DIY Christmas Toys

2025 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:41

New Year's toys 2019: do it yourself, decorate the tree and wait …

When there are only a few days left before the New Year, general revival reigns around and even the air is filled with the atmosphere of the upcoming holidays, we decorate the room and, of course, put up a Christmas tree. It is especially pleasant if, among other toys of all possible shapes and sizes, there is at least one hand-made on the tree. She delights guests, adds warmth and comfort to the holiday.

Content

• 1 How to make paper Christmas decorations

  • 1.1 Photo gallery: Christmas paper toys

  • 1.2 Garland chain

    1.2.1 Photo gallery: ideas for Christmas garlands made of paper

• 2 Christmas toys made of fabric, threads and braid

  • 2.1 Photo gallery: Christmas toys from textiles

  • 2.2 Pig - Christmas ball with the symbol of 2019

    2.2.1 Video: how to make a Christmas tree toy "Pig"

  • 2.3 Balls of thread

    2.3.1 Video: how to make a ball from threads

• 3 Toys from scrap materials

  • 3.1 Bulb Penguin

    3.1.1 Video: how to make a penguin for a tree from a light bulb

• 4 Photo gallery: a kaleidoscope of New Year's ideas for DIY toys

How to make paper Christmas decorations

The easiest way is to make your own toys out of paper. To make them you will need:

• colored paper. Better to take sheets for a copier or origami. It is of good quality and beautiful rich colors;

  

  A set of colored double-sided origami paper is well suited for New Year's crafts

• scissors;
• glue: usual for gluing (for example, PVA) and decorative with glitter.

Photo gallery: paper Christmas toys

New Year's cards or pictures + glue + sprinkle + tape

The basis for Santa Claus is a cone glued from a semicircle of colored paper

Find an unrolled paper ball - and create any New Year's figures

Garland chain

Manufacturing technique:

1. Cut the paper into 5 x 10 cm rectangles. And fold each one in half.

   

   Prepare the paper for the garland by cutting it into rectangles

2. Draw a chain element on one of the blanks and then use it as a template for cutting out other parts.

   

   Draw a chain link on the half of the folded rectangle.

3. The more elements you prepare, the longer the garland will turn out.

   

   In expanded form, you should get elements similar to eights

4. Leave the first part folded. And unfold the second and put it on the first so that the fold of the paper fixes the free edges.

   

   Connect the two pieces of the garland chain

5. Align the symmetrical halves of the second element. Add the third part, etc. Fix the last element with glue so that it does not unfold.

   

   The garland is assembled very quickly

Photo gallery: ideas for Christmas paper garlands

Hearts can be made from strips of paper by stapling them with a stapler

The simplest version of the garland is multi-colored circles on the threads

From circles of colored paper you can make a garland 3d

Connections of circles and stars of different sizes look beautiful

Small paper fans of all colors of the rainbow can form the basis of a garland.

Snowflakes on strings are the best New Year's decoration

The garland can be made of voluminous snowflakes

Christmas toys made of fabric, threads and braid

Beautiful Christmas toys can be made from materials traditionally used in needlework.

Photo gallery: Christmas toys from textiles

Bright felt toys can be safe decorations on your baby's first Christmas tree

You can make pom-poms from yarn, and then glue eyes, noses and ears on them - and the New Year's fluffy balls are ready

You can buy a whole set for embroidery, which will become the basis of unique Christmas toys

You can also dump a pendant-felt boots and Santa Claus from special wool

Pig - Christmas ball with the symbol of 2019

Since the representative of the New Year 2019 will be a yellow pig, you can make a toy symbol with its image.

The symbol of 2019 can be made independently and hung on the tree

For work you will need:

• foam ball with a diameter of 6–8 cm (sold in the departments for creativity and needlework, can be replaced with a Christmas ball);

• satin or rep ribbon 6 mm wide (you will need about 3 meters of yellow or pink color);

  

  Foamiran is a dense, but elastic material, well suited for making ears and a piglet's patch

• dense material, for example, felt or terry foamiran of the same color as the ribbon;

• ready-made eyes or two small circles of white and black felt for making them;

  

  Prepare everything you need before starting work

• a tourniquet for hanging a toy on a Christmas tree (an elegant silver color is better);

• hugger for beads;

  

  The bead hug is needed for a beautiful aesthetic appearance of the toy attachment point

• hot glue for bonding.

Stages of creating a New Year's toy:

1. Apply some glue to the styrofoam ball and secure the edge of the satin ribbon to it.

   

   Attach the tape to the foam ball

2. Make one full turn of the tape around the ball, fixing diametrically opposite intermediate positions with glue.

   

   Do not forget to fix the tape with glue during the work.

3. Move the next turn of the tape slightly from the previous one. Do not forget to fix it with glue so that the tape is securely attached to the ball.

   

   Move the second turn of the tape slightly relative to the first

4. Wrap the entire ball in this way. It should turn from foam to satin. Cut off the rest of the tape.

   

   When the whole ball is wrapped with tape, cut off the remainder with scissors

5. Fold the 10 cm long tourniquet in half and pass the free edges into the hole of the bead hugger.

6. Apply glue to the inside of the hug and the edges of the tourniquet. Place the hugger on the satin ball, covering the cut of the ribbon. Let the glue dry.

   

   Glue the holder to the ball

7. Print out a template for the ears and piglet, or draw your own.

   

   Print the ear and patch template

8. Cut out the details from the foamiran and glue them onto a satin ball. Put two dots on the patch with a black marker.

   

   Glue the patch and ears

9. Glue the eyes to the pig.

   

   Glue the eyes on the ball, you get a pig

Video: how to make a Christmas tree toy "Pig"

Balls of thread

You can make a beautiful ball out of threads and glue.

A ball made of threads can be decorated with bows and rhinestones

Materials:

• round balloon;
• needle;
• threads (thicker is better, they look more impressive, you can use "Iris");
• PVA glue;
• a plastic cup.

Stages of work:

1. Inflate a balloon and tie a knot to keep air from escaping. Carefully cut off the rest of the rubber with scissors.

2. Thread the needle and pierce the bottom of the glass through the sides. Pull the string through, it should go in and out of the glass. The needle is no longer needed. It is better to put it aside.

   

   Pierce the bottom of the glass with a needle and pull the thread

3. Pour PVA glue into the glass so that it covers the thread.

   

   Pour glue into the glass to soak the thread

4. Pulling the thread through the glass with glue, wrap the ball. The thread should be wound evenly over the entire surface of the ball, thereby creating a beautiful pattern.

   

   Wrap the balloon with adhesive thread

5. You can stop at any time by simply cutting the thread.

6. Let the glue dry completely. Then pierce the balloon with scissors or a needle.

   

   After the glue is dry, pierce the balloon

7. Remove the remaining "air rubber" from the balloon. The toy is ready.

   

   A ball of threads holds its shape perfectly and looks beautiful

Video: how to make a ball from threads

Toys from scrap materials

You can use materials at hand to create Christmas tree decorations. For example, by showing imagination, you can make an interesting deer from a bottle cap.

Any materials can be used to create toys, even bottle caps

And an ordinary light bulb can easily turn into a snowman, bear cub or penguin. You just need to color it accordingly.

Snowmen made from light bulbs are already ready to be hung on the tree

Light bulb penguin

Stages of creating a penguin from a light bulb:

1. Paint the light bulb with white paint in two coats. Each layer must dry.

2. With a pencil, outline the white part of the penguin, paint over the rest with black paint.

   

   The main colors of the penguin are white and black

3. Draw the beak, eyes and eyebrows. Don't forget to add the wings.

   

   Red paint is needed only for the beak

4. Glue on the fabric feet and put on a hat to hide the light bulb base. The penguin is ready.

   

   If you put a hat on a penguin, no one will guess that the toy is made from an ordinary light bulb.

Video: how to make a penguin for a tree from a light bulb

Photo gallery: a kaleidoscope of New Year's ideas for DIY toys

In fact, Christmas trees have long been decorated with gingerbread!

Foam ball + fishing line with beads in random order

Pine cone + pearlescent acrylic paint or nail polish + pearl beads planted on superglue

Plastic rings are wrapped in satin ribbons, and a circle from a postcard is glued to them from the back.

It is convenient to fasten natural materials with hot glue or wrap with thick thread

On thin cuts of juniper, it is easy to burn out the New Year's landscape with a soldering iron or a special device

Beads are matched by color, strung on a wire; the round base after wrapping with wire must be carefully removed by opening the winding

It is better to make pendants in retro style oval and decorate them with snow from white volumetric paint

Using decoupage technique, you can create real works of New Year's art

Decoupage can also be done on a volumetric foam base

Now you know how to make Christmas toys. This means that you can make them yourself and have a good time in anticipation of the New Year. Happy Holidays!