Hanging beautiful garlands can transform a room into a festive atmosphere. Here are some super simple craft ideas on how to make carnival garlands yourself. Make long garlands of your favorite variety or mix and match for a versatile look. That's how it works!
Make curly garland
The best home improvement projects are those that use readily available, inexpensive materials and are easy to make. Something as simple as wrapping thin strips of paper around a pencil produces impressive results.
Material required:
farbiger Cardstock
cutting mat
Exactly Messer
Lineal
Pencil
adhesive
Needle and thread
Wooden dowels (use kebab skewers!)
Crafting steps:
- Using the knife and ruler, cut very thin strips from the cardstock. Be careful with your fingers!
- Wrap the strips around a pencil to create cute “curls.” Make some tighter and some looser. Variety is always good.
- Thread a bunch of curlsinto a garlandor glue a few of them to a wooden dowel to make a drink stirrer. Go crazy and stick some ready-made dowels into a cake or some muffins. That would be super cute.
Make your own carnival garlands from felt balls
Making a felt ball garland is child's play. What you want to know is where to get the felt balls. You can either buy them or make them yourself.
Accesories:
Leftover wool
Soap
Nadel
cord
colorful beads – optional
How to make your own felt balls:
- Take a handful of leftover wool and wrap it loosely in the palm of your hand. Hold under warm water and form into a loose ball.
- Add soap, enough to create a good lather (any type of soap will do as long as it lathers).
- Start rolling the wool into a ball between both hands like you would roll dough into a ball. Roll carefully at first. As soon as the ball becomes firmer, you can roll it a little more forcefully.
- The fibers will begin to “felt” as you continue rolling while rinsing the wool under warm water and adding more soap as it washes out.
- Continue rolling and rinsing. You can use alternating hot and cold water to shock the fibers if you wish. Your felt ball will look like a ball and will be solid. Sometimes there are small cracks where the ball has not completely grown together. That doesn't matter. Simply wrap another thin layer of wool around the entire ball, add more soap, and roll the ball between your hands again until the outer layer is matted with the bottom layer.A perfect garland! And also perfect for little hands that can help out.
- Now just thread the needle and thread the beads. You could tie a knot between the individual balls.
Make fun decorations with the children
Here are five more cute garlands that you can make quickly and easily at home with your little ones.
Accesories:
Colorful paper
Brown card material
Mixed wool
Various cords and cords
Various artificial flowers
Raffia twine
Scissors
Circle cutter
Lineal
Pencil
Booklets
Double-sided tape
1. Restore Floral Fiesta
Be inspired by nature with this beautiful faux flower garland.
- Carefully peel the leaves and flower parts from a bouquet of artificial flowers, being careful to keep the leaves and flowers together.
- Thread a large-eyed darning needle onto a raffia string. Carefully thread the flowers onto the raffia through the holes in the flowers and leaves. The flowers should sit securely on the raffia. It's so easy to make carnival garlands yourself.
2. Make festive fans
These cute fans are a colorful way to decorate a room. You can customize the colors of the fans to match the theme of your party.
- Cut strips of crepe paper (you can use different colors) about 6cm wide and 20cm long. Fold each strip with small accordion folds.
- When the strip is fully folded, staple one end about 1cm from the edge, then punch a hole over the staple.
- Thread each fan onto onecolored stringand tie each fan to the string. Gently pull the accordion folds apart to create a fan shape.
3. Simple paper balls
Create the illusion of a sphere with some simple circle shapes.
- Using a circle cutter (or tracing something circular), cut a series of circles out of brown cardstock. Fold each circle in half. Staple a few circles together along the fold line.
- Make two staples for each circle and then pierce each flap of the “ball” apart to create a round shape.
- Use a darning needle to thread the balls onto a long piece of string. Thread them through the gap in the middle of each row of staples.
4. Rainbow Ribbons
This garland can be made with thin strips of colored paper or with colorful ribbons, it's up to you!
- Cut a selection of paper (or ribbon) strips about 1 inch wide and 6 inches long.
- Fold each strip in half at an angle so that the edges spread.
- Using double-sided tape, attach the strips to a long piece of string on the inside of the fold. The string should be on the inside of the fold of each strip.
5. Party pom poms
Who doesn't love pompoms? These colorful pompoms look particularly festive in a room.
- Use a pom-pom maker (available at craft stores) to make an assortment of pom-poms in different sizes. You can make them in any color you like.
- Once you've made all the pompoms, thread them onto a colored piece of wool or string with a darning needle. We hope you have a lot of fun making your own carnival garlands!
