Christmas gift bags for kids

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

To make original gift wrapping, it is enough to make it yourself. A thing made with soul always pleases. You can come up with something of your own, and if there are no ideas, then there is an opportunity to take the advice of knowledgeable people.

There are many ways to make New Year's bags, especially since surprising a child is not so difficult. It is important that the soul is invested in the craft. Some of the techniques will be discussed in this article.

What is it for

The original packaging bag will perfectly decorate even the simplest gift. And if at the same time it is done with your own hands, then such a step will undoubtedly be appreciated. Moreover, it is not always possible to find what you want or as it seems.

And the craft gives you the opportunity to dream up with color, style, pattern and finish. And most of all, it will be pleasant to surprise the one to whom the gift is intended. After all, there is nothing more pleasant than seeing the eyes of a child glowing with happiness.

What are gift bags

Traditionally, it is believed that a New Year's gift should bepacked, it adds mystery and intrigue. New Year's gift bags are also interesting because they are brought by the long-awaited Santa Claus! So it's not for nothing that they are considered an obligatory attribute of the New Year holiday.

You can make such a package in different ways: sewn from various materials, knitted or glued, formed from a single piece of fabric. Then the bag can be decorated with braid or ribbon, decorative snowflakes, make an original tie.

It's quite easy if you want to make an amazing, unique, exclusive thing.

The following ideas might come in handy for fancy packaging:

• packaging can be made in the form of a ball, car or rocket - depending on the hobbies of the child;
• as an original wrapper, a mitten, felt boots or a regular balloon will do;
• you can install a homemade Christmas tree or a winter bouquet of fir branches, cones and Christmas toys on the gift box;
• A bell will be a great decoration for New Year's packaging.

Material for making

The best material for making New Year's bags for children is high-quality cotton fabric. Patchwork fabric is perfect for this. It comes in a wide variety of colors and patterns, so the packaging can be easily customized for all family members. These can be variations of a plain fabric combined with a patterned one.

Also, to make packaging morefestive, you can take velvet, satin or organza. And to give the package a country style, embroidery canvas or burlap is well suited.

Nylon, rep or satin ribbons (white, blue or both colors in combination), lace or fabric braid, twine or decorative cords can be used as ties for New Year's bags.

Curly Die Technique

Using this technique allows you to make a very original decoration on gift bags. To perform such a finish, you need to master the techniques of stamping or hot embossing and prepare glue and a special stamp for work.

The technique involves printing the pattern with glue using a stamp, and then the resulting layout is sprinkled with special powder. After the resulting blank must be heated or treated with hot air using a hair dryer, while the powder layer will become convex.

By analogy with this technique, the work of decorating the package can be simplified: a cut-out cardboard figure smeared with glue will act as a stamp. Beads, beads are poured onto this form, snowflakes and letters are attached.

It will also look good to pack from ordinary wrapping paper, on which, using the stamping technique, with the back end of the pencil, where the elastic is fixed, a semblance of falling snow will be applied with white paint - balls of different sizes.

Decoration with stickers and buttons

Story thermal stickers are great for decorating New Year's gift bags. They canbuy in almost any supermarket or children's toy stores. Themes on the stickers are diverse: from cartoon characters of the New Year theme to Christmas trees and snowflakes.

Heal-on stickers are very easy to transfer to a fabric base - by heating with a hot iron. They are attached quite firmly, you can not be afraid for them when washing.

Also, buttons are another way to decorate. In every house there will surely be deposits of multi-colored buttons of various shapes. There may be one or two of them and, most likely, they will no longer be useful. But for decorating a gift bag, if you have imagination, they are well suited.

Idea: flat buttons are sewn to imitate a Christmas tree, and bulging ones can serve as an analogue of Christmas tree decorations.

Embroidery decoration

Embroidery can serve as another way to make holiday packaging. It can be machine-made in various techniques or hand-made with floss threads. A special decoration will be diamond embroidery, shiny beads, sequins or sparkling beads. New Year's bags with embroidery can be made in three ways:

• embroider the desired pattern on cotton canvas using a hoop, and then sew the bag;
• ready-made embroidery is sewn onto the basis of dense fabric, and then the bag is sewn;
• connect layers of fabric, interlining and water-soluble canvas, apply a pattern and embroider - when washed, the canvas dissolves and the pattern remains directly on the fabric.

The last technique does not require anyor special skills other than the ability to embroider.

Gift Furoshiki

For those who do not want to use either thread or needle, the Japanese furoshiki or furoshiki technique is perfect. To make New Year's bags in this way, you only need a piece of beautiful fabric and knowledge of several ways to fold it. This method partially uses origami techniques. The relative complexity of this approach to the formation of packaging from fabric is explained by the special attitude of the Japanese to holidays and gifts - for them, both celebration and preparation are a ritual.

Furoshiki is a special wrapping technique for bath kimono that comes from ancient times. With it, you can make bags for large New Year's gifts - the fabric is folded, tied, turned over, taking the desired shape.

The method allows you to make both a women's handbag and a carrier for vegetables. For light work, well-fitting fabrics are used: cotton, silk, linen, wool and blended. In any case, for the manufacture of gift wrapping, a square piece of fabric with a side of forty centimeters in length is used.

Step-by-step manufacturing technology

To make a traditional Christmas bag, you will need:

• two types of fabric - base and trim;
• two bright large beads;
• decorative cord;
• needle, thread, pins, ruler and scissors;
• sewing machine.

As the main fabric, a plain canvas will look best(unbleached natural linen), and the decoration will be printed multi-colored. A New Year's bag for sweets in the shape of a candy will look very original in this technique.

Working order:

1. Cut out two rectangular pieces of fabric.
2. On a sewing machine, sew three sides, leaving the short side open, making allowances of about two centimeters.
3. Sew all edges with a special zigzag stitch.
4. Bend the edge three centimeters wide from above, bend one centimeter inward and sew with a regular stitch, forming a place for the lace.
5. Using a pin, thread a decorative cord or braid along the edge.
6. If you plan to put a voluminous gift into the package, then you need to stitch the corners from the inside perpendicular to the side seams. This will form the bottom of the bag.

And at the end of the work on the New Year's bag, you should decorate it outside in any convenient way.

This is how, without making great efforts and without spending fabulous money, you can make beautiful and original gift wrapping for the New Year holiday with your own hands, which will surely please and remain in the memory of children.