How to decorate a room with your own hands for a birthday. Ideas with photos: decoration with balls, tinsel, paper crafts

There are many options for decorating a room for a birthday, you can do it yourself or with the help of special services.

How to create a festive atmosphere

The magic of the holiday will be felt through a special atmosphere that can be created by adhering to several principles:

• approval of a single style for the party, in accordance with which the room will be decorated, guests will prepare costumes, games and competitions will be invented;
• determining the scale of the celebration: how many guests there will be and where it is more convenient to accommodate them, at home or in a cafe;

• decorating the room according to the general style of the holiday: balloons, candles, garlands, lanterns, tinsel;
• wrapping gifts (not only for the birthday boy, but also for the guests) in colorful paper;
• preparing a script, with mandatory breaks for food, dancing and competitions;
• organizing musical accompaniment that will give the holiday a unique atmosphere.

Creating a festive atmosphere is determined by the smallest details, which must be carefully organized and thought out to the smallest detail.

Decoration with balloons

It is difficult to imagine a holiday without balloons. If earlier they were simply presented to the birthday boy as a gift, today they are used You can decorate a room in a variety of ways:

1. Table decoration: using small boxes with weights, which can be placed near each guest's plate and tying helium-filled balloons to them.
2. Make large figures in the form of cartoon characters, funny characters and just baskets of flowers from balloons. The process is not at all complicated, and such a figure will delight for weeks.
3. You can make numbers out of balloons (the number of years the birthday boy or girl is turning).
4. To decorate a large room, they create panels and arches that have a strong frame underneath; they look especially good when celebrating an anniversary.
5. You can order balloons with photo printing from a special agency, depicting the birthday boy or memorable dates on them.
6. A great idea would be to fill a huge ball with a hundred small ones, each of which can contain a surprise: in the midst of the celebration, the big ball bursts, and the guests are showered with a pile of balloons and gifts.
7. After inflating the balloons with helium, you can tie them to a heavy base (for example, small soft toys) and place them around the perimeter of the room.
8. To surprise guests, you can inflate a lot of balloons of different sizes and place them under the ceiling, having previously stretched a fabric hammock. At the culmination moment, the hammock is removed, and a rain of balloons covers the guests.
9. Helium balloons that cover the entire ceiling look very elegant; their ribbons can be wrapped like serpentine and left hanging down.
10. An excellent option for an evening party would be to decorate the room with balls that glow due to the diodes inside them.

Flower decoration

When deciding how to decorate a room for any occasion, including a birthday, with your own hands, don’t forget about flowers. A universal room decoration for a girl’s celebration is rose petals, which can be scattered throughout the free space.

In addition, a large flat dish filled with fresh flowers to match the overall atmosphere of the holiday looks great in the center of the festive table. Ordinary vases of different sizes, standing on the floor, along the walls, will add freshness to the room and fill it with a floral aroma.

How to decorate walls with corrugated paper?

Paper allows you to create a lot of beautiful decorations for decorating a festive room. Its corrugated variety gives even more scope for imagination.

Pom-poms from corrugated paper, you can make them like this:

• fold 4 to 8 sheets of colored paper into an accordion;
• tie the center of the sheet with a thread;
• round off the edges of the resulting accordion using scissors, and then straighten each sheet;
• shape the entire pompom into a ball, and by making a few more of these, you can assemble a garland from them and decorate the room.

Flags:

• cut rectangles from colored paper;
• bend each one in half and place them on a strong thread;
• secure the flags with glue or tape.

Hearts:

• cut out hearts;
• attach one to the other, bend the top one in half;
• connect all the elements with a thread and stretch them under the ceiling.

Flowers:

• cut out silhouettes of different flowers from corrugated paper;
• superimpose several silhouettes (of the same flower) on one silhouette;
• Bend the top elements in the middle and carefully straighten the paper.

Tree of Wishes

A wish tree is a greeting on a large sheet of paper, designed in the form of a tree. This design option will not only decorate the wall of the room on the birthday, but will also remain as a long memory for the birthday boy.

You can make a wish tree like this:

• prepare an A3 sheet of paper (it is important that it has a dense texture);
• select a tree template and trace it on a sheet of paper using a marker;
• on the top of the sheet, write in beautiful letters and colorfully decorate the phrase: “Happy Birthday!”;
• You can glue colored paper leaves of the same size onto the tree branches, on which visiting guests will leave their wishes for the birthday boy.

Posters with congratulations

The poster allows you to fit in everything that did not fit into the wish tree: funny photos with the birthday boy, stages of his growing up, interesting collages and more.

Making a poster is very simple, you will need a sheet of Whatman paper, paints and felt-tip pens:

• you need to start with a catchy phrase that will take up the central part of the sheet;
• the background should be bright, but not too bright so that the inscriptions are visible;
• congratulations can be written directly on the Whatman paper or small cards can be prepared in advance and glued onto its surface;
• The poster can be decorated with particularly successful photographs of the birthday boy and his family.

How to decorate a room for a children's party?

How to decorate a room with your own hands for a child's birthday? It's very simple: the main thing is to arm yourself with imagination and a good mood. Children are delighted to perceive everything colorful, bright and unusual, so the interior should be decorated based on these principles.

Large homemade "lollipops"

All children love sweets, so the idea of ​​decorating a room with giant lollipops, even if they are not real, will definitely be appreciated by them.

It’s not difficult to make such a “chupa-chups”:

• paint long plywood sticks (about 50-60 cm) white;
• cut a circle with a diameter of 30-35 cm out of foam plastic and wrap it in colored paper;
• After smearing the stick with glue, stick it into the foam;
• cut a sheet of polyethylene larger than the ball;
• Cover the ball with plastic and tie it at the base of the stick, tying it with a colored ribbon.

Garland-fan

A garland, especially its unusual fan-shaped variety, will help create a festive mood.

You can make it yourself from scrap materials:

• prepare standard sheets of colored paper (A4 format);
• fold them like an accordion, with a step of 2 cm;
• fold the resulting strip in half;
• glue the inner parts of the strip together using glue;
• now you need to go through all the steps with the other sheets and glue them together (legs to each other);
• Finally, make loops along the edges of the garland to hang it on the wall.

Garlands without glue

Even a schoolchild can create a garland without using glue, and in beauty they are not inferior to those made in the traditional way:

1. Cut a standard A4 sheet of paper into 4 equal parts.
2. Each piece needs to be folded in half, then in half again.
3. Using a pencil, draw a specific shape on each piece.
4. Cut out the shape and unfold it.
5. Connect all parts of the garland (it is better to alternate colors) together by putting them together.
6. Now the garland can be hung both on the wall and in the doorway.

Volumetric stars

To create an atmosphere of mystery on a birthday, stars made with your own hands will help, they will not only help decorate the room like in a fairy tale, but will also become an excellent addition to the interior.

The volumetric star is prepared as follows:

• find a star template on the Internet and transfer it to paper (you need to draw several diagrams, each one slightly larger than the previous one);
• cut out the templates and bend them in the right places;
• After gluing all the parts together, you get a three-dimensional star with 5 points.

Giant pompom balls

Pom-pom balls will help create an original volumetric installation that will decorate the room for a child's birthday.

You can make them like this:

• fold a sheet of thin cardboard in half;
• draw a semicircle on one side of the sheet and cut it out;
• cut the resulting circle in half;
• fold the corrugated paper into a stack and trace a circle on it using the template;
• on another sheet of cardboard, draw stripes arranged vertically (half of them will be one color, half of another);
• alternately glue the corrugated paper to the strips;
• glue cardboard to the last sheet;
• pass a thread through the ball using a needle and tighten it into a loop on which the ball can be hung;
• carefully separate the cardboard pieces and glue them together.

Large paper flowers

To make such decoration you will need colored paper of thick texture (Whatman paper or cardboard).

To make the flowers very bright, you need to make the petals multi-colored.

The flower is created like this:

• cut out 5 small petals of one color and 5 larger ones of another color;
• arrange the petals into a flower shape so that the smallest ones are on top;
• fold the lower part of the petals into a boat shape and secure with a stapler;
• This is how you need to design each pair of petals, after which you need to fasten them together.

Paper flowers can be of different sizes, they can be used to beautifully decorate both the surface of a table and the curtains on a window.

Large volumetric numbers

For a birthday, you can make large numbers that will help solve the issue of how to decorate a room with your own hands.

Instructions:

1. Make the base of the number: thick cardboard or foam plastic (for example, from a box of household appliances) will do for this; you need to cut out the silhouette of the desired number on it.
2. Trace the second silhouette of the number using the existing template.
3. Cut 2 strips of cardboard that will be the sides of the number.
4. To decorate the number, you can make many small flowers from napkins or corrugated paper: each napkin should be folded in half, fastened with tape; cut out a circle; lift all its layers up and press with your fingers; straighten the bottom side.
5. Fasten the base of the number and the side with flowers using a stapler or glue.

Photo collage

A collection of favorite photographs that highlight the main memorable dates in the birthday boy's life will definitely be to his taste and can become an excellent interior decoration.

Collage options:

• simple: photos from birthdays, work, and vacations. They need to be pasted randomly or in strict sequence onto thick cardboard, with a corresponding background on it;
• unusual: using computer programs. You can make the birthday boy the main character of the comic by gluing a photo of his face to the superhero's body;
• for baby: you can make a poster with photos of a pregnancy test, footprints, the first photos of the baby by month (or year);
• fantasy: glue your friends' heads onto famous characters or place them among interesting decorations.

A collage designed with soul and taste, inserted into a frame with glass, will definitely take a worthy place on the wall of the birthday boy's room and will become not only an interior decoration, but also an expensive gift.

Figures from balls

Making figures from balloons is not the easiest task. It is better to entrust it to professionals. However, if you have imagination and ingenuity, you can try to do something with your own hands.

To bring this idea to life, you will need balls of different sizes (round, oblong, oval) and colors. As well as threads to connect them and weights to install them on the floor in a stationary position. The figures can be decorated with paper bows, cut out eyes and other facial parts.

For a child's birthday, these could be favorite cartoon characters and funny little animals; for an adult birthday boy or girl, a charming guy or girl in a seductive form would be suitable.

Large paper Martenitsas

To make this trendy decoration you will only need standard A4 sheets of paper, white and red, as well as glue and scissors.

Progress of work:

1. Fold the paper in half lengthwise, exactly in the middle.
2. Draw 10 to 12 lines on each sheet of paper.
3. Make cuts along the lines.
4. Glue the ends of the sheets together, applying glue to both ends.
5. Form circles and treat them with glue.

Decor of individual table elements

When choosing options for how to decorate a room with your own hands for a wedding or birthday, you can’t forget about the most important thing, decorating the festive table. The correct design will emphasize the atmosphere of the celebration and will cause admiration among the guests.

Decorating the festive table

Table decoration can become the central embodiment of the entire idea of ​​the holiday into life.

The main thing is to take into account numerous nuances:

• the table, cutlery, napkins, chairs should be in the same style and match the decorations in the room;
• individual figurines look beautiful and can be placed in a slight disorder on the table or near each guest’s plate (they should match the style of the holiday);
• decorating dishes is very important; you can find many photos of salads and hot dishes online, decorated with flowers and figures cut out of food products;
• in autumn, a fruit bowl cut from a whole watermelon looks very beautiful;
• cutlery can be tied with a napkin or a beautiful ribbon;
• if there will be a lot of guests, you can prepare name cards that will indicate their locations;
• You can decorate plates with paper or drawings on the edges with a special gel; for a child’s birthday, a great option would be disposable bright tableware with favorite cartoon characters.

Tablecloth decoration

The tablecloth determines the style of the entire table decoration.

It can be:

• elegant, festive (bought in a store or sewn by yourself from organza, taffeta, tulle, satin);
• disposable, polyethylene (large selection in specialty stores, they differ in designs and quality);
• standard white, which can be decorated with a special runner, which is laid in the center of the table;
• when creating a rustic style celebration, you can use a checkered oilcloth tablecloth;
• unusual (for example, made of paper, which children can color with felt-tip pens at their discretion right during the celebration).

Napkins also play an important role in the decor, they can be folded in different ways.

Method 1:

• fold the fabric in half;
• connect the side corners to the top;
• fold the fabric so that the bottom corner is 2-3 cm from the top corner;
• bend the top corner;
• bend the sides and insert them into each other.

Method 2:

• fold the napkin across;
• make an accordion out of the triangle, leaving the top free;
• fasten the top edge with an accordion;
• fold in half;
• secure with a ring.

Method 3:

• bend the corners first on the back, then on the front side of the fabric;
• holding the center of the napkin with the corners, pull out the bottom corners so that they take the form of petals.

Chair decoration

When choosing how to decorate a room for a birthday, it is important to decorate the chairs with your own hands.

There are several options here:

• decorate the backs of chairs with light fabrics (tulle or organza), in the same tone as the tablecloth and surrounding furnishings;
• Attach a helium-filled balloon to each chair, into which you can place a piece of paper with the guest’s name or a small surprise;
• place multi-colored soft pillows on the chairs;
• decorate the chairs with attributes in accordance with the style of the holiday (pirate sabers, princess crowns, space weapons).

Decorating a room for a party is a fun activity that can bring no less pleasure than the celebration itself. To ensure that the result amazes your guests, you need to arm yourself with imagination, bold ideas, and put in a little effort.

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