New Year's candlestick with your own hands. Step by step instructions with photo

Looking forward to the holidays, we will tell you how to make candlesticks with your own hands on New Year.

You do not have to be a professional designer to decorate an apartment in an original way for the New Year. Each of us has old plush toys, photographs, candles and other things that are easy to make holiday decor.

Christmas decoration is a fun activity that you and your children will love. Such work will cheer you up and prepare the whole family for the winter holidays. We will tell you how to prepare the house for the New Year and Christmas with homemade candlesticks.

How to make candlesticks

Decided to decorate your house for your favorite holiday? simple and effective method- play with light. Live flickering candle will create a mysterious atmosphere and give good mood. In the flame of a candle, all problems and worries gradually disappear, and even a small mess is not so noticeable.

To create a mysterious atmosphere, prepare a lot of candles. They are also easy to make yourself. Consider the lighting in the room where you are going to meet the next year.

First, let's check the old stock. Is it possible to do something with them? Enhance the look of old candle holders with snowflake napkins, drapery in elegant embroidered fabric, or fine glossy paper. You can wrap them with ribbons, lace or shiny tinsel, paste over with rhinestones.

Nice to watch floating candles. You should have an old transparent vase or a crystal salad bowl that has long gone out of fashion. You can decorate the edges with toys or small pine cones.

Now pour water into the salad bowl and lower the candles into it. Add small spruce branches, rowan and petals to the water to make your creative composition the main decoration of the festive table. Candlesticks can be made from unnecessary things that are uselessly stored on our shelves. They are even edible. Don't believe? Then move on to the next sections of the article.

Fragrant from fruits

In search of improvised materials for our device, we go to the kitchen. We will try to make original candlesticks from fruits. Prepare them right before the celebration. Fruit candlesticks will give a beautiful unusual radiance and delicate aroma.

Take bright apples, grapefruits or oranges. Fruits should be bright, pronounced round shape. Cut them in half and carefully remove all the pulp with a spoon.

Draw a simple pattern with a marker or pen, cut out all the excess along the contours using nail scissors. There should be a lot of "holes" to provide an outlet for light.

Place a candle in the center of each half. You can make a closed version by covering it on top with the second part.

Decorate fruits with small sprigs of fir, buds, rhinestones. Use toothpicks to attach rowan berries and tiny toys.

From waste jars

For these purposes, we use any jar - from the smallest (for baby food) to a liter. The originality of future candlesticks will be emphasized by the unusual shape of the jar.

The most elementary way to use a jar is to simply turn it over, throwing a piece of elegant fabric on top and placing a small candle on the bottom.

Consider creative candlesticks made from jars that will become a work of art. Let's try to decorate cans with the kids. Let's take:

• colored markers;
• gouache;
• nail polish of different shades;
• PVA glue;
• brushes.

If you are decorating jars with markers or nail polish, no preparation is required. Take and draw different Christmas stories on them - snowflakes, Christmas trees, garlands, snowmen or just intricate abstract patterns.

If you are going to decorate jars with gouache, prepare them for painting. Cover the container with glue and let it dry, then the paint will “stick” to the glass better. Draw the outlines and color the shapes with bright hues.

Entrust painting to your child and do not try to correct his work. The result will definitely exceed your expectations! After the gouache has dried, cover it with a transparent varnish. If not, use hairspray. It is applied so that the paint does not peel off and does not contaminate the hands.

Another interesting painting technique is stained glass paint. It is designed for drawing on smooth surfaces. This is good idea and for Christmas decorations.

Pre-draw the pattern with a marker on the bank. Then circle the outline with black paint, then leave it to dry for half an hour. Fill the space with any bright colors and leave to dry again (dry for several hours).

We insert the candle into our jar - the pattern begins to flicker with colored lights. A liter container with a wide mouth can be half filled with water. The candle will float, and the light from the jar will shimmer and fill the room with warmth.

Do you want to celebrate the New Year outside the city? Arrange your glowing decorations along the paths, on windowsills and trees. Bright colored lights will create a wonderful mood.

How to make a candle house

You could see small "houses" for candles on store shelves, but they are completely devoid of originality. Let's learn how to make such decorations with a simple master class. To do this, prepare:

• empty square packaging from milk or kefir;
• glue;
• gouache;

cook salty dough: mix a glass of flour and salt, pour in a tablespoon of any vegetable oil and enough water to knead the dough. The final consistency should be like clay. To make colored dough, add paint to the mixture.

Now let's start building the house. Wash the paper container thoroughly to remove milk drink residue, dry it and cut off the bottom. Cut out a few windows and leave a hole for the pipe.

Next, we lubricate the outer wall of the house with glue and begin to roll small sausages from the dough. Here you can involve your child - he will cope with the task. We do this with all the walls, not forgetting to leave the openings for the windows uncovered.

Now roll out a rectangle to make a roof. We glue it to the walls. Next is the case behind the door and shutters. Near the house you can install any figurine - Snow Maiden or Santa Claus. For large items we use glue, small ones are slightly moistened with water.

The resulting composition is dried in the oven at a very low temperature. When the work has dried, it can be decorated with any paints. Top coat the house with varnish. Put a small candle inside it, and it will glow with a soft light, and real smoke will quietly come out of the pipe!

This is not a mandatory set, you can improvise and use whatever you find in your Christmas decoration box.

• We make a stand for a candle using a metal lid or a narrow glass. In the first version, we glue the button on the lid to fix the candle. The glass itself will cope with the task, supporting it with its walls.
• Now we make out a stand for the whole composition. For it, you can use a piece old board or plywood. We smear it with glue on all sides and apply foil.

• To make the cones beautiful and elegant, cover them with an aerosol and let dry. We prepare twigs, Christmas toys and other available decorative elements.

• In the middle of our board with foil we set a stand for a candle. We lay out cones, twigs, toys around. When the resulting composition takes on an attractive appearance, we begin to glue the objects.

• It remains only to put the decoration on a shelf or table, light a candle!

From glasses

Everyone has a couple of unnecessary glasses, outdated or scrapped for other reasons. It is easy for them to find a new use - they can serve as candlesticks for our New Year's table.

Method number 1

You need to take a glass, a candle, glue, scissors, paper, small branches of spruce, fir or arborvitae.

• Trim the branches to just the right size to fit in the glass and not obscure the candle.
• Lay out the branches on paper and coat them with glue.

• Glue them around the outer walls of the glass in a circle. Do this quickly so that the glue does not have time to dry.
• Place a candle of the desired size in the glass.

Do everything step by step - the craft is ready

Method number 2

Let's consider another original version. Just turn it upside down and place a small candle on the base. Place beautiful twigs, flowers, beads or Christmas balls inside the vessel.

• Trace the outline of the container on the cardboard and cut out the cap.

• The inside of the glass must be degreased by rubbing to a shine.

Do you want to decorate your house for the holiday or just create an atmosphere of comfort in it? Then just decorate dinner table, shelves and consoles with candles. And to save on buying a lot of candlesticks, we recommend making them yourself. In this material, you will learn 7 ideas for making candlesticks from easily accessible, improvised and even waste materials in just one evening.

Idea 1. Candlestick made of wooden cuts

A saw cut of a tree is an almost ready-made candlestick, beautiful, environmentally friendly and versatile. It will be appropriate in or interior design all year round, including New Year's Eve.

How to do it: You can make your own saw cuts, but it's faster and easier to buy ready-made saw cuts, which are sold in many online stores and craft stores. "Ready" saw cuts are good because they do not have splits and cracks, they are properly dried and can already be sanded. You can pick up saw cuts different diameter, height, different varieties wood and make a whole set of candlesticks. You can make a cell for a candle in a saw cut using a drill with a forstner drill (about 150 rubles) or another drill that can make a blind round hole of the diameter you need (for example, it can be a “ballerina”, a wood crown, a spiral or drill bit, etc.).

Idea 2. Wooden block candlestick

And here is another idea for making a candlestick out of wood with your own hands, however, this time from a bar. However, you can replace the bar with a dried log or a board of a suitable size.

How to make it: To make a large wooden candlestick with your own hands, you will need:

• Dry planed or unplaned wooden block(preferably wider so that the candlestick is stable). In this master class, a 100 × 100 mm bar was used.
• A drill and a Forstner drill of a suitable diameter (for your candles) or any other drill that can cut a blind round hole of a small depth of 0.5-1 cm or more. A drill with a diameter of 50 mm was used here.
• Square.
• Roulette.
• Pencil.
• A hammer.
• Stain of the desired color, rags or brush.
• Rubber gloves.

Step 1. First of all, you need to cut a piece of the desired length from the bar with a saw or jigsaw. In this project, the candlestick was made to decorate big table, so it has a length of 90 cm. Consider how many candles your candlestick will hold, and how much spacing there will be between them. Then mark the cut line, cut the bar and lightly sand its end sandpaper.

Step 2. Next, you need to draw markings on the bar for placing candles. To do this, first determine the length of the indents from the edges of the candlestick (in this MK there are indents of 7 cm), then simply place the candles on the bar with equal intervals, circle them and mark the center of each circle with a dot.

Step 3. Using a drill and a Forstner drill, cut blind round holes of small depth. Do not worry if the edges of the cells turn out to be rough, for our rustic candlestick this is only a plus.

Step 4. Give the tree an aged and sloppy look by tapping the ends of the candlestick with a hammer. You can make dents in just a few places or in all visible parties bar.

Step 5. Now you need to give the tree color, while maintaining the visibility of its pattern and beautiful texture. To do this, simply rub the stain with a soft cloth into the surface of the product in one layer, and then let it dry.

Here's what you should get.

Idea 3. Candlestick from a bottle

Glass bottles make not only elegant or vintage candlesticks, but also caps. Here are some ideas that you might like and that are very easy to implement.

Such candlesticks, made by hand from cut bottles, can be beautifully packaged and presented to loved ones.

How to do it: There is nothing easier than making a candlestick from a bottle with your own hands as in the photo above, because for this you just need to cut it and fill it with wax with a wick, or just put a small candle. crop glass bottle possible in two ways.

• Method 1: Soak a thick cotton thread in alcohol (eg nail polish remover), then wrap it around the bottle. Light the thread with care and immediately begin to rotate the bottle around its axis so that the fire spreads along the entire length of the thread. Now immerse the bottle in boiling water for 3 minutes, and then immediately transfer it to a container with cold water. Due to a sharp temperature drop, the glass will crack where the burning thread was tied. True, if the glass is too thick, for example, like a bottle of champagne, then the procedure will have to be repeated 2-3 times.
• Method 2: If you have a glass cutter or glass drill, then you can use them. Wrap the bottle with a hair tie, and then draw a line along its contour with a glass cutter. Burn the cut line, immerse the bottle in boiling water for 3 minutes, and then quickly transfer it to cold water.

When the bottle breaks, sand the sharp edge first with coarse sandpaper and then with fine grit.

Now that the candlestick is almost ready, you can insert the wick into it, fix it in a vertical position (eg, with Chinese sticks as shown in the photo) and finally fill it with pre-melted paraffin.

Idea 4. Candlestick from a glass or tin can

Banks are another improvised material from which you can quickly and easily make a candlestick. In this collection of photos you can get ideas for decorating Christmas candlesticks.

In this video you can see a master class on how to make a New Year's candlestick with your own hands from a glass jar.

And here is an example of candlesticks that you can make with your own hands from a tin can.

You can see a detailed master class on making a candlestick from a tin can in the next video.

Idea 5. Gypsum or concrete candlestick

Concrete or gypsum poured into any container, drying, takes the form of a container. Thus, to make a candlestick with your own hands, you only need to find a suitable disposable container, for example, plastic bottle Or a yogurt box.

These cute concrete candlesticks were poured into yoghurt cups.

Concrete candlestick made with a plastic bottle

This candlestick was made of plaster in the shape of a balloon.

Gypsum candlesticks are made using disposable cups

You can learn the principle of working with mounting mixtures from the following master classes.

Idea 6. Candlestick-flashlight made of polymer clay

Polymer clay (plastic) is great for making figured or openwork candlesticks, in which the light from a candle decorates the walls with fancy patterns or plots. If you need to make a themed candlestick, say, for Halloween or New Year, or you just have an original idea, then we advise you to experiment with this material. Next, we present a selection of photo ideas for lanterns and candlesticks from polymer clay.

Let's leave the usual candlesticks, plates and candelabra for another occasion, because the new year is a special holiday. A magical night that brings friends and loved ones together at the same table. You can decorate this very table New Year's decor. For example, candles in beautiful candlesticks. So if you want to buy or even make something special with your own hands, this article is for you!

Candlestick from a jar

The easiest option for the basis for a New Year's candlestick is a bank. We eat jam or canned food from the inside, decorate the jar to your taste. Ropes, threads, lace, beads, buttons, cones, twigs, cinnamon sticks, star anise, decorative figurines. Everything that is in the house of every needlewoman is useful for a New Year's candlestick from a jar.

houses

Little houses are perhaps the cutest of all candlesticks. Light diffuses through the windows, creating an atmosphere of warmth and comfort. When choosing a candlestick-house, pay attention to the holes in it. There should be enough space and air inside so that the candle burns and does not go out. A plywood house should be either high or without a roof. The ceramic house heats up very well, so you can drip a little on its roof essential oil with your favorite scent.

Polymer clay candlestick

Similar houses or such cute cones and pyramids can be made from polymer clay. Sold in departments for creativity and art stores. We sculpt like from plasticine, bake in the oven, paint. Monochromatic products are easier to immediately sculpt from clay of the desired color, since oil paints dry for a long time, and acrylic ones are not suitable for everyone. (Consult sellers)

Flashlights

Traditional candle lanterns on New Year's Eve can be supplemented with a composition of fir branches, red rowan, textile and plastic Christmas decorations. And it can also be painted with acrylic on glass from an art store. Even a child can draw very simple snowflakes and stars. New Year's motifs are more complicated - deer, bells, snowmen, Santa Claus ... Everything is limited only by your imagination.

Knitted decor

Cold winter is the time for hot mulled wine, knitted sweaters and cozy blankets. But what if the candles are alive and can also freeze? You can knit cute little button cases for them and dress up hemp candles to match the season. Looks nice, but flammable. Therefore, watch the candles while they are burning, or put knitted covers on the glasses, and put candles in them already.

Christmas slides

The Christmas hill or "candlestick" is a traditional New Year's decoration in the Scandinavian countries. There it is placed on the windowsill and pleases people with its appearance not only in the house, but also from the side of the street. Most often, the menorah is made of wood or plastic, in white or red. The Christmas slide is good in terms of safety, because the candles here are artificial, and it all works from an outlet.

wreaths

The Lutheran theologian Wiehern took on the upbringing of children from poor families. In order to make it easy for children to count down the time until Christmas, Wiehern, taking an old wheel as a basis, made a wreath that he decorated with 19 red small and 4 large white candles. Every morning, one small red candle was lit in the wreath, and on Sundays a large white one was added to them.
It is easy to make a wreath of cones. They themselves cling to each other, for the strength of the composition, use transparent superglue. You will have to walk through the coniferous forest in search of material, but Fresh air good for health, and a wreath of cones will successfully fit into interiors in scandi and ethno styles.

You can also make a table wreath with candles with your own hands. For this you will need:

thick paper, thin cardboard, or fabric. Rough linen or burlap

glue, optional rope

grass substitute (green netting from a flower shop) or spruce branches. real or artificial

dried flowers, cones, spices, nuts, twigs, flowers, dried fruits, beads and bows. We collect everything with which we want to decorate the wreath, harmoniously place it on the workpiece, glue it. Don't forget to leave room for candles.

New Year's bouquets

The author of these works, florist Ksenia Isaeva, shared the secrets of creating New Year's bouquets.

Compositions of real spruce branches, cones and dried flowers are created on the basis of a vase or pot, inside of which a special piaflor material is placed. Due to its antibacterial properties, plants are less prone to decay. Piaflor or floral sponge retains moisture and keeps bouquets fresh for a long time. While spruce branches are fresh, they can be given desired shape and secure with wire. Toys and other decorative items are attached with glue.

You can try to make New Year's bouquets with your own hands or entrust the work to professionals from flower shops.

Glasses and vases

Table setting and composition holiday menu- an important part of preparing for the holiday of those who celebrate the new year at home. It has been noticed that there are never many tangerines, napkins and glasses for drinks. The latter can also be used as candlesticks. There are three main options:

glue the outside of the glass with plants, paper or foil appliqué

put cones, stones, small toys inside

pour water into a glass with a spruce branch inside and put a floating candle on top

We believe that a cool interior in an apartment is not necessarily about " Fashionable style» and dear designer furniture. What matters is how much time you spend decorating your home. Pleasant little things made with your own hands will fill the house with warmth and comfort. For example, beautiful or cute Christmas candlesticks.

Decoration for the New Year "Candlestick" with your own hands. Master class with step by step photo

Now we take our glass and apply glue along the edge with a gun.
The glue was applied, we turn our glass over onto our blank with artificial snow and press it to glue it. It is not necessary to press hard so as not to crush the glass.

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