Don't let the pandemic completely ruin this year's carnival season by making atmospheric carnival decorations with children! It's certainly a lot of fun and the fun activity will immediately put the little one in the festive mood. Here are some craft ideas you can try with children of different ages. The finished crafts can then be used to decorate the apartment orthe kindergartenDecorate in the spirit of carnival.
The fifth season is just around the corner and now is the best time to keep the children busy with a colorful craft project! But what should it be? A colored garland hanging on the wall or in the window? Or would you rather have some funny clowns for the children's room? A pretty one tooCarnival decoration for hangingis always well received, especially in kindergarten. And the best thing is that you can make all of these ideas yourself using simple materials like paper. Get inspired by the following craft projects!
Make simple carnival decorations for the windows
Whether at home, in kindergarten or in the classroom at school, colorful window decorations are always a good choice for carnival. A hanging decoration is perfect for the windows because it can be set up and removed quickly and easily. If you would like to make a pretty carnival decoration for the window with the children, then we will now explain how you can make a colorful mobile yourself.
Make mobiles out of colorful paper
What you need:
- Embroidery frame or metal ring
- colorful paper, cardboard
- Circle hole punch, 5 cm diameter
- cord
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
And this is how it works:
Measure the desired length of cord and cut it to the desired length. You will need several strings to cover all sides of the embroidery hoop.
Punch out circles from your cardstock. You will each glue 2 circles together along the string.
Apply a nice amount of glue to the surface of a circle and place the string in the center of the shape. Then quickly apply glue to the “partner” and stick the piece directly onto it. Continue until you cover the entire string with colorful circles.
Tie the resulting garlands to the embroidery frame and hang it on the window or wherever you like.
Make window decorations with carnival masks
With a few simple onesCarnival mask templatesYou can also make decorations for the windows. A simple idea would be to stick two pieces of colored tape directly to the window pane and decorate them with colorfully painted carnival masks. Children can use various materials such as sequins, decorative stones, pompoms, felt, paper, etc. to decorate the masks.
Decorate a carnival tree
Just like you decorate an Easter tree at home at Easter, you can also use the idea for the upcoming carnival. First, make an atmospheric carnival decoration with the children. Colorful masks, garlands, ribbons, rosettes and pompoms work well. Then put some twigs and branches in a vase that you place on the floor or on a table. Use the pre-made decorations to decorate the branches and voilà - you have conjured up a pretty carnival decoration without much effort.
What would a carnival be without somefunny clowns? If you're currently looking for ideas for carnival decorations, then you simply can't go past these funny figures. You can make atmospheric clowns from a variety of materials and use them to decorate the walls, window sills or shelves in the house or kindergarten. Here we have two interesting ideas that you can try with the kids this year.
Make a clown with a colorful sock
We will now show you step by step how to make a pretty clown using a sock, Styrofoam balls and pipe cleaners - a simple and at the same time stimulating carnival decoration that you can make with children of all ages.
Necessary materials:
- colorful sock
- Styrofoam balls, two different sizes
- Pipe cleaners
- Yarn (cord, wool or other)
- Farbband
- Knopf
- Googly eyes
- Bumble
- Cardboard and black cardboard
- black felt-tip pen
- Pencil
- Glue
- Scissors
Directions:
Cut the sock below and above the heel so that it is divided into three parts.
Place the larger Styrofoam ball in the bottom part of the sock and tie the top part with a piece of wool thread. You can also use rice for the clown's body. Simply fill the sock as much as necessary and close it well.
Place the top of the sock over the small Styrofoam ball and tie the sock together with a piece of string. This is how the hat is made.
Glue the body and head together with hot glue.
To make the face, glue on a pair of googly eyes and a red pom-pom for a nose.
For the hair, use a colored pipe cleaner. Roll the pipe cleaner onto a pencil to curl it, carefully peel it off the pencil and cut it into several pieces. Then tuck the “curls” under the hat.
Cut out some kind of heart shape from black paper and use it to cover the same cardboard template, creating a certain thickness. Then attach the feet to the clown's body using hot glue.
The carnival clown with a sock is almost finished, we add the finishing touches: use the colorful ribbon to make a large bow that is attached to the neck and attach a colorful button underneath.
Here is the finished work: a very funny clown that you can make with children of all ages at home or at school and decorate for carnival in an atmospheric way.
Make a hanging clown with a template
You can easily make this funny clown with the children using a printable template. Here's everything you need:
- colorful construction paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Glue
- black felt-tip pen
First print out the template. The stencil includes the hair, hat, body, hands and shoes as well as 4 circles: 1 for the nose, 2 for the shoes and 1 for the pointy end of the clown hat.
Then choose different fun colors for your paper clown. Trace the templates onto the appropriate paper and cut them out with scissors.
Measure the width of the body (the clown's chest) and cut a long strip of colored construction paper the same width. Then fold the piece of paper like an accordion.
Now, if you already have all the clown parts, glue them together to complete the carnival decoration. Finally, draw the rest of the clown's facial features with a black felt-tip pen.
You can make several clowns and use them as wall decorations or hanging decorations.
Clown templatefor printing.
Make simple carnival decorations: DIY carnival garlands
One of the most beautiful ideas for a carnival decoration that you can make together with the children is, of course, garlands. With a pretty garland you can decorate any corner of the room and immediately create a festive atmosphere.
For a simple carnival garland you don't need expensive materials or complicated craft projects. You can even use a few strips of paper to make colorful garlands for hanging with the children.
Things can be colorful at carnival. So how about a rainbow garland as decoration?In this articleYou will find instructions for making these and other carnival garlands. We wish you a nice carnival season!
Also read:Make a hat for the clown: accessories for the costume
