Paper is an excellent material for Christmas decorations. It can be used in hundreds of different ways, but in any case, paper jewelry will cost you quite inexpensively. Our today's article is dedicated to how you can create beautiful Christmas balls from paper with your own hands. Looking for a different variety of toys on a Christmas tree in 2018? Choose any of the 20 ideas below, and implement it with the help of step-by-step photos!
How can I make a New Year ball of paper
First of all, it is important to choose inspirational material. If you want to make vintage New Year's toys for a Christmas tree, then prepare old sheet music or books, letters, postcards or photographs. New-year balls of paper with their own hands in a modern style are made of bright colored paper. The combination of 3-4 different shades will allow your fir tree to look very elegant and stylish. How about a fashionable pastel palette?
Below we offer you 4 main ways how you can make Christmas balls from paper:
- Assemble handmade paper strips;
- Make a beautiful application of paper, sequins and ribbons;
- Cut New Year's decor by pattern and paste it into a 3D shape;
- Make origami and other unusual crafts made of paper and glue.
Paper is also used in decoupling New Year's balls with their own hands, but we'll tell you about this in the next article. We pass to viewing ideas with step-by-step photos!
1. New Year's ball of paper - balls made of paper strips
It's amazing how many different and interesting New Year's toys and balls can be made with their own hands from simple strips of paper. For greater effect, decorate them with beads and shiny ribbons. A Christmas ball of paper is also a safe decoration if your house has children.
Also read: Knitted handmade items for the New Year with their own hands
2. Beautiful Christmas balls from paper with your own hands with applique
The next portion of the photo shows how the application allows you to create cute and funny Christmas balls of paper with your own hands. You will need: several layers of paper or cardboard, glue, sequins, beads, satin and lace ribbons, as well as paint or usual nail polish, to decorate balls with voluminous hand-painted and short wishes. See beautiful Christmas balls from paper with your hands in the photos below.
Also read: Ideas for a stylish Christmas tree decoration
3. New Year's balls of paper with their own hands: charts and templates
What could be simpler than cutting out a lot of New Year's balls on a pattern, and then glue them into a three-dimensional shape? See the photos and diagrams of how to make such a New Year's ball of paper with your own hands.
Another template for the New Year's ball of paper:
Get some more templates and schemes for creating New Year decor in our article How to decorate the windows for the New Year.
4. Christmas balls origami
To make these Christmas ornaments you will need more time, but the result will be amazing. Unusual hand-made New Year's ball origami, weave from strips, balls-stars and other ideas - on the last 6 photos in this article.
Also read: How to decorate a festive table for the New Year 2017
We also gathered for you 30+ ideas for making Christmas balls from satin ribbons, threads, decoupage method and much more. Read in our next article!