Experienced craftswomen in the field of hand made make New Year's compositions with their own hands. Such decorations are unique, since each craft is individual. Such products have many advantages. The main one is the ability to make a composition from scrap materials.
What can a composition be made of?
It is quite easy to make a composition for the New Year's table. Everything will be useful as materials for its production. For example, these can be:
- empty boxes;
- any natural materials;
- paints;
- beads;
- old New Year's toys and dishes.
Any of these items are in almost every home. Therefore, before you start choosing a master class, you should conduct an audit of cabinets and shelves. Having collected the materials, you can determine what kind of craft you can make.
Suitable materials for making a New Year's composition:
| Name | Description |
| Natural materials | The main natural materials for the New Year's composition are cones. They are harvested in the fall. It will be difficult to find suitable specimens in winter. Spruce, pine and fir cones are suitable for handicrafts. They can be painted in any color. Another essential attribute is coniferous branches. If you use live ones, then for the durability of the craft you will need a floral sponge. Otherwise, the needles will quickly crumble, and the product will take on an unpresentable appearance. |
| Decorations | Suitable decorations include: twigs, Christmas tree decorations, beads, and gilded leaves. There are plenty of options in any craft store. But you can do without purchased materials. It is enough not to throw away old Christmas tree decorations. They can be updated with spray paint. Thanks to this, you will get a beautiful decoration for the composition. |
| Boxes | Compositions with a paper base are easier to make from a ready-made box. Any container will do: from candies, tea, cookies. Any box will be an ideal foundation. It is enough to just glue it or paint it. |
| Ribbons | You can make bows from ribbons or simply decorate the base of the composition with them. A beginner needlewoman should use rep materials, not satin ones. They are easier to work with. |
| Glassware | Sometimes master classes use a large number of materials. Paper base is not suitable, as it will not withstand the weight. It is replaced by glassware. Most often in crafts they use: mugs, wine glasses, deep bowls. |
| Consumables | Spray paints, acrylic paints, PVA, hot glue, glitter, candles. |
To create a composition, you can use stones painted in gold, artificial snowflakes. There are many options for decorations. The main thing is to learn to use your imagination.
From paper
New Year's compositions do it yourself from paper is the easiest to do. A box is used as the basis for the craft. You can make it yourself from thick cardboard or take an empty container.
Option I
This is one of the simplest compositions. Even beginners in needlework can do it. It is enough to select a couple of simple details, and the decoration for the New Year's table is ready.
Materials:
- Round paper box (you can make it yourself).
- Grosgrain ribbon 2-3 cm.
- Spruce branches.
- Hot glue.
- Birds (2) and small balls on skewers for decoration.
- 4 large balls covered with glitter.
Sequence of actions:
- Take a paper box. If desired, you can make it yourself from paper.
- Tie the top of the box with a grosgrain ribbon, forming a bow. Secure the decoration with hot glue.
- The branches are placed in the jar so that their ends extend outward from the center of the box.
- Insert 2 bird figures on skewers into the box, in the part where the bow is.
- Decorate the composition with balls on skewers.
At the end, add 4 shiny balls to complete the composition.
Option II
Materials:
- Cardboard box. Size: 13x12.5 cm.
- Topper (inscription) on a skewer. Choose any you like.
- Weighting agent.
- Square shaped foam plastic.
- Decorative apples.
- New Year's toys.
- The needles are artificial. It is desirable that their appearance resembles blue spruce branches.
- Scissors.
- Secateurs.
- Tissue paper.
- Hot glue.
- Cones.
- Tape or corrugated paper.
- White acrylic paint.
- Brush.
- 2 cinnamon sticks.
- Twine.
You can choose decorations on skewers or make the sticks yourself.
Sequence of actions:
- The skewers are divided into several parts using pruning shears.
- Paint the cones white and let them dry.
- Using hot glue, attach all the decorations used to create the composition to the skewers. The spruce branches are also lengthened using sticks.
- White berries are attached to a skewer. The wooden stick is decorated with white tape or corrugated paper.
- Take dried pine cones and glue them onto a skewer.
- Take 2 cinnamon sticks and twine.
- Connect 2 cinnamon sticks and tie them in the middle with twine.
- Leave a tail from the knot.
- Glue a skewer to the tails.
- A weight is placed on the bottom of the box.
- The free space is filled with tissue paper.
- They take polystyrene foam.
- Wrap it in white corrugated paper.
- They put the foam plastic into the box.
They move on to filling the space inside the box:
- Sprigs of pine needles are inserted around the entire perimeter.
- The largest elements are inserted into the composition – New Year’s toys. You will need 3 white balls. They are inserted into the corners of the box, leaving one empty.
- Smaller elements are inserted – cones.
- They insert artificial apples and the smallest balls.
- Artificial berry branches are inserted into the spaces between the balls and cones.
They examine the composition from afar. If any flaws are visible, they correct them.
From candies
Materials:
- Glue gun.
- Round shape. You can use a box or make it yourself.
- Candy. You will need candy bars (like half a Bounty) and regular sweets.
- Colored paper.
- Scissors.
- Artificial pine branches.
- Foam plastic.
- Tinsel.
- Beads.
- Ribbon for decoration.
- Toilet paper roll.
Sequence of actions:
- Take a round shape. You can use a box. This will be the base of the composition. Therefore, the diameter is selected based on your own wishes.
- The box is covered with colored paper to give the container an attractive appearance.
- Candy bars are glued to the box around the entire perimeter.
- Take a toilet paper roll.
- They cover it with tape.
- Glue the sleeve into the center of the composition.
- Fill the inner space of the bushing with foam.
- Coniferous branches are inserted into the foam.
- The coniferous branches are decorated with tinsel and beads.
- Candies are glued around an improvised vase with twigs.
If desired, you can place a small bag of gifts under the base of the vase.
With candles
One of the most beautiful New Year's compositions is with candles. Wax options are used to create crafts. You can choose both single-color candles and multi-colored ones. Everything depends on the palette of the composition.
Option I
DIY New Year's compositions with candles create a Christmas atmosphere in the house. Such a craft can be used not only as an aesthetic decoration of the room. In the evenings, the candle is lit and its glow in the semi-darkness is admired.
Materials:
- Candle, diameter 5 cm, height 11 cm.
- Candle stand. The simplest one. The master class uses a product 11 cm high, 8 cm in diameter.
- Hot glue.
- Berries on white wire.
- Christmas tree balls, white. Diameter – 2 cm.
- Christmas tree balls, 3 cm in diameter, blue.
- Small cones. Can be used from alder on a branch.
- Scissors.
- Fir branch, artificial or real.
Sequence of actions:
- The candle is placed on a candlestick.
- Cut a pine branch into small sticks.
- Glue around the candlestick.
- They take cones.
- They are attached on top of the branches.
- The berries are formed into clusters.
- Glue decorations onto the branch. Start with the balls.
- They glue on bunches of berries.
At the end, add decorations, based on your own taste.
Option II
Materials:
- A wooden photo frame in the shape of a polygon. This will be the basis of the composition.
- Hot glue.
- Screwdriver.
- Sandpaper.
- Candle in a glass form.
- Penoplex or foam plastic.
- Green foamiran.
- Scissors.
- Decorations for the composition. All are selected in gold. You can paint the items yourself. The following will come in handy: stars, cones, small balls, snowflakes, leaves, walnut shells.
- Brush.
- Acrylic white paint.
Sequence of actions:
- Remove the back cover from the frame.
- A layer of glue is applied around the entire perimeter of the hole from the back cover.
- Return the back cover to its place, firmly fix it with glue. This will make the structure more reliable.
- Using a screwdriver, remove the fasteners from the back of the photo frame.
- Sand down the screw holes on the back wall of the photo frame.
- Place a candle in the middle of the photo frame and lay out foam plastic or foam around it. No need to glue.
- All voids are filled with small pieces of foam plastic.
- Cover the penoplex with a layer of green foamiran. Fix it with glue.
- Artificial spruce branches are glued onto a layer of foamiran.
- Beautiful spruce branches are glued in a circle in one direction.
- Glue 3 gold leaves in a circle, keeping equal spaces between them.
- Cones are glued into the spaces between the leaves.
- Place them on the composition and then glue the walnut shells. It is advisable to make one whole object from the 2 halves.
- Small polyhedrons are glued on to imitate gold bars.
- Small Christmas tree balls are glued on.
- Glue 2-3 stars in different places of the composition.
- The gaps between the decorations are filled with small pieces of pine needles.
- Twigs with balls or berries are placed on the edges of the composition.
- They take a brush.
- Dip the tip of the brush into white acrylic paint and lightly cover the pine cones, nuts, and pine branches with snow.
They examine the composition. If desired, they add some more decoration.
Option III
It is easy to make New Year's compositions with your own hands. Candles are the epicenter of the craft, and a beautiful background is created around them. It is enough to have good taste to select all the materials yourself.
Materials:
- A stemmed glass. It is advisable to choose a shape similar to a martini glass.
- 2 candles in gold color.
- Leaves and decorations in gold color.
- Foam ball. The size should fit the glass.
- Hot glue.
- Artificial coniferous branches.
- Stationery knife.
- Brush.
- Golden paint.
- Golden glass cones.
- The wire is thin.
- The cones are real.
- Golden balls – 2-3 pcs.
- A sprig of green snow-covered berries (artificial).
Sequence of actions:
- The roundness of one side of the foam ball is cut off.
- They spread glue on the bottom of the glass.
- Glue the foam ball with the cut side facing up.
- Paint the ball with gold paint and let it dry.
- Sprigs of pine needles are inserted into the ball around the entire circumference.
- The second row of needles is inserted above the first. The branches used are shorter.
- Golden twigs are inserted into the foam.
- Branches of other plants are inserted into the composition.
- One of the candles is shortened so that they look different in the composition.
- In the upper, flat part of the foam ball, make indentations for the candles.
- Drip hot glue onto the candle and into the hole in the foam.
- They place candles in the composition.
- They take glass toys in the form of cones and wire.
- They cut off a piece of wire.
- Fold it in half.
- The loop on the folded wire is placed at the base of the cone, under the fastening.
- They twist the wire.
- Insert the cone into the composition. Do the same with the remaining materials.
- Glue several golden balls near the base of the candles.
- Take a couple of pine branches. Make holes for them in a foam ball. Drip some glue into them and fix the paws.
- Take 2 cones.
- Glue the pine cones near the candles.
- Take a branch with green berries.
- A branch with berries is inserted into the base of the candles.
At the end, the cones are painted with gold paint. The composition is additionally decorated with several branches.
From coniferous branches
New Year's compositions made of pine needles can replace a Christmas tree. You can even make decorations with live branches yourself. They will fill the room with the aroma of pine needles - an indispensable attribute of Christmas.
Materials:
- Live coniferous branches: fir, blue spruce, thuja, juniper.
- Floristic sponge for creating compositions (diameter 18 cm).
- A sheet of thick cardboard.
- Pencil.
- Scissors or a utility knife.
- Decorations for the composition. The master class uses Christmas tree decorations, berries, floral wire, beads, artificial branches with glitter.
- Skewers.
- Sackcloth.
- Container with water for floral foam.
- Hot glue.
- White spray paint.
- Thick candle.
- The film is transparent and dense.
- Wine corks (which are located inside the neck of the container).
Sequence of actions:
- Place the sponge on the cardboard and trace its outline with a pencil.
- The shape is cut out of cardboard not strictly along the contour, but going beyond the line by 2-3 mm. This is due to the increase in volume of the sponge after it gets wet. It is advisable to cut out not 1, but 2 circles. This will make the bottom more dense.
- Heat up the hot glue.
- Glue 2 cardboard circles with burlap. To do this, cut out a square that will easily fit the form.
- Glue the burlap onto the circle.
- Cut off sharp corners, forming a circle of fabric. The burlap should extend 3-4 cm beyond the perimeter of the cardboard blank.
- Cuts are made along the entire perimeter of the fabric. It should look like a sun with rays.
- Each piece of fabric is glued to a cardboard blank.
- The 2nd cardboard circle is processed in a similar manner.
- Glue two blanks together.
- A border is made around the entire perimeter of the blank. To do this, the circle is covered with wine corks.
The end result should be a shape that resembles a large plate with sides.
- Glue 7 more wine corks together. This will be the blank for the future candlestick. The shape should resemble a flower. To do this, take 1 cork and glue the remaining 6 pieces around it.
- A floral sponge is placed in a container with water so that it becomes soaked in it.
- A film is placed on the bottom of the cardboard and cork mold. It will prevent water from dripping onto the burlap.
- The floral foam is taken out of the water and placed in a cardboard form on film.
- The excess film is cut off with scissors so that its ends are not visible.
Move on to working with coniferous branches. They will have to be processed to install them in the sponge. To do this, make a cut at an angle at the base of each one. In the part that will be immersed in the sponge, remove the needles.
Assembling the composition:
- The bottom layer is made from fir branches. They are evenly distributed throughout the circle.
- Juniper branches are inserted on top of the fir branches.
- Thuja shoots are inserted near the juniper branches.
- Fill the space by inserting branches of blue spruce. It is important to leave the center of the composition relatively free. A candlestick made of wine corks will be installed in it later. Therefore, a funnel is formed for it.
- They take a candlestick made from corks.
- Skewers are inserted into the spaces between the corks. The candlestick will be attached to the floral foam with their help.
- A candle is strung onto the protruding ends of the skewers. The length of the sticks is adjusted if necessary.
- Insert the candlestick into the middle of the composition.
All that remains is to decorate the composition. Any objects can be used for this, choosing them according to your own taste. In the master class, Christmas tree decorations in the color of the berries were used.
Sequence of actions:
- The toys' fasteners are removed.
- Take some floral wire and make a loop at its end.
- Place a drop of hot glue on the loop.
- Insert the loop inside the toy, fixing it to the wall. The glue will tightly connect the 2 elements.
- The other end of the wire is inserted into the base of the composition, placing the decoration between the branches.
- The composition is complemented with white berries.
Continue decorating the composition, adding twigs with glitter and beads. At the end of the work, the edges of the needles are covered with snow with white spray paint.
New Year's vase
New Year's compositions (even a beginner can make them with his own hands using the master class) will decorate any room. They can be placed on a table, bedside table, chest of drawers. The decoration will fit into any interior.
Materials:
- Christmas tree balls of small and medium size.
- Rose without stem and leaves (artificial). You can buy it or make it yourself from foamiran.
- A pot for the base of the structure.
- Hot glue.
- Artificial spruce branches.
- A snow-covered branch with berries.
- Stationery knife.
- Foam ball for crafts. The size is selected to match the vase. When cutting the ball into hemispheres, their diameter should be enough to cover the hole in the pot.
- Sackcloth.
- 1 Christmas ball, covered with glitter.
- Cone.
- A branch with golden leaves (artificial or your own dried flowers).
- A small artificial fern leaf covered with gold glitter.
- A wooden branch painted gold.
- Golden Christmas tree ball.
- Berry branches and various small balls.
- Brush for glue and paint.
- White acrylic paint and green.
- PVA glue.
- Artificial glue snow.
Sequence of actions:
- Using a stationery knife, cut the ball into 2 hemispheres.
- Cover 1 hemisphere with burlap. You can fix it in any convenient way.
- Using hot glue, attach the hemisphere covered with burlap to the pot. Cover the hole completely. It should look like a lid, but tightly glued.
- The lower, protruding part of the rose bud is cut off and glued to the burlap.
- Glue a Christmas ball next to the rose.
- In addition to the rose and the balloon, a pine cone is glued on.
- Glue on a branch with golden leaves.
- Glue on pine branches.
- A fern leaf is attached to the hemisphere.
- Place a wooden branch with 3-2 branches.
- A pine branch is glued under the rose. Its tip is directed downwards, towards the base of the vase.
- Next to the rose and the blue ball, closer to the bottom of the vase, glue a golden ball.
- Decorate the composition with pine branches.
Continue decorating the composition with the remaining balls, berries, and fern branches. Then, snow-cover the tips of the cone with white paint. Add a few strokes to the branches. Cover some of them with green.
Dip a brush in PVA glue and cover the tips of the branches and other parts of the composition with it: a rose, a fern, balls. Sprinkle the glue with artificial snow. Let the composition dry and you can decorate the table with it.
Tips and tricks
Useful information:
- Cedar and larch cones look very beautiful in a New Year's composition. They are difficult to find, but with them the craft will look very beautiful.
- If the cones are closed, they need to be dried. Then they will fluff up and become more voluminous.
- It is advisable to make the craft disassemblable. This will give the opportunity to create a new composition next year.
- A large selection of decorations for the composition is sold in the stores: Leroy Merlin, Auchan, Fix Price.
New Year's compositions are made with your own hands to decorate your own home or as a gift to loved ones. Such a product is a good way to express sincere wishes for a happy New Year.
Video on how to make a New Year's table composition
From simple materials you can very easily and simply make a fabulous composition for the table.