New Year's time is coming - the time of miracles, when everyone can feel like a little helper of the kindest old man in the world. After all, think if, in addition to gifts for the children of the whole planet, the old grandfather also had to decorate our houses, how would he manage to do everything. That is why we, adults, help him in every possible way, because it is impossible for children to stop believing in Santa Claus.
Home decoration is the most important task in the process of creating a New Year's mood. Buying ready-made decor elements in the store is not a difficult task, but making Christmas decorations with your own hands is a completely different thing! In this article you will find more than 20 master classes and schemes for creating New Year's houses. At first glance, it may seem to an unprepared person that creating a New Year's house from paper, cardboard or any other materials is an impossible task. In fact, this is not the case, especially if you have a ready-made template. So, if you are serious, then get ready to become a real builder, because in this article you will find schemes not only for single houses, but also for entire winter villages!
You can make a very beautiful New Year's house with your own hands from an ordinary cardboard box. The inside of the box is usually brown, which, in fact, is to our advantage. The box will have to be gutted and turned inside out. Draw a house template and cut it out. Next, glue the walls and floor. You can leave the top with a makeshift roof and use the house as a gift box, or you can glue a full roof and put it under the Christmas tree. On top of the cardboard, you can draw with a special white marker, white gouache or a regular corrector. Outwardly, the house is very similar to the gingerbread delicacy that is common in the Western world. Well, we are familiar with the gingerbread house from the famous fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm "Hansel and Gretel". If your kids haven't heard it yet, then it's time to read this story, and a homemade gingerbread house made from a cardboard box will be a great attribute for a little dramatization!
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If you are planning to make not just a house, but a whole Christmas village, then you will definitely need a church. Print out our finished scheme, cut it out of cardboard, glue it in the right places and the layout of the church is ready. Now it remains to decorate it with sparkles and artificial snow so that the church becomes truly winter. You can download the finished scheme below.
So, the church is ready, now it remains to build the houses of local residents. Download the finished scheme from the link below, cut it out of cardboard, glue the house and decorate it. Who to house in the houses? Yes, anyone! Little dolls, cone elves or any other inhabitants that you have. If there is a little Santa Claus, then feel free to settle him too! Get a whole residence!
If there are any problems with cardboard, then it’s quite possible to make a New Year’s house from salt dough. You can use it as a candlestick, it looks very cool. So, prepare the salt dough, roll it out to about 1-1.5 cm thick. Cut out the walls, windows and door. You can do this with special molds, and if there are none, then use a clerical knife and a ruler. Glue all the walls and glue the roof. Cover the joints with the rest of the dough. When the house is dry, sand the bumps with a scissor and enjoy your creation!
Cute houses in the style of Danish architecture can be made using this scheme. At the link below you will find diagrams of all three houses, which you just need to print and bend along the lines. Put an electric candle inside, turn off the lights and enjoy the urban winter landscape!
If you like corn flakes or eat oatmeal like real Englishmen in the morning, then you will surely find cardboard boxes of the appropriate size. Below is a step-by-step master class for making a New Year's house with your own hands from a cardboard box, follow the instructions clearly and you will succeed!
Excellent New Year's houses are obtained from magazine clippings. Find a picture of a suitable house or castle, cut it out and glue it around. Put an electric candle inside and enjoy.
Wonderful New Year's houses can be made from plain white paper, decorating some parts (roof and windows) with sparkles. You can download ready-made templates from the link below. Watch the step-by-step instructions and make your own New Year's house!
If you have accumulated a lot of greeting cards, you can make wonderful houses out of them, with which you can decorate an apartment by combining them into garlands. And you can congratulate friends and acquaintances with such postcard houses. You will find step-by-step instructions for making houses from old open houses below.
You can make crafts houses not only from paper or cardboard. Felt is also an excellent material for manufacturing. The manufacturing process is insanely simple, you will find step-by-step instructions below. It remains to get felt and an electric candle. New Year's crafts house is ready!
With our ready-made scheme and step-by-step instructions, you can make a whole city, especially if your team has little fidgets ready for needlework. You will also need electronic candles or you can use a New Year's garland. Add some mini Christmas trees and the New Year's city is ready! And most importantly, the whole family has a New Year's mood!
Christmas houses can also be made from improvised materials, it is especially great when these materials are no longer suitable for use, such as milk packaging. If you look at it, the house is almost ready, it remains only to make a roof, well, and adjust the size of the house itself. If the box does not look too presentable, you can paste over it with paper and draw windows and doors, but if everything suits you, then the craft house is ready!
From this step-by-step master class, you will learn how to make a simple New Year's house from ordinary cardboard. The main difficulty lies in the template, and if you do not have spatial vision and architectural education, drawing something more or less complex on paper is quite difficult. Therefore, using the link below, you can download the finished scheme of the house and glue it yourself.
Download the finished house template, cut and glue. New Year's crafts house with your own hands is ready!
Download this easy template, print and cut out. In our instructions, the house is made from an old music notebook. You can make from plain white paper or "drafts". A little decor, an electric candle and Voila! Do-it-yourself paper house is ready!
If you don’t have time to mess around with voluminous houses, but you want to decorate an apartment with a whole city, then this option is especially for you. You will need a sheet of drawing paper (dense) A2 format, a printed template and a clerical knife. You can download two different versions of cities from the links below. Ready-made schemes are printed on A4 sheets, printed, glued and transferred directly to whatman paper for cutting.
We are preparing for the new year with the children and making Santa Claus's house out of paper. Download the ready-made template, print it and glue it. Young designers will be delighted!
As already noted, house crafts can be made from a variety of materials, including wooden sticks. Ice cream sticks are quite suitable for this work, but it was necessary to collect them all year. In any case, you can take note of the idea and be sure to do it next year!
A very cute New Year's house can be made from paper tubes. For this you will need: thin paper, scissors, glue, pencil, decor elements. Cut the paper into strips of the same size. Wind the paper strip around the pencil and glue it with glue, remove the pencil. You will need about 50 tubes to make a house like in a master class. When the base is ready, glue the roof, and then the windows and other decorative elements.
Incredible Christmas houses can be made from felt. Volumetric or flat, in the form of gingerbread houses or clocks. In addition, felt houses can be used to decorate pillows or socks for gifts. Ready-made patterns can be found below the photo.
There is no better way to get yourself in the holiday spirit than to start making something with your own hands. The Christmas Village is an interesting and beautiful idea, which you are probably unlikely to implement in one sitting, but this is what makes it wonderful: by stretching the pleasure for several days, you can fully enjoy the upcoming holidays, feel their approach, get a lot of joy from creativity. DIY paper houses beautiful in many ways. Firstly, this is a completely accessible type of creativity - few other types of needlework require, in fact, so little - just paper, scissors and glue. Secondly, it allows your imagination to express itself fully and as much as you want, because to paint, decorate, decorate homemade paper houses can be completely as seen in the most incredible dreams. Doing? Necessarily!
Christmas village - do-it-yourself paper houses:
1. Scandinavian style Christmas village
Yultumte was not invited to visit? Swedish Santa Claus will surely bring you a mountain of gifts packed in the restrained traditions of the peoples of the northern peninsula - it will be stylish, minimalistic and very beautiful. If you're partial to Ikea decor, be sure to try building your own little paper village for Christmas and New Year celebrations.
2. Wreath with paper houses
Just look how much tenderness, magic and fabulousness is hidden in this small Christmas village! And think, just imagine - you, too, can create such beauty with your own hands. Incredible project - and even more incredible it will be in your execution and repetition. Be sure to introduce it to yours!
3. Christmas village of colorful houses
A holiday is always a lot of colors and colors! Fill your home with magic - paint it in the colors of the New Year and Christmas, add green spruce paws, snow glitter,
4. Outline paper village
Sometimes it is not at all necessary to make something global in order to get a bunch of positive emotions. Try cutting out a wonderful outline house from plain white paper, and a couple more, and then a few more again - you get the outline of a village strewn with snow ... It's beautiful, it's magical and fabulous!
And Christmas always raises the question of what kind of interesting to cook. Especially always want to please the kids with something sweet and unusual. Just for such a case, gingerbread houses are suitable. They look somehow especially cute and a little magical. Gingerbreads themselves are not so interesting, but collected in a fabulous house - this is a completely different matter. The children are completely delighted with them.
Christmas recipes are varied, but they all have one thing in common: the dishes prepared according to them are always special, very tasty and beautiful. Take at least the same gingerbread huts. Appetizing, brightly and richly decorated, they create a wonderful atmosphere of warmth and comfort on the eve of the holiday. Let's talk about how to make one of these wonderful treats.
What products are needed for the test?
So, to prepare ginger, we should acquire the following products:
- Sugar - 0.5 cups.
- Butter - one pack (200-260 g).
- Honey - 90 grams.
- Ginger - 1.5-2 teaspoons. You can take it dry. It is sold in every supermarket.
- Flour - 0.75 kilograms.
- Soda - 1.3 tsp
- Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon.
- Cloves - 1.6 tsp
- Powdered sugar - 0.3 kilograms.
Gingerbread Houses: Cooking Recipe
Having prepared all the products, you can start kneading the dough. First, mix sugar and honey with all the spices that play an important role. Put the whole mixture on a small fire. The honey will gradually melt and the sugar will dissolve.
Then add butter and eggs. All this is thoroughly mixed on fire.
Then you need to add some soda. The mixture will definitely foam up. But you still mix it well.
Then add the sifted flour. Stir the contents of the bowl until the mass separates from the walls of the dish.
We got a very fragrant warm dough. Roll it into a ball and let it cool for 15 minutes.
Blanks for the house
So, we have prepared the dough for the gingerbread house. The next step is very interesting. Before you start baking, you should make blanks. We need to get shortcakes in the form of house details. Let's think about how to do it. The easiest way is to prepare paper patterns, and then cut out the components from the rolled out dough. Thus, we will bake not simple gingerbread, but walls, a roof, a pipe. If you want, make also the inhabitants of the tower: fairy-tale animals, a little man, you can even make a snowman ...
What sizes the future paper patterns will be, you decide. It all depends on how small or large your house will be from.
In addition, you can cut out a few more Christmas trees and a fence from thick cardboard to enclose the building. You will have a whole Christmas composition.
We would also advise you to bake the base for the house. The finished structure itself will be easier to install and fix on a blank shortcake than on cardboard.
Cutting pieces out of dough
We take the finished chilled dough and roll it out to a thickness of seven to eight millimeters. Then we impose our stencils and cut out the details with a knife. We do this very carefully so as not to damage the dough. Don't forget to cut windows and doors. With them, the house will be much more beautiful. But if it is difficult - it does not matter, it is quite possible to finish the necessary details and decor with cream. But we'll talk about this later. Until then...
We bake gingerbread
Before sending the dough to the oven, cover the baking sheet with baking paper, lay out the blank parts on it. We set the temperature on the stove to 190 degrees and boldly put the cookies inside. It will bake for no more than fifteen minutes. Just do not overdo it in the oven, otherwise the gingerbread cookies will be too dark and overdried.
Ready cookies should be cooled.
Glaze preparation
So, we already have ready-made parts, it remains only to assemble our gingerbread houses. How? To do this, prepare the glaze. We will cook it twice, because it will not work to collect everything and decorate it in one day.
The protein of one chilled egg should be beaten with half a glass of powdered sugar. Add a tablespoon of lemon juice (necessarily freshly squeezed). We put the resulting glaze in. We take a nozzle with the smallest slot and circle the contours of all windows, walls and doors with it. The roof can also be decorated in the form of tiles.
Let the glaze thicken. When it dries out a little, but has not completely hardened yet, you can decorate the details with multi-colored sprinkles, which are often used for Easter. Then the gingerbread houses will turn out even more bright and beautiful.
We start building a house
Let's leave our products to dry, and then proceed to the assembly of the tower. Change the nozzle on the pastry bag to a wider one. And then we begin to apply glaze to all future seams of the house. We carefully install each part of the facade in turn on a shortbread-stand, which we baked separately. Having connected the parts, hold them for a while so that they can stick together a little.
Thus, we gradually install all parts of the house, applying glaze to the sides and bottom of the structure. We let it all dry. The night will be enough.
For greater rigidity of the product, you can use toothpicks, supporting the walls with them until completely dry. And you can carefully fasten the corners with them, then covering it all with icing.
New roof glaze
The next day, you need to beat a new portion of the glaze, using the white of one egg. With its help, we will install the roof. First, put one part of it on a layer of cream, press it and wait until it sticks. Install the other half in the same way. Here you will definitely need to resort to the help of toothpicks so that the roof holds well. By the way, some people prefer to decorate an already finished product so as not to spoil all the beauty during assembly. See for yourself whichever is more convenient for you.
The places of its connection are well smeared with glaze. Here are our gingerbread houses and ready.
Then you can install the details of the fence and the Christmas tree in the same way, put the pipe on the roof. The finished house should be left to dry, and then sprinkled with powdered sugar. Get a real winter composition. It all looks very fabulous and beautiful and quite claims to decorate the festive table. In general, Christmas recipes are such a miracle! They cheer you up already at the stage of reading, what can we say about the finished delicacy!
Instead of an afterword
What is good about such recipes is that children can be involved in the cooking process. They can decorate some details on their own, taste the first gingerbread. This will create a special, festive, New Year and Christmas atmosphere in the house. Gingerbread houses, the recipe of which we told you, is not handmade! And what a!
Such a composition will become the pride and decoration of the festive table. Although, of course, this is not an easy task and will require a lot of time and patience from the sorceress-hostess. But what a result! What's more, you can add something of your own to the above recipe, and your gingerbread houses will look like no one else's. There is room for fantasy here. Just pure creativity. And how much joy for children! So try to create such a miracle for the holiday table, and you will not regret your choice!
For New Year and Christmas, you can make an amazing composition - a miniature copy of a snow-covered magical city or village. Building it is interesting, especially with children. Firstly, several evenings will be busy with creative work, secondly, the children will come up with many amusing options for the town, and thirdly, the New Year and Christmas spirit will settle in your house early and will definitely be with you all the holidays.
What you need to build a magical town:
- Platform on which it will be located. It is best if you have a free table, but you can build a town on the bedside table and on the windowsill, etc.
- houses we make it out of cardboard. And if you pick up a dozen cardboard boxes of different sizes, such a “construction” will be a real pleasure. Shoe boxes, tea cartons, and milk cartons will do.
- Paper white and colored.
- Dye for coloring houses.
- artificial snow. The simplest thing is to crumble a piece of foam. But buying artificial snow - either dry in a bag or in a spray can - is also a good option. It will look natural.
- Backlight- an ordinary Christmas tree garland or LED strip.
- The population of the magical town. Small figures of men and animals (deer, dogs, etc.). It’s good if there are small snowmen, Christmas trees, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden.
Making Christmas houses
There are a lot of options for houses, look at some, and it will become clear how to “build” them. Another thing is that the decoration of the houses can be done in different ways. A simple option is to cover the buildings of the magical town with paper of different colors.
If the boxes for houses are not made of simple cardboard, but laminated (for example, milk bags), sand the walls with sandpaper before painting. In this case, it is better to use paint that adheres well to any surface (for example, acrylic).
You can make amazing snow-covered houses with ordinary putty (it takes a little, it's cheap). First, we prepare the walls of the houses (skin if the surface is laminated).
We spread the putty with a not very thick layer, take a piece of foam rubber and make irregularities on the surface. The impression that snow stuck to the walls. You can make the houses colorful by adding a little paint to the putty.
We make the highlight of the magical town
When the Christmas houses are ready, we install them on the platform and begin to organize the illumination of the town. In the evening it will look really magical.
A simple option is a Christmas tree garland with ordinary miniature electric light bulbs. LED lighting is also possible, which is arranged using an LED strip. You can see more about the LED strip in this material - make sure that organizing such a spectacular and safe backlight is super-simple.
Decorate and populate the town
We snow our town with the help of crushed foam or artificial snow (sold in the departments of New Year's goods).
We install toy trees, figurines of the inhabitants of the town, animals.
The town is ready. Without a doubt, you will make additions more than once, make some decorations, settle new residents. Perhaps after the New Year holidays you will be sorry to disassemble your creation. Remove the New Year's entourage (snow, etc.), and get an excellent children's playground.
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