Make your own New Year's Eve decorations

Few celebrations are as lavish as New Year's Eve. What would a party be without the right decorations? Especially on New Year's Eve, it can be over the top with glitter and sparkle. After all, you want to celebrate the New Year in style.
With our simple step-by-step instructions, you can create your own great decorations that will put a smile on every guest's face and make your party an unforgettable experience!

1.Making garlands
Start by creating your own garland. Take glitter-foam sheets and cut strips from it. Different colors such as gold and silver are ideal. Glue the ends of one strip together to form an eyelet. The next strip is threaded through this eyelet and also glued together at the ends. As foam sheets takes a while to glue firmly, use paper clips to fix the glued areas. However, make sure that the clips themselves do not stick.

For another variation, you can print out the letters HAPPY NEW YEAR (HAPYNEWR) and transfer them to coloured paper or foil. You can use the template or simply draw the letters freehand. Cut them out and stick them to a decorative ribbon to create an eye-catching garland of letters.

2. Glass decor
To add a touch of glamor to your toasting glasses without too much effort, cut out stars from foam sheets . Make a cut from the outside to the middle at one point. Depending on the thickness of the glass stem, you should also cut a small hole in the middle. Then simply wrap only around the glass and you're done.

If you like, you can of course also conjure up coaster from the foam sheets . Simply cut out more stars and place your glasses on top. Golden or silver coloured paper is also suitable. You can find a template for stars in different sizes here. Simply download and cut out.

3. Bottle numbers
Create impressive bottle numbers as a so-called "centerpiece" for your New Year's Eve table. Spray empty piccolo bottles and MDF-numbers with gold-spray. Make sure you do this outdoors so that your furniture and clothes don't get dirty. After drying, you can also dab the numbers and bottles with glitter paste to give the decoration even more glamor. Once everything is dry, decorate the bottles with ribbon and foam sheets glitter stars.

4. Confetti balls
These confetti balls could be a highlight of your New Year's Eve table decorations. Take anything that glitters and shines and fill transparent acrylic balls. balls with it. You can also embellish the outside with glitter paste. Spread the finished balls on the table or hang them up. Decide for yourself whether you want to close them with glue or transparent adhesive tape or whether you want them to be deliberately openable for party fun.

5. chain of light with glitter lanterns
Glitter lanterns will brighten up any living room. The VBS Lampion lampshades can be easily attached to the individual lights of an LED chain of light . Coat each lampshade with glitter paste. Allow the first layer to dry before applying another layer of glitter. Once the lampshades have been decorated with enough glitter and dried, attach them to the chain of light .

Your handmade New Year's Eve decoration is ready to make a grand entrance. Shining moments are guaranteed! Would you like to use the unusual materials for your DIY-Decoration? Then click through our wide range of glitter, foam sheets and much more!