Every child looks forward to the New Year. You can create a magical holiday atmosphere in advance. Making New Year's crafts will certainly lift your spirits and brighten up your leisure time. The simplest are plasticine crafts that even a child can do. You can make anything from plasticine, including New Year's decorations. We will show you how to make a festive New Year tree from purchased or homemade plasticine, because the process of sculpting with your own hands will be interesting for both children and adults.

Despite the fact that the Christmas tree is a traditional symbol of the New Year, making crafts in the form of a Christmas tree in the summer is not at all prohibited.

Today we will talk about how to make a Christmas tree from plasticine with your own hands. There are many options for such crafts, and each is interesting and unusual in its own way. One of them uses scissors, so if you are going to get creative with your child, be careful. Let's look at the work step by step.

How to make a Christmas tree from plasticine with your own hands using scissors

Take a piece of green plasticine, heat it up and knead it with your hands to make sculpting more convenient and easier. Then roll it into a cone. It’s okay if the cone turns out to be not completely even, it won’t ruin the craft.

Use small scissors to make small cuts. Starting from the top, cut the plasticine in a circular manner, gradually going down.

Make a star from plasticine of a different color and place it on the top of the tree. Decorate the branches with multi-colored balls.

Here is the finished tree. It wasn’t difficult at all, but it turned out so beautifully!

Here's another way to make a three-dimensional plasticine Christmas tree. This time you will need thick cardboard.

Roll a piece of cardboard into a pointed cone. It is used as a blank for future crafts. Next, cover the base cone with green plasticine. Sculpt embossed protrusions to make it more beautiful.

The tree itself is already ready, but you can make it better. Decorate the craft to your liking using colored plasticine and glitter. Make garlands, icicles and balls and attach them to the product.

This miniature Christmas tree looks much more picturesque thanks to the combination of different shades of green. To make it, mix green plasticine with a small amount of black and white in advance to get dark and light shades. Knead the material well until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

Cut the puff piece into pieces - the details of our Christmas tree.

Make a plasticine cone. It will serve as a frame for the craft. Attach the blanks to it, starting from the bottom.

Decorations are made like needles: roll up a puff tube from multi-colored plasticine and cut it into thin circles.

This tree is assembled from just a few parts. Make a stump stand from a small piece of brown plasticine. It should be wide and sufficiently stable. Insert a toothpick into the stump - it will be the axis for your craft.

Next, prepare three cone-shaped pieces of different sizes. Flatten each one slightly and stick onto a toothpick, starting with the largest and ending with the smallest. If desired, you can make a larger number of smaller fragments, then the Christmas tree will come out fluffier.

Using a toothpick to make grooves on the plasticine, draw pine branches. You can draw any other pattern you like.

After numerous options for voluminous Christmas tree figures, let’s devote a little time to a picture made of plasticine and pine needles. Such a wonderful picture can be framed, pre-packed in transparent film to prevent needles from falling off, and hung on the wall. An applique, especially made by the hands of a loving child, will be an excellent gift or a memorable element of your home decor.

The basis for the craft can be cardboard, thick paper, or even better - tinted paper. If you can’t find colored cardboard, you can paint white cardboard in any color using gouache or watercolor paints.

Sketch on paper the outline of the future picture - an image of a Christmas tree. Add more details at your discretion: clouds, sun or moon, snowdrifts or green grass. The composition may contain several trees at once.

Now that the outline is ready, paste the plasticine parts over the elements of the picture. Having finished with this, you can begin landscaping the spruce branches with natural fallen needles. Cover the Christmas tree with pine needles, gluing it onto plasticine.

The original applique made from pine needles and plasticine is ready.

In the video section you will find many other options on how to make a New Year tree from plasticine.

Video on the topic of the article

All children are looking forward to the New Year. The most interesting thing is decorating the Christmas tree. To do this, use bright tinsel and multi-colored balls. Of course, parents should provide their children with this opportunity, because they can show their imagination in the design process. Additionally, you can make a small Christmas tree from plasticine. This version of the craft is considered New Year’s, but no one forbids making such a beauty in the summer.

This lesson is about sculpting a Christmas tree. Be sure to do this craft with your kids, using our tips, and you are guaranteed a good mood.

1. To work, purchase plasticine with a plastic spatula in the set. It is advisable to use green material, because all children know that the Christmas tree has exactly this color.

2. Cut off half of the green block.

3. First roll up the ball.

4. Pull out the ball to get the outline of the Christmas tree.

5. Make flat long cakes from the remaining green plasticine by kneading them with your fingers.

6. Using a plastic tool, make a fringe from the prepared strips.

7. To form the top, make a round cake and also make cuts around the circumference.

8. Put on the resulting fringe around the perimeter of the herringbone cone.

9. A green tree should be decorated with garlands and toys. Mix the plasticine of two colors, but do not mix it until it is completely homogeneous. Pull the resulting two-color piece into a long thread. Roll up several balls from multi-colored pieces.

10. Dress up the Christmas tree by sticking decorations on it.

11. It remains to place a red star on the crown and celebrate the New Year.

The final look of the craft.

Hooray! Now we know how to make a plasticine Christmas tree! For such a festive tree, you must make Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, modeling lessons for which you can also find on our website.

You don't have to have any special artistic skills to make a Christmas tree out of plasticine. The craft is very easy to do. Today I will show you in great detail how to make a Christmas tree out of plasticine, which you can make together with your child. It will be interesting for children to make New Year's crafts, especially if mom or dad is nearby. Such creative activities will brighten up the anticipation of the holiday, and the resulting plasticine toys will become the main talisman for the New Year.

A DIY plasticine Christmas tree does not have to be prickly. Needles can simply be shown by drawing a suitable pattern on a soft mass. But you can’t do without green color and Christmas tree decorations. Everyone loves to decorate a Christmas tree. I suggest you make balls and tinsel from multi-colored beads. They stick perfectly to plasticine, just make sure that the child does not swallow small parts. Guided by my recommendations, you can fantasize and have fun. Now let’s learn more about what is needed for the job and how to do it.

How to make a Christmas tree from plasticine (step by step)

To sculpt a Christmas tree decorated with beads, you will need:

• green and brown plasticine - you can take several shades of green, most likely, one block will not be enough for you, and replace brown with any other color, even mixed (the mass will be hidden under the crown);
• a lid as the stem of a tree - you can take waste material of any color, here we used a ketchup lid;
• skewer - you can also take a toothpick, this part will serve as an axis, make the craft stable and make it easier to work with plasticine;
• small beads and a needle and thread for tinsel;
• large beads to imitate Christmas balls of different colors;
• stack for drawing needles.

Manufacturing process:

Take absolutely any (cheapest) plasticine to work with. If it is too dense, the finished product will hold its shape longer.

Fill the lid with brown or damaged plasticine. Press the mixture on top with your finger so that it sticks to the plastic. Insert a skewer into the center. This will be a stable base for the axle craft.

Mash the entire brown block in your hands.

Pull into a cone. This is exactly the shape a Christmas tree should have. The surface of the cone can be smoothed or left rough.

Pierce the brown plasticine with the tip of a skewer and pull it through to the end. If the skewer is too long, simply break off the excess.

Divide the green pieces into approximately equal-sized slices. Mash each of them separately in your hands.

Make flat teardrop-shaped cakes out of each green piece.

With a stack, set the texture of the needles; for this, often apply strips with the sharp end of the tool.

Start attaching the parts around the circumference, starting from the bottom. Attach end-to-end without leaving gaps.

Fill the entire cone with green branches. As you move up, you will decide if you have enough details. Initially completed blanks may not be enough for you, they can be completed in the process. Sharpen the top.

Thread beads onto the thread. Wrap the resulting beads around the crown of the Christmas tree as tinsel. The ends of the thread can simply be inserted into the plasticine by pressing with a stack.

Add balls-beads and on top of the bead in the form of an asterisk. If there is no finished asterisk, then blind it from orange plasticine. Toys can be chosen the same color or different, alternating shades.

An elegant DIY Christmas tree made of plasticine is ready.

Now you can fully expect the approach of the New Year. Such simple crafts are very easy to do, so you should definitely do them with children, because they are the main lovers of New Year's buttercreams.

What is New Year for kids? These are paper snowflakes, glass beads on the Christmas tree, gifts from Santa Claus, funny round dances, New Year's songs, tangerines and candies. Children are especially fascinated by decorating the house with their own hands, holiday baking with their mother, and New Year's crafts from various materials. Be sure to give your baby a fairy tale, put aside your endless chores and plunge into the world of fantasy and magic together. We invite you to read to find out how to make a Christmas tree from plasticine with your own hands, a master class for children, detailed below.

You can give your child a separate modeling kit so that the child can repeat your actions.

Have fun!

To sculpt a Christmas tree from plasticine with your own hands you will need:

- plasticine – brown, green and any three bright colors;
- toothpick or thin twig;
- plastic knife;
- plastic rolling pin.

How to make a Christmas tree from plasticine:

From brown plasticine, form the base for the Christmas tree - a pot. First roll the ball, then give it the shape of a cylinder, slightly tapering on one side.




Make a border for the pot. To do this, roll a thin sausage from brown plasticine.




Try it on the pot and trim off the excess.




Using a knife, make shallow notches on the edging.
By the way, if you like to do something together with your baby, we suggest building one, near which you can put a plasticine Christmas tree.




Let's start sculpting the “branches” of the Christmas tree from plasticine.
Roll out a thick sausage from green plasticine and divide it into three parts, each of which should be slightly larger than the previous one.




Roll each piece into a neat ball.




We form tiers. Roll each ball into a thin pancake with a rolling pin. Place your little finger in the center of the pancake and form a bulge, as in the photo.




Next, in our master class for children on making a Christmas tree from plasticine, you need to make the remaining two pancakes. Insert a toothpick or twig into the center of the pot. Be careful so that your baby doesn't get hurt!




Secure the three green tiers onto a toothpick, starting with the largest one at the bottom.




Make balls from plasticine of a contrasting color and decorate the top of the Christmas tree. Or make a traditional red star.




All that remains is to decorate the Christmas tree made of plasticine, made with your own hands, with beads and balls of bright colors. It is very convenient to secure such small parts with a toothpick.




Plasticine Christmas tree is ready! Now you can decorate the dollhouse or solemnly put the plasticine Christmas tree on the shelf before the New Year!
We also suggest you do it with your child

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If winter has just come, and you are already waiting for the time when it will be necessary to decorate the Christmas tree, then we suggest that you replace this exciting process with a great alternative - create your own Christmas tree from plasticine and decorate it. It will be much easier to make winter crafts if you follow our master class: how to make a Christmas tree from plasticine with your own hands. Prepare a lot of green plasticine, as well as additional bright shades, and get to work.

Step-by-step photo lesson:

The green color plate is necessary directly for creating the crown of the Christmas tree. In this case, both light and dark shades are suitable. Be sure to prepare initially a knife-stack, since in the process of work you will have to create an imitation of a prickly crown.

Soften the green mass.

Pressing the formed lump to a hard surface, pull the prepared mass into a long twine. It is advisable to make one side narrower.

Make a cone from paper or cardboard that will become a template for the tree. The ends of the paper can be secured very quickly using a stapler.

Starting at the bottom, wrap the wider end of the long green twine around the cone. Moving up, you will see that you will have a cone-shaped product - the crown of a New Year's tree. After this, the paper can be removed.

Form a cylinder-barrel from brown plasticine. Insert the barrel into the hole in the crown cone.

Carefully make notches along the entire green surface of the Christmas tree in a stack to show the needles.

From bright pieces - orange, red, yellow - roll a lot of small beads.

Glue beads as balls to decorate the Christmas tree in any way you like.

And the final stage of decoration is a high icicle top. Make it from a yellow plate or any other color and attach it to the top of the spruce.

That's all. The Christmas tree with plasticine toys is ready, and you can continue preparing for the New Year.