Are your crafting fingers tingling again and you feel like getting creative? Well, New Year's Eve is coming, so why not create something beautiful for the occasion? Lucky charms are something that no New Year's Eve should be without. So no matter whether you have been invited to a party, are organizing a party yourself or are going to spend the evening in a cozy atmosphere together or with the family - a few themed lucky charms as decoration or party favors are a wonderful idea. One of the most popular motifs is without a doubt the four-leaf clover and it is precisely to this that we are dedicating today's article. Have a lot of fun making lucky charms for the New Year as well as in the evening itself and have a good and hopefully successful new year 2022!
Make New Year's lucky charms out of balloons - playful DIY shamrocks
You can make such funny balloons from simple, green heart balloonsas a New Year's Eve decorationUse or give to guests to take away. We explain how you can quickly and easily make these shamrocks as New Year's lucky charms:
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- 4 green heart balloons
- Ribbons
- 1 Balloon staff
- cord
- Hot glue
- possible balloon pump
- gold or other spray paint
Quickly made lucky charms from balloons – instructions:
Inflate the balloonsand tie them as usual. Tie two of the balloons together at a time and then place the two pairs on top of each other so that the strings overlap in the middle and twist them in opposite directions to keep them together. This creates the cloverleaf shape. You can also fix the whole thing by applying a drop of glue to the places where the balloons touch each other. Spray the outdoor pole with paint and attach the balloons to it once the paint has dried. Again you can secure everything with glue. Finally, tie the ribbons – done! It's so quick and easy to make lucky charms for the New Year!
Make a New Year's Eve shamrock out of tissue paper
The heart shapeis the perfect basis for clover leaves as a lucky charm idea, because as you know, the leaves of the clover leaf have this shape. Therefore it is also used for the following craft project. Again you get a shamrock on a stick, only this time you make it with tissue paper instead of balloons. What you need if you want to make lucky charms for New Year in the form of clovers:
- green tissue paper
- Paper straw
- Glue
- Heart-shaped cookie cutter, punch or printed heart as a cloverleaf template (you can also draw them freehand, as irregularities will hardly be noticeable)
- Hot glue
Craft instructions:
So first you have to make the hearts for the clover lucky charms. Then put the cut out hearts together in pairs, fold them in half lengthways and twist the tips. Do this three more times, then take the four pieces together at the twisted ends and twist them together to create a cloverleaf. Fix the whole thing with glue so that the leaves don't twist apart again.
Tip: You can hide the glue by making four smaller heart shapes and gluing them over them.
You can now use the clovers as is or otherwiseon strawsstick. This makes them perfect for cake decorations, for example. The lucky charms also look very pretty as a small bouquet in a glass on New Year's Eve. You can just as easily use hair ties instead of straws and turn them into hair accessories or a bracelet. So as you can see, you can make these paper sticky sheets as New Year's lucky charms and use them for various purposes.
Homemade lucky charms from felt and popsicle sticks
We believe that this idea does not require any special instructions. In principle, the whole thing works like the variant above, only this time you have heartsmade of feltCut out, glue to a popsicle stick and cover the points where the leaves touch in the middle with a circle. You can make plain shamrocks as New Year's lucky charms or combine two shades of green together. Of course, you can also choose unusual colors if this suits your mood or party decoration better.
You can also sew the individual leaves together instead of gluing them.
Felt clovers with faces
You can also make such cute New Year's lucky charms using a template. You may also find a suitable punch that will make your tasks much easier. Simply add wiggly eyes, pink cheeks and a mouth to the clover leaves, which you can draw on with a sharpie or sew on. You can also paint the entire face on the lucky charms.
You can make lucky charms for the New Year for adults as well as children. And we are sure that every age group will be happy about it. If you are making the shamrock craft for children, you could, for example, add double-sided adhesive stickers so that the children can later decorate their notebooks with them.
Make lucky charms for New Year – make a clover leaf pendant
You can make pretty pendants for good luck using real, dried clover leaves, but also those made of paper or other materials. You also need:
- artificial resin
- Casting molds
- Beaker and chopsticks for stirring
- Gloves and pad
- drill
- Keyrings
- Binding rings, possibly chains or ribbons
This is how it's done:
Resin for jewelryand similar things are usually offered in a set with molds. If not, get them separately. If you now want to make the lucky charms yourself, mix the resin according to the package instructions and pour a little of it into the molds. Allow the resin to dry for 20 minutes, place the prepared clover leaf in, mix more resin and fill the molds. Let the molds harden for several days.
Take the pendants out of the molds and drill small holes through which you can then thread the jump rings. You can then tie chains, ribbons or other things to it and, if you want to make lucky charms in the form of key chains for New Year's Eve, key rings.
Make lucky charms for the New Year – a bouquet full of happiness
In these instructions you will learn how you can make a shamrock without a craft template for New Year's lucky charms. Combine several of them and create a bouquet that you can use to decorate the party table. Or how about giving it to the host as a gift? Here's how to make the leaves for the clover in simple stepsthen make the bouquettogether:
- Origamipapier
- Blumendraht
- Hot glue
- Scissors
- Wire cutters
- Floral foam
- Vase or flower pot
- optional materials to design the container, such as washi tape or acrylic paints, stickers, rhinestones, etc.
Instructions for making a lucky charm - clover leaf made of paper
All you have to do is,the origami paperFirst fold it twice (once horizontally, then vertically) so that you get four smaller squares, which you then cut out. You get a clover leaf from each of these squares, so a total of four pieces per origami paper. Take one of the small squares and fold it diagonally once to make a triangle. Repeat this one more time with one of the two equally pointed corners.
Now cut out an oval shape (or heart shape if you prefer), leaving the completely closed side of the triangle intact. Unfold the paper again and you have your first shamrock! Now cut pieces of wire of any length, form an eyelet on one side (it's easier to glue on than a straight end) and glue the wire to the cloverleaf. Fill the container with floral foam and insert your shamrock into it. Keep doing this until you are happy with the fullness of your bouquet.
Make quilling-style paper strips for New Year's Eve
Have you everwe will Quillingheard? This craft technique uses thin strips of paper, which are then rolled up using special tools to be assembled into beautiful pictures. If you would like to make shamrocks for the New Year using this technique, use our instructions! Here's how you can make lucky charms that look like shamrocks for the New Year.
- 3 dark green stripes (2.5 x 22 cm)
- 3 dark green stripes (2.5 x 9 cm)
- 2 light green stripes (2.5 x 9 cm)
- 3 light green stripes (2.5 x 16.5 cm)
- 3 paper clips
- punch
- cord
- Tacker
Make lucky charms for New Year from strips – instructions
If you would like to make such a clover leaf yourself, take the first group of dark green strips and the two light green strips and fold them in half. Then place a dark green strip within a light green strip (fold within a fold) and staple them together at the fold. Bend the green pieces down and bring the two ends together to create a heart shape. Repeat with the green strip to form a double heart, holding the ends together with a paper clip. Repeat these steps for two more double hearts.
Then you have to make the pendant for the New Year's lucky charm. To do this, take one of the smaller dark green strips, fold it in half and punch a hole slightly below the fold. Stick this strip between the heart bulges of one of the double hearts. Staple it in place. If you can't get in with the stapler, you can temporarily remove the paper clip, staple it and bend everything back into its previous shape.
Now fold the remaining two strips in half and place the lighter one inside the darker one. Take the three double hearts together (the one with the holed part in the middle) and tuck the last folded strips at the bottom between the hearts. Insert this bundle into the stapler and secure them together. Remove the paper clips and you have a three-leaf clover. Provide the hole with string that is used for hanging.
We wish you a successful and healthy year 2022!
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