If you want to decorate your house for carnival, then we have some colorful and cheerful ideas for you that you can easily implement. Masks, garlands, confetti, paper garlands and much more. These carnival decorations for your home will definitely increase anticipation and make the carnival season unforgettable. Check out these craft ideas and get inspired.
Contents:
1. Ideas for table decorations for carnival with masks, glass beads and feathers to make yourself
2. Crafts for carnival: LED candles with confetti in the glass, jester's cap
3. Carnival window decoration: window pictures with clowns, garlands and numerous craft ideas
If you're hosting a carnival-themed party, you can impress your guests by decorating the table beautifully. The mask is a symbol of carnival, so you can use it in many ways - on plates or as an accent in a flower arrangement. Choose bright colors like purple, green, yellow and orange. Make great cocktail sticks with pompoms and wrap chains around the napkins. Decorate the lanterns with confetti or colorful paper circles.
Table decoration with carnival masks
As additional decorations, you can make beautiful garlands out of paper or muffin tins. Decorate the paper lights or hang large paper flowers over the dining table. It's so easy to bring a good mood into your home!
The beautifully decorated carnival masks are an absolute highlight on the festive table and at every carnival party. With a little imagination and just a few materials, you can make an enchanting mask yourself that you can use to decorate your home to suit the occasion. If you want to design a great mask according to your own taste, you can either make it out of construction paper or papier-mâché or decorate a white plastic eye mask yourself. You can decorate the plastic masks with glitter and stones in bright colors. For example, you can surround the eye area with glitter stones or sequins. You can embellish the nose and forehead area with gold or silver glitter. When decorating, you can use any other ornament you like and create a glittering, colorful mask.
Glittering, shimmering table decoration in intense colors for carnival or masquerade
A colorful decoration of the table and room immediately helps to put you in a better party mood. If you want to host a private carnival party and impress with an elegant atmosphere, you can work wonders with just a few decorative elements. If you want a simple table decoration, you can, for example, arrange a vase with peacock feathers instead of flowers. Tealight holders with decorative stones in the same shades as the feathers look great without overloading the table. You are welcome to make your carnival decorations from real feathers or get some made from plastic and decorate them to your heart's content. Peacock feathers are also suitable for decorating various carnival accessories such as hats, masks and hair accessories.
Chains instead of napkin rings
House decorations include small and large balloons, giant balloons, balloons in a great heart shape and confetti balloons. What do you think of balloons that are filled with colorful paper confetti instead of helium? To make the confetti balloons, fill white, clear balloons with glittery confetti. This is how you create a great decoration with balloons that will immediately put you in a party mood. If the balloons burst, the fun is guaranteed. The confetti sparkle in the air and provide a great element of surprise that your guests are sure to appreciate.
Venetian flair on the carnival table
For yourCarnival party with childrenYou can also make the confetti yourself without any effort. For the homemade confetti you need colorful paper with as many different colors as possible and a hole punch. Punch the paper and empty the hole punch bin and you have your confetti. If you want to have other patterns, you can use a cutter. Collect the confetti in a bowl and use it to decorate the table. Scatter the confetti in the center of the table or around the plates. The colorful snippets on the table actually go with any table decoration.
Make masks and table runners yourself
With a little imagination and a lot of glitter you can make a creative table decoration for carnival. Cut tissue paper and make a table runner out of it. Apply plenty of glue with a flat brush and sprinkle with sequins. Have the kids draw stars out of paper plates and decorate the Venetian masks with lots of glitter. Display the masks on guests' plates. With a vintage glass lantern with a golden pillar candle you can add an additional glamor touch to the table decoration.
Carnival table decoration: masks with feathers and rhinestones
Optionally, you can decorate simple carnival masks with feathers or stick them with rhinestones. Arrange them on a tablecloth in a contrasting color, such as green, or place them on guests' plates as place cards. You can round off the decoration with wine or champagne glasses that match the color of the tablecloth. “Fireworks” decorative picks in the glasses are guaranteed to create a cheerful atmosphere at the festive table or buffet.
Set accents with decorative ribbons
Add subtle touches by arranging the candy in gold gift boxes, curling gift ribbons with scissors and draping them around the gift boxes. This means you can stylishly present an appetizer in a glass, desserts or even finger food at the children's table. Optionally, you can tie the boxes with the decorative ribbons and wrap the party bags in style. You can also tie the decorative ribbons to a magic or fairy wand later.
Carnival table decoration: stage Venetian masks effectively
Cut beautiful ornaments out of cardboard, make a bouquet of seasonal flowers and paint a white Venetian mask with watercolors. Arrange the decorations on a plain-colored tablecloth. The Venetian masks are often real works of art and you can hang them on the wall or display them on a shelf after the carnival.
Crafts for carnival: Dyeing golden chocolate coins
The children will definitely like the next craft idea: You can use food coloring to color “golden” chocolate coins as desired and display them in a glass decorative bowl. Various chains, toys or other small items can also fit in the bowl. You can even organize a treasure hunt or reward the children with the most beautiful or creative costumes.
Make carnival crafts: decorate bottles
Do you have empty wine bottles lying around at home? Then decorate them with acrylic paints, plastic beads and felt ornaments. First, color the bottles with a silver color and set them aside on kitchen paper. Once the color has completely dried out, you can further embellish it with green, purple or gold nuances. Then glue plastic beads to the neck of the wine bottle. Then color three shish kebab skewers and attach a Venetian mask to one end of each shish kebab skewer. Then insert the other end of the shashlick skewer into the bottle.
Decorate LED candles with confetti
Decorate LED candles with glitter and confetti. Simply apply a thin layer of glue to the candles and then dip them in glitter. Allow them to dry out and then place them in small cups or lanterns. Decorate them with confetti. This decoration idea is ideal for the children's table because there is no risk of fire with LED candles and the children cannot injure themselves.
Table decoration with crown and feathers
Are you perhaps planning a children's party for Carnival? Then you should not only prepare delicious food, but also decorate the festive table appropriately. We show you an idea inspired by the book “1001 Nights”. Of course, you can adapt the color scheme and interpret other fairy tales in a similar way. You will need feathers, transparent glass bottles (for example Coca Cola bottles), crown and rhinestones.
Make a tablecloth out of crepe or tissue paper and paint it with silver paint pen. Arrange purple feathers in the cola bottles, display the crowns in purple disposable plates. Distribute more rhinestones on the table. The table decoration for carnival is ready. And best of all: the children can wear the crowns during the carnival. You can swap the feathers for roses as you like and interpret the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. Or you can place red apples on the table and create a table decoration inspired by the fairy tale Snow White.
Styrofoam cones with glass beads
Even if you don't want to set a theme for your carnival party, you should decorate the table. With cones made of Styrofoam and chains of glass beads, you can create a colorful table decoration for carnival that is guaranteed to conjure up an atmospheric atmosphere. All you have to do is wrap the chains around the cones and attach them in a few places with hot glue and your carnival table decoration is ready.
Make carnival decorations: make your own jester's cap out of cardboard
Children in particular really look forward to carnival and enjoy doing crafts. With the next DIY idea, crafting fun is guaranteed for young and old. Make a dunce cap out of cardboard. First, cut out a 10cm wide strip of orange cardboard. Measure the child's head circumference and then calculate the diameter of the fool's cap. Then cut the strip to size and glue the two ends together. Cut out three triangles from green cardboard and two more triangles from purple cardboard. Cut two small circles from the green cardboard and another three small circles from the purple cardboard. Now put the dunce cap together. Decorate them as desired with stickers or let the child paint them.
Craft carnival: beautify the window with garland
For Carnival, many parents like to make colorful window pictures and garlands, which they then stick on the window in the children's room. We offer you some ideas for carnival window decorations in the photo gallery. The first idea can be made from cardboard, fabric or felt. Draw balloon silhouettes on the cardboard with a pencil and cut them out. First cut the bottom of one balloon and then the top of another balloon. Then insert the two details into each other. Similarly, you can also make clouds, stars and other decorative elements yourself.
Carnival decoration window: clown made of cardboard
This cute clown is ready in just a few steps. A template for printing and cutting can be found below. Cut the different elements out of cardboard in green, yellow, white, red or blue. You can then use a fineliner to paint the clown's face. Stick the clown to the glass with transparent double-sided tape or display it on the windowsill.
Clown template
Carnival window decoration: Make your own paper garland
Carnival decoration window: Make your own clown out of paper
Make window pictures for carnival: unicorn and stars
Carnival decoration window: template for unicorn with stars
Make your own carnival window pictures: castle and unicorn and stars
Template for carnival decorations for windows
Window decoration carnival: carnival mask and garland made of felt
Carnival decoration window: Make your own superhero mask garland
Carnival decoration window: Make a clown out of cardboard with the children
Carnival window decoration: Make your own garland out of children's newspaper
Beautify the window with a homemade garland made from children's newspaper. Let the little ones help out and cut out their favorite stories from the children's newspaper. Then cut triangles of the same size out of the paper, which you then attach to decorative tape. You can also sew this creative garland out of fabric or make it yourself out of tissue paper. You can also use white cardboard and ask the children to decorate the triangles with cute drawings on the theme of “Mardi Gras”.
Make your own carnival decoration for the windowsill out of wood
Make paper hats
Great carnival decorations for the home are the party hats, which not only belong on your head and are an essential accessory, but also create a fun and colorful table decoration. You can put together a pretty party hut in no time using colorful paper or cardboard. To do this, cut out a large quarter circle from the sheet of paper in the desired color and roll it up into a bag. Then glue the bag together and cut out the excess edge. Now you can concentrate on the decoration and make a small pompom out of tissue paper and attach it to the tip. Let your creativity run wild and create a decoration that fully meets your expectations. When it comes to carnival decorations for your home, it's less about implementing a uniform concept. The more colorful the cheerful decoration is here, the better.
Make a garland out of muffin cups
You can also make various garlands yourself for carnival decorations. If you want to surprise your family and friends with a unique, colorful garland, you can create an unusual one using muffin cups. Get muffin and praline cases in different sizes and colors and simply mix them together. You are welcome to attach two molds with the opening facing each other and simply press the others flat. Intentional, irregular spacing also looks great.
Make beautiful paper flowers
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Decorate paper lamps
