Master class: "Christmas composition"
Author: Cherepakhina Maria Ilyinichna, teacher of the Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution of Additional Education for Children “Palace of Children's (Youth) Creativity of the City of Lysva.Target: Making a Christmas composition.
Tasks:
Educational:
To acquaint others with one of the options for performing New Year's compositions. Learn how to work with natural materials.
educators:
cultivate artistic and aesthetic taste, patience, diligence and accuracy in work.
Educational:
Develop work skills and knowledge.
The New Year is coming. On the eve of the holiday, we want to somehow decorate our home in a special way. We want to invite you to make a Christmas composition with your own hands.
Christmas- one of the greatest holidays and the first in the New Year. Christmas brings joy and gives hope. Christmas compositions create a festive mood, and they are an integral part of New Year's decorations, so today I want to tell you how to create a Christmas composition with your own hands.
You will come across a huge variety of compositions, arrangements available in stores. Do not rush to buy them, because you can make some beautiful Christmas compositions yourself. This will give them even more meaning and fill your home with warmth and light. There are many ideas for making an amazing Christmas composition. And the only thing you need is a little fantasy and imagination. In order to make a composition, you can use many materials, such as dried flowers, fruits, Christmas decorations, accessories (candles, toys, ribbons, cones). You can creatively use colored bottles, baskets, glass and crystal bowls, jugs, etc. It all depends on you and your desire to make one big arrangement or several small ones.
Christmas compositions- it is very original and stylish, they will please you already in the process of their manufacture. After all, you put your high spirits, anticipation of the holiday, the expectation of New Year's miracles into their creation. Involve children in its manufacture, you will see what non-standard ideas the kids will throw at you. No designer compositions will be as dear to you as your homemade one.
We want to invite you to make a Christmas composition with your own hands.
Materials and tools:
Basket;
floristic sponge (piaflor);
spruce branches;
scissors;
Christmas decorations;
decorative ribbons;
dried roses.
Step by step workflow
1. We take any wicker basket and install a floristic sponge (piaflor) in the center.
2. We wrap the handle of the basket with spruce branches, reinforcing them with decorative tape.
3. After our pen has acquired a fluffy coniferous outfit, we install two candles in the center of the sponge (one is long, the other is shorter).
4. To turn our basket into a real Christmas composition, we decorate it with pine needles.
5. We attach decorative bells and a bow to the handle.
6. Using a glue gun, we glue New Year's balls, decorative gifts to our composition, decorate with beads.
7. We decorate our composition with dried roses (you can spray the roses, as we did)
8. We cover part of the needles with artificial snow.
9.Christmas composition is ready! Here is such an unusual, stylish composition that will delight not only you, but also your guests.
Try it and you will definitely succeed!
Looking for ideas for Christmas home decor? Do you want to bring bright colors to your interior design? Then start with the traditional and win-win option for decorating the room - New Year's compositions.
As you know, the symbol of the coming 2019 will be the Yellow (Earth) Pig, and therefore you need to decorate the house in the appropriate style.
Choosing a palette for New Year's decor
50 shades of yellow.
In the new year, elegant compositions must certainly be present in your home, because Pigs, especially decorative ones, love to dress up so much. Therefore, it is worth adding spectacular colors to them. Don't be afraid to use anything bright and shiny.
Orange, brick, brown, yellow, gold, lilac, red, burgundy, purple, scarlet, terracotta, cherry and other colors of this spectrum are perfect for this. But we put special emphasis on all colors of yellow or golden. All shades of gold from copper red to blinding lemon are at your disposal.
Classic green.
Do not forget about the classic elements. After all, it is impossible to imagine New Year's decorative ensembles without traditional greenery, which will make the red color even more saturated and expressive. In addition, since the images of the "owners" of the new year came to us from the East, you can decorate crafts with exotic symbols in the spirit of the evergreen tropics.
New Year's compositions - a tribute to fashion and traditions
Preparing for the New Year is a procedure no less pleasant than celebrating. Therefore, making compositions always brings a lot of pleasure and positive emotions.
New Year's crafts are not only indispensable attributes of the festive decoration of the house, but also stylish decorative interior elements that will always be in trend. Usually they decorate a table, doors, windows, walls, furniture, some of them can be hung over a door or window. Colorful garlands are also popular, which will be the final touch in home interior design.
In this article, we will offer you several options for creating compositions for the New Year with your own hands. You don't have to be a born designer to make them. It is enough just to arm yourself with patience, good mood and imagination. Well, let's get started?
Compositions of artificial and natural flowers for the New Year
You can create graceful and fashionable arrangements of artificial or fresh or flowers that will become a bright decoration for a festive table, living room or kitchen set. For fans of stylish floristry, the following options for floral ensembles are perfect:
Candles with floating flowers.
At first glance, it may seem that making such candles yourself is quite difficult. However, it is not.
To make them, you will need:
- a glass goblet (wine glass, glass or beautiful jar) with water,
- small candles for aroma lamps with tin trays,
- flowers (live or artificial)
- and beads (you can pebbles).
Water can be tinted with dye. We place beads and flowers at the bottom of the container, fill them with water, and lower a candle on top of the water (you don’t have to worry, it is lighter than water, so it won’t sink).
Flowers and candles on the table.
The combination of these two elements will give your holiday table an atmosphere of luxury and romance. Creating such compositions is elementary.
On a saucer you need to put a long candle, around which bright flowers are laid out. Candles can be placed in beautiful glasses and placed on a wooden stand.
New Year's minimalism.
Adherents of this style will suit the following decoration option, shown in the photo. You can place a Christmas ball (preferably large and colorful) and a flower bud in a glass candy or pie bowl. These elements can be supplemented with small sprigs of needles or sweets.
Lush bouquets.
The "highlight" of the decor for the New Year will be flower arrangements, which can include greens, fir branches, citrus fruits or toys. You can combine these elements in any way you like. For example, choose small flowers for a bouquet, but add more needles to it. Bouquets with oranges, tangerines or lemons will be especially popular in the New Year of the Red Monkey.
Flowers in the interior.
Variations of flower arrangements for decorating the interior can be a huge amount. Leaves, Christmas decorations, pine needles, fruits, sweets and flowers can be placed in beautiful glass vases or on porcelain plates. You can also put them in a beautiful cardboard box or jewelry box, decorating it with ribbons, bows, plant and animal figurines. An excellent option would be bouquets and wreaths of needles and flowers on the tables.
Below we offer several photos of flower arrangements for New Year's decoration.
It is better to start preparing material for a future composition in advance.
In a separate box, you can collect decorative stones, beads, beads, silk ribbons, artificial flowers, candles, colored cords, double-sided tape, cones, corrugated paper, wire, organza, sisal fiber, felt and much more that can be useful for decorating a composition. .
Elementary simple: make a New Year's bouquet
One of the options for such a New Year's craft can be a bouquet of flowers and needles in a basket. To make it, we need: three types of flowers (preferably different shades), spruce twigs, a basket, apples, a floral sponge (it can be replaced with a regular one), good adhesive tape, thin wooden sticks, artificial snow in a can, glue, decorations and a candle.
All is ready? Then let's start.
- First you need to cut the sponge so that it repeats the shape of the basket.
- After that, it must be placed inside the basket and firmly fixed with tape.
- Flowers and twigs of needles should be placed on the sponge evenly, in a spiral.
- We will insert a candle in the center of the bouquet.
- We will fix apples and cones on the ends of wooden sticks with glue (it is better to use hot glue for a heat gun).
- Composition ready? Then you can cover it with a light layer of artificial snow. This New Year's miracle will be a wonderful decoration for a festive table or room.
For greater clarity, we offer you a step-by-step photo instruction that shows how you can quickly and easily make such a composition.
Evergreen beauty: New Year's compositions from coniferous branches
New Year's holidays, of course, cannot do without handicrafts from needles. Quite often, candles, ribbons and Christmas decorations are additional components in them. We bring to your attention several possible options for such decorations.
Spectacular bouquets of spruce paws.
Compositions of spruce branches in the form of bouquets will look very bright in the interior decor. They are usually placed in low vases, on dishes, plates or trays.
In the center of such an ensemble, you can place a tall red or white candle or a decorative candle in a glass. This year, they can be supplemented with exotic fruits, such as oranges, decorated with clove buds.
Wreaths for doors and walls.
These attributes of the New Year and Christmas are considered classic. There are many options for such decorations.
- The basis for such wreaths can be both natural needles (thuja or Christmas tree), and New Year's tinsel, birch branches, paper, fruits, sweets and even pasta covered with golden paint.
- You can decorate a wreath with whatever your heart desires: bows, homemade boxes, ribbons, toys, Christmas balls, decorative straws, cones and even cinnamon sticks. In the photo you can see various options for such wreaths.
In the next video, a professional florist will show and tell you how to make a wreath of their needles yourself.
To make such a wreath stylized under the theme of the New Year of the Golden Dog, you can attach small toys in the form of dogs to it, weave spikelets into it, or sew small puppies from yellow fabric. Such elements will make the New Year's wreath unique.
Small compositions.
So that the interior is not crowded with bulky compositions, make a few small crafts from pine needles. For example, you can tie twigs and a few cones into a large bow (preferably in a bright color).
Also popular today are small compositions of Christmas tree balls and sprigs of needles on Dutch-style wooden utensils.
Needles are a very convenient material for crafts, because it retains its color and properties for a long time. Therefore, compositions from spruce twigs or arborvitae will delight you with their splendor for more than one week.
Popular decor: candy compositions
Crafts from sweets and other sweets will look no less beautiful. It is important to choose those that have a bright wrapper. Compositions of them are considered the easiest to manufacture. Ideas for them - a great many. We will present a few.
Candles and candies in glass.
Small sweets or colored sweets are placed in a large glass jar or glass, and a candle is placed in the center. Simple, fast and beautiful, right?
To make such a composition in the style of the year of the Fire Rooster, you can place a small felt chicken in a container with sweets. On the jar itself, you can make the inscription "2017" or some brief wish (motto) for the New Year with colored markers or acrylic paints.
Making a composition in the form of a Christmas tree from sweets, a master class on video
Such compositions have a cone base (usually cardboard, but champagne bottles can also be used). Candies, tinsel, bows or organza flowers are attached to them. Its appearance is completely up to your imagination. In the photo you can see possible models of such an unusual Christmas tree.
At first glance, such a composition may seem complicated. Therefore, we suggest that you see the whole process of creating a caramel Christmas tree with your own eyes on the video.
candy pineapple.
The Eastern mistress of 2019, Pig, should be surrounded by tropical paraphernalia. Therefore, we offer you an original decoration for the New Year - a pineapple made from sweets and a bottle of champagne.
You can make it in a matter of minutes by fixing chocolate candies (preferably round) one by one on the surface of the bottle using a hot glue gun. In this case, the candy is glued to an orange sticker, and then to the bottle.
As you can see, using fantasy and the simplest materials, you can create real New Year's masterpieces. On the eve of the New Year 2019, try to decorate home-made compositions with oriental symbols, buy a few small toys or figurines in the form of pigs, make them from felt, fabric or a quilling kit.
We wish you good luck in making New Year's compositions and finally we offer a photo selection of interesting ideas that will certainly inspire you.
We bring to your attention the ideas of New Year and Christmas bouquets and compositions from the florists of CanadaFlowers.
The works of professional Canadian florists are made in the range of classic colors of the winter holidays: red, gold, green, pink, blue. Cut flowers were used in the works: roses, chrysanthemums, alstroemerias, carnations, lilies, freesias, gerberas, orchids, daisies, tulips, as well as coniferous greens, cones, berries; potted plants: poinsettia, cyclamen, azalea; as accessories: various vases, decorative pots, baskets, bows and ribbons, multi-colored glass balls.
A fantastic flower arrangement of red, green and white in a square vase, decorated with a red decorative ribbon, like a real gift under the tree. Cut flowers include white roses, white carnations and seasonal white chrysanthemums. Christmas greens and shiny red balls add to the holiday spirit.
A classic one-sided Christmas floral arrangement in two tones - red and white. The composition is composed of white roses and chrysanthemums, red and white carnations and asters. A festive accent is added from sprigs of coniferous greenery, pine cones and candy canes.
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This bright and stylish floral arrangement in classic Christmas colors is sure to be popular for many years to come. Lush roses and snow-white alstroemerias are harmoniously combined with Christmas greenery, red decorative balls, a red ribbon and a red festive vase.
Dreamy white lilies, winter alstroemerias combined with beautiful lush red roses, red spray roses and berries in this inspiring holiday of thoughtfulness!
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In a festive red vase, an arrangement of lush red roses with orange-red freesia, pink chamelacium, golden decorative balls, lots of seasonal greenery, as well as a delicate organza ribbon and decorative dry branches is composed. Such a floral miracle will be a stylish addition to any festive New Year's decor.
A somewhat unexpected combination of red roses with decorative dry branches, freesia, the delicacy of a wax flower, a profusion of Christmas greenery and red balls. It turned out to be such a sparkling miracle!
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The red vase in the form of a cube is decorated with a golden gift ribbon. The flower composition is made up of red roses, alstroemerias, carnations, red decorative balls and fluffy coniferous greenery. Such a beautiful flower gift will be a pleasant and useful addition to the holiday in any home.
This stylish Christmas composition warms hearts with rich holiday hues - crimson red, sparkling gold and bright green. Red gerberas and roses create a bright composition in an ensemble with coniferous greenery and golden balls. For such a decoration, almost any rectangular container for flowers of a soft color is suitable.
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This flower arrangement is perfect for home or office. It consists of white lilies and daisies, red mini carnations, festive greens and golden glass balls. With this floral decoration, you can really feel the light of a Christmas star!
Featuring a few white roses and red Christmas berries, this simple clear glass bowl is spectacular when paired with seasonal greenery and an unexpected green accent from fresh foliage.
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This elegant golden wonder will be the perfect decoration for a New Year's party with family and friends. The main tones of the composition are white, gold and green. A successful and light combination of roses, freesias, cones, greenery and a golden ribbon in a white container cube.
A classic Christmas flower arrangement in pure white and cream with lilies, roses, various chrysanthemums, mini carnations and festive greens. Accessories include a simple flat wicker basket, small cream balls and a transparent golden ribbon.
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This arrangement is a real sweet floral surprise! A Christmas cookie jar is filled with red roses, white lilies and carnations. There was also a place for red spray roses, white Asiatic lilies and millions of gypsophila stars in a noble frame of white pine and spruce branches, red berries and matte cones.
Uniquely beautiful snow white roses, spray roses, Asiatic lilies and mini carnations look great with an assortment of lush holiday greens, as well as gold glass beads and a designer bronze ribbon, creating the feeling of a stunning floral extravaganza. The composition is housed in an exclusive container in gold metallic color, with an elegant lid that gives the whole ensemble a piquancy and lightness.
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This arrangement is a true festive platter of greens, pine cones, red berries and cinnamon sticks, lovingly arranged in a dark brown bamboo basket with a vibrant accent of printed ivory ribbon.
Snow-white roses, fragrant and oriental lilies are fixed among the festive greenery and a golden ribbon. The draped clear glass of a designer pedestal vase underscores the impressive elegance of this floral arrangement. This festive floral decoration will be a great addition to your home, office or Christmas table decor in honor of your favorite winter holiday.
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White roses, chrysanthemums and Asiatic lilies are nestled in a golden wicker basket, and a bright accent of green berries and a creamy gold ribbon only enhances the feeling of true winter magic.
This unusual and very stylish floral composition is a precious mixture of red roses, carnations, artificial berries and silver jewelry in a simple transparent wide vessel. All components of the work are connected by a bizarre wide silver ribbon tied with a lush bow.
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Works done by florists CanadaFlowers
Photo by CanadaFlowers.
NEW YEAR CHRISTMAS COMPOSITIONS
History of New Year and Christmas compositions.
All compositions are divided intoadvent (pre-Christmas) and Christmas. They are closely connected with folk customs and traditional church canons. So, the Catholic Church, cleansed of the Inquisition after the church crusades, allows the decoration of premises for holidays with flowers in accordance with church canons. In the Orthodox Church there are no canons of registration or they do not coincide with the Catholic Church.
Christmas holidays of the Orthodox Church .
Advent starts 40 days before Christmas (January 7) and starts Lent at the same time
there are no holidays in the church.
December 4 - the appearance of the Virgin - decorate the altar on this occasion.
December 12 - the feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Nicholas the Pleasant.
December 3 - January 1 New Year is not a religious holiday. December 31st day
holy people - martyrs of alcohol.
January 8 - Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
January 19 - Epiphany. From Christmas to Epiphany - Christmas time.
Symbolism of the holidays
COLOR - Traditional colors of Christmas -red - life, love, blood.
White - light, spirituality. Green- hope and rebirth.
Blue - faith and sky, purple -piety, spirituality.
Yellow, gold, silver - the symbolism of the gold of the Magi.
Color tones of traditional floristry:
red, white, green, gold - are more often used for decorating children's parties and shop windows.
End-of-burn floristry - blue, purple, black, silver
this is mysticism, isothery, fairytale romance
CANDLES - a symbol of spiritual burning, sunlight and dependence onhis life.
In Christianity, candles are reminiscent of the star of Bethlehem, which announced the birth of Christ, of the significance of Christ himself as the hope for salvation and peace. The shape of the candles is simple cylinders, white for Advent, red for Christmas. Other colors - depending on the desire to create a certain mood.
EVERGREEN PLANTS - a symbol of vitality and protection from evil, protection from the witchcraft forces of winter (in incense), are used more often in Christmas compositions. Boxwood, yew, juniper, spruce, fir, cypress, pine, spruce, heather, mistletoe, holly are used for compositions. mistletoe britishhang out on Advent 1 and beyond and thrown away after the holidays, believing that shedraws in V myself impure force.
BRANCHES WITHOUT LEAVES - with leaves in the form of distillation of birch, cherry, bird cherry. They personify vitality and fertility, protection from witchcraft forces. In Europe, on December 12, on the day of St. Nicholas, they put rods and rods that have witchcraft meanings. Bare branches are used more often in advent arrangements.
STRAW - a symbol of the straw on which Jesus was born, is used in compositions in the form of bundles with bows.
FRUITS, COOKIES, CANDIED FRUIT - sacrifice to spirits, gratitude to good spirits and softening of evil spirits. The shape of the treats is a star, a circle, a heart.
CEREALS, NUTS, CONES - a symbol of new life and renewal.
STAR, ANGEL, BELL- symbols of the news of the birth of the baby - Christ, Christian signs of the pre-Christmas period. Stars performfrom straw, wood, dough, paper, foil, glassAnd etc. Angel stylized, made of a variety of materials.
FLOWERS - helleborus - the flower of Christ (similar to an anemone). Bulbs are also used - tulips, daffodils, hyacinths. Amaryllis (distillation).
JUICY FRUIT - apples, pears, seeds, ears - a symbol of the rebirth of a new life.
SYMBOLS OF THE FORM OF COMPOSITIONS -
Wheel - a circle necessarily with intersections, a symbol of the solar wheel or the movement of the sun. European Christmas is celebrated on the winter solstice.
The wreath is a symbol of eternity and infinity of life. They can be very diverse, traditionally decorated with candles, cinnamon sticks,
needles and stars.
The cone (or pyramid) is a symbol of the tree of paradise.
The Christmas log is a symbol of rebirth.
Basic principles for installing New Year's compositions
The choice of means of arrangement and their installation as a measure of the mood and strength of the sound of the New Year's composition.
association of homogeneities (in form, color, assortment, etc.);
identifying the most important characteristic homogeneity;
the inclusion of contrasts that create tension and thus give life to the arrangement.
Compliance with the law of limitation
He consists in such a choice of material and details, which, combined in uniformity, create optically complete groups. An example of color groups is red candles, peppers, red-colored achillea inflorescences. The number of parts of the composition or assortment of plants does not matter, but one should not, for example, use cones of six different shapes, but it is better to take two or three contrasting shapes. With an assortment of arranging greens and other groups of material, the same rules are followed.
The basis of the New Year's composition is an unequal triangle. Homogeneity can connect with the eyes. The combination of equal and similar means the repetition of a homogeneous material in the composition. Therefore, repetition can be seen as a connection factor.Groupings of the same kind present in the New Year's composition should be repeated three times. For example, in a large arrangement in a shop window, color concentrations (spots) of red occur only three times, or only three groups of glass vessels are given in contrast to the rattling glazed ceramics. Moreover, of all the triple repetitions of a homogeneous in - spatial arrangement, one of the most significant geometric constructions is always the figure of an unequal triangle, which helps to find the union of this homogeneous in the composition. The most spectacular subject is always three. For example, three groups of colors - red, green and brown. 3 forms are painted with each paint. In Christmas decorations, 3 colors are usually combined - green to blue-green, red, and taupe.Green color gives pine, spruce, fir, eucalyptus.Red color- candles, decorative peppers, ribbons, twine, cords;Brown color - Lotus fruits, cypress and other coniferous cones, peculiarly curved branches and fruits of an unusual shape.
Achieving decorative effect and order with the help of partitioning. The selected material is installed not singly and not mixed, but combined into so-called groupings.
Free space between groups.
In a dense New Year's composition, the beauty of its individual parts is lost. Therefore, free space should be left between the groupings so that the eye, fixing individual details, can more voluminously cover the arrangement.
Emphasizing subordination between groups.
Separate groupings should be different in their meaning. With the same value between them, competition would begin. As a rule, candles play a leading role in New Year's compositions. Therefore, they receive the most honorable place in such arrangements - on the main axis. All other elements of the New Year's composition complement the candles and, in turn, have a different significance relative to each other. Thanks to this, it is possible to direct the viewer's eye from primary elements to less valuable ones, providing for harmonious inclusions along the way.
Spatial design, volume.
Surveying the New Year's composition, the eye should not run into the "back wall". The space must be fully utilized. Groupings are arranged forward and backward, left and right, up and down. When placing the composition on flat bases (glass plates, wooden planks, ceramic and wicker plates), you can make it higher due to attachment devices (piaflor for dried flowers, polystyrene, etc.). Increasing the height of New Year's compositions will allow you to install falling branches hanging to the right and left in them, which in turn will create a three-dimensional arrangement.
Observance of optical balance.
New Year's composition should look balanced from all sides. One of its sides should not look more heavily loaded than the others.
Following the movement of natural growth.
The direction of natural growth of the material used in the compositions should be taken into account. Therefore, branches, flowers, fruits, if possible, should be installed as they would grow in nature.
The synthesis of rationality, feeling, experience and the joy of experimentation is the key to success!
The choice of means, the type of installation, the elaboration of details only then allow you to create an unforgettable New Year's composition when they are rational (conscious, meaningful). Each successfully completed arrangement is the result of mental work, since only feelings, experience and the joy of experimenting are not enough!
Appendix No. 12
Samples of Christmas compositions
(the works were made by pupils of the association "Nature and Fantasy")
