Mask – one of the main symbols of the New Year holiday. The festive, cheerful masquerade is equally loved by both children and adults. In Soviet times, in the era of shortages, people mainly did DIY New Year's masks. Now they can be bought in any store, and also made to order, but still many prefer to make this main New Year attribute themselves, using improvised materials.
Festive mask will help you stand out from the crowd and be the center of attention at a children's party, corporate party or photo shoot. You can make a mask with an image of any animal or popular cartoon or fairy tale character with your own hands.
How to make a New Year's mask with your own hands for girls
Girls will definitely like it disney princess masks, as well as masks with images of various wild and domestic animals, For example:
- cat,
- fox,
- squirrel.
Such an accessory can be sewn from felt or thick fabric, or cut out of paper or cardboard and painted to your taste. The mask should match the costume in color and style. If there are no slits in place of the eyes, the mask is not put on the face, but pulled over the head like a hat.
Attention. If the mask is attached with elastic bands, they should not be too tight to avoid discomfort while wearing it.
New Year's mask for boys
The boys' parents also want to know, how to make a mask for new year 2025.
The favorite heroes of modern boys are various creatures and people who have supernatural powers, for example:
- superman,
- batman,
- spiderman.
Among the representatives of the animal world, masks with images of a hare, wolf, lion or bear cub are suitable for boys.
Attention. During New Year's celebrations in schools and kindergartens in the USSR, the traditional mask for boys was a hare mask. It was made of white cardboard, with cotton or gauze ears attached to the headband.
DIY New Year's Masks for Adults
An adult can dress up as anyone for the New Year. Women with a sense of humor will gladly try on the image of Kikimora or Baba Yaga, and men can dress up as a wood goblin. It is not recommended to wear masks of famous political figures, because there may be people with different political views at the holiday, and someone may find such a mask offensive. As for the manufacturing technology, the easiest way is to glue a mask from cardboard or thick paper using a head template.
Do-it-yourself voluminous New Year's mask
Do volumetric mask very simple. For this, you can use the old French technique of papier-mâché, which means wet paper. You need to take any plastic mask that is suitable in size and shape, and then apply torn newspaper to it layer by layer. Each layer needs to be well and thoroughly coated with glue. Then you need to dry the base thoroughly and carefully remove the newspaper mask. You will get voluminous New Year's accessory, to which you can attach elastic bands and put it on your head.
Instead of a template onto which an old newspaper is glued, you can use not only a mask, but also an inflated air balloon.
If a standard mask is used, it should not have any unevenness or defects on the surface. Before pasting the mask with pieces of newspaper, it is necessary to wrap it with polyethylene film, then the pieces of newspaper will not stick.
A good option is – foil mask blank. To do this, take a large sheet of foil, apply it to your face and make dents with your fingers so that the foil follows the shape of your face. You will get an almost exact cast.
If you use PVA glue, dilute it with water before you start working. You can make the glue yourself, take a liter of water and pour three tablespoons of starch into it, then boil it over a fire until it boils, stirring all the time. You will get a strong paste, one small cup will be enough to glue several layers of newspaper.
It is not necessary to use only newsprint to make the mask, you can use two types at the same time, for example, newspaper and office or newspaper and magazine. The first layer should be made of the thickest paper - so that the finished mask is hard.
The first layer is not glued, pieces of paper are simply laid out on a base previously coated with Vaseline.
Glue is applied over the first layer, and a second layer is applied to it, this can be thinner paper. During gluing, each piece must be carefully smoothed out so that there are no air bubbles. If air bubbles appear, the mask will be loose and will not last long.
For the third layer, use thick paper. It is placed on a layer thickly coated with paste. Each piece is glued very carefully. The fourth layer can be again thin paper, newspaper or office. Then the next layer is glued with small pieces of fabric or gauze, previously soaked in glue. In order to carefully smooth out all the folds, you can use any hard object. The last layer is made of thick white paper or white natural fabric, well soaked. In order for the mask to be stronger, after applying all the layers, you can coat it with a gelatin solution.
Drying of the product takes about three days, the product should be dried away from the sun and drafts. It is forbidden to remove the mask from the form while it is drying, otherwise it will lose its shape. Decorate and paint the finished mask. You can use gouache, watercolor, acrylic paints or thick markers for this purpose. You can attach a layer of fabric on top and paint with fabric markers. Rhinestones, feathers or stickers are used for additional decor.
Papier-mâché masks are made not only for the New Year. Such products will help to create an original image for Halloween or any other holiday. The main thing is to follow all the rules for making the product and strictly follow the instructions. Then the finished mask will not fall apart.
New Year's mask templates
Download New Year's mask templates can be found on the Internet. If the sample size does not suit you, you can make any size by redrawing the picture you like, cell by cell. Anyone who can draw well, can make the template yourself, having first taken measurements from the person who will wear the mask. It is necessary to measure the circumference of the head and mark in advance the places for the eyes and the approximate size of the holes. Face masks for the new year, made to size, look good and liven up the holiday. You can make small masks for prizes and hand them out to guests after the holiday competitions.
Paper masks for New Year
To make a paper mask, you need to take thick paper. Office paper will not work because it will tear. A template is drawn on the paper, then it is colored and slits are made for the eyes. Then the mask itself is cut out along the contour, and ties are attached to it - ropes or elastic bands. The mask can completely cover the face or cover only the upper part.
Openwork carnival mask
Openwork carnival masks are very beautiful, but their production is quite labor-intensive. Such an accessory can be made using the technique of vytynanka, or artistic cutting. A picture built on the symmetry of the left and right sides is transferred to a sheet of paper. The sheet is folded, and one of the sides is cut out. When the finished craft is unfolded, a two-sided image is obtained: two halves of a face and two eyes.
When working in the openwork cutting technique, sometimes you have to cut out many small details, and this is not so easy. To make the work easier, you should use a stationery cutter instead of scissors. A sheet of paper is placed on a hard backing and holes are cut out in the right places using a cutter, according to the finished pattern. You need to start with the largest holes, gradually moving on to small ones. Such DIY New Year's masks look very beautiful, but you need to handle them carefully.
Mask from a plate for the New Year
Cool New Year's masks can be made from plates. This mask looks impressive and will last a long time, and the child is guaranteed to be the center of attention. To make an original holiday craft, you will need:
- disposable paper plate,
- colored paper, colored cardboard, foil,
- any paper glue,
- glitter or ribbons,
- ties or elastic bands to secure the mask to your head.
To make such a mask, you need to take an ordinary disposable paper or plastic plate, and then cut it into two halves using a stationery cutter. From one plate you will get two masks.
Slits are made for the eyes, and then the mask is painted. It is better to use gouache or thick markers rather than watercolor paints. Small holes are made on the sides, through which a rope or elastic band is pulled. Instead, you can glue a cocktail straw or a stick to the juice, which will act as a holder.
DIY New Year's Mask will serve as a great gift, a New Year's souvenir for a child and an adult. The main thing is to approach the work creatively. If the mask is made for a child, you should refrain from depicting characters on it that cause fear and a negative reaction in the child, because the New Year is a cheerful and joyful, positive holiday.
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