All about New Year's deer

If you belong to the happy owners of your own cottage or country house, then you probably thought about decorating your personal plot and building facade for the New Year. Here, the deer figure, complemented by a flickering garland, will be very welcome - it will, without a doubt, help create a magical atmosphere, improve the mood of the owners and attract the attention of guests. However, if you have not yet acquired your yard, then you can always put a small figure under the Christmas tree in your apartment.

New Year and Christmas days belong to those extraordinary magical holidays, which often inspire people to the most daring creative impulses. It was during this period that the maximum number of crafts was created, which long before the onset of solemn minutes brought a sense of fairy tale and magic. One of the most popular options for decorating the home and the land near the house is deer - these noble animals in the West symbolize the advent of Christmas.

Of course, deer cannot be called traditional Russian characters.

However, despite the fact that deer are referred to as “foreign” fairy-tale heroes, even more often and in the festive decoration of Russians these charming little animals are found, the company they are our forest inhabitants - moose.

Of course, such jewelry can be easily found in any store, but they are very expensive, and it can be much more fun to make them yourself together with your young children. Therefore, let's arm ourselves with simple materials at hand and build an elegant figure of such a cute artiodactyl.

Making a deer with your own hands is not difficult at all. In the vast majority of cases, for crafts, you do not need to buy special expensive materials, and the decorative figures at the exit are unusual, beautiful and truly magical. Traditionally, when it comes to New Year's deer, we present large luminous figures that can become a worthy decoration of any yard, park or square.

Small figures with LED garland can always be placed under the tree or put on a festive table. In order to decorate the hall for the celebration of the New Year, you can make amusing and funny deer from felt, plush or other soft fabric.

Especially popular knitted and wickerwork - there can be a lot of options.

To decorate the New Year's table or Christmas tree, miniature deer models are used - they can be created in one of the following techniques.

• Origami - At first glance, making Japanese figures to beginning masters may seem difficult, however, after some practice you can easily make many original New Year crafts that can become a worthy element of a festive decor.

• Deer and moose from cotton wool - in this case, a wire frame is made, after which cotton wool is cut into small strips, lubricated with paste and generously wrapped the wire, as if with a bandage. When the workpiece dries, it can be painted with acrylic and sprinkled with sparkles.

• Looks pretty unusual small deer made from wine corks. All parts of the animal are made of this material, connecting them together with a wire. Eyes and nose are made of beads.

• Young children will surely like the idea of ​​creating Santa's helper figures from paper. In this case, it will be enough to find the picture you like on the Internet, print it on a printer and cut it out, armed with scissors. Such crafts usually form the basis for the creation of garlands; they decorate windows, doors, and also a fireplace.

• Well and, of course, application. This is a familiar way from early childhood to everyone to create crafts. Such pictures can be inserted into a frame and placed on a shelf.

• Miniature figures for decorating the festive table can also be dazzled. from ordinary plasticine.

Large figures of LED animals are traditionally placed on the street near the entrance to the house - They create a Christmas mood with the owners of the house and their guests. If you don’t have your own courtyard, you can place a deer figurine in the hall or living room - usually animals are placed under a Christmas tree or near a fireplace, it all depends on the size of the room.

If the dimensions of the room do not allow you to place a large figure, then you can always decorate it with a funny garland of several crafts. In this case, deer and elk are sewn from felt, made from foamiran or made from cardboard. In addition, Christmas balls from an old light bulb and some other improvised means can be used.

A variety of materials can be used to make New Year's deer. dwell on the most popular.

• Vata. Deer and moose made of cotton wool remind us of New Year's toys made during the Soviet era - most likely they cause nostalgia for many. To manufacture the frame of such a toy, wire is used, and the main raw material is cotton wool - its small pieces are rolled into balls and fixed to the wire using masking tape. To make the toy come out colorful and decorative, several cotton balls can be painted with multi-colored paints.

• Cardboard. This is one of the easiest methods to build a New Year's deer, while spending a minimum of money, since there are boxes in almost every house, and even if they are not, they can always be found in any nearby store. Such a deer is created on the basis of a stencil - the blanks are cut with a knife, they connect the elements with each other and are painted with paints. To make it more colorful, the figures are sprinkled with rhinestones and sparkles or hung with Christmas tree decorations. This method is especially good if you plan to create a whole family of deer. Very bright and stylish toys can be made if pasted elements are pasted with a self-adhesive film.

• Plastic bottles. Another simple method is to build a noble animal that can settle near a Christmas tree on a site near the house. To create this deer, two bottles will be required - they will go to the body and head, as well as branches - from which the craftswomen create horns, a neck and legs. There is a 5-liter capacity on the body, holes are made in it and branches and legs are inserted. To create a head you need a 1.5-liter bottle, holes are also formed in it and a stick is inserted, which will act as a neck. This stick is connected to the body, resulting in the body of a deer. All that remains for you is just to cut the ears out of any other bottle, insert the horns and color your deer. The color scheme in this case depends only on the imagination of the master.

• Wire and gypsum. Such toys are made for indoor use only. In this case, it is very important to correctly make a wire frame, which will include the trunk, head, legs and horns. The prepared figure is glued with two or three layers of adhesive tape, and then wrapped in a plaster bandage.

• Wire and polyethylene. This set of materials allows you to build a shimmering silver deer for street decor. Making such a toy will require very little time. First, the hind legs are formed from the wire, then the abdomen, after it the forelimbs, neck and head. Complete weaving with the formation of vertebrae and tail. The resulting frame is wrapped tightly in polyethylene. Decorating such a figure is not necessary at all, since even without additional decor it looks quite sparkling.

• Styrofoam. To create a New Year’s animal, plates of 5-10 cm thickness are usually chosen. A template with the image of a deer is transferred to it, the figure is carefully cut out with a stationery knife. It is advisable to grind and warm the knife before work - in this case, the cut point will be flat. If the figure comes out not stable enough, then from a plexiglass, PVC, or any other composite material, you can make a small stand, and then fix the deer with hot glue on it. At the end of the work, the craft can be decorated - covered with paint, sprinkled with sparkles or hang small Christmas balls on the horns.

• In a similar pattern, a deer is performed from ceiling tiles. In this case, you need to choose the simplest panels of a neutral color scheme without textures and additional decor.

The most beautiful and stylish New Year's deers are made of wire and New Year's garland.Such figures have become very widespread in America and in Western countries - a rare house there does without a large shining Christmas decoration. In our country, such products are found mainly in parks, squares and city squares, but no one forbids having a personal pet in a personal plot.

To create such an unusual animal you will need:

• strong wire - diameter 6.5-7.5 mm;
• LED strip or garland - preferably one that glows with a silver light;
• adhesive tape / glue gun or any other fixative;
• glitter or lurex.

The technique of creating a deer is very simple, so you can involve even the smallest needlewomen in the work. A step-by-step master class involves several stages of work.

1. First, on a piece of paper you need sketchy deerand then, trying not to deviate much from the drawing, twist it from the wire, you need to prepare 2 such elements.
2. Both parts are fastened together by the same wire. - this must be done in such a way that there is a small distance between the workpieces to obtain the maximum volume. The same material is carefully wrapped around the trunk, legs, and also horns.
3. Through the remaining small openings, a garland is neatly placed inside, it tightly tied around the entire body and legs of the animal, and for fixing use masking tape. It is necessary to fix it, directing it to the body between the paws. Your deer is ready!

The most spectacular thing in the dark is luminous deer.

In the light of day, they do not always look presentable, therefore amid flickering snow cover figures made of plywood will be harmonious. Their silhouette can be anything from the traditional to the cartoon.

Not necessarily the color of the animal should be white or silver, the shade of natural wood also looks stylish and truly festive.

A cute and touching deer can be made from ordinary logs. Just a few additional decor items - and a charming Christmas character will be ready to meet friends at home.

Experienced needlewomen can weave large animals from twigs and twigs of trees. Such animals turn out beautiful and stylish.

If you have the basic skills of sewing and cutting, you can try to build a textile deer, which you can hang on a Christmas tree. All you need to do is just cut it out from a felt pattern and sew it with large stitches. Even the youngest craftswoman will cope with this craft.

Experienced seamstresses often create deer using the Tilda doll technique.. This decor is very funny and creative. This animal, without a doubt, has every chance of becoming a good New Year's gift for friends. And if you do not have time for making crafts at all, then simply wrap your presents in a package with the image of cute deer.

In the next video, you will learn how to make a deer from a sleeve with your own hands quickly and easily.