The New Year is always awaited with impatience, and preparations for it captivate both adults and children. Any festive atmosphere is created primarily with the help of decor around. The feeling of the holiday begins when shop windows with snowflakes, and lights of garlands start to light up everywhere. The winter air is filled with the aroma of tangerines and the crunch of candy wrappers, and there is a queue in supermarkets for bright Christmas tree balls.
On the eve of the most wonderful and fabulous night, you need to decorate your home. At this time, everyone takes out boxes of New Year's toys, garlands, figurines from the closet, and by midnight, a beautiful Christmas tree is already standing in anticipation of guests. Despite the preparation process that has been worked out for years, one place in the house is often left without attention. Now we are talking about windows.
Even window panes and window sills can be decorated to create a festive mood not only inside, but also outside it will look magical. Such decor will be appreciated by your guests who come to the party. The feeling of magic and miracles will be with you this winter time thanks to such a design.
It is not necessary to spend a lot of money on buying New Year's attributes, you can get by with improvised items made with your own hands. In order not to think about what and how to do, we offer several of the most unique ideas and master classes on decorating with stickers, drawings on windows, vytynanka from inexpensive materials.
Idea #1: Toothpaste Window Painting
Toothpaste is a pretty great material for decorating glass and mirror surfaces in the house. Our parents also remember how during the times of shortage toothpaste was the main assistant in decorating for the New Year holidays. Children were also involved in this simple process and painted the windows of not only houses and apartments, but school and kindergarten windows were also a platform for such creativity. In addition, toothpaste is a multifunctional painting substance for creating two types of painting. It can be either an ornament or an image like in a photographic film - a negative. Even a child can cope with such drawings, so involve younger assistants in creating a New Year's mood in your home. The positive side of this material is the ease of its removal after the holidays. Toothpaste is easily washed off the windows with warm water.
To create such a design you will need the following:
- a washcloth or an unnecessary toothbrush;
- tape with a sticky layer;
- dishes;
- water;
- scissors;
- rag;
- pencil;
- paper.
Step by step instructions for decorating a window with toothpaste
- Step 1. Find stencils on the Internet with a New Year theme that you like: deer, snowmen, squirrels, Christmas trees, etc. Then print and cut them out.
- Step 2: Wet the resulting template in a bowl of water or a wet cloth.
- Step 3: Place the stencil on the mirror or glass.
- Step 4: Remove excess water with dry flannel.
- Step 5. Squeeze a little toothpaste into a separate container and dilute with water until it reaches the consistency of liquid sour cream.
- Step 6. Using a toothbrush, pick up the paste, shake it off by running your fingers along the pile, thus covering the glass surface with splashes with the glued stencil. After the mixture has evenly covered the window, you can remove the paper. The image will be ready! Instead of a toothbrush, you can take a piece of foam rubber or a washcloth, dip it in a mixture of paste and water and press it to the glass around the stencil, shaking off excess water beforehand.
If you have awakened artistic talents or just been visited by the muse, then you can take advantage of this and create a drawing with your own hands using an original brush. Roll up some foam rubber into a tube and tie it with tape - and you will get a handmade brush and an excellent tool for creativity. You can make several of these brushes of different diameters. Squeeze the paste onto a flat dish, dip the brush in it and draw all sorts of twigs, snowmen, balls, serpentine and everything that the muse tells you.
After the paste dries, you can scratch small details on your drawing with an orange stick or a match. Dots, lines, eyes, stars - will give your creation miniature and airy. You will get a real masterpiece. Just do not use sharp metal objects! After all, you will need the glass safe and sound after the holidays.
If you feel sorry for the paste, but you have gouache or artificial snow from a spray can lying around – get started! The principle of creating pictures on windows and mirrors is the same. And the rest depends only on your imagination.
Idea #2: Window Cutouts
Window in the style of New Year's vytynankas
Vytynanka are specially cut out paper or cardboard silhouettes of figures, thanks to which you can perfectly make any composition for New Year's window decoration. Just a little time and patience - and the window will become a stage for fairy-tale characters, snowmen and Santa Clauses. Instead of a window, you will have a whole work of art. Here are several options for simple vytynanka that will look great on your windows and will carry a New Year's holiday feeling.
To make them you will need:
- white paper;
- simple pencil;
- stationery knife;
- brush;
- soap;
- manicure scissors;
- smooth plywood;
- tweezers.
Procedure
Examples of beautiful New Year's vytynankas
- Step 1: Download and print the pictures you like
- Step 2. Small details should be colored in with a pencil so as not to make mistakes later when cutting out.
- Step 3. Cut off all the excess outside the future drawing. Cut out the parts that should be empty. Tweezers will help pull out small pieces. Larger parts can be cut off with a stationery knife, placing them under the plywood beforehand.
- Step 4. Lay out the resulting drawings on the table. Create a picture-panel.
- Step 5: Dilute the soap with water to make a strong solution.
- Step 6. Dip each cutout into the soap solution and stick it to the window. This way you will get a plot on the glass.
Idea #3: Window Stickers
Any window can be decorated with A3 or A4 stickers quickly!
Window stickers will make your window panes populated with funny and thematic characters, and it is easy and simple to do. Passers-by will not be able to enjoy such pictures, you need to stick them with the picture inside, so that you can contemplate this beauty. But every time you look at the windows, funny snowmen, cute penguins, or cartoon characters will look at you from there.
The easiest way is to buy ready-made stickers in a store. But in every city you can find a company that prints any images on special paper with an adhesive side. To do this, you just need to find and download a suitable drawing from the Internet, the main thing is that it is of good quality and size, and take it on a flash drive to this company to order printing.
After the holidays, you can easily clean your windows from such amateur art. Such stickers are easily removed with warm air from a hair dryer. The remains of the adhesive side should be removed after this.
Just warm up the sticker with a stream of warm air from a hair dryer, remove it, and then wipe the area with a cotton swab soaked in nail polish remover. If you are afraid of the "old-fashioned" methods, then just buy a solution for removing stickers at a stationery store, and then wash the greasy area with soap or glass cleaner.
Idea #4: Decorating with Candles
In addition to windows, you can decorate window sills with candles and other improvised means. Candles create coziness at any holiday, and especially in winter, when you want warmth, they will be the most important attribute for creating a festive mood. There are many such candle decors, it is impossible to describe them all. But if you learn the main principle of its creation, then, thanks to your imagination, you can come up with decorations for your home yourself.
For candle decor you will need:
- long candles;
- spruce cones;
- artificial moss;
- several small Christmas tree balls;
- paper;
- paper cups without a pattern.
Procedure
- Step 1. The sheets of paper need to be rolled into balls.
- Step 2. Place a candle in the center of the glass. Fill the remaining space with lumps of paper so as to secure the candle vertically.
- Step 3. Fill the top of the glass with moss and pine cones.
- Step 4. Place the glasses with candles on the windowsill and place the pine cones between them.
Flat candles can be placed in glass cups, having previously placed broken branches on the bottom. Carefully fill the glass with water, the candle will float on top. A chic candlestick made by yourself. You can do without glasses, taking a decorative tray and placing 7-9 candles of different shapes and lengths on it. Place them randomly and it will be very beautiful on the windowsill. It will look great if you light them in the evenings.
Idea #5: Pine needle compositions
A variety of natural materials can be used in Christmas wreaths.
What winter decor would be complete without the scent of pine needles? It will add a touch of mood and freshness to any composition. What could be simpler than pine wreaths on the windows? And if you decorate with bright ribbons, you can already consider that the festive atmosphere has already been achieved!
To make this decor you need:
- fragrant branches of spruce, pine, thuja, juniper;
- glue gun;
- thick and thin wire;
- bunches of viburnum or red rowan;
- Christmas tree balls;
- beads.
An example of the simplest window decoration with pine branches
Procedure:
- Step 1. Take two pieces of thick wire and bend them into rings of different diameters with a difference of 3-4 centimeters.
- Step 2. Connect the rings diagonally using thin wire. The frame of the future wreath is in your hands, make a fastening from the tape.
- Step 3: Fill the wreath with the branches you have using the overlapping method.
- Step 4. Decorate the resulting creation with red berries, beads, small cones, and secure the decor with a glue gun.
- Step 5: Finish the composition with a bow made of bright satin ribbon at the top of the wreath.
In addition to hanging such wreaths along the cornice, you can place it on the windowsill and place a thick candle inside. This will add coziness to your window decor.
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