synthetic padding, then close the piece by knitting two rows with symmetrical decreases in each: 12 and 6 stitches.

Next, you need to knit a stand on the turtleneck with green yarn; for this you need to make three rows of double crochets, 17 stitches per row. The collar starts from the 17th row of the main body fabric, knitting stitches to the back wall.

DIY gifts for the Year of the Dog 2018

If you want to make a gift for 2018 with your own hands, which would be remembered for many years, then amigurumi toys are the ideal solution. With the help of threads and a hook, you can give your family unique souvenirs every year, not only in the form of a dog, but also in the form of a cockerel, rabbit, snake and other symbols of the Chinese horoscope.

For the head you need to take white yarn. The ears and nose are knitted separately and then sewn to the head. For the ears and nose, it is better to choose a contrasting thread - black.

The handles are knitted separately: they will be a continuation of the sweater, so at the top you need to repeat the alternation of red and green yarn. The same pattern is used to knit a black tail. The main decoration of our dog will be a stylish beret: it is knitted in a circle pattern, and then a red loop is sewn on the top of the head.

When all the individual elements of the future souvenir are connected, they need to be connected to each other. First, the legs are sewn from below to the body, and handles take their place on the sides. You can sew the nose and ears to the head right away, and don’t forget to fill the nose with a small amount of padding polyester to make it voluminous. You also need to put a little filler under the beret so that the beret takes on the required shape, then it needs to be sewn to the head. The beret should be slightly on one side to make our dog stylish. The head is connected to the body last.

If you master crocheting, a huge amount opens up before you. You can knit Christmas tree decorations, warm shawls or blankets, socks or mittens with a jacquard pattern with your own hands. Your loved ones will look forward to your New Year's gifts, the most unusual and original ones.

Scottie Dog soft toys are very cute; these dogs can also be used as Christmas tree decorations. They are knitted very simply, in one piece, then the two finished halves are sewn together and filled with padding polyester. You can choose any yarn for your New Year’s craft; dogs knitted from melange or sectional-colored yarn are very unusual. In addition to threads and a knitting tool, you will also need a needle to sew two parts together and a ribbon to decorate the finished dog with a stylish collar.

The dog is knitted forward and backward using single crochets. The canvas begins with the ears, and then the head. Afterwards the work moves on to the back and tail. All subsequent rows of the body should be attached to the head to form a neck.

When you knit both parts, they need to be sewn along the contour with a needle and thread. For sewing larger pieces, it is advisable to use a hook. A small dog can be turned into a keychain, a medium one into a Christmas tree toy, and a large one can even become a soft pillow in a child’s room.

Regardless of the size of the knitted fabric, the pattern is the same; they differ only in the number of rows and loops in them.

DIY gift ideas for 2018

Of course, every craftswoman has her own creative preferences, and for inspiration we present to you. Interesting DIY gifts for 2018 Can be sewn using patchwork technique. Again, we chose a Dog figurine for our creative venture, and the finished dog will look like a soft toy or a children's pillow.

As you know, most of all needlewomen like to use waste material for creativity or breathe life into old, no longer needed things. So we suggest that you use old children’s clothes with funny designs and patterns to sew a soft dog, and you can also take old denim clothes. Children can use old jeans to create original ones, and needlewomen have long paid attention to this textile and enjoy sewing various toys and other decorative elements from it. You will get a stylish denim toy that will fit perfectly into the interior of a modern teenager’s room, and such a gift will be pleasant for both a child, a teenager, and an adult.

Using the patchwork technique, even the simplest products turn out to be unusual and unique, and if you choose bright fabrics with interesting patterns, then such a gift will make everyone happy. For such a dog you will not need to make complex patterns, cut the fabric in any special way, just cut a certain number of squares and then fold them into the shape of the dog. In addition, this option can be called primitive patchwork, because you don’t need any special tools, just scissors and a sewing machine. But every craftswoman wants to make simple DIY gifts for the Year of the Dog 2018 that would surprise everyone.

Interesting DIY gifts for 2018

DIY gifts for New Year 2018 It’s better, of course, to do it using new beautiful fabrics, but you can practice in advance with old things. In total, you should cut 82 squares for the toy, 26 squares will be on each side, and another 30 will be used to connect the two parts. The size of one square should be 9x9 cm and do not forget to leave 5 mm for seam allowances.

The finished squares must be laid out on the surface in the shape of the future dog, as shown in the master class, and you can begin to sew the squares together, first individual squares in a line, then the lines between each other. All side squares must first be sewn to one of the sides, and then the second part must be sewn. The main thing is that all the corners are clear and even, then the finished toy will be neat. Some craftswomen try to sew corners by hand. The seams should not cross each other so that all the lines are clear.

Be sure to leave a small unstitched space so that the product can be turned inside out and then filled with synthetic padding. Use a pencil to push the padding polyester into all corners so that they are tightly filled. The hole must be carefully sewn up at the end with a hidden seam, and you can enjoy the finished result.

You can give your friends various handmade souvenirs for the New Year; you can use both complex and simple handicraft techniques. Homemade Christmas tree decorations look especially beautiful in the interior, which will always be a necessary and useful gift. And don’t forget that on other holidays you can also congratulate your loved ones by giving them handmade souvenirs. For example, on March 8 you can give it to your grandmother.

An illustrated master class will help you create New Year's souvenirs 2018 with your own hands. In a few minutes and at almost no cost, the usual present in the form of sweets and chocolate will quickly be transformed into an original gift. And an ordinary mug, complemented with 3D decor, a vase with a pattern and handmade pottery will become a real interior decoration.

Mugs with dogs made of polymer clay

Materials:

• mug,
• polymer clay,
• toothpicks,
• stacks,
• heat resistant glue.

To make it easier to form a bas-relief, apply the contours of the figure to the mug. Sculpt the dog using stacks or available tools. When the three-dimensional image is ready, fire the clay at a temperature of 120℃ until hardened. Apply paints and varnishes if necessary.

For beginners, it is better to choose cartoon motifs made from colored clay. For those with more advanced artistic skills, options with fine relief details and painting are suitable. In this case, images of dogs can even be made with portrait naturalism.

Remove the bas-relief from the mug, wash it, dry it and degrease it with alcohol. Glue the decor. Before using the mug, you must wait about a day.

Frosty pattern

Materials:

• a transparent and smooth glass vase or glass;
• glass etching paste or glass imitation spray;
• fixative spray or water-soluble glue;
• alcohol;
• natural or artificial leaves (made from chemically resistant materials).

Degrease glass utensils: wipe with a cloth moistened with alcohol. Carefully glue the template leaves; the glass underneath will remain transparent. Treat the product with an etching or imitation agent in accordance with the instructions, avoiding getting it on your hands and surrounding objects. Remove the leaves and wash the vase with warm water and soap.

Sweet snowmen

Such a symbolic gift for the New Year 2018, created with your own hands, will serve as an excellent decor and will delight you with a sweet filling.

Option number 1: jars of candy

Materials:

• three glass jars with screw caps (70 ml);
• colored felt or velvet paper (black and red or orange);
• about 200 g of small sweets (marshmallows, marmalade, dragees);
• glue (universal or for glass);
• a piece of fabric in “New Year’s” colors;
• decor for a hat (ribbons, berries, pine branches, cones, bells, snowflakes);
• double sided tape.

From black felt or paper, cut out five small circles and four larger ones. These are the eyes, buttons and mouth of a snowman. From red - a triangular nose. To make a hat, use the stencils provided, transfer the outlines to velvet paper or felt, and cut out the details. Apply glue to one narrow edge and the teeth on the rectangle, roll it into a cylinder. Then place a small circle on one side, a large one on the other, bend the teeth, press each one tightly.

Secure the hat to one of the cans with double-sided tape, and the headdress decor, eyes, mouth and nose with glue. Glue buttons onto the second container and tie a scarf from a piece of New Year's fabric. Place double-sided tape on most of the surfaces of the lids of two jars and connect the snowman. Fill each jar with candy.

For ease of transportation, you can place the gift in a bottle gift bag.

Option number 2: chocolate bars and boxes

Materials:

• chocolate bars or boxes of chocolates;
• colored fabric, fleece or corrugated paper;
• white wrapping paper or cloth;
• small buttons and colored paper;
• universal liquid or polymer hot glue;
• beads, ribbons and other decorations.

Depending on the size of the chocolate bar or box, you can use socks or T-shirt sleeves that match the diameter of the hole, or separate pieces of knitted fabric or fleece. In the latter case, and when making decor from paper, the rectangle must be rolled into a pipe, the joint stitched or glued.

Wrap the chocolate in white material, carefully seal it at the junction, avoiding unnecessary folds. Cut two strips from corrugated paper or fabric. Place the pipe on one narrow edge, leaving the top third free. Glue along the bottom edge to the base. You can make a lapel. Gather the empty part into a bundle with folds and tie it with one strip. Tie the second strip in place of the scarf, and glue the buttons below.

Make the snowman’s eyes from buttons, and it’s convenient to cut out the carrot nose from thick colored paper. Sign your wishes for the coming year to the recipient of the gift on the back of the snowman, turning it into a postcard.

Sock dogs

Making ordinary soft toys requires quite a lot of time and a certain skill in cutting and sewing. It is much easier to sew the symbol of 2018 with your own hands from a pair of socks or golf.

Required:

• a pair of socks or one golf course;
• filler (such as padding polyester);
• buttons and ribbons for decoration.

From the first sock or the bottom of the golf, cut off the toe, divide it in half, these will be the ears. Cut out five small parts from the golf shaft or second sock: paws and tail, according to the images.

When making parts, you can divide the main fragment into a head and a body, use a sock of a different color for the latter, thus dressing the dog in an outfit. Or make clothes from an extra pipe with holes for the paws.

Sew all the holes, leaving a small gap on each piece for stuffing, then close them with blind stitches. Connect the dog by carefully sewing the legs, ears and tail to the body. Make a nose and eyes from buttons, tie a bow around your neck or tail.

When stuffing padding polyester, you can add a piece of fabric soaked in aroma oil, herbs and spices to the center of the body, turning a cute soft toy into a sachet. This will give the souvenir a special charm and personality.

Original ceramic plates

Materials:

• clay,
• stacks or improvised tools,
• tableware template.

Products made from red clay must be fired at a temperature of 900-1000℃; many creative workshops have special kilns. If you want to make do with a kitchen oven at the hardening stage, use polymer clay. However, remember that finished products made from this modern material can only be used for decorative purposes.

Completely form a swirl pattern on the template to create a wonderful decorative dish for fruits, flowers or candies. If you decide to make one side smooth, apply a thin layer of clay with small cakes, spread it with special tools or a spoon, thus forming full-fledged tableware using the rope technique: plates, salad bowls, tureens, etc.

If you want to preserve the double-sided relief or leave it only on the inner surface, you need to place the strands on the convex, outer surface of the template dish. To ensure that the curls remain visible on the outside of your creation, stick them inside the base.

Bake the clay, paint or enamel if desired. In this way you can make a soap dish, a cup for toothbrushes, and anything your imagination suggests.

You can also make a craft for kids from a bottle and gouache, just stuff the bottle with cotton wool, make eyes, a nose and add a scarf. It will turn out beautiful and irresistible, the kids will definitely like it.

Older children can make a snowman out of cotton swabs by gluing the sticks clockwise onto regular cardboard.

Or from decorative ribbons, like this toy for the Christmas tree.

If you are a stick lover, then you can make such interesting New Year's toys for the Christmas tree:

Or like this:

You can use your imagination and ingenuity and simply use one stick to make any cartoon character, even Santa Claus.

You can also easily build a Christmas tree from paper or satin ribbons. Make a cone and glue the needles.

Crafts for the New Year 2020 from various available materials (paper, pine cones, bottles, cotton pads, cardboard, beads, felt)

Of course, we all love to make crafts from what we always have on hand, in a hurry.

If you decide to make New Year's toys and crafts from paper, then here are the most original ideas, here everything is clear how to make:

Santa Claus and Snowman

Mouse or rat

All kinds of decorations from caps and bottles:

You can also simply make a Christmas tree out of books:

In schools, kindergartens, and institutes, you can design this creation in the form of gloves like this:

But if you like to collect pine cones in the forest, and then create from them, then you can also get the following ideas for yourself:

Products made from bottles have also become popular, as everyone likes them for their simplicity and originality of presentation, see for yourself in these photos:

Bells

Snowman made from cups

You can create Christmas tree toys from ordinary light bulbs, but of course such souvenirs are not for toddlers and preschool children.

You can even find uses for socks. It really looks very funny and wonderful.

You can generally make paintings and Christmas trees out of cotton pads:

You can also make various creations and masterpieces from cardboard and threads:

But with beads, of course, if you don’t know how to weave, it will be difficult to immediately master this technique. But still worth a try. Keychains are popular with most people, for example this snowman (diagram) or snowflakes.

And of course, made of felt, here the task is of course more difficult, but many cope with it with a bang.

We make crafts with our own hands with the symbol of the coming year in the form of a mouse (rat)

Of course, most of us will make a cheerful and amusing mouse this year, because it is she who will patronize the coming year.

The most accessible and easy to make toy is, of course, sculpted from plasticine.

Or sew it from felt, this pattern will help you.

The kids also love to create things out of yarn, in the form of donuts:

New Year's crafts with patterns and diagrams for children

If there are children in your house, then I suggest you quickly make these toys and crafts with them that will bring joy to everyone.

I give you ready-made layouts and step-by-step master classes from photos, put them into practice, I’m sure it will turn out just great and very cool!

Attention! Do this craft together with your parents!

Believe it or not, the idea came to me to make a candlestick, and imagine from a tangerine, it’s cool and also delicious, so to speak, a natural flavoring)))

I really liked the idea of ​​making a Christmas tree out of plywood or cardboard with my own hands, how charming it looks, a nice New Year’s composition:

If you want the rat to always accompany you during classes at school or in another educational institution, make a bookmark for the book.

Crafts for the New Year for kindergarten with parents and children from all sorts of things

I thought and thought about this question and decided this year to create such a culinary masterpiece in the form of a Christmas tree made from cookies. As a basis, you can take any recipe for your favorite cookies, and then what, make stars out of it and put together a Christmas tree, and then decorate with cream, or candies, mastic, simply:

Well, the most common and fashionable option is a craft made from the hands of a child and an adult:

Photo illustrations, pictures of crafts for the New Year holiday

I would also like to give you a bunch of ideas on this New Year’s theme; you yourself have probably already come up with something unrealistically beautiful in your imagination while you were looking at this article.

Video selection of New Year's master classes with different ideas for toys and crafts

In conclusion, I would like to offer you videos for viewing. I hope that if you have not yet decided what you want to do, they will help you with this, especially since everything is described in detail and shown from A to Z:

You can make a snow globe:

A cool friend made from paper in origami style, after all, this is the symbol of the year: