How to decorate a room for the New Year?

One of the most anticipated holidays for both adults and children is, of course, the New Year. This holiday represents the beginning of a new stage, when you can achieve something, correct mistakes, and for children it’s just a favorite holiday, waiting for gifts, meeting with Santa Claus and winter holidays. Decorating a room is a special process, its main goal is to raise the mood for all participants in the holiday, to give the room a festive, even somewhere solemn appearance. Therefore, this event should be taken with full responsibility, carefully considering which details of the decor will fit well into the interior, and which are better to refuse. How to decorate a room for the new year? Consider the different options in this article.

Important! New Year is a family holiday, and it is best if you decorate your house all together, and give the main role in such a difficult task to children.

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Christmas tree

When it comes to celebrating the New Year, the very first association that arises is a tree. In any family, the New Year begins with a decorated Christmas tree. Today you can choose a Christmas tree for every taste: live, artificial, large, small, lush or not so, you can even purchase a dwarf Christmas tree in a pot. It all depends on your taste and the size of your room.

And you can decorate the tree with anything. In addition to traditional Christmas toys, garlands and tinsel, you can use handmade jewelry: bows, ribbons, sweets and nuts. At the top, a star or an angel will look great.

Important! Your Christmas tree will look special if you decorate it with crafts, for example, from fir cones painted in different colors or plastic balls glued with beads, beads or rhinestones.

You can decorate all rooms with fir branches so that the Christmas mood spreads throughout the house.

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Wreath

Many hang a wreath on the front door. You can buy it in a store or make it yourself:

• For this you can use ribbons, bows, beads, sweets, cones and much more.
• As a basis, you can take a flexible thick wire, twist it and already attach fir branches, cones and everything that your imagination tells you to attach to it.
• Or, as a basis, take a circle of polystyrene foam and glue improvised materials on it. For such a wreath, many cones will be needed so that the base is not visible.
• For decoration, you can use ribbons of different colors.

Important! It is not necessary to hang a wreath on the front door, you can hang it on the wall or put on the windowsill.

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Fairy lights

Another unchanging attribute of the New Year are garlands. They are hung to decorate the room for the New Year, on the Christmas tree, as well as on the walls and even on the windows. They can be electric or homemade. Now there is a large selection of electric garlands for every taste and color. You can make an electric garland with your own hands. A garland made of ordinary light bulbs will look very interesting.

Homemade garlands, despite their simplicity, look very impressive. They can be done together with children, while the pleasure will be double: from the process itself and from the result.

Idea number 1

Corrugated paper garlands are easily made. To do this, you need:

1. Cut corrugated paper of different colors into long strips of the same width.
2. Make small cuts along the edge of each strip - a fringe.The fringe should end at least 2 cm to the edge of the strip.
3. Now we twist two strips of contrasting color among ourselves, and we get a beautiful fluffy garland.

Idea number 2

You can make a garland of flashlights, cut out of colored paper and strung on a thread. Such a garland will look very nice.

Idea number 3

Recently, designers have come up with the idea of ​​making garlands from dried circles of oranges. A rather unusual decoration is obtained, but the children like it, and adults, too, will not remain indifferent.

Idea number 4

A garland of felt toys, symbols of the year, will be fun. They can be joined using fishing line or kapron thread. Snowflakes, butterflies, hearts, Christmas trees, etc. can also be cut out of felt. Such a garland will bring your children a lot of joy and bring animation to any interior. It will look especially good in a children's room.

Idea number 5

You can decorate the room for the New Year with another kind of garland - a curtain that creates an imitation of snowfall:

1. We take small pieces of cotton wool, moisten them in PVA glue.
2. String on different heights.
3. You can even color them in different colors.
4. At the end of each thread, tie as a load either a small lump or bell or something else to your taste.

Idea number 6

If you want to please your baby, then make a delicious garland with him. String on a solid string of sweets, gingerbread cookies, cookies.

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We decorate the windows

When it comes to how to decorate a room for the New Year, you can not ignore the decoration of windows - without them, the decor will be incomplete. There are many ways to decorate windows - it all depends on your imagination and preferences.

Option 1

The most common option is to stick snowflakes on the windows. You can buy them ready-made, or you can make them yourself, and the second option is more interesting. You can attract all family members and arrange a contest for the most beautiful snowflake. Paper snowflakes are glued onto the window, just wetting them with water.

Important! You can cut out not only snowflakes from paper, but also other figures, for example, Santa Claus, a snowman, bells, a Christmas tree. It is not necessary to make from white paper, you can take color.

Option 2

If you don’t want to cut it yourself, you can buy ready-made window stickers, they look very nice and are easily removed from the window until the next New Year.

Option 3

Another way to easily, quickly and beautifully decorate a room for the New Year is New Year's curtains. They can be made of rain, you can hang satin ribbons of different colors and different lengths instead of rain. At the ends of the ribbons tie Christmas toys or cones or bells, but your imagination will tell you a little.

Important! A curtain of multi-colored pompoms mounted on a fishing line in a chaotic manner looks interesting and beautiful. Such a curtain can be hung not only on the window, but also in the doorway.

Option 4

Now a special paint has appeared on sale, which in its appearance resembles snow, with its help you can make original drawings and inscriptions on the glass.

Important! An electric garland will be a great way to decorate a window; it looks great in the evening.

Option 5

If you have a wide windowsill in your room, you can nicely place compositions with candles, plates with sweets, beautiful themed figurines and other decorative elements on it. It's just that you can decorate a room for the New Year.

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Decorate the New Year table

Are you waiting for guests or celebrating the New Year with your family, and you need to decorate the New Year table in a special way, because it will create a particularly solemn atmosphere on the eve of the holiday:

• Table decoration begins with a choice of tablecloths. If you do not have a festive tablecloth, you can make it yourself out of ordinary white with beautiful napkins; it would be nice to pick it up with the symbol of the New Year.
• To decorate the table, toys, candles, New Year's compositions, wreaths, beautiful glasses, tinsel are perfect.
• Beginning designers can make a New Year's service with their own hands, turning ordinary glasses and a decanter into New Year's ones. This is easy to do by decorating them with Christmas-themed napkins.

Important! In the center of the table, it is better to put a large-sized decoration, for example, a large dish or a basket with beautifully arranged fruits.

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Decorate the nursery

When decorating a children's room, you need to remember that safety is first and foremost, so the following points should be considered:

• If the child is small, then hang jewelry as high as possible so that he cannot get them, and small toys should be excluded altogether.
• Do not use fragile glass toys - the baby can break them and cut themselves. Now there are many balls on sale and not only made of polymeric materials. They are beautiful and completely safe, even if they fall from a great height they will not break.
• In a house where there are small children, there is no place for burning candles.
• Garlands for the children's room must be chosen very carefully - they must be of high quality so that there is no short circuit.
• If you put a Christmas tree in the children's room, then make sure that it is well fixed. Decorating a Christmas tree in a nursery is best done with fabric, woolen or paper toys of large size.

Important! If the children are small, then it is better to wait a while with the Christmas tree and replace it with other decorations, for example, to make Christmas trees from paper.

How else can I decorate a nursery for the new year? In the children's room for the New Year you need to work hard and create a whole fairy-tale world, immersed in the atmosphere of New Year's fun. Then your baby will have a holiday feeling for a long time:

• Now on the market there are many wall stickers with fairytale characters. You can choose the one suitable for your child with the characters of your favorite cartoon.
• Invite your child to become a decorator: make a New Year poster together. If it is still small, buy special finger paints and make prints of pens and fingers on the poster.
• There are special crayons for painting windows. You can paint together the windows in the nursery, write your wishes to relatives and friends.
• Be sure to hang a gift sock on the wall, Christmas tree, door or bed of the child. You can buy ready-made or sew it yourself, embroider the name of the child on it. Children will appreciate not only the appearance, but will also look forward to the appearance of gifts in it.
• You can make a big snowman, about the size of a child. It can be made from balloons, from plastic cups or sew a soft toy.
• Invite your child to make a New Year's exhibition of their crafts. They can be placed on windows, shelves or a table in a children's room.

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Unleash your imagination, create original compositions that will become a worthy decoration of any room in your house for the New Year.