Firs from unusual materials - creative ideas!

There is a fair opinion that preparation for the holiday is much better than the holiday itself. This statement can be fully attributed to the New Year, which is preceded by a real "New Year's Eve fever." Preparing for the holiday takes a lot of time and requires significant costs, not only material ones. In the course it is necessary to start up also a fantasy, in fact each time it would be desirable to note a holiday somehow in a special way, to present close pleasant and necessary gifts to relatives, to prepare original dishes and, certainly, to create houses unique, magic atmosphere.

The latter is especially true if the house has children, because the decoration of housing for the holidays is a wonderful tradition, which, besides the aesthetic side, has one more meaning, much more important. Joint activities, especially such fascinating brings together families, but real closeness is sometimes not enough for families living in a modern, intense rhythm.

The main and invariable attribute of the New Year, of course, is the tree. And it is better if she is not alone. Of course, putting full-valued trees or their artificial counterparts in every room is an unacceptable luxury for many, in particular because of a lack of free space. A good alternative to fluffy winter beauties will be small Christmas trees, made with their own hands of unusual materials. We bring to your attention a few simple master classes that do not require special expenses and efforts. Children will be happy to help you in creating a creative decoration and together you will not only make the original thing, but have a great time.

Christmas tree made of plastic bottles

We need:

• plastic bottle - 3 pcs .;
• a sheet of thick paper A4;
• Scotch;
• scissors.

Progress

1. From the bottle cut off the bottom and neck in such a way that a direct "pipe" is obtained.
2. We proceed to cutting the blanks for the twigs. In order to make the tree a cone-shaped shape, we do the following. Each "pipe" is cut into 3 equal parts, and then we adjust the dimensions, so that each successive stage is a mute smaller than the previous one.
3. After each workpiece cut into needles. The neck of one of the bottles can be adapted as a stand for the Christmas tree.
4. Sheet of paper is rolled into a tube, fixed with adhesive tape and inserted into the bottle neck.
5. Now, each tier of Christmas trees is fixed with adhesive tape in a circle.
6. The Christmas tree of plastic bottles is ready.

New Year's tree of macaroni

We need:

• sheet of Whatman;
• tubular pasta;
• balloon of golden paint;
• glue;
• ornaments: rain, tinsel, beads, small Christmas balls, a star for the crown.

Progress:

1. To begin with, we make the basis for the Christmas tree - turn the sheet of the paper into a cone and glue the edges together. He already looks like a fir-tree. On this you can and stop, but not everything is so simple.
2. Gently begin to glue the pasta to the paper base from top to bottom, descending in a spiral. We make sure that each macaroni is carefully glued, and between them there are no noticeable omissions and voids.
3. After the macaroni are glued along the entire height of the paper cone, and the glue is dry, you can start painting. We take a can and begin to spray it evenly on the surface of the Christmas tree, neatly staining every macaroni.
4. After the paint dries, you can decorate the tree. To do this, we take a long enough piece of tinsel, fix it with glue on the top and start wrapping it in a spiral in such a way that it covers the places not pasted with macaroni. The lower tip of the tinsel can be fixed inside the cone with glue. Next, decorate the Christmas tree with balls, and on the vertex, we plant an asterisk. The fir-tree is ready, especially it will be in the kitchen or in the dining room.