How to make a beautiful poster or wall newspaper for a child’s birthday with your own hands

To my beloved

A wall newspaper is given as a gift for a birthday, Valentine's Day, or for no reason. The inscriptions include original compliments, declarations of feelings and wishes.

A heart-shaped photo together looks beautiful.

Rules for poster design

11 rules for an effective poster:

Rule one. Compliance of text blocks (main and additional headings), as well as artistic design and design style with the theme, idea and purpose of the poster.

For example, a poster with information about a scientific conference or other official event is best done in a business style, discreet colors and discreet design.

Advertising, concert, holiday and greeting posters, on the contrary, should be designed brightly, catchily, creatively, and sometimes with humor.

Rule two

Informative, concise, interesting, attention-grabbing and easy to read text message. The text of the poster must be carefully edited: make sure it is short, clear and easy to understand, correct errors, get rid of unnecessary and insignificant words, unsuccessful phrases

Rule three. The key information contained in the poster should be read and remembered first. That is, the most important text block of the first level (the main heading) is typed in the largest font. More detailed information and details are included in text blocks of the second and third levels (additional headings, or subheadings). Smaller font sizes are used for them.

Rule four. One poster contains no more than two types of fonts that combine in style

When choosing a font, it is important to remember: the size and style of letters and numbers should not be discordant with the format and theme of the poster. It is worth considering that beautiful, but overly pretentious, decorative fonts can actually turn out to be illegible and tiresome for the eyes when reading from a distance

Rule five. Fonts should be visible and clearly visible from afar

To do this, it is important to choose the optimal line and letter spacing. Words, lines and headings of different levels should not merge into a continuous canvas on the poster

Otherwise, it will be difficult to read what is written.

Rule six. Images, backgrounds, frames and other visual elements of the poster should also correspond to the theme and complement the text block. They are selected and placed on the sheet in such a way that the text remains visible and easy to read. Some posters (in particular, diagrammatic posters, posters for visual education in school and kindergarten) may contain only images. Others (for example, educational posters-tables, posters-instructions, diagrams, etc.) may consist only of text blocks.

Rule seven. The sharper the text and images contrast with the background, the more noticeable the poster.

As you add elements to your poster, it is important to ensure that contrast is maintained and that letters, numbers and pictures remain easily visible from a distance.

Rule eight. The most important text elements should be placed at the top and right, and illustrations should be placed primarily on the left. This makes information read and remembered easier and better. This rule is associated with the peculiarities of our brain’s perception of verbal (verbal) and non-verbal (visual) images.

Rule nine. All elements of a proper poster must be made in a harmonious color scheme. It is advisable not to combine the colors of warm and cold palettes in one poster. If you know where the poster will be placed, it is better to select the shades of the background, symbols and images in accordance with the design of the room. Graphic designers use special color wheels and palettes to find optimal color combinations.

Rule ten

When designing a poster, regardless of its purpose and theme, it is important to observe moderation. Ideally, this is only an expressive contrasting background, laconic (at the same time maximally informative) text elements and images that harmoniously complement them

Rule eleven. You should not try to fill the entire space of the sheet. The poster can end up cluttered with details, tiring to the eye and difficult to read. When planning the arrangement of elements, it is worthwhile, as designers say, to “leave some air” - to provide areas of free space. This is one of the effective ways to increase the effectiveness of a poster.

The main stages of creating a poster:

Stage 1. Determine the theme, purpose and style of the poster design.
Stage 2. Writing headings and text blocks. Editing. Selecting suitable fonts.
Stage 3. Search for poster design ideas. Selecting backgrounds and images. Choosing a harmonious palette of colors and shades.
Stage 4. Creating a rough poster layout in a graphics editor. If the poster is drawn by hand, create a pencil sketch on paper.
Stage 5. Making edits, adjusting combinations of font colors and images, line and letter spacing.
Stage 6. Printing a test sample.
Stage 7. Creating a final version of the poster.

How to make a poster out of sweets: design procedure

Once you have purchased everything you need, you can start making. Depending on the size of the base, you need to choose the appropriate place to work. It is not always possible to fit on the table. More often you have to sit on the floor. Whatman paper, although dense, can sag on carpeting. It can be accidentally dented or pierced by writing objects. Therefore, choose a solid base.

Large formats of paper are rolled into a “tube” in the store. To prevent them from curling while working, place them with the “rolled” edges down. And press in the corners with additional weight.

First of all, mark the contours with a simple pencil. Place treats over the entire surface of the paper. Using light movements, complete the necessary inscriptions. At the same time, the treats can still be moved. At the end, circle them and remove the excess from the poster.
Make the necessary inscriptions, decorate the background and glue magazine clippings if you need them. This is much more convenient when you don’t have anything at hand yet.
Glue the sweets themselves and other voluminous design details. Before gluing, use an eraser to erase the outline you outlined at the very beginning. Do not erase all the markings at once. So you can get confused. Remove excess exactly in the place where you plan to glue something.

Depending on the weight of the treat, select the method of attachment. Lightweight parts will also withstand office glue. It is better to glue very heavy ones with sanitary silicone sealant. It's transparent and will hold up even to a box of chocolates.

Manufacturing technique

First, prepare sheets of corrugated paper measuring eight by twelve centimeters. The folded sheets are rounded at the ends.

The candy is secured to the end of the skewer with tape and wrapped around a pre-prepared “petal”.
A thread is used to hold the resulting composition together.
The petal is stretched and shaped in such a way that the end result is a rose.
We do the same with all the candies.
To make the flowers look more realistic, you can't do without creating leaves from green paper.
The cut out rectangles should be approximately ten by one centimeters in size.
Don't forget to round the ends.
The resulting leaves are glued to the base of the flowers, and should be located in the bouquet just above the buds.
The skewers, to match the flower stem, are wrapped in green paper and the ends are glued together.
Now collect a bouquet of the resulting flowers and wrap it in corrugated paper.
Fasten the product by tying it with thread.
Also think about design using ribbons and organza, beads.

Here is the new bouquet! If desired, place it in the basket.

An original, beautiful birthday poster for mother and grandmother from her daughter: ideas, photos

A poster of photographs is one of the effective ways to surprise and congratulate your mother. No extra words are required: everything will be said with the help of photographs.

To make a photo collage you will need:

best family photos
mother's or grandmother's (if you decide to make a photo collage as a gift for your grandmother) the most successful portrait

Stages of creating a photo collage:

We place a portrait of the hero of the occasion in the center. We glue the rest of the photos in a circle.
You can draw the outlines of a bird, a heart, or a cat's paw on a piece of whatman paper. Cut and paste photographs inside the resulting shape. Photos can simply be pasted onto a piece of Whatman paper in the shape of a heart or birthday cake.
Attach a garland along the contour of the photo collage. This way you will make an ordinary day truly festive.
You can use several people to create a photo collage. Ask people close to the birthday girl to take a photo with the sheets on which congratulations are written.
By collecting one whole from many pictures, you will make a collage filled with sincere emotions and warm words, which the birthday girl will admire even after her holiday.

Photo collage for mom

Photo collage in the shape of a heart

How to make a mosaic poster?

To give an original gift to the birthday girl, you can make a quest game out of an ordinary poster.

To make a mosaic poster:

We are figuring out where we will hide the gift.
On the poster we depict the place where the gift will be located.
We cut the poster into several parts. These will be puzzle pieces that need to be put together.
We write on each of the cut pieces vague clues about the location of the poster presentation. We hide them in the house.
The birthday girl needs to collect a whole poster and find out where to look for the gift.

How to make a “flying” poster

How to make a “flying poster”?

You can surprise your mother or grandmother by giving a flying poster that will fly around the room on large bright balloons.
For such a gift you will need 15-20 gel balloons, but you need to take them with a reserve. Some may burst or deflate.
You can make another version of the greeting poster: hang letters attached to each other from balloons. You can write a congratulation for the birthday girl in letters.

Original machine

This gift will make any boy happy.

Take candies (they should all be in wrappers) - rectangular (the body of the car will be made from them), a couple of round ones to make the headlights, some foam plastic, glue and cardboard.
The corrugated paper should be a shade that the child will like.
Make a body out of foam plastic or cardboard (cut and glue) and cover it with corrugated paper.
Each wheel of the machine is a circle made of thick cardboard, also covered with paper.
After you have glued the wheels to the future sweet car, it’s time to attach the candies to the body, placing them parallel to each other and glue the headlights - two candies in wrappers.
A sweet gift is a win-win option, suitable for both a child and an adult.

And such a thing will pleasantly surprise anyone; candy is exactly what everyone wants to see on holiday. Moreover, this way you can create a full-fledged gift that will look gorgeous.

Ideas for inscriptions for sweet gifts

“Twix” is a “sweet couple” or a wish to find your other half.
“Snickers” - don’t slow down in life.
“Mars” - “everything will be in chocolate” or a wish to visit this planet.
“Bounty” - so that life is a heavenly pleasure. If the poster is made for the other half, then you can write it differently: “Next to you I experience heavenly pleasure.”
Kinder egg - let life be filled with pleasant surprises. This inscription will fit perfectly into posters with chocolates and inscriptions to a friend or friend. If the recipient is your other half, then with the help of Kinder you can hint at the imminent appearance of children.
Sweets with cognac - “let happiness intoxicate.”
Chocolates in the form of money - “let life be prosperous.”
Skittles are happiness pills (antidepressants).

Lettering for posters with sweets

For those preparing an original congratulation, a poster with different chocolates is a good way to show their creativity. Those who create a gift, first of all, look for original jokes and wishes. The poster also contains classic poems and slogans, each word of which is designed using a separate color. An example of several such “sweet” wishes:

Snickers bar – “Snickersny – don’t slow down and don’t stop, be positive!”
Bounty bar - “Let your life be like in heaven.”
May such a surprise await you as in Kinder.
May your thoughts be as fresh as Orbit.
Let every morning be invigorating - a bag of coffee.
I’m ready to fly with you even to Mars - Mars chocolate bar.
If you have children, then buy a “Kinder Surprise” and sign: “Thank you for ...” and attach as many Kinder surprises as you have children.
Juice “Kind” or “Favorite” – “You are the most for me... (and attach the juice)”
Skittles lollipops - “May your life be as bright!”
Bar “Milky Way” – “You are as tender as...”
“The time has come...” - Tick-tock lollipops
Twix bar – “You and I are as inseparable as two sticks...”
M&M's - “We have more fun together anywhere”

Regardless of whether a wide-format card is being prepared for the anniversary of dad, a beloved boyfriend, or another person, a fresh trend will always help make it original. The same situation applies to the option for a girl or woman, in which wishes in verse are often used.

How to make a birthday poster with your own hands?

It has already become a pleasant tradition to include a postcard with a gift. Sometimes you want to show originality - to give a paper greeting an unusual and memorable look. Therefore, any non-standard ideas that will create a cheerful mood and will be remembered by the guests and the birthday boy for a long time are welcome. A great option is a DIY birthday poster. Everyone will like such a congratulation, and both relatives, friends and guests of the birthday person can take part in its creation.

Sweet card

This is a version of a poster with sweets, but in a smaller format. If you don’t have the opportunity to hang a greeting on the wall, then a postcard will help out.

Take a sheet of cardboard or thick gift paper and fold it into a card shape. Write or paste your wishes inside, and stick sweets or chocolate on the outside.

Candies or chocolate pieces can be placed in clear bags or wrapping paper in the form of gifts and decorated with them on a card.

You can use a hole punch to make a hole in the card (it’s better to take a figured hole punch) and tie one or more beautiful candies to the twine. Even a bouquet of Chupa Chups, secured with wire or tape, will make your congratulations memorable.

You can use a binder or document cover as the basis for a sweet greeting card.

Your gift is ready. All that remains is to discreetly hang it on the wall or solemnly present it at the moment of congratulations.

Where to start creating a poster with chocolates and inscriptions with your own hands

First, decide what the person for whom you are creating a gift likes: what kind of sweets he likes, what kind of character and sense of humor he has, choose the main theme of the congratulations. And then choose the form:

traditionally a rectangular or square sheet of Whatman paper (cardboard);
carved in the shape of a heart, a flower with petals, a cloud, a fruit, etc.;
unusual: in a stationery folder or folded in half like a postcard.

Afterwards, buy all the sweets and start decorating.

Step-by-step description of the creative process

1) Take a sheet of Whatman paper and cut out the shape of a postcard (or leave it rectangular).

2) Decorate the background: draw a frame, decorate with paints.

3) Draw a rough diagram of the location of sweets and inscriptions with a simple pencil.

4) Write congratulations with colored pens, circle with felt-tip pens.

5) Glue or draw pictures, stickers, photos (if so intended).

6) Attach sweets, main gifts (if provided), and other decorations (petals, feathers, sequins, etc.).

7) Sprinkle glitter on top and secure with hairspray.

If the postcard is folded or made in a stationery folder, then it is necessary to additionally design the outer cover - decorate it or paste it with colored cardboard, pictures cut out from postcards with flowers and gifts.

9) At the end, do not forget to write the main congratulations, addressing the hero of the occasion.

Animals “Hugs” with candy

Today I will introduce you to an amazing master class. These are “Hug” animals with candy in their paws. Detailed description with step-by-step recommendations and cool photos. This is what awaits you. You will get fun crafts for kids from 3 to 6-7 years old.

Materials and tools

What you will need for work:

printed templates;
double-sided colored cardboard or colored cardboard and colored paper;
(optional) beautiful paper for scrapbooking (it’s quite possible to do without it);
wrapped sweets;
pencil;
scissors;
glue (PVA or glue stick).

Let me explain something right away. The finished animals will have to have their faces made. This can be done in several ways:

Use a hole punch to pierce the places in the blanks where the eyes will be. The holes will turn out very cute.
Using gouache on a thin brush, draw the eyes, mouth, and nose.
Use a regular or colored pen to draw the details of the faces.
Cut out small details from colored paper for the animals' faces. Stick on the faces in the form of an applique.

Choose the way you want to decorate the animals. The master class will have an option with paints and a brush.

Master Class

Steps for making candy huggable animals:

First of all, cut out the blanks from the templates. Attach to cardboard. Circle. Cut it out. Make as many blanks as you like.

My colored cardboard is not double-sided. Therefore, I glue colored paper and pieces of scrapbooking paper to the back side. I also use a floral mesh for bouquets for this.

The master class presents preparations for a gnome, an owl, a chicken, a lamb, and a bear. Additional cutouts include a bow and egg for the chicken, a scarf for the bear, and a suit and beard for the gnome.

When the PVA dries well, I draw the details of the faces. As stated earlier, you will be able to do this in several ways. In this version, a semi-dry brush with white and red gouache is used. How to make these faces is up to you. The easiest option is to draw faces from templates. I did so.

The muzzle for the lamb is drawn with a bright black pen.

Pay attention to the candies. These are the ones taken here. You take whichever ones you want. I turned the candies over because I don’t advertise logos. Although it’s clear what brand the sweets are in the photo