Many people know that the foreign Father Frost, Santa Claus, leaves New Year's gifts in Christmas socks. Why don’t we ask him for gifts, because there are never too many gifts!
In this article, we suggest you make your own Christmas stocking from a plastic bottle and other available materials.
The finished Christmas stocking will become not only a decoration for your home interior, but also an original gift wrapping.
DIY Christmas stocking
To make such a cute sock for the New Year and Christmas, you will need the following materials: a plastic bottle, a knife, a sheet of thick cardboard, plaster (can be replaced with paper or polymer clay), paint and decoration items (ribbons, cones, sparkles and Christmas tree decorations) .
First you need to cut the bottle into three parts. We don't need the part with the neck, but the middle and bottom will be necessary.
On a sheet of thick cardboard you need to glue the middle and bottom of the bottle in a vertical position close to each other.
Now use scissors to cut out the cardboard to make a shoe.
Coat the resulting workpiece with plaster. This material can be replaced with paper clay or polymer clay.
When the layer of plaster has dried well, paint the Christmas stocking. The ideal color for this craft would be red.
Now the fun part is decorating.
Glue a white edge, a white edging along the bottom, and decorate the Christmas stocking with pine cones, Christmas tree decorations, ribbons and fir branches.
Now you can fill the finished craft with a variety of small New Year's gifts: candy, cosmetics, etc.
Snowman vase made from a glass bottle
What do you need
- Scissors;
- large white sock;
- small glass bottle;
- padding polyester;
- needle;
- thread;
- narrow silver ribbon;
- 2 blue buttons;
- 2 red buttons;
- red felt;
- glue gun - optional;
- blush or pastel;
- branches;
- white spray paint or foil and double-sided tape;
- Christmas balls.
How to do
Cut the sock in half and place the toe part over the bottle. Fill it with padding polyester, and fill the middle less tightly, so that later you can separate the head and body of the snowman. Sew the blank at the neck of the bottle.
Tie a ribbon bow in the middle. Sew blue buttons on top (these will be eyes), and red ones on the bottom. Cut out a carrot nose and mittens from felt. Sew or glue them to the snowman.
Sew the edges of a wide strip of felt to the size of the snowman's head. Sew the blank to the head and tie it with a ribbon on top. Use blush or pastel to draw the snowman’s cheeks.
Wrap the branches with foil, gluing it with tape. Or just spray paint them, put them in a vase and hang them with Christmas decorations.
DIY Christmas stocking
Another option for an original Christmas stocking that you can make with your own hands.
To make a New Year's craft, you will need the following materials: decorative red cardboard, decorative paper, glue, plastic bottle, scissors, hot glue gun and decorating materials.
On decorative cardstock, draw a Christmas stocking in the shape you want. Cut out two pieces in a mirror position.
Cut out the parts and glue them together using a strip of double-sided colored paper.
Cut off the neck of a plastic bottle.
Cover the rest of the plastic bottle with cardboard blanks. You should now have a Christmas shoe.
Cut out the sole from colored cardboard and glue it to the craft.
Now decorate the Christmas stocking with snow-white stripes and a bell cuff.
The sock in the shoe can be decorated with a snow-white pompom made of thread.
DIY New Year's boot made of felt (with a freehand pattern)
This craft can be made in literally 15-20 minutes. No special patterns are required - everything is drawn by hand and at your discretion. And the result is such beauty!
Take:
- felt
- A4 paper
- threads
- needle
- grosgrain ribbon 10 cm long
- plush 8 cm wide
- scissors
- pencil
- glue gun
- pompoms
We do it in stages:
Draw a boot on A4 paper and cut it out.
Fold the felt in half with the wrong side out and trace the boot.
Cut out boots from felt fabric. Using a glue gun, glue a ribbon loop on top to the inside of our decor. We apply glue along the entire perimeter of the workpiece, except for the top part.
We glue the plush fabric along the top of the boot.
We bend the edges of the plush at the top and bottom, as shown in the photo, and glue them with a glue gun.
Glue the pompoms and sew the boot with a decorative stitch. Ready!
Video master class - DIY Christmas sock/Christmas boot
If you want to make a Christmas stocking with your own hands from other materials, we would like to offer you options made from paper and felt. Master classes can be viewed on our website using the links under the photos.
DIY Christmas stocking made from paper
DIY Christmas stocking
How to make a New Year's boot from paper or thin cardboard?
This craft is perfect as a napkin holder on the New Year's table. The boot can be made from either a square of colored paper or thin cardboard. Look how easy and wonderful it turns out!
We do it in stages:
Fold the square in half and in half again with the wrong side out.
We unbend the second fold and bend both edges towards the center, as shown in the photo.
We make a bend on the left side of our workpiece, then unbend it.
We make a similar bend on the other side and unbend it in the same way.
Now we do it along the fold lines as shown in the photo to create the “nose” of the boot.
We bend the edge of 1 cm at the top so that our boot has a white border.
So that the nose of our craft is not so sharp, we bend the triangular edge inward.
Now we fold the workpiece into a cylinder and tuck the edges, as shown in the photo. Ready!
Decorative gift made from glue
What do you need
- Felt pen;
- ruler;
- paper;
- glass;
- scotch;
- glue gun;
- brush;
- glue;
- plate;
- green glitter;
- wide red ribbon;
- electric garland.
How to do
Draw a square on paper. Inside it, draw perpendicular diagonal lines at equal distances from each other.
Place the glass on the paper and tape it to the table for security. Using a glue gun, go over all the drawn lines that are visible through the glass. When the glue dries, remove the blank from the glass. Make 4 more blanks in the same way.
Glue them together into a cube. Lubricate its sides with glue and dip it into a plate with glitter. Glue a ribbon to the cube, as shown in the video, and a bow from it on top.
Place the gift on a twisted garland.
For room decoration
A felt boot will not withstand the weight of gifts; it can be used for purely decorative purposes: to decorate walls, windows or a Christmas tree. For decoration, buy yarn, floss, beads, glitter, sequins, etc.
Brief instructions for making a decorative boot consists of the following steps:
- To begin, print out the template you like on paper and transfer it to felt using tracing paper. If you don’t find tracing paper, you can simply redraw the image with a regular pencil.
- Next, cut out stencils from felt. If the product is double-sided, then sew it along the edge with a decorative seam.
- You can decorate the resulting boot as you wish.
Decoration ideas:
- Using acrylic and white floss, make embroidery or apply monograms to the boot.
- Fold the two templates and sew along the edges with a decorative seam (the markings must be done in advance).
- Decorate with pompoms, glitter, rhinestones and beads.
- Cut out the decorations from fleece or felt, and then sew them to the product from the front side.
- As the main material, take an old sweater or scarf, which you can decorate with Santa Claus using cotton wool or cotton swabs (you can use felt to make a hat).
- Make a white edging of the blank from felt, sew on buttons.
A decorative boot is rarely made double; to save material, you can simply decorate a single product on both sides. Decorate your Christmas tree, front door, window with it, or just hang it on the wall as a New Year's composition.
Here you can see what a New Year's felt boot pattern looks like:
