Make a craft in 5 minutes. New Year crafts-minutes for children

New Year is the time for gifts. And although there is still more than a month before the X day, it is worth thinking about gifts now. As you know, the best gift is the one made with your own hands. And even better if it is made by children's hands. It is always touching and pleasant to receive such.

Calendar from children's drawings

The house where the baby grows is always full of children's drawings. It's a pity to throw them away, but there is nowhere to store them. Children's creations can be put into action. For example, make a calendar for next year. Add a calendar grid to your scanned drawings in Photoshop and print. Get a beautiful calendar, which will delight the closest.

Illustration from the book "Wonderful Time: Winter"

Photo calendar with baby pictures for grandparents

To make such a gift, it will take a little more time. Take a photo of your child against a light background in different poses and print the photos with the calendar grid already overlaid. The calendar can be printed on ordinary sheets, ordered from a photo studio, or simply pasted printed photos onto the pages of the finished calendar.

To make it even more fun, invite your child to paint details for each season of the year on the photos. On clothes, you can write the number or name of the month.

Another photo calendar option: choose suitable scenes from photos from the past year and make a calendar based on them.

Grandparents and grandparents will especially be delighted with such a cute gift.

Illustration from the book "Wonderful Time: Winter"

painted things

It is very easy to turn the most ordinary things into designer gifts by decorating them with your own hands. Paints on ceramics can make a drawing on a cup or plate. With markers or fabric paints, a child can draw a picture on a T-shirt or apron. Fabric paints and stamps can be applied to bed linen.

Hearts, triangles or stars cut out of an eraser are suitable as stamps. With a cork or rubber band at the end of a pencil, you can make multi-colored polka dots. Interesting prints come from LEGO bricks cut in half by lemons, apples, onions or potatoes.

Illustration from the book "Wonderful Time: Winter"

Surprise cards

Such an unusual postcard can be made in 5 minutes. Inflate a balloon, but do not tie it, but write a congratulations on it with a permanent marker. Then deflate the balloon and attach it to a postcard that says "Inflate me!".

Illustration from the book "Wonderful Time: Winter"

Invisible postcard

For friends and loved ones, you can make an invisible postcard. Write a message on white thick paper with white wax crayon. And on the front side of the postcard, make the inscription: “Paint me with watercolor!”. You can attach watercolors to the postcard. To make the text appear, you need to draw a little.

Illustration from the book "Wonderful Time: Winter"

Beautiful Christmas candlesticks

From an ordinary jar you can make a very beautiful candlestick-house.

To do this, wrap a glass jar with plasticine or hardening plastic. Leave room for windows or cut them. Decorate the top of the jar with foil, tinsel, or glue sequins. And then attach a candle inside. When it burns, the windows in the house will glow.

Illustration from the book "Wonderful Time: Winter"

Giving gifts is not only fun, but also very pleasant, especially if these are gifts made by the hands of our children.

* A Wonderful Time: Winter provided by Mann, Ivanov & Ferber.

Christmas tree-transformer made of paper

1. Print or redraw the template below. Prepare a good paper cutter, it will be very difficult to cut with scissors.

2. 4 parts are needed for this Christmas tree. Circle the template on sheets of paper of the desired color 4 times.

3. Fold the templates edges to each other and glue. An ordinary glue stick will help you with this.

4. Secure the glued edges with paper clips and wait for the craft to dry.

The Christmas tree is ready! It is nice to decorate a living room or nursery with such crafts.

Quick Christmas tree made of threads

1. You will need a sheet of glossy paper from which you need to roll a cone of the right size. Excess paper can be cut with scissors or a cutter, and regular PVA glue will help glue the edges.

2. A thick green thread is dipped in glue and wound around a cone in a chaotic manner. You can show your imagination!

3. The workpiece wrapped with thread must be left to dry, preferably for 2-3 hours. But you can speed up the process at times and just dry it with a hair dryer or fan.

4. After the Christmas tree has dried, you need to carefully remove it from the paper cone.

5. You can start decorating! You can decorate the Christmas tree with beads, paper snowflakes, sequins.

By the same principle, you can glue a Christmas tree from a decorative mesh from flowers.

Such a Christmas tree will become a beautiful element of the New Year's table, especially if you put an LED candle inside.

Air ballerina made of paper

A very simple and quick Christmas craft that will be interesting to do with a child.

1. A sheet of paper needs to be folded in half, draw a ballerina along the fold line, cut it out and unfold it.

2. Making a snowflake skirt is also very simple: fold a sheet of paper as shown in the diagram and cut out any pattern your imagination wants.

3. Expand the snowflake, cut a hole in the center of it and put it on the ballerina.

Light and openwork ballerinas will create a unique atmosphere - they can be hung on strings from the ceiling (to the chandelier) or made into a garland for the Christmas tree.

New Year's lantern from a bottle in 5 minutes

You will need a plastic bottle of any size. paper, glue, garland.

1. Cut off the neck of the bottle and measure its diameter

2. On a sheet of white paper, cut out geometric or any other shapes. Glue another sheet on the back to make the lampshade two layers.

3. Fold a sheet of paper in a circle, glue the ends. Put it on top of the bottle.

4. Make a small hole in the lampshade on the back side for the wire outlet and put the garland inside.

Believe me, children will be delighted with such a spectacular lantern or night light in their room. It is quite safe, the main thing is not to leave it turned on all night.

Snowflakes from cotton buds

Cutting snowflakes in children is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task, so as a quick New Year's share, you can make snowflakes from improvised means.

Take white or blue cotton swabs, paints and glue.

Dip cotton swabs in silver paint or first in glue, and then in dry glitter. Now connect the sticks together. You can simply stick them into a plastic ball to make voluminous spherical snowflakes.

These simple and quick Christmas crafts will bring a holiday to your home in just 5-10 minutes! Happy New Year!

Helpful Hints

It is not necessary to have a special gift to make something beautiful and unusual. If you know some tricks, then it is quite possible to make beautiful decoration for a home or a gift, with a minimum of effort and using very few materials.

On our website you will also find:

Here are just a few of the simple crafts that absolutely anyone can do:

Simple DIY crafts

1. Autumn candles

You will need:

Leaves (real or artificial)

PVA glue (decoupage glue)

Brush or sponge

* Wipe the jar with alcohol to get rid of fats.

* Apply glue to the jar.

* Use straight leaves to decorate the jar.

* You can lubricate the glued leaves with decoupage glue.

* Add a thread and a candle for beauty.

2. Painted cup

You will need:

Oil markers

Scissors

* Cut out a stencil of any pattern or letter from cardboard.

* Attach the stencil to the cup and start dotting around it with markers of different colors.

Just with your own hands

3. Painted jars

You will need:

Alcohol (for cleaning jars)

Acrylic paints

Jewelry (flowers)

* Clean the jar with alcohol.

* Paint the jar in any color and leave to dry.

* You can add a drink with a marker (in this case, a relief is applied on the bank, which is erased).

* Insert flowers into a vase.

4. Colored sneakers

You will need:

Fabric markers

White (light) sneakers

Pencil

* With a pencil, draw the desired pattern on the sneakers.

* Trace the drawing with a marker and start coloring as you like.

The simplest crafts

5. Craft from wine corks

You will need:

Wine corks

Pencil

Super glue

* Draw on paper any simple shape - in this example it is the shape of a heart.

* Start gluing the corks to each other (apply glue only to the sides, do not apply glue to the ends, so as not to stick them to the paper), placing them on the drawing to end up with a heart.

6. An infinity scarf from an old T-shirt

You will need:

Old/unnecessary T-shirt

Scissors

Thread and needle (sewing machine)

* Cut off the left and right edges of the T-shirt (see image). The width of the T-shirt will then become 35 cm.

* Cut off a small part from the bottom and top (where the neck is).

* Sew both halves from the inside, and you get a scarf.

Easy and simple do it yourself

7. Bright vases from glass bottles

You will need:

Watercolor paints

bottles

Bowl and brush (if necessary)

Syringe (if needed)

* Pour some paint into a bowl. You can mix several colors to get a different color.

* Pour the paint into the bottle. It is more convenient to do this with a syringe - draw paint into the syringe, and then inject it into the bottle.

* Rotate the bottle so that the paint covers all the glass inside.

* Turn the bottle upside down and leave in this position in the sink - excess paint will flow out.

* When the paint dries, you can add water to the vase and insert flowers into it.

8. Towel dryer

If you have an old ladder, you can clean it, if necessary, sand it and even paint it. After that, it can be placed in the bathroom to hang towels.

Simple paper crafts

9. Garland of paper cups

You will need:

paper cups

ordinary garland

Knife or scissors.

* Make a cross cut in each cup.

* Insert a garland light bulb into each hole.

* Decorate the room with a garland.

10. Golden Canvas

Even if you do not know how to draw at all, you can make a very beautiful project and decorate the interior with it.

You will need:

2 white canvases

Gold, blue and orange acrylic paint

Sponge brush

* Paint each canvas with 2-3 coats of gold paint - let the paint dry after each coat.

* Use the sponge brush to start painting your canvases. One will be blue and the other orange. Make some lines shorter, others longer.

11. Multi-colored keys

If you have multiple identical keys for different locks, use nail polish to color them. Thus, you will know which key is from which lock.

Crafts from simple materials

12. Colored candlesticks

You will need:

Wide glass and narrow glass (or vases of different sizes)

Super glue

Food coloring

* Place the small glass in the large one, and secure both with glue - apply glue to the bottom of the small glass.

* Pour water between glasses and add food coloring.

* Place a candle inside a small glass.

13. Bulb vase

You will need:

Bulb

Pliers

Screwdriver

Wire (if necessary)

Cover for the base of the vase (if necessary)

Super glue

Gloves and special goggles (to protect hands and eyes)

* Use pliers to remove the tip of the bulb.

* Use a screwdriver or pliers to remove excess glass from the base. You may need to get rid of several layers of glass - be careful and attentive.

* Glue the light bulb to the base (plastic cover).

* The light bulb can also be hung - use a wire for this.

* You can complicate the task and add an LED light bulb. For this, in addition to the light bulb, you will need small batteries. All instructions can be seen in the video:

Easy crafts for kids

14. Drawing a ghost on a T-shirt

You will need:

Wide adhesive tape

Light T-shirt

Scissors

* From adhesive tape, cut out the details of your ghost (eyes and mouth, for example)

* Glue all the details neatly to the T-shirt.

15. Congratulations from the keyboard

Such a congratulation is very simple to make.

Five minutes - a lot or a little? It depends on how to use this period of time, and it is known to be the most expensive. Using every free minute for creativity, you thereby save yourself from idleness, and at the same time get a lot of pleasure from the knowledge that the received thing is made by hand. So what can be done in five minutes?
This section is dedicated to home craftsmen who, by the nature of their activities, are very limited in time. Here are unique instructions for creating various useful and necessary things made by yourself in a short period of time.
Also in this section, ideas for making a gift with your own hands from improvised means are provided, which can be presented for any occasion. At the same time, you will spend much less time than going to the supermarket for an original product.
You can devote any free minute to using your abilities and skills, and ideas for creating masterpieces with your own hands can be taken from our website. Take a look around and you will see how much material at hand is next to you! And thanks to our instructions, you only need five minutes to transform unwanted items into unique homemade products.

Of course, you should prepare for each holiday in advance in order to give the recipient a good gift that will be remembered for a long time. But sometimes it happens that you are invited to the celebration at the last moment, or it turns out that tomorrow is a holiday with a work colleague. What to do if there is no time for shopping, and you want to please the hero of the holiday not with a banal, but with an unusual surprise?

We offer some original DIY gift ideas that can be made in just 5 minutes! Remember these ideas, they will surely come in handy!

original champagne

Champagne is definitely a festive drink. But how to make an original gift out of it? Actually very easy!

For this you will need:

• A bottle of champagne;
• A printer;
• Glue for paper;
• Scissors.

Making an original label is easy: to do this, you need to write a congratulatory inscription on a computer, print it on a printer and cut it out in the form of a label, then stick it on the bottle. (You can directly on the existing label).

If you know how to use Photoshop a little, you can make personalized champagne by inserting a photo of the recipient into the label and writing his name.

You can also write on the label: "Elixir of health and happiness" - which will make the banal champagne an unusual drink.

In a word, there are a lot of options, but unlike an ordinary bottle of champagne, such an original present will give the recipient much more joy!

From ordinary paper, you can make a beautiful bouquet of roses, which can be used to decorate a postcard or gift wrapping.

For this you will need:

• Thick paper;
• Pencil;
• Scissors;
• Glue.

1. Cut the paper into squares 7x7 cm.
2. Now draw a spiral with a pencil.
3. We cut the spiral with scissors and twist it so that we get roses.
4. We glue the roses with ordinary glue and decorate the package or postcard.
5. You can cut out leaflets from green paper and stick them to roses.

In order to make an original candlestick, you will need:

• Glass jar or glass;
• Spray can with paint;
• Self-adhesive paper;
• Scissors.

1. Cut out stars from self-adhesive paper.
2. We glue them on a glass or jar.
3. We paint the surface of the can with paint from a spray can, without peeling off the stars.
4. When the paint is completely dry, peel off the stars and get the original candlestick. You can make stickers of any shape and size! Experiment!
5. It remains only to put a candle inside!

We hope our ideas will help you make an original gift with your own hands in 5 minutes!