How to make Christmas lights with your own hands?

Garlands are very beautiful and fabulous, they create a real holiday atmosphere and seem to be immersed in winter magic. It is not surprising that they are considered one of the main Christmas decorations. Garlands are simple and complex, multi-colored and made in one tone, they can be made from paper and cardboard, as well as tinsel, natural materials or other improvised means.

The most simple garlands are those made of paper. Moreover, even children can make them - babies always like preparing for the main holiday of the year.

In order to make it, you will need colored paper (preferably double-sided), scissors and stationery glue.

The paper should be cut into strips with a thickness of 1-1.5 cm and a length of 10-12 cm. After the blanks are made, it is necessary to take a strip and form a ring from it, and fold all other pieces, passing through the previous one.

Such a garland can decorate the living room, nursery or hallway. By the way, it can be useful not only for the New Year, but also for a birthday or any other family holiday.

A garland of multi-colored paper stripes looks very interesting. The method of its manufacture is also quite simple. You should first prepare strips of paper about 2-2.5 cm thick and about 10 cm in length and spread out on the table in the color combination that you prefer. You can alternate shades or make soft transitions, and to someone more like the work of contrasts - it all depends on your imagination.

After that, all the strips should be sewn with each other on the sewing machine, leaving a small distance between them. If you don’t have the cars, you can fix the elements manually, although in this case you will need a little more time.

If you wish, you can take not only stripes, but also other figures - starlets, circles and hearts look good.

Such decorations are hung vertically, most often they are decorated with windows, and at the bottom they add a small weighting agent. In this capacity, a bead or a small plastic ball will look good.

In Europe, since ancient times, popular New Year's calendarsthat bring a lot of joy to children, looking forward to a magical holiday. The essence of such decorations is that children get small surprises every day - sweets, tiny toys that are hidden in small boxes.

It will be very fun if you combine such a calendar with a garland. In this case, matchbox can help, you need 31 pieces (according to the number of days in December).

Each box should be wrapped with thin corrugated paper of different shades, tied with a ribbon and glue the numbers indicating the date from 1 to 31 and connected with a rope or thread into one large garland.

If you show imagination, then instead of boxes you can take small socks or mittens - templates of blanks can always be found on the Internet.

With older children, you can make a more complex decoration - a garland of Christmas figures. Most often used images of Christmas trees, Santa Claus or snowflakes. From white paper cut the required number of figures, it is desirable that they were with a pattern. In this case, the garland will look like an openwork. At the top of each with a hole punch should make a hole, and put all the figures on the rope. In this case, the thread should be threaded through each hole twice, then the figures will be fixed in place, as it were, and they will not start rolling down the string and deviate to the side.

Using the snowflake image, you can make another interesting garland. For the work will need a thick cardboard, hole punch, rope and scissors.

On the prepared paper, it is necessary to draw an image of a snowflake, optimally so that it is no more than 10-12 cm, and then use a hole punch to make several holes — one at opposite ends and two in the middle.After this, all prepared blanks should be strung onto the rope through the holes. Such a garland looks quite interesting if you use cardboard of different colors and alternate snowflakes of different colors.

A very stylish garland looks like if you cut snowflakes from thin paper or even napkin patterns. For this, the templates should be put on a flat surface and smeared with a mixture of PVA and water diluted in a ratio of 1: 2. After the composition dries out, such snowflakes will look like starched.

But the simplest and at the same time stylish option will be the decoration of the spiral - such a garland is often hung on the chandelier or attached to the ceiling. To do this, take a sheet of paper for the printer, draw a circle on it and draw a snail inside, then cut out the outlines, stretch it, and the garland is ready.

The Christmas decorations made of felt look very unusual and at home warmly, and making a garland of this fabric is simple, you can even do without a pattern.

Garlands in the form of Santa's socks will be an interesting option., made of felt. They create the feeling that fairytale heroes have left their things somewhere nearby.

From felt, you can cut images of deer, Christmas trees or fabulous birds, and put them all together in a garland.

Make it easy, but you have to prepare in advance the natural material - to collect the cones, as well as cut and dry the circles of oranges or lemons (this can be quickly done in the oven). In addition, you will need additional decorations, such as cinnamon sticks, pine twigs, mistletoe and other decorations.

As a rule, such a garland is hung on a jute rope. Collect the decoration in two ways.

• In the first case, you need to cut off the hemp rope of the required length, tie many small knots on it, and glue an element of decor to each one with hot glue.
• The second option is more complicated, but it looks more volumetric and stylish. For each part, a small rope is cut out, and already with the help of these short lengths, the elements are fixed on the main cord. The finished decoration can be covered with glitter or golden paint in some places so that it shines and creates a festive mood.

If you do not have time at all to make garlands, you can create an ornament of tinsel and Christmas balls. Most often, they frame the area above the door around the perimeter of the doorway.

It is best to take as a basis a small electric garland. and wrap it with bright green tinsel, which will imitate pine branches. Attaching the decoration to the wall, you can additionally hang balls and other small toys, and add Christmas bows.

However, note that such a garland should not interfere with the passage through the door, so do not hang the balls too low.

A very original garland is obtained from the cones, it is especially stylish in the rooms where there is a fireplace, because it becomes the symbol of the New Year's hearth and from it, according to folk tales, and a kind grandfather with gifts appears.

For decoration fits the space above the firebox and on the sides. In order to form a garland, fir branches are fastened to a tight rope so that they overlap each other and supplement with pine cones. It looks very beautiful if the cones are covered with shimmering sequins or even painted in bright shades, and also decorated with hanging Santa's bows and socks.

A little advice: if you pre-dry the cones in the oven or microwave, they will open their scales, and in addition, they can be easily repainted in the desired color.

Cones can be painted in bright colors, and can be covered with a layer of white patina with glitter - it all depends on your imagination and the overall concept of interior decor. After the gouache dries, it should be sprayed with hairspray - thus, you fix color.

If you wish, you can make every cone eyes, nose and small caps, then you will get a garland of fabulous dwarfs that kids will like. It can be hung on a Christmas tree or wall.

If you have an old electric garland that has lost its appearance, then you can give it a new life, and you will not need much effort for this.

For example, the paper cup variant is very well suited.

First you need to make for them a holiday wrapper. You can use corrugated paper or decorations for scrapbooking, then wrap each cup and fix with glue or tape.

At the bottom of each glass, you need to make a cross-shaped incision and insert the bulbs of your luminous garland into it. Try to turn it on, and you will notice what an unusual effect these seemingly simple materials will give.

The garland of burlap looks very original. For its manufacture will require a cloth of different shades, it is cut into small strips and tied with knots between the bulbs of an ordinary electric garland.

This is a very simple option, but definitely beautiful and atmospheric.

If you work hard, you can make a truly expensive and luxurious rope garland, most often using a jute thread, however, yarn will also work.

You will need balloons that you need to inflate a little, and it is better to make them small, such a garland will look more advantageous. Then lubricate with vaseline oil or baby cream (this is necessary so that the twine does not stick to the balls).

After that, in a separate container, you must mix the PVA, paste and water in the same proportions and soak the thread in the resulting solution.

Then everything is simple - you need to wrap a rope soaked in glue around the ball in a chaotic manner,and leave the balls until completely dry. You can do this close to the battery, but not on the heating appliance itself. The balls will simply be blown away, and in the morning you will get a shapeless mass.

After that, light bulbs are inserted into the received balls and enjoy the shine of the updated garland.

The simplest garlands can be trusted to children, kids love the festive atmosphere, they love to create and decorate the room with their own hands in anticipation of magic.

If you make an adventure calendar, then combine business with pleasure - and make the room more atmospheric, and give a lot of joy to your kids.

With older children, you can make lace garlands of paper. They can be of different shades, but the shimmering white always looks immaculately and seems to plunge into the fairy tale of the winter forest.

But supporters of country style will prefer felt decorations, images of deer look especially interesting.

Decorations made from natural materials create their charm and indescribable atmosphere.Light notes of so fashionable today chebbi-chic can be brought if you combine cones, hemp rope, slices of dried oranges and a little shine.

Do not forget to decorate the windows.

And also a fireplace.

There are many options to revive the old electric garland - choose the one that suits your taste.

You can choose any color solution. Someone likes to make room in white and blue shades. Someone prefers red with gold. And some like the riot of colors and festive colors.

Pay special attention to the LED street lights - after all, the fairy tale should be not only in the house, but also in the street around it.

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