How about brightening up your front entrance or rooms for New Year’s with a handmade wreath? From arrangements inspired by shimenawa ropes, to pieces with a gentle feel using fabric scraps or tissue paper, to stylish designs finished with mizuhiki cords or craft tape, there are countless ways to make a New Year’s wreath.
In this article, we introduce easy, handmade New Year’s wreath ideas you can try with materials you already have.
You can incorporate auspicious red-and-white or gold accents, add lavish decorations to celebrate the new year in style, and create all kinds of variations with a bit of ingenuity.
Let’s get ready to welcome the new year while enjoying heartfelt, handmade creations!
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Handmade New Year’s Wreaths! A Collection of Festive Ideas Using Shimenawa and Mizuhiki (1–10)
Zodiac wreath made with yarn
Let’s make a cute wreath using yarn that conveys the warmth unique to handmade crafts.
What you’ll need: yarn in various colors, felt, tissue paper, craft glue, scissors, a hot glue gun, and so on.
Many people may find comfort in a design featuring the twelve zodiac animals arranged in a circle.
Since it doesn’t limit you to the zodiac of a specific year, you can display it every year—that’s a big plus! Enjoy crafting while paying attention to the expressions and designs of the twelve animals.
Welcome the New Year with your own original, adorable wreath.
Horseshoe-shaped New Year’s wreath
Decorate your room or entrance with an elegant, beautiful wreath to welcome the New Year! You’ll need a paper shimenawa, four peonies, a mum, two micro rose spray nuances, cotton, two dancing orchids, golden enkianthus, wire, and more.
You can find all the materials at a 100-yen shop, so feel free to give it a try.
It’s built on a U-shaped wreath base, and the charm is that you can keep it up as interior decor even after the New Year! It also looks fun to play around with the arrangement and balance of the flowers.
New Year’s wreath made with origami and paper plates
Here’s a great idea for anyone who wants to make something easily with materials they already have at home.
You’ll need origami paper with Japanese patterns or gold accents, a 20 cm paper plate, scissors, glue, double-sided tape, and decorative cord or mizuhiki.
Cut out the inside of the paper plate, then attach accordion-folded origami paper to build it up.
Using gold origami paper among the parts adds a nice accent, so definitely give it a try.
You can also arrange it with cord or mizuhiki for an even more festive finish!
Cute origami shimenawa wreath
Recommended for those who want to make it with children, too! Let’s use origami you have at home to create a wreath like a shimenawa.
You’ll need origami in various colors, glue or double-sided tape, and scissors.
After learning how to make a basic shimenawa-style wreath from a video, it’s great that you can freely enjoy decorating it by combining flowers, zodiac animals, and more.
It’s wonderful to make one wreath together as a family, but it can also be fun for each person to make their own, filled with their personal touches and feelings.
Tissue paper floral shimenawa wreath
This is a shimenawa wreath that makes the most of tissue paper’s soft look and feel, evoking both splendor and warmth.
Because thinness is a key feature of tissue paper, layer and glue several sheets together for the rope, then roll them around a core such as regular tissue to form a strand.
Prepare two of these rolled strands and twist them together as you braid; this completes the shimenawa base, which you then decorate with motifs like flowers or a fan.
Choosing the color for the base rope and balancing the coordinated decorations offer a wide range of styling possibilities—another highlight of this craft.
A wreath woven from shimenawa (sacred rice-straw rope)
Let’s make a colorful and cute New Year’s shimenawa decoration using supplies from the 100-yen shop.
It’s easy to craft with readily available materials, so be sure to make one by hand and display it for the New Year.
For the base, prepare a material called paper yarn.
Once you’ve formed the shimenawa ring with this material, arrange artificial flowers, mizuhiki cords, and motifs from the 100-yen shop on the shimenawa in a well-balanced way.
The balance is up to your sense of style, so try creating an original, lovely arrangement.
After making the final adjustments, your festive, lucky handmade shimenawa is complete.
Tassel wreath
A New Year’s shimenawa wreath in soft, pale tones is perfect for Western-style homes and rooms.
Prepare several kinds of greenery and rice stalks, white hydrangea, brown roses and berries, plus a touch of pink or yellow flowers for accent.
Choose a shimenawa base in white or a light color, arrange the materials in a balanced way, and secure them with glue.
Unlike traditional New Year decorations featuring vivid greens and reds, the subdued palette blends easily with its surroundings, so it won’t look out of place if you leave it up even after the holiday.
