Preparations for the New Year begin long before the winter holidays. Already in mid-November, in many countries around the world, all cities gradually begin to try on festive outfits. Bright illuminations decorate the streets and buildings, and a Christmas tree is installed and decorated in the central squares.
Educational institutions do not deviate from traditions either. Schools and kindergartens hold New Year's parties and other festive events. Most often, teachers and children are involved in decorating the classroom using toys and handmade crafts.
There are several universal ideas on how to decorate a school classroom for the New Year 2022. Using them as a basis, you can quickly and beautifully decorate your classroom for the upcoming holiday. Simple tips with photos and decoration ideas can be useful for both children and their parents. After all, creating New Year's decor with your own hands is not at all difficult.
How to quickly and easily decorate a classroom?
The atmosphere of the approaching holiday is created not only by New Year's decorations, but also by the general mood. A few simple tips will show you how you can decorate your classroom with inexpensive DIY crafts.
The classroom should look elegant without losing its intended purpose. That is why thematic design mainly concerns walls, doors, windows and ceilings. If there is free space, you can install a small artificial or live Christmas tree in high schools.
To decorate a school office for the holiday, you must adhere to certain rules:
- Place the Christmas tree in the corner of the room, apply a decorative pattern or composition to the walls or windows.
- Together with the children, prepare a thematic wall newspaper or poster.
- Decorate windows, doors, ceiling, curtains and board.
When designing a school office, consider its purpose. Do not block important areas of the classroom that are used in the learning process. Try to create a composition in the same color scheme.
In the year of the Metal Ox, traditional white and silver, as well as red, blue and green shades, will be in fashion. Don't forget about souvenirs and figurines of the symbol of the year - they can also be used in holiday decor.
New Year's decor elements for placement throughout the school
There are plenty of ideas for New Year's school decorations. When creating jewelry with your own hands, all kinds of boards, threads, beads, buttons, lace, etc. are used. From any available material you can create an unusually festive New Year's composition, examples of which we invite you to see below.
We decorate the Christmas tree
The forest beauty is one of the main attributes of the New Year holiday. Christmas trees are decorated on the streets and in residential premises, in educational institutions and in the workplace. As the main symbol of the coming year, it also takes its place of honor in the school classroom.
When choosing a Christmas tree, you should consider some nuances. In the foyer, the tree can be large and take up quite a lot of space. However, in the classroom its size should be average so as not to interfere with the learning process.
You also need to pay attention to the choice of jewelry. Do not use any glass products that could injure children. Toys and souvenirs made from more durable materials are best suited.
Professional designers recommend giving preference to a medium-sized artificial Christmas tree. It can be installed on the teacher’s desk or in one of the free corners of the office.
Choose paper garlands and decorative figures made from papier-mâché or thread. Coins and animal figurines made from salt dough, sweets in shiny wrappers, cookies or decorative compositions made of fabric are suitable.
You should choose a Christmas tree in accordance with the overall dimensions, layout and free space of the office. Depending on the size, the decoration method is also selected. In small rooms, the most optimal solution would be decor on the wall or board.
You can make homemade Christmas trees together with your children, inviting them to participate in an exciting activity. It is better to select the design style and color palette in accordance with the design of the walls, windows and ceiling of the room.
There are a lot of options for decorating the Christmas tree at school. Paper lanterns, flags and garlands can be offered as toys. The tree can be decorated with photographs of students and teachers, adding souvenirs of candies and other sweet souvenirs.
DIY New Year's decorations made of paper for the window
The window is an excellent backdrop for New Year's decor. It is often decorated with all kinds of paper snowflakes. But there are several other interesting options for transforming the window space into a New Year's picture. It’s quite simple to do this - take white paper and cut out any holiday landscape: Santa Claus with gifts, houses covered with snow, Santa Claus’s arrival on a sleigh, forest landscapes.
The photo shows several examples of window New Year's paper paintings.
You can hang various garlands on the window. Even a child can make them. Cut stars, circles, Christmas trees, snowflakes of different sizes. Any paper will do - gold, silver, white or multi-colored. Place the two halves together, pass the thread inside and glue them together. Length, color and shape are the result of your creative experiments. These wonderful window decorations come out:
Fairy lights
The easiest way to decorate a school classroom is with paper garlands, fringe or glitter. Elements of pendants can have a traditional thematic shape - stars, flags and lanterns, figures of Santa Claus or Snowman.
In addition to the traditional plot, you can include details of various shapes in the design. Garlands in the form of circles, triangles and snowflakes are easy to make with your own hands together with students of any age, even elementary school. They are suitable for the Christmas tree and ceiling, windows and chalkboard.
Hanging garlands will look great on walls and near chalkboards, over curtains or on the front door. Any decorative items made of paper, cardboard or fabric are suitable for decorating a school office. Bright ribbons of different colors will be an excellent material for needlework. Small soft toys are suitable as additional elements.
Original wall design in school corridors, classrooms, cafeteria
The school has enough places along the corridors where you can use the usual rain or tinsel to decorate a wall in a New Year's style. And if you approach the issue of wall decoration in an extraordinary way, then original solutions will appear on their own in the form of multi-colored cones made of colored paper, reminiscent of fairy-tale mountains. It is quite acceptable that the school budget allows you to turn the school corridor into a snow cave from a New Year's fairy tale. Believe me, children will absolutely love the implementation of such an idea.
Original and simple design ideas
Colorful posters and wall newspapers look very nice. Decorate your front door or side wall in your office with them. There are many options for making and decorating wall newspapers, so you can choose the most suitable one in accordance with the age of the children and the specifics of the class.
Use thematic applications, drawings and pictures depicting New Year's paraphernalia and symbols of the year. Beautifully designed photographs of students and teachers will also work. Be sure to leave space in the newspaper for a congratulatory inscription with wishes for the coming year.
All students must participate in the design of the school office. This exciting activity will not only fill the room with the spirit of the upcoming holiday, but will also unite the team. Invite the children to independently invent and make decorative souvenirs and toys, which can then be used to prepare the class for the New Year.
Entrance door
The design of the office should begin with the doors. The entrance to the room is usually decorated with a Christmas wreath, but in addition you can also use other decorative elements. The wreath can be made from pine cones, fir branches or paper.
An excellent solution would be a large sticker with a picture of a Christmas tree or Santa Claus, a poster with a thematic picture or a calendar. A Christmas tree made of foil or corrugated paper framed with snowflakes will look no less interesting. You can attach the volumetric composition using double-sided tape.
Blackboard
A classroom is a work space in which the main place is occupied by the blackboard. It is constantly used, so it should always remain free. When preparing, you should take this feature into account and choose decorations that will not distract children from the educational process.
Rules for decorating a school board:
- crafts should not occupy more than 1/3 of the total surface;
- elements must be firmly fixed;
- details should be bright, not too small.
The most suitable way to decorate a holiday board is with vertical garlands. They can be made from cotton wool or paper. The parts are strung on a strong thread and secured to the top of the frame.
Other types of paper crafts are also suitable - snowflakes and ring garlands. A Christmas wreath would look great. The New Year's composition may include a wall newspaper or a holiday poster. For decoration, you can also prepare traditional lanterns or rain.
Walls
The largest surfaces that are not occupied in the educational process are windows, walls and ceilings. They can be decorated in a New Year's theme with light designs and compositions. The main condition is that they should not be too bulky or heavy to ensure the safety of children in the classroom.
Hanging decorations, snowflakes and garlands can be made from cotton wool, fabric, colored threads and ribbons. You can place a decorative Christmas tree, poster or newspaper on the wall. Stylists offer interesting ideas for wall decoration - three-dimensional figures and holiday symbols.
The attachment to the wall should be strong, but easy to remove if necessary. Scotch tape or PVA glue are suitable for this purpose. If there are educational tables or maps on the walls, they are decorated in the same way as the board - with light decor, occupying no more than a third of the surface.
Window
The quickest way to transform cool windows is to decorate them with snowflakes cut out of white paper. Patterns can be different as desired. You can use ready-made templates and diagrams, which you just need to attach to the sheet and cut out the appropriate places with scissors.
Decorative hard soap is used to attach paper snowflakes. Prepare a soap solution with water and apply it to the surface of the glass. After the holiday, you can easily remove the snowflakes and wash the windows.
Decorate the window sills with light decorative compositions made of cotton wool or paper. Plastic and other flammable materials are not suitable. To decorate the frames, use artificial snow and New Year's rains.
Desks and tables
The teacher's table and desks can also be decorated for the holiday. However, you should not occupy a large part of the working surface, especially with small parts. Limit yourself to edging - rain or a snowflake glued to the top of the table.
Depending on the total area, you can also place several other thematic images on the desk. The teacher's desk will be decorated with a decorative Christmas tree made of cardboard or felt. A composition or bouquet of pine branches will look original.
The side of the table can be decorated with a garland. In the center of the table, place a Christmas tree decorated with souvenir figurines of the symbol of the year - the Metal Bull.
String Christmas trees - stylish and elegant New Year's decorations 2018 for the hall
It's easy to make beautiful Christmas trees from threads. They will decorate any room in the apartment, and will also become a beautiful decoration for the New Year's table. In order to make them you will need the following materials and tools:
- Thick cloth threads of green color.
- A sheet of thick paper.
- Pencil.
- Sequins.
- PVA glue).
- Glue gun.
- Film (food).
- Beads.
- We make a cone from a rectangular sheet.
- We wrap it with film.
- Dip the thread into glue.
- We wrap the cone with impregnated thread in a chaotic manner.
- In places where the threads cross, glue again.
- When the workpiece is completely dry, apply another layer of glue and sprinkle with glitter.
- We take any beads. Glue their surface and sprinkle with glitter.
- We fix the beads on the cone (using hot glue).
- Take out the paper base.
- Hot glue the star to the top.
In addition to this Christmas tree, you can make another one - a shiny one. To do this, glue the surface of the paper cone, then sprinkle it with glitter. The composition will be complemented by ordinary liter jars. If you paint them with New Year and Christmas motifs and sprinkle them with sparkles, they will play the role of a candlestick. More details in the video.
Examples of holiday crafts
All decorations for the school classroom are simple and easy to make with your own hands. To do this, just prepare a set of cardboard and paper, scissors, pencils and other craft tools. Invite students to choose their own decorations to make for windows, doors, chalkboards, or walls.
Paper lanterns
Original souvenirs that are suitable both for decorating a Christmas tree and for creating a festive interior. Lanterns can be taken both as parts for a garland and as independent decorations.
Light airy toys can be made of any geometric shape. Round, diamond-shaped, triangular or square lanterns of different sizes and colors will look great. It all depends on your imagination and desire. Don’t forget to put a piece of your soul into the craft, and the multi-colored lights will shine with real magical New Year’s light.
Necessary tools and materials:
- Colored paper - several sheets.
- Scissors, pencil, ruler.
- Scotch.
- Lace or thick thread.
- Awl, thick needle, glue.
Step by step work plan:
- Measure a distance of 7-10 mm from the rectangular sheet, draw an even line along the entire length, and cut with scissors. Set the resulting strip aside, and fold the remaining part of the sheet in two in the middle (colored side inward).
- Step back 2 cm from the edge and draw a straight line parallel to the edge. Make small cuts. You should get a longitudinal accordion or fringe up to the fold line, marked with a pencil.
- Unfold the prepared rectangle, then fold it in the middle of the fold on the front side.
- Roll the resulting shape into a tube and secure the top and bottom edges with tape. At the top, attach a handle made from the first strip cut from a sheet of paper. It can be replaced with lace or colored ribbon. Pass the cord through the hole made with an awl or large gypsy needle. If desired, you can prepare the bases for flashlights of any size.
Ready-made crafts can be supplemented with sparkles or beads by gluing them with transparent varnish or glue. Look at simple patterns and templates - with their help you can make other options for lanterns. Choose jewelry to suit every taste.
Openwork toys
You can make original Christmas tree decorations from threads and thin ribbons. They can be used to decorate a Christmas tree or to decorate windows, ceilings or boards. A simple master class will help you make a souvenir of any shape.
Prepare threads or thin ribbons, Vaseline, PVA glue and several balloons. Inflate balloons of different sizes and grease their outer surface well with Vaseline. Dip the threads into glue and let them soak well.
Wrap the balls with the prepared material to leave as few empty spaces as possible. Leave the pieces to dry completely for 24 hours. Using a sharp needle, deflate the balloons inside the craft. Decorate the blanks to your taste.
Any small accessories are suitable for needlework: floss, beads, seed beads, buttons, pieces of felt, etc. To make a Snowman or any fairy-tale figurine, connect several balls with glue.
Plastic figures
Original crafts will be made from plastic disposable cups. They will make a three-dimensional figurine that can be mounted on the wall or placed on the floor in a free area of the classroom.
You will need:
- Disposable white cups - 300-500 pieces.
- Glue or stapler.
- Colored paper, cardboard, tinsel.
- Large beads, buttons, Christmas balls.
Making master class:
- Connect the cups together so that you get two balls. For the base of the first circle, take 25 glasses, for the second, 17-18. Continue adding cups so that all subsequent rows form an even ball. Do not connect the balls at the bottom - this will give stability to the figure.
- Using red or orange paper, make a cone - a nose, which will need to be attached to a smaller circle. Use sheets of other colors to make a hat or bucket for the Snowman. For the eyes, use Christmas tree decorations or large beads. Glue all decorative parts with glue and let them dry.
- Mask the junction of the balls with a scarf. Glue large buttons along the body in increments of 3-5 cm.
A charming New Year's Snowman can easily turn into Father Frost or Snow Maiden if you add a few details. Add a cotton wool beard to Santa Claus. A charming crown framed with tinsel is perfect for the Snow Maiden. You can independently model a toy to suit every taste, decorating it with various available materials.
Wall Christmas trees
In small rooms, a decorative Christmas tree on the wall will be an excellent decoration. This method is also suitable for decorating a primary school classroom. A Christmas tree can be made in several ways: by drawing, creating a composition or applique from multi-colored fabrics, paper, plastic cups, etc.
The easiest way is to make a New Year's beauty out of paper.
A festive symbol made from pieces of colored felt will look original.
Repurpose a finished paper garland by folding it into the shape of a Christmas tree.
A craft made from pine branches will create a festive atmosphere. Be sure to make a strong frame from wooden planks or thick but flexible wire.
Take advantage of other original ideas for making a wall-mounted Christmas tree.
To prepare your school office for the holiday, it is not at all necessary to purchase expensive toys. The main rule of New Year's decor is that it should be bright and elegant, especially since this is not difficult to do. Use materials that you always find on hand. Take ideas from photos as a basis, or come up with your own special version.
Non-standard ideas - using light bulbs for decorations for the New Year 2018
Used light bulbs can also be repurposed into original decorations. Here are some ideas.
Light bulb toys
Necessary materials:
- Light bulbs unnecessary in the household.
- Sequins of different shades.
- Glue.
The light bulbs are washed, dried and covered with a layer of PVA, then sprinkled with glitter. After the update, the light bulbs look like this:
They can be decorated with ribbons, beads, or made into a garland. They are perfect for decorating a hall, a New Year tree and creating decorative compositions.
Snowman light bulbs
If you paint the light bulbs white and draw faces, buttons, stick pens on them and glue scarves, you get these funny snowmen:
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