DIY Christmas garland of flags

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

Organization of any holiday is accompanied by the preparation of a delicious and satisfying table, the choice of exciting contests and entertainment, as well as the elegant design of the room. The most appropriate and original decoration, located on the cornice, on the wall of a room or a banquet hall, can be a garland of flags. For the New Year, the garland will look good on the Christmas tree. You can make flags with your own hands, and you can involve children in making simple options, for example, from paper.

What you need for work

Flags for the garland can be any shape you like. They are mostly made from colored paper or fabric. Instead of colored sheets, bright magazines, wrapping paper for decorating gifts, foil, a roll of beautiful wallpaper will do. Fabric material can be taken with a pattern and cut out individual coupons. A garland of flags can becombined. To make flags, you will need scissors and a template, preferably made of thick cardboard. With it, you can quickly draw any number of details. You will also need a rope, to which decoration elements are later attached, glue for gluing paper and fabric, a simple pencil and a small ruler. The front side of the flags may be multi-colored, may contain drawings, inscriptions, may have applications or embroidery on the fabric. In any case, you will get the most original and exclusive garland.

DIY flags with kids

The easiest way to make flags, in which even first-graders can take part, is colored blanks with fairy-tale characters. These parts can be bought at New Year's fairs or printed from the Internet. Such a flag looks like a long rectangle with a mirror image located on each half. The part should be folded in half along the short side, hung on a rope and glued together. These actions will be done by the child with pleasure. Mom's main task will be to cut coupons with scissors.

This option can be taken as an example and use colored paper. And since each sheet is plain, instruct your child to stick letters or animals cut out by you from magazines on the flags. Children are very fond of drawing, so you can instruct them to depict snowmen, Santa Clauses and Snow Maidens, as well as various symbols of the New Year, on the flags. Parts can not be glued, but holes can be made using a hole punch andthread a string through them. In addition, they can be not only rectangular with a cutout characteristic of a flag, but also triangular in shape. And, of course, the more elements you prepare, the longer your garland of flags will be.

Fabric decorations for the holiday

The principle of creating a garland from fabric is more complicated than from paper. This requires skills in working on a sewing machine and sewing by hand. To make a garland, you need to take scraps of fabric, braid and a pre-prepared triangular pattern made of solid material. Next, two different pieces of fabric are folded with the right side to each other, and the pattern is outlined from the inside with a pencil. You can not immediately cut the triangles, but sew the two sides on a typewriter. Then cut off the excess, trim the upper corner near the stitching for even straightening and turn the part inside out. In order for you to get a neat and even garland, the fabric flags and the oblique trim must be ironed. Next, wrap all the details with inlay and secure with pins. It remains to stitch the garland on a typewriter. The decoration from the rectangular pattern is identical.

Appliques on flags

A combined garland that uses both paper and fabric looks very unusual and attractive. On the front of the paper flag, you can cut out a New Year's symbol using a stencil, and place a lining made of fabric that harmonizes in color inside. You can use metal molds for baking cookies as a blank.

The same principle can be used to create an inscription, for example: "Happy New Year!" Each flag will contain one letter.

Original ideas

The garland of flags has many ways of execution. The article has already mentioned a hole punch for creating holes, those who sew garlands from fabric are advised to make holes in flags from eyelets. They can be removed, partially replaced or interchanged, so the decoration for each holiday will be updated. If you are good at knitting, then by finding a pattern, you will create a unique decoration for your home. Another original New Year's garland with flags made of linen and embroidered with a cross.

In conclusion, I would like to say that by connecting fantasy to the creation of a New Year's garland of flags, you will get the most unusual, unique and extraordinary decoration of a festive celebration, which can serve as an original gift not only for your Christmas tree, but also for friends and relatives.