New Year holidays are not complete without decorations. I want to paint the house and make it more festive and solemn. DIY decorations are always more soulful and cute, and decorations made from paper napkins add elegance and lightness to the New Year's decor.
Making balls from napkins with your own hands will help step by step photo. Such christmas toys from napkins will look very gentle and cute on the Christmas tree. It turns out that such balls can also be made by children in kindergarten. This work develops fine motor skills, helps to perceive colors and create unique forms.
To work, you must use:
- paper handkerchiefs;
- stapler;
- scissors;
- glue.
Sequence of work:
- handkerchiefs need to be folded four times;
- fix it in the middle with a stapler;
- cut a circle from a square;
- bend each layer towards the center, forming a bud;
- so form beautiful balls from all the prepared circles;
- form a ball from scraps and wrap it in one napkin. Secure with tape or glue. Glue satin ribbon to hang a toy on a Christmas tree on it;
- glue this ball with circles of napkins;
- small beads can be glued on the circles;
- New Year's ball - the toy is ready.
Snowflakes from paper napkins
With your own hands, you can make snowflakes from napkins. Snowfields are an attribute of any holiday and their presence always indicates a desire to make the holiday more beautiful. You can cut out snowflakes using the templates provided below. Templates must be printed, folded and cut along the contour. A wide variety of shapes will help you make the most unique and original snowflakes. Such decoration from napkins will be light, airy and weightless.
Decoupage Christmas toys with napkins
How to make New Year's toys using decoupage technique with your own hands will help a photo and a master class:
- toys must be cleaned of applied industrial paint. You need to do this with the help of nail polish remover;
- clean toys with sandpaper or sandpaper. This is necessary so that the napkins stick better to the toys;
- degrease jewelry with alcohol, this prepares christmas balls for applying paint;
- mix the paint with glue, if desired, you can add semolina. The glue should make up one fifth of the paint;
- cover New Year's toys with the resulting composition with a sponge;
- let dry;
- repeat the application of the so-called primer one more time;
- now it's time to decorate dried toys using decoupage technique;
- you need to choose a napkin that will be glued to the Christmas tree toy;
- the desired picture or pattern is cut out of the napkin in accordance with the shape of the ball;
- There are two options for gluing your cut out pattern: either apply glue to the ball and glue the New Year's motif, or attach a napkin and coat with glue on top. In both options, you need to work very carefully so as not to tear the napkin;
- to soften the borders of the glued picture, you need to cover the ball one more time with acrylic paint;
- DIY Christmas toys are ready.
It is popular to decorate toys with your own hands in vintage style. Napkins in this style are sold online or in stores.
DIY Christmas tree
The photo, which depicts a Christmas tree, does not fully convey all the beauty. In reality, it looks light, airy and solemn.
List of materials:
- cardboard,
- glue,
- green napkins;
- stapler;
- beads.
Master Class:
- first of all, we make a cone from cardboard, fix it well with adhesive tape and make a smooth, stable edge. The made Christmas cone is the basis of the future spruce;
- fold the paper handkerchief in half, then in half again and fix it in the middle with a stapler;
- cut out circles from the resulting squares;
- from the circles we make the so-called flowers, bending the edges of each layer of the napkin from the edge to the center. So you need to do with all layers of the napkin and with each cut out circle. The number of circles depends on the height of the spruce;
- glue the resulting blanks to the cone and decorate with beads;
- Christmas tree from napkins is ready.
Christmas wreath
New Year holidays are the best occasion to craft with your own hands. A wreath of napkins is a budget decoration that will complement the overall New Year and Christmas decor.
List of necessary materials and tools:
- white paper napkins;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- stapler;
- ribbons in white, gold and cream;
- glue;
- beads,
- hot gun.
Master Class:
- cut out the base of the required diameter from cardboard. You can draw this using two plates of different diameters;
- to give volume to the base, it is necessary to make tubes from newspapers and glue them with a hot gun;
- wrap the base with a thick white tape, occasionally smearing it with glue so that it holds its shape firmly;
- bend the paper handkerchief several times, forming a square. In the middle, the square must be fixed with a stapler twice crosswise;
- cut circles from rectangles;
- make flowers from circles, lifting each layer of napkin to the center. So it is necessary to do with each layer of the napkin. You need to make so many flowers so that they completely and without gaps cover the entire wreath;
- flowers must be glued with a hot gun;
- after all the flowers are glued, the decoration of the wreath with ribbons and beads begins. The wreath is intertwined with different types of ribbons, at its discretion, and decorated with beads;
- Christmas wreath is ready.
Such a wreath can decorate the front door or any other door in the apartment and house. It will be great to involve your children in the formation of a wreath. They will like to help in decorating the premises for the New Year and Christmas holidays. Also, such a wreath can be presented as a festive present.
Helpful Hints
To make the festive New Year's table look brighter and more attractive, it can be decorated napkins , folding them in an unusual way or using interesting decorations for these napkins.
Here you will learn how to fold fabric and paper napkins beautifully and in an original way for the New Year, as well as how to create beautiful decorations for these napkins.
New Year's napkins: felt decoration
You will need:
Scissors or utility knife
Template (optional)
Hot glue
Pompoms (optional)
Christmas tree napkin
The origami technique will help you beautifully fold a paper or fabric napkin in the shape of a Christmas tree. There are several ways to do this, and here are the most interesting ones:
DIY New Year's napkins: a candle
Do-it-yourself napkins in the shape of an iris flower for the New Year
Crafts from napkins for the New Year: a star
1. Lay the napkin on a flat surface and turn it diagonally towards you.
2. Bend the top half so that the top and bottom ends touch.
3. Fold the left and right sides towards the middle.
4. Turn the napkin over, keeping the folded pattern in the same position.
5. Fold the bottom up.
6. Lift the napkin from the bottom as if you are going to fold it in half.
Here's how it should look. The lower two sections will play the role of the two lower rays of the star.
7. Lower the upper two sections to the middle, thereby straightening the remaining two rays of the star.
* Adjust the napkin so that its sections are more or less even, and place on a plate as a table decoration.
* You can use a paper napkin, and if you take a few different colors, the New Year's table will look even brighter and more fun.
Napkin rings for the New Year
You will need:
Toilet paper rolls
Acrylic paints or gouache and brush
Buttons
Sequins and rhinestones
PVA glue
Hot glue.
1. Cut lengthwise 10 cardboard sleeves and paint each in green color from the inside.
2. When the paint is dry, paint the bushings on the outside.
3. Cut (lengthwise) each of the painted bushings into strips, 5-6 mm wide.
4. To make the main branch of the future Christmas tree, prepare several strips and twist one end of each strip around the tassel to create a coil. The lower the branch, the less you need to twist the strip.
5. Using hot glue, glue all the branches. Add a few more branches on the sides and glue them as well.
6. Spread the sides of the branches with PVA glue and sprinkle glitter on top.
* You can glue small buttons and rhinestones to the Christmas tree.
7. Cut a few more cardboard sleeves in half and paint each half red. The number of halves depends on the number of napkins.
8. Glue your Christmas tree to the painted half.
Now you can pass a napkin through the ring and decorate with this craft festive table.
New Year's napkin in the form of a lily (scheme)
1. Lay the napkin on the table and fold it in half diagonally.
2. Put the resulting triangle so that its top looks at you.
3. Bend the lower part so that the top slightly overlaps the base of the triangle by about 2-3 cm.
4. Fold the napkin like an accordion from left to right.
5. Hold the napkin firmly and insert it into the glass or ring to make a lily.
New Year's crafts from napkins: double Christmas tree
1. Prepare two napkins of different colors, but approximately the same size. Lay one on top of the other. A napkin with the main color should lie below.
2. Fold the napkin in half once, and then again.
3. Turn the napkin so that all the loose ends are facing you.
4. Fold up the first layer.
5. Begin to fold up each new layer, leaving about 2 cm from the top.
6. Turn the napkin so that the top of the napkin is facing away from you. Now turn it over.
7. Bend the right side 2/3 and then also bend the left side (see image). The top of the fold should be parallel to the edge of your table. You should end up with a small triangle.
8. To keep all layers in place, secure them with a paper clip or large paperclip as shown in the image. Turn the napkin over again so that all the layers are facing you.
9. Start folding each triangle inside the layer above.
* You can make a few more of these Christmas trees and decorate the New Year's table with them.
DIY napkin rings: red flower
You will need:
Felt (green and red)
Beads (3 pieces)
Cardboard sleeve made from toilet paper or paper towel
Scissors
PVA glue or hot glue.
1. Cut the cardboard sleeves into 2 or 4 pieces.
2. Cut off a piece of felt that could cover a piece of cardboard sleeve.
3. Wrap the pieces of cardboard sleeves with felt and secure with glue. Hot glue is best, but you can also try PVA glue. You have a ring to which you need to add a beautiful flower..
4. Prepare red felt and cut out some leaves from it (see image).
5. Glue 5 leaves first, and then glue 5 more on top.
6. Glue the beads on top of the received flowers.
7. Now glue the flower to the green ring.
New Year's serving napkins in rings with cones
You will need:
A small spruce branch (preferably artificial)
* If the branch is too long, then you can cut it with wire cutters.
1. If you buy immediately colorful napkins with Christmas scenes, you don’t need to do anything with them, all the beauty is in the drawing. But if you have the skill and you can decorate items in the style of these napkins, it will be just gorgeous ...
For example, here are candles, Christmas decorations or bottles decorated with the same napkins that you have on your table:
Plain paper napkins
In this case, you can imitate the "brothers" of the fabric, fold and decorate them with rings.
I highly recommend checking out my article. There is a video on how to do it new Year decoration for table setting.
I can add just such a scheme for making a cardboard ring in the form of a Christmas tree. Print, cut and trace on bright design cardstock, join as shown in the photo. 
Print the diagram (from Yandex Disk)
If there are many children at the table, make them magic boots. By the way, you can put small gifts in them. :
I also found two absolutely New Year's options! Here's how to fold a Christmas tree napkin.
I took the “fabric” idea, I made the paper one myself. Is it worse? I like it! Sprinkled around with edible confetti (sprinkling for Easter cakes).
Now we are watching this master class (in English, but everything is clear), and we fold it from a paper napkin (below in the photo)!
I took two contrasting ones (the light napkin was immediately round with wavy edges), and I cut the dark one in a circle myself. The diameter should be 1 cm smaller than the first napkin.
We follow the master class, it turns out very festive!
That's enough simple ways design New Year's table napkins. A pretty Christmas tree is made of wire covered with colored fabric, which also acts as a clip. And a fan fastened with a small Christmas decoration looks pretty. Well, you can’t spoil the festive table with spruce branches. The combination of red and green is already becoming joyful!
This year I have a plain red tablecloth, white plates, on which such napkins will lie. Bought by accident helped out a lot Christmas decorations in the form of golden metal bells, which also ring festively. I just twisted two types of napkins into a tube and threaded it into a loop on the toy. All! I personally really like...
p> Home decoration for the New Year is a pleasant and joyful process in which children can be involved. Of course, it includes the installation of a Christmas tree, hanging Christmas decorations, snowflakes and garlands. We propose to add holiday decor crafts - Christmas tree from napkins.
Do-it-yourself Christmas tree from napkins: materials
For creativity you will need:
- three-layer paper napkins (a large pack of one color or several packs if you want a multi-colored Christmas tree);
- stapler;
- cardboard;
- glue;
- pen or pencil;
- scissors.
And, of course, do not forget to be patient and have the desire to create!
Christmas tree from napkins: master class
So, when you have all the materials available, it's time to start making the most important New Year's symbol - an unusual Christmas tree made of paper napkins.
Let's start making a Christmas tree by making blanks from napkins. To do this, take a napkin, scissors and some rounded object that can be circled. We apply it to a napkin, circle the outline with a pencil, and then cut it out with scissors. The diameter of the mold can vary from 3 to 6 cm. 
As a result, we get an unusual Christmas tree made of do-it-yourself napkins: a minimum of costs, but how original! Yes, and the child will like to participate in the joint process of creating such crafts. You can decorate the Christmas tree with beads or garlands, sparkles or even sweets to the delight of children.
I always thought that the sweet tooth in the family is me, and now I increasingly notice that I am left without sweets, and my husband is to blame ...
Probably the thing is that I like to experiment with different recipes dishes, and these are mainly confectionery: cakes, pastries and muffins, which I turn out surprisingly tasty.
It so happened that over time my hobby turned into an additional source of income - I began to bake to order. And for a long time I was looking for a way to decorate my products beautifully, until they caught my eye paper napkins. At first I used them as a substrate for cakes and muffins, but soon I realized that napkins can also be used to decorate the box.
Once I was holding such a napkin in my hand, and several ideas were born in my head, thanks to which now my house is decorated with a new openwork lampshade and a charming basket for treats. Yes, yes, I made all this with napkins.
Editorial "So simple!" prepared 11 ideas for you crafts from paper lace napkins, which are commonly used for serving cakes and cupcakes. They are elegant, like lace, but at the same time quite inexpensive.
Crafts from paper napkins
- Openwork napkins look very stylish on packages. Recently, decorators often use them in gift wrapping because of the elegance and simplicity of lace backings.
- And with such napkins, you can decorate paper bags with sweets for children, adult guests, or arrange wedding bonbonnieres in a similar way.
- And here is one of those ideas that I personally embodied with the help of paper lace napkins in just 2 hours. As you can see, you can also decorate a lampshade with napkins!
- Another way to use lace confectionery substrates is to decorate ordinary jars with them. So you get cute candlesticks that will decorate any wedding celebration, your apartment or country house.
- Great idea for New Year's Eve!
- First of all, pastry lace napkins resemble paper snowflakes, which everyone probably cut out in childhood before the New Year holidays.
So with their help, you can decorate a winter shop window or a window in a room in an original way by combining patterned coasters of different diameters. It will turn out beautifully if you make a Christmas tree out of them.
A good idea for creating a graceful snowflake.
- From openwork paper napkins, bewitching light garlands are obtained, which can be hung in a restaurant or at home for a holiday. And most importantly, making such a garland is quite simple, you can definitely do it, even if you have never decorated anything before.
Very nice idea if you take a garland with light bulbs. Pass each light bulb through the center of the napkin. The light will be very nicely scattered. The main thing is to take lamps that do not heat up, otherwise this idea can be a fire hazard!
- Also, this napkin can be used as a bag decor template.
- Or create a cute sheep. I will definitely make one for the New Year to hang it on the Christmas tree.
- If you have a delicate openwork wedding - feel free to use this confectionery paper in your decoration. It will give a magical look to the invitation.
And each guest will be able to receive a designer name boarding card in the style of your holiday.
- Such beauty can be created with the help of hot air balloon, PVA glue, 20 paper lace napkins and your inspiration.
Nastya practices yoga and loves traveling. Fashion, architecture and everything beautiful - that's what a girl's heart aspires to! Anastasia is engaged in interior design, and also makes unique decorations with a floral theme. Dreams of living in France, learning the language and keenly interested in the culture of this country. He believes that a person needs to learn something new all his life. Anastasia's favorite book is Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.