The closer New Year, the more you want to be transported to some magical city, where the streets and squares are decorated with garlands, candles flicker in the windows of small houses, and from somewhere under the spiers of churches a festive bell rings... But even if you stay for the holidays in center of a huge metropolis, you can always open a portal to a fairy tale in your own home. Today we will tell you how.

You will need:

• cardboard, foam board or thick paper;
• tracing paper;
• pencil;
• ruler;
• scissors;
• breadboard knife;
• mounting mat;
• glue stick;
• LED tea light candles.

Step 1. Come up with a street

Before you carve out a winter town, you should prepare. Look for examples on Pinterest, look through travel guides to your favorite countries, get creative...

At first I wanted to combine several real and recognizable favorite buildings from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Oslo, and Berlin in my town, but it turned out to be not so easy. To turn a real house into a paper one, you need to greatly simplify it, and apply the same degree of simplification to all the houses in the composition: if one house is for children and the other is realistic, the composition will fall apart. If everyone is realistic, you will be cutting out this beauty before next New Year. So, I decided to just see what others were doing, borrow some elements (roofs, windows, doors) and create my own city, mixing elements like Lego pieces.

Step 2. Draw the houses

I chose the most ordinary Whatman paper as the “building material” for the house. You could use foam board (for the city “for centuries”) or cardboard, but I liked that the paper transmits a little light, it’s easier to work with a cutter, and if something goes wrong, you don’t mind throwing away the bad option and redoing everything.

It turned out that the easiest way to draw was this: first you sketch out the image by hand, then use a ruler to draw out the contours and details of each house. If uneven lines don’t bother you, you can draw by hand, but if you want geometric clarity, you can’t do without a good square: you’ll still have time to make mistakes when you start cutting.

Two important notes. Firstly, leave a couple of centimeters at the bottom and sides, they will be useful to install the town. Secondly, so that you don’t have to erase the lines of the drawing later, take a thin light pencil and draw the city in a mirror image. When you put it on the windowsill, all the dirt will remain on the back side.

Step 3. Cut out the city

Take a breadboard knife with a thin and sharp blade, put on some calm music and start cutting. While you should leave the outline for later (especially if there are chimneys and spiers on the roofs), start with the windows and doors. Advice for the most meticulous: you can cut along a ruler, sequentially cutting first all vertical, then all horizontal lines.

Try not to cut off too much, but where possible, make the line a fraction of a millimeter longer. This way there will be no uncut spots in the corners.

Step 4. “Insert glass”

When the city is ready, cut out a piece from tracing paper that matches its outline. Translucent paper will cover the slits at the back, creating the effect of luminous windows curtained with thin curtains. I simply laid the tracing paper on the paper and traced the outline with a cutter, ignoring small details like the pins.

Step 5. Make stiffeners

Remember those empty fields that we left when we painted the city? It's time to return to them. On the same side from which the city was drawn, walk along the lines of future folds with something hard and relatively sharp. Make a cut as shown in the photo and glue the edges together, creating something like a box.

Step 6: Light the candles

The town is ready! Place it on a shelf or windowsill, place LED candles behind it (you can also press the lower curved edge with them so that the city stands more securely). If you are making a multi-faceted city, it is not necessary to make a tracing paper background for the background: let the first row of houses have dark walls and luminous windows, and the second - vice versa.

The New Year's time is coming - a time of miracles, when everyone can feel a little like a helper to the kindest old man in the world. After all, think about it, if in addition to gifts for the children of the whole planet, the old grandfather also had to decorate our houses, how would he manage to do everything. That is why we, adults, help him in every possible way, because it is impossible for children to stop believing in Santa Claus.

Decorating a home is the most important task in the creation process. New Year's mood. Buying ready-made decorative elements in a store is not difficult, but making new Year decoration with your own hands is something completely different! In this article you will find more than 20 master classes and schemes for creating New Year's houses. At first glance, it may seem to an unprepared person that creating a New Year's house from paper, cardboard or any other materials is an impossible task. In fact, this is not the case, especially if you have a ready-made template. So, if you are serious, then get ready to become a real builder, because in this article you will find diagrams of not only single houses, but also entire winter villages!

You can make a very beautiful New Year's house with your own hands from ordinary cardboard box. The inside of the box is usually Brown, which, in fact, works to our advantage. The box will have to be gutted and turned inside out. Draw a house template and cut it out. Next we glue the walls and floor. You can leave the top with an improvised roof and use the house as a gift box, or you can glue a full roof and put it under the Christmas tree. You can draw on top of the cardboard with a special white marker, white gouache or regular corrector. Externally, the house is very reminiscent of the gingerbread delicacy that is common in the Western world. Well, you and I are familiar with the gingerbread house from the famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm “Hansel and Gretel”. If your children have not heard it yet, then it’s time to read this story, and a homemade gingerbread house from a cardboard box will be an excellent attribute for a small dramatization!

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If you are planning to make not just a house, but an entire Christmas village, then you will definitely need a church. Print out our finished diagram, cut it out of cardboard, glue it in the right places and the church layout is ready. Now all that remains is to decorate it with sparkles and artificial snow to make the church truly winter. You can download the finished diagram below.

So, the church is ready, now all that remains is to build the houses of the local residents. Download the finished diagram from the link below, cut it out of cardboard, glue the house and decorate it. Who should be accommodated in the houses? Anyone! Little dolls, pine cone elves or any other inhabitants that you have. If there little Grandfather frost, then feel free to move him in too! You'll get a whole residence!

If there are any problems with cardboard, then you can easily make a New Year’s house from salt dough. You can use it as a candlestick, it looks very cool. So get ready salty dough, roll it out to about 1-1.5 cm thick. Cut out the walls, windows and door. This can be done with special molds, and if there are none, then use a stationery knife and a ruler. Glue all the walls and glue the roof. Cover the joints with the remaining dough. When the house is dry, sand the rough edges with a sandpaper and enjoy your creation!

Cute houses in the style of Danish architecture can be made using this scheme. At the link below you will find diagrams of all three houses, which you just need to print and bend along the lines. Place an electric candle inside, turn off the lights and enjoy the city's winter landscape!

If you like corn flakes or, like true Englishmen, eat oatmeal in the morning, then you will probably have cardboard boxes of the appropriate sizes. Below is a step-by-step master class on how to make a New Year's house with your own hands from a cardboard box. Follow the instructions carefully and you will succeed!

Excellent New Year's houses are made from magazine clippings. Find a picture of a suitable house or castle, cut it out and glue it in a circle. Place an electric candle inside and enjoy.

Wonderful New Year's houses can be made from plain white paper, decorating some parts (roof and windows) with sparkles. You can download ready-made templates from the link below. Watch the step-by-step instructions and make your own New Year's house!

If you have accumulated a lot greeting cards, you can make wonderful houses out of them, which you can use to decorate your apartment, combining them into garlands. Or you can use these postcard houses to congratulate friends and acquaintances. You will find step-by-step instructions for making houses from old open doors below.

You can make craft houses not only from paper or cardboard. Felt is also an excellent material for making. The manufacturing process is incredibly simple; step-by-step instructions can be found below. All that remains is to get some felt and an electric candle. New Year's craft the house is ready!

With our ready-made diagram and step-by-step instructions, you can make an entire city, especially if your team has little fidgets ready for handicrafts. You will also need electronic candles or you can use a New Year's garland. Add some mini Christmas trees and New Year's city ready! And most importantly, the whole family is in a New Year's mood!

New Year's houses can also be made from scrap materials, which is especially great when these materials are no longer suitable for use, such as milk packaging. If you look at it, the house is almost ready, all that remains is to make a roof and adjust the size of the house itself. If the box doesn’t look very presentable, you can cover it with paper and draw windows and doors, but if you’re happy with everything, then the craft house is ready!

From this step by step wizard class you will learn how to make a simple New Year's house from ordinary cardboard. The main difficulty lies in the template, and if you do not have spatial vision and architectural education, drawing something more or less complex on paper is quite difficult. Therefore, using the link below you can download a ready-made diagram of the house and glue it together yourself.

Download the finished house template, cut and glue. The DIY Christmas house craft is ready!

Download this simple template, print and cut out. In our instructions, the house is made from an old music book. You can make from plain white paper or “draft paper”. A little decor, an electric candle and Voila! Your DIY paper house is ready!

If you don’t have time to tinker with voluminous houses, but want to decorate your apartment with the whole city, then this option is especially for you. You will need a sheet of Whatman paper (thick) in A2 format, a printed template and a stationery knife. Using the links below you can download two different versions of cities. Ready-made schemes printed on A4 sheets, printed, glued and transferred directly to whatman paper for cutting.

Getting ready for the New Year with the children and making Santa Claus's house out of paper. Download the finished template, print it and glue it together. Young designers will be delighted!

As already noted, house crafts can be made from the most different materials, including those made from wooden sticks. Popsicle sticks are quite suitable for this job, but you had to collect them all year. In any case, you can take notes on the idea and be sure to do it next year!

A very cute New Year's house can be made from paper tubes. For this you will need: thin paper, scissors, glue, pencil, decorative elements. Cut the paper into strips of the same size. Wrap the paper strip around a pencil and glue it with glue, remove the pencil. You will need about 50 tubes to make a house like in the master class. When the base is ready, glue on the roof, and then the windows and other decorative elements.

Incredible New Year's houses can be made from felt. Volumetric or flat, in the form of gingerbread houses or clocks. In addition, felt houses can be used to decorate pillows or socks for gifts. You will find the finished patterns under the photo.

The New Year is coming soon and I really want to feel again the joy and warmth that is inherent in this holiday. And for those who have difficulty immersing themselves in “that” mood, we will achieve it with the help of the right decor. Let's glue and cut! Everything is like in childhood, but the result will delight even the most sophisticated connoisseurs. So, let's begin...

Materials:

1. Thin white cardboard or white paper (I took whatman paper on a roll).
2. Artificial White snow in a can (optional).
3. An electric garland or a warming candle with an artificial flame.

Tools:

1. Stationery knife.
2. Double sided tape.
3. Mat/mat for cutting.
4. Two wide lines.
5. Glue for paper (glue pencil, glue moment Crystal or glue gun).

Print out the patterns. Each one shows suggested dimensions, but you can reduce or increase them as needed.

Let's prepare sheets of whatman paper for cutting. Since I had whatman paper on a roll, I had to iron it first to get rid of the bend. We do this with pre-cut pieces for each detail.

I set the iron to steam, but do not run it in one place for a long time, otherwise the sheet will bend in the other direction. Movements should be smooth, without strong pressure.

To make folding more convenient in the future, make slits in the form of a dotted line at the fold points.

After everything has been cut out, take rulers and place the parts on a flat surface. Place the first ruler on the part on the right along the intended fold.

We place the second ruler at the bottom of the part to the left of the fold and, bringing it close to the right ruler, bend it upward.

An even fold is formed without creases.

Thus we bend along all the outlined lines.

Don't forget about the roof.

Glue the side of the house together. I used a glue stick, but it’s better to use Moment Crystal glue or a glue gun - the structure will be more durable.

Glue the roof.

Apply glue to the joints of the roof. To prevent the glue from drying, glue one slope first, then the other.

It is more convenient to press the roof from the inside by placing it on one of the slopes.

The house is ready! We also glue the rest of the houses together.

Apparently someone has already settled in the house...

We also cut out silhouettes of houses from whatman paper.

Then we cut out a sheet of whatman paper with a width the width of the window sill + 12 cm and a length of about 90 cm. We mark 6*6cm squares in the corners, do not forget to leave extras for gluing.

Cut it out.

We bend along the outlined lines. We coat the adhesion allowances with glue.

Glue the pallet together.

We cut the front wall along the edges by 2.5 cm and glue it inward, folding it inward. This is how we added strength to the structure.

We take the front silhouette, glue double-sided tape on it - two strips (one is shown in the photo, then I glued the second one along the bottom edge).

Glue the silhouette from the inside onto the front wall. I intentionally didn't make the silhouette the full length since I'll have curtains there, but you can make it as long as you want by simply duplicating part of the design.

I also decided to strengthen the back wall, since in the future there will be cuts on it. To do this, take a strip 2 cm wide and equal to the length of pallet 1, mine is 90 cm. We glue double-sided tape onto it.

And glue the strip along the upper cut of the back wall of the pallet.

We mark holes for the electric garland opposite the houses. Instead of a garland, you can use a warming candle with an artificial flame.

We cut holes and insert garland lanterns.

On reverse side glue with double-sided tape. I made small pieces in several of the most critical places to make it easier to tear off later.

Glue the stencil onto the window and apply artificial snow from a spray can.

We set up the houses and admire the result in different lighting.

Children's crafts not only delight the eye with their brightness and beauty, the process of creating them is a special pleasure for a child, because it is so nice to give an original thing to someone close to you! And when mom joins in the creativity, things get doubly fun. If your child has already learned to work with scissors, invite him to make a “real” paper house together: printable templates, step-by-step instruction And interesting ideas in our article.

Working with Templates

To make a house out of paper, use ready-made printable templates: it’s much easier than drawing out the required dimensions manually. If possible, print out a color template for the first time; it will be easier to assemble:

1. Print your favorite house model;
2. Carefully cut out the parts (or the entire diagram);
3. Fold the paper along the marked lines using a ruler;
4. Using a small brush, apply glue to the joints of the elements, press them to glue them.

Your first paper house is ready. Now you can complicate the task by choosing a black and white template for printing. Prepare brushes, paints, sheets of cardboard or whatman paper in advance. For coloring a paper house by texture, gouache or acrylic is best.

So let's get started:

In general, it is better to think through the design in advance, based on the purpose of the house. If it becomes a decoration for the Christmas tree, use traditional New Year's colors - red and gold, blue and silver, white. If you are planning to create an entire city out of paper, choose more restrained shades.

Practice shows that no matter how simple the template for printing, there is always a risk of ruining the craft. Little tricks will help you avoid incidents when creating a paper house:

• Not all children preschool age are able to cope with cutting out small parts from thick paper - in best case scenario the edge of the element will turn out uneven, in the worst case, you will have to re-print the template, and the child’s mood will be ruined. Therefore, cut the workpiece yourself;
• When creating fold lines, do not forget about the doors and shutters on the windows; they need to be bent in advance, before gluing. When the craft is completely assembled, it is difficult to bend these parts evenly, much less carefully cut through them;
• Using paper with a pattern (wallpaper) for the base, it is important to make sure that after gluing on all parts of the house the pattern will be on the wrong side;
• The last element of assembling a paper house is always the roof; after gluing it together, it is almost impossible to correct the flaws;
• Sometimes when the glue dries, the edges of the paper move apart. The fault is one of two things: there was not enough glue or the template parts need to be pressed down better. For better fixation, connect the elements with paper clips and leave them until the adhesive has completely dried.

Paper house - application ideas

With a little imagination, you can expand the scope of application of paper houses. Here are three popular simple ideas:

Surely your child has already come up with a lot of ideas for using and decorating paper houses: let our printable templates help him realize his creative desires.