We create a festive mood and make a home amulet: how to make a Christmas wreath with your own hands

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Why are Christmas and New Year's holidays so colorful and vibrant in many countries? And because they begin to prepare for them in the fall, lovingly choosing original decorations for the house in a warm way. The festive mood directly depends on the environment, and to make the New Year's atmosphere special this year, let us, together with the editors of homemaster.techinfus.com/en/, learn how to make a New Year's wreath with our own hands.

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1 History and traditions: where did the wreath come from for the new year?
2 Master class on making New Year's wreaths
- 2.1 How to make the base of a wreath for the New Year with your own hands from available materials
- 2.2 Base decoration and methods of fixing the decor
3 How to hang a Christmas wreath on your door
4 Video: DIY New Year wreath

History and traditions: where did the wreath come from for the new year?

We are used to seeing beautiful elegant wreaths on doors, fireplaces, tables and walls on New Year's holidays, but what many today perceive as a tribute to fashion or as a designer decoration has deep historical roots.

The ancient Slavs decorated the dwelling with twigs of conifers woven in a circle in the winter. In addition to making homes more beautiful and more aromatic, such an item had its own role as a symbol of happiness.In different countries, wreaths were woven from holly (holly), mistletoe, pine, spruce.

The Mexican poinsettia flower also entered the Christmas atmosphere as a symbol of the Star of Bethlehem

The wreath as a symbol of Christmas, with characteristic candles, saw the light of day in 1839 thanks to the Hamburg Lutheran theologian Johann Heinrich Wiechern.In Slovakia, mistletoe wreaths are preferred. People go to the forest and are happy to look for the coveted plant - it promises protection from malicious intent and witchcraft.

Holly is important for believers if you rely on the version that this plant was the crown of the Savior, and the white berries on the branches turn red from the blood of Christ

In our country, all attention is focused on the main holiday - the New Year, so the wreath plays an important role as a characteristic decoration of doors, walls and tables.

Master class on making New Year's wreaths

The creation of such a decoration easily turns even the most serious and business interior into a fabulous room and gives a lot of pleasure to the creator.

Traditional performance

Christmas decorations on a wreath are especially elegant.

The most delicate product imitates fluffy snow

A horizontally suspended decoration with such a chic decor looks original

To make different New Year's wreaths with your own hands, we offer a simple and understandable master class.

How to make the base of a wreath for the New Year with your own hands from available materials

The product is based on either paper or foam, but there are no barriers to imagination. They use cardboard packaging from toilet paper, corrugated cardboard, insulation for pipes, wire, plastic rings.

Are there many newspapers left? It's all about!

With the accumulation of newspapers at home, it makes sense to put them into such a wonderful and exciting business. For work, you need to take a newspaper or wrapping paper, threads and acrylic paint. Let's see step-by-step instructions to help you make the base.

Illustration	Action Description
	The paper is overlapped on the table. It is not necessary to part, let there be 5-7 cm between the sheets.
	The whole bale is manually rolled into a ring. It is very simple to do this, you just need to imagine that it is plasticine and calmly form a ring.
	Dense threads should be tied around the entire base. The thread should not cut too much, otherwise it will tear the paper, but you should not do it with weak tension either. The task is to consolidate the foundation.
	If there are weak points somewhere, they are strengthened with pieces of newspaper and thread. The ring is tight enough.
	The last stage of work is staining. Here you can take acrylic paint, or ordinary gouache, spreading it in PVA glue. The latter option will secure the product even more thoroughly.

The whole work does not take much time, but before starting further manipulations with the ring, you need to wait until it is completely dry.

You can also make a chic base from foam or insulation for pipes

Insulation for pipes can be bought at almost any plumbing or construction store.

In addition to the insulation itself, you need to purchase a small tube of a suitable size, glue-moment and scotch tape

The insulation is cut along the seam, a tube is inserted inside, which in bent form is equal to the desired circumference of the future wreath, wrap it with a seam outward

It remains to secure the seam with glue and tape

To make a bagel for a foam wreath, you will need the material itself, a stationery knife and scissors. A suitable circle is drawn on a piece of styrofoam and cut out with scissors and a clerical knife. The material is very malleable, so it will not be difficult to give it a smooth shape. Ready-made bagels are also on sale and cost about 100-150 rubles.

Waste toilet paper rolls

Thrifty people always assume that they may need something for creativity, and do not throw it away. In our case, these are cardboard tubes from toilet paper or paper towels.

Each tube must be cut into 2-3 pieces. First, we build a round shape to estimate how many parts will be required.

After placing the spool, the rings begin to string on a thread

Beads are obtained, but so that they do not dangle, we will use newspapers and PVA glue. Each section of the donut is wrapped with a newspaper in turn, generously lubricating everything with PVA

As soon as the product is completely dry, it will become hard and will perfectly retain its shape.

Base decoration and methods of fixing the decor

What to make a wreath for the new year? Here it is possible to show amazing resourcefulness by turning commonplace objects into wonderful decorations.

Material for decorating wreaths:

Real coniferous branches.
Artificial needles.
Cones, acorns, walnuts.
Tinsel.
Feathers.
Sweets.
Sackcloth.
Knitting threads.
Foamiran.
Dried flowers.
Beads, Christmas balls, beads.

Someone uses tree cuts, photographs as decor, multi-colored and one-color electric garlands, candles, soft toys and much more are used.

Spruce branches, cones, nuts

Let's first look at a photo of New Year's wreaths from spruce branches in order to make such beauty with our own hands.

It is a traditional street door decoration in Canada, USA and European countries.

The decor is not spruce or pine branches, but juniper twigs

The garland will decorate a wreath of pine needles without additional decor

An excellent product is obtained from coniferous branches without a base: branches are laid in a circle and tightly tied with wire or dense threads

Several materials are used here at once. The basis is made up of willow branches twisted and dried in this position. The spruce branch is part of the decor, like the rest of the decorations.

The chestnuts harvested in the summer are perfectly preserved, and can also serve as an excellent decor for a New Year's wreath.

A simple arrangement of acorns, with and without caps, and the usual burlap. If you wish, you can spray everything with glitter varnish

The cones are attached with hot glue, and as soon as the whole composition is assembled, it is painted with spray paint. If you want to preserve the color of real buds, you can use the single staining method with a brush, or simply dip each bud to the middle in paint

Burlap, textiles, felt

Burlap, which most people traditionally associate with the potato harvest, has acquired a second life in design. Of course, the same sack cloth is not used for decoration; for this they produce specialized linen sacking. The price for such a cut is 95-140 rubles, so buying it is not a problem.

Burlap does not require many decorations, but looks delicate

A linen tape is wound onto the base, securing it from the seamy side. You can sew or glue the rest of the decor to such a tape.

Using a fabric of another color (red is preferable, it conveys the mood of the New Year), it is easy to achieve an interesting effect by simply gathering the fabric around the base

Burlap and deadwood create a rustic flavor

Linen burlap is easy to combine with spruce branches

Ribbon wreaths are obtained by separately collecting many bows and gluing them to the base wrapped with a satin ribbon using a heat gun

If you take ready-made plastic bases for Christmas balls, wrap them with different woolen threads, then it's easy to assemble an interesting festive wreath

A wreath of pompons is made from a cardboard base and knitting threads. It is best to choose the colors of the New Year theme: white, green, red

If New Year's colors are not used, then no one forbids taking others, especially if they fit the interior

When a warehouse of unwanted skeins of woolen yarn is found in grandmother's chest, it is also easy to turn them into a wreath.

We cut the old sweater and sew the base with the resulting cut, or cut off the sleeve from the sweater. All decor can be simply sewn onto such a soft base.

How to bring a wreath to life? Hang figures from colored felt to it!

Today felt toys are in great demand. This is a malleable material that even a child can easily handle. Ready-made templates, widely presented on the Internet, allow you to get many small charming pendants in a short time. They can be used as a decoration for a wreath or tree.

Christmas trees, gingerbread men, deer and mittens - a ready-made New Year atmosphere

The star is made very quickly! All stitches are handmade

Reindeer can follow the wreath if attached to a wire

The base is wrapped with yarn, on which the decor is already attached

Dried flowers, herbs, dried fruits

Do-it-yourself New Year's wreath on the door is also decorated with the material that has been prepared since summer. To do this, dry any plants, flowers, collect branches of an interesting shape. Bunches of herbs can be dried by hanging them in a dry ventilated area, and if you want the plant to be flat, it is laid between the pages of the book. Lemons and oranges are dried in the oven or on a radiator; this can be done shortly before the festive decoration of an apartment or house.

The decor uses twigs of fern dried between the pages of books, painted from a spray can with silver and white paint

The bent branches are easy to paint, and the cereal decor will perfectly decorate the kitchen for the holidays

Dried citrus fruits blend well with cinnamon

Dried physalis and hydrangea are spray-painted with gold paint

Foamiran flowers, beads, vine twigs, tree cuts

A beautiful poinsettia can be a decoration of a wreath. Only not a real one, which cannot preserve its magical appearance, but from a pliable foamiran material. Beads removed from old beads should not be thrown away, even if they have lost their former appearance. They can be painted with acrylic paints and serve as a worthy decoration of a wreath for the New Year.

Beads turn into elegant garlands

Foamiran is extremely handy for creating lifelike colors

Cuts are attached with wood glue

You can make gorgeous wreaths from a maiden grape vine! We cut off the vine 0.5 cm thick and 2 m long and alternately collect in a circle. Dried vine is easy to stain

Candy or Christmas balls

A candy wreath is unlikely to hang long intact in a home full of children. Gradually, he will begin to lose weight imperceptibly, but at first he will create a true atmosphere of a bright holiday for everyone.

The lollipop wreath will be appreciated by all household members, children will especially like such a delicious idea

Candies can be hung as separate decorative elements, or you can make a completely candy decoration.

String balls simply on a wire base

A chic bright decoration is obtained when many balls are attached to the base at once

Electric garland

Garlands themselves become a festive decoration, and as part of a wreath on the wall or deri they look especially magical.

It's impossible to imagine the New Year without bright bulbs.

If electrical garlands are plugged into an outlet, then such garlands will have to be placed near the power source. Better to pick up a garland on batteries