How to decorate windows for the New Year
Windows are the mirror of the soul of any home. It is through them that we look at the world, being within the walls of our home. Therefore, window decoration for the New Year 2020 is so important! Read below how to do this. In addition, useful tips, ideas, photos are waiting for you.
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General tips and tricks
Any decorating process inspires and gives extremely positive emotions and inspiration. And when it comes to winter holidays, then the positive effect increases a hundredfold. Without guile, we can say that we enjoy not only the direct celebration, but also the preparation for the holiday.
In order to properly and beautifully decorate windows and windowsill for the New Year, you should pay attention to the following recommendations:
- Close windows when decoratingso that you are not blown out, and the draft does not provoke a cold before the holidays.
- Before you start, clean this place thoroughly, wash the glass... Otherwise, even the most adorable design and decor will look dull.
- To decorate windows for the New Year outside can choose compositions of fir branches, cones, bright ribbons, beads.
- When making decorations for windows for the New Year from paper, handle scissors and sharp devices carefully, supervise childrenif they are involved in the process.
- If you have stained glass windowsthen on New Years it is better to decorate only the windowsillbecause they are colorful and smart anyway.
- Attach decor carefullyso as not to scratch or damage anything.
- To decorate as beautifully and stylishly as possible, use several techniques at once.
- Do not obstruct the glass too much so as not to obstruct the flow of light, because the room should not be too dark.
- Since the New Year 2020 will be held under the auspices of the White Metal Rat, it is advisable to decorate the whole house and windows in characteristic flowers character: white, silver, golden, gray, any color of a metallic shade.
Window decoration ideas
Windows are a great field of activity when decorating your home for the New Year 2020. Firstly, you can use the glass, and secondly, the window sill. To do this, use various accessories, toys, decorative items.
Here's how to decorate windows for the New Year 2020:
- paper products;
- garlands;
- painted;
- vytynankami (cutouts).
You can implement such popular ideas of beautiful and stylish window decoration for the New Year 2020 alone or with family members, friends, children... In the process, you may have new and unexpected ideas, design schemes. Be sure to use them, improvisation in such a creative business is always welcome!
Snowflakes
Snowflakes are familiar to everyone from childhood, so to speak, the classic window decoration with paper (white or colored) for the New Year. This versatile piece of decor will look stylish on almost any surface of the house - from the wall to the refrigerator.
To make crafts you will need:
- Paper (colored or white).
- Scissors.
- Stationery knife.
- Glue.
For ideas and inspiration, you can see photos of options on how to decorate a window with snowflakes for the New Year:
Note! Crafts can be very diverse: flat or three-dimensional, colored or white, large or small.
Garland
Decorating windows with chains of interconnected objects can diversify even the most boring interior. By the New Year around the perimeter hang out most advantageously as usual electric or homemade paper garland.
Or to implement an interesting idea - to make an original garland with your own hands from some other material. For example, you can make from:
- balls;
- Christmas tree decorations;
- paper snowflakes, Santa Clauses, Christmas trees.
The unusual ideas do not end there! You can independently figure out how to decorate the window for the New Year with your own hands in an original way. For example, for such a product, it is suitable to use dried flowers, cones, spruce branches, party socks.
A few tips to listen to when decorating windows with garlands for the New Year:
- Try placing the appliance around the perimeter, making something like an impromptu curtain. It looks really great.
- Choose only reliable and quality products.
- Avoid homemade electrical appliances entirely.
- For elegance, try decorating the entire window, including the windowsill.
- Make sure that the device is securely fixed and does not fall suddenly, damaging other decorative elements.
Photo: options for decorating windows with garlands for the New Year
Original ideas:
Christmas balls
Perhaps, Christmas balls can be used to decorate almost all components of the home, but they are especially suitable for decorating windows.
Here are the options for decorating with balls:
- hang one ball in a chaotic manner;
- connect them into a single structured garland;
- decorate the windowsill, highlighting the overall composition.
You will definitely not have any problems with decorating windows with Christmas balls for the New Year, because there are many different balls in color, shape, design, pattern. Before the holiday, you can buy them in almost any more or less large store, not to mention specialized stores.
Photo of beautiful window decoration with balls for the New Year:
Glass painting
Remember how interesting it is to look at the pattern on glass that forms due to frost? This suggests that the patterns are ideal for decorating windows for the New Year. Most often for this apply toothpaste. If everything is done well, it will turn out very cute and festive.
Photo: decorating windows for the New Year using painting
It will be picturesque to perform drawings for decorating windows for the New Year using brushes and special washable paints for glass... Use your talents, improvise and paint however you like! In addition to decorating windows for the New Year with paints, you can decorate glass prints the hands of all family members.
Photos of drawings:
To make an original window decoration for the New Year using toothpaste, you will need the following things:
- the toothpaste itself;
- water;
- stencil;
- sponge;
- glass paints;
- brush.
It's not a sin to remember the old grandfather's way: dilute a little toothpaste in water, and then use a stencil and a sponge to apply the pattern to the window... Such beauty will hold on for a long time, and it is washed off easily - with an ordinary damp cloth. You can add food paint to the mixture and create colored paintings.
As already written above, to create window decorations for the New Year using toothpaste, templates and stencils are needed. Choose one of your favorites, print it and start designing:
You have the opportunity to choose one image or several at once, or you can create an interesting and complex composition to decorate windows for the New Year 2020. In any case, it is important to apply drawings of Santa Claus, a Christmas tree, a snowman, a Rat, snowflakes with a paste.
Video: how to decorate windows with toothpaste.
Quilling
Quilling - the most beautiful rolling technique of narrow paper strips and creating different compositions (for example, flowers, animals, and even portraits of people). So decorating windows for the New Year 2020 from paper using the quilling technique is a great idea!
Create beautiful snowflakes, Christmas trees and place them on the glass. And even after the celebration, there will remain the opportunity to carefully remove the crafts and place them in another place or leave them stored until the next winter holiday.
Here's what you need:
- paper strips (white, colored);
- scissors;
- wooden stick;
- glue;
- threads.
Having spread these items on the table, do not rush to start. It's not easy! A little preparation is needed: read the instructions again, watch the video, photos.
Instructions for creating quilling paper products with which you can decorate a window for the New Year:
- Twist the strip as tightly as possible on the stick in a spiral. You need a lot of these details.
- Then remove the spiral and make it the diameter you need.
- Then carefully fix the tip of the strip with glue.
- When you have made all the necessary parts of the craft, you can fasten them together.
Video: how to make paper window decorations using the quilling technique.
Symbol of the year
It is difficult to imagine a complete home decoration without the main symbol of the coming year. The symbol itself looks interesting, but together with the festive mood it is able to immerse you in a fairy tale.
You can original and beautifully decorate the window for the New Year with the help of the White Metal Rat as follows:
- painting on glass (toothpaste, paints, for example, gouache);
- toys (Christmas tree, soft, wooden, knitted, etc.);
- animal posters;
- cut out silhouette from paper;
- garland in the form of animal silhouettes.
The easiest option is decorate with toys... Suitable for decorating the windowsill for the New Year. Just place one or more toys, or tie with strings and leave hanging. True, the latter option is more suitable for small wooden or Christmas tree decorations.
If you like to draw, then try drawing symbol poster and glue or stick to the glass. You yourself can choose the poster size, pattern, colors.
Decoration of windows with a White Metal Rat for the New Year you are quite capable of doing gouache, which is applied to the glass. Give preference to metallic colors, white, silver, gold, gray.
FROM garlandby the way, you can do anything. Try to fix it in such a way that the lights form silhouette of the Rat.
Vytynanka
Vytynanka (or vitinanka) - paper cutting is a very interesting kind of decorative art, which is ideal for decorating windows for the New Year. There are many quirky image templates out there that everyone will find their favorite.
To make such paper decor, you need the following things:
- sheets А-4 (white or colored);
- pencil;
- stationery knife;
- cutting mat or stand;
- PVA glue;
- template (templates and stencils are waiting for you below).
You can cut the following vytynanka to decorate windows for the New Year: Christmas ball, Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, Christmas tree, snowflakes, Rat. These images are the most festive, so you are guaranteed a good mood. And you can also make some kind of story decoration.
It will not be superfluous to attract children to make crafts. They will learn a new creative skill and you will have fun and rewarding time!
It is not forbidden to decorate absolutely any window in the house with vytynanki for the New Year, even at work, at school, etc.
The photos show that decorating the windows with tucked-out windows for the New Year really looks great and festive:
Stencils for creating protrusions for decorating windows for the New Year:
To perform such a window decoration for the New Year 2020, you you need to print the template you like (just save the picture above and print). You can also come up with your own idea and draw a stencil according to your own idea. But first you need to practice making sketches.
Video: making vytynanka.
How to decorate a windowsill
Do-it-yourself window decoration for the New Year means decorating not only glass, but also the window sill. Indeed, in terms of decorating a room, it plays an important role.
There are a lot of options for decorating a window sill for the New Year, like the entire window! You can choose simple and light decor or openwork and bright. Here you should be guided by your desires.
For a stylish decoration, use a window sill to place:
1) Various compositions of cardboard, natural materialin (cones, sticks, spruce branches, etc.) and candles... It turns out nice and sincere.
2) Paper compositions... In particular, you can make a winter city or forest with your own hands.
For such a window sill decoration for the New Year, you will need the following templates:
3) Beautiful festive toys (Christmas trees, Santa Claus, Rats).
4) Beautiful compositions... Try even arranging a whole exhibition of New Year's works, that is, place together various crafts that you made with your own hands.
5) Beautiful Christmas trees... You can make them yourself from cardboard, fabric, you can buy toys in the store. Or you can even put a live Christmas tree in a pot!
Photos of a beautiful window sill decoration for the New Year:
A wonderful composition in the style of minimalism: live, green branches, leaves and beads.
Candles framed with cinnamon sticks and nutmeg will harmoniously blend into the overall festive composition.Just be careful not to leave burning candles unattended.
Crafts made from natural materials with bright accents (scarlet ribbon and red years) look great!
Any unusual window decoration for the New Year is not prohibited. Take, for example, sticks, twigs, cones covered with silver, golden paint, sparkles, and arrange them in unusual vases, stands.
Video: how to decorate a windowsill.
Idea for kindergarten, school, workplace
Often not only home dwellings become festive art objects. And that is great! Decorating windows for the New Year in kindergarten, school, at work improves mood and motivates for new achievements. Let's figure out how best to decorate in such establishments.
Workplace
The workplace implies officialdom and the absence of colorful details. This rule applies to almost the entire year. Except December! In the pre-holiday period, it is possible and even necessary to decorate the workplace.
Put a Rat of white, golden, silver shades as a window decoration - it will look out the window and wait for the New Year 2020 with you and your colleagues.
Kindergarten
Children will be delighted with the decoration of the windows in the garden for the New Year. Parents of kindergarteners and the children themselves, together with the teacher, can prepare decorative elements.
For the New Year, to decorate the windows of the kindergarten, you can draw bright and colorful drawings on glass with colored paints - the Snow Maiden, Santa Claus, the White Metal Rat, snowmen, snowflakes, a Christmas tree.
You can cut and stick standard snowflakes. Or you can hang paper flags of white, golden, silver color - they will become a wonderful decoration for windows in the kindergarten for the New Year 2020 (after all, the year of the White Rat!)
School
School is a place where we get the necessary and irreplaceable knowledge for many years. But sometimes you want to step back from formalities and bring brightness to the gray school days. You can decorate school windows for the New Year in almost any office. The main thing is that the initiative is supported by the class teacher, and then the students will be able to diversify the interior in the classroom for the New Year in December with the help of various decorations for the windows.
School windows are always large, so you can allow a variety of original decorations for the New Year - snowflakes, paint drawings.
DIY festive decoration is pure pleasure. Be sure to try to decorate the windows and the whole house with your own hands for the New Year. You can bring to life even the most daring design decisions, the main thing is that they fit into the thematic channel. And remember that original decoration will help enhance the light, festive and kind atmosphere in the room.