How to make a Christmas tree toy from a disk. How to make beautiful Christmas tree decorations for a competition, for a kindergarten, or a large street tree? DIY Christmas tree decorations made of felt: master class

Hi all. Yesterday in kindergarten I was given the task of preparing some kind of toy for the city street Christmas tree. I have only seen one of these toys - a candy toy, and one mother made it for 2 years in a row. But this year, such candy toys are not suitable for them (the district administration) and they told them to come up with something new.

Among the options proposed by teachers were:

1. Color the flower pot and make it in the shape of a bell.

2. Wrap the children's ball in foil so that it turns out to be a New Year's ball for the Christmas tree.

To be honest, my head is occupied with something completely different, so we’ll look for what other craftswomen and sites offer. I’ll share the most interesting ones.

DIY toys for a street Christmas tree - a selection of ideas and master classes.

Insert an aluminum wire into the first tube (I got it from a “noodle” electrical wire) so that it does not break under the weight of the disk.

Place the disk on a reinforced tube and secure it with silicone glue (hot gun) so that it does not dangle.

To prevent hot silicone from flowing out of a sufficiently wide hole in the center of the disk, cut out 2 “washers” from cardboard. String a “washer” onto a tube, apply hot silicone onto it and glue the disk to the washer and, at the same time, to the center of the tube. Glue the second “washer” with the other side. This way the disk is securely attached to the center of the straw.
Thread a straw with a disk and 2 more straws onto a strong thread. Close them into a triangle.

The joints of the tubes and cardboard “washers” can be decorated with tinsel.
An interesting toy for decorating a street Christmas tree is ready!
The description may seem incomprehensible, but in fact this toy is very simple to make.

From V E N E R A.

Mini mk.
1) 2 identical packages of semi-finished products - glued together (only with glue for ceiling tiles)
2) paint with silver (diluted with water-based varnish)
3) decoupage... for a festive touch I covered the edges with glitter and outlined the contours)))
4) I wrapped a ribbon around the joints. also with titanium glue...and I made a loop for it too
You can do the same with plastic plates...

I received an assignment from school to make a toy for a street Christmas tree, I thought about it and decided to make a ball. I took cut up bags, crumpled them up, rolled them into a ball, periodically dripped PVA glue, cake strings and sequins + gold paint. Diameter 20-22 cm.

Made from plastic bags, secured with masking tape, painted with gold spray paint and decorated, as they say, with whatever it was :), in this case, tinsel, bows, a garland of flat snowflakes

For work you needed:
two ceiling tiles;
ruler, pencil, scissors;
small rectangular box;
food foil;
colored foil;
small toys for decoration;
12 M&M`S candies;
clear nail polish;
braid 60 cm;
2 tubes of instant glue.

To begin, take a ceiling tile, place a box on it and draw a house using a pencil and ruler. Then measure the sides and prepare blanks for the side walls, roof and floor of the house. Then cut out all the parts. Cover large parts with food foil, and small parts with colored foil.

Glue the box to the front and back walls of the house. Cut two holes in the top of the box and thread the ribbon through them. Sew the ends of the ribbon to make a loop and tuck them into the box so that they remain inside the house.
Connect and glue all parts of the house. Cover the pre-cut circle for the dial with yellow foil. Glue it to the house.

Cover the M&M`S candies with two layers of nail polish, dry and glue them onto the dial instead of numbers. Cut arrows from colored foil and glue.
Decorate the roof of the house with small toys. To do this, simply glue them on with glue. The little house is ready.

Such a lamp will look good in a nursery, as children love bright and unusual things. The following polyhedra can be made from disks: cube (four faces), icosahedron (20 faces in the form of triangles), dodecahedron (12 faces in the form of pentagons - shown in the photo), tetrahedron or pyramid - 3 faces.
Each face is one disk. First, you need to make a template from paper according to the shape of the edge required for the figure. For example, for a cube it is a square, for a dodecahedron it is a pentagon, and so on. Using this template we mark the cuts on CDs. The cut itself is made on half the side of the template, and for all sides of this craft made from disks, this part of the side (the place of the cut) should be the same - for all parts it is left or for all parts it is right. The cuts can be made with a hacksaw, a hot awl, or even a grinder. In this case, the melted edges of the disks are cut off using a stationery knife. When assembling, one element is inserted into the cut of the next and so on the entire lamp. It is necessary to carefully assemble the elements, as if the disks are bent, they may break.

New Year's ball made of 12 computer disks. Economical, environmentally friendly and long lasting. It is especially good for outdoor Christmas trees, as it does not deteriorate. Connection with tape. Still a little unfinished.

I mark the pentagon with a protractor at 72 degrees, the distance between the edges is 8 cm. I cut it with scissors, I didn’t think they could cut it so well.

New Year's balls from CDs on a street tree, author I am Oksana.

Preparing materials:
1. old and unnecessary CDs (12 discs are needed for one ball)
2. Soldering iron with a sharp tip (I think you can somehow do without it, but with this device it will work faster)
3. Glue gun
4. Wire
5. Tinsel (I used thin) - approximately 4 meters
6. Good mood and time about 40 minutes.
STEP 1: cut out a template - a pentagon with sides approximately 6.5 - 7 cm. We will need it for the next step
STEP2: apply our template to the disk and, using a soldering iron, make 5 holes in the disk corresponding to the corners of the pentagon. And so with all 12 discs
Step3: cut the wire. In the future, we will use this wire to fasten our parts together.
Step4: We begin to assemble the ball. The ends of the wire look towards the underside of our future ball. Then we begin to connect the outer 5 disks to each other (see arrows)
It looks like a vase.
Step 6: place the second row of disks in a checkerboard pattern relative to the first row. and then we close everything with the last (12th) disk. Our ball is ready. You can decorate with tinsel.

In general, I found a ball made of plastic cups, just what I needed. It turned out to be very simple to make, and the money was only 28 UAH (200 cups - 16 UAH, a pack of paper clips - 2 UAH and 5 sprinkles - 10 UAH). I bought 300 cups. - that’s what it was written everywhere, but the ball took 190 pieces.

I want to tell you how I did it, otherwise I couldn’t find step-by-step instructions on the Internet. In general, there were two options on the net: 1) first make a circle of cups, and then build rows on top, reducing the number of cups in each, 2) first fasten 3 cups together, and then attach hexagon “flowers”, there were no steps, so I decided do it your own way, focusing on a soccer ball, which contains both hexagons and pentagons.

I stapled the cups at the bottom and at the top, but that was at first, then mostly only at the bottom, in general it depended on the situation, some couldn’t be stapled on all sides

And so, here we go:
1) fasten the cups into a “flower” (1 piece for now)
2) fasten the cups into a “flower without a petal” (3 pcs.)
3) and also fasten “a flower with three petals” (1 pc.)
4) lay it out like this. It turns out that the “flowers” ​​have 2 common petals
5) now we fasten these parts + 1 cup so that in the middle we get a “donut”-pentahedron (from 5 machines)
6) do the same for the “bottom” of the ball
7) make “taxi checkers” (10 pcs.)
8) attach 5 “checkers” to the “top” and “bottom” of the ball like this:
9) make “flowers” ​​(10 pcs)
10) attach 5 “flowers” ​​to the already created “top” and “bottom”. Attention!!! This is where difficulties begin - the ball begins to round, the cups begin to bend and even break a little, but this is not critical. So, when you attach the “flower”, then between the base and the “flower” you should get a “donut”
11) now you need to put the two halves together like a puzzle. When folded, you get “flowers” ​​without a center, into which you need to insert one more cup, there will be 10 such center cups. For now we are inserting 9 of them.
12) what do we do with the 10th middle glass? For strength, we insert another cup into it, pierce a hole with an awl, place metal washers in the cup and under the cup (for strength), stretch a synthetic cord of the required size in the form of a loop, tie several knots under the cup, and tie a knot in the cup too. The result is a loop on which we will hang our ball. Then we also insert this middle glass with a loop into the ball.

Interesting ideas for creating New Year's toys with your own hands.

On the eve of everyone's favorite holiday, each of us wants to create wonderful toys with which we can decorate the forest beauty. There are a lot of ideas and very interesting options that can be brought to life, creating a very warm, cozy atmosphere in the house and a great mood. Let's take a closer look at all sorts of ideas and unusual ideas, because there is less and less time left before the New Year's fairy tale every day.

DIY felt Christmas tree toys: patterns, master class

Handicraft lovers offer many ideas for sewing Christmas tree decorations. To do this you will need:

• Pattern corresponding to the diagram
• A variety of felt colors to match the design
• Pencil, pen, ruler
• Needle and thread
• Scissors, glue, filler
• Necessary materials for decoration

• Transfer the pattern cut out of paper onto the fabric.
• Carefully cut out all the parts, sew, leave a small area and fill with cotton wool or padding polyester.
• Then sew up the remaining part, sew on the decor: nose, buttons, scarf, hat, gift box and stylish belt.
• The toys are ready, don’t forget to make a beautiful loop.

You can make these wonderful forest beauties or a warm and cozy home, which are ideal for creating a festive mood. The technology is the same as described above.

Felt toys

DIY felt toys

For decoration, you can use everything that your imagination suggests, experiment and get real pleasure from the process itself.

DIY patterns for Christmas tree decorations made of fabric

Using this pattern you can sew a very beautiful snowman that can be hung on the Christmas tree or placed under it. Your children will certainly appreciate such beauty.

For such a snowman you will need:

• thick white fabric and red for a hat and scarf
• small buttons or beads

The process itself does not take much time:

• Using the pattern, cut out the body of the future snowman
• fill it evenly with cotton wool
• sew original buttons
• cut out the head separately
• embroider your eyes and smile
• then attach the nose
• after all the main parts are sewn, start decorating

Such a variety of toys can be made very quickly, from fabrics of different colors, just show yourself. An original and very positive star will lift your spirits.

Fabric star

You can make it voluminous, it will look very unusual, and a heart or Christmas tree will fit perfectly into a series of various Christmas tree decorations. The main thing is that you put your whole heart and soul into it.

DIY children's Christmas tree toys for kindergarten: photo

On the eve of the New Year holidays, every preschool children's institution organizes exhibitions of very interesting and original Christmas tree decorations. Now that there are many different materials and detailed descriptions, the child himself will be able to make such a craft with great pleasure.

Parents, of course, can help their child create a real masterpiece and support him in everything. There are a huge number of different options, here are just a few of them.

Everyone in the house has a lot of buttons in shape and color, with their help you can create such very simple at first glance and unusual toys. The child will show his imagination and discover new abilities.

New Year's decorations made from buttons

And using ordinary napkins with a New Year's pattern, you can create a real fairy tale. The main thing is that it is very exciting!

Napkin toys

DIY New Year's toy cockerel: pattern

There is very little left before the end of the year. We all know that the coming year will be born under the sign of the fiery rooster. Of course, every home should have such a toy hanging on the New Year tree.

It can be made from multi-colored scraps of fabric, plasticine, colored paper and cardboard, and even plastic bottles. To make the toy look good, show your imagination and, most importantly, decide exactly how it should look.

You can experiment by combining different materials, but do not forget about safety and make toys so that they do not ignite very quickly, and all New Year holidays delight you with their beauty. A little hint:

• make a body out of fabric, filling it with cotton wool.
• scallop and wings made of multi-colored plastic.
• Sew buttons instead of eyes.
• Cut the paws from disposable plates.

Symbol of 2017

New Year's Cockerel with a pattern

DIY toy

Beautiful DIY Christmas tree balls: photo

These very simple and beautiful balls can be made using a regular tennis ball, colored paper, beads and glue. Even small children and their parents can make them:

• Choose your favorite color in advance and make flowers or snowflakes.
• Apply glue to the surface of the ball and leave for 5 minutes.
• After complete drying, attach the previously selected decor to the middle of each flower and make a neat loop.
• You can also decorate a foam ball with decorative cord mixed with small plastic beads.
• Deepen the end of the cord into the inside of the ball and use glue to secure it at the base, then glue it in a spiral shape.
• You can make a heart and decorate it beautifully with beads.

DIY Christmas balls

Tennis ball ball

Decorate with fabric

Thus, update your old toys. It's very easy and fun. You can also make very original foam balls by decorating them with interesting buttons or colored pebbles.

DIY Christmas toys made from colored paper

You can make a lot of interesting toys from paper: snowflakes, garlands, various animals, angels, cones, and so on. Everything is done very simply, the main thing is desire and imagination. For example, to make an angel, you need:

• Cut out one large rectangle and two small ones.
• Fold them like an accordion, attach the wings to a large square body.
• Take a wooden bead, draw eyes, nose, lips, eyebrows and attach it to the angel using glue.
• If you wish, you can add additional details that you want to focus on.

Angel made of colored and white paper

DIY Christmas tree toy

• Look at the picture and cut out a large snowflake from paper for yourself; it will become a decoration not only for the Christmas tree, but for the whole house.

Paper stars

DIY Christmas tree star

Christmas star

• To make a cone, you need to cut squares of the same size and bend two edges inward in each of them.
• Then attach to a pre-prepared form.

Paper cone

Christmas tree toy made of paper

DIY Christmas toys made of cardboard

Such original decorations can be made quite quickly. To do this you need:

• take a regular postcard with a beautiful design.
• cut it into even pieces.
• secure on both sides with a button.
• and then spread it evenly into a ball shape and attach a loop of tape.

Cardboard toys

Cardboard Christmas tree toy

Openwork cardboard toy

To make such a miracle star you need:

• Cut a square of any size, fold it in half and diagonally.
• then lightly make small cuts at the corners.
• fold them into triangles and glue two sides together for volume.
• make another star in the same way, and glue two together, without matching the directions of the rays.
• can be decorated with sequins or small beads.

Christmas tree toy made of cardboard

Openwork star

DIY Christmas tree decorations from scrap materials

Every home has a huge amount of used materials from which you can make very unusual decorations that will amaze with their simplicity and practicality. It is interesting to do them with young children, developing their imagination and fine motor skills. Give your child the opportunity to express himself.

There are a huge number of ideas, everyone can find their own option:

• You can make funny toys out of peanuts by decorating them and drawing funny faces.

Christmas tree toy made from peanuts

• You can make smiling snowmen from ordinary Pepsi or wine caps that will lift the spirits of all family members.

Toys made from lids

You can make a chic toy out of wine bottles

• Snowflakes made from cotton swabs or a spruce branch made from corrugated paper look very original.

Snowflakes made from cotton swabs

DIY bright snowflake

• And if you have stocks of multi-colored threads, then make beautiful decorations by making a wire frame in advance.

Christmas tree toy made of threads

DIY Christmas tree toys

Get inspired by simple things and create!

DIY Christmas toys for a large street tree

In order to create such beauty you need imagination and inspiration. Each of these decorations will not take you much time, but will delight not only you, but also all residents of the city. When choosing a toy, the main thing is to follow three basic rules:

• practicality
• strength
• originality

There are plenty of options for a flight of fancy. Can be used:

• packages
• cups
• baskets
• gift boxes of different shapes and sizes
• threads

Various materials for decoration:

• rhinestones
• glitter
• rain
• beads
• beads

For example, to make a ball or a snowman from cups, you need to make a frame and then attach flower-shaped cups to it. For beauty, you can decorate with rain or sparkles.

Decoration for a big Christmas tree

Balls for street Christmas tree

You can make wonderful toys from disks; you just need to stick a variety of New Year’s pictures on both sides of the media.

DIY New Year's toys from plastic bottles

Many of us never even thought that such beauty could be made from ordinary plastic bottles. The process is very exciting and interesting.

For balls, lamps and bells, you can take bottles of any color. They are very easy to make and don't take much time.

Glittery ribbons or pretty stickers will make the finished product even more beautiful. Penguins look very funny, in the picture you can see detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to do it.

Santa Claus is simply incomparable; it doesn’t take much time to make it either. Take a plastic bottle, make a beard, eyebrows and the side of a hat using disposable small spoons, paint the body with paint. If you wish, you can decorate with rain.

Funny plastic toys

A beautiful and original DIY New Year's toy for the competition

For such a wonderful toy you will need:

• Bunch of straw or cotton swabs
• A piece of burlap
• Thin wooden sticks and branches
• Dry leaves, rose hips
• Scissors, glue, knife and small sponge

To get started:

• Make a ball or buy a ready-made one from polystyrene foam.
• Place a napkin on top, slightly crumpling it, and apply paint.
• After complete drying, start creating a composition: a cozy home.
• For the roof, use straw or cotton swabs; lay out doors, windows and fencing using thin wooden sticks.
• For beauty, use rosehip branches and fruits to make a bouquet that will fit harmoniously near the house.
• Lay a path with burlap and decorate on top.
• Finally, use delicate blue flowers to create a background and leave to dry completely.
• If you wish, you can add additional details that you consider necessary.

DIY Christmas toys made from cotton wool

To make the Snow Maiden from cotton wool, first:

• Make a wire frame.
• Then gradually take pre-prepared cotton wool of the desired color and make felt boots and mittens.
• Next, for the body, take some paper and glue it, put a layer of cotton wool on top for outerwear.
• Now you can start working on the head. It is better to make it from foam plastic and carefully paint it with paints.
• But it’s best to make the hat and braid out of cotton wool. It will look very impressive and elegant.

Cotton Snow Maiden

• You don't need a frame for such a cute Christmas tree.
• You can simply cut out the shape you like from cardboard, cover it with ordinary white cotton wool, and then paint it with acrylic paints.
• If desired, you can decorate the Christmas tree with beads or multi-colored balls and roll it in salt, which is used for baths.

DIY Christmas tree decorations made from satin ribbons

Crafts made from satin ribbons are very popular. The finished products are very elegant and beautiful.

In order to make any decoration for the Christmas tree, you will need a certain number of ribbons, it all depends on the size and design. To make a forest beauty:

• Cut out a small square and fold it horizontally (you get a triangle).
• Then fold one edge over again and secure with hot glue.
• When you have made the required number of such petals, attach them to the frame, decreasing the number towards the top.
• Decorate with beautiful decor and you can give it to your loved ones and friends. They will definitely appreciate such a wonderful gift.

Christmas tree made of ribbons

Christmas tree made of satin ribbon

To make a voluminous rose:

• Take two wide satin ribbons of different shades of the main color.
• Start forming the center of the flower, twisting it into a spiral and turning one edge to the right.
• So for the ball you need six of these roses, which you then simply glue to a pre-prepared base.

Christmas ball made of satin ribbons

Volume roses

DIY Christmas tree decorations made from light bulbs

You can make such bright toys from burnt-out light bulbs, one look at which immediately lifts your spirits, and your hands themselves begin to create such beauty. For decoration you can use:

• glitter
• rhinestones
• beads
• shiny ribbons
• toothpaste
• acrylic paints
• stickers
• voluminous napkins with beautiful patterns

Christmas decorations in sparkles

Light bulb toys

Light bulb decorated with paints

You can create entire compositions, it looks gorgeous. Minimum financial costs, effort and energy. Children will be involved in this process with great pleasure and will receive a lot of emotions and pleasure.

DIY Christmas tree decorations made from salt dough

Children love to make crafts from salt dough, you can get creative, and the process of making the dough itself is very exciting:

• Apply the dough to the pre-selected pattern and place it in the oven for a certain time; when it is browned, you can stretch it out.
• When it cools down a little, start decorating.
• You can use cinnamon, lemon, coffee, or simply decorate it beautifully with paints.
• You can simply make a palm print on a piece of dough, finish drawing the face of Santa Claus and your wonderful Christmas tree toy is ready.

Dough toys

Edible toys

DIY figurines

New Year's attributes from dough

DIY Christmas toys made of polystyrene foam

The easiest way to make an original toy. Cut out a ball of the required size from polystyrene foam or buy a ready-made one and decorate it as your heart desires. Nowadays, there are a huge number of jewelry beautiful in shape and color that will make an ordinary, inconspicuous ball sparkle in the light and radiate.

Foam decorated with beads

Styrofoam toy

You can make a cute Santa Claus in 15 minutes by simply gluing a design onto the foam and tracing it with a felt-tip pen. Color and decorate, and smiling Santa Claus will definitely bring you happiness.

DIY Christmas tree toys made from threads

Prepare threads, glue and balloons of different shapes. A child can make such beauty if you explain and show him the essence of the process:

Snowman made of threads step by step

DIY New Year's toys made from pine cones

What would New Year be without pine cones and funny toys made from them? There are very simple toys where you just need to spread glue and dip it in glitter and the sparkling cone is ready.

To make the animals, you need to work a little longer:

• Find a suitable shaped pine cone, a wooden ball, artificial hair and beautiful ribbons.
• It’s not very difficult to do, it just takes a lot of time for all the parts to dry and be ready to hang on the tree.

Or make a wonderful Santa Claus, additionally using plasticine for a hat, mustache and beard.

• You can also print out a beautiful design and stick it on a disk to make an accent, for example, on snowdrifts or snow-white treetops, apply glue and sprinkle with semolina or salt, you can add glitter.

• The disk looks very unusual in combination with tubes, which are laid out in the shape of a polygon.

DIY Christmas tree decorations made from pasta

Creating with pasta is an all-consuming process. For toys, you can choose a variety of types of pasta. Just lay out the drawing of the future snowflake, starting from the center.

New Year's figures made from pasta

Video: Master class: DIY New Year's toys

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To send light into the depths of the human heart - this is the purpose of the artist

If you have a couple dozen old CDs lying around the house, use them for decorative purposes. Shiny iridescent circles have a hundred uses, and you can take note of any of them. Crafts made from CDs will diversify the interior and add a bit of originality to the home atmosphere. Handicraft lovers share ideas born in the process of creative reflection. Listen to them to make your life a little more interesting. Simple tips will tell you how to turn unnecessary information media into original material for decoration.

What can you make from old disks with your own hands?

Throwing away unique decorative material is extremely inappropriate. Using unwanted CDs, you can do whatever your imagination allows. Such crafts are suitable for home decoration. They will be appropriate for ordinary holidays and themed celebrations. In addition, there are many ideas for making unusual household items from CDs. Check them out, add your creativity and implement original ideas with your own hands to make life brighter!

Lamp

If your old chandelier has become unusable, or you simply realized that it is too outdated and therefore spoils the interior, replace it with an unusual lamp made from old disks. To make it at home, you don’t need anything special, just a set of simple materials and a little perseverance. Write down step-by-step instructions so you don't forget:

• We prepare 12 CD/DVDs, 30 metal staples or paper clips, a drill of minimum diameter (2 mm) and a socket with a lamp.
• Using a protractor, we divide one disk, which will later be used as a stencil, into 5 segments. The angle between the lines separating the segments is 72°.
• Drill 5 holes at a distance of 3-4 mm from the edge.
• We put the stencil in the box with the other 11 disks and drill them at the same time along the intended holes. To prevent them from moving relative to each other, we insert solid rods into the finished holes. They will act as guides. Pieces of ballpoint pen paste are suitable for these purposes.
• We install a cartridge in one of the disks. There is no need to adjust the hole; it already fits perfectly.
• The main part of the lamp is ready. Using paper clips/brackets we attach the remaining disks to it.
• Before installing the latter, screw a lamp with a power of up to 25 watts into the socket.

Dress

Some people will be taken aback by imagining a dress made from CDs, but this is quite real. Computer disks, which are perceived by the modern generation as useless waste material, are suitable for creating an extravagant outfit. Decorating a dress with fragments of CDs is not at all complicated. With a minimum of effort, you will become the happy owner of an original outfit.

Making a mirror pattern on a dress from CDs:

• Using large tailor's scissors, cut the discs into small triangular pieces.
• Polish the rough edges with fine sandpaper. Apply clear nail polish to them.
• We attach a pin to each fragment on one side using construction glue.
• We attach decorative elements to the dress.

Disco ball

There is nothing easier than making a disco ball with your own hands. To do this, you will need a large round balloon, a couple of unnecessary newspapers, water, paste and a couple dozen CDs. Stock up on everything you need, free up 3-4 hours for needlework and get started. Step-by-step instructions for making a disco ball are given below:

• Inflate the balloon to its maximum size. Place newspaper soaked in water on the rubber surface. The pieces should be small so that there are no unevenness.
• When the paper dries a little, apply a second layer of newspaper soaked in paste on it. Repeat this procedure several times to ensure a strong shell.
• Leave the ball in a warm place until completely dry. After an hour it will become hard.
• Punch the ball with a needle and pull a strong thread or fishing line through it. This is necessary in order to subsequently hang the finished product from the ceiling.
• Having finished preparing the frame, we move on to the main part. Cut several CDs into square pieces measuring 1x1 cm. Treat the edges of the fragments with clear varnish so that the magnetic surface does not peel off.
• Cover the ball with mirror pieces in a circle, making sure that the puncture point, from which the pre-inserted fishing line peeks out, is on top. The lower part of the sphere must be pasted over especially carefully. For the upper half, which will be under the ceiling, you can use irregularly shaped pieces, where they will not be visible to the eye.

Crafts for kindergarten

Using used DVDs, you can decorate a holiday in a kindergarten. Original crafts will be appropriate for Christmas, March 8th, Mother's Day and more. Make your own a themed decor item for a specific celebration or a simple decoration that will please the eye on weekdays. Let's look at some CD crafts for kids.

Owl

To make an original fancy owl, you will need the following set of materials and tools:

• CD disk – 12 pcs.;
• foil – 20 cm2;
• narrow tape – 30 cm;
• glue “Moment” - 20 g;
• black cardboard – 1 sheet of A4 format;
• yellow cardboard – 1 sheet of A4 format;
• dark blue ballpoint pen – 1 pc.;
• simple pencil – 1 pc.;
• scissors – 1 pc.

Making an owl:

1. Using scissors, cut a “fringe” at the edges of the eight disks.
2. On yellow cardboard we draw eyes - two circles with a diameter of 5-6 cm. Cut out along the contour.
3. From black cardboard we cut out the pupils - circles with a diameter of 20-25 mm.
4. Glue the pupils to the eyes. The location relative to the centers of the yellow circles should be the same.
5. From one disk we cut out a beak - a piece in the shape of a drop of water.
6. We use the remains of the cut media to make the edges. Sharp triangles of the same size will do for these purposes.
7. We take another disk and cut out the legs from it.
8. We give the small pieces remaining from the two cut disks the shape of leaves. We draw veins on them using a pencil.
9. We glue the cardboard eyes to two fringed disks, and then glue them together overlapping each other. On the back side of the first part of the craft, glue another disk, exactly in the middle.
10. We attach the beak at the front. The owl's head is ready!
11. Wrap the pencil in foil. You will get a twig. We attach the leaves to it using tape or glue.
12. We make the body from five disks with chopped fringe. We connect two disks so that the total width is greater than the eyes. We attach three more disks connected in a row to them.
13. We connect the torso with the head. Glue the legs.
14. We attach a twig with leaves to the finished owl. The craft is ready!

Flower

If you are wondering how you can use old disks, make beautiful DIY flower crafts out of them. This task is not difficult at all. For props you will need CDs, pliers, scissors, a candle and paints. Making one flower will take no more than 5 minutes. In the process, you will have to melt the disk over the candles, so it is better to sit on the balcony or go out into the yard.

Let's turn the disk into a beautiful rose:

• Cut the disc along the entire length of the radius.
• Heat one edge of the cut over a candle.
• When the plastic begins to melt, use pliers to twist it to the side.
• As you slowly turn the dial over the candle flame, continue to rotate the pliers.
• After a full revolution of the disk, the flower bud will be ready.
• Paint it any color you like. Attach the leg if necessary. For beauty, you can decorate the petals with sparkles.

New Year's

Every child dreams of something wonderful happening in the New Year, and you can organize it. Original children's crafts for the New Year in kindergarten will decorate the festive matinee and give the kids a magical holiday mood. Crafts from CDs, which you can make with your own hands at home, will help create a festive atmosphere.

Monkey

Due to the fact that the year of the monkey is coming soon, a craft in the form of this animal will be very relevant. It can be done by those who know how to knit. In addition to thread and knitting needles, you will need one unnecessary CD, and nothing more. Knit a round monkey face according to the size of the disc, make a beautiful back part from any material and connect them along the edge with a thread. The disk will act as a frame on which the flat craft will be supported. The finished product can be used as a stand for a mug or hang from the ceiling, decorating the interior.

Herringbone

Another interesting DIY craft option for the home for the New Year. The Christmas tree is a symbol of the winter holidays, so if you make one, you definitely won’t go wrong. To make such a decoration you will need a sheet of thick A3 cardboard, Moment glue, half a dozen unnecessary CDs and a small New Year's ball. Step-by-step instructions for making the craft are given below.

1. Make a cone with a wide base out of cardboard.
2. Cut the discs into sharp triangles up to 2 cm long.
3. Cover the cone with pieces of disks, starting from the bottom.
4. Place a New Year's ball on top to hide the edges of the disk fragments and decorate the product.

Snowman

An original craft made from computer disks, which will be relevant during the New Year holidays. You can hang the snowman in a prominent place in the guest room or use it as a decoration for the Christmas tree. To make a holiday snowman, you will need two discarded CDs or DVDs, white fabric, a few buttons and 2 hours of free time.

Making a snowman:

• Using a compass, draw a circle with a diameter of 90 mm on the disk and cut it out with a stationery knife. Make sure both parts remain intact. From these you will make the body.
• From the second disk, cut out a head - a circle with a diameter of 60 cm.
• Cover the circles with white fabric and connect them with glue.
• Use a red button for the nose. Make the eyes from black buttons.
• You can draw a smile using a regular felt-tip pen.
• Sew several brown buttons onto the body. They will represent the fasteners of a fur coat.

Decoupage

Hot coasters

The anticipation of the New Year holidays is always exciting. Of course, this is not only because of the fabulous New Year itself, but also because of the upcoming “vacations” that both adults and children are looking forward to. Many people go to festivities on the night from December 31 to January 1; an event next to the beautiful Christmas tree is also obligatory. Usually it is placed somewhere in the city center or in several places where the main celebrations will take place. Street Christmas trees are usually decorated in advance, but you can contribute to the decoration and make a large decoration for your city Christmas tree yourself.

At the same time, you don’t have to spend a lot, look for some expensive materials in stores, you can only show your imagination and make everything from improvised materials, which are often lying around unnecessarily in almost every home. It is especially interesting to do this with children. This fun will help develop imagination, improve motor skills and just have fun with your family.

Large New Year's toy - “Angel”

Option No. 1 – a toy made of tubes and a disk

You will need:

• computer disk - few people use them anymore, so you probably have 1-2 unnecessary ones,
• straws for cocktails (it is better to use thicker ones) - from 16 pieces,
• hot glue,
• aluminum wire (you can use thick wire),
• 2 mugs made of thick cardboard,
• thick thread.

Procedure:

1. One of the tubes needs to be strengthened. To do this, insert a pre-prepared length of wire inside it. This is done so that the tube does not break. It will be the basis of the entire frame.
2. Prepare in advance 2 “washers” made of cardboard with a hole cut out in the middle so that you can insert a tube there so that it stays inside.
3. Glue both circles on both sides of the disk in the middle, where there is a hole.
4. Next, we put the disk on a reinforced tube and lubricate it with hot glue so that the structure holds. When it dries, you can continue working.
5. Thread a strong thread through a straw with a disk, string 2 more straws on it and make a triangle from this structure.
6. Add 2 more straws using a thread. You will get 2 triangles with one common side.
7. Then continue in the same order, you will end up with a polyhedron.

If desired, you can use more tubes, depending on how many possibilities and your imagination are enough to create a figure

The joints between the tubes and the core where the cardboard mugs are glued can be covered with tinsel or something else in the New Year's theme.

Option No. 2 - a ball made of bags

This version of a large DIY Christmas tree decoration for a street tree is suitable even for the little ones. The instructions are simple, and the bags can be found in any home.

Christmas tree toy “Ball”

You will need:

• paper (any),
• colored shiny bags,
• cake strings or gift bags,
• PVA glue.

Procedure:

1. The inside of the ball will consist of crumpled paper. To do this, take absolutely any paper, you can even use old newspapers. Crumple them one after another, gradually “winding” the next one onto the resulting ball. To make the layers stick better, they can be periodically lubricated with PVA glue. Surely the student will have it in his schoolbag; it is a necessary thing at school.

When the ball is already large enough, the right size for a street tree, then the elegant bags will come into use. It can also be wrapping paper, which is usually used to wrap gift boxes.

1. Wrap the paper ball with wrapping paper or colored bags and secure with glue.
2. Tie the resulting shiny ball with fancy colored ropes and make a loop at the top so that the toy can be easily hung on the city Christmas tree.

If desired, the ball can be additionally decorated with beads, beautiful hairpins, bows, and snowflakes.

Option No. 3 – Christmas tree toy made from a plastic bottle

This option is suitable for creative people who know how to draw. Although children can leave their scribbles on this simple object. After all, the main thing is creative imagination and joy from the work done!

You will need:

• plastic bottle (any size),
• paints for decoupage.

Action plan:

We don’t take into account a glass bottle, although it would look more impressive, but for a Christmas tree this item is too heavy and can break the branches, so we discard it right away.

In this version of the street Christmas tree decoration, you only need your imagination. You can depict whatever you want on the bottle. It’s better if it relates specifically to New Year’s themes. For example, this is a fairy-tale hut dusted with snow. Or the face of Father Frost, or maybe the depicted figures of the grandfather along with the Snow Maiden. It could be an elegant Christmas tree, a drawing of a beautiful ball toy, or a snowman. Yes, whatever your heart desires!

The main rule when working with such a toy is that you first need to completely paint the plastic with one general background color.

Option No. 4 – “delicious” candy

This toy is one of the simplest and most standard toy to make with your own hands for the Christmas tree. It is done very easily. You will need paper or something soft, for example, cotton wool or foam rubber, padding polyester. This will serve as the inside of the candy. Make a “filler” in the shape of a thick sausage of the desired size. Wrap it on top with shiny colored paper intended for wrapping gifts. Roll the paper tightly on the sides and tie with bows. Don't forget to attach a loop.

Large Christmas tree toy “Candy”

Option #5 – penguins made from a burnt out light bulb

You probably have burnt-out incandescent light bulbs piling up in your home. You collect them, and then take them all at once to a special bin for such things. But don’t rush to do this, because New Year is coming soon, and you definitely need to make a toy for the Christmas tree. To make this you will need regular incandescent light bulbs and decoupage paints. In fact, you don't need any special artistic skills to draw a penguin, it's very simple. Paint the front of the light bulb white. Make, as it were, 2 circles - on the top of the light bulb (below the base) and on the bottom, most convex part. As an association, mentally imagine the number 8, and you need to draw it with white paint on the front. The top will be the face, the bottom will be the stomach. Paint the rest of the unpainted surface of the light bulb with black paint. All that remains is to make a cute penguin face: eyes and beak, everything is ready! Glue the loop to the base. Alternatively, you can wrap the base with rope or twine.

Conclusion

Show your imagination, create, and then you will remember the New Year holiday with bright moments. If you want to do something more unusual and intricate, then look on the Internet for a photo of a toy on a street Christmas tree. There are plenty of options, and you don’t need to limit yourself to these five. You can use papier-mâché, soccer balls, and even hats as a base!

Starting over the weekend, I was simply drawn into this exciting activity. And it all started with the fact that my child and I had to make a couple of Christmas tree decorations for a street Christmas tree, which (more precisely for 2 Christmas trees) grows in the courtyard of the kindergarten. And then it began.....I scoured the Internet looking for ideas and eventually found what you see now. Unfortunately, I didn’t find such a MK on our favorite site (if it already exists, then I apologize - I didn’t intend to plagiarize, and therefore I admit that it wasn’t me who came up with it, but I’m just embodying what I saw on other sites)

Preparing materials:

1. old and unnecessary CDs (12 discs are needed for one ball)

2. Soldering iron with a sharp tip (I think you can somehow do without it, but with this device it will work faster)

3. Glue gun

4. Wire

5. Tinsel (I used thin) - approximately 4 meters

6. Good mood and time about 40 minutes

STEP 1: cut out a template - a pentagon with sides approximately 6.5 - 7 cm. We will need it for the next step

STEP2: apply our template to the disk and, using a soldering iron, make 5 holes in the disk corresponding to the corners of the pentagon. And so with all 12 discs

Step3: cut the wire. In the future, we will use this wire to fasten our parts together.

Step4: We begin to assemble the ball. The ends of the wire look towards the underside of our future ball. Then we begin to connect the outer 5 disks to each other (see arrows)

It turns out like this (looks like a vase)

Step 6: place the second row of disks in a checkerboard pattern relative to the first row. and then we close everything with the last (12th) disk. Our ball is ready. You can decorate with tinsel.

My brother, seeing the ball, suggested putting a light bulb inside and I liked this idea. This is where my experiment began. Only instead of a light bulb, inside I placed a New Year's garland of many small light bulbs before connecting the last disk to the parts. Plugged it in and.....

True, my “point-and-shoot” camera, which dares to call itself a digital camera, still does not know how to photograph garlands and other lighting effects well. Therefore, the quality of the photo (even though it turned out at all) - I apologize - is not so great. BUT it's still fascinating.

For now it stands like this.....without decoration. BUT I don’t know - is it worth adding tinsel to this lamp at all or leaving it like that? How do you think?

I DON’T like winter because I have to get up in the morning when it’s already dark outside. But today I’m even a little happy about it. Perhaps I will be able to wake up the child early tomorrow and surprise him with such an unusual New Year's lamp. And at the same time take a couple more photos