👼 Crafts for Christmas with his own hands: candles, wreaths, cards and more

Christmas back into our homes warm family tradition and expectation of miracles. Every year, the Christian holiday of Russians becomes brighter, and many are preparing for it, Decorating your home together with their children. This material from HouseChief.ru devoted to sweet and romantic trinkets to the mystery of Christmas for family creation. We will consider what jobbing Christmas with their hands can do with their children.

Interior decoration with his own hands Christmas crafts

decoration not only raises the holiday mood, but also attracts good luck into the house. That is why from time immemorial on Christmas Eve, people tried to decorate their home. There are traditional items that are used for this purpose: candles, Christmas trees and wreaths. So, what jobbing on a Christmas theme can be made with your own hands, and to bring this exciting process of the younger members of the family?

Making Christmas candles

Candles add home comfort and mysterious charm.

To work required Cheapest paraffin candles that you can buy at any hardware store, wax crayons, oil and power cord to the wick.

Important! Do not use oil crayons, one candle will not work, because the oil is not soluble in the wax.

And need tools: trowel, a bucket, a glass jar and a mold for casting candles.

The sequence of operation is as follows:

Illustration	Description of the action
	Break paraffin candles and remove the wick, it is useful for the further work.
	Crush wax knife. The smaller pieces - the faster it melts.
	Make a water bath: in a bucket with water, put a glass jar. All this is set on a tile or gas stove. The bank needs to pour paraffin. He will need about 10 minutes until completely melted.
	Crayon rub on a small grater. The more shallow - the richer the color will turn out candles.
	Pour in the melted crayon wax and stir. The paint composition of the stain immediately.
	To fill the candles, use any form. You can make a candle in a thick-walled glass and do not remove it later, but if you want to remove the candle, oil, lubricate the wall of glass.
	Tie wick to a stick and place it so that the thread was in the center of the candle. The tip of the wick has to lie on the bottom of the vessel.
	Consistently fill the form, using different color crayons. Make as many layers as will fit into a mold.
	Leave the candle to harden. It is not necessary in this case to put it in fridge. After excess trim the tip of the wick. The candle is ready.

And decorate these homemade candles can be different. It is only necessary to remember that the need to comply with fire safety when decorating:

Compositions for table decorations

Fancy composition a Christmas theme will look good on the shelf fireplace, on windowsill or holiday table. Traditionally, the background is green needles of spruce, pine or juniper branches, and are used for decoration flowers and toys. In the classic version of colors green and red, but this is optional.

All work is subject to the general rules of bouquets. As the base, use a vase, bowl, dish or some other rigid stand. If your intention is to add live plants composition, make sure that they are not dead: need a sponge, which will keep the moisture.

Decoration composition - a flight to your imagination. Use natural decorations: cones, chestnuts, shells and acorns. Useful ribbons, flowers, Christmas-tree medium-sized toys, glass beads. Experiment and be bold! If the constituents of the composition with a child, be sure to use figurines Christmas characters and sweets: candy, colorful gingerbread. Here is a small collection of ideas for your inspiration:

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Christmas wreaths and bumps

Wreath on the door - rather, the Catholic tradition, but does have something beautiful and joyful must be nationality and religion? Now it's just an attractive Christmas decoration that can be hung on the door of the house or room to create a festive atmosphere.

For the manufacture of a wreath need a solid foundation, on which are mounted branch of pine needles and ornaments. As a basis you can use plywood, Cardboard or wire. Look what can happen:

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craft ideas for Christmas, which can be done by hand with a child

To prepare the New Year celebrations, it is sure to attract children. This will help them feel better all the magic of the upcoming holidays.

What you can do with your child for Christmas? In principle, children can bring to virtually any job. They like to paint cakes, handicrafts ornaments on a table, hanging tinsel.

Christmas Cards family

The easiest and most interesting type of craft - postcards. They can do all the holidays. Christmas cards, too easy to make your own hands.

Use for crafts for Christmas with their hands from a paper magazine clippings or other cards, lace, sequins. You can put angels figurines on the outside or inside the card. Here are examples of such works:

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Advent calendars - what is it?

This tradition came to us from Lutheranism. Every day for 24 days before Christmas is celebrated by some action. You can just celebrate a tick on the wall panelAnd you can organize with the children in each of the 24 days of any good deed. Think of your children on the job every day.

For the little ones invent some Christmas trivia: cut snowflake or blind snowman in the courtyard. Let your child exchanges its new report on candy or other small gift on the calendar: the sticker of a cartoon figure or something like that. For older kids, you can find a different approach, for example, expanded in the pocket Advent calendar details of the team model boat or airplane.

Examples of how to arrange Advent calendar, there is in the photo:

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Paper angels: Templates

Angels of paper - this is the spirit of Christmas. They can decorate your whole house garlands. These crafts for Christmas with your own hands can be attributed to the school or kindergarten in the annual competition.

Angels can be cut out with the children, using a simple templates. Here are a few of them, you can print them on your printer:

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Angels of fabric: a master class

Most primitive figure can be made from conventional handkerchief.

More complex models are made of fabric or felt for clothes patterns. Master class - in this small video material:

Angels Wire

A good idea is to work together the pope and his son. It needs to wire and pliers. You can thread the wire in a few beads for decoration. Bend the angel of the wire easy, you need to form a head with a halo, wings and stylized torso. Here's how it might look:

Crafts for Christmas with his own hands: Christmas nativity scene

For centuries, Christmas represents the same story: a cave over which burns the Star of Bethlehem, and in the cave of the mother with the baby. This picture taken to collect in a den - a mini-theater where the protagonists are the Hail Mary, the infant Jesus, St. Joseph, and the Magi. With your child, you can make such a composition, which will help him to understand the mystery of the holy holiday.

Figures always do in different ways: in Germany, they are made of wood, in Mexico from porcelain, and in England are made from dough.

Some strict requirements for the figurines there, and he put a crib made before the New Year and Christmas holidays to leave.

Note! This mini-theater is static, the figures do not play, explain this to your child.

In use the box as a basis or den box. The basis of the paste over the paper so that it looks like a cave. You may be able to crush the sheets to make it look more natural. At the top of the star den set of bright foil. Bottom strew dry grass or thin branches.

From what we can figure characters? Here are some examples, which are suitable for DIY manufacturing.

Of paper or felt:

Plasticine:

From salty and gingerbread dough:

The final touch in the design of the composition: the alignment of figures. The Magi are at the entrance to the cave, and the Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph inside. Figures of animals can be placed both inside and outside.

This is only a small part of Christmas ideas that can decorate your home in front of a bright holiday. Certainly to realize at least some of them, and you will feel the true spirit of Christmas.

And if you have ideas or traditions, write about it in the comments!