The most long-awaited holiday of the year is approaching - New Year. Preparations for it are in full swing. Since next year will be the year of the monkey, we suggest making a souvenir - a paper monkey.
A paper monkey is not difficult, so you can do it with your children or give an assignment to older children, and the baby can paint a ready-made paper monkey with paints.
Materials for robots:
- muzzle
- torso
- paws
New Year card
To get a New Year card with a monkey, it is enough to have a sheet of paper and watercolors with you. An imprint of a child's foot can be "turned" into a monkey sitting under a palm tree!
Before making a paper monkey, prepare blanks for the robots in advance.
Christmas tree decorations
You can decorate your home Christmas tree with interesting faces. So, how to make a paper monkey is simple. Search the net for next year's symbol template, print it out and cut it along the bold lines. Based on the resulting picture, you can collect the most different options execution.
How to make a paper monkey with your own hands? To do this, you need to draw the legs, head, torso, tail, cut and glue to each other. You can add shoes to the monkey. Carefully glue the parts along the specially designated strips. Now you are convinced that making a monkey out of paper is very simple, and most importantly, that it is very important on the eve of the new year. Also, on the eve of the holiday, you can dazzle with children.
Monkeys from templates and stencils
You can choose a very different pattern for a monkey made of paper, from a stylish monkey to a naughty prankster. The most favorite holiday of the year for children and adults is approaching, choose your favorite paper monkey template and get to work immediately. And how many things you need to do: and come up with a New Year's menu, and outfits, and prepare fun on New Year's Eve. 
The paper monkey template will cheer up all family members.
According to ready-made patterns of monkeys, they can be created from paper, fabric, felt and many others. interesting ideas... Make a real fairy tale in your home. For convenience in preparing crafts, there is a paper monkey stencil. Using stencils is very simple: save it to your computer, print it and cut out the base with thin scissors. Thanks to such an assistant as a stencil, any monkey made of paper, fabric, etc. simply cannot turn out to be ugly. To paint the stencil, it is better to use special paints, with the usual ones, a nuisance can happen - they will spread. To make a paper monkey, it is better to use a cardboard stencil, as the paper gets soaked and the drawing may turn out to be inaccurate.
Table decoration 
How to make a paper monkey so that you can put a souvenir as a table decoration. The details should be glued, carefully cut a line along the body and insert the details of the legs directly into the body. You can make an original paper monkey for the window. We recommend to decorate your festive table.
Window decoration
To make a paper monkey for a window, you will need: colored paper, ready-made template, knife.
Find the template you like and print it. We fasten two sheets around the picture so that it does not shift during work. We take a knife and proceed to cutting the monkey out of paper onto the window.
We remove the white details of the picture, then move on to cutting out small details and finish with large details. We remove the template and the paper monkey applique is ready. The final touch is to cut out the picture in a circle from the outside. The resulting paper monkey applique can be used to decorate not only the window, but also any mirror in your house. You can buy a frame and place a paper monkey applique in it. The picture will delight you the whole next year.
Origami monkey
Paper origami, monkey is one of the most fashionable activities today. This figure is absolutely easy to assemble from paper at home. How to make origami out of paper - a monkey?
You will need a sheet of paper at least 15x15 centimeters in size. According to the instructions, assembling the origami monkey from paper will not take you much time. Use the proposed schemes and the following crafts you will already do yourself, without peeping at the prompts.
SELECTION OF IDEAS AND TEMPLATES
If new year stencils print on windows 2016 and place it in an unusual way, you get a home Christmas story... The main thing is to follow all the instructions that help to create the interior design correctly.
New Year stencils: method of application
Stencils are very easy to use. You just need to download the selected picture to your computer, print it and cut it out with small scissors. The areas marked in black will no longer be useful, but the white ones will still have to work. It is preferable to paint such decorations with paints intended for painting on a glass surface. You can also use toothpaste.
Registration rules
In a small container, water and toothpaste are mixed, and the resulting mixture is applied with a cotton swab. Or soak a toothbrush in this solution and lightly run your finger over it until it splashes. This method is ideal for making recesses new year templates on windows 2016. The very base of paper is attached with tape and removed after the toothpaste or paint has dried.
It is worth remembering that the paper stencil is used only once due to the fragility of the material, but the templates can be made from thin plastic or durable cardboard. In addition to toothpaste, artificial snow is suitable, which, after removing the base, leaves an interesting snowy silhouette. If time is not running out, then when creating a picture, you can use additional decorative elements, paints or plaster.
Stencils with the symbol of 2016 - Monkey
Once upon a time choice new year decorations was very limited, and we created a fabulous mood with the most common things like foil, paper, paints and a little imagination. Now stores provide a huge selection of New Year's paraphernalia, and, nevertheless, many continue to use it. paper crafts... Perhaps, such jewelry is inferior in beauty to colleagues that came off the assembly line, but they bring much more joy - after all, they were created with our own hands and together with the family!
Patterned window
How to use New Year's templates?
So, what is the main difference between templates and and? A stencil is a piece of paper in which shaped holes are cut. Then the sheet is applied to the window, the slots in it are painted over with toothpaste, and the sheet itself is removed. Vytynanki are figuratively cut sheets of paper that are fixed to the window. Well, templates are New Year's images that can be transferred to a window or a holiday card.
Sketching from a template, you can create drawings of any complexity To decorate the glass, you need to print the image you like and fix it with tape on the outside of the window (be careful and do not trust this stage of the work to children!) Next, you need to circle the drawing along the lines and paint. Use special glass paints and wax crayons for this - they are fairly easy to scrub off, so you can easily clean the windows after finishing.
Templates can be used to cut cardboard figures After you (or your restless child) draw all the lines from the template on the glass, remove the sheet - and your picture on the window is ready! This method can be used to create children new year cards, and not only - only your imagination is already dominating here. For example, some patterns are suitable for decorating Christmas gingerbread and icing. And if you can draw, Christmas templates can be the basis for your creativity.
Templates in the Year of the Monkey 2016
New Year Party Templates
Print these templates on paper, paste onto cardboard and cut out. Finished figurines need to be fixed on long sticks, paper tubes or plastic straws, and actively use during the New Year's photo shoot :) How about a "mustachioed", "Hollywood" or "Dentelman's" party? These templates will let you put on a real masquerade!
Well, our dear needlewomen, are we starting to prepare for the New Year?)) Time, as usual, will fly by unnoticed, but there is still a lot to do! Preparing New Year's souvenirs with the symbols of the coming year is already a real tradition! For those who are not yet in the know, the Fire Monkey is the symbol of 2016, so this huge article "Cross" will be devoted to creating monkeys with your own hands in a wide variety of needlework techniques!
This time I decided to deviate a little from the usual presentation of the material, namely detailed description the process of making each monkey. I prepared a kind for you Workshop guide posted on the web. Believe me, there are a lot of them !!! But there are already several times fewer good, interesting and high-quality ones. Having gone through literally everything, I personally chose, in my opinion, the most worthy, the best of the best !!! I present them to your attention)
In addition, here you will also find links for the purchase of master classes, as well as ready-made monkeys self made! This information is also very relevant on the eve of the New Year!
So, let's start with simple ones and gradually move on to more complex and interesting master classes on monkeys.
Monkeys made of paper and on paper
Draw postcards with children
Children should definitely be involved in the preparation of New Year's souvenirs - let them do it themselves at least simple crafts with monkeys, for example, postcards. They will surely like the process, because in the course of work they literally have to be transported in paint with their hands and feet)
To make a postcard with a monkey hanging on a vine, a sheet of paper and watercolors are enough. Help your child paint over 4 fingers and a palm with brown paint, and then have him leave a print of his pen on the paper! You can also paint the head and tail of the monkey with paints.
Or you can cut them out of colored paper:
From such simple elements you can add a pretty monkey face)
Option three
If there is no time to sew a monkey with arms and legs) then sew only the head, it is perfect as a keychain.
Option four
Such a monkey can be cut out of thick felt by gluing all the details together. It will be faster, and it will look just as dignified.
Option five
But you can sew such a toy monkey with your own hands if you purchase a pattern from its author (tilda4kids).
Coffee monkeys
Do you already understand where I am heading? Of course, to the fact that in the same way you can make coffee monkeys that will fill the house with a wonderful aroma, and everyone who gets it - with a great mood!
These are the mischievous coffee monkeys you can buy
Monkey pillows
Another good idea is to sew a monkey pillow. There are many options, as they say, choose to your taste. From us - ideas for inspiration!
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Svetlana Zabelina offers to buy a master class on knitted potholders "Baby Monkeys".
Hot stand
A hot stand is also in the form of a monkey's face) Description of knitting.
Gloves
The potholder can be used simply as a decoration of the kitchen or for its intended purpose. It fits like this.
Toys in Amigurumi technique are always in great demand. Therefore, choose a master class, knit, and then give hand-made monkeys to your beloved friends and family.
You can see how this monkey looks "live" in the video from Marusya Prokopenko:
Option six
Button & Company shares a master class on knitting such funny monkeys)
You can create a New Year's atmosphere with handmade paper cut products. They are called vytynanki, which means "clippings". Here you can find silhouettes of New Year's heroes: Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, snowmen, gnomes, various Christmas trees, balls and bells, snowflakes, snow-covered houses, figurines of deer and cute animals.
Today we offer you stencils of New Year's earthenware of various subjects. Let's get inspired by the actions of the masters and finished works for decorating windows, Christmas trees, postcards, New Year's scene. These templates can be easily printed on a sheet of white paper, cut out and glued to the window with soapy water, or fixed in other corners of the New Year's interior.
Small protrusions can be used to decorate a window or create a composition on a windowsill or table, larger clippings can be used to decorate walls in a room or on a stage.
These are the images you can get:
Stencils for protruding silhouette cut Snow Maiden and Santa Claus:
Choose the stencil you like with the image of Santa Claus and his granddaughter. As a tool, you can use thin scissors, stationery knives, you will definitely need a lining board so as not to scratch the table.
Vytynanka tree
You can cut the Christmas tree using a stencil like a silhouette, or you can make a symmetrical cut by folding a sheet of paper in half. We make a standing Christmas tree in one of the following ways: glue two symmetrical Christmas trees on an oval paper support, or fold each Christmas tree in half and glue them together.
Snowflakes and ballerinas
Snowflakes are very different. Especially if the master uses all his imagination. So, you can cut out a symmetrical snowflake by folding the paper several times. See what kind of drawing was applied in the form of a stencil and what an unusual tip the snowflakes have.
Inside the snowflake there can be a completely independent composition. For example, a New Year's snowman or a snowy forest.
Snowflakes can take on the image of light snow ballerinas. To do this, we cut out the silhouette of the ballerina separately, put it on her openwork snowflake and hang it by a thread. It turns out a very delicate airy decoration.
Christmas balls
Christmas decorations can be cut both according to a symmetrical pattern and according to an individual stencil. You can add these decorations to the composition on the window, dress it up on a herringbone, attach them with threads to a chandelier or curtain.
Bells
We make carved bells on a stencil. If you glue translucent paper, for example, tracing paper, on the inside of the cutout, then such a bell can be used with a backlight effect.
Deer, sleigh, carriage
Another fabulous new year hero is a deer. The delivery of the wizard Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden is connected with him. We offer stencils for cutting deer, carts and sleds.
Snowmen
Charming good-natured Snowmen should definitely decorate the New Year's house. Their figures can be simply cut out symmetrically, or you can make a "family photo of the Snowmen" or a composition with a Christmas tree and children.
New Year Numbers
You can cut beautiful numbers coming New Year using these templates:
Beasts, signs and symbols
You can make a custom Christmas decoration. To do this, we cut out from paper the silhouettes of our favorite pets, heroes of fairy tales and cartoons, birds and animals in a fabulous winter forest.
Cut out the figures of the sun and moon according to stencils, complement your composition.
Snow-covered houses
It will be very comfortable if there is a snow-covered house on the window in the New Year's picture. It can be a small hut or a whole palace.
Children
Who is the strongest waiting for the New Year and Santa Claus? Of course, children! Using silhouette paper cutting, we make figurines of kids around the Christmas tree, with gifts, singing and dancing, in a word, we bring in the true atmosphere of the holiday!
Candle
We offer options for protruding candles. They can be independent or combined with balls, bells, branches and bows.
Nativity
For Christmas, you can cut out thematic recesses dedicated to the events and circumstances of this event. These can be silhouettes of Jerusalem, images of angels, shepherds and magi. And don't forget the Star of Bethlehem!
You can cut out the silhouette of the Star of Bethlehem separately:
The central place among the Christmas nativity scenes must, of course, be devoted to the Nativity scene - the cave in which the Savior was born. The Divine Infant Manger is comfortably surrounded by hay and pets.
Backlit composition
Openwork paper cuttings can be used to decorate not only the window, but also to create a three-dimensional panorama on the windowsill. It will be especially effective if you put a garland or a small light inside the box.
Take care of the design of New Year's decorations - vytynanka out of paper with the children. It is not only useful for developing imagination, training fine motor skills hands, but will also give you a lot of pleasure from joint creativity, and then - from contemplation of the resulting beauty!
