How to make DIY Christmas garlands: 11 cool ideas

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Stock up on felt, cellophane, paper and thread and create a festive atmosphere in your home.

1. Christmas garland of paper cups

This option is suitable for those who want to diversify the usual old garland.

What do you need

• white paper cups;
• a sheet of plain paper;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• scrapbooking paper;
• glue or double-sided tape;
• stationery knife;
• electric garland.

How to do

First you need to make a "wrapper" for the cups. To do this, cut one glass in half, cut off the bottom and edges. Straighten it, lay it on plain paper and make a template.

Place the template on the back of the scrapbooking paper and cut out as many wrappers as you have cups. By the way, you can choose any color of the paper. Just try to match the color with the electric garland.

Then wrap the cups in paper and glue the edges with glue or double-sided tape.

At the bottom of each cup, make a cruciform cut with a clerical knife. Insert electric garland bulbs into the cuts. Unusual Christmas garland is ready!

2. Christmas garland made of felt

It is very easy to make such a beautiful soft garland. The amount of material depends on the desired length of the decoration.

What do you need

• white and red strips of felt 2.5 cm wide;
• 2 needles;
• threads.

How to do

Place a white strip of felt over the red one and secure them with needles on both sides. Then make longitudinal cuts in the middle of the strips at equal distances from each other.

If you want to make a very long garland, cut the felt gradually: make no more than five cuts at once, go to weaving, and then repeat the procedure. Thanks to this scheme, the strips will not slide off, and it will be much easier for you.

To braid a two-tone braid, thread the end of the strip through the first hole and tighten tighter to keep the strips from falling apart. Then, in the same way, thread the garland through all the other holes.

Trim and sew the strips together at the ends of the finished garland so they don't stick out. By the way, you can combine any colors of your choice. For example, such:

3. Christmas garland made of cellophane

These miniature stars look like glass, although they are made of plain cellophane! This material is not as malleable as paper, but this unusual garland is well worth the work.

What do you need

• cellophane;
• lined sheet of paper;
• scissors;
• thin needle;
• thin threads.

How to do

Cut the cellophane into strips. It is more convenient to do this by placing a lined sheet of paper under the cellophane. Please note that the length of the strips should be at least 30 times their width. In other words, if the width is 1 cm, then the length should be at least 30 cm.

Then make stars out of the stripes as shown in this video:

Carefully pierce the stars with a long-threading needle. The stars should be at a short distance from each other.

By the way, garlands of paper stars also look very beautiful. Therefore, choose the material to your liking.

4. New Year's garland of paper tartlets

Choose tartlets in classic New Year colors: green, red and white. Both adults and children will like such bright Christmas trees.

What do you need

• colorful paper tartlets (muffin tins);
• glue;
• decorative sequins in the form of stars;
• twine or tape;
• Scotch.

How to do

Fold the paper mold in four to form a triangle.

Lubricate the corners of the two triangles with glue. Place three triangles on top of each other and glue them together to form a Christmas tree. Likewise, make as many trees as you need for your garland.

Decorate them with sequins. If you don't find star sequins, just cut them out of colored cardboard.

Then tape the Christmas trees to the string or tape at a short distance from each other. The garland is ready! Decorate a Christmas tree with it or hang it on the wall.

5. Christmas garland of burlap

Another way to transform a bored electric garland.

What do you need

• decorative sacking of New Year's flowers;
• scissors;
• electric garland.

How to do

Cut the burlap into even small strips. Tie them in a knot in turn between the light bulbs.

Very simple and beautiful!

6. Christmas garland of twine

This beautiful garland looks very impressive, and it is very easy to make it. If you don't have string, you can use thick thread or yarn.

What do you need

• Balloons;
• petrolatum;
• ½ l PVA glue;
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons of warm water;
• twine;
• needle;
• electric garland.

How to do

Inflate balloons that are the same size. Note: a garland of small balls will look more beautiful. Lubricate them with Vaseline. This is to prevent the string from sticking to the balls tightly.

Mix glue, starch and water. If the mixture is too thick, add a little more water. Just do not overdo it, so that it is not very liquid.

Soak the string in the resulting glue solution. Then wrap the balls with the rope. The easiest way to do this is by hanging the balls from a rail. Just do not forget in this case to put an oilcloth under them, where excess glue will drain. The density of the balls of the future garland depends on how much twine you wind.

Leave the balls to dry overnight. Then, pierce each balloon with a needle to make it burst. First, check if the string has become stiff enough and whether the finished ball will hold its shape. Remove the balloon carefully.

Then insert the light bulbs of the electric garland into the balls from the twine. If the balls turned out to be very dense, then you can make holes in them with scissors or a pen.

7. Christmas garland made of thick paper

For such a garland, you need thick paper, for example, cardstock. But thin cardboard is also fine.

What do you need

• thick paper (gray and several other colors to choose from);
• scissors;
• hole puncher;
• glue;
• twine.

How to do

Cut the gray paper into strips measuring 3 × 10 cm. The dimensions of the strips from the rest of the paper are 2.5 × 20 cm. The number of strips depends on the desired length of the garland.

Roll the gray strips into octagons and punch holes for the twine with a hole punch as shown in the photo. Then glue the edges of the octagons.

Now make the "bulbs". To do this, fold a long strip in half, only lightly running your fingers along the fold. Holding the strip by the tips, press it against your palm. When you release the paper, it will change to the shape of a light bulb.

At the ends of the strip, exactly in the middle, punch a hole for the string with a hole punch. Pass the string first through one hole in the gray octagon, then through the "light bulb", and finally into the second hole in the octagon. Repeat these steps with all the other details and align the "bulbs" along the length of the string.

8. Christmas garland made of plain paper

Such beauty can become not only a New Year's decor, but also a decoration of a children's room.

What do you need

• A4 paper packaging;
• template (download here);
• scissors;
• glue stick;
• Double-sided tape;
• threads.

How to do

Print and cut out the templates, trace them on the sheets of paper as shown in the picture below. For a garland, you need 24 first and second parts of flashlights and 126 stars. And to speed up the process, draw stars on the sheets folded four times.

Cut out all the details.

Take one piece of the flashlight and grease one side with glue. Glue the same piece to it. One flashlight should be composed of six identical parts. Just do not glue the sides of the first and sixth parts until you make a loop.

To do this, stick double-sided tape on the fold. Glue the thread from bottom to top, make a small loop on top, then glue the thread from top to bottom and cut off the excess. Now you can glue the sides of the first and last parts.

Repeat the same for the rest of the lanterns. You will have 8 flashlights in total.

Make 21 volumetric stars in the same way. The only difference will be in gluing the thread. It must be pulled through three stars, making a loop on the topmost one.

Now pull the thread through all the loops, forming such a beautiful garland:

9. Christmas garland made of cardboard

It is enough just to cut out the details according to the ready-made template and decorate them with sparkles.

What do you need

• thin cardboard;
• template (download here);
• scissors;
• stationery glue;
• colored sequins;
• twine.

How to do

Print on thin cardboard and cut out the templates along solid lines. The number of parts required depends on the desired length of the garland. Bend the blanks along the dotted lines.

After one, grease the triangles on the templates with glue and sprinkle with glitter. When the glue is dry, shake them off. You may need to repeat these steps one more time so that the triangles are completely covered in glitter.

Then glue the semicircular parts on the templates with glue and glue the figures. Pull the string through the figures. If you are afraid that you will not be able to do this, pass a string through each figurine before gluing, and not after.

10. New Year's garland made of tissue paper

Such Christmas trees can be decorated with anything: sequins, sequins or buttons. Connect your imagination!

What do you need

• green tissue paper;
• scissors;
• glue;
• yellow cardboard;
• red cardboard;
• twine.

How to do

Straighten the tissue paper. By the way, this can be done with an iron, setting it to the lowest temperature. Fold a long sheet across in half and cut it in half lengthwise. You will have two long stripes folded in the middle. Make long cuts in them, leaving part of the fold intact. You will need as many details as there are trees you want to make for the garland.

Unfold the strip and twist it thinly. Make a loop at the place of the fold and twist it several times so that it does not fall apart. If desired, you can fix it with glue.

Tie the resulting trees to the string. Then cut out stars from yellow cardboard, and circles from red cardboard and glue them. Try to secure the sprockets so that the knots on the string are not visible.

11. Christmas garland of Christmas balls

And finally, an option for those who do not have time to tinker with something at all, but have a great desire to update the New Year's decor.

What do you need

• beautiful Christmas balls;
• twine.

How to do

All you need to do is pass the string through the loops of the Christmas balls, tying it in knots and placing the balls at the same distance from each other.