New Year's fairy tale with their own hands, or How to make bows on the Christmas tree

How nice to decorate a Christmas tree yourself, and even decorations made by yourself. For example, gentle and such festive bows. These cute decorations will be an excellent decor for both a big fluffy tree, and for a small forest beauty. We offer you several master classes, having mastered which you can easily decorate the Christmas tree with this fabulous bow for this New Year.

Bows on the Christmas tree from the ribbon - step by step instruction

One of the most popular variants of Christmas decorations is a bow on the Christmas tree from the ribbon. It can be made by hand from virtually any fabric in any color and size. Particularly festive look red ribbons from the ribbons, which you can do, guided by the instructions below.

Necessary materials:

• wide red ribbon
• cardboard
• decorative thin ribbon
• pencil
• scissors
• ruler
• clamps or clothespins
• thread and needle

Main stages:

1. To begin with, we make a template from a thick cardboard, it's best to take a colored cardboard. Measure horizontally 6 cm and cut with scissors. The vertical side can not be touched.

2. In the middle we make an opening, the width of which will be 1 cm.

3. Cut out the length of the selected tape from the length of 25 cm. Apply it in the middle. Then wrap the tape with the tape crosswise. We fasten with clasps, hairpins or clothespins.

4. Thread a suitable color stitch the middle of the future bow.

5. We remove the workpiece and tighten the thread, wrap it several times and fix it.

6. We make a nice little bow. To do this, fold the ribbon in half and cut off the corner with scissors. You can process the ends with a candle or a lighter.

Important! Be careful with the burning ends if you use a satin ribbon to create a bow. One wrong move and its appearance will be forever ruined!

7. Now decorate the middle. To do this, take the decorative ribbon twice as thin as the one we used earlier. Cut out a small piece and wrap the ribbon around it, and then fix it on the back with a thread.

Bows on the Christmas tree with your own hands of colored paper - step by step instruction

If at hand you did not have a beautiful ribbon, then you can make a bow on the tree and from ordinary colored paper or half-cardboard. In addition, such a decorative product can not only decorate the forest beauty, but also New Year's gifts and postcards.

Necessary materials:

• colored paper or semi-cardboard of any shade
• ruler
• scissors
• clerical glue
• black marker

Main stages:

1. A bow of colored paper will be made of three elements, which will be glued together. For the first element, color paper of 17 cm by 4.5 cm is required.

2. Fold the segment in half. Pencil draw the silhouette of the future bow and cut out with scissors along the contour.

3. We unfold the paper blank and begin to glue together. Glue fix the first half to the center, and then - the other. This is the first element of the bow.

4. We pass to the second element, which will be made from a paper segment of 12 cm by 5 cm.

5. Draw on it ends of a bow. For convenience, you can bend the segment horizontally in half.

6. Cut out the second part of the bow with scissors along the outline of the template.

7. To connect these two parts, we need one more piece of paper - this is a small strip, the width of which will be 1 cm.

8. We connect all the parts together with glue. In principle, a bow of colored paper on the Christmas tree is ready, but it can be further decorated. For example, glue white half-beads and paint with a silver gel pen.

How to make bows on a Christmas tree with your own hands from candy wrappers - step by step instruction

If you want to make a bow on the Christmas tree quickly and as cheaply as possible, then you can use a regular candy wrapper. Thanks to its bright colors, you can create a truly original Christmas decoration.

Necessary materials:

• two candy wrappers from sweets of different shades
• stapler with staples
• scissors
• golden thin ribbon

Main stages:

1. We select for the crafts beautiful colors of candy wrappers. It is better to choose them of different sizes. We take envelopes and make them harmonics.

2. We put the small accordion in the big one and fasten it with a stapler.

3. Straighten all sides, including a small accordion.

4. We decorate the middle of the bow with a golden ribbon. Cut off a small piece from the tape. We wrap it around the middle of the bow. At the back we fix the edges of the tape with a stapler. You can also attach a thread in order to be more convenient to hang this ornament on the tree.

On a note! Instead of decorative tape, you can use any satin ribbon. In extreme cases, the center of the bow can always be tied with a thin strip cut from a wrapper.